In iterative learning control (ILC), it is highly desirable to have a learning compensator with a unitgain for all frequencies, in order to avoid noise amplification and learning speed degradation during the learning process. In this paper, we show that the realization of a unit-gain compensator is straightforward in ILC, using both forward and backward filtering. As an illustrative example, a ...

lationship), superfamilies (probable common evolutionary origin) and folds (Murzin et al., 1995). Proteins are defined to have a common fold if they have the same major secondary structures in the same spatial arrangement and the same topological connections. SCOP currently distinguishes between several hundred different folds. The (βα)8(or TIM-)barrel is a frequently encountered fold, which co...

introduction: barrel cortex of rats is a part of somatosensory cortex, which receives information from facial whiskers. vibrisectomy by sensory deprivation leads to some changes in the barrel cortex, which have been known as experience dependent plasticity. on the other hand, norepinephrine (ne) and locus coeruleus, which is the main source of ne, influenced response properties of cortical barr...

BACKGROUND/AIM High-dose radiation exposure greatly increases the risk of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), however the clinical characteristics of MDS among atomic bomb survivors have not been thoroughly investigated to date. We designed this study to identify these characteristics. PATIENTS AND METHODS We retrospectively evaluated data from 13 atomic bomb survivors with MDS and 15 elderly pa...

Rotating-bomb calorimetry was first applied to organic compounds that contain chlorine, bromine, or sulphur. Techniques developed for these classes of compounds, mostly at the University of Lund and at the Bureau of Mines in Bartlesville, have been described in the book Experimental Thermochemistry-, The development of rotating-bomb methods made accurate combustion calorimetry feasible for othe...

To reduce human casualties associated with explosive ordnance disposal, a wide range of protective wear has been designed to shield against the blast effects of improvised explosive devices and munitions. In this study, 4 commercially available bomb suits, representing a range of materials and armor masses, were evaluated against 0.227 and 0.567 kg of spherical C-4 explosives to determine the l...

The purpose of this study was to perform an initial investigation of the possibility to determine breast cancer growth rate with (14)C bomb-pulse dating. Tissues from 11 breast cancers, diagnosed in 1983, were retrieved from a regional biobank. The estimated average age of the majority of the samples overlapped the year of collection (1983) within 3σ Thus, this first study of tumour tissue has ...

A method of developing a vulnerability map of a commercial aircraft is presented using MSC/DYTRAN and MSC/NASTRAN. The intent of the map is to establish the vulnerability of every point in the cargo hold where a bomb can explode. One might interpret each point in the cargo bay as having four dimensions. Three are spatial coordinates and the fourth is the maximum size of the bomb the structure c...

Whisker deflection is an effective conditioned stimulus (CS) for trace eyeblink conditioning that has been shown to induce a learning-specific expansion of whisker-related cortical barrels, suggesting that memory storage for an aspect of the trace association resides in barrel cortex. To examine the role of the barrel cortex in acquisition and retrieval of trace eyeblink associations, the barre...

26 A growing body of evidence suggests that the barrel and septal regions in layer IV of rat primary 27 somatosensory (SI) cortex may represent separate processing channels. To assess this view, pairs of barrel 28 and septal neurons were recorded simultaneously in the anesthetized rat while a 4 x 4 array of 16 whiskers 29 was mechanically stimulated at 4, 8, 12, and 16 Hz. Compared to barrel ne...