This study aims to orchestrate a less restrictive learning controller by using the iteration-varying function, the so-called iterative learning controller (ILC), to synchronize two nonlinear systems with free time delay and couple free. The mathematical theories are proven rigorously and controllers are developed for system synchronization, and then an example is forged to demonstrate the effec...

BACKGROUND The potential role of interstitial laser coagulation (ILC) for patients with irresectable hepatic tumours is currently being investigated. Since its introduction in 1983 it has evolved into an innovative minimally invasive technique. METHODS On the basis of a Medline literature search and the authors' experience, the principles, current state and prospects of ILC for hepatic tumour...

Innate lymphoid cells (ILC) are a newly described family of hematopoietic cells that lack antigen-specific receptors but can be activated to promptly produce large amounts of cytokines (including interleukin (IL)-5, -13, -17A, -22, TNF-α and interferon-γ) and thereby contribute to the immediate, first-line immune defense against viral, bacterial, and parasitic infections (reviewed in [1]). ILCs...

Distributing high quality clock signals is one of the most challenging tasks in high-performance microprocessors. Clocking circuitry accounts for an overwhelming amount of total power consumption in multi-GHz processors. Unfortunately, deteriorating clock skew and jitter make it very difficult to reduce power dissipation. We propose a new global clocking scheme, injection-locked clocking (ILC),...

The area of iterative learning control (ILC) now has a large and increasing body of research with an increasing number of applications (supported by a sizable number of actual experimental veri.cation studies). The paper (Goldsmith, 2002) contains a number of assumptions and technical errors that invalidate its conclusion that normal feedback control is preferable to causal ILC, and the purpose...

This paper presents the trajectory tracking approach of a piezoelectric actuator using an iterative learning control (ILC) scheme based on B-spline network (BSN) filtering. The ILC scheme adopts a state-compensated iterative learning formula, which compensates for the state difference between two consecutive iterations in order that the iterative learning can learn from the tracking errors of t...

Invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) accounts for approximately 10% of all breast carcinomas and is characterized by higher levels of androgen receptor (AR) compared to invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC). Despite this potentially androgen-responsive environment, the combined importance of AR and androgen metabolism in non-neoplastic lobules and lobular carcinoma remains unknown. Therefore, in this stu...

Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) have emerged as a new family of immune cells with crucial functions in innate and adaptive immunity. ILC subsets mirror the cytokine and transcriptional profile of CD4(+) T helper (TH) cell subsets. Hence, group 1 (ILC1), group 2 (ILC2), and group 3 (ILC3) ILCs can be distinguished by the production of TH1, TH2, and TH17-type cytokines, respectively. Cytokine releas...

The Reference Design Report produced by the ILC Global Design Effort achieves the physics requirements for the 500 GeV electron-positron collider. Detector R&D advances to enable the unique physics potential of the ILC. Progress and plans are summarized.