2010 Acknowledgement The study embraces the last two decades I worked for the Institute of Food Research, UK. For the opportunity to become a research scientist, I am indebted to Dr Terry Roberts, the former head of the Microbiology Department there, who decided that further advances in food microbiology was impossible without a dedicated mathematician.

The effect of the global financial crisis on the international trade patterns of developed countries has been one of the main focuses of recent studies. However, the dependence level of world trade on emerging markets increases every day. Therefore, it is important to study the level of the negative effect of the crisis on emerging economies and the level of their recovery potential. This paper...

This paper contributes to the literature by empirically examining whether the influence of public debt on economic growth differs between the short and the long run and presents different patterns across euro-area countries. To this end, we use annual data from both central and peripheral countries of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) for the 1960-2012 period and estimate a growth ...

In this paper, a tracking controller is developed for a class of nonlinear systems subject to time delay in the control input, uncertainties in the dynamic model, and additive disturbances. The control development is based on a novel predictor–like method to address the time delay in the control input. Lyapunov based stability analysis is used to prove semi–global asymptotic tracking. Numerical...

The application of the Sliding Mode Thermal Control to dryer station furnace facility in agriculture productions is proposed. An adaptive controller is designed based on results obtained in the sphere of discontinuous system design. The derived Sliding Mode (SM) control algorithm written in Lab View environment should improve the control performance of the important characteristic of systems su...

This paper deals with the solution bounds for time-delay systems via delay-dependent Lyapunov– Krasovskiimethods. Solution bounds arewidely used for systemswith input saturation caused by actuator saturation or by the quantizers with saturation.We show that an additional bound for solutions is needed for the first time-interval, where t < τ(t), both in the continuous and in the discrete time. T...

A fast identification algorithm is proposed for systems with delayed inputs. It is based on a non-asymptotic distributional estimation technique initiated in the framework of systems without delay. Such technique leads to simple realization schemes, involving integrators, multipliers and piecewise polynomial or exponential time functions. Thus, it allows for a real time implementation. In order...

A new approach to robust sampled-data control is introduced. The system is modelled as a continuous-time one, where the control input has a piecewise-continuous delay. Sufficient linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) conditions for sampled-data state-feedback stabilization of such systems are derived via descriptor approach to time-delay systems. The only restriction on the sampling is that the dis...

purpose: to evaluate the range of accommodation lag and it&apos;s signs and symptoms in 20-25 year-old female students at zahedan medical school, iran. methods: three-hundred female students were enrolled for assessment of accommodation. after exclusion of individuals with individuals with accommodation disorders in 3 steps including amplitude of accommodation, accommodative facility, and relat...