typical production objectives in distillation process require the delivery of products whose compositions meet certain specifications. the distillation control system, therefore, must hold product compositions as near the set points as possible in faces of upset. in this project, inferential model predictive control, that utilizes an artificial neural network estimator and model predictive cont...

The Human Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) plays a crucial role in transplantation, transfusion, paternity test and assessment of susceptibility to some diseases associated with HLA-B27. Three of the most fashionable methods for determination of HLA antigens in clinical and research laboratories are microlymphocytotoxicity (MLCT), flowcytometry and polymerase chain reaction (PCR). T...

Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a common chronic disease with diverse complications. About 10% of the earth's population suffer from this disease. For smart control of the blood glucose in DM patients, an artificial pancreas was designed and simulated by a predictive sliding mode controller considering the time delay of insulin effect. Method: In this method, one of the time-delay glucos...

We consider model selection as a decision problem from a predictive perspective. The optimal Bayesian way of handling model uncertainty is to integrate over model space. Model selection can then be seen as point estimation in the model space. We propose a model selection method based on Kullback-Leibler divergence from the predictive distribution of the full model to the predictive distribution...

The control of car following is essential due to its safety and its operational efficiency. For this purpose, this paper builds a model of car following behavior based on ARMAX structure from a real traffic dataset and design a Model Predictive Control (MPC) system. Based on the relative distance and relative acceleration of each instant, the MPC predicts the future behavior of the leader vehic...

background: this study was to determine the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (ppv), negative predictive values (npv) and agreement between two methods of the stained gastric imprint cytology smears and stained gastric specimen biopsy mucosal methods for detection of h. pylori. methods: air-dried imprint smears of gastric biopsies from 330 patients were stained by the grunwald...

two main forms of copd (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) refer to a group of lung diseases that block airflow and cause a huge degree of human suffering. a new method for identifying and estimating the severity of copd from three-dimensional (3-d) pulmonary x-ray ct images would be helpful for evaluation of treatment effects and early diagnosing is presented in this paper. this method has...