The Cournot triopoly model may possess a triple chaotic attractor. In the paper, we present an approach for controlling the three coexisting chaotic attractors by means of steering the system dynamics from one attractor to another. The control scheme is based on predictive control. We give the design procedure and show by numerical results the effectiveness of the control in presence of the inp...

Shutting down a link for the purposes of a scheduled routine maintenance does cause the forwarding path to change. If these changes are not done in a required order will cause not only transient micro loops but also an overload in some links. Currently, some ISP operators use a graceful link shutdown procedure by first setting up the Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) link metric to MAX_METRIC − 1...

Although duodenal perforation is currently an infrequent complication of medical procedures, its incidence in the future predictably will increase as endoscopic treatment of duodenal neoplasms becomes more frequently used. In some cases, duodenal perforation is difficult to treat even surgically. We report here a novel technique called 'triple-tube-ostomy' for the treatment of iatrogenic duoden...

BACKGROUND Among patients treated with clopidogrel, carriers of the cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2C19 loss-of-function allele have shown increased platelet reactivity and higher rates of ischemic events. Although adjunctive cilostazol to dual antiplatelet therapy (or "triple antiplatelet therapy") intensifies platelet inhibition, it remains unknown whether triple antiplatelet therapy after percutaneou...

BACKGROUND Mortality after noncardiac surgery has been associated with the "triple low state," a combination of low mean arterial blood pressure (<75 mmHg), low bispectral index (<45), and low minimum alveolar concentration of volatile anesthesia (<0.70). The authors set out to determine whether duration of a triple low state and aggregate risk associated with individual diagnostic and procedur...

OBJECTIVE The dual microcatheter technique is common practice for coil embolization of a wide-necked aneurysm, due to safety and efficacy. However, technical limitations of some complex configurations may necessitate additional microcatheters to bolster coil stability, compact the coil, or for protection. Described herein is a triple microcatheter technique for endovascular management of wide-n...

UNLABELLED The objective of this study, which is related to human brain SPECT, was to increase the sensitivity of a triple-camera SPECT system and reduce statistical noise in reconstructed images using a combination of converging collimators. The reason for combining collimators is to ensure both high sensitivity and sufficient sampling without trading off spatial resolution. METHODS A high-s...

OBJECTIVES A new surgical technique named triple-branched stent graft was developed and reported to have excellent clinical results for Stanford type A aortic dissection. However, we found some potential risks, in our experience, of this technique. We compared this technique with total arch replacement combined with stented elephant trunk implantation in patients with acute Stanford type A diss...

BACKGROUND Neuropathic inguinodynia following inguinal hernia repair sometimes becomes a disabling disease. We report a case of successful surgical treatment of chronic refractory neuropathic pain after inguinal hernia by laparoscopic retroperitoneal triple neurectomy. CASE PRESENTATION A seventy-year-old male who underwent right-side inguinal hernia repair using the Lichtenstein method revis...