Accurate temperature control is crucial for the reliable operation of photonic integrated circuits in the presence of internal thermal crosstalk or external thermal disturbance. We propose an adaptive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) control scheme to stabilize the operation wavelength of on-chip wavelength demultiplexers that have many applications in photonic-chip-based optical signa...

The paper proposes ‘Network-based Humanoid’, that is, a humanoid endowed with its perception capability and intelligence by an external computer system connected with wireless network. The network-based humanoid is composed of a humanoid test-bed, an internal control system and an external computer system. The internal distributed control system is composed of two parts. One is responsible for ...

    Background: Different factors, such as personality and psychological characteristics, are effective in the self-care and control of diabetes. This study aimed at determining the effect of educational intervention based on locus of control structure of attribution theory on the self-care behavior of patients with type II diabetes.    Methods: This was a quasi-experi...

Various studies have shown that the external focus of attention is better than the internal focus of attention. But, so far no study has been investigated the level of electrical activity of the rectus abdominus muscle as a trunk stabilizer muscle. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of focus of attention on electromyography activity of the rectus abdominus muscle...

locus of control refers to the extent to which individuals believe they can control events affecting them. social anxiety disorder, also known as social phobia, is the most common anxiety disorder. it is characterized by intense fear in one or more social situations. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between locus of control with anxiety and social phobia in adolescent’s...

an asymptotically stable direct adaptive fuzzy pi sliding modecontroller is proposed for a class of nonlinear uncertain systems. in contrast toother existing approaches of handling disturbances, the proposed approachdoes not require this bound to be known, only requiring that it exists.moreover, a pi control structure is used to attenuate chattering. the approachis applied to stabilize an open-...