Koebner phenomenon is observed in a number of inflammatory skin diseases. Psoriasis is one of the most common skin diseases associated with Koebner phenomenon. Nail psoriasis may be developed independently from inflammatory arthritis and skin psoriasis. This study reports on the reconstruction of third web of a 30-year-old woman, which performed on her right, due to congenital syndactyly. Fou...

Abstract Event-triggered control (ETC) and time-triggered (TTC), the classical concepts to determine transmission instants for networked systems, each come with drawbacks: It is difficult tune ETC such that a certain bandwidth respected, whereas TTC cannot adapt sampling interval current state of system. In this article, we provide an overview over rollout ETC, method aimed at reconciling advan...

An efficient usage of available resources is a substantial requirement for the successful design of networked control systems. Recent results indicate major benefits of event-based control compared to conventional designs, when resources such as communication, energy, and computation, are sparse. This paper considers multiple entities of heterogeneous control systems whose feedback loops are co...

We propose a variation of harvest-then-consume protocol with low complexity where the harvest and consume phases change when the battery energy level reaches certain thresholds. The proposed protocol allows us to control the possible energy outage during consumption phase. Assuming that the battery is perfect and that the energy arrival is a renewal process, we analyze the duty cycle and the op...

In embedded systems, high-level component-based design approaches have been proposed in order to allow specification and design of complex real-time systems. However, their final implementations mostly rely on the generation of code for generic execution platforms. On the other hand, a variety of RealTime Operating System (RTOS), in particular when based on the Time-Triggered (TT) paradigm, gua...

One of the effective ways to reduce power consumption is using clustered voltage scaling technique. The level converter flip-flop is needed to control static current when the block with Low Supply Voltage (VDDL) drives the block with High Supply Voltage (VDDH). One of the big challenges of design is that level converter flip-flop has low power and high speed. In this paper, pulse triggered leve...

Although many hydrologic changes induced by teleseismic waves have been reported, the mechanism(s) responsible for the changes are usually not known. Permeability changes induced by seismic strains are often invoked to explain changes in water level. Using water-level data in Taiwan after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, we show here that the observations cannot be properly explained by previously...

Lead-induced neurotoxicity acquired by low-level long-term exposure has special relevance for children. A plethora of recent reports has demonstrated a direct link between low-level lead exposure and deficits in the neurobehavioral-cognitive performance manifested from childhood through adolescence. In many studies, aggressiveness and delinquency have also been suggested as symptoms of lead poi...

[1] We report the observation of an intense gamma-ray burst observed on the ground at sea level, produced in association with the initial-stage of rocket-triggered lightning at the International Center for Lightning Research and Testing at Camp Blanding, FL. The burst was observed simultaneously on three NaI(Tl)/photomultiplier tube detectors that were located 650 m from the triggered lightning...