OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of recurrent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and/or pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), the average time until subsequent infection following a baseline PID diagnosis, and age- and insurance-related associations with subsequent diagnoses. DESIGN This study used prospective longitudinal follow-up of STI and/or PID outcome data from electronic medical ...

A novel tuning method is proposed for the design of fuzzy PID controllers for multivariable systems. In the proposed method, a PID controller is expressed in terms of fuzzy rules, in which the input variables are the error signals and their derivatives, while the output variables are the PID gains. In this manner, the PID gains are adaptive and the fuzzy PID controller has more flexibility and ...

The paper presents an application of fuzzy logic controller (FLC) with hierarchically structured rule base for a two-link direct drive Celestron telescope. The hierarchical fuzzy logic controller (HFLC) is implemented, as nonlinear blocks used in a control system, for supervision of PID controller for position tracking of the telescope driven by electric motors. The HFLC is composed of two FLC ...

This paper presents the automatic drug administration for the regulation of bispectral (BIS) index in the anesthesia process during the clinical surgery by controlling the concentration target of two drugs, namely, propofol and remifentanil. To realize the automatic drug administration, real clinical data are collected for 42 patients for the construction of patients’ models consisting of pharm...

BACKGROUND Evidence suggests adherence to clinical guidelines for pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) diagnosis and management is suboptimal. We systematically reviewed the literature for studies describing strategies to improve the adherence to PID clinical guidelines. METHODS The databases MEDLINE and EMBASE, and reference lists of review articles were searched from January 2000 to April 2012...

This paper presents a PID tuning method for unstable processes using an adaptive-network-based-fuzzy-inference system (ANFIS) for given gain and phase margin (GPM) speci)cations. PID tuning methods are widely used to control stable processes. However, PID controller for unstable processes is less common. In this paper, the PID controller parameters can be determined by the ANFIS. Because the de...

Replication of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) virus in swine alveolar macrophages (AM) and cell population in broncho-alveolar lavage fluid (BALF) obtained from PRRS virus-infected pigs were investigated. BALF samples were periodically collected from 6 pigs infected with PRRS virus and 3 non-inoculated control pigs by means of fiber-optic bronchoscope between post-inoculat...

PID controller (which is an acronym to “proportional, integral and derivative”) is a type of device used for process control. As first practical use of PID controller dates to 1890s (Bennett, 1993), PID controllers are spread widely in various control applications till these days. In process control today, more than 95% of the control loops are PID type (Astrom et al., 1995). PID controllers ha...

In this work, we focus on the problem of monitoring and retuning of low-level proportional-integralderivative (PID) control loops used to regulate control actuators to the values computed by advanced model-based control systems like model predictive control (MPC). We consider the case where the realtime measurement of the actuation level is unavailable, and thus PID controller monitoring has to...

Equation Chapter 1 Section 1 Abstract— The concept of PID controllers (proportional integral derivative) belongs to the most frequently used principles of controlling in industrial and non-industrial applications. The process of setting of PID controller can be determined as optimization task. Requiring optimal settings of PID controller we can specify more goals of optimization which are ofte...