While during the 1980s epidemiological studies searched for possible associations of environmental factors, factors of lifestyle, and cardiovascular diseases with age-related macular degeneration (ARMD), this is now perceived as a multifactorial disorder with predisposing genetic constellations and with environmental factors contributing to disease progression. The evidence which supports a gen...

Coke oven, which is a large industrial furnace, is complex in structure. A two-dimensional structure diagram can hardly help one observe the inner structure of a coke oven or master its working principle comprehensively. In order to solve this problem, a complete 3D digital model of a coke oven is generated by assembling the three-dimensional models of coke oven components created with SketchUp...

This paper presents a wavelet neural network backstepping sliding mode controller (WNNBSSM) for permanentmagnet synchronous motor (PMSM) position servo control system. Backstepping sliding mode (BSSM) is utilized to guarantee favorable tracking performance and stability of the whole system, meanwhile, wavelet neural network (WNN) is used for approximating nonlinear uncertainties. The designed c...

Bed-related situation monitoring is a crucial task in geriatric healthcare. Due to shortage of qualified caregivers, automatic detection of the situation in a bedroom is desirable since risks may arise when an elder gets up from the bed alone. In addition, analyzing the total amount of care time of an elder is helpful when the social effect on the improvement of the elder’s health needs to be e...

The IEEE 802.15.4 has been studied for its possible use to support networked control systems. A careful management of the network resources allows the enhancement of the quality of control (QoC) of the controlled system. This can be achieved by a co-design approach to manage the interaction between the WNCS and the wireless network in order to online adapt the QoC. This approach allows control ...

This paper investigates the ordering decisions and coordinationmechanism for a distributed shortlife-cycle supply chain. The objective is to maximize the whole supply chain’s expected profit and meanwhile make the supply chain participants achieve a Pareto improvement. We treat lead time as a controllable variable, thus the demand forecast is dependent on lead time: the shorter lead time, the b...

In this paper, we develop an adaptive dynamic programmingbased robust tracking control for a class of continuous-time matched uncertain nonlinear systems. By selecting a discounted value function for the nominal augmented error system, we transform the robust tracking control problem into an optimal control problem. The control matrix is not required to be invertible by using the present method...

To study the feasibility of monitoring the diseases and insect pests in tobacco using hyperspectral remote sensing, leaf spectrum of tobacco infected with diseases and insect pests at different severity levels was measured by using ASD hand-held spectroradiometers. The reflectance data was transformed by the method of the first differential coefficient. Meanwhile, the correlation between severi...

Introduction of carbonyl groups into amino acid residues is a hallmark for oxidative damage to proteins by reactive oxygen species (ROS). Protein carbonylation can have deleterious effects on cell function and viability, since it is generally unrepairable by cells and can lead to protein dysfunction and to the production of potentially harmful protein aggregates. Meanwhile, pyridoxamine (PM) is...

In this paper, we proposed a rotation invariant image descriptor based on Radon transform (RT) and energy operator. Radon transform captures the directional features of the pattern image by projecting the pattern onto different orientation slices, and its most attractive ability is to transform rotational components to circular shift components. Meanwhile, the energy operator can remove the cir...