An alternative feedback structure, inspired from a speech coding structure, is introduced for the adaptive active control of periodic and time-varying periodic disturbances. The new structure is an Internal Model Control (IMC) structure. It separates the information and the processing pertaining to the plant from the information and the processing pertaining to the disturbance signal. A non-cau...

BACKGROUND Improved discharge arrangements and targeted post-discharge follow-up can reduce the risk of adverse events after hospital discharge for elderly patients. Although more care is to shift from specialist to primary care, there are few studies on post-discharge interventions run by primary care. A generic care pathway, Patient Trajectory for Home-dwelling elders (PaTH) including dischar...

conclusions by preventing unnecessary termination of pregnancy and keeping fit, the chances of lbw can be reduced. background lbw rate is one of the most important health indices in every society. it reveals mothers and their new-born infants' health. objectives our aim, in the present paper, was to present a new statistical framework for analysis based on path analysis techniques. patients and...

let g be a (p, q) graph. let k be an integer with 2 ≤ k ≤ p and f from v (g) to the set {1, 2, . . . , k} be a map. for each edge uv, assign the label |f(u) − f(v)|. the function f is called a k-difference cordial labeling of g if |νf (i) − vf (j)| ≤ 1 and |ef (0) − ef (1)| ≤ 1 where vf (x) denotes the number of vertices labelled with x (x ∈ {1, 2 . . . , k}), ef (1) and ef (0) respectively den...

Energy consumption in optical backbone networks is increasing due to two main reasons: (i) the exponential growth of bandwidth demands, and (ii) the increase in availability requirements in order to guarantee protection of the ultra high capacity optical channels provided by wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) networks. Although state of the art reliability mechanisms are very efficient in g...