Cerebral autoregulation (CAR) is a control mechanism of the brain keeping cerebral blood flow constant albeit the arterial blood pressure varies. Impaired CAR may be associated with an increased risk of cerebral ischemic events in patients with obstructive cerebrovascular disease. Spontaneous blood pressure oscillations are analyzed using a nonparametric and two parametric transfer function est...

The multivariable tracking accuracy on an automotive vibration test rig can be improved by extending the current industrial off-line iterative feedforward procedure with a real time feedback controller. This article compares three MIMO feedback control design procedures with respect to design complexity and obtained performance: (1) DK-iteration, the most common -synthesis method to design robu...

We present a car traffic simulation prototype for complex networks, that is formed by a collection of roads and junctions. Traffic load evolution is described by a model based on fluid dynamic conservation laws, deduced from conservation of the number of cars. The model contains some additional hypothesis in order to reproduce specific car traffic features such as route based car distribution a...

Vehicle analysis is an import task in many intelligent applications, such as automatic toll collection and driver assistance systems. Among these applications, moving car detection and model recognition are a challenging task due to the close appearance between car models. In this paper, we propose a framework to detect moving cars and its model based on deep learning. We first detect the movin...

Carvacrol (CAR), a naturally occurring monoterpenic phenol and food additive, has been shown to have antimicrobials, antitumor, and antidepressant-like activities. A previous study demonstrated that CAR has the ability to protect liver against ischemia/reperfusion injury in rats. In this study, we investigated the protective effects of CAR on cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury in a middle cer...

This paper presents the application of Parallel Genetic Algorithm (PGA)-based Takagi Sugeno Kang (TSK)-Fuzzy approach for dynamic car-following modeling in the traffic simulation software. It differs from the usual car-following model significantly as the proposed model provides a more dynamic car movement and realistic headway by considering the driver progressive level factor. These two advan...

BACKGROUND Promoting walking for the journey to and from work (commuter walking) is a potential strategy for increasing physical activity. Understanding the factors influencing commuter walking is important for identifying target groups and designing effective interventions. This study aimed to examine individual, employment-related and psychosocial factors associated with commuter walking and ...

Two conserved features of oogenesis are the accumulation of translationally quiescent mRNA, and a high rate of stage-specific apoptosis. Little is understood about the function of this cell death. In C. elegans, apoptosis occurring through a specific ;physiological' pathway normally claims about half of all developing oocytes. The frequency of this germ cell death is dramatically increased by a...

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the construction of an improved sliding mode control for the active suspension system of a one-wheel car model subject to the excitation from a road profile. The active control is composed of the equivalent and the switching controls where an improved sliding surface is proposed. The active control force is generated by operating a pneumatic actuator due t...