BACKGROUND With regard to the importance of life skills, the present study deals with the effect of life skills training on general health of the students. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a one-group, pre-test, post-test, quasi-experimental research. Forty students were selected through purposive sampling method. The data collection tool was Goldberg General Health Questionnaire. RESULTS Pai...

In this letter, we present a new linearization method for a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)-based quantizer in an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The nonlinearity of the VCO generates unwanted harmonic spurs and reduces the signal-to-noise and distortion ratio (SNDR) of the VCO-based quantizer. This letter suggests a frequency-to-current feedback method to effectively suppress harmonic d...

This paper deals with the use of extra freedom in the exact linearization technique. Firstly, the freedom in choosing the coordinate transformation and nonlinear state feedback for the exact linearization is clarified. Secondly, a controller design strategy for the transient behavior improvement in the presence of impulsive disturbances is shown. Finally, numerical and experimental examples exh...

This paper describes a more efficient paired comparison method that reduces the number of trials necessary for converting a table of paired comparisons into scaler data. Instead of comparing every pair of samples (the complete method), a partial method is used that makes more comparisons between closer samples than between more distant samples. A sorting algorithm is used to efficiently order t...

Quantum mechanics abounds in models with Hamiltonian operators which are energy-dependent. A linearization of the underlying Schrödinger equation with H = H(E) is proposed here via an introduction of a doublet of separate energyindependent representatives K and L of the respective right and left action of H(E). Both these new operators are non-Hermitian so that our formalism admits a natural ex...

State-dependent parameter representations of stochastic non-linear sampled-data systems are studied. Velocity-based linearization is used to construct state-dependent parameter models which have a nominally linear structure but whose parameters can be characterized as functions of past outputs and inputs. For stochastic systems state-dependent parameter ARMAX (quasi-ARMAX) representations are o...

A simple interval method is suggested for globally solving optimization problems of the following type: minimize the objective function φo(x) subject to the functional constraints φo(x) ≤ 0, i=1,...r and the boundary constraints x∈ X(o) where x is a n-dimensional vector and X(o) is a given initial search region (a box). All the functions involved are assumed continuously differentiable in X(o)....

In 2007 PKC conference, Ding, et al use the second order linearization equation attack method to break what be called MFE multivariate public key encryption scheme, and also proposed a high order linearization equation attack on multivariate public key cryptosystems. To resist high order linearization equation attack, we present an enhanced MFE encryption scheme in this article. The improved sc...

In this paper, we develop a method to design the input control to track the output of a nonminimum-phase nonlinear systems asymptotically. The design of the control inputs is based on an exact linearization. To perform the exact linearization, the other output should be selected such that its relative degree is equal to the dimension of the system. Furthermore, the desired output of the output ...