This paper deals with the design of scheduling logics for Networked Control Systems (NCSs) whose communication networks have limited capacity. We assume that only a subset plants can communicate their controllers at any time instant. Our contributions are twofold. First, we present probabilistic algorithm to that, under certain conditions on plant and controller dynamics capacity network, ensur...

The doping of phosphorus (P) provides an additional means to control the optical properties of silicon nanocrystals (Si NCs). The P-doping-induced changes in the optical properties of Si NCs, however, have not been consistently understood. On the basis of first-principles calculations, we explain the P-doping-induced infrared absorption of Si NCs and the effect of P-doping on the light emission...

AIM To describe the development and application of a novel scoring system for grading the severity of intermittent distance exotropia (IDEX) and its potential application as an intervention criterion for surgical intervention. METHODS The Newcastle Control Score (NCS) for IDEX was developed by incorporating both subjective (home control) and objective (clinic control) criteria into a scale to...

The coordination of spontaneous brain activity is widely enhanced relative to compensation activity in Parkinson's disease (PD) with tremor; however, the associated topological organization remains unclear. This study collected magnetic resonance imaging data from 36 participants [i.e., 16 PD patients and 20 matched normal controls (NCs)] and constructed wavelet-based functional and morphologic...

The National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) is a new nationally representative community household survey of the prevalence and correlates of mental disorders in the US. The NCS-R was carried out a decade after the original NCS. The NCS-R repeats many of the questions from the NCS and also expands the NCS questioning to include assessments based on the more recent Diagnostic and Statist...

OBJECTIVES Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) can produce severe neurological deficits and neuropathic pain and is a potential reason for terminating or suspending chemotherapy treatments. Specific and effective curative treatments are lacking. METHODS A pilot study was conducted to evaluate the therapeutic effect of acupuncture on CIPN as measured by changes in nerve conductio...

Neuroimaging studies have shown that heroin addiction is related to abnormalities in widespread local regions and in the functional connectivity of the brain. However, little is known about whether heroin addiction changes the topological organization of whole-brain functional networks. Seventeen heroin-dependent individuals (HDIs) and 15 age-, gender-matched normal controls (NCs) were enrolled...

Networked control systems (NCS) have recently received an increasing attention from the control systems community. One of the major problems in NCS is how to model the highly nonlinear terms caused by uncertain delays. A straightforward solution is to employ polytopic approximations. In this paper we develop a novel method for creating discrete-time models of NCS based on polytopic approximatio...