In Paramecium tetraurelia, cyclic nucleotides are important physiological second messengers that could regulate dynein mechanochemistry by phosphorylation. A 29-kDa polypeptide that is phosphorylated in a cAMP- and Ca(2+)-sensitive manner in permeabilized cells and isolated axonemes is the only significant phosphorylated moiety that consistently copurifies with 22S dynein from paramecium cilia....

The problem of designing sliding-mode observers for systems with unknown inputs is considered when the so-called observer matching condition is not satisfied. This condition severely restricts the applicability of sliding-mode observers. To circumvent the observer matching condition, thereby broadening the class of systems for which sliding-mode observers can be constructed, a possible method i...

This paper presents the implementation of an adaptive supervisory sliding fuzzy cerebellar model articulation controller (FCMAC) in the speed sensorless vector control of an induction motor (IM) drive system. The proposed adaptive supervisory sliding FCMAC comprised a supervisory controller, integral sliding surface, and an adaptive FCMAC. The integral sliding surface was employed to eliminate ...

Direct measurements of microtubule sliding in the flagella of actively swimming, demembranated, spermatozoa have been made using submicron diameter gold beads as markers on the exposed outer doublet microtubules . With spermatozoa of the tunicate, Ciona, these measurements confirm values of sliding calculated indirectly by measuring angles relative to the axis of the sperm head. Both methods of...

This paper discusses fuzzy sliding mode controller applied for induction motor field oriented control with space-vector pulse-width modulated inverter. The speed control is obtained by controlling the inverter switching frequency determined by the reference voltage resulted by the controller. Simulation results show that fuzzy sliding mode controller performed satisfactorily and better compared...

In this paper, a nonsingular terminal sliding mode concept is introduced for the control of a class of nonlinear dynamical systems. This nonsingular terminal sliding mode control not only enables the £nite time convergence of the system equilibrium, but also eliminates the singularity problem associated with conventional terminal sliding mode control. Simulations are presented to show the effec...

The development of a sliding hydrogel with mobile crosslinks and biochemical ligands as a 3D stem cell niche is reported. The molecular mobility of this sliding hydrogel allows stem cells to reorganize the surrounding ligands and change their morphology in 3D. Without changing matrix stiffness, sliding hydrogels support efficient stem cell differentiation toward multiple lineages including adip...

Sliding Token is a natural reconfiguration problem in which vertices of independent sets are iteratively replaced by neighbors. We develop techniques that may be useful in answering the conjecture that Sliding Token is polynomial-time decidable on bipartite graphs. Along the way, we give efficient algorithms for Sliding Token on bipartite permutation and bipartite distance-hereditary graphs.

Two distinct regimes are considered when it comes to friction: gross-sliding regime and presliding regime [1]. Friction in the gross-sliding regime contains familiar and classic concepts of static friction, Coulomb friction, and Stribeck curve. It is more intriguing, on the other hand, that friction in the pre-sliding regime behaves like a non-linear spring with hysteresis, significantly impact...

Sliding mode controller is applied to an ABS system in this paper. A mathematical model is used for controller design and evaluation. Finally, the proposed control action is compared with that of a bang-bang controller. Simulation results reveal the effectiveness of the proposed sliding mode controller. Key-Words: sliding mode control, ABS, slip, bang –bang control.