In this work, we apply the systematic approach to plant-wide control design presented in [1], based on the fundamentals of process networks, thermodynamics and systems theory, to the Tennessee Eastman (TE) Challenge Process, deriving robust decentralized controllers that will ensure the stability of the complete plant. We take one step further in the control design procedure by completing it wi...

Background and Rationale The Office of Health Assessment and Translation (OHAT) of the Division of the National Toxicology Program (NTP) proposes to conduct a systematic review of the scientific evidence for health effects associated with occupational exposure to cancer chemotherapy agents. Cancer chemotherapy agents are cytotoxic drugs, and many of these agents are known mutagens and/or develo...

Structured summary2 Provide a structured summary including, as applicable: background; objectives; data sources; study eligibilitycriteria, participants, and interventions; study appraisal and synthesis methods; results; limitations; conclusionsand implications of key findings; systematic review registration number.2 INTRODUCTIONRationale3 Describe the rationale for ...

to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis on controlled treatment trials of meta-cognitive therapy (mct) for anxiety disorders, studies were included if they employed controlled methodology and treated people above 18 years with anxiety disorders. case studies (with less than 4 cases) and single case designed studies were excluded. a comprehensive literature search identified 15 trials f...

Scaling Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) requires a systematic approach to resource management to achieve service level objectives (SLOs). Recently, there has been increasing use of control engineering techniques to design scalable resource management solutions that achieve SLOs. This chapter proposes a methodology for scaling SOAs based on control engineering. The methodology used here ex...

Neglecting actuator limitations when designing a feedback control may cause a severe malfunctioning of the control loop during operation. This faulty behavior is often termed windup and manifests itself in intense oscillations, a significantly prolonged settling time or even instability. The main objective of this work is the development of systematic design methods for anti-windup strategies, ...

Thiswork presents a systematic approach for the optimal design and optimization ofmetal-hydridematerials and processes for efficiency hydrogen storage. Techniques for the synthesis and characterization of novelmetal-hydridematerials are presented in a view of designingmaterial to enhance storage efficiency. More specifically the synthesis of a composite intermetallic hydride by using theoretica...

in zero acceptance number sampling plans, the sample items of an incoming lot are inspected one by one. the proposed method in this research follows these rules: if the number of nonconforming items in the first sample is equal to zero, the lot is accepted but if the number of nonconforming items is equal to one, then second sample is taken and the policy of zero acceptance number would be appl...