The paper aims at providing a switching solution for a parametrized Belgian chocolate stabilization problem posed by Blondel. We show that for any given value of the parameter describing the given transfer function, there exist simple switching and periodic control laws that stabilize the plant. The simplicity in designing these control laws sharply contrasts with the difficulty of designing a ...

water quality trading is a new approach in pollution control which satisfies water quality standards suggesting minimum cost solutions. this method uses tradable discharge permits based on pollution transfer coefficient in a river. this paper tries to establish a water quality trading program in a river basin according to transfer coefficients between pollution sources and evaluate cost effecti...

the purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of self – control modeling , that is presenting moded to learner whenever they asked for it, on learning a timing task.twenty four right handed subjects (12 males, 12 females, aged 19-20) voluntarily participated in the study and were assigned randomly to two groups of self – control and yoked.the task was pressing the keys number 1, 4...

the purpose of this study was to examine the effect of self-control feedback on relative and absolute timing through observational and physical practices. participants (n=90) were randomly assigned to physical and observational practice (self-control, yoked, and instructor kr) groups. they practiced a sequential timing task, which required participants to press four keys (2, 6, 8, and 4) respec...

transfer of patients from the cardiac intensive care unit to the general ward, is one of the main reasons for anxiety. given that the transfer anxiety may be due to receive at least, inconsistent or do not receive enough information before the patients leaving the intensive care unit, therefore, this study aimed to determine the effect of information provision on anxiety levels in patients tran...

A new operator is considered, allowing compact formulae and proofs in the context of the derivation of a transfer matrix with respect to another matrix. The problem of the parametric sensitivity matrix calculation is chosen for illustration. It consists in deriving a Multiple Input Multiple Output transfer function with respect to a parametric matrix and is central in robust control theory. Eff...