This article presents an antiwindup propor- tional-integral (PI) controller, using a saturating integrator, for single-input and single-output (SISO) stable nonlinear plant, whose steady-state input–output map is increasing. We prove that, under reasonable assumptions, there exists upper bound on the controller gain such that any constant reference input, corresponding equilibrium point of clos...

Nonlinear PI and PID controllers combining time-(sub)optimality with linear control robustness and antiwindup properties are proposed for first-order and second-order integrator systems, without assuming that the control lower-bound and upper-bound are the opposite of each other. A complementary contribution is the introduction of an integral action with anti-windup properties into the control ...

in this paper some upper and lower bounds for the greatest eigenvalues of the pi and vertex pimatrices of a graph g are obtained. those graphs for which these bounds are best possible arecharacterized.

objective: an association between poor oral health and chronic lung disease has recently been reported. the purpose of this study was to explore this potential association between asthma and periodontal disease. materials and methods: this is a descriptive case controlled study. the samples were selected from patients referred to respiratory disease clinic in a hospital in tehran, iran. the stu...

BACKGROUND Renal functional reserve is the normal increase in renal blood flow after a protein load, and reduced or absent renal functional reserve is an early index of renal impairment. Renal blood flow is frequently reduced during acute oedematous exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It is possible that patients with severe COPD in the stable state may have a reduced...

INTRODUCTION Response to antiretroviral therapy (ART) among individuals infected with HIV-2 is poorly described. We compared the immunological response among patients treated with three nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) to boosted protease inhibitor (PI) and unboosted PI-based regimens in West Africa. METHODS This prospective cohort study enrolled treatment-naïve HIV-2-infec...

In many countries, the protease inhibitor (SERPINA1) PI*S allele is more common than PI*Z, the allele responsible for most cases of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) due to severe alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency. However, the risk of COPD due to the PI*S allele is not clear. The current authors located studies that addressed the risk of COPD or measured lung function in individuals wi...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate whether the measurement of maternal serum inhibin A, activin A and placental growth factor (PlGF) at 12 + 0 to 16 + 0 weeks of gestation alone or in combination with second-trimester uterine artery Doppler pulsatility index (PI) is useful in predicting pre-eclampsia. METHODS This was a case-control study of pre-eclampsia. From pregnant women attending their first antena...

Fractional-order controller was proven to perform better than the integer-order controller. However, the absence of a pole at origin in the approximated transfer function produced marginal error in fractional-order control system. This study demonstrated the design of an error compensator that comprises of a very small zero and a pole at origin to produce a zero steady-state error for the close...

The complete active space with second-order perturbation theory/complete active space self-consistent-field method was used to explore the nonradiative decay mechanism for excited 9H-guanine. On the 1pipi* (1L(a)) surface we determined a conical intersection (CI), labeled (S0pipi*)(CI), between the 1pipi* (1L(a)) excited state and the ground state, and a minimum, labeled (pipi*)min. For the 1pi...