The master pacemaker in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) controls daily rhythms of behavior in mammals. C57BL/6J mice lacking Period1 (Per1⁻/⁻) are an anomaly because their SCN molecular rhythm is weak or absent in vitro even though their locomotor activity rhythm is robust. To resolve the contradiction between the in vitro and in vivo circadian phenotypes of Per1⁻/⁻ mice, we measured the mult...

Aggregating loads and resources on both the supply demand side of a virtual power plant (VPP) can enhance coordination between distributed generation systems grid, ultimately improving utilization rate economic benefits renewable energy. The energy storage system (ESS) has added benefit flexible demand-side resources, which effectively suppress output uncertainty units balance load fluctuations...

Many robust control problems can be formulated in abstract form as convex feasibility programs, where one seeks a solution x that satisfies a set of inequalities of the form F . = {f (x, ) 0, ∈ D}. This set typically contains an infinite and uncountable number of inequalities, and it has been proved that the related robust feasibility problem is numerically hard to solve in general. In this pap...

Circadian rhythms in plants are relatively robust, as they are maintained both in constant light of high fluence rates and in darkness. Plant circadian clocks exhibit the expected modes of photoentrainment, including period modulation by ambient light and phase resetting by brief light pulses. Several of the phytochrome and cryptochrome photoreceptors responsible have been studied in detail. Th...

Robust peroxidase-catalyzed enantiospecific oxyfunctionalizations can be achieved by simple light-driven in situ generation of hydrogen peroxide.

We consider optimization problems where the exact value of the input data is not known in advance and can be affected by uncertainty. For these problems, one is typically required to determine a robust solution, i.e., a possibly suboptimal solution whose feasibility and cost is not affected heavily by the change of certain input coefficients. Two main classes of models have been proposed in the...