Workers exposed to organic dusts from concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) are at risk for developing airway inflammatory diseases. Available preventative and therapeutic measures for alleviating dust-induced lung disease are inadequate. Because omega-3 fatty acids can mitigate inflammatory processes, we aimed to determine whether nutritional supplementation with the omega-3 fatty aci...

An exact series expansion is now known for the Principal Field Emission Elliptic Function v, in terms of a complementary elliptic variable l ′ equal to y 2 , where y is the Nordheim parameter. This expansion was originally found by using the algebraic manipulation package MAPLE. This paper presents a formal mathematical derivation. Recently, it has been discovered that v(l ′) is a particular so...

In a recent paper we presented the first adaptive control design for an ODE system with a possibly large actuator delay of unknown length. We achieved global stability under full state feedback. In this paper we generalize the design to the situation where, besides the unknown delay value, the ODE also has unknown parameters, and where trajectory tracking (rather than equilibrium regulation) is...

In this paper, we introduce SODES (Stepwise Ordinary Differential Equations Solver) a new solver for (ODE). can optionally provide the solution displaying all steps needed to obtain it. This way, is an important tool not only researchers who need solving ODE but also constitutes teaching and learning process of ODE. has been developed using programming with Computer Algebra System (CAS). Specif...

| Sun et al. 1] reduced the set of coupled rst order nonlinear partial diierential equations determining the wavelength-dependent, time-varying doped-ber ampli-er gain into a single ordinary diierential equation (ODE). In this paper we further simplify the ODE, greatly enhancing its utility as an analysis and design tool. We nd that the gain dynamics are completely speciied by the total number ...

We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions of one coupled PDE-ODE system arising in mathematical biology as a model for the development of a forest ecosystem. In the case where the ODE-component of the system is monotone, we establish the existence of a smooth global attractor of finite Hausdorff and fractal dimension. The case of the non-monotone ODE-component is much more complicated. In p...