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A Self-Referencing Intensity Based Polymer Optical Fiber Sensor for Liquid Detection
(MDPI, 2009-08)
A novel self-referencing fiber optic intensity sensor based on bending losses of a partially polished polymer optical fiber (POF) coupler is presented. The coupling ratio (K) depends on the external liquid in which the ...
Asymptotic Comparison of the Solutions of Linear Time-Delay Systems with Point and Distributed Lags with Those of Their Limiting Equations
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2009)
This paper investigates the relations between the particular eigensolutions of a limiting functional differential equation of any order, which is the nominal (unperturbed) linear autonomous differential equations, and the ...
On the uniform exponential stability of linear time-delay systems
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2004)
This paper deals with the global uniform exponential stability independent of delay of time-delay linear and time-invariant systems subject to point and distributed delays for the initial conditions being continuous real ...
New Uses for Old Needs in the Diaspora: Watching Basque Television in Latin America
(Macquarie University, 2006)
The transformations occurring in the communications media are resulting in the emergence of new uses amongst diasporic and migratory groups. An example of this is found in satellite television, which makes the regular, ...
Development of appropriateness explicit criteria for cataract extraction by phacoemulsification
(BioMed Central, 2006-03)
Background: Consensus development techniques were used in the late 1980s to create explicit criteria for the appropriateness of cataract extraction. We developed a new appropriateness of indications tool for cataract ...
Some Combined Relations between Contractive Mappings, Kannan Mappings, Reasonable Expansive Mappings, and T-Stability
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2009)
In recent literature concerning fixed point theory for self-mappings T : X -> X in metric spaces (X,d), there are some new concepts which can be mutually related so that the inherent properties of each one might be combined ...
Total Stability Properties Based on Fixed Point Theory for a Class of Hybrid Dynamic Systems
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2009)
Robust stability results for nominally linear hybrid systems are obtained from total stability theorems for purely continuous-time and discrete-time systems by using the powerful tool of fixed point theory. The class of ...
Stability and assignment of spectrum in systems with discrete time lags
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2006)
The asymptotic stability with a prescribed degree of time delayed systems subject to multiple bounded discrete delays has received important attention in the last years. It is basically proved that the alpha-stability ...
Fractional hold circuits versus positive realness of discrete transfer functions
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2005)
The appropriate use of fractional-order holds(beta-FROH) of correcting gains beta is an element of[- 1,1] as an alternative to the classical zero- and first-order holds(ZOHs, FOHs) is discussed related to the positive ...
Long-chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid from fish oil modulates aortic nitric oxide and tocopherol status in the rat
(Cambridge University Press, 2008-10)
In spite of their high oxidisability. long-chain n-3 PUFA protect against CVD. Dietary fatty acids modulate the fatty acid composition of lipoproteins involved in atherosclerosis. We thought that if long-chain n-3 PUFA ...