What is the main advantage of using observer based fault tolerant controller(FTC) for sensor fault tolerance?

I am working on FTC for handling sensor faults in the system. I have read about observer-based FTC schemes which use error threshold-based logic between the states and estimated states. If a...

10 January 2021 5,771 2 View

Can a luenberger observer (even a modified version) be effective for a nonlinear affine system?

I want to know whether a luenberger observer or a modified form of it be effective for estimating the states of a system of the following forms: 1. x_dot = f(x,u,d); y = x 2. x_dot = f(x,u); y =...

20 December 2020 1,392 4 View

Is there any software for calculating hit bias (HB), missed precipitation (MP), and false precipitation (FP)?

I have a time series of two rainfall products. For error decomposition analysis, I have to calculate HB, MB and FB. Is there any software for calculating these variables.

27 November 2020 980 2 View

I'm looking for cell culture models for Alzheimer's by targeting amyloid beta peptide, tau protein, bace 1 enzyme ; can anyone give me details please?

I want to target particular protein/peptide/enzyme by cell culture methods. I would also like to know screening methods for cell cultures to analyse and diagnose the drug effect on particular...

24 November 2020 7,255 5 View

Can someone help me in designing off-MPPT mode in a Standalone DC Microgrid?

I am working on voltage control of a Standalone DC Microgrid consisting of Single PV source, a battery and loads. The PV is interfaced through Buck converter to the DC bus, the battery is...

01 October 2020 7,071 2 View

How to scale the time frame of battery operation in MATLAB?

How can we make the rating of a battery in MATLAB/Simulink to Amp-sec instead of Amp-hour? I have tried with reducing the factor of 3600 to 1 inside the battery block. Is this approach completely...

03 July 2020 4,017 4 View

Why a colorimetric assay is usually not in green?

Various colorimetric assays we use are blue/purple/pink/red but not in green shades. Is there any particular reason for this?

30 May 2020 5,834 1 View

Can someone suggest me a good resource to get the information on design of Adaptive controllers like Model Reference Adaptive Control in MATLAB?

Please suggest me a good source to learn the design of adaptive controllers like MRAC. Resources related to the implementation on MATLAB platform and for Power electronic converter systems would...

01 May 2020 7,422 3 View

What are some physical methods to determine binding affinity of a protein?

What are various options available while determining the binding affinity of a protein to it's target? In my case the target is also a protein. Are there any standard physical methods to...

09 March 2020 8,053 8 View

How to calculate setup time and hold time of a memory circuit in CADENCE Spectre Simulator?

Dear all, How to calculate setup time and hold time of a memory circuit in CADENCE Spectre Simulator?. We have designed Content Addressable Memory (CAM) using 45 nm technology in CADENCE Spectre...

05 January 2020 9,460 3 View

Is RD-ES grow attached or in suspension or both?

We have a old RD-ES cell line which is grow attached, but we got another vial of RD-ES which is very easy to get detached and grow in sphere in the medium. Do you know which morphology is normal...

24 February 2021 5,183 1 View

Could anyone recommend papers that focus on mixed-ethnicity Black-Caribbean/Caucasian adopted children?

Dear All, I have been looking for papers, or books, that focus on the issues surrounding adoption of mixed Black-Caribbean/Caucasian children. I am interested in literature that looks at any...

22 February 2021 8,466 2 View

How to improve NHBE adhesion after subculture?

I'm trying to subculture NHBE cells from Lonza, however, the cells seem to not adhere to the new flasks after detachment. I've followed Lonza detachment protocol (2 mL/25 cm2 of Trypsin 0.05% and...

10 February 2021 196 1 View

Can you realize "top-down" and "bottom-up" ARE THE SAME THINGS at important junctures IN ONTOGENY (child development)?

Can you realize "top-down" and "bottom-up" ARE [ or certainly can, if not MUST, be ] THE SAME THINGS at important junctures IN ONTOGENY (child development)? This Question is NOT addressing YOU...

09 February 2021 5,289 1 View

Ac16 cardiomyocytes cell line culturing ?

I have faced a problem with culturing Ac16 cardiomyocytes cell line. Day 0 I plated 200,000 cells/2ml (well) in 6 wells plate in FGM. Day 3 I put my cells on Low serum medium. When I changed...

24 January 2021 1,456 2 View

Books on doing a PhD?

Hi colleagues, I wondered if any of you could recommend a book for a student starting out on her PhD. Her subject area is: health, education, training and child...

07 December 2020 549 4 View

Any suggestions of a free Questionnaire that measures the parent-child relationship?

Hello, I am looking for a questionnaire to use for my dissertation on the impact of parental mobile phone usage on the parent-child relationship. Does anyone have any suggestions of a...

07 November 2020 3,303 3 View

Why are rat brain slices detaching from superfrost slides during IHC?

05 November 2020 2,284 3 View

Any expert on Calu-3 cell culture?

I just started working months ago with this peculiar cell line and I still cannot figure out the doubling time or passaging. Some times take 72h to see double amount of seeded cells, some times...

23 October 2020 6,151 2 View

Dissociation of stimulated neutrophils for flow cytometry?

I realize that the work flow in most flow-based studies of neutrophils is such that the cells are analyzed without ever becoming adherent to the cell culture surface, ie, as soon after isolation...

14 October 2020 1,579 4 View