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This paper presents a resource management strategy for control tasks that maximizes control performance within the available resources by readjusting the task periods at run-time. A feedback scheduler is used to determine on-line the optimal task periods considering the response over a finite time horizon of the plants controlled by arbitrary linear control laws. We show how this problem can
Presented at conference on NGO studies and anthropology, panel on elite NGOs and NGO elites. Abstract. The anticorruption NGO Transparency International was founded in 1993 by a former World Bank official and his network of ex-diplomats, lawyers, development consultants and businessmen. With headquarters in Berlin and affiliate organizations in 90 countries, it is truly one of the most successful
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate serum creatinine (s-creatinine) and serum cystatin C (s-cystatin C) levels and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) at different time points as predictors for mortality in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).METHODS: A total of 1638 patients undergoing elective CABG were studied prospectively over a median follow-up of 3.5 years (range, 2.0-5.0
