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Predictive Control for Linear and Hybrid Systems

By: Francesco Borrelli,Alberto Bemporad,Manfred Morari

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Predictive Control for Linear and Hybrid Systems

By: Francesco Borrelli,Alberto Bemporad,Manfred Morari

Model Predictive Control (MPC), the dominant advanced control approach in industry over the past twenty-five years, is presented comprehensively in this unique book. With a simple, unified approach, and with attention to real-time implementation, it covers predictive control theory including the stability, feasibility, and robustness of MPC controllers. The theory of explicit MPC, where the nonlinear optimal feedback controller can be calculated efficiently, is presented in the context of linear systems with linear constraints, switched linear systems, and, more generally, linear hybrid systems. Drawing upon years of practical experience and using numerous examples and illustrative applications, the authors discuss the techniques required to design predictive control laws, including algorithms for polyhedral manipulations, mathematical and multiparametric programming and how to validate the theoretical properties and to implement predictive control policies. The most important algorithms feature in an accompanying free online MATLAB toolbox, which allows easy access to sample solutions. Predictive Control for Linear and Hybrid Systems is an ideal reference for graduate, postgraduate and advanced control practitioners interested in theory and/or implementation aspects of predictive control.

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1108158293

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Constrained Optimal Control of Linear and Hybrid Systems

By: Francesco Borrelli

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Constrained Optimal Control of Linear and Hybrid Systems

By: Francesco Borrelli

Many practical control problems are dominated by characteristics such as state, input and operational constraints, alternations between different operating regimes, and the interaction of continuous-time and discrete event systems. At present no methodology is available to design controllers in a systematic manner for such systems. This book introduces a new design theory for controllers for such constrained and switching dynamical systems and leads to algorithms that systematically solve control synthesis problems. The first part is a self-contained introduction to multiparametric programming, which is the main technique used to study and compute state feedback optimal control laws. The book's main objective is to derive properties of the state feedback solution, as well as to obtain algorithms to compute it efficiently. The focus is on constrained linear systems and constrained linear hybrid systems. The applicability of the theory is demonstrated through two experimental case studies: a mechanical laboratory process and a traction control system developed jointly with the Ford Motor Company in Michigan.

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3540362258

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Phytotherapy

A Quick Reference to Herbal Medicine

By: Francesco Capasso,Timothy S. Gaginella,Giuliano Grandolini,Angelo A. Izzo

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Phytotherapy

A Quick Reference to Herbal Medicine

By: Francesco Capasso,Timothy S. Gaginella,Giuliano Grandolini,Angelo A. Izzo

This richly illustrated reference guide treats the subject of herbal medicines in an integrated fashion with reference to pharmacognosy, pharmacology and toxicology. It will help to enable internists, phytotherapists, physicians, healthcare practitioners as well as students to understand why, when and how herbal medicines can be used in the treatment of diseases. A great deal of pathology and therapeutic information is also included. Numerous tables as well as figures clarify complex mechanisms and other information. The most important medicinal plants and drugs are illustrated with exceptional color plates.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642555284

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Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition

Gotham and the Age of Recklessness, 1920–1933

By: Francesco Landolfi

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Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition

Gotham and the Age of Recklessness, 1920–1933

By: Francesco Landolfi

This book aims to highlight the causes why the Prohibition Era led to an evolution of the New York mob from a rural, ethnic and small-scale to an urban, American and wide-scale crime. The temperance project, advocated by the WASP elite since the early nineteenth century, turned into prohibition only after the end of WWI with the enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment. By considering the success that war prohibition made to the soldiers' psychophysical condition, Congress aimed to shift this political move even to civil society. So it was that the Italian, Irish and Jewish mobs took the chance to spread their bribe system to local politics due to the lucrative alcohol bootlegging. New York became the core of the national anti-prohibition, where the smuggling from Canada and Europe merged into the legendary Manhattan nightclubs and speakeasies. With the coming of the Great Depression, the Republican Party was aware about the failure of this political measure, leading to the making of a new corporate underworld. The book is addressed to historians of New York, historians of crime and historians of modern America as well as to an audience of readers interested in the history of the Prohibition Era.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000623483

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Selected Papers from SDEWES 2017: The 12th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems

By: Francesco Calise

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Selected Papers from SDEWES 2017: The 12th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems

By: Francesco Calise

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Selected Papers from SDEWES 2017: The 12th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems" that was published in Energies

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MDPI

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3038973963

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Laxatives

A Practical Guide

By: Francesco Capasso,Timothy S. Gaginella

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Laxatives

A Practical Guide

By: Francesco Capasso,Timothy S. Gaginella

Constipation is a common disorder that is often defined differently by patients and physicians. Clinically, constipation occurs when bowel move ments are difficult or painful. The "normality" of bowel movements, in terms of frequency, varies among individuals; frequency that is thought by one person to be constipation may be reported by another to be usual and thus normal. Often the perceived "need" to have a bowel movement leads to self-treatment with laxatives as these drugs are widely available without a prescription. This situation can raise problems in patient care, because of potential interactions between laxatives and other medications. Furthermore, chronic use (abuse) oflaxatives can cause serious medical consequences, causing patients to visit physicians, and even to be hospitalized for further evaluation and care. This has a financial impact on the patient, and on health care systems. It is essential that pharmacists, physicians and other health care practitioners counsel patients on the causes of constipation and the proper use oflaxatives. A medical work-up by a physician should be done to determine if the constipation is due to a pathological process. Often nor mal bowel function (for an invididual) can be maintained by diet and/or lifestyle. Most laxatives in use today are of botanical origin. Further research on the mechanism of action of these and synthetic laxatives is needed to bet ter define their pharmacology and toxicology.

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8847022274

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Online Communities and Crowds in the Rise of the Five Star Movement

By: Francesco Bailo

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Online Communities and Crowds in the Rise of the Five Star Movement

By: Francesco Bailo

This book reflects on the political capacity of citizen users to impact politics, explaining the danger in assuming that mass online participation has unconditionally democratising effects. Focusing on the case of Italy's Five Star Movement, the book argues that Internet participation is naturally unequal and, without normative and strong design efforts, Internet platforms can generate noisy, undemocratic crowds instead of self-reflexive, norm-bounded communities. The depiction of a democratising Internet can be easily exploited by those who manage these platforms to sell crowds as deliberating publics. As the Internet, almost everywhere, turns into the primary medium for political engagement, it also becomes the symbol of what is wrong with politics. Internet users experience unprecedented, instantaneous and personalised access to information and communication and, by comparison, they feel a much stronger level of irrelevance in the existing political system.

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Springer Nature

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3030455084

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Development of high-fidelity numerical methods for turbulent flows simulation

By: Francesco Capuano

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Development of high-fidelity numerical methods for turbulent flows simulation

By: Francesco Capuano

La tesi di dottorato è incentrata sullo sviluppo di strumenti e metodologie avanzate per la simulazione numerica di flussi turbolenti con tecniche Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) e Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS). In particolare, si propone una metodologia di avanzamento temporale innovativa di tipo Runge-Kutta(RK) capace di riprodurre le prestazioni di robustezza dei metodi skew-symmetric classici con maggiore efficienza computazionale. La rigorosa trattazione teorica sviluppata nel lavoro ha permesso di ricavare nuovi schemi RK con un determinato ordine di accuratezza sulla soluzione e sulla conservazione di energia discreta. La tecnica ha mostrato di essere più efficiente degli schemi classici, fornendo, a parità di risultati, tempi di calcolo inferiori fino al 50%.

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8891196975

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The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle

The Secret of San Gennaro’s Blood

By: Francesco de Ceglia

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The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle

The Secret of San Gennaro’s Blood

By: Francesco de Ceglia

This book examines Naples’s patron saint, Gennaro, the history of his blood relic, and the mystery of its periodical liquefaction. Three times a year, Neapolitans gather to witness the recurring phenomenon of the liquefaction of San Gennaro’s blood. From the seventeenth century to the present, crowds have prayed to the city’s patron for protection from fires, earthquakes, plagues, droughts, and the fury of Mt. Vesuvius. In the “miraculous” moment of transposition from solid to liquid, the faithful seek respite from the ills of the world in the saintly blood, a visual reminder of the blood of Christ spilled for their salvation. In Naples, the periodical liquefaction of San Gennaro’s blood is not officially recognized as miraculous by the Catholic Church, which now more cautiously refers to it as a prodigy. Nevertheless, for centuries, this phenomenon has been called “a miracle” in liturgical texts approved by the ecclesiastical authority and in the words of bishops, cardinals, popes, and saints. However, not everyone agreed. This volume follows the efforts of theologians, alchemists, charlatans, and scientists who, through the centuries, have tried to answer questions such as: Is the liquefaction of San Gennaro’s blood really a miracle? If not, how is it possible to explain a phenomenon that occurs only on dates liturgically relevant to the saint? The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle will be of great value to those interested in Religious Studies, Italian Studies, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, as well as the History of Science, Anthropology, and Ethnography.

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1040172350

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Predictive Control for Linear and Hybrid Systems

By: Francesco Borrelli,Alberto Bemporad,Manfred Morari

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Predictive Control for Linear and Hybrid Systems

By: Francesco Borrelli,Alberto Bemporad,Manfred Morari

With a simple approach that includes real-time applications and algorithms, this book covers the theory of model predictive control (MPC).

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Constrained Optimal Control of Linear and Hybrid Systems

By: Francesco Borrelli

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Predictive Control for Linear and Hybrid Systems

Predictive Control for Linear and Hybrid Systems

Constrained Optimal Control of Linear and Hybrid Systems

Constrained Optimal Control of Linear and Hybrid Systems

Phytotherapy

Phytotherapy

Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition

Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition

Selected Papers from SDEWES 2017: The 12th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems

Selected Papers from SDEWES 2017: The 12th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems

Laxatives

Laxatives

Online Communities and Crowds in the Rise of the Five Star Movement

Online Communities and Crowds in the Rise of the Five Star Movement

Development of high-fidelity numerical methods for turbulent flows simulation

Development of high-fidelity numerical methods for turbulent flows simulation

The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle

The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle

Predictive Control for Linear and Hybrid Systems

Predictive Control for Linear and Hybrid Systems

Constrained Optimal Control of Linear and Hybrid Systems

Constrained Optimal Control of Linear and Hybrid Systems

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