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Screening Lactic Acid Bacteria for Antimicrobial Compound Production
Lactic Acid Bacteria was known as potential probiotic used in food industries and dairy products and probable to produce antimicrobial compound that inhibit variety of microorganisms. The objectives of the research are to determine the optimum condition and glucose utilization in relation to antimicrobial compound production. Two species of Lactic Acid Bacteria namely Lactococcus and Lactobacillus were used as probiotic. The Lactic Acid Bacteria were fermentated in different medium, initial substrate pH and incubation temperature for the production of antimicrobial compound. The test organisms such as E.coli and Salmonella were selected as test organisms. Amongst the two species of Lactic Acid Bacteria, Lactococcus produced the highest amount of antimicrobial compound than Lactobacillus
Dissipative Stabilization of Linear Systems with Time-Varying General Distributed Delays (Complete Version)
New methods are developed for the stabilization of a linear system with
general time-varying distributed delays existing at the system's states, inputs
and outputs. In contrast to most existing literature where the function of
time-varying delay is continuous and bounded, we assume it to be bounded and
measurable. Furthermore, the distributed delay kernels can be any
square-integrable function over a bounded interval, where the kernels are
handled directly by using a decomposition scenario without using
approximations. By constructing a Krasovski\u{i} functional via the application
of a novel integral inequality, sufficient conditions for the existence of a
dissipative state feedback controller are derived in terms of matrix
inequalities without utilizing the existing reciprocally convex combination
lemmas. The proposed synthesis (stability) conditions, which take dissipativity
into account, can be either solved directly by a standard numerical solver of
semidefinite programming if they are convex, or reshaped into linear matrix
inequalities, or solved via a proposed iterative algorithm. To the best of our
knowledge, no existing methods can handle the synthesis problem investigated in
this paper. Finally, numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the
effectiveness of the proposed methodologies.Comment: Accepted by Automatic
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