Soybean Looper Chrysodeixis includens (Walker) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) by Ethan T. Carter, Jennifer Lynn Gillett-Kaufman

“… The soybean looper, Chrysodeixis includens (Walker), is a light to dark green caterpillar which derives its name from its preferred host plant (soybean, Glycine max) and the looping movement it makes while in motion.  Includes: Introduction - Distribution - Description and Life Cycle - Hosts - Damage and Economic Importance - Management - Selected References Also published on the Featured Creatures website at http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/field/soybean_looper.htm Original publication date November 2017. …”
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Robust Adaptive Neural Backstepping Control for a Class of Nonlinear Systems with Dynamic Uncertainties by Hongyan Yang, Huanqing Wang, Hamid Reza Karimi

“…The proposed controller guarantees semiglobal boundedness of all the signals in the closed-loop systems. A simulation example is given to show the effectiveness of the presented control scheme.…”
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Robust Stabilization of Linear Switching Systems with Both Input and Communication Delays by Lili Jia, Zunbing Sheng

“…Such a phenomenon can be accounted for by reconstructing switching signal for the overall closed-loop system. Therefore, we derive some sufficient stability conditions by using multiple Lyapunov functions approach and, moreover, present a robust controller design methodology. …”
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Fixed-Time Complex Modified Function Projective Lag Synchronization of Chaotic (Hyperchaotic) Complex Systems by Xuan-Toa Tran, Hee-Jun Kang

“…The global fixed-time stability of the closed-loop systems is rigorously proven based on Lyapunov analysis. …”
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Generative ecodesign for mechanical products: A design workflow by Amos Wei Lun Lee, Kevin Kai Wern Seah, Bing Feng Ng, Ee Teng Zhang, Wen Feng Lu, Jonathan Sze Choong Low

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Use of wearable technology in cardiac monitoring after cryptogenic stroke or embolic stroke of undetermined source: a systematic review by Jamie SY Ho, Elizabeth SY Ho, Leonard LL Yeo, William KF Kong, Tony YW Li, Benjamin YQ Tan, Mark Y Chan, Vijay K Sharma, Kian-Keong Poh, Ching-Hui Sia

“…Only four studies compared wearable technology to Holter monitoring or implantable loop recorder, and these studies showed no significant differences on meta-analysis (odds ratio 2.35, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.74–7.48, I2 = 70%). …”
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An improved TDM-based controller for a multilevel three-phase active frontend with variable DC ratios: The extended Negev rectifier by Eli Barbie, Dmitry Baimel

“…The controller was verified through comprehensive testing, including digital simulations, Processor-In-Loop (PIL) emulation, and Controller-Hardware-In-Loop (C-HIL) experiments across 4-, 5-, and 7-level configurations. …”
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Real-Time HIL Simulation of Nonlinear Generalized Model Predictive-Based High-Order SMC for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine Drive by Hafidh Djouadi, Kamel Ouari, Youcef Belkhier, Hocine Lehouche

“…The inner loop, known as the current control, employs the newly developed nonlinear robust generalized predictive control (RNGPC) technique. …”
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Development and validation of machine-learning models for predicting the risk of hypertriglyceridemia in critically ill patients receiving propofol sedation using retrospective dat... by Jiawen Deng, Hemang Yadav, Kiyan Heybati

“…Nested cross validation (CV) will be employed, with a tenfold inner CV loop for model tuning and selection as well as an outer loop using leave-one-site-out CV for external validation. …”
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Design of Interface ASIC with Power-Saving Switches for Capacitive Accelerometers by Juncheng Cai, Yongbin Cai, Xiangyu Li, Shanshan Wang, Xiaowei Zhang, Xinpeng Di, Pengjun Wang

“…High-precision, low-power MEMS accelerometers are extensively utilized across civilian applications. Closed-loop accelerometers employing switched-capacitor (SC) circuit topologies offer notable advantages, including low power consumption, high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and excellent linearity. …”
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Energetic Cost of Ichthyophonus Infection in Juvenile Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasii) by Johanna J. Vollenweider, Jake L. Gregg, Ron A. Heintz, Paul K. Hershberger

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Globally Asymptotic Stability of Stochastic Nonlinear Systems with Time-Varying Delays via Output Feedback Control by Mingzhu Song, Wenwen Cheng, Quanxin Zhu, Hongwei Zhou, Hui Wang

“…By the backstepping method and Lyapunov theory, we design a linear output feedback controller recursively based on the observable linearization for a class of stochastic nonlinear systems with time-varying delays to guarantee that the closed-loop system is globally asymptotically stable in probability. …”
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Threshold resummation for double-deeply virtual Compton scattering by J. Schoenleber

“…As a byproduct, we obtain the leading term in the threshold limit of the two-loop coefficient function in double-deeply-virtual Compton scattering, which agrees with the recent result from explicit calculation, providing a highly non-trivial cross-check.…”
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On the Graph Isomorphism Completeness of Directed and Multidirected Graphs by Sebastian Pardo-Guerra, Vivek Kurien George, Gabriel A. Silva

“…Afterwards, by extending this categorical framework to weighted prime graphs, we prove that the categories of multidirected graphs with and without self-loops are each isomorphic to a particular category of weighted prime graphs. …”
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New physics in spin entanglement by Mateusz Duch, Alessandro Strumia, Arsenii Titov

“…Some observables affected by loops involving top quarks with modified entanglement receive corrections.…”
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Stability and Performance of First-Order Linear Time-Delay Feedback Systems: An Eigenvalue Approach by Shu-An He, I-Kong Fong

“…The main issues concerned are the rightmost eigenvalue locations, stability robustness with respect to delay time, and the response performance of the closed-loop system. Examples and simulations are presented to illustrate the analysis results.…”
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Vibration-Attenuation Controller Design for Uncertain Mechanical Systems with Input Time Delay by Yuanchun Ding, Falu Weng, Xiaohua Jiang, Minkang Tang

“…By solving the obtained LMIs, the controllers are achieved for the closed-loop system to be stable with a prescribed level of disturbance attenuation. …”
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Finite-Time Distributed Energy-to-Peak Control for Uncertain Multiagent Systems by Qu Chenggang, Cao Xibin, Hamid Reza Karimi, Zhang Zhuo, Zhang Zexu

“…By substituting the control input into multiagent systems, an augmented closed-loop system is obtained. Then, we analyze its finite-time boundedness (FTB) and finite-time L2–L∞ performance. …”
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Small Bowel Obstruction from Internal Hernia as a Complicaton of Colonscopy by Robert Patterson, Gerhard Klassen

“…At the time of surgery the colon was normal, and there was no peritoneal contamination. A loop of ileum was discovered incarcerated into an internal paracecal hernia. …”
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The Characterization of the Variational Minimizers for Spatial Restricted N+1-Body Problems by Fengying Li, Shiqing Zhang, Xiaoxiao Zhao

“…We prove that the minimizer of the Lagrangian action on the anti-T/2 or odd symmetric loop space must be a nonconstant periodic solution for any 2≤N≤472; hence the zero mass must oscillate, so that it cannot be always in the same plane with the other bodies. …”
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