A Simple Flexible and Robust Control Strategy for Wind Energy Conversion Systems Connected to a Utility Grid by Armel Simo Fotso, Godpromesse Kenné, Rostand Marc Douanla

“…The control strategy integrates for the generator side an adaptive radial basis function (RBF) neurosliding mode controller associated with the rotor flux oriented vector control which is used to regulate the turbine rotation speed, rotor flux, and the DC bus voltage. …”
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Mechanical Behavior of Triaxial Geogrid Used for Reinforced Soil Structures by Jun Zhang, Wen-Zhao Cao, Yan-Jun Zhou

“…The unconfined tensile strength of biaxial geogrid and triaxial geogrid in different loading directions relative to the orientation of ribs was investigated. Then, more than 8 pullout tests were conducted on the triaxial geogrid specimens embedded in the compacted sand. …”
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Evaluation of the Primary Healthcare attributes in a municipality located in the countryside of São Paulo State – Brazil by Lislaine Aparecida Fracolli, Marianne Junko Muramatsu, Maria Fernanda Pereira Gomes, Fabiana Rodrigues Zequini Nabão

“…The Primary Healthcare can be qualified by the existence of four main attributes: access of the individual´s first contact with the healthcare system, longitudinality, integrality, coordination of care and three derivatives: family counseling, com- munity orientation and cultural competence. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the existence and the extent of the Primary Healthcare attributes (PH) in the Family Health Strategy (FHS) in the municipality of Quatá-SP. …”
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New Approach for Quality Function Deployment Based on Linguistic Distribution Assessments and CRITIC Method by Ling-Xiang Mao, Jing Lan, Anqi Chen, Hua Shi, Hu-Chen Liu

“…Quality function deployment (QFD) is a customer-oriented quality management tool used to maximize customer satisfaction by considering the correlations between customer requirements and engineering characteristics. …”
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Investigation of Solar Hybrid Electric/Thermal System with Radiation Concentrator and Thermoelectric Generator by Edgar Arturo Chávez Urbiola, Yuri Vorobiev

“…A sun-tracking concentrator with a mosaic set of mirrors was used; its orientation towards the sun was achieved with two pairs of radiation sensors, a differential amplifier, and two servomotors. …”
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Dynamic mechanical response and deformation-induced co-axial nanocrystalline grains facilitating crack formation in magnesium-yttrium alloy by Shuang Yang, Fei Liu, Fei Chen, Yuan-Biao Tan, Hao Fu, Si-Yuan Wei, Song Xiang

“…Most grains have similar 〈1¯21¯0〉 orientations, with unique misorientation of 24°, 32°, 62°, 78° and 90° between adjacent grains, suggesting that these grains are primarily formed by interface transformation, which exhibits distinct differences from recrystallized grains. …”
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Multiplication of Negative Scenarios: the Approach Public Administrations Could Use at Drafting General Rules by Mirko Pečarič

“…Although the latter should be sine qua non for future legislation, legislators usually do not use it despite the legislation’s pro future orientation. The paper, based on Hume’s old “is-ought” problem (the impossibility to move from descriptive statements to prescriptive ones) and with the awareness that probability will not be used soon, offers a solution for the future legislation in the multiplication of (negative) scenarios, applied to different life questions. …”
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WiFi-based Respiration Detection Aided by Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces by Yun WU, Dongheng ZHANG, Ganlin ZHANG, Xuecheng XIE, Fengquan ZHAN, Yan CHEN

“…Specifically, signal reflection from the thoracic cavity diminishes when the body is oriented sideways or with the back toward the device, leading to complexities in respiratory monitoring. …”
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Massive nitrogen supersaturation to CoCrMo alloys for surface microstructure control by Tatsuhiko Aizawa, Tatsuya Funazuka, Tomomi Shiratori, Yohei Suzuki

“…This nitrided layer consists of intensely textured grains with the orientation of (111) in the normal direction. The nitrided and textured layer had higher hardness 1,620 HV1N than the original polycrystalline CoCrMo matrix, 400 HV1N. …”
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Assessing the degree of innovative readiness of systemic transformation of management in the context of transition to the sixth technological paradigm by N. M. Kalinina, N. A. Kulik

“…These circumstances, characterized by high rates of change, actualize the tasks of rethinking the value orientations of the management of industrial enterprises, especially in terms of technologies, methods and management tools, focused on the priorities of innovative development, which are reasonably considered as the managerial basis for technological modernization of the economy based on innovative solutions. …”
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Establishment and Maintenance of a Digital Therapeutic Alliance in People Living With Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia: Two Exploratory Single-Arm Studies by Cassandra Snipes, Cornelia Dorner‑Ciossek, Brendan D Hare, Olya Besedina, Tim Campellone, Mariya Petrova, Shaheen E Lakhan, Abhishek Pratap

“…In study 2, the 3-week orientation phase was followed by an abbreviated active 4-week phase. …”
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Das zweifelnde Gehör. Erwartungssituationen als Module im Rahmen einer performativen Analyse tonaler und posttonaler Musik by Christian Utz

“…An examination of theories developed in cognitively oriented expectancy research reveals the desideratum of a non-schematic reflection of temporality, since intra- and extra-opus knowledge as well as local and global structures of expectancy are difficult to separate from one another in the act of listening and thus seem to be hardly reducible to simple categories in any convincing manner. …”
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Research on Predefined Time Sliding Mode Control Method for High-Speed Maglev Train Based on Finite Time Disturbance Observer by Jinsong Ji, Ping Jiang

“…In order to improve the operation control performance of high-speed maglev trains, an improved finite-time rotor magnetic Field-Oriented Control method was proposed in this paper. …”
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Design formation of a transmedia project by A. М. Arakelyan, Yu. V. Vorontsova

“…The developed recommendation and methodological base for the formation of the design of transmedia projects has been practice-oriented. This method is aimed at solving problems, at the practical implementation of this approach to the implementation of transmedia projects. …”
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Lingua-Pedagogy as the Interdisciplinary Research Problem by A. N. Yakovleva

“…The linguistic faculties at universities can be taken as the key elements of the lingua-pedagogic system – the development centers, nurturing the value-oriented respectful attitude to the native and foreign cul- ture, providing intercultural competence acquisition, and training pedagogic staff capable of fulfilling the poly-cultural development tasks. …”
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A Review of Nesting Behavior in the Genus Entomognathus, With Notes on E. Memorialis Banks (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) by Richard C. Miller, Frank E. Kurczewski

“…The genus Entomognathus contains at least 4o species, half in the Ethiopian and in the Palaearctic, Nearctic, Oriental, and Neotropical regions (Leclercq, 1954, 1955, 1961, 1963; Nouvel and Ribaut, 1956; Krombein, 1963). …”
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Futbol Seyircisinin Sosyo-Ekonomik Kültürel Yapısının Şiddet Eylemine Etkisi (Manisaspor Örneği) by Erdal Demır, Kadir Koyuncuoglu, Zekeriya Goktas

“…As the data collection tool, along with the audience's demographic information, a questionnaire oriented to determine the level of effectiveness of different reference groups on audience aggression was administered. …”
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Career advancement comparative perspective study of university lecturer by Maya Kurniawati, Choirul Saleh, M.R. Khairul Muluk

“…The United States of America (USA) is currently a world-class university orientation, followed by Australia. Hence, other countries, especially developing countries, should know the USA and Australia higher education system, especially in the lecturers’ career advancement and development. …”
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Innovations in Education, or How to Separate the Wheat from the Chaff? by M. V. Kochetkov

“…They stemmed from the development of universal basic information, creative competencies, and polytechnic skills, as well as humanitarian and economic orientation of training, the development of primarily STEM-areas in school education, simulation and distance learning tools, innovative pedagogical technologies.…”
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Symbiosis Mechanism of Academic Journals and Discipline Construction in Chinese Colleges by Weiling Li, Hong Gao

“…The results show that the symbiosis between academic journals and discipline construction in Chinese colleges mainly relies on two essential parameters, namely, academic talents and research results; although colleges provide a positive environment, the symbiosis between the two factors mostly takes place on unofficial information platforms and cooperation mechanisms, for the relevant policies are relatively new and mostly discipline-oriented; the symbiosis between college academic journals and discipline construction is mutualistic but remains in the intermittent stage. …”
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