A Novel Active Disturbance Rejection Control with a Super-Twisting Observer for the Rocket Launcher Servo System by Di-Fen Shi, Yuan-Long Hou, Xiao-Hui Gu, Run-Min Hou

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Discovery and Exclusion Prospects for Staus Produced by Heavy Higgs Boson Decays at the LHC by Ernesto Arganda, Victor Martín-Lozano, Anibal D. Medina, Nicolas I. Mileo

“…We also extend the results reported in the preceding work for the large mixing scenario by including now the exclusion limits at the next run of the LHC and the prospects both for exclusion and discovery in a potential high-luminosity phase. …”
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BEYOND ENERGY: THE ROLE OF COLONIAL LEGACY IN THE EFFECT OF INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY ON RENEWABLE ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN WEST AFRICA by Musa Ilias Biala, Ololade Mistura Aromasodun

“…The study found that in the long run, GDP per capita, carbon dioxide emissions and urbanisation had a significant negative impact on renewable energy consumption whereas technology, institutional quality, and the interaction of institution with colonial legacy had a significant positive impact on renewable energy consumption. …”
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Triskelion—In Pursuit of Proficiency Through Immersive Gameplay by Victor Winter

“…Our study compares one Triskelion match to a longer educational sequence consisting of a “practice test”, followed by engagement with a 3D digital experience called the Kessel Run. Analysis of the results using the Mann–Whitney U test revealed (<i>p</i> = 0.9297) that both pedagogical pathways yielded similar proficiency results. …”
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The teaching pathologists association of Mumbai: A legacy that lives on by Jaya Deshpande, Rachana Binayke, Bhuvaneshwari Kandalkar, Manisha Khare

“…This has been a unique association with no formal office bearers and runs purely on the understanding and cooperation of the senior teachers of these institutes. …”
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Rising infrastructure inequalities accompany urbanization and economic development by Bhartendu Pandey, Christa Brelsford, Karen C. Seto

“…Using satellite data from 2000 to 2019, we examine country-level population-adjusted biases in infrastructure distribution within and between regions of varying urbanization levels and derive four key findings. First, we find long-run positive associations between infrastructure inequalities and both urbanization and economic development. …”
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ESTIMATION OF THE CONCRETE PAVEMENT TEMPERATURE FIELDS AND THEIR GRADIENTS by M. K. Pshembaev, Ya. N. Kovalev, V. D. Akelyev

“…The source of deformation processes is the character of the gradient temperature fields in the road dressing materials developing with both protracted (static) and short run (dynamic) heat-and-mass impacts that forward destruction of the pavement surface layers being in contact with free air. …”
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The impact of the Hamas-Israel conflict on the U.S. defense industry stock market return. by Jeroen Klomp

“…This study investigates whether the equity value of U.S. defense companies stands to gain in the short run from the risk of regional peace instability, given the anticipated increase in demand for arms. …”
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Le rapport au paysage ordinaire. Approche par les pratiques des espaces de proximité by Marta Benages-Albert, Sophie Bonin

“…This approach consists mainly of overcoming legibility and assessment difficulties linked to peri-urban residential areas. The experiment was run on a rather characteristic peri-urban municipality of Ile de France: Plaisir. …”
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Newspaper cartoons as a reflection of political change during the first democratic elections in South Africa by Cornelius van Heerden

“…Few commentators Pretoria will disagree that the run-up to the 1994-election can be regarded as one of the most crucial moments in South African history. …”
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Violence on street children: Looking through Erikson’s psychosocial development theory by Elma Kaiser

“…Poverty, family breakdown, neglect, abuse or abandonment, are the common triggers for children to run away or be forced to leave their homes. This is a common phenomenon across the globe. …”

Optimization of IoT-Based Sporting Goods Consumer Service Management System by Lihua Yu, Baobin Duan

“…Even when the network speed is low or the network is not smooth, the system of each store can run normally, and when the network is smooth, the data will be uploaded in packets and automatically received by the server. …”
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ELECTRICAL LOAD RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT USING ANALYTICAL METHOD, CASE STUDY: FUPRE 1 X 2.5MVA INJECTION SUBSTATION by AMAKIRI OKILO FRIDAY, OSHEVIRE PATRICK

“… This research work presents the reliability assessment of electrical load distribution system in Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun (FUPRE), Warri using the Analytical method and ETAP software as the simulation tool to run the reliability assessment of the System. The analytical analysis was conceded out by using August 2018 – August 2019 historical data of Tetfund Classrooms Blocks, Hostels, College of Technology, Administration Block, Health Center, and College of Science Feeder obtained from the Benin Electricity Distribution Company [BEDC]. …”
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Valuing Multirisk Catastrophe Reinsurance Based on the Cox–Ingersoll–Ross (CIR) Model by Wen Chao

“…The results obtained show that the catastrophe reinsurance value is the inverse relation between initial value of interest rate and average interest rate in the long run. Additionally, a high level of dependence between catastrophe variables increases the catastrophe reinsurance value. …”
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Supporting undergraduate learning through the collaborative promotion of e-journals by library and academic departments. Electronic journals, E-journals, Higher education,

“…This paper evaluates a project designed with the primary aim of testing a hypothesis that learning can be enhanced by promoting the use of e-journals. It was run jointly by a member of the library staff and an academic within the Business School. …”
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Fighting Another’s War: Imperialist Projections on the Victorian Novel’s Continent by Tamara Wagner

“…The focus will be on the representation of the Italian struggle for independence in novels of the 1860s by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon (especially the Austrian villains in The Black Band and Run To Earth), and Meredith’s Emilia in England, later reprinted as Sandra Belloni, and the sequel, Vittoria. …”
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Self-Organizing Adaptive Wavelet Backstepping Control Research for AC Servo System by Run-min Hou, Yuan-long Hou, Qiang Gao, Chao Wang

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The ‘Conquering’ Soldier-Merchants of the Balkans: Colonization, State Interventionism and Separatist Claims in the Danubian Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia (18th-19th Cen... by Aysel Yıldız

“…From the mid-eighteenth century onwards, the policy of keeping the Muslim-Ottoman presence and activities in the region at a minimum and obtaining full liberty of trade became an important component in the struggle for economic detachment from the Ottoman orbit, which in the long run contributed to the nation-state formation in Romania.…”
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Second-degree branch structure blockchain expansion model by Qiang Liu, Baoyan Song, Junlu Wang

“…The blockchain runs in a complex topological network which is affected by the principle of consensus, and data storage between nodes needs to maintain global consistency in the entire network, which causes the data storage inefficient. …”
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Implementation of the WSM5 and WSM6 Single Moment Microphysics Scheme into the RAMS Model: Verification for the HyMeX-SOP1 by Stefano Federico

“…The schemes are the WSM5 and WSM6 (WRF-single-moment-microphysics classes 5 and 6). The RAMS is run at high horizontal resolution (4 km) over the whole Italian territory and, to mimic the operational context, it is initialized by the analysis/forecast cycle issued at 12 UTC by the European Centre for Medium Weather Range Forecast (ECMWF). …”
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