Adaptive Controller Design for Improving Helicopter Flying Qualities by Wei Wu

“…In online system identification module, a recursive extended least squares algorithm is established to identify the augmented linear flight dynamics model which is composed of helicopter model and unideal noise model. …”
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Reachability Analysis of Low-Order Discrete State Reaction Networks Obeying Conservation Laws by Gergely Szlobodnyik, Gábor Szederkényi

“…We consider network structures composed of reactions having at most one input and one output species beyond the possible catalyzers. …”
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Linguistic Misogyny as a Parodic Device: Valspeak Markers in Jimmy Fallon’s “Ew!” by Pierre Habasque

“…The analysis focuses on ‘Valley Girl talk,’ also known as Valspeak, popularized in the 1980s in California by Frank Zappa’s eponymous hit song, which parodied the sociolect. The corpus is composed of a sketch entitled ‘Ew!’, featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, in which the host dresses up as a teenage girl, Sara, chatting with her friend Addison (John Cena). …”
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STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL ENTERPRISE COMPETITION by Eugeniusz Michalski

“…Enterprises must recognize and compare the factors that compose foreign environments, especially the state and local governmental politics, legal regulations, economic and financial forces, cultural differences, business ethics, technological development, infrastructure, natural resources protections, sociological and demographic issues. …”
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Institutionalization of Public-Private Partnership: Global Experiences and the Basic Outlines of a Proposal for Slovenia by Mojmir Mrak

“…The institutional structure would be composed of three institutions: (i) central PPP unit responsible, first, for horizontal coordination of all PPP policies in the country, and second, for implementation of PPP projects in all those areas where sectoral PPP units would not be created, (ii) very limited number of sectoral PPP units (probably 1 to 2) that would be responsible for implementation of PPP projects in their respective sectors, and (iii) advisory board that would advise the central PPP unit in designing the most complex segments of the PPP policies in the country and would provide a platform for professional discussion and for communication with the public at large on a wide variety of PPP issues. …”
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Smart Parking by using Sensor Network by Chenguang Wang

“…To improve mobility in cities with a larger and larger vehicle fleet, a novel sensing solution that is the cornerstone of a smart parking system, the smart vehicular presence sensor (SPIN-V, in its Spanish abbreviation), is presented. The SPIN-V is composed of a small single-board computer, distance sensor, camera, LED indicator, buzzer, and battery and devoted to obtain the status of a parking space. …”
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Narrative Environment of Malgudi: Space, Autonomy, and Belonging by Gouthaman K J, Nandini Pradeep J

“…A world, real or fictional, the entities that compose the world, and their relations with each other exist and undergo changes in space and time. …”
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Reevaluating Conventional Strategies: Harnessing Traditional Structures to Counter Violent Extremism in Pakistan by Sardar Jehanzaib Ghalib

“…Three fundamental groups compose the traditional political system in Pakistan: the Jirga, the Lashkar, and the Clergy. …”
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Retinocytoma Undergoing Retinoblastoma Transformation in an Adult Patient by J. Navaratnam, R. Faber, N. Eide, M. Lund-Iversen, Ø. Garred, F. L. Munier

“…The analysis of the vitreous material revealed the presence of inactive vitreous seeds composed of small round blue cells, compatible with a type 2 regression.…”
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Study on Evolution Characteristics and Instability Model of Overburden Stress Shell with the Longwall Mining along Strike by Wanrong Liu, Qingwen Shi

“…During the process of long wall mining, due to the continuous fracture and collapse of roof, a stress shell composed of high stress is formed around the surrounding rock of the stope. …”
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Web Services Integration Strategy with Minimum Hops Constraint in Wireless Sensor Networks by Wen Ouyang, Min-Lang Chen

“…At the same time, web service integration enables the support of more functionalities since many applications rely on not just one web service, but a whole school of them. Thus, how to compose and integrate different web services efficiently to provide complicated services becomes an essential topic. …”
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Guidelines for Implementing Innovations in Hospital Organizations by Josiano Cesar de Sousa, Miriam Borchardt, Murilo Barros Alves, Edithe Oliveira Nogueira

“…As a result, it was possible to structure a set of guidelines composed of five stages, capable of supporting the management team during the process of implementing innovations in hospital organizations. …”
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Finite Element Analysis of a Natural Fiber (Maize) Composite Beam by D. Saravana Bavan, G. C. Mohan Kumar

“…Composite beam material is composed of stalk-based fiber of maize and unsaturated polyester resin polymer as matrix with methyl ethyl ketone peroxide (MEKP) as a catalyst and Cobalt Octoate as a promoter. …”
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The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Preventive Controls for Animal Food by Jason M. Scheffler, Chad Carr

“…The human food regulations were composed first and, with significant input from industry, academia, and consumer groups as well as other agencies, were then modified to better suit animal food production. …”
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Alginate Production from Alternative Carbon Sources and Use of Polymer Based Adsorbent in Heavy Metal Removal by Çiğdem Kıvılcımdan Moral, Merve Yıldız

“…Alginate is a biopolymer composed of mannuronic and guluronic acids. It is harvested from marine brown algae; however, alginate can also be synthesized by some bacterial species, namely, Azotobacter and Pseudomonas. …”
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In-situ measurement of residential buildings with hempcrete walls: a case study by Ali M. Memari, Nadia Mirzai, Mahsa Hashemi, Xinrui Lu, Corey Gracie-Griffin, Hojae Yi, Sarah Klinetob Lowe

“…Industrial hemp, used to produce hempcrete, is a promising construction material. Hempcrete, composed of hemp hurd and fibers mixed with lime and water, is currently used for thermal insulation and lightweight building blocks, intended for use in constructing non-load-bearing walls. …”
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From Painting to Picturebook: Bhajju Shyam’s Insider Indigenous Art by Indraprastha University, India

“…I argue that a close reading of Creation reveals Bhajju Shyam’s strategic intent in composing a self-aware insider’s history of the artform, and by extension, reveals a history of a marginalized group that has been portrayed as a community of noble savages.…”
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“You’ll never have to listen to her talk like this? With an upward inflection? At the end of every sentence?”— Fundamental frequency of female voices & linguistic misogyny in F... by Pierre Habasque

“…This paper explores how fundamental frequency variations may be used to stigmatize female characters in a fiction television series. The corpus is composed of a narrative arc taken from Fox’s Family Guy (season 5, episode 5). …”
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Spectrum Sensing in Very Low SNR Environment Using Multi-Scale Temporal Correlation Perception with Residual Attention by Song Hong, Weiqiang Xu

“…In this paper, considering the time-varying characteristics and the dependence on various timescales within a time series of samples composed of in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) component signals, we propose a multi-scale time-correlated perceptual attention model named MSTC-PANet. …”
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Protein Machineries Involved in the Attachment of Heme to Cytochrome c: Protein Structures and Molecular Mechanisms by Carlo Travaglini-Allocatelli

“…To accomplish this task, prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells have evolved distinctive protein machineries composed of different proteins. In this review, the structural and functional properties of the main maturation apparatuses found in gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria and in the mitochondria of eukaryotic cells will be presented, dissecting the Cyt c maturation process into three functional steps: (i) heme translocation and delivery, (ii) apoCyt thioreductive pathway, and (iii) apoCyt chaperoning and heme ligation. …”
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