Robust Design of Terminal ILC with H∞ Mixed Sensitivity Approach for a Thermoforming Oven by Guy Gauthier, Benoit Boulet

“…The TILC adjusts the heater temperature setpoints such that, at the end of the reheat cycle, the surface temperature map of the plastic sheet will converge to the desired one. Simulation results are included to show the effectiveness of the control law.…”
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The Chemoselective Reduction of Isoxazoline γ-Lactams Through Iminium Aza-Diels-Alder Reactions: A Short-Cut Synthesis of Aminols as Valuable Intermediates towards Nucleoside Deriv... by Misal Giuseppe Memeo, Mariella Mella, Paolo Quadrelli

“…The reduction of the amide groups is easily conducted in the presence of LiAlH4 under mild conditions, which allowed for the chemoselective reduction of the amide moiety followed by ring opening to afford the desired conformationally locked isoxazoline-carbocyclic aminols, as valuable intermediates for nucleoside synthesis.…”
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Asimetrías e intensidad de la integración caribeña by González, G.H., Álvarez, S.S.

“…The intensification of integration processes is political and economically desirable for developing countries. However, the existence of asymmetries in the income level hinders the realization of that goal. …”
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T-S Fuzzy Control of Uncertain Chaotic Vibration by Abdelkrim Boukabou, Noura Mansouri

“…The proposed controller can successfully stabilize the chaos and track the desired targets. The simulation results illustrate its effectiveness.…”
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Using Wavelets to Understand the Relationship between Mortgages and Gross Domestic Product in Spain by C. González-Concepción, M. C. Gil-Fariña, C. Pestano-Gabino

“…Wavelet techniques possess many desirable properties, some of which are useful as a vehicle for analysing economic and financial data. …”
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Tourism and gender identities in Agadez, Niger by Ouassa Tiekoura

“…This development led to the rise of new services in town and the growth and adaptation of craftship for fitting the tourist needs and desires. This transformation also led to a new distribution of profesional tasks between men and women. …”
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Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation for Spacecraft Formation Flying by Jinjun Shan, Piotr Wenderski

“…Considering a leader-follower formation flying configuration, a Fuzzy Logic controller is developed first to maintain the desired formation shape under external perturbations and the initial position offsets. …”
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Optimizing Carbonation Hardening for Lightweight Concrete by Olexander Gara, Anatoliy Gara, Andrii Kolesnykov, Khrystyna Moskalova

“…Statistical models and optimization using desirability functions were employed to identify optimal recipe and technological parameters. …”
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Linear Complexity of Generalized Cyclotomic Sequences of Order 4 over Fl by Yuhua Sun, Qiuyan Wang, Yang Yan, Tongjiang Yan, Hui Li

“…Generalized cyclotomic sequences of period pq have several desirable randomness properties if the two primes p and q are chosen properly. …”
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Study on Dielectric Function Models for Surface Plasmon Resonance Structure by Peyman Jahanshahi, Mostafa Ghomeishi, Faisal Rafiq Mahamd Adikan

“…The most common permittivity function models are compared and identifying the best model for further studies is desired. For this study, simulations using several different models and an analytical analysis on a practical surface Plasmon structure were done with an accuracy of ∼94.4% with respect to experimental data. …”
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Chapter 7 — Choosing Suitable Trees for Urban and Suburban Sites: Site Evaluation and Species Selection by Edward F. Gilman, Laura Paterson Sadowski

“…It discusses site evaluation, modification, maintenance practices, desirable tree attributes, and tree selection. Published by the UF Department of Environmental Horticulture, September 2007. …”
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Wideband Negative Permittivity and Double Negative Fishnet-Mushroom-Like Metamaterial in X-Band Waveguide by Ahmed Mahmood, Golge Ogucu Yetkin, Cumali Sabah

“…The proposed design is predicted to provide the electromagnetic band gap characterization with desired reiterative characteristic parameters, negative permittivity, and negative permeability exhibiting a double negative left-handed region, which is identified with the X-band regime with good agreement between the simulated and the measured results.…”
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Accurate Analysis of Practical 3D Periodic Leaky-Wave Patch Antennas by Mohammad R. Zunoubi, Hassan A. Kalhor

“…The technique is then used as an antenna design tool to obtain the desired radiation patterns and beam scanning by selective choice of array elements dimensions, spacing, and substrate parameters.…”
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Simulation of Calcite Calcination by A. G. Kоzhevnikov

“…Influence of heating gas temperature, calcined material fragment size and desired final product output on the duration of calcite calcination has been studied. …”
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Les Paiements pour Services Écologiques ou la reconquête de la Mâamora par ses habitants ? by Said Lahssini, Sarah Vanuxem

“…Theatre of multiple offenses and object of desires, this forest was chosen as field for a project on environmental goods and services and for many experiments focusing on local population participation on forest management. …”
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Cluster Synchronization of Stochastic Complex Networks with Markovian Switching and Time-Varying Delay via Impulsive Pinning Control by Xuan Zhou, Kui Luo

“…Using the Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional, Itö’s formula, and some linear matrix inequalities (LMI), several novel sufficient conditions are obtained to guarantee the desired cluster synchronization. At the end of this writing, a numerical simulation is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of those theoretical results.…”
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Gouverner la télémédecine. Analyse institutionnaliste d’une nouvelle pratique médicale by Amandine Rauly

“…In France Telemedicine is not developing as the public authorities have desired. The general hypothesis of our research is that instead of removing barriers to the development of telemedicine, public policies dedicated to its practice are actually impeding it. …”
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Chapter 7 — Choosing Suitable Trees for Urban and Suburban Sites: Site Evaluation and Species Selection by Edward F. Gilman, Laura Paterson Sadowski

“…It discusses site evaluation, modification, maintenance practices, desirable tree attributes, and tree selection. Published by the UF Department of Environmental Horticulture, September 2007. …”
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Stability Analysis of the Periodic Solutions of Some Kinds of Predator-Prey Dynamical Systems by Neslihan Nesliye Pelen

“…The main problems for this study are to detect the if and only if conditions for attaining the periodic solution of the considered system and to find the condition for global asymptotic stability of this solution for some different types of predator-prey systems that are obtained from that system. To get the desired results, some aspects of semigroup theory for stability analysis and coincidence degree theory are used.…”
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Far-Field Reconstruction from Transient Near-Field Measurement Using Cylindrical Modal Development by R. Rammal, M. Lalande, E. Martinod, N. Feix, M. Jouvet, J. Andrieu, B. Jecko

“…An outdoor transient Ultra-Wideband near-field measurement base will be installed, a single time pulse radiated by the source will cover the desired spectrum, and the accurate determination of far field radiations will be accomplished by means of cylindrical waves' modal development. …”
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