Robust Time-Varying Output Formation Control for Swarm Systems with Nonlinear Uncertainties by Xiaofeng Chai, Qing Wang, Yao Yu, Changyin Sun

“…The nominal controller based on the output feedback is designed to achieve desired time-varying formation properties for the nominal system. …”
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Nonlinear Integral Sliding Mode Control for a Second Order Nonlinear System by Xie Zheng, Xie Jian, Du Wenzheng, Cheng Hongjie

“…The new control scheme is characterized by a nonlinear integral sliding manifold which inherits the desired properties of the integral sliding manifold, such as robustness to system external disturbance. …”
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Relay-Assisted Aerial Communication over a Single-Shadowed Communication Channel by Haider Mehdi, Zakir Hussain, Syed Areeb Ahmed, Syed Muhammad Atif Saleem

“…These expressions represent the impact of path-loss, aerial vehicle-relay, relay-receiver distances, and channel characteristics of desired and interference signals. Utilizing these expressions, numerical outcomes are presented and evaluated.…”
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Monetary peculiarities of the financial behavior of the population by V. Yu. Didenko

“…The financial behavior of the population remains one of the little-studied encounters with the monetary economy. To study the desired reaction of the population to that carried out by the controller, the nature of people’s financial decisions is required, such as: their motives, prejudice, performance. …”
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Retrograde Ureteric Stents via an Ileal Conduit by Andrew Jack, Brent E. Burbridge

“…A dehiscence resulting in a perineal urinary fistula is an uncommon late complication of urinary diversion surgery; surgical treatment for this complication is less desirable because of postsurgical or radiation-induced pelvic changes that can occur. …”
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Iterative Dipole Moment Method for the Dielectrophoretic Particle-Particle Interaction in a DC Electric Field by Qing Zhang, Kai Zhang

“…The conclusions are advantageous in elelctrokinetic microfluidic systems where it may be desirable to control, manipulate, and assemble bioparticles.…”
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A model for predicting dropout of higher education students by Anaíle Mendes Rabelo, Luis Enrique Zárate

“…When compared with the Random Forest ensemble method, the proposed model demonstrates desirable characteristics to assist management in proposing actions to retain students.…”
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Minimum Variance Beamforming Based on Covariance Matrix Reconstruction Using Orthogonal Vectors by Saman Rezaeizadeh, Mehdi Bekrani

“…Minimum Variance Beamforming methods, have a weak performance in situation where error is available in covariance matrix estimation of noise and interference. The presence of the desired signal components in the estimated noise and interference vectors is of important factors of error which significantly reduces the output SINR level of the beamformer. …”
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Creating Nodes at Selected Locations in a Harmonically Excited Structure Using Feedback Control and Green’s Function by Bassam A. Albassam

“…It is shown that the steady-state vibrations at desired points can be eliminated using feedback control forces. …”
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The Effectiveness of Agrarian Administration as the Basis for Protecting the Confidence of Agricultural Producers in Public Authority by Dobkowski Jarosław, Lipińska Izabela

“…Specific in this case, the administration is entitled to build a certain institutional environment that allows it to appoint the bodies necessary for the implementation of the instruments that affect it, and thus to determine the activity of agricultural producers in the desired direction. The purpose of the article was to answer the question of what factor affects the level of confidence in public authority in agricultural producers in the course of their agricultural activities. …”
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Analytic solutions of fractional kinetic equations involving incomplete -function by Manisha Meena, Mridula Purohit

“…The [Formula: see text]-Laplace transform is applied for obtaining the desired results. Utilizing an M-series, the universality of this series is harnessed to deduce solutions for a fractional KE. …”
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Catalytic Activity of a Bifunctional Catalyst for Hydrotreatment of Jatropha curcas L. Seed Oil by J. García-Dávila, E. Ocaranza-Sanchez, C. Sánchez, A. L. Martínez-Ayala

“…The acid of additional activity of the supports allows the development of catalytic routes that the intervention of catalytic centers of different nature reaches the desired product. The products of the hydrotreating reaction with Jatropha curcas seed oil triglycerides were identified by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and by mass spectroscopy to identify and analyze the generated intermediate and final hydrocarbon compounds.…”
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High-throughput Identification of Phage-derived Imaging Agents by Kimberly A. Kelly, Paul A. Clemons, Amy M. Yu, Ralph Weissleder

“…The use of phage-displayed peptide libraries is a powerful method for selecting peptides with desired binding properties. However, the validation and prioritization of “hits” obtained from this screening approach remains challenging. …”
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A new generalized similarity measure based on intuitionistic trapezoidal fuzzy multi-numbers: Turkey's sustainable tourism economy strategy application by Vakkas Uluçay, Nuh Okumuş

“…In this paper, a new generalized similarity measure on intuitionistic trapezoidal fuzzy multi-numbers is developed for decision information. The desirable properties of this proposed measure are presented in detail. …”
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Developing a Program Plan Based on the Program Planning Cycle by John M. Diaz, Cody Gusto, David Diehl

“…The article outlines how the incorporation of a planning process and the application of targeted, outcome-focused planning principles is paramount in building a program capable of delivering sustainable and desirable outcomes to clients.  …”
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Construction of Exact Parametric or Closed Form Solutions of Some Unsolvable Classes of Nonlinear ODEs (Abel's Nonlinear ODEs of the First Kind and Relative Degenerate Equations) by Dimitrios E. Panayotounakos, Theodoros I. Zarmpoutis

“…These solutions are given implicitly in terms of Bessel functions of the first and the second kind (Neumann functions), as well as of the free member of the considered ODE; the parameter 𝜈 being introduced furnishes the order of the above Bessel functions and defines also the desired solutions of the considered ODE as one-parameter family of surfaces. …”
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Low Power Systolic Array Based Digital Filter for DSP Applications by S. Karthick, S. Valarmathy, E. Prabhu

“…Main concepts in DSP include filtering, averaging, modulating, and correlating the signals in digital form to estimate characteristic parameter of a signal into a desirable form. This paper presents a brief concept of low power datapath impact for Digital Signal Processing (DSP) based biomedical application. …”
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Nanotechnology Role Development for COVID-19 Pandemic Management by Hamza Abu Owida, Jamal I. Al-Nabulsi, Nidal M. Turab, Nawal Louzi

“…As the pandemic spreads, a thorough examination of nanomaterials' role in pandemic response is highly desirable. According to this comprehensive review article, nanotechnology can be used to prevent, diagnose, and treat COVID-19. …”
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Tardive Dyskinesia, Oral Parafunction, and Implant-Supported Rehabilitation by S. Lumetti, G. Ghiacci, G. M. Macaluso, M. Amore, C. Galli, E. Calciolari, E. Manfredi

“…Ad hoc designed studies are desirable to elucidate the mutual influence between oral movement disorders and implant-supported rehabilitation.…”
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A pressure-robust divergence free finite element basis for the Stokes equations by Jay Chu, Xiaozhe Hu, Lin Mu

“…In order to obtain satisfactory accuracy, we used a velocity reconstruction technique to enhance the divergence-free scheme to achieve the desired pressure and viscosity robustness. Numerical results were presented to demonstrate the robustness and accuracy of this discrete divergence-free method.…”
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