A Miniaturized High-Gain Flexible Antenna for UAV Applications by Xinhuan Yang, Yanzhu Qi, Bo Yuan, Yazi Cao, Gaofeng Wang

“…The results show that the omnidirectional gain fluctuates within 4.5 ± 0.1 dBi in the desired band (902 MHz–928 MHz), which is high enough for the UAV application. …”
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The impact of branding on the efficiency of the process of attracting and retaining talented employees by Sančanin Branislav

“…The importance of branding is high as it strengthens competitive advantage, and its relevancy is also seen during the process of attracting and retaining talented employees to a company promoted as a desired working place. As a response to numerous challenges on the job market, companies tend to compete in branding strategies - from dedicated branding to broad corporative branding. …”
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The Taxation of Agriculture in the European Union Countries by Kinga Gruziel, Małgorzata Raczkowska

“…The theoretical foundations of tax systems in the context of their functions and features specified as desirable in the literature are discussed. EU agricultural taxation systems are presented in reference to optimisation and tax competitiveness. …”
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Urban planning and citizen participation with Healthy Cities approach (Case Study: Mashhad Emamie neighborhood) by arash sadri, mahmod heidari, arezo bangiyan tabrizi

“…According to the results, the neighborhood Shiite index of the five health (social, economic, environmental, health and culture) desirable standards Healthy City away in some areas also need to redesign and greater participation authorities and people in the neighborhood felt. …”
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A Multiple Power Reachable Sliding Mode Control Approach for Guidance of Miniature Laser Beam Riding Steered Munition by Jun-Fang Fan, Shi-Wei Chen

“…The miniature munition dynamics are established firstly; then, an adaptive multiple power reachable sliding mode controller is presented and adopted to constrain both the trajectory inclination and pitch angle, which makes the munition enter the field and fly under control in the field with desired attitude angles, respectively. Considering the constraints of the incidence angle and the radius of the laser information field, an arctangent function curve is selected as the expected trajectory, and an adaptive multiple power reachable integral sliding mode guidance law is detailed, which makes the munition trajectory approach and converges to the expected curve fastly with limited acceleration. …”
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Design of Nonfragile State Estimator for Discrete-Time Genetic Regulatory Networks Subject to Randomly Occurring Uncertainties and Time-Varying Delays by Yanfeng Zhao, Jihong Shen, Dongyan Chen

“…It is shown that the proposed method ensures that the estimation error dynamics is globally asymptotically stable and the desired estimator parameter is designed via the solutions to certain LMIs. …”
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Robust Control of Aeronautical Electrical Generators for Energy Management Applications by Giacomo Canciello, Alberto Cavallo, Beniamino Guida

“…In this paper, the field voltage is fed to the generator windings by using a second-order sliding mode controller, resulting into a stable, robust (against disturbances) action and a fast convergence to the desired reference. By using this strategy, an energy management strategy is proposed that dynamically changes the voltage set point, in order to intelligently transfer power between two voltage busses. …”
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Evaluation and Influence of Chinese Enterprises' Financial Efficiency Based on the Malmquist Index by Shaodong Yu, Chunling Li

“…This paper introduces a superefficiency financial efficiency model with undesirable output based on the features that the output of industrial enterprises contains desirable output as well as undesirable output. Furthermore, the Malmquist index model is constructed for financial efficiency dynamic study, and the spatial Durbin model is constructed for evaluation and impact of enterprises. …”
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Fresh and Hardened Properties of Self-Leveling Mortars with Porcelain and Red Ceramic Wastes by Valdir M. Pereira, Gladis Camarini

“…Self-leveling mortar (SLM) has several advantages when compared to the conventional mortar used in subfloors, especially when productivity is desired. In Brazil, the use of SLM is not still widespread related to conventional mortar. …”
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The Life Course of 20th-Century Lyon Silk Workers. A Pilot Study by Elizabeth Wroten, Tamara Hareven

“…The apprenticeship conditions continued to be less than desirable well into the 20th century. Economically, the silk industry is often poorly paid and vulnerable to economic crises as fashion and world economics change. …”
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A two-channel slotted sense multiple access protocol for timely and reliable data transmission in industrial wireless sensor networks by Md Abul Kalam Azad, Chi Trung Ngo, Hoon Oh

“…In designing a real-time MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks, it is desirable to shorten the data acquisition cycle time to satisfy more applications with a tighter time constraint in data collection. …”
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Fusion-Learning-Based Optimization: A Modified Metaheuristic Method for Lightweight High-Performance Concrete Design by Ghodrat Rahchamani, Seyed Mojtaba Movahedifar, Amin Honarbakhsh

“…Regression fusion is sufficiently accurate to estimate the number of desired outcomes examined based on the appropriate input data sample. …”
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Performance Trades for Multiantenna GNSS Multisensor Attitude Determination Systems by Nathan A. Tehrani, Jason N. Gross

“…Through a Monte Carlo simulation, it is shown that, under typical conditions, sub-0.1-degree attitude accuracy is available when using multiple antenna GNSS data only, but that this accuracy can degrade to degree level in some environments warranting the inclusion of additional attitude sensors to maintain the desired level of accuracy. Further, we show that integrating inertial sensors is more valuable whenever accurate pitch and roll estimates are critical.…”
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Applying systems theory to global mental health by Mark J. D. Jordans

“…In recent years the evidence base for psychological interventions in low- and -middle-income countries (LMIC) has rapidly accrued, demonstrating that task-shifting models result in desired outcomes. Next, it is important to look at how this evidence translates into practice. …”
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PRELIMINARY IDENTIFICATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE STYLES IN THE PROCESS OF STRATEGIC PLANNING: EMPLOYEE PERCEPTION IN THE TURKISH PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION by Ali Osman Öztürk, Elif Genç Tetik

“…The empirical results show that hierarchical culture is seen as the most dominant existing culture among other types, while the desired culture, which the members of the institution would like to embrace, appears to be adhocracy culture. …”
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Fuzzy Semiactive Vibration Control of Structures Using Magnetorheological Elastomer by Xuan Bao Nguyen, Toshihiko Komatsuzaki, Yoshio Iwata, Haruhiko Asanuma

“…However, the fuzzy semiactive algorithm presented here is able to produce the sufficient applied current and thus viscoelastic force is desirably produced. The effectiveness of the developed isolator was evaluated numerically by MATLAB simulation and experimentally in comparison with the performances of a passive system and a system with on-off type semiactive controller. …”
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Case of the Diffuse Form of Xanthogranulomatous Pyelonephritis by Tateki Yoshino, Hiroyuki Moriyama

“…The patient and his family desired left nephrectomy despite his poor condition in general. …”
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Vibration Failure Analysis and Countermeasures of the Inlet Pipelines at a Gas Compressor Station by Shuangshuang Li, Liwen Zhang, Chunyan Kong

“…The processing capacity of the gas station has reached its design requirement as a result of the desired reduction in vibrations.…”
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Process Optimization for Acid Hydrolysis and Characterization of Bioethanol from Leftover Injera Waste by Using Response Surface Methodology: Central Composite Design by Abreham Bekele Bayu, Temesgen Abeto Amibo, Surafel Mustefa Beyan

“…For this analysis, the mathematical model equation was developed and the R2 value was 99.9% and its desirability was 0.8867. The property of ethanol was characterized by the many parameters used in different standardization. …”
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Characterization of Chitosan Films for Tissue Engineering Applications by A. Ghanem, M. Katalinich

“…Chitosan (β-(l,4)-2-amino-2-deoxy-D-glucose) is a naturally occurring, abundant biopolymer with desirable biomedical material properties of biodegradability, low toxicity, and good biocompatibility. …”
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