Active Disturbance Rejection Fuzzy Controller for Roll Stabilization of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle under Wave Disturbance by Lin-Lin Wang, Hong-Jian Wang, Li-Xin Pan, Jun-Xi Guo

“…Extended state observer is used for estimation of roll motion state and unknown wave disturbance. …”
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Spout diameter in fine particle conical spouted beds: Assessing the influence of draft tubes by PTV by Maider Bolaños, Xabier Sukunza, Mikel Tellabide, Idoia Estiati, Haritz Altzibar, Miriam Arabiourrutia, Martin Olazar

“…Several correlations have been proposed in the literature to estimate the spout size, but they do not provide accurate results in beds made up of fine particles, especially when they are equipped with open-sided draft tubes. …”
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Fast real-time monitoring of entacapone crystallization and characterization of polymorphs via Raman spectroscopy, statistics and SWAXS by Jednačak Tomislav, Hodzic Aden, Scheibelhofer Otto, Marijan Marijan, Khinast Johannes G., Novak Predrag

“…The recorded Raman spectra and statistical analysis, which included the principal components method and indirect hard modeling made it possible to estimate the starting point of crystallization, to assess crystallization temperatures and to provide information on the polymorphic content of the mixture. …”
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Energy Balanced Scheduling for Target Tracking with Distance-Dependent Measurement Noise in a WSN by Xiaoqing Hu, Ming Bao, Yu-Hen Hu, Bugong Xu

“…It is assumed that the distance estimates of range sensors are contaminated by distance-dependent multiplicative observation noises. …”
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Role of Interferons in the Development of Diagnostics, Vaccines, and Therapy for Tuberculosis by Kai Ling Chin, Fadhilah Zulkipli Anis, Maria E. Sarmiento, Mohd Nor Norazmi, Armando Acosta

“…About one-third of the world’s population is latently infected with TB and 5–15% of them will develop active TB in their lifetime. It is estimated that each case of active TB may cause 10–20 new infections. …”
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Cross Validation Based Distributed Greedy Sparse Recovery for Multiview Through-the-Wall Radar Imaging by Lele Qu, Shimiao An, Yanpeng Sun

“…The developed imaging algorithm named by CV-CSOMP which separates the total measurements into reconstruction measurements and CV measurements is able to achieve the accurate imaging reconstruction and estimation of recovery error tolerance by the iterative CSOMP calculation. …”
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Evaluation of Permanent Deformation of Unmodified and Rubber-Reinforced SMA Asphalt Mixtures Using Dynamic Creep Test by Herda Yati Katman, Mohd Rasdan Ibrahim, Mohamed Rehan Karim, Nuha Salim Mashaan, Suhana Koting

“…Finally, the creep behaviour of the specimens was estimated by the Zhou three-stage creep model. The results show that crumb rubber and trans-polyoctenamer significantly affected the parameters especially at high stress and temperatures. …”
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Food Safety within the Household: Risk Reduction by Lucianna Grasso, Rachel Silverberg, George L. Baker, Renée M. Goodrich-Schneider, Keith R. Schneider

“… Food poisoning is common in the United States. The CDC estimates that 48 million Americans acquire foodborne illness every year, many of which were attributed to food preparation occurring in private homes. …”
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Dose-dependent esomeprasole antisecretory effect: results of long-term intragastric pH monitoring by S. A. Kurilovich, Ye. A. Chekalina, A. V. Belkovets, L. V. Scherbakova

“…Median pH, both time with various pH values and area under pH distribution curve, percent of this time with values from 1,0 to 10,0 per day before and after esomeprazole administration were estimated. The respective scores were compared, using Wilcoxon criterion. …”
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The Metabolism of Creatinine and Its Usefulness to Evaluate Kidney Function and Body Composition in Clinical Practice by Marcela Ávila, Mariana G. Mora Sánchez, Alma Sofía Bernal Amador, Ramón Paniagua

“…Serum creatinine levels are the most used clinical marker to estimate renal function as the glomerular function rate because it is simple, fast, and inexpensive. …”
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Measurement of Harm Outcomes in Older Adults after Hospital Discharge: Reliability and Validity by Alison Douglas, Lori Letts, Kevin Eva, Julie Richardson

“…The data support the Incident of Harm Caregiver Questionnaire as a reliable and valid estimation of incidents for this sample and are important to researchers as a method to measure safety when validating clinical measures.…”
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Lateral Seismic Fragility Assessment of Cable-Stayed Bridge with Diamond-Shaped Concrete Pylons by Chao Zhang, Jianbin Lu, Zhengan Zhou, Xueyuan Yan, Li Xu, Jinjun Lin

“…Based on the result of probabilistic estimation of lateral seismic responses, the order of the damage probability in all four damage states for each component of bridge is given. …”
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Transient Occlusion of Bilateral Internal Iliac Arteries Facilitates Bloodless Operative Field in Subcapsular Prostatectomy by Takumi Takeuchi, Masayoshi Zaitsu, Koji Mikami, Shunsuke Yui, Yuta Takeshima, Naohiko Okamoto, Sadao Imao

“…It is not always applicable, but it could be an option if the estimated volume of BPH is more than 100 mL. In two cases, bilateral internal iliac arteries were occluded with Bulldog clamps, and then adenomas of 159 and 97 g were enucleated.…”
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A Mobile Detector for Muon Measurements Based on Two Different Techniques by B. Mitrica, D. Stanca, M. Petcu, I. M. Brancus, R. Margineanu, A. Apostu, C. Gomoiu, A. Saftoiu, G. Toma, H. Rebel, A. Haungs, O. Sima, A. Gherghel-Lascu, M. Niculescu-Oglinzanu

“…Precise measurements of the muon flux are important for different practical applications, both in environmental studies and for the estimation of the water equivalent depths of underground sites. …”
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Comparative Thermal Analysis of Different Cool Roof Materials for Minimizing Building Energy Consumption by Y. Anand, A. Gupta, A. Maini, Avi Gupta, A. Sharma, A. Khajuria, S. Gupta, S. Sharma, S. Anand, S. K. Tyagi

“…The impact of using cool roof technologies on the thermal comfort of the office buildings has been estimated. Cool roofs reduce electricity consumption for maintaining the temperature of the air-conditioned buildings in the comfort level and also increase comfort in buildings merely not relying completely on cooling equipment. …”
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Chaotic Dynamics Analysis and FPGA Implementation Based on Gauss Legendre Integral by Li Wen, Li Cui, Hairong Lin, Fei Yu

“…Then, we propose for the first time a chaotic basin of the attraction estimation method based on the Gauss–Legendre integral and Lyapunov exponent and the decision criterion of this method. …”
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Troublesome Tinnitus in Children: Epidemiology, Audiological Profile, and Preliminary Results of Treatment by G. Bartnik, A. Stepien, D. Raj-Koziak, A. Fabijanska, I. Niedzialek, H. Skarzynski

“…The success of the therapy after 6 months was estimated on 81.4% of significant improvement. Conclusions. …”
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Weighted Multiple-Model Neural Network Adaptive Control for Robotic Manipulators with Jumping Parameters by Jiazhi Li, Weicun Zhang, Quanmin Zhu

“…Then, the corresponding local neural network controller is constructed, in which the neural network has been used to approximate the uncertainty part of the control law, and an adaptive observer is implemented to estimate the true external disturbance. The WMNNAC strategy with improved weighting algorithm is adopted to ensure the tracking performance of the robotic manipulator system when parameters jump largely. …”
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Improving smuon searches with neural networks by Alan S. Cornell, Benjamin Fuks, Mark D. Goodsell, Anele M. Ncube

“…We also present a workflow using publicly-available analysis tools, that can lead, from background and signal simulation, to network training, through to finding projections for limits using an analysis and ONNX libraries to interface network and recasting tools. We provide an estimate of the sensitivity of our search from Run 2 LHC data, and projections for higher luminosities, showing a clear advantage over previous methods.…”
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Feedback control of an HBV model based on ensemble kalman filter and differential evolution by Junyoung Jang, Kihoon Jang, Hee-Dae Kwon, Jeehyun Lee

“…EnKF is employed to estimate full information of the state from incomplete observation data. …”
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