L’image politique comme manifeste ? Considérations sur la fresque des saints rois dans l’église (luthérienne) de Mălâncrav (xve siècle) by Doina Elena Craciun

“…This paper proposes a new interpretation of the fresco illustrating the Holy Kings in the – today lutheran – church of Mălâncrav (Romania), formely situated in the Hungarian Kingdom. …”
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Shaping Single Offset Reflector Antennas Using Local Axis-Displaced Confocal Quadrics by Rafael A. Penchel, José R. Bergmann, Fernando J. S. Moreira

“…It allows the partial derivatives involved in the formulation to be analytically expressed. To illustrate the method, two examples of offset single reflectors shaped to radiate a Gaussian power density within a superelliptical contoured beam are presented. …”
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A New Finite-Time Bounded Control of Stochastic Itô Systems with (x,u,v)-Dependent Noise: Different Quadratic Function Approach by Zhiguo Yan, Zhongwei Lin

“…Finally, an example is employed to illustrate the effectiveness of our obtained results.…”
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An Efficient Hybrid Method for 3D Scattering from Inhomogeneous Object Buried beneath a Dielectric Randomly Rough Surface by Hong-jie He, Li-xin Guo, Wei Liu

“…Several numerical simulations are considered to demonstrate the algorithm’s ability to deal with the scattering from the inhomogeneous target buried beneath a dielectric rough surface, and the effectiveness of our proposed method is also illustrated.…”
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Long-Term Strength of Porous Geomaterials by a Micromechanical Model considering Alternate Wetting and Drying Condition by Jin Zhang, Shirong Fu, Tao Ni, Bei Han, Chong Shi

“…The reduction of the long-term strength due to inner water pressure is observed by the illustration of obtained macroscopic criteria with respect to various load parameters. …”
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New Results of Fixed-Point Theorems and Their Applications in Complete Complex Dc∗-Metric Spaces by Nassar Aiman Majid, Alaa. M. F. AL. Jumaili, Zhen Chuan Ng, See Keong Lee

“…Additionally, we provide some illustrative examples as an implementation for our main results.…”
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Kerstersia gyiorum Isolated from a Bronchoalveolar Lavage in a Patient with a Chronic Tracheostomy by Meredith Deutscher, Jennifer Severing, Joan-Miquel Balada-Llasat

“…We are presenting a case of a 63-year-old woman with a medical history of chronic tracheostomy admitted for hypotension and fevers to illustrate the clinical implication of MALDI-TOF MS on bacterial identification. …”
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Fuzzy Adaptive Prescribed Performance Control for MIMO Uncertain Chaotic Systems in Nonstrict Feedback Form by Yeguo Sun, Heng Liu

“…For updating the parameters of the fuzzy logic systems, a proportional-integral adaptation law is proposed. Finally, an illustrative example is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed results.…”
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A Cooperative Model for IS Security Risk Management in Distributed Environment by Nan Feng, Chundong Zheng

“…The actual case studied illustrates the cooperative model presented in this paper and how it can be exploited to manage the distributed IS security risk effectively.…”
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Abstract mechanical connection and abelian reconstruction for almost Kähler manifolds by Sergey Pekarsky, Jerrold E. Marsden

“…Blaom), thus significantly simplifying computations of the corresponding dynamic and geometric phases for an Abelian group G. These ideas are illustrated using the example of the resonant three-wave interaction. …”
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Estimating the Basal Heave Stability of Narrow Braced Excavations by Taoli Xiao, Yanlu Yang, Hua Cai, Shaoxin Yan, Fang Cao

“…Finally, the engineering case illustrated that it can effectively optimize the design, which exhibits clear superiority.…”
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A Parameterized Splitting Preconditioner for Generalized Saddle Point Problems by Wei-Hua Luo, Ting-Zhu Huang

“…Numerical results of Stokes problems and Oseen problems are presented to illustrate the behavior of the preconditioner.…”
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LMI Formulation for Static Output Feedback Design of Discrete-Time Switched Systems by Selma Ben Attia, Salah Salhi, Mekki Ksouri

“…A numerical example is presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed conditions.…”
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Economic-Oriented Stochastic Optimization in Advanced Process Control of Chemical Processes by László Dobos, András Király, János Abonyi

“…The proposed framework is realized as direct search-type optimization of Monte-Carlo simulation of the controlled process. The concept is illustrated throughout by a well-known benchmark problem related to the control of a linear dynamical system and the model predictive control of a more complex nonlinear polymerization process.…”
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Multistability and Instability of Competitive Neural Networks with Mexican-Hat-Type Activation Functions by Xiaobing Nie, Jinde Cao, Shumin Fei

“…The obtained results extend and improve the very recent works. Two illustrative examples with their simulations are given to verify the theoretical analysis.…”
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A Collocation Approach for the Nonlinear Fifth-Order KdV Equations Using Certain Shifted Horadam Polynomials by Waleed Mohamed Abd-Elhameed, Omar Mazen Alqubori, Ahmed Gamal Atta

“…To validate the proposed method, we present several numerical examples illustrating its accuracy and effectiveness.…”
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Partitioned Quasi-Newton Approximation for Direct Collocation Methods and Its Application to the Fuel-Optimal Control of a Diesel Engine by Jonas Asprion, Oscar Chinellato, Lino Guzzella

“…Quasi-Newton approximations of the Hessian of the Lagrangian of the resulting nonlinear program are also common practice. We illustrate that the transcribed problem is separable with respect to the primal variables and propose the application of dense quasi-Newton updates to the small diagonal blocks of the Hessian. …”
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Medical Pattern Recognition: Applying an Improved Intuitionistic Fuzzy Cross-Entropy Approach by Kuo-Chen Hung

“…The proposed entropy measure is based on intuitionistic fuzzy sets, extrainformation regarding hesitation degree, and an intuitive and mathematical connection between the notions of entropy in terms of fuzziness and intuitionism has been revealed. An illustrative example for medical pattern recognition demonstrates the usefulness of this study. …”
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Optimal control applied to a model for species augmentation by Erin N. Bodine, Louis J. Gross, Suzanne Lenhart

“…We find a characterization for the optimal control and show numerical results for scenarios of different illustrative parameter sets. The numerical results provide considerably more detail about the exact dynamics of optimal augmentation than can be readily intuited. …”
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Thermal Oxidation Preparation of Doped Hematite Thin Films for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting by Song Li, Jiajia Cai, Yudong Mei, Yuping Ren, Gaowu Qin

“…The photocurrent density-voltage characterization illustrated that the nanoflake films of Sn-doped hematite exhibited high PEC performance and the Sn concentration was optimized about 5%. …”
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