Winglet Design for Aerodynamic and Performance Optimization of UAVs via Surrogate Modeling by Eleftherios Nikolaou, Spyridon Kilimtzidis, Vassilis Kostopoulos

“…The results demonstrated a significant improvement in aerodynamic coefficients, range, endurance, and reduction in battery consumption throughout the entire UAV operational envelope, underscoring the potential of innovative winglet designs to enhance UAV performance across diverse mission profiles.…”
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The Soviet-British Relations at the Turn of 1917/1918: Key Issues and Untapped Opportunities by E. Yu. Sergeev

“…Special focus is on the relations between the Soviet Russia and Great Britain during the Brest peace negotiations and particularly on the mission of R.H. Bruce Lockhart. The author concludes that throughout this period neither side managed to win the diplomatic duel: Great Britain had lost its strategic ally whereas Russia after four years of struggle had to repel the military intervention of its ex-partners in the Entente.…”
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Evaluating the representativeness of the bentgrass (Agrostis L.) gene pool collected across the Russian Federation and neighboring countries in the VIR collection by L. L. Malyshev

“…The regions have been identified that need to be addressed by collecting missions to fill ‘the gaps’ in the geographic, environmental and taxonomic range of bentgrass species. …”
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Comparison of a combined torus tank with a composite isogrid support with existing design solutions by Andrii Diadiuk, Volodymyr Lipovskyi

“…A review of torus tank structures used in launch vehicles that have completed their missions shows that all of them are made of metal. …”
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Caste, local governance effectiveness, and multidimensional poverty in rural India: some evidences by Amarachi Onyeyirichi Ogbonna, Charles Aaron Adams Ekuban, C. Muralee Krishnan, P. K. Viswanathan

“…IntroductionThis study explores the relationships between local governance effectiveness, population densities of Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST), and rural multidimensional poverty in India, using data from the 2011 Indian Census, 2011 Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC), 2020 Mission Antyodaya, and 2019/21 National Family and Health Survey (NFHS).MethodsThe research examines how SC/ST population densities and local governance effectiveness are associated with the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) across Indian states through regression and correlation analysis.ResultsThe study’s findings reveal a national, rural MPI of 0.110, with 26% of the rural population experiencing multidimensional poverty. …”
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Local Path Planning for Unmanned Surface Vehicle Collision Avoidance Based on Modified Quantum Particle Swarm Optimization by Guoqing Xia, Zhiwei Han, Bo Zhao, Xinwei Wang

“…An unmanned surface vehicle (USV) plans its global path before the mission starts. When dynamic obstacles appear during sailing, the planned global path must be adjusted locally to avoid collision. …”
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Recent Tectonic Deformation of the Lunar Farside Mare and South Pole–Aitken Basin by C. A. Nypaver, T. R. Watters, J. D. Clark

“…Our analysis provides the first globally complete perspective of recent lunar tectonics, and we show that lunar fault structures may be recently and potentially currently active within regions of interest for upcoming lunar missions.…”
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Strengthening Russia’s International Prestige during the Northern War: Russian Diplomatic Institutions and Instruments by A. V. Topychkanov

“…The article examines the practice of news dissemination through Russian diplomatic missions and foreign diplomatic representatives in Russia. …”
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La coopération judiciaire euro-marocaine : Le magistrat de liaison by Jaouad Idrissi-Qaitoni

“…Au sein de son ambassade ce magistrat assiste la mission diplomatique l’accomplissement de ces taches en matière juridique. …”
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R-CNN-Based Satellite Components Detection in Optical Images by Yulang Chen, Jingmin Gao, Kebei Zhang

“…The accurate detection of satellite components based on optical images can provide data support for aerospace missions such as pointing and tracking between satellites. …”
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The long multiphase trunk–tributary surge history of the high-Arctic Chapman Glacier, 1959–2023 by Wesley Van Wychen, Hester Jiskoot, Kristie Shannon, Carolyn Gorwill

“…Here, we present a multidecadal record (1999–2023) of flow velocities, strain rates, and elevation changes for Chapman Glacier, a 40-km-long land-terminating glacier on Umingmak Nuna (Ellesmere Island), using ITS_LIVE (Inter-mission Time Series of Land Ice Velocity and Elevation), Sentinel-1, and elevation time series data products. …”
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Heavy Rain Episodes Identified by L-band InSAR and Limitations of Split-Spectrum Method in Indonesia by Naufal Setiawan, Masato Furuya

“…Currently, the advance of radiometer satellites, such as the Global Precipitation Mission delivers rain estimation and has proven to show good association with in-situ observation on a monthly basis, not daily over the Indonesia area. …”
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Doppler Effect Estimation and Compensation for Satellite Systems in Geolocation Problems by Marcello Asciolla, Angela Cratere, Francesco Dell'Olio

“…The target application is relevant to satellite missions with resource-constrained systems based on low-cost hardware platforms and the innovation of the paper is on the error compensation strategy and on the proposal of an approximate polynomial model. …”
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NGUYEN DU’S PERCEPTION ABOUT CHINA UNDER THE QING DYNASTY THROUGH BAC HANH TAP LUC by Lê Quang Trường

“…In the 12th year of Gia Long (1813), Nguyen Du was appointed the mission leader on a yearly tribute trip to China, during which he wrote a collection of poetry titled “Bac hanh tap luc” (Trivial Notes on the Northward Trip). …”
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Cultural Volunteering of University Students: Assessment of Participation Experience and Potential for Development by M. V. Pevnaya, A. A. Drozdova

“…As part of their third mission, universities are beginning to be included in the socio-cultural development of the territories. …”
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Modernization of the regulation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in the system of normative guidelines for parliamentary reform by Linetskyi S.

“…It has been established that the system of such guidelines is provided for in the Report and Roadmap presented by the Evaluation Mission of the European Parliament on internal reform and increasing the institutional capacity of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. …”
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Nouveaux modèles de formation et enseignement supérieur : l’exemple du tutorat à l’université by Emmanuelle Annoot

“…The law of August 10 2007 on the freedoms and responsibilities of universities gives to the institutions of higher education a new mission as regards guidance and professional integration. …”
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Directions for improving the organizational framework for quality control of higher education in Ukraine by V. O. Neviadovskyi

“…It has been noted that the problems in the work of experts are due to the fact that they do not always correctly understand their mission in this area, and are not formal in their approach to fulfilling their tasks and goals. …”
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Indigenous food sovereignty: Pathways for Native scholars by Mapuana Antonio, Joseph Brewer, Richard Elm-Hill, Michael Johnson, Tabitha Robin, A-Dae Romero-Briones, Lois Stevens, Keith Williams

“…The column and the IFSEC reflect both our mission to work toward a more equitable and just food sys­tem, and JAFSCD’s long-standing commitment to Indigenous food sovereignty, illustrated by the 2019 special issue[1] on “Indigenous Food Sover­eignty of North America.” …”
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Urban waterlogging vulnerability assess using SAR imagery and integrated terrain analysis by R. J. Jerin Joe, V. Stephen Pitchaimani, R. Gobinath, G. Shyamala

“…The data source for this study comprises rainfall records from the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Sentinel-1 SAR imagery, Sentinel-2 multispectral images from the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Digital Elevation Model (DEM).Terrain analysis was undertaken using DEM to generate elevation, slope, and aspect maps, while SAR data were processed to extract water pixels, which included the extraction of water pixels from SAR data for each year and overlaying them. …”
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