Output Tracking via Adaptive Backstepping Higher Order Integral Sliding Mode for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems by M. Pervaiz, Q. Khan, A. I. Bhatti, S. A. Malik

“…The authors propose a new tracking control design strategy for uncertain non-linear systems which are convertible to Semi-Strict Feedback Form (SSFF). …”
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Activity of oil companies of Iraq and their role in the world economy by I. M. M. Mohammed, V. Pizengolts

“…Companies face the challenge of choosing the optimal hedging strategy. Will this strategy be used solely to hedge prices or will it become part of a wider market strategy.Another specific feature of the oil market is the participation of foreign companies in the exploration of oil fields in developing countries. …”
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Cooperative secure transmission against collusive eavesdroppers in Internet of Things by Xin Fan, Yan Huo

“…We design a cooperative jamming strategy without knowing the channel state information of eavesdroppers. …”
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Multiobjective Collective Decision Optimization Algorithm for Economic Emission Dispatch Problem by Xinlin Xu, Zhongbo Hu, Qinghua Su, Zenggang Xiong

“…MOCDOA uses three novel learning strategies, that is, a leader-updating strategy based on the maximum distance of each solution in an external archive, a wise random perturbation strategy based on the sparse mark around a leader, and a geometric center-updating strategy based on an extreme point. …”
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Recycling versus Long-Term Storage of Nuclear Fuel: Economic Factors by B. Yolanda Moratilla Soria, Maria Uris Mas, Mathilde Estadieu, Ainhoa Villar Lejarreta, David Echevarria-López

“…The objective of the present study is to compare the associated costs of long-term storage of spent nuclear fuel—open cycle strategy—with the associated cost of reprocessing and recycling strategy of spent fuel—closed cycle strategy—based on the current international studies. …”
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Evolution Dynamics of Agricultural Internet of Things Technology Promotion and Adoption in China by Fang Wu, Junhai Ma

“…This paper analyzes the equilibrium of adoption ratio, long-run profit, and the conversion between equilibrium points under capacity sharing strategy in competitive market. It is also found that the market will eventually evolve to the technology selection strategy whose long-run average profit dominates the market. …”
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Vehicle Attribute Recognition for Normal Targets and Small Targets Based on Multitask Cascaded Network by Fang Liu, Yong Zhang, Hua Gong, Ke Xu, Ligang Cai

“…For vehicle targets with small size, the multitask cascaded convolution neural network MC-CNN-ST applies the network compression strategy and the multilayer feature fusion strategy to extract the feature maps. …”
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Mean Deviation Coupling Control for Multimotor System via Global Fast Terminal Sliding Mode Control by Changlin Zhu, Qunzhang Tu, Chengming Jiang, Ming Pan, Hao Huang, Zhiwen Tu

“…In view of the shortcomings of the existing multimotor synchronous control strategy, a new method of mean deviation coupling control for multimotor system via global fast terminal sliding mode control is proposed. …”
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To Enhance the Fire Resistance Performance of High-Speed Steel Roller Door with Water Film System by De-Hua Chung, Tien-Chih Wang, Ming-Ju Tsai, Ta-Hui Lin, Shin-Ku Lee

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Optimal Control in Two Strain Pneumonia Transmission Dynamics by Mary C. Swai, Nyimvua Shaban, Theresia Marijani

“…The optimal controls are characterized in terms of the optimality system, which is solved numerically for several scenarios to investigate the best strategy. The incremental cost-effectiveness analysis technique is used to find the most cost-effective strategy, and it is observed that the vaccination program is the most cost-effective strategy in case of limited resources. …”
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Enhancing bowel sound recognition with self-attention and self-supervised pre-training. by Yansuo Yu, Mingwu Zhang, Zhennian Xie, Qiang Liu

“…Furthermore, a self-supervised pre-training strategy is employed, leveraging a large corpus of unlabeled audio data to learn general sound wave representations, followed by fine-tuning on a limited set of bowel sound data to optimize the model's recognition performance for specific tasks. …”
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A Game Theory-Based Analysis of Data Privacy in Vehicular Sensor Networks by Yunhua He, Limin Sun, Weidong Yang, Hong Li

“…In addition, we present the optimal defense strategy that provides the defender with the maximum utility when the adversary implements the optimal attack strategy.…”
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A novel droop coefficient to realize rapid SOC balance for distributed energy storage systems by Yuanxi Liu, Ling Yang, Maohua Wei

“…Finally, rigorous analysis of experimental results under various operating conditions verifies the feasibility and effectiveness of this control strategy by using the RT-LAB.…”
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Incentive Mechanism of R&D Firms’ Collaborative Innovation Based on Organisational Ambidexterity by Bo Song, Penghao Jin, Liangjie Zhao

“…From the perspective of organizational ambidexterity, we consider the choice of innovation strategy among R&D firms. By building on contractual arrangements and employing a dynamic game model, we focus on the incentive mechanism of R&D Firms’ collaborative innovation and analyze incentive contracts of benefits distribution and cost-sharing when two firms conduct market-driven innovation (exploitative innovation) strategy and technological research-driven innovation (exploratory innovation) strategy respectively, and collaborate for innovation with each other. …”
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Mathematical probit and logistic mortality models of the Khapra beetle fumigated with plant essential oils by Alhadi E. Alamir, Gomah E. Nenaah, Mohamed A. Hafiz

“…Results of the predicted mortality revealed also that extending the fumigation period could be an effective control strategy, even, at lower concentrations. Results could help in using a relatively safe and effective strategy for the control of this serious pest using alternative control strategy to reduce the health and environmental drawbacks resulted from the excessive reliance on the broadly toxic chemical pesticides and in order to contribute safeguard world-wide grain supplies.…”
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The risk control of rollover safety for new energy vehicles based on wire controlled chassis system by Guosheng Wang

“…In the case of sharp turns, the proposed control strategy had a body roll angle of basically within 3.0°. …”
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A cross-layer approach to message authentication based on sparse representation for wireless body area networks by Ning Wang, Weiwei Li, Ting Jiang

“…Moreover, based on IEEE Standard 802.15.6, we give a feasible unite authentication scheme, in which physical layer strategy and higher layer strategy are combined to enhance the security of authentication. …”
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Precision Augmentation of Medical Surge Capacity for Disaster Response by Weifeng Shen, Libing Jiang, Xiaojun He

“…Augmentation of medical surge capacity as a basic strategy can be used to achieve effective disaster response. …”
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Human Resource Panning and its Impact on Organizational Performance in Ministry of Health, Abuja by Khalipha Abba Abdulkadir

“…The main factor of a successful staff retention strategy in an organisation is an attractive pay package. …”
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Implementation of Frugal Innovation Approach in Moroccan Industry through the Development of a New Frugal System by Bilal Karroumi, Abdelfettah Sedqui

“…In line with this vision, we have proposed a new frugal innovation approach to develop a new concept of machines to meet the requirements of Smart Automation, which is the main element of the transformation plan defined by our company as a strategy for the coming years. This strategy aligns with the direction set by Morocco for the second generation of the Industrial Acceleration Plan 2021–2025. …”
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