An Improved Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Cooperative Behaviors of Mobile Robots by Yong Song, Yibin Li, Xiaoli Wang, Xin Ma, Jiuhong Ruan

“…Reinforcement learning algorithm for multirobot will become very slow when the number of robots is increasing resulting in an exponential increase of state space. …”
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Rapid arc extinguishing of a double-ended electromagnetic air-blast segmented arc-extinguishing device by Xiong LI, Tingfang YANG, Huikang ZHOU, Wenchao YANG, Minghao FENG, Chao ZHUO

“…To address the issue of decreased reliability in power transmission caused by the incapability of existing parallel protection gaps to actively extinguish arcs，a method utilizing the power-flow current flowing through coil to generate a magnetic field，and employing electromagnetic force to drive a piston to compress air and jet high-speed airflow for arc extinction is proposed. …”
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Risk-based Approach in Obtaining and Analysing the Characteristics of Baikal Skullcap Suspension Cultures by A. A. Shmarova, N. S. Pivovarova, O. N. Abrosimova

“…As the amount of transplanted biomass decreased, cells showed a tendency to destruction. …”
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Review of artificial intelligence-based applications for money laundering detection by Seyedmohammad Mousavian, Shah J Miah

“…., accuracy), data requirement, processing speed, and cost-effectiveness in detecting money laundering activities, find related gaps, and suggest possible courses of action. …”
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Dilemma of Prioritising Health and the Economy During COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia by Siti Setiati, Muhammad K Azwar

“…Pandemics also depress economy through decrease in both supply and demand. Data from flu pandemic a century ago suggested the importance of aggressiveness and speed of intervention. …”
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Dynamic Parameter Optimization and Experimental Study of Tuned Slab Damper on Metro Systems by Guang-Hui Xu

“…With the increase of axle weight and speed, the interaction between vehicles and the track becomes more and more intense, and the problem of wheel-rail dynamic action is more serious. …”
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Dilemma of Prioritising Health and the Economy During COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia by Siti Setiati, Muhammad K Azwar

“…Pandemics also depress economy through decrease in both supply and demand. Data from flu pandemic a century ago suggested the importance of aggressiveness and speed of intervention. …”
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BeatProfiler: Multimodal In Vitro Analysis of Cardiac Function Enables Machine Learning Classification of Diseases and Drugs by Youngbin Kim, Kunlun Wang, Roberta I. Lock, Trevor R. Nash, Sharon Fleischer, Bryan Z. Wang, Barry M. Fine, Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

“…<italic>Results:</italic> Benchmarking against existing tools revealed that BeatProfiler detected and analyzed contraction and calcium signals better than existing tools through improved sensitivity in low signal data, reduction in false positives, and analysis speed increase by 7 to 50-fold. Of signals accurately detected by published methods (PMs), BeatProfiler&#x0027;s extracted features showed high correlations to PMs, confirming that it is reliable and consistent with PMs. …”
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Applications of machine learning in acute care research by Ikechukwu Ohu, Paul Kummannoor Benny, Steven Rodrigues, Jestin N. Carlson

“…Among its advantages are its speed in decision making and the opportunity for rapid, actionable deduction from unstructured data with that increases with access to larger volumes of data. …”
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Scientific foundations of the movement of components of grain material with an artificially formed distribution of air velocity by С.П. Степаненко, Б.И. Котов, А.В. Спирин, В.Ю. Кучерук

“…The regularities of the weevil movement were theoretically investigated and established in the form of mathematical models of the dynamics of the movement of a solid particle in airflow, which differ from the known ones by taking into account the action of lateral forces, the concentration of the material, and the use of a power-law and an artificially formed exponential law of air distribution facilitated to increase the differences (splitting) trajectories of caryopses by 20 %. …”
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Transient Protection of UHV Busbars Based on Standardized VMD-Shannon Entropy by Zhenwei Guo, Yongyan Jiang, Zebo Huang, Yangsheng Liu

“…Transient bus protection exhibits ultra-high-speed action, yet displays low reliability under weak fault conditions. …”
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The influence of the end shape of the liquid jet on its impact onto a dry wall by A.A. Aganin, T.S. Guseva

“…For all the considered values of б, the mean level of the wall pressure remains close to that in the hemispherically-ended jet case (б = 1). With decreasing б, the characteristic size of the maximum pressure load area and the radius of its central part with the quasi-uniform load increase.…”
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Structural and Parametric Optimization of Steam Boiler Injection Regulators by G. T. Kulakov, N. V. Voyush

“…Thus, a significant increase in speed and accuracy is achieved when working out internal and external measured disturbances compared to a typical two-circuit system or an invariant automatic control system with an internal model, which makes it possible to recommend the proposed invariant cascade automatic control system for widespread implementation in the field of automation of thermal power processes.…”
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Ellipsoidal-Set Design of Robust and Secure Control Against Denial-of-Service Cyber Attacks in Electric-Vehicle Induction Motor Drives by Ehab H. E. Bayoumi, Hisham M. Soliman, Sangkeum Lee

“…Electric vehicles face increasing cybersecurity threats that can compromise the integrity of their electric drive systems, especially under Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. …”
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A Comprehensive Review of Various Topologies and Control Techniques for DC-DC Converter-Based Lithium-Ion Battery Charge Equalization by G. Sugumaran, N. Amutha Prabha

“…Worldwide, electric vehicle (EV) sales are booming nowadays due to the rapid increase in the cost of fossil fuels. Lithium-ion batteries are very familiar in the EV industry because of their high energy per unit mass relative to other electric energy storage systems. …”
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Mathematical simulation of the processes of two-beam laser controlled thermal-splitting of quartz glass by V. A. Emelyanov, E. B. Shershnev, S. I. Sokolov, A. N. Kupo

“…The simulation results show that with a bi-beam effect, the micromechanical stresses necessary for the formation of a microcrack are realized in shorter time intervals, both on the surface and in the depth of the material, which allows increasing the processing speed by up to 30 %. Strengthening control over the process of controlled thermal cracking can significantly reduce the percentage of defects and improve the quality of the resulting microeletronics products.…”
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Robust Strategy Generation for Automatic Navigation of Unmanned Surface Vehicles through Improved DDPG Algorithm by Wei Wang, Subin Huang, Huabin Diao

“…Second, we ensure the decision adaptability of the USV by constraining the extent of action change between adjacent time-steps by using a reward-function, which improves the USV-action smoothly. …”
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A Novel Model for Optimizing Roundabout Merging Decisions Based on Markov Decision Process and Force-Based Reward Function by Qingyuan Shen, Haobin Jiang, Aoxue Li, Shidian Ma

“…It simplifies the state space using relative distance and speed and defines three action profiles based on real traffic data to replicate human-like driving behavior. …”
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Microclimatic Variability and Thermal Comfort of Spectators in an Outdoor Stadium Venue by Andrew Collins, Michael Brown, Barrett Gutter, Christopher Fuhrmann

“…Reductions in modeled wind speed resulted in significant decreases in thermal comfort and greater physical stress among spectators, particularly when the wind was calm. …”
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Analyzing meteorological risks to highway infrastructure in Saskatchewan by Monirul Islam, Golam Kabir, Muhammad Rehan Anis

“…However, its sustainability is increasingly challenged by meteorological hazards. This study conducts a detailed spatial risk assessment of Saskatchewan’s major highways by analyzing six climate-related factors: flood-prone areas, precipitation mm d ^−1 ), snowfall (cm d ^−1 ), extreme temperatures (minimum and maximum in °C), and wind (maximum gust speed in km h ^−1 ). …”
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