Against Futility Judgments for Patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness by William Choi

“…Futility Judgments about Benefit Futility judgments also arise from pessimism about the actual benefit of the potential treatments. Another common reason for withdrawing life-sustaining treatment for traumatic brain injury patients is the clinical team’s belief in a poor long-term prognosis.[10] Based on their experience and data, clinicians who harbor pessimistic thoughts about the prognosis for patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness may inform the family members that the patients would not achieve meaningful recovery. …”
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Modelling Customs Revenue in Ghana Using Novel Time Series Methods by Diana Ayorkor Agbenyega, John Andoh, Samuel Iddi, Louis Asiedu

“…Analyzing the trends in revenue being collected from Customs is necessary to direct government policies and decisions. Models that can capture the trends being purported from the nominal (nonreal) tax values with respect to the trade volumes (value) over the period are indispensable. …”
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Applying Closing Phase-Angle Control Technique in Bounce Reduction of AC Permanent Magnet Contactor by Chieh-Tsung Chi

“…A new low-cost electronic control circuit actuator is proposed for minimizing the bouncing times of an AC permanent magnet (PM) contactor after two contacts closing. …”
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Dynamic Simulation of a Warship Control Valve Based on a Mechanical-Electric-Fluid Cosimulation Model by Jiazhen Han, Yudong Xie, Yong Wang, Qixian Wang

“…Compared with the pure software simulations, the unsteady flow characteristics and dynamic response of the actuator were synchronously obtained in this study, which accurately captured the sudden fluid loads required for further compensation. …”
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Modelling Hysteresis in Shape Memory Alloys Using LSTM Recurrent Neural Network by Mohammad Reza Zakerzadeh, Seyedkeivan Naseri, Payam Naseri

“…To circumvent the complexity of solving these equations, a black box neural network (NN) has been employed in this research to model a rotary actuator actuated by an SMA wire. Considering the historical dependence of the pulley’s rotational angle on the applied voltage, a recurrent neural network (RNN) is suitable for capturing past information. …”
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Sprawl Angle in Simplified Models of Vertical Climbing: Implications for Robots and Roaches by Goran A. Lynch, Lawrence Rome, Daniel E. Koditschek

“…For quadratic-in-velocity power output actuation models typical of commercially available electromechanical actuators, our results suggest the new hypothesis that sprawled posture may confer significant energetic advantage. …”
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An improved fuzzy time series forecasting model based on hesitant fuzzy sets by Lubna Shafi, Shilpi Jain, Praveen Agarwal, Pervaiz Iqbal, Aadil Rashid Sheergojri

“…The Hesitant Fuzzy Set (HFS) theory better emphasizes the chances of capturing fuzziness and uncertainty due to randomness than the classic fuzzy set theory. …”
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First review of recent records of sturgeons and paddlefishes (Acipenseriformes) in the Danube River basin in Slovenia by Marijan Govedič, Thomas Friedrich

“…The Siberian sturgeon can be relatively easily misidentified with the sterlet, so the catches in the Mura and Sora Rivers in 2009 were misidentified as sterlet, while the Siberian sturgeon was actually captured. The last sterlet in Slovenian rivers was captured in the Drava River in 2001, and even this individual had probably been released in Austria. …”
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A Symmetrical Leech-Inspired Soft Crawling Robot Based on Gesture Control by Jiabiao Li, Ruiheng Liu, Tianyu Zhang, Jianbin Liu

“…The Leap Motion sensor is employed to capture hand gesture data, and Unreal Engine is used for gesture recognition. …”
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Assessing factors influencing adolescent sexual debut in Nigeria: a multi-cluster survival analysis approach by Fabio Mathias Correa, Peter Enesi Omaku, Joseph Odunayo Braimah, Joseph Odunayo Braimah

“…We analyse data from the 2018 Nigerian NDHS survey and compare our model with existing models: a model without the cluster frailty effect, a model that ignores the Besag ICAR and includes the IID, and a model that ignores the IID and includes only the Besag ICAR.ResultsOur approach, which combines independent and spatial random effects, outperforms others based on statistical criteria (Deviation Information Criterion and the Widely Applicable Information Criterion).DiscussionAs shown in this study, the proposed model effectively captures the complexity of age at first sex. In addition, visualisations reveal significant geographic and social clusters with high rates of early sexual debut in Nigeria. …”
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The Author Inside: Celebrity Photography 1840‒1902 by Audrey Doussot

“…What can be perceived, at first, as a mere backdrop to the representation of a human being can actually reveal much about the fashioning of an author’s literary identity through images. …”
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The Impact of Blended Learning an Educational Innovation as on Student Character Building in Islamic Religious Education by Salim Salim, Mohamad Aji Prasetia, Muhammad Bagas F., Fatkhur Rohman, Abdurrahman Abdurrahman

“…The goal of this research is to assess how blended learning, an educational innovation, impacts students' affective abilities, particularly their self-actualization and self-efficacy in Islamic religious education. …”
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Noise-sensitive measure for stochastic resonance in biological oscillators by Ying-Cheng Lai, Kwangho Park

“…There has been ample experimental evidence that a variety ofbiological systems use the mechanism of stochastic resonance for tasks suchas prey capture and sensory information processing. Traditional quantities forthe characterization of stochastic resonance, such as the signal-to-noise ratio,possess a low noise sensitivity in the sense that they vary slowly about theoptimal noise level. …”
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Dans un Etat proche de l’Ohio : IOWA de Nancy Rexroth by Jean-Marc Victor

“…By becoming interchangeable, Ohio and Iowa lead to a re-owning of what endlessly escapes photographic capture (taking place / taking a picture). Conversely, republishing the book in a different context and a new form somehow re-enacts the initial project of photographing the past.…”
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Predictive Control for Interval Type-2 Fuzzy System with Event-Triggered Scheme by Siyao Wang, Xiaoming Tang, Li Deng, Hongchun Qu, Linfeng Tian, Cheng Tan

“…The IT2 T-S fuzzy model is utilized to address the nonlinearity of plant with parameter uncertainties, which can be captured by the lower and upper membership functions. …”
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Modeling sub-exponential epidemic growth dynamics through unobserved individual heterogeneity: a frailty model approach by Ping Yan, Gerardo Chowell

“…This concept shifts our understanding from a purely exponential model to a more nuanced, generalized model, depending on the level of heterogeneity captured by the frailty parameter. By incorporating this type of heterogeneity, often overlooked in traditional models, we present a novel mathematical framework. …”
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Into the ears, through the head, out on the lips. How listening errors can trigger new instances of palatalisation by Olivier Glain

“…La question de la diffusion d’une innovation à la communauté linguistique, c’est-à-dire l’actuation du changement, est ensuite abordée. L’auteur propose une hypothèse selon laquelle les grandes mutations sociales et idéologiques qui ont caractérisé le monde anglo-saxon après la Seconde Guerre Mondiale ont favorisé le développement de palato-alvéolaires à l’origine non-standard.…”
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Deep reinforcement learning for active flow control in a turbulent separation bubble by Bernat Font, Francisco Alcántara-Ávila, Jean Rabault, Ricardo Vinuesa, Oriol Lehmkuhl

“…We show that a control strategy learned on a coarse grid works on a fine grid as long as the coarse grid captures main flow features. This allows to significantly reduce the computational cost of DRL training in a turbulent-flow environment. …”
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Fiber Bragg Grating-Based Performance Monitoring of Piles Fiber in a Geotechnical Centrifugal Model Test by Xiaolin Weng, Jianxun Chen, Jun Wang

“…In centrifugal tests, conventional sensors can hardly capture the performance of reinforcement in small-scale models. …”
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Multiagent Systems Based Modeling and Implementation of Dynamic Energy Management of Smart Microgrid Using MACSimJX by Leo Raju, R. S. Milton, Senthilkumaran Mahadevan

“…The microgrid environment variables are captured through sensors and given to agents through MATLAB/Simulink and after the agent operations in JADE, the results are given to the actuators through MATLAB for the implementation of dynamic operation in solar microgrid. …”
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