A Combined Conjugate Gradient Quasi-Newton Method with Modification BFGS Formula by Mardeen Sh. Taher, Salah G. Shareef

“…The new quasi-Newton method satisfied the positive define, and the direction of the new preconditioned conjugate gradient is descent direction. In numerical results, it is showing the new preconditioned conjugate gradient method is more effective on several high-dimension test problems than standard preconditioning.…”
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Perceptions of War in a Darwinian Perspective by Michel Prum

“…Yet other writers chose to read peace into Darwin’s writings, and pointed to the notions of solidarity and philanthropy present in such publications as Descent of Man (1871). Reassessing Darwinism on the basis of the “reversionary effect of evolution” (Tort, 1983) leads to delegitimizing war time violence through the deconstruction of socio-biological arguments and gives a case for such anti-warmongering war memorials as Gentioux-Pigerolles in France which reads ‘Cursed be War!’…”
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Renal dysfunction due to advance pelvic organ prolapse by Lubna Razzak, Sherjeel Saulat

“… Uterovaginal prolapse is the downward descent of the pelvic organ, resulting in protrusion of the vagina, uterus, bladder or rectum. …”
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Quantum Fields without Wick Rotation by Alessio Baldazzi, Roberto Percacci, Vedran Skrinjar

“…We discuss the calculation of one-loop effective actions in Lorentzian spacetimes, based on a very simple application of the method of steepest descent to the integral over the field. We show that for static spacetimes this procedure agrees with the analytic continuation of Euclidean calculations. …”
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Des/re-territorialización de prácticas musicales afrocubanas: compositores académicos cubanos de la diáspora de finales del siglo XX y principios del XXI by Iván César Morales Flores

“…Our purpose is to understand the causes by which their compositional discourses show a special link with religious and music-cultural practices of African descent. And, on the other hand, to see how these links in his Afro-Cuban works of the diaspora are expressed aesthetically and musically. …”
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Coordinated Control of Multi-Robot Systems: A Survey by Jorge Cortés, Magnus Egerstedt

“…The paper discusses a class of problems related to the assembly of preferable geometric shapes in a decentralized manner through the formulation of descent-based algorithms defined with respect to team-level performance costs.…”
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Opposing A Spectacle of Blackness: Arap Baci, Baci Kalfa, Dadi, and the Invention of African Presence in Turkey by Bam Willoughby

“…This essay takes the representation of Africans on Turkish popular television through the combined usage of blackface-like and drag-like techniques to configure the figures of the arap baci, baci kalfa, and dadi and juxtaposes it against the material ways Turks of African descent have found to figure themselves within the public sphere. …”
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MULTI-BASIS WAVENET-BASED SPEED ESTIMATION IN DIRECT TORQUE CONTROLLED ASYNCHRONOUS MOTOR by Adel A. OBED

“…Firstly, the structure and training algorithm of the proposed method is discussed. The descent gradient method is used to fulfill both system structure and parameters initialization. …”
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Protocol to calculate aircraft emissions for international air routes in South America by Qiang Cui, Yilin Lei, Ye Li

“…The protocol proposed in this paper can simultaneously calculate the overall emissions of six aviation pollutants (CO2, CO, HC, NOx, SO2, and PM2.5), including the landing and take-off emissions and climb/cruise/descent emissions. The international routes in South America during 2019–2021 are an example to illustrate the use of this protocol. …”
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Fault-tolerant control for nonlinear systems with a dead zone: Reinforcement learning approach by Zichen Wang, Xin Wang

“…To simultaneously reduce the computational complexity and eliminate the local optimal problem, a novel neural network weight updated algorithm is presented to replace the classic gradient descent method. By utilizing the backstepping technique, the actor critic-based reinforcement learning control strategy is developed for high-order nonlinear nonstrict-feedback systems. …”
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The Practice System of Physics and Electronics Courses in Higher Vocational Colleges Based on Fractional Differential Equations by Feng Wenge

“…The algorithm effectively combines fractional calculus theory and gradient descent flow. At the same time, we introduce the time factor into the improved denoising model based on the spatial fractional partial differential equation. …”
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Time-optimal control of driven oscillators by variational circuit learning by Tangyou Huang, Yongcheng Ding, Léonce Dupays, Yue Ban, Man-Hong Yung, Adolfo del Campo, Xi Chen

“…We then use circuit learning based on gradient descent to work out the intrinsic connection between the control phase transition and the quantum speed limit imposed by unitary dynamics. …”
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Time-Optimal Trajectory Planning of 6-DOF Manipulator Based on Fuzzy Control by Feifan He, Qingjiu Huang

“…In addition, a simulation model of a 6-DOF manipulator is established in MATLAB, taking a straight-line trajectory of the end of the manipulator in Cartesian space as an example, and the effectiveness and efficiency of the algorithm proposed in this paper are proved by comparing the execution time with the bisection algorithm and the traditional gradient descent method.…”
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Maximum-likelihood-estimate Hamiltonian learning via efficient and robust quantum likelihood gradient by Tian-Lun Zhao, Shi-Xin Hu, Yi Zhang

“…Here, we propose an efficient strategy combining maximum-likelihood estimation, gradient descent, and quantum many-body algorithms. Given the measurement outcomes, we optimize the target model Hamiltonian and density operator via a series of descents along the quantum likelihood gradient, which we prove is negative semidefinite with respect to the negative-log-likelihood function. …”
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Optimal design of an adaptive robust proportional-integral-derivative controller based upon sliding surfaces for under-actuated dynamical systems by M.J. Mahmoodabadi, S. Safi Jahanshahi

“…The related control gains as adjustable parameters are computed during the control process using gradient descent techniques and the chain derivative rule. …”
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A NEW THREE -TERM CONJUGATE GRADIENT ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING MINIMIZATION PROBLEMS by Dilovan H. Omar, Salah G. Shareef, Bayda G. Fathi

“…Both the descending criteria and the sufficient descent criterion were met by the new approach. The novel method that has been proposed has been evaluated for global convergence. …”
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The modification conjugate coefficient for conjugate gradient method to solving unconstrained optimization problems by Hassan Abed Ahmad, Saeed Hamsa Th.

“…The demonstrated results establish that this innovative approach ensures both sufficient descent and global convergence, meeting the criteria of the Wolf line search condition and inexact line search. …”
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Network Utilization Improvement via a Predictive Load Scheduling Scheme in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks by Bin Fang, Wuyang Zhou

“…For the proposed scheme, a fairly general HWNs scenario is considered, the scheduling problem is formulated, an iteration-based predictive method is given to obtain the idle duration, and a gradient descent method is derived for the optimal scheduled load. …”
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Proximal Bundle Method for Contact Shape Optimization Problem by Nikola Plivova, Petr Beremlijski

“…We describe all steps of the solution, including linearization, construction of a descent direction, line search, stopping criterion, etc. …”
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Prévenir ou punir ? Expertise et justice préventive dans la « guerre contre la terreur » aux États-Unis : l’affaire Mehanna by Nadia Marzouki

“…Based upon a study of the trial of Tarek Mehanna, a young American of Egyptian descent, who was convicted of terrorist conspiracy in April 2012 and sentenced to seventeen years and a half in prison, this article examines the role of experts and social scientists in the legal construction of the category of terrorism. …”
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