Performance Modeling of Mimosa pudica Extract as a Sensitizer for Solar Energy Conversion by M. B. Shitta, E. O. B. Ogedengbe

“…Three sets of five samples of an M. pudica–based solar cell are produced, with the fifth sample used as the control experiment. Each of the solar cell samples has an active area of 0.3848cm2. …”
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Economic Impact of Temperature Control during Food Transportation—A COVID-19 Perspective by Eulalia Skawińska, Romuald I. Zalewski

“…As contribution to current literature and practice, we offer an in-depth analysis of threats in the FCC in food transport and storage infrastructure and a solution supplemented by SPC charts and tested in controlled experiments that is practicable from economic and technical standpoints.…”
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Solving the Strategic Equation: Integrating Missile Defense and Conventional Weapons in U.S.–Russian Arms Control by A. A. Baklitskiy

“…Strategic conventional weapons are less clearly defined, and there is less arms control experience with dealing with them. On occasions where they were subject to arms control regulations, they were either banned or included in the strategic nuclear forceslimits. …”
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System Identification and Controller Design of a Novel Autonomous Underwater Vehicle by Baoju Wu, Xiaowei Han, Nanmu Hui

“…Hybrid adaptive and predictive control experiments were also carried out. The validity of the parametric design method in this paper was verified, and by comparative experiment, the effect of the control method proposed in this paper was better than the traditional method.…”
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Critical Review on “Form-Focused Remedial Instruction: An Empirical Study” and “Acculturation to English by An Ethnic Minority: The Language Attitudes of Indian Adolescents in A Ho... by Tian Ying, Liu Chang

“…Meanwhile, the former article was also compared with the research completed by Patri and Pennington, which explored various teaching methods through fundamental experiments, because they both utilized Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS) in their exploration of second language acquisition and made control experiments and made the comparison to find out whether their differences are significantly relevant. …”
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Insert Formulation and Characterization of Empty Fruit Bunch Compost Formulation as Soilless Growing Media for Ornamentals by Sarah Baharudin, Thohirah L. Abdullah, Rosenani A. Bakar

“…The components were formulated in different ratios forming 18 formulations, including controls. Experiments were conducted in stages. First was a germination assay phytotoxicity test using Solanum lycopersicum (Tomato) seeds, and nine formulations were shortlisted (highest germination rate and best root growth within incubation days). …”
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Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger? The Relationship between Cognitive Task Demands in Video Games and Recovery Experiences by Tim Wulf, Diana Rieger, Anna Sophie Kümpel, Leonard Reinecke

“…Results of a laboratory experiment suggest that different dimensions of the recovery experiences seem to respond to different levels of cognitive task demand. While control experiences were highest under low cognitive task demand, there was no difference between groups regarding experiences of mastery and psychological detachment. …”
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Too much or too little? Disorders of agency on a spectrum by Valentina Petrolini

“…While cases of hypoagency exemplify situations where people experience their own thoughts, bodies, or actions as something beyond their control, experiences of hyperagency provide an illusory sense of control over actions or events.…”
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Cyanobacteria bloom in tropical reservoir by Lee, Rebecca Hui Shi.

“…A series of experiments were performed and among them a control experiment was set up and normal white light was used as the light source. …”
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Control of a micro-forging system by Loh, Patrick Jin Kun.

“…This project is dedicated to characterize the hysteresis and nonlinearity in the piezoelectric actuator and compensating them with appropriate controllers. Experiment is conducted to collect data of the hysteresis of the system, to analysis the behavior of the system in a no load condition. …”
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Development of a stirling engine by Quek, Wei Jie

“…The cooling device was subsequently installed on the engine’s cold end after fabrication. A control experiment of using ambient air as the coolant was first conducted followed by using coolants of different temperature ranges. …”
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Recovery experiences of working parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) by Seah, Joan Yong Ling

“…Hypothesis 2 was unsupported as work factors were not associated with recovery and hypothesis 3 was partially supported as family factors were significantly related to control experiences. Building on the findings of the current study, future research can explore specific recovery experiences and other predictors of recovery relevant to the experiences of parents of children with ASD.…”
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Fabrication and real time testing of a tilt-rotor tricopter by Brian, Kenny

“…It will eventually be used to perform various control experiments in a motion capture laboratory. Models of the tricopter are created using Solidworks in order to test closed loop control algorithms in a simulated environment. …”
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Improvement of epoc-mediated vascularization in gelatin-based hydrogels through pore size manipulation by Muhammad Hamizan Abdul Samad

“…The effect of the microsphere construct was measured by using a control experiment with pure gelatin and no microsphere construct addition as well as three different sizes of microsphere construct to test the effect realised from microsphere construct addition. …”
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4D printing with shape memory polymers by Zhao, Yue

“…Tensile tests at different temperatures have been carried out to investigate printing orientation on single material and composition effect on multi-material. Well-controlled experiments have been conducted for thickness effect and accurate recovery time measurement. …”
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Changing the environment to improve population health: a framework for considering exposure in natural experimental studies by Humphreys, D, Panter, J, Sahlqvist, S, Goodman, A, Ogilvie, D

“…Natural experimental studies can be useful for examining the impact of changes to “upstream” determinants, which may not be amenable to controlled experiments. However, while natural experiments provide opportunities to generate evidence, they often present certain conceptual and methodological obstacles. …”

Auditory Stimulus Timing Influences Perceived duration of Co-Occurring Visual Stimuli. by Romei, V, De Haas, B, Mok, R, Driver, J

“…Beeps and flashes could onset synchronously or asynchronously. In a further control experiment, the beep durations were much longer (tripled) than the flashes. …”

Working memory, perceptual priming, and the perception of hierarchical forms: opposite effects of priming and working memory without memory refreshing. by Kim, J, Humphreys, G

“…Interestingly, in a no-memory priming condition, target perception was faster in the invalid condition than in the neutral baseline, reversing the effect in the WM condition. A further control experiment ruled out the effects of WM being due to participants' refreshing their memory from the hierarchical stimulus display. …”

Using generative models to make probabilistic statements about hippocampal engagement in MEG. by Meyer, S, Rossiter, H, Brookes, M, Woolrich, M, Bestmann, S, Barnes, G

“…We also carry out a set of control experiments to rule out bias, including simulating medial temporal lobe sources to assess the risk of falsely positive results, and adding different types of displacements to the hippocampal portion of the mesh to test for anatomical specificity of the results. …”

Multi-model analysis of Northern Hemisphere winter blocking: Model biases and the role of resolution by Anstey, J, Davini, P, Gray, L, Woollings, T, Butchart, N, Cagnazzo, C, Christiansen, B, Hardiman, S, Osprey, S, Yang, S

“…Results from the CMIP5 analysis are corroborated by additional controlled experiments using selected GCMs. Key PointsCMIP5 models have large blocking biases and associated jet biasesIncreased spatial resolution is associated with reduced blocking and jet biasesVertical and horizontal resolution give blocking changes in different regions ©2013. …”