Control-oriented meta-learning by Richards, Spencer M., Azizan, Navid, Slotine, Jean-Jacques, Pavone, Marco

“…However, it is often difficult to specify such features a priori, such as for aerodynamic disturbances on rotorcraft or interaction forces between a manipulator arm and various objects. In this paper, we turn to data-driven modeling with neural networks to learn, offline from past data, an adaptive controller with an internal parametric model of these nonlinear features. …”
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Toward Simulation-Free Estimation of Critical Clearing Time by Vu, Thanh Long, Al Araifi, Surour M., El Moursi, Mohamed S., Turitsyn, Konstantin

“…This simulation-free framework is based on bounding the fault-on dynamics and extending the recently introduced Lyapunov Function Family approach for transient stability analysis of structure-preserving model. In turn, a lower bound of the critical clearing time is obtained by solving convex optimization problems without relying on any time-domain simulations. …”
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Designing (with) Trees: Active Agents in Architectural Production by Garinois, Laura-India

“…The exploration examines how a more nuanced collaboration with trees in design processes can enhance the value of architecture, and how design can in turn contribute to the protection of trees. Ultimately, the goal is to enrich tree hearing conversations by recognizing them as reflections of a larger climate conversation around trees and nature. …”
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New Generalized Derivatives for Solving Variational Inequalities Using the Nonsmooth Newton Methods by Song, Yingkai, Barton, Paul I.

“…In this article, we propose a first practical approach for furnishing B-subdifferential elements of the normal map, which in turn enables solving the normal map equation system using variants of the B-subdifferential-based nonsmooth Newton method. …”
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The road more travelled : how user-generated content can lead to homogenized travel journalism by Duffy, Andrew

“…Travel journalism is one source travellers turn to in order to research a destination, alongside friends who have been there, guidebooks, websites, blogs, user review sites, and chat rooms. …”
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Non-traditional security concept, issues, and implications on security governance by Caballero-Anthony, Mely

“…As a consequence, the security concerns of states have changed, compelling them to find new and innovative ways to address these new challenges. These, in turn, have had profound implications on the nature of security cooperation among states, as well as global governance. …”
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A self-protected single-stage LLC resonant rectifier by Zhang, Guidong, Zeng, Junming, Xiao, Wenxun, Yu, Samson Shenglong, Zhang, Bo, Zhang, Yun

“…Detailed analyses are presented to well demonstrate the features of the proposed converter, including the PFC and zero voltage switching turn-on functions. Thereafter, closed-loop control and parameter matching design are conducted in this study. …”
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Seismic behavior of reinforced concrete columns with lightly transverse reinforcement by Muhammed Faizal Radzuan.

“…Shear degradation of a reinforced concrete column leads to a reduction in axial strength of the column. This in turn causes the design capacity of the reinforced concrete column to be lowered and excess gravitational load will be transferred to neighbouring structural elements. …”
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Fashioning Sanyan Stories into contemporary written novellas —— With A Bird and Seven Lives as an example by Gu, Chunguang

“…However, these translation works have become obsolete as time has passed, and the complete translation of Sanyan at the turn of the twenty-first century is more of an academic effort than an attempt to attract a wide readership. …”
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Algorithmic personalisation on TikTok and its effect on Gen Z's self-concept and consumer behaviour by Yupar, Tin Win, Tan, Misa Li Sin

“…The study also explored how the algorithmically-influenced self-concept in turn influences Gen Z TikTok users’ consumer behaviours. …”
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An ISA-95-based production scheduling system for high-mix,low-volume manufacturing by Phua, Tiong Lee.

“…Responding to the pressure to companies turn to the use of This project performs an in application for the Production Planning and Scheduling domain applications are designed with the same standard and different systems. …”
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Synthesis of gold nanoparticles via block copolymer template and their application in organic solar cells by Nguyen, Thi Minh Hieu.

“…This enhancement is explained due to the surface plasmons of Au NPs that can confine light to the metal/dielectric interface, which in turn generates intense local electromagnetic fields and greatly amplifies absorption in nearby photoactive materials. …”
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Investigate of degradation mechanism of paint for building surfaces in Singapore by Soh, Liang Bin

“…This paint encompasses the technology to reflect solar irradiation from the sun on building surfaces, which in turn helps to keep the surface temperature of the building to a minimum. …”
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Soil-water characteristic curves of compacted soils by Ng, Keith Rui Kang

“…The process increases the soils’ strength characteristics, which in turn increases the bearing capacity of the foundations over the soil. …”
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The relationship between self-perceived burden, depression, medication adherence, and health-related quality of life in coronary heart disease patients by Lim, Benjamin Chee Chong

“…These findings suggested that self-perceived burden and depression may be two vital cardiovascular risk factors health-care practitioners could consider during early patient screenings to enhance existing cardiac programmes, which in turn improve cardiac patients’ prognosis and overall quality of life (QOL).…”
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Fluorescent and magnetic nanoparticles for bacteria detection and separation by Phang, Sophia Xue Hui

“…It took only 30 minutes for self-mixing nanocatalysts in DNA Microarray to achieve the same mixing results as static DNA microarray, which in turn, required 8 hours. This report proposed to utilize multifunctional magnetic nanochains based dynamic mixer to overcome diffusion barrier limitation in microarray assay. …”
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SnO2 nanorod arrays : low temperature growth, surface modification and field emission properties by Huang, Hui, Lim, Chiew Keat, Tse, Man Siu, Guo, Jun, Tan, Ooi Kiang

“…The field enhancement factor of the Ni/SnO2/SiO2/Si increased around 3 times while the turn-on field of 8.0 V μm−1 is about one third of the SnO2/SiO2/Si device.…”
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Micro-dosing psychedelics as a plausible adjunct to psychosexual and couple’s therapy: a qualitative insight by Jacobs, Lucy, Banbury, Samantha, Lusher, Joanne

“…From the participant’s perspective, the use of micro-dosing psychedelics had a positive effect on sexual and physical well-being by reducing stress and performance-related anxiety. This, in turn, elevated sexual desire, exploration, communication and enhanced sensory and sexual experience, thus potentially supporting emotional and physical connection. …”

How appraisals of an in-group's collective history shape collective identity and action: evidence in relation to African identity by Makanju, Damilola, Livingstone, Andrew G., Sweetman, Joseph, Okafor, Chiedozie O., Attoh, Franca

“…Across three experiments (Ns = 950; 270; and 259) with Nigerian participants, we tested whether the effect of historical representations–specifically the valence of the in-group’s collective history–on in-group engagement, in turn, depends on whether that history is also appraised as subjectively important. …”
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The Eoan Group and the politics of coloured opera in apartheid South Africa by Pistorius, JM

“…It calls for a disavowal of the Manichean ethics by which subaltern agency is measured, and proposes instead a turn to Njabulo S. Ndebele’s ‘politics of the ordinary’. …”