Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Ferrari, AJ, Santomauro, DF, Aali, A, Lacey, BWH, Rodriguez, JAB

“…<p><b>Methods</b></p> The GBD 2021 disease and injury burden analysis estimated years lived with disability (YLDs), years of life lost (YLLs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries using 100 983 data sources. …”

Differentiating people with schizophrenia from healthy controls in a developing country: an evaluation of portable functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) as an adjunct diagnostic tool by Tran, Bach Xuan, Nguyen, Tham Thi, Boyer, Laurent, Fond, Guillaume, Auquier, Pascal, Nguyen, Hao Si Anh, Tran, Ha Thi Nhi, Nguyen, Hung Manh, Choi, Jongkwan, Le, Huong Thi, Latkin, Carl A., Nathan, Kalpana Isabel, Husain, Syeda F., McIntyre, Roger S., Ho, Cyrus S. H., Zhang, Melvyn, Ho, Roger C. M.

“…Introduction: This study aimed to evaluate portable functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) device as an adjunct diagnostic tool in Vietnam to assess hemodynamics when people with schizophrenia and healthy controls performed cognitive tasks. …”
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Semantic constraint on preposition incorporation of postverbal locative PPs in Mandarin Chinese by Peck, Jeeyoung, Lin, Jingxia

“…放在桌子上 fàng zài zhuōzi-shàng ‘put on the table’), the postverbal position in Modern Mandarin Chinese can only be filled by limited types of adjunct locative prepositional phrases (e.g. 跳在桌子上 tiào zài zhuōzi-shàng ‘jump onto the table’). …”
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Getting tired of your friends: the dynamics of venture capital relationships by Du, Q, Hellmann, T

“…We empirically examine how venture capitalists adjust coinvestor relationships over time. We identify a fundamental trade-off where the benefits of familiarity are weighed against the opportunity costs of coinvesting with other syndication partners. …”

An energy-efficient self-adaptive duty cycle MAC protocol for traffic-dynamic wireless sensor networks by Zhao, Yi Zhi, Ma, Maode, Miao, Chun Yan

“…When network experience with very low or very high traffic load, the protocol further adjusts duty cycle dynamically based on the traffic load, thus reducing inefficient duty cycle or reduce end-to-end delay. …”
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Technology enabled interactive learning by Ong, Yu Bing

“…It should be able to sense students’ progress when going through a material and able to adjust content accordingly. This project gives insight to the implementation on how TEL can adjust content according to users’ output through branching sequence to achieve personalized learning. …”
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Linear motor control of headset position for disabled people by Leong, Melissa Sze En

“…As the intended user of the product is a disabled user, they require additional help to physically adjust the position of the VR headset on their faces should it be uncomfortable for them. …”
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Essays in dynamic pricing, channel control and channel competition by Song, Boqian

“…First, we study the service unbundling issue of a seller who separates the sales of a fixed-priced add-on and dynamically adjusts the price of the capacitated basic service along the horizon. …”
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Universal Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems by Lopez, Brett T., Slotine, Jean-Jacques E.

“…This letter develops a new direct adaptive control framework that extends the certainty equivalence principle to general nonlinear systems with unmatched model uncertainties. The approach adjusts the rate of adaptation online to eliminate the effects of parameter estimation transients on stability. …”
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Traffic managements with autonomous vehicles considering bounded rational day-to-day traffic dynamics by Guo, Zhihong

“…Day-to-day dynamics and corresponding traffic management measures are considered to have great significance in solving congestion problem, since they can predict every day’s traffic flow evolution in the network and adjust the control schemes accordingly. Meanwhile, autonomous vehicle (AV) technology is receiving more and more attentions from researchers recently. …”
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Development of sensorised tool for robotic manipulation of objects by Seetharaman, Yuvanesh

“…This report would present the design, development, and integration of a self-adjusting sensorised tool for robotic arms to enhance its gripping capabilities on objects through wrist like movement. …”
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Automated mean arterial pressure control for postoperative patients in intensive care conditions by Ma, Jie

“…The main objectives of this study is to develop and improve the automatic control system to effectively and accurately adjust the patient's arterial blood pressure.…”
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Grid-connected current source inverter with instantaneous power control by Nor Amsyar Bin Zainuddin

“…The novel power inverter aims to achieve grid-enhanced power quality and reliability through an inverter that can adjust instantly to new load demands in the grid with instantaneous increases or decreases in power. …”
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Heel shoe reverse engineering using SolidWorks by Hu, Han.

“…Compared with common ways using point cloud, this method is cost-effective and easy to adjust.…”
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The augmented human — seeing sounds by Lim, Nicole Sze Ting

“…Through a user-friendly web interface, a user uploads a video and adjusts settings for its processing. Speech separation and speech recognition models are then applied to produce an annotated video with captions differentiated by speaker. …”
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Internationalisation and cross-cultural training in Singapore and Switzerland : between requirements and reality. by Christian Valentin Kirschner.

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Autofocusing of light for Raman imaging by Krishnamoorthi, Shalini

“…The doctors usually use manual adjustment to view or record any part of eye. Eyes are always sensitive to light and wander in all direction. …”
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Thermal management of 3D integrated circuits with microchannel-based liquid cooling by Qian, Hanhua

“…A runtime proactive thermal management scheme, which adjusts flow rate according to predicted future cooling demand is proposed based on this thermal model. …”
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Cogency of Suggestion System in Managing Innovation: Reducing Progressive Die Change Over Time in Auto Stamping Operations by Baluch, Nazim Hussain, Mohtar, Shahimi, Nordin, Norani

“…The paper concludes that idea management systems don't replace traditional departments and processes involved in new services, products, or strategies. They serve as an adjunct to them and provide a framework that can help organizations turn innovation into an enterprise-wide discipline-and a sustainable process that drives growth in good times and bad…”
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Hydrodynamic pattern of high-speed droplet train impingement by Junaidy Lukman

“…A function generator was used to adjust he frequency of the droplet train. Droplet diameter was adjusted by changing the pinhole. …”
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