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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Tunable optofluidic aperture configured by a liquid-core/liquid-cladding structure by Song, Chaolong, Nguyen, Nam-Trung, Asundi, Anand Krishna, Low, Cassandra Lee-Ngo

“…The aperture size can be tuned accordingly by adjusting the flow rates. Manipulation of the aperture size allows control of the amount of light passing through the corresponding optical system as well as the angular aperture on the image side. …”
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Pulsed fiber laser at 1 μm wavelength region by Liu, Meng

“…Firstly, the theoretical modeling of YDPFLs and design of pulsed pump YDPLs with adjustable pulse duration and pulse repetition rate are investigated. …”
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Accounting for Rehabilitation Activity Uncertainty in a Pavement Life Cycle Assessment using Probability and Decision Tree Analysis by Mack, James W., Xu, Xin, Gregory, Jeremy, Kirchain, Randolph

“…For this case, this results in the probability-adjusted LCA results being different than the single standard rehabilitation scenario results.…”
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Mortality risks in different subtypes of masked hypertension in the Spanish ambulatory blood pressure monitoring registry by de la Sierra, A, Ruilope, LM, Staplin, N, Stergiou, GS, Williams, B

“…Hazard ratios from Cox models after adjustment for clinical confounders were used for such comparisons.…”

Resistant hypertension and mortality: an observational cohort study by de la Sierra, A, Ruilope, LM, Staplin, N, Gorostidi, M, Vinyoles, E, Segura, J, Armario, P, Oliveras, A, Williams, B

“…Hazard ratios (HRs) from Cox models after adjustment for clinical confounders were used for comparisons. …”

Associations of maternal night shift work during pregnancy with DNA methylation in offspring: a meta-analysis in the PACE consortium by Marques, IF, Domènech-Panicello, C, Geurtsen, ML, Hoang, TT, Richmond, R, Polinski, K, Sirignano, L, Page, CM, Binter, A, Everson, T, Burt, A, Deuschle, M, Gilles, M, Streit, F, Mumford, SL, Magnus, P, Reiss, IKM, Vermeulen, MJ, Witt, SH, Chaves, I, Yeung, E, London, SJ, Guxens, M, Felix, JF

“…Robust linear regression models adjusted for relevant confounders were run in the individual cohorts, and results were meta-analyzed. …”

Cyanobacteria blooms in tropical reservoirs by Quek, Geraldine Wei Shan.

“…Many analysis, considerations and adjustments were done to improve on the experiment setups. …”
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Development of a portable prototype of smart LED lighting system for sleeping hours by Tan, Ming Tah

“…Leveraging the use of technologies, the prototype developed is fully automated and capable of adjusting the illumination of lights based on the type of human activity. …”
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Template-free formation of uniform urchin-like α-FeOOH hollow spheres with superior capability for water treatment by Wang, Bao, Wu, Hao Bin, Yu, Le, Xu, Rong, Lim, Teik-Thye, Lou, David Xiong Wen

“…Uniform urchin-like α-FeOOH hollow spheres assembled from nanoneedles have been synthesized via a facile and green one-pot method. By simply adjusting the amount of glycerol in the reaction system, hierarchical urchin-like α-FeOOH solid spheres or hollow spheres can be obtained. …”
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Theory of phase-adaptive parametric cooling by Ghosh, Alekhya, Kumar, Pardeep, Sommer, Christian, Jimenez, Fidel G., Sudhir, Vivishek, Genes, Claudiu

“…Our scheme calls for a sequence of periodic adjustments of the phase of a parametric modulation of the mechanical oscillator that is conditioned on measurements of its two quadratures. …”
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A dopant‐free polymer as hole‐transporting material for highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells by Li, Xianqiang, Tang, Xiaohong, Yang, Yijie, Ye, Tao, Wu, Dan, Wang, Hong, Li, Jun, Wang, Xizu

“…The improved performance and stability of PSCs is attributed to the polymer HTMs' crystallinity which can be controlled by adjusting the thiophene units on the polymer backbone. …”
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A multimodal person-following system for telepresence applications by Pang, Wee Ching, Seet, Gerald Gim Lee, Yao, Xiling

“…Robot motion was controlled by adjusting its velocity according to the humans position in relation to the robot. …”
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Navigating a raging river : a Canadian teacher-librarian’s experience implementing information technology by Shaw, Joan

“…After much pondering, she has made necessary adjustments in her teaching that enhance rather than hinder her practice. …”
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A Flow-based Flight Scheduler for En-route Air Traffic Management by Li, Qing, Zhang, Yicheng, Su, Rong.

“…This paper addresses a network-wide scheduling problem for generating, adjusting and optimizing flight schedules in en-route airspace. …”
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Fabrication of graphene-based stretchable strain sensors using femtosecond laser direct writing by An, Jianing, Kim, Young-Jin, Le, Truong-Son Dinh

“…Through this mask-less and high-resolution technique, the electrical conductivity of rGO patterns can be tuned by simply adjusting the laser writing parameters. Noticeably, based on FsLDW, high-performance and stretchable graphene-based strain sensors were fabricated and can be utilized for monitoring of human motion and respiration, heartbeat detection, and human/machine interaction.…”
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Strategy as revolution for Singapore's custom tailor industry by Eng Leng Goy, Heu Ann New, Lim Shih Gin

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Clustering of designers based on building information modeling event logs by Pan, Yue, Zhang, Limao, Skibniewski, Miroslaw J.

“…Our new algorithm node2vec-GMM is proven to better improve clustering quality than other state-of-the-art methods by at least 6.0% Adjusted Rand Index and 13.4% Adjusted Mutual Information. …”
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A new improved fruit fly optimization algorithm IAFOA and its application to solve engineering optimization problems by Wu, Lei, Liu, Qi, Tian, Xue, Zhang, Jixu, Xiao, Wensheng

“…According to the adaptive adjustment mechanism, the iteration step value can change automatically based on the iteration number and the best smell concentrations of different generations. …”
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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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