A probabilistic particle-control approximation of chance-constrained stochastic predictive control by Blackmore, Lars, Ono, Masahiro, Bektassov, Askar, Williams, Brian Charles

“…By expressing these particles in terms of the control variables, we are able to approximate the original stochastic control problem as a deterministic one; furthermore, the approximation becomes exact as the number of particles tends to infinity. This method applies to arbitrary noise distributions, and for systems with linear or jump Markov linear dynamics, we show that the approximate problem can be solved using efficient mixed-integer linear-programming techniques. …”
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Extending the operating region of inductive power transfer systems through dual-side cooperative control by Chen, Shuxin, Li, Hongchang, Tang, Yi

“…However, secondary-side regulation tends to have a relatively narrow operating region due to space and cost considerations. …”
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Nonlinear dynamic analysis of a piezoelectric energy harvester with mechanical plucking mechanism by Noh, Jinhong, Bae, Sungryong, Yoon, Yong-Jin, Kim, Pilkee

“…On the other hand, increasing the plucking speed tends to amplify the magnitude of the contact force while reducing the duration of the contact phase. …”
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Emergent semantic segmentation: training-free dense-label-free extraction from vision-language models by Luo, Jiayun

“…However, cross-attention alone tends to over-segment, whereas cross-attention plus GradCAM tend to under-segment. …”
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Effect of the shapes of foundation soil on the seismic response of dikes by Loo, Zhi Yung

“…This was due to the refraction and reflection of internal SH waves converging towards the center of the basin, resulting in longer duration of shaking and increase in acceleration amplitudes, as well as generated surface Rayleigh waves from basin edge. However, the PGA tends to decrease with the increase of basin width, given a fixed bedrock slope angle and depth. …”
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A generative model for evaluating missing data methods in large epidemiological cohorts by Radosavljević, L, Smith, SM, Nichols, TE

“…For example, in the UK Biobank missing data tends to appear in blocks, because non-participation in one of the sub-studies leads to missingness for all sub-study variables. …”

BEM-PSP for single-carrier and SC-FDMA communication over a doubly selective fading channel by Liu, Xiaobei, Anand, Kushal, Guan, Yong Liang, Deng, Li, Fan, Pingzhi, Zhou, Zhengchun

“…The resultant BEM-PSP receiver significantly improves the channel estimation mean square error (MSE) and the bit error rates (BER) performance in fast fading multi-path channel, thanks to the channel tracking capability embedded within its Viterbi equalizer. …”
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Applications of deep learning for physical layer of wireless communication systems by Xie, Yihang

“…The 1D-TRNet receiver outperforms traditional OFDM receivers and state-of-the-art generalized approximate message passing (GAMP) receivers in terms of bit-error rate (BER) performance. The third research work proposes a deep learning-based 5G receiver, named communication transformer network (Comm-Trans Net), which is designed to be robust for different sub-types of TDL channels. …”
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USRP-based wireless communication demonstrations for capacity improvement: from coding and waveform design perspectives by Liu, Yile

“…Additionally, a Single-Input Single-Output (SISO) communication system is also investigated to compare the bit error rate (BER) performance in a block fading channel among no coding, (3,6) Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code, and Root-Protograph (RP-LDPC) code. …”
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Transport phenomena of immiscible fluids in microchannels by Yin, Shuai

“…Due to the prevalence of miniaturization in the past two decades, microdroplets have been widely applied to the fields of chemistry, biology, and material science. …”
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Interval elimination method for stochastic spanning tree problem by Mohd, Ismail

“…The optimum spanning tree problem has been well considered and until now several powerful algorithms have been proposed. …”
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Highlights from Faraday Discussion 172: Carbon in electrochemistry, Sheffield, UK, July 2014 by Dyatkin, B, Ash, PA, Sharma, S

“…Traditionally, Faraday Discussions have been very true to their name, focussing genuinely on healthy, in-depth, and fruitful discussions rather than just serving as a platform for one to one researcher interaction and collaboration. …”

Growth of vanadium oxides nanostructures by chemical vapour deposition by Sim, Dao Hao

“…The formation of V2O5 nanosheets have been challenging because V2O5 tends to grow into 1- D structure because of its preference to grow in [010] direction. …”
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Micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) enabled digital pen by Tan, Joel Qi Zhi

“…Keyboards have been the key human-to-computer input device since they were first introduced to the commercial world in the 1970s. …”
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Role of Water Solvation on the Key Intermediates Catalyzing Oxygen Evolution on RuO2 by Di Liberto, Giovanni, Pacchioni, Gianfranco, Shao-Horn, Yang, Giordano, Livia

“…This study provides further mechanistic insights on the role of the oxide surface chemistry in the OER mechanism and highlights the importance of explicitly treating the catalyst/water interfaces including dynamical aspects to assess the stability and the interconversion mechanism of key surface species, since the adoption of static solvation approaches tends to overestimate the energetic difference between −OOH and −OO–H reaction intermediates.…”
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Seismic performance of reinforced concrete columns with plain longitudinal reinforcing bars by Pham, Thanh Phuong, Li, Bing

“…Further comparisons with the existing model for evaluation of existing structures revealed that the ASCE/SEI 41-06 provision tends to overestimate initial stiffness and shear strength, but substantially underestimates drift capacities of columns with plain reinforcing bars. …”
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Why did China seldom claim? : Overseas investment and bilateral investment treaties by Chen, Jiaxin

“…The research finds that, instead of solving the dispute settlement issues, the China-EU BIT tends to play its role in market liberalization. …”
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Characterizing correlation within multipartite quantum systems via local randomized measurements by Liu, Zhenhuan, Zeng, Pei, Zhou, You, Gu, Mile

“…Yet, the experimental access of this quantity remains challenging as it tends to be nonlinear, and hence often requires tomography which becomes quickly intractable as dimensions of relevant quantum systems scale. …”
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Electroosmotic flow hysteresis for fluids with dissimilar pH and ionic species by Lim, An Eng, Lam, Yee Cheong

“…However, complete displacement tends to be achieved by lowering the NaCl concentration, i.e., increasing its zeta potential. …”
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Distributed execution of workflow by Khademi Hedayat, Maryam

“…The main reasons which led us to this selection are: (i) there is few existing work on partitioning workflow, specially as a means of accelerating workflow execution; (ii) several systems have been developed using three main enactment models (i.e., centralized, hierarchical, and distributed models), but most of them focus on centralized execution control while the existing hierarchical and distributed models still have problems such as high overhead in communication amongst the distributed parties; and (iii) data movement mechanisms are divided into: centralized, mediated, and peer-to-peer models. …”
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