Robust Model Predictive Control Schemes for Tracking Setpoints by Vu Trieu Minh, Fakhruldin Bin Mohd Hashim

“…Then we develop two new tracking setpoint RMPC schemes with common Lyapunov function and with zero terminal equality subject to input saturated and softened state constraints. …”
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Calcifilaxis. Reporte de un caso by Edelsy María Morales Jiménez, Alexander Rojas Ramírez, Armando Carlos Roca Socarrás

“…Se presenta el caso de un paciente de 52 años, portador de una insuficiencia renal crónica en estadío terminal, secundaria a nefropatía hipertensiva, alcohólico crónico, operado de carcinoma de laringe, bajo régimen de hemodiálisis por 2 años y 6 meses. …”
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Algorithms for the Shortest Path Improvement Problems under Unit Hamming Distance by Bingwu Zhang, Xiucui Guan, Chunyuan He, Shuguo Wang

“…In a shortest path improvement problem under unit Hamming distance (denoted by SPIUH), an edge weighted graph with a set of source-terminal pairs is given; we need to modify the lengths of edges by a minimum cost under unit Hamming distance such that the modified distances of the shortest paths are upper bounded by given values. …”
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TV-Based Caring Videophone System for the Elderly in the Smart Home Environment by Jingshuang Shen, Chongyang Zhang, Chuanwen Jiang

“…Based on the detailed analysis of the elderly’s physical and psychological characteristics, a TV-based caring videophone system for the elderly is developed: an embedded multimedia device is designed to implement the interactive video and audio processing and IP-based communication, in which TV is adopted as the display terminal to achieve a low-cost but high-quality service. …”
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Mathematical epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in cuba during the period 1986-2000 by Brandy Rapatski, Petra Klepac, Stephen Dueck, Maoxing Liu, Leda Ivic Weiss

“…The dynamics of HIV/AIDS epidemics in a specific region is de-termined not only by virology and virus transmission mechanisms, but also byregion's socioeconomic aspects. …”
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An Unusual Cause of Small Bowel Obstruction in a Child: Ingested Rhubarb by Miguel Glatstein, Dana Danino, Ayelet Rimon, Sergei Keidar, Dennis Scolnik

“…It showed intraluminal obstruction of the terminal ileum. Exploratory laparotomy revealed a phytobezoar consisting of undigested rhubarb. …”
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Estrogens and Spermiogenesis: New Insights from Type 1 Cannabinoid Receptor Knockout Mice by Giovanna Cacciola, Teresa Chioccarelli, Silvia Fasano, Riccardo Pierantoni, Gilda Cobellis

“…Spermiogenesis is the terminal differentiation process during which haploid round spermatids undergo several biochemical and morphological changes, including extensive remodelling of chromatin and nuclear shape. …”
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Adaptive Fuzzy Path Tracking Control for Mobile Robots with Unknown Control Direction by Qifei Du, Lin Sha, Wuxi Shi, Liankun Sun

“…Nevertheless, the exact position of the center of mass is not easy to measure, thus WMRs is a typical uncertain nonlinear system with unknown control direction. Based on the fast terminal sliding mode control, an adaptive fuzzy path tracking control scheme is proposed for mobile robots with unknown control direction. …”
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A Native LH1–RC–HiPIP Supercomplex from an Extremophilic Phototroph by Kazutoshi Tani, Ryo Kanno, Kenji V. P. Nagashima, Mai Kawakami, Naho Hiwatashi, Kazuna Nakata, Sakiko Nagashima, Kazuhito Inoue, Shinichi Takaichi, Endang R. Purba, Malgorzata Hall, Long-Jiang Yu, Michael T. Madigan, Akira Mizoguchi, Bruno M. Humbel, Yukihiro Kimura, Zheng-Yu Wang-Otomo

“…The bound HiPIP consisted of an N-terminal functional domain and a long C-terminal extension firmly attached to the cytochrome subunit. …”
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Ilaser Submucous Destruction in the Treatment of Hemorrhoids by S. A. Frolov, D. V. Vyshegorodtsev, A. M. Kuzminov, Yu. L. Trubacheva, V. Yu. Korolik, I. S. Bogormistrov, I. A. Mukhin, A. N. Ryndin, A. A. Anarbaeva

“…The technique is based on the effect of laser energy on the cavernous tissue of the internal hemorrhoidal node and on the terminal branches of the upper rectal artery. The efficiency of the destruction of internal hemorrhoids and the frequency of relapses of the disease were evaluated. …”
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Characterization of the complete genome sequence of the recombinant norovirus GII.P16/GII.4_Sydney_2012 revealed in Russia by E. V. Zhirakovskaia, A. Y. Tikunov, S. N. Sokolov, B. I. Kravchuk, E. I. Krasnova, N. V. Tikunova

“…A comparative analysis showed that several unique substitutions occurred in the GII.P16 polymerase, N-terminal p48 protein, and minor capsid protein VP2 genes, while no unique changes in the capsid VP1 gene were observed. …”
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Legal regime of property registration: civil-legal aspect by Serdyuk R.

“…Moreover, the state registration itself among civilians is considered as a legal fact with which the law connects the emergence, change, or termination of legal relations, which is caused by the emergence, change, or termination of property rights to immovable or equivalent movable property. …”
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Non-Competition Agreements: Problems of Theory and Practice by D. V. Ahmetyanov

“…The realization of freedom of labor by the employee through the termination of employment and the subsequent conclusion of an employment contract with a company that competes with the previous employer is detrimental to the interests of the later. …”
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PLL Based Energy Efficient PV System with Fuzzy Logic Based Power Tracker for Smart Grid Applications by G. Rohini, V. Jamuna

“…The cascading of second converter is needed to maintain the terminal voltage at grid potential. The soft-switching region of three-stage converter is increased with the proposed phase-locked loop based control strategy. …”
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Offshore aquaculture platform control system in intelligent fishery era by Jianbo ZHANG, Yu WANG, Xuejun NIE, Guoqing WU, Jiujun LIU, Jun YAN

“…The control system of offshore aquaculture platform was analyzed and the collaborative control technology with edge intelligence was introduced under the open architecture of cloud computing.A distributed intelligent control mode was established.A general framework architecture of cloud-edge collaborative control system for offshore aquaculture platform and an open architecture of intelligent aquaculture cloud platform were proposed exploratively, which could be deployed flexibly with different patterns of cloud-network-edge-terminal-intelligence.A development idea of control system and an implementation scheme of could central control and edge intelligence for offshore aquaculture platform were put forward.An attempt was made to build the theoretical framework and ideology system of cloud-edge collaborative control, and it was to construct the manner with the whole process of intelligent aquaculture and land-sea linkage operation and management mode for offshore fish-farm, with a view to finally realizing the intelligent fishery industrial ecology and green sustainable development goals.…”
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A SIC and ML approach for MIMO non-orthogonal multiple access signal detection by Arun Kumar, Nishant Gaur, Aziz Nanthaamornphong

“…The identification of signals at the receiver terminal is more difficult due to the employment of a lot of antennas. …”
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Researching the Spatial Aspects of the Romani-Hungarian coexistence by the Means of Mental Mapping by Tünde Bogárdi, Melinda Molnár

“…We present two different situations: one segregate analysis using Baks as an example, where we find a settlement considered as majority, and a Romani segregate; and provincial ghettoization using Átány as an example, where due to a previous site termination the Romani people dispersed over the whole village area. …”
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Results of sclerosing treatment of a hemorrhoids at patients with high surgical risk by I. V. Kostarev, L. A. Blagodarny, S. A. Frolov

“…Good and satisfactory results of treatment (termination or essential decrease of frequency and intensity of bleedings, decrease of degree of prolapse of hemorrhoids) after a week and month in both groups were identical. …”
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Chattering-Free Sliding-Mode Control for Electromechanical Actuator with Backlash Nonlinearity by Dongqi Ma, Hui Lin, Bingqiang Li

“…Based on this nonlinear model, a chattering-free nonsingular terminal sliding-mode controller is proposed to achieve the rudder angle tracking with a chattering elimination and tracking dynamic performance improvement. …”
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Design, Structure–Activity Relationships, and Computational Modeling Studies of a Series of α-Helix Biased, Ultra-Short Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists by Jonathon R. Sawyer, Joseph A. Audie, Jon Swanson, David Diller, Solimar Santiago, Valentin K. Gribkoff, Allison Ackerman, Victor J. Hruby, Gianpaolo Gobbo, Michael A. Bellucci, William A. Glauser, Brad L. Pentelute, Tomi K. Sawyer

“…These data were correlated with previously reported co-structures of both full-length GLP-1 analogs and progenitor N-terminal GLP-1 fragment analogs related to such ultra-short GLP-1R agonist peptides. …”
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