SUSTAINABLE (RE)DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM DESTINATIONS AS A PLEDGE FOR THE FUTURE – A CASE STUDY FROM THE WESTERN BALKANS by Miroslav KNEŽEVIĆ, Renata PINDŽO, Milan ĆULIĆ, Sanja KOVAČIĆ, Milosav DUNJIĆ, Aleksandra VUJKO

“…The survey collects and analyze information for each of the five Western Balkans economies and explores the needs and trends of the current stakeholders in the tourism sector and how sustainable tourism can be used to overcome future uncertainties. The results are further discussed from the point of Western Balkans economies and tourism destination to make their management more sustainable for the future. …”
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Observer-Based Sliding Mode Control for Path Tracking of a Spherical Robot by Majid Taheri Andani, Zahra Ramezani, Saeed Moazami, Jinde Cao, Mohammad Mehdi Arefi, Hassan Zargarzadeh

“…Then a modified sliding mode controller is proposed for the robot’s tracking control in the presence of uncertainties. Next, the Lyapunov theorem is utilized to analyse the overall stability of the proposed scheme, including the convergence of the observer estimation and the trajectory tracking errors. …”
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Recent advances in petrochronology: from dates to ages and rates of deep orogenic processes by Labrousse, Loic, Bonnet, Guillaume, François, Camille, Godet, Antoine, Gyomlai, Thomas

“…The interpretation of dates, now produced in high quantities and low uncertainties, with geochemical and textural information thanks to in situ dating techniques, into ages with a geological meaning, is based on sophisticated multi-disciplinary approaches. …”
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Human Simulated Intelligent Control with Double-Direction Dead-Zone Compensation for Joint Motion Control of a Large-Sized Boom System by Rongsheng Liu, Yingjie Gao, Yulin Yang, Yanlong Liu

“…It has been considered difficult due to strong nonlinearities and parametric uncertainties, the effect of which increases with the size of booms. …”
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Modelling 3D crack propagation in ageing graphite bricks of Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor power plant by Thi-Tuyet-Giang Vo, Philippe Martinuzzi, Van-Xuan Tran, Neil McLachlan, Alan Steer

“…Finally, this work contributes to the better understanding of crack propagation behaviour in AGR graphite bricks and so contributes to the extension of the AGR plants’ lifetimes in the UK by reducing uncertainties.…”
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Incorporating Overconfidence into Real Option Decision-Making Model of Metal Mineral Resources Mining Project by Jian-bai Huang, Na Tan, Mei-rui Zhong

“…As for uncertainties and decision-makers’ overconfidence psychological bias, overconfidence has been incorporated into real option decision-making model of metal mineral resources mining to estimate its effect on decision-making of the project and thus a behavioral real option decision-making model of metal mineral resources mining based on overconfidence has been established. …”
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Adaptive Synchronization for Two Different Stochastic Chaotic Systems with Unknown Parameters via a Sliding Mode Controller by Zengyun Wang, Lihong Huang, Xuxin Yang, Dingyang Lu

“…Finally, the designed adaptive sliding mode controllers are used to achieve synchronization between two pairs of different stochastic chaos systems (Lorenz-Chen and Chen-Lu) in the presence of the uncertainties and unknown parameters. Numerical simulations are given to demonstrate the robustness and efficiency of the proposed robust adaptive sliding mode controller.…”
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Bidirectional Tracking Robust Controls for a DC/DC Buck Converter-DC Motor System by Eduardo Hernández-Márquez, José Rafael García-Sánchez, Ramón Silva-Ortigoza, Mayra Antonio-Cruz, Victor Manuel Hernández-Guzmán, Hind Taud, Mariana Marcelino-Aranda

“…Controls show a good performance even when system parameters are subjected to abrupt uncertainties. Thus, robustness of such controls is verified.…”
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A New AILC for a Class of Nonlinearly Parameterized Systems with Unknown Delays and Input Dead-Zone by Jian-ming Wei, Yun-an Hu, Mei-mei Sun

“…The assumption of identical initial condition for ILC is removed by introducing boundary layer functions. The uncertainties with time-varying delays are compensated for with assistance of appropriate Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional and Young’s inequality. …”
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Comparison of Two Mechanics-Based Methods for Simplified Structural Analysis in Vulnerability Assessment by H. Crowley, B. Borzi, R. Pinho, M. Colombi, M. Onida

“…However, there are a number of difficulties related to the comparison of analytical damage predictions with observed damage; for example, there are large uncertainties related to the prediction of the ground motions to which the damaged buildings have been subjected. …”
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South African healthcare reforms towards universal healthcare – where to next? by G Solanki, T Wilkinson, N G Myburgh, J E Cornell, V Brijlal

“… The National Assembly approval of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill represents an important milestone, but there are many uncertainties concerning its implementation and timeline. …”
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Height Control of Supersonic Sea-Skimming Missiles Based on Online Parameter Identification by Zhenyu Jiang, Xiaobin Tang, Xiaoshuai Fan, Shifeng Zhang

“…The simulation results show that the proposed height control method achieved a high level of precision when operating in the challenging conditions of ultralow-height sea skimming, despite the presence of parameter uncertainties, measurement inaccuracies, sea wave disturbances, and wind effects.…”
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DiffMAP-GP: Continuous 2D diffusion maps from particle trajectories without data binning using Gaussian processes by Vishesh Kumar, J. Shepard Bryan, IV, Alex Rojewski, Carlo Manzo, Steve Pressé

“…Toward quantifying diffusion coefficient spatial maps and uncertainties from particle tracks, we develop a Bayesian framework (DiffMAP-GP) by placing Gaussian process (GP) priors on the family of candidate maps. …”
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The Relationship Between Determinants of Shopping Sites and Customer E-Trust, Purchase Intention, Satisfaction, and Repurchase by Mehmet Emin Yaşar, Serhat Ata, Abdülvahap Baydaş

“…For consumers, online shopping involves more uncertainties than physical shopping. Especially in the current period, even daily basic needs are made with online shopping, which makes this situation even more difficult for both e-commerce businesses and customers. …”
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Perspectives and challenges of marine carbon dioxide removal by Andreas Oschlies, Lennart T. Bach, Katja Fennel, Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Nadine Mengis

“…The Paris Agreement to limit global warming to well below 2°C requires drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and the balancing of any remaining emissions by carbon dioxide removal (CDR). Due to uncertainties about the potential and durability of many land-based approaches to deliver sufficient CDR, marine CDR options are receiving more and more interest. …”
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Probability of Exceeding Damage States in Plates Using BEM by Ernesto Pineda-León, José Manuel Rosales-Juárez, Dante Tolentino, Orlando Susarrey-Huerta

“…The approach is illustrated in a plate subjected to incremental load. The uncertainties in both geometric and mechanical properties are considered in order to obtain the structural response. …”
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Towards Human Capture Movement: Estimation of Anatomical Movements of the Shoulder by B. B. Salmerón-Quiroz, C. F. Mendez-Barrios, J. F. Guerrero-Castellanos, S. A. Rodriguez-Paredes, G. Villegas-Medina

“…The originality of this paper is to apply the discrete optimization to track the desired trajectory of a nonlinear system such as the Human Movement in the presence of uncertainties. The global asymptotic convergence of the nonlinear observer is guaranteed. …”
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Non-probabilistic Solution of Uncertain Vibration Equation of Large Membranes Using Adomian Decomposition Method by Smita Tapaswini, S. Chakraverty

“…This paper proposes a new technique based on double parametric form of fuzzy numbers to handle the uncertain vibration equation for very large membrane for different particular cases. Uncertainties present in the initial condition and the wave velocity of free vibration are modelled through Gaussian convex normalised fuzzy set. …”
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Alternativas de gobernación para el desarrollo local. Corresponsabilidad de Gobierno-sociedad para el mejoramiento comunitario en México by Ricardo V Santes-Álvarez

“…Likewise, that despite advances in the project’s objectives, uncertainties about its fate caused lack of coordination within community members. …”
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Correcting the Arcjet Thruster Disturbance in GOES‐16 Magnetometer Data by S. Califf, D. Early, M. Grotenhuis, T. M. Loto'aniu, J. Kronenwetter

“…We estimate correction parameters using data from GOES‐16 (the first spacecraft of the GOES‐R series), evaluate the uncertainties in the corrected data during arcjet events, and discuss limitations and considerations for arcjet correction in the GOES‐R series magnetometers.…”
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