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Analysis and Design of a Multi-Channel Time-Varying Sliding Mode Controller and its Application in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (2018)
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This study introduces a new multi-channel robust nonlinear control algorithm based on the theory of the time-varying sliding mode control (TVSMC) strategy to stabilize the attitude of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for nuclear decommissioning appli... Read More about Analysis and Design of a Multi-Channel Time-Varying Sliding Mode Controller and its Application in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

Asymmetric ommatidia count and behavioural lateralization in the ant Temnothorax albipennis (2018)
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© 2018 The Author(s). Workers of the house-hunting ant Temnothorax albipennis rely on visual edge following and landmark recognition to navigate their rocky environment, and they also exhibit a leftward turning bias when exploring unknown nest sites.... Read More about Asymmetric ommatidia count and behavioural lateralization in the ant Temnothorax albipennis.

Transport of Live Cells under Sterile Conditions Using a Chemotactic Droplet (2018)
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© 2018 The Author(s). 1-Decanol droplets, formed in an aqueous medium containing decanoate at high pH, become chemotactic when a chemical gradient is placed in the external aqueous environment. We investigated if such droplets can be used as transpor... Read More about Transport of Live Cells under Sterile Conditions Using a Chemotactic Droplet.

Increased power generation in supercapacitive microbial fuel cell stack using Fe–N–C cathode catalyst (2018)
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© 2018 The Authors The anode and cathode electrodes of a microbial fuel cell (MFC) stack, composed of 28 single MFCs, were used as the negative and positive electrodes, respectively of an internal self-charged supercapacitor. Particularly, carbon vei... Read More about Increased power generation in supercapacitive microbial fuel cell stack using Fe–N–C cathode catalyst.

Damage mode identification in transverse crack tension specimens using acoustic emission and correlation with finite element progressive damage model (2018)
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd In this study, damage progression in unidirectional composite specimens is investigated. Transverse Crack Tension specimens are used to stimulate damage in a predetermined progressive sequence. Acoustic Emission (AE) registration... Read More about Damage mode identification in transverse crack tension specimens using acoustic emission and correlation with finite element progressive damage model.

Active control of chatter in milling process using intelligent PD/PID control (2018)
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Chatter is an obstacle for achieving high-quality machining process and high production rate in industries. Chatter is an unstable self-exciting phenomenon that leads to tool wear, poor surface finish, and downgrade the milling operations. A novel ac... Read More about Active control of chatter in milling process using intelligent PD/PID control.

Investigating the pre-damaged PZT sensors under impact traction (2018)
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© 2018 by the authors. Ships are usually under vibration, impact, and other kinds of static and dynamic loads. These loads arise from water flow across the hull or surfaces, the propeller cavitation, and so on. For optimal design purposes and reliabl... Read More about Investigating the pre-damaged PZT sensors under impact traction.

Thickness effect on Mode I trans-laminar fracture toughness of quasi-isotropic carbon/epoxy laminates (2018)
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The thickness dependency of trans-laminar fracture toughness was studied in centre-notched quasi-isotropic IM7/8552 carbon/epoxy laminates with central double 0° plies with thicknesses between 1 and 8 mm. A reduction in trans-laminar fracture toughne... Read More about Thickness effect on Mode I trans-laminar fracture toughness of quasi-isotropic carbon/epoxy laminates.

Effects of salt water on the ballistic protective performance of bullet-resistant body armour (2018)
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Bullet-resistant body armour is used by law enforcement agencies and military personnel worldwide, often in inclement weather. Some fibre types used in body armour perform poorly when wet, resulting in a reduced level of protection; this is why most... Read More about Effects of salt water on the ballistic protective performance of bullet-resistant body armour.

Dual encoding for abstractive text summarization (2018)
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Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) based sequence-to-sequence attentional models have proven effective in abstractive text summarization. In this paper, we model abstractive text summarization using a dual encoding model. Different from the previous work... Read More about Dual encoding for abstractive text summarization.

Analyses of parasitic capacitance effects and flicker noise of the DAC capacitor array for high resolution SAR ADCs (2018)
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Copyright © 2018 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. This paper analyses the effects of parasitic capacitances of unit capacitors on the accuracy and the noise performance of the DAC capacitor array in a SAR ADC, showing that thermal noise of the array dec... Read More about Analyses of parasitic capacitance effects and flicker noise of the DAC capacitor array for high resolution SAR ADCs.

Manufacturability of AlSi10Mg overhang structures fabricated by laser powder bed fusion (2018)
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd The main advantage of laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is its use for directly manufacturing metal components with highly complex geometries. But the LPBF manufacture of overhang structures, also known as downward-facing surfaces, i... Read More about Manufacturability of AlSi10Mg overhang structures fabricated by laser powder bed fusion.

Assessment of the oil scoop capture efficiency in high speed rotors (2018)
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© 2019 by ASME. Experimental research was conducted into a scooped rotor system that captures oil from a stationary jet and directs it through passages within the shaft to another axial location. Such a system has benefits for delivering oil via unde... Read More about Assessment of the oil scoop capture efficiency in high speed rotors.

On vibration transmission in oscillating systems incorporating bilinear stiffness and damping elements (2018)
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This paper investigates the dynamic characteristics and vibration transmission behaviour of a single oscillator and also coupled oscillators incorporating both bilinear stiffness and bilinear damping elements. Both harmonic balance analytical approxi... Read More about On vibration transmission in oscillating systems incorporating bilinear stiffness and damping elements.

The PInSoRo dataset: Supporting the data-driven study of child-child and child-robot social dynamics (2018)
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© 2018 Lemaignan et al. The study of the fine-grained social dynamics between children is a methodological challenge, yet a good understanding of how social interaction between children unfolds is important not only to Developmental and Social Psycho... Read More about The PInSoRo dataset: Supporting the data-driven study of child-child and child-robot social dynamics.

Recent advances in intelligent-based structural health monitoring of civil structures (2018)
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This survey paper deals with the structural health monitoring systems on the basis of methodologies involving intelligent techniques. The intelligent techniques are the most popular tools for damage identification in terms of high accuracy, reliable... Read More about Recent advances in intelligent-based structural health monitoring of civil structures.

Selecting nozzle arrangement of a chimney tower to reduce the temperature and to increase the entrainment mass flow (2018)
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© TJPRC Pvt. Ltd. The aim of this research work was to find the best arrangement of nozzles inside the chimney tower to reduce the temperature and to increase the entrainment mass flow. An existing design of the nozzle arrangement was used as the ref... Read More about Selecting nozzle arrangement of a chimney tower to reduce the temperature and to increase the entrainment mass flow.

Ethical governance is essential to building trust in robotics and artificial intelligence systems (2018)
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© 2018 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. This paper explores the question of ethical governance for robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) systems. We outline a roadmap-which links a number of elements, including e... Read More about Ethical governance is essential to building trust in robotics and artificial intelligence systems.

Feeding tube securement in critical illness: Implications for safety (2018)
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© 2018 MA Healthcare Ltd Over 50% of tape-secured feeding tubes are inadvertently lost. The impact of nasal bridle securement on nasogastric (NG) and nasointestinal (NI) tube loss, outcome and duration of use was determined from 1 October 2014 (NG) a... Read More about Feeding tube securement in critical illness: Implications for safety.

Adaptive finite-time stabilization of chaotic flow with a single unstable node using a nonlinear function-based global sliding mode (2018)
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© 2018, Shiraz University. This article presents a novel adaptive finite-time stabilization technique based on global sliding mode for disturbed chaotic flow with a single unstable node. The considered chaotic flow has unusual characteristics contain... Read More about Adaptive finite-time stabilization of chaotic flow with a single unstable node using a nonlinear function-based global sliding mode.