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This paper proposes a novel multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) connectivity preservation controller, suitable for scenarios with bounded actuation and limited communication range. According to the hierarchical control strategy, controllers are designed sep ...

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Author(s): Mu L; Sun W; Zhang Y; Feng N; Xue X; Li Q;

In industrial process monitoring, it is always a challenging and practical problem to analyze the causes of the system fault by isolating true fault variables from vast amounts of process data. However, the phenomenon of smearing effect occurs by using the ...

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Author(s): Zhang Y; Ogurtsov S; Vasilev V; Kishk AA; Caratelli D;

We review dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) designs. This review examines recent advancements across several categories, specifically focusing on their applicability in array configurations for millimeter-wave (mmW) bands, particularly in the context of 5G ...

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Author(s): Flores-Anderson AI; Cardille J; Azad K; Cherrington E; Zhang Y; Wilson S;

State-of-the-art methodologies to monitor deforestation rely mostly on optical satellite observations. High-density optical time series can enable the detection of deforestation almost as soon as it occurs. However, deforestation monitoring in the tropics c ...

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Author(s): Sares AG; Gilbert AC; Zhang Y; Iordanov M; Lehmann A; Deroche MLD;

Auditory memory is an important everyday skill evaluated more and more frequently in clinical settings as there is recently a greater recognition of the cost of hearing loss to cognitive systems. Testing often involves reading a list of unrelated items alou ...

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Author(s): Wu J; Xu Z; Zhang Y; Su CY; Wang Y;

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) show broad application prospects in the area of soft robots since they offer merits of fast response, large deformation, light weight and high energy conversion efficiency. Practical soft robot applications would usuall ...

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Fungi play a critical role in the global carbon cycle by degrading plant polysaccharides to small sugars and metabolizing them as carbon and energy sources. We mapped the well-established sugar met ...

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Author(s): Zhang Y; Malaval F; Lehmann A; Deroche MLD;

There is an increasing interest in the field of audiology and speech communication to measure the effort that it takes to listen in noisy environments, with obvious implications for populations suffering from hearing loss. Pupillometry offers one avenue to ...

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Author(s): Chen Q; Allot A; Leaman R; Islamaj R; Du J; Fang L; Wang K; Xu S; Zhang Y; Bagherzadeh P; Bergler S; Bhatnagar A; Bhavsar N; Chang YC; Lin S ...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been severely impacting global society since December 2019. The related findings such as vaccine and drug development have been reported in biom ...

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Author(s): Feng Y; Zhang Y; Li J; Omran RP; Whiteway M; Feng J;

The infection of a mammalian host by the pathogenic fungus Candida albicans involves fungal resistance to reactive oxygen species (ROS)-induced DNA damage stress generated by the defending macrophages or neutrophils. Thus, the DNA damage response in C. albi ...

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Author(s): Zhang Y; Lu C; Chen Z; Song Y; Li H; Han Y; Hou Y; Guo J;

The performance and mechanism of denitrification enhanced by three clay minerals, montmorillonite (Mmt), illite and kaolinite, were first studied. Batch experiments indicated that clay minerals significantly enhanced denitrification at certain concentration ...

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