Contested geographies of trafficking borders See

This article introduces a special issue on Contested Geographies of Trafficking Borders. This collection broadens the understanding of trafficking borders by examining their materialisation, impacts, and contestation across different spaces and times. Expanding this notion of Trafficking Borders, the ...

A Fuzzy Neural Network Approach to Adaptive Robust Nonsingular Sliding Mode Control for Predefined-Time Tracking of a Quadrotor See

In this article, a novel adaptive robust predefined-time nonsingular sliding mode control (ARPTNSMC) scheme is investigated, which aims to achieve fast and accurate tracking control of a quadrotor subjected to external disturbance. Inspiration is drawn from a fuzzy neural network that is...

A Novel Hierarchical Generative Model for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation of Biomedical Images See

In biomedical vision research, a significant challenge is the limited availability of pixel-wise labeled data. Data augmentation has been identified as a solution to this issue through generating labeled dummy data. While enhancing model efficacy, semi-supervised learning methodologies have emerged&#x...

Investigation on dynamic anisotropy of bedded shale under SHPB impact compression See

Revealing the fracture characteristics of shales under impact is significant for the exploitation and utilization of geological energy. In this study, the progressive failure process of bedded shale was tested by the dynamic Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar system and measured by the high-s...

Saccharin disrupts bacterial cell envelope stability and interferes with DNA replication dynamics See

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Growing belief: Developmental insights into the cognitive science of religion See

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Design of Scalable Population of Reinforcement Learning Agents for Autonomous 5G Radio Link Control See

This research demonstrates how MATLAB's Reinforcement Learning Markov Decision Process (MDP) Example Model can be used to design Radio Link Control MDP Reinforcement Learning (RL) agent. Since the number of agents in MATLAB's RL toolbox is not scalable beyond one agent, then an&...

The Efficiency of Secondary-level Hospitals in Hard-to-reach and non-hard-to-reach Areas in Bangladesh: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach See

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Effect of Human Images in Advertisements on Consumers’ Experiential Purchase Intentions See

This study investigated how the presence of simple human images in advertisements influences consumers’ experiential purchases. Four studies, three of which were preregistered, convergently indicated that advertisements with a human image (vs. those without) increase consumers’ experiential purchase intent...