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Fault tolerant model predictive control of open channels [PDF]
Automated control of water systems (irrigation canals, navigation canals, rivers etc.) relies on the measured data. The control action is calculated, in case of feedback controller, directly from the on-line measured data.
Blesa Izquierdo, Joaquim +3 more
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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GPS Spoofing-Resilient Filtering Using Self-Contained Sensors and Chimera Signal Enhancement
To protect civilian Global Positioning System (GPS) users from spoofing, the Air Force Research Lab has developed the chips-message robust authentication (Chimera) signal enhancement for the GPS L1C signal.
Tara Mina +3 more
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Going beyond social savings: how would the British economy have developed in the absence of the railways?: a case study of Brunner Mond 1882-1914 [PDF]
This paper confirms the conclusion of the social savings methodology that industrial development was not dependent on the railways. However, it finds that there would have been a significant change in the distribution of industry without rail, a point ...
Longinotti, Edward
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Real-Time Precise Point Positioning Method Considering Broadcast Ephemeris Discontinuities
With advancements in the broadcast ephemeris accuracy of global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs), precise point positioning based on broadcast ephemeris (BE-PPP) is gradually showing promising prospects.
Quanrun Cheng +3 more
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Addressing India’s water challenge 2050: the virtual water trade option [PDF]
The Government of India, on directions from the Supreme Court in 2002 and advice from the National Water Development Agency (NWDA), proposed an estimated US$120 billion National River Linking Project (NRLP) which envisages linking 37 Himalayan and ...
Hoekstra, Arjen K. +3 more
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The Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC (WFD) and the Nature Restoration Regulation (EU) 2024/1991 (NRR) both require Member States to restore freshwater ecosystems. This study analyzes how these two instruments interact, identifying both synergies and conflicts.
Eleonora Ciscato, Morgan E. Harris
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We argue the merits of having a simplified method to simulate equatorial plasma bubble (EPB) plume structures for practical usage. The capability to realistically model EPB plume structures in simulations would be advantageous when assessing the severity
Rezy Pradipta +3 more
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Model-based sensor supervision inland navigation networks: Cuinchy-Fontinettes case study [PDF]
In recent years, inland navigation networks benefit from the innovation of the instrumentation and SCADA systems. These data acquisition and control systems lead to the improvement of the manage- ment of these networks.
Blesa Izquierdo, Joaquim +6 more
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Green Space Production as a State Project in Urban China
Short Abstract We examine the politics of developing Chengdu's greenway project by advancing the concept of state entrepreneurialism through strategic embeddedness and tactical mobilisation. We define strategic embeddedness as the institutional integration of market into the state apparatus to achieve the state's strategic goals and tactical ...
Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
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