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An Approach for Computationally Efficient Yet Accurate Modeling of Vibrating Machines With Neidhart Springs

International Journal of Mechanical System Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Accurate modeling of vibrating machines equipped with Neidhart springs is challenging due to the strong nonlinearities introduced by the elastomer–metal torsional elements and the constraints imposed by their kinematic arrangement. Multibody modeling methodologies for such vibrating machines are often computationally demanding, thus limiting ...
Davide Galli, Veit Gufler, Andrea Giusti, Renato Vidoni   +3 more
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Nonprofit Governance and Financial Stability: A Study of Government‐Funded Social Services

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nonprofit social service providers are essential in delivering vital services, often with public funding. This study adopts a contingency perspective to explore the relationship between organizational governance and financial stability in publicly funded nonprofit organizations. We use a combination of comparative multilevel analysis (CMA) and
Florentine Maier, Michael Meyer, Josef Baumüller, Christian Grünhaus, Franka Walde   +4 more
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Coexisting ant species differ in ability to meet their intrinsic nutritional needs

Oikos, EarlyView.
Coexisting species are often assumed to reduce competition by foraging for foods that differ in nutrient composition, but few studies test whether field nutritional differences correspond to intrinsic differences in macronutrient selectivity. We compared field estimates of worker trophic position (tissue isotopes: δ15N) and worker tissue stoichiometry (
Hannah L. Riskas, Jonathan Z. Shik, Lily L. Leahy, Ian J. Wright, Heloise Gibb   +4 more
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Supervised Protein Structure Classification Using Topological Persistence With DeltaFold

Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent advances in protein structure prediction have considerably increased the number of available structures, underscoring the need for scalable and accurate methods to compare and classify this huge amount of data. Current approaches based on sequence alignment or structural superposition often lack sensitivity and/or are computationally ...
Joseph Nardin‐Gennequin, Gabriela Ciuperca, Céline Brochier‐Armanet, Philippe Malbos   +3 more
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Impact of Packaging and Recycling Systems on Material Recirculation: A Stage‐Decomposition Model

Packaging Technology and Science, EarlyView.
A system‐level view emerges from decomposing recycling into four stages (participation, collection, sorting and process yield), diagnosing constraints and targeting interventions. Cumulative equivalent uses (CEUs) quantify long‐term retention, revealing marginal improvements at high baselines generate disproportionately larger gains than low‐baseline ...
Diogo Figueirinhas, Daniel Hellström, Henrik Pålsson, Yulia Vakulenko   +3 more
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A Rank‐Based CUSUM Monitoring Scheme for Time Between Events and Amplitude Data

Quality and Reliability Engineering International, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Monitoring time between events and amplitude (TBEA) data is critical in many applications, particularly in manufacturing, reliability engineering, and service operations. Yet, most existing TBEA control charts focus on a single quality characteristic and are typically developed under restrictive distributional assumptions.
Muhammad Arslan, Ali Yeganeh, Fatemeh Sogandi, Jean‐Claude Malela‐Majika, Fernanda Otilia Figueiredo, Aisha Iqbal   +5 more
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Optimal Homogeneous ℒp$$ {\boldsymbol{\mathcal{L}}}_{\boldsymbol{p}} $$‐Gain Controller

International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nonlinear ℋ∞$$ {\mathscr{H}}_{\infty } $$‐controllers are designed for arbitrarily weighted, continuous homogeneous systems with a focus on systems affine in the control input. Based on the homogeneous ℒp$$ {\mathcal{L}}_p $$‐norm, the input–output behavior is quantified in terms of the homogeneous ℒp$$ {\mathcal{L}}_p $$‐gain as a ...
Daipeng Zhang, Benjamin Calmbach, Jaime A. Moreno, Johann Reger   +3 more
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Sliding Mode Control in Aerospace Applications: A Survey

International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sliding mode control (SMC) enjoys robustness to matched and unmatched (in the case of minimum phase input‐output dynamics) bounded perturbations, and finite time convergence. Second‐order and higher‐order sliding mode control systems (2‐SMC/HOSMC) retain all the advantages of sliding mode control, but in addition can be applied to systems of ...
Yuri Shtessel, Christopher Edwards
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Discrete Implementations Modify the Intuition of Final Set Adjustment in Barrier Function Based Control

International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper establishes an implementation‐aware framework for Barrier Function Adaptation (BFA) and shows that discrete‐time realizations fundamentally alter the logic of final‐set adjustment. In particular, sufficient conditions are derived to preserve the key benefits of BFA (predefined performance, gain adaptation with uncertain perturbation
Luis Ovalle, Andrés González, Leonid Fridman, Meléndez Alfredo   +3 more
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High‐Order Sliding‐Mode control for MIMO Systems

International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper extends Lyapunov‐based homogeneous high‐order sliding‐mode control to a class of uncertain non‐square multi‐input multi‐output (MIMO) nonlinear systems with a well‐defined vector relative degree. The considered systems admit a normal‐form representation with an uncertain but full‐row‐rank input‐gain matrix.
Jaime A. Moreno, Angel Mercado‐Uribe
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