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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 +4 more
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Using geometric algebra to represent curvature in shell theory with applications to Starling resistors. [PDF]
R Soc Open Sci, 2017 Gregory AL, Agarwal A, Lasenby J.
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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 +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 +3 more
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New views of some invariants associated with the Cartesian 2D velocity gradient tensor
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.Vorticity and divergence of horizontal flow are fundamental quantities in meteorology; both are linear functions of the four elements of the 2D velocity gradient tensor and both are formally unchanged under coordinate rotation. We explore four quadratic functions of the elements that are geometrically invariant in this sense, finding some novel ...
I. Roulstone, S. A. Clough, A. A. White
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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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Control of disturbing loads in residential and commercial buildings via geometric algebra. [PDF]
ScientificWorldJournal, 2013 Castilla MV.
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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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Feedback Linearisation with State Constraints
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Feedback Linearisation (FBL) is a widely used technique that applies feedback laws to transform input‐affine nonlinear control systems into linear control systems, allowing for the use of linear controller design methods such as pole placement.
Songlin Jin, Yuanbo Nie, Morgan Jones
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Sliding Motions on Non‐Euclidean State Spaces: A Differential‐Geometric Perspective
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper extends sliding‐mode control theory to nonlinear systems evolving on smooth manifolds. Building on differential geometric methods, we reformulate Filippov's notion of solutions, characterize well‐defined vector fields on quotient spaces, and provide a consistent geometric definition of higher‐order sliding modes.
Fernando Castaños
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