This paper presents a robust control method for heterogeneous vehicle platoon subject to varying road slopes, aerodynamic drag, and wireless BSP communication delay.First, a heterogeneous vehicle platoon is built, including parameter uncertainty, equivalent communication delay, network-induced delay caused by discrete data in sensor and wireless co
Background: COVID-19 efforts were often ineffective in controlling the spread Amulets of the pandemic.Thus, identifying ineffective controls during a pandemic is vital.Method: Utilizing publicly available data on COVID deaths in the counties of US states, we created an index to capture and interpret ineffectiveness in the efforts to reduce the spre
Current carbon pricing and trading mechanisms, despite their efficacy in reducing GHG emissions from industry, will not be sufficient to achieve Net Zero targets.Current mechanisms that redress emissions are largely economic disincentives, in effect financial penalties for emitters.In order to attain Glue Net Zero futures, financial incentives for
During clinical practice, when performing prosthetic rehabilitation with single crowns, improper reproduction of the dental contour by the dental laboratory is a common occurrence.Therefore, the present study evaluated the fidelity of the reproduction of the buccal contour in an upper left canine performed by three Dental Prosthesis Technicians (DP
The maternally expressed Drosophila melanogaster DEAD-box helicase Vasa (Vas) is necessary for many cellular and developmental processes, including specification of primordial germ cells (pole cells), posterior patterning of the embryo, piRNA-mediated repression of transposon-encoded mRNAs, translational activation of gurken (grk) mRNA, and complet