CONTEXT: Each year, millions of US youth acquire sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
Estimates of the economic burden of STDs can help to quantify the impact of STDs on the …

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer and has a high metastasis and
reoccurrence rate. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play an important role in CRC growth …

In this decade, the demands of energy saving and diverse personal thermoregulation
requirements along with the emergence of wearable electronics and smart textiles give rise …

A systematic and unified presentation of the fundamentals of adaptive control theory in both
continuous time and discrete time Today, adaptive control theory has grown to be a rigorous …

Incorporating passive radiative cooling structures into personal thermal management
technologies could effectively defend humans against intensifying global climate change …

This paper presents a feedback control real-time scheduling (FCS) framework for adaptive
real-time systems. An advantage of the FCS framework is its use of feedback control theory …

Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) is a promising technology for converting the low-grade
energy to electricity. This paper presents an investigation on the parameter optimization and …

Flower color is mainly determined by anthocyanins. Rosa hybrida lacks violet to blue flower
varieties due to the absence of delphinidin-based anthocyanins, usually the major …

From the Publisher: An in-depth examination of intelligent approaches to increasing the
accuracy of a variety of system components. Utilizing a unified, adaptive, inverse approach …

Abstract Lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries are considered as one of the most promising
candidates to achieve an energy density of 500 Wh kg⁻ 1. However, the challenges of …