Changes of the Lithuanian Periodical Structure (1988-1995) by Genovaitė Burneikienė

“…The article investigates development of the system of the Lithuanian periodical press after adoption of the Law on Mass Media (February 09, 1990) that liberated editorial offices from dependence on the Party and established the main provisions of freedom of the press. Communication process after 1990 resulted in appearance of new types of periodicals, in change of the status, publication structure and orientation of previous periodicals: a new system based on principles of self-adjustment was emerging. …”
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A Sliding Mode Approach to Vector Field Path Following for a Fixed-Wing UAV by Luca Pugi, Lorenzo Franchi, Samuele Favilli, Giuseppe Mattei

“…This high-fidelity model considers the six-degrees-of-freedom (DoF) whole-flight dynamics of the UAV and it is based on experimental flight test data to implement the aerodynamic behavior.…”
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Experimental Study on a Forced-Circulation Loop Thermosiphon Solar Water Heating System by Tao Zhang

“…Compared to the normal type, forced-circulation wickless LTs have significant advantages in the long-distance heat transfer and installation freedom of condensation section. In this study, a pump-forced wickless LT-SWH system with a remolded flat-plate solar collector was put forward. …”
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3D Yang-Mills confining properties from a non-Abelian ensemble perspective by D. R. Junior, L. E. Oxman, G. M. Simões

“…Abstract In this work, we propose a 3D ensemble measure for center-vortex worldlines and chains equipped with non-Abelian degrees of freedom. We derive an effective field description for the center-element average where the vortices get represented by N flavors of effective Higgs fields transforming in the fundamental representation. …”
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Measuring the Acceleration of a Rigid Body by Peter G. Martin, Gregory W. Hall, Jeff R. Crandall, Walter D. Pilkey

“…Two methods to measure the six-degree-of-freedom acceleration of a point on a rigid body are presented. …”
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BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT - THE CASE OF WESTERN BALKAN COUNTRIES by Zijad Džafić

“…In this paper, the author uses only some such as: The Global Competitiveness Report of World Economic Forum, World Bank’s Doing Business Index, Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom, European Charter for Small Enterprises and Small Business Act of OECD and European Commission (EC) and Indicators of Business, Corruption and Crime in WBCs of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). …”
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Adaptive Fixed-Time Trajectory Tracking Control for Underactuated Hovercraft with Prescribed Performance in the Presence of Model Uncertainties by Mingyu Fu, Tan Zhang, Fuguang Ding, Duansong Wang

“…To begin with, based on the hovercraft's four degrees of freedom (DOF) model, the virtual control laws are designed using an error transforming function and the fixed-time stability theory to guarantee that the position tracking errors are constrained within the prescribed convergence rates and minimum overshoot. …”
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Flutter Instability Speeds of Guided Splined Disks: An Experimental and Analytical Investigation by Ahmad Mohammadpanah, Stanley G. Hutton

“…Rigid body translational and tilting degrees of freedom are included in the analysis of the total motion of the spinning disk. …”
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Program Satisfaction of the Pioneering Graduates of the Bachelor in Secondary Education –Science in a Philippine State University by Rey-Mark Basagre

“…The identified strengths of the program are an organized and flexible curriculum, learner-centered and academic freedom, relevant competencies, approachable and competent faculty, and good resources and facilities. …”
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After Abolition: Cugoano on ‘Lawful Servitude’ and the Injustice of Slavery by Johan Olsthoorn

“…Born in present-day Ghana, Cugoano was enslaved aged 13 and trafficked to Grenada, before being taken onwards to England where he reclaimed his freedom. His Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery [1787/1791] highlights two central injustices blighting colonial slavery – robbery (‘theft of rights’) and dehumanization. …”
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Strategic Partnership between Russia and India from the Perspective of National Elites by Alexey Kupriyanov

“…The path chosen will depend on the position of the Indian elites, who have the freedom to take a neutral stance in a conflict far from their borders, and on the outcomes of the Ukrainian crisis.…”
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Czy współczesna antropologia uwzględnia wiarę? by Tomasz Kraj

“…Taking faith into consideration means seriously considering such issues as: the linear concept of time, the Christian concept of man created in the image and likeness of God, the concept of human freedom, and the concept of human personhood rooted in metaphysics. …”
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Soft Robotics: Biological Inspiration, State of the Art, and Future Research by Deepak Trivedi, Christopher D. Rahn, William M. Kier, Ian D. Walker

“…With a soft structure and redundant degrees of freedom, these robots can be used for delicate tasks in cluttered and/or unstructured environments. …”
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Transmembrane voltage-gated nanopores controlled by electrically tunable in-pore chemistry by Makusu Tsutsui, Wei-Lun Hsu, Chien Hsu, Denis Garoli, Shukun Weng, Hirofumi Daiguji, Tomoji Kawai

“…Leveraging chemical degrees of freedom, the present method may be useful for creating iontronic circuits of tunable characteristics toward neuromorphic systems.…”
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The Optimization Algorithm for Large-Scale In Situ Stress Field by Fei Li, Ningdong Chang

“…For a real construction site, the amount of calculation using a finite element method for in situ stress field increases dramatically with the increase of the calculation freedom due to large-scale uncertainties. In order to reduce the computing cost without losing the accuracy of the calculation, an optimization algorithm combined with a reduced order model, which is realized by the proper orthogonal decomposition algorithm (POD) for large-scale in situ stress field, is put forward in this paper. …”
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Understanding Power Spectrum Density Transmissibility by Yu Zhang, Tong Zhu, Jing Zhou

“…Since PSDTs with same local-reference degree of freedom (DOF) combination but with different transferring output DOFs cross each other at the system’s poles under certain load condition, the functions have been used as the primary data in operational modal analysis (OMA) to extract modal parameters, and such technique is named as PSDT-based OMA (PSDTOMA). …”
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A Bioinspired 10 DOF Wearable Powered Arm Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation by Soumya Kanti Manna, Subhasis Bhaumik

“…The developed exoskeleton device (Exorn) has ten degrees of freedom to control joints starting from shoulder griddle to wrist to provide better redundancy, portability, and flexibility to the human arm motion. …”
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Spatial Domain Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Rotary Systems Subject to Spatially Periodic Disturbances by Yen-Hsiu Yang, Cheng-Lun Chen

“…Under the circumstances that measurement of the system states is not available, a nonlinear state observer is established for providing the estimated states. A two-degree-of-freedom spatial domain control configuration is then proposed to stabilize the system and improve the tracking performance. …”
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HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT: A THEMATIC REVIEW by Abdulrasheed Abdulyakeen

“…Their philosophical approach aimed to provide freedom fighters with moral, political, and financial support. …”
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SPECULATIVE REALISM IN THE SEARCH OF LOST INDEPENDENT OBJECTS by Ігор КАРІВЕЦЬ

“…Here the obvious goal of speculative realism is to grant freedom to objects through the destruction of correlationism. …”
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