Underwater Drones as a Low-Cost, yet Powerful Tool for Underwater Archaeological Mapping: Case Studies from the Mediterranean by Eleni Diamanti, Øyvind Ødegård, Vasilis Mentogiannis, George Koutsouflakis

“…The paper first highlights the advantages of ROVs, including their portability, maneuverability, and ability to perform semi-autonomous mapping with real-time data assessment, which enhances decision making and minimizes the need for site revisits. …”
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Energy-aware path strategy for embedded network by Yang-Hsin Fan

“…Silent and autonomous work drives embedded systems to closely connect human on daily life. …”
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Troubles with unification: On the real/legal consequences of the decisions of the grand national Assembly of November 25, 1918 by Božić Marko

“…The findings of the second analyses, however, indicate that till 1921 and the voting of the first Yugoslav Constit ution, Vojvodina and Serbia were not acting as one and unique political entity, but as two distinct and equal autonomous Yugoslav units instead.…”
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Personality as a Correlate of Accentedness: The Case of Formal Setting Without Pronunciation-Focused Instruction by Małgorzata Baran-Łucarz

“…The quantitative data were supplemented by interviews with 10 participants representing high and low levels of accentedness, which allowed to diagnose their motivation, attitudes towards the sound of English, pronunciation self-perceptions, and strategies applied in autonomous learning. The quantitative data showed a weak correlation only between Openness to experience and accentedness, which was further moderated by the other above-mentioned individual learner differences. …”
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Prevalence of congenital defects of heart and large vessels in adults by I.G. Lebid

“…Extrapolating this data on population of Ukraine on January 1, 2016, excluding the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomic Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol and the zone of antiterrorist operation, the number of adults with CHD may be about 105 thousands. …”
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Can Total Wrist Arthroplasty Be an Option for Treatment of Highly Comminuted Distal Radius Fracture in Selected Patients? Preliminary Experience with Two Cases by Ingo Schmidt

“…We present two case reports of successful primary shortening of the forearm and total wrist arthroplasty (TWA) using the new angle-stable Maestro Wrist Reconstructive System (WRS) for treatment of highly comminuted distal radius fracture in selected autonomous patients. In a 56-year-old male patient with adequate bone stock, insertion of the noncemented Maestro WRS was combined with ulnar shortening osteotomy. …”
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Blood Pressure Control at Rest and during Exercise in Obese Children and Adults by Konstantina Dipla, George P. Nassis, Ioannis S. Vrabas

“…This paper focuses on the evidence linking obesity with alterations of the autonomic nervous system and discusses the potential mechanisms and consequences of the altered sympathetic nervous system behavior in obese individuals at rest and during exercise. …”
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Michael Cunningham’s The Hours : echoes of Virginia Woolf  by Linda Pillière

“…Cependant s’agit-il d’un simple pastiche ou d’une œuvre autonome, une création originale? Nous commencerons par relever les principaux thèmes repris et développés par Cunningham. …”
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A Critique on the Book The Idea of Literature. From ‘Art for Art’s Sake’ to Writings That Intervene by Hassan Zokhtareh

“…In this book, he tries to present a descriptive approach of Contemporary Activist Literature and uses countless references to sources to confront it with autonomous and self-reflective literature in six areas. …”
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On-Ship Trinocular Stereo Vision: An Experimental Study for Long-Range High-Accuracy Localization of Other Vessels by Kotaro Yoshihara, Shigehiro Yamamoto, Takeshi Hashimoto

“…Recently, several initiatives regarding maritime autonomous surface ships (MASSs) have been implemented worldwide. …”
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The ‘Conquering’ Soldier-Merchants of the Balkans: Colonization, State Interventionism and Separatist Claims in the Danubian Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia (18th-19th Cen... by Aysel Yıldız

“…It aims at revealing complex relations between agents on three levels: local (voivodes, boyars, commoners), the regional (Janissaries and other soldiery) and the imperial; while also examining the influx of Muslims into the Principalities and its consequences as an interplay between various claims of trading rights, provisionist policies implemented by the imperial centre and the autonomous desires of the native nobility. The paper contends that the tributary status of the Principalities provided a major advantage in protecting the local population against Muslim penetration, as manifested in the ensuing direct intervention of the Porte and consequent trade restrictions. …”
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Habiter sur serre à Eden Square. Un espace collectif tempéré à l’épreuve de ses habitants by Valérie Foucher-Dufoix, Laetitia Overney

“…Eden Square is not experienced by these inhabitants as a “world-building”, self-centred on the greenhouse as an autonomous social entity without having any connection with the outside world. …”
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Models for the spread and persistence of hantavirus infection in rodents with direct and indirect transmission by Curtis L. Wesley, Linda J. S. Allen, Michel Langlais

“…Two models are analyzed, a nonautonomous system of differential equations with time-periodic coefficients and an autonomous system, where the coefficients are taken to be the time-average. …”
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Paracrine role of endothelial IGF-1 receptor in depot-specific adipose tissue adaptation in male mice by Cheukyau Luk, Katherine I. Bridge, Nele Warmke, Katie J. Simmons, Michael Drozd, Amy Moran, Amanda D. V. MacCannell, Chew W. Cheng, Sam Straw, Jason L. Scragg, Jessica Smith, Claire H. Ozber, Chloe G. Wilkinson, Anna Skromna, Natallia Makava, Hiran A. Prag, T. Simon Futers, Oliver I. Brown, Alexander-Francisco Bruns, Andrew MN Walker, Nicole T. Watt, Romana Mughal, Kathryn J. Griffin, Nadira Y. Yuldasheva, Sunti Limumpornpetch, Hema Viswambharan, Piruthivi Sukumar, David J. Beech, Antonio Vidal-Puig, Klaus K. Witte, Michael P. Murphy, Richard C. Hartley, Stephen B. Wheatcroft, Richard M. Cubbon, Lee D. Roberts, Mark T. Kearney, Natalie J. Haywood

“…We show that a reduction in endothelial IGF-1R expression in the presence of high-fat feeding in male mice leads to depot-specific beneficial white adipose tissue remodelling, increases whole-body energy expenditure and enhances insulin sensitivity via a non-cell-autonomous paracrine mechanism. We demonstrate that increased endothelial malonate may be contributory and that malonate prodrugs have potentially therapeutically relevant properties in the treatment of obesity-related metabolic disease.…”
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Microgrids for Extraterrestrial Habitats: A Review of Technologies, Needs, and Challenges by Leila Chebbo, Muhammed Ali Gultekin, Ali Bazzi, Sean A. Q. Young, Joseph P. Kozak

“…Such installations demand a highly reliable, resilient, safe, and autonomous power system to support the habitats’ different functions, systems, and electrical loads. …”
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Emergent Self‐Adaptation in an Integrated Photonic Neural Network for Backpropagation‐Free Learning by Alessio Lugnan, Samarth Aggarwal, Frank Brückerhoff‐Plückelmann, C. David Wright, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, Harish Bhaskaran, Peter Bienstman

“…Importantly, this is realized autonomously in an emergent fashion, without the need for an external controller setting weights and without explicit feedback of a global reward signal. …”
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The dynamics of capillary flow in an open-channel system featuring trigger valves by Jodie C. Tokihiro, Ingrid H. Robertson, Denise Gregucci, Albert Shin, Elisa Michelini, Tristan M. Nicholson, Ayokunle O. Olanrewaju, Ashleigh B. Theberge, Jean Berthier, Erwin Berthier

“…This work has potential applications in autonomous microfluidics systems for biosensing, at-home or point-of-care sample preparation devices, hydrogel patterning for 3D cell culture and organ-on-a-chip models.…”
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PGN: Progressively Guided Network with Pixel-Wise Attention for Underwater Image Enhancement by Huidi Jia, Qiang Wang, Bo Fu, Zhimin Zheng, Yandong Tang

“…Light scattering and attenuation in water degrade underwater images with low visibility and color distortion, which often interfere with the high-level visual tasks of underwater autonomous robots. Most existing deep learning methods for underwater image enhancement only supervise the final output of network and ignore the promotion effect of the intermediate results on the final feature representation. …”
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Design and Implementation of a Quadcopter Based on a Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) by Amevi Acakpovi, François-Xavier Fifatin, Maurel Aza-Gnandji, François Kpadevi, Justice Nyarko

“…The proposed control strategy of the drone was tested for a case of pursuit of trajectory and also for speed of response and the findings were very positive confirming the appropriateness of the control measures for independent and autonomous flying with promising precision. This Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) fitted with IoT has the capability of collecting and sending data over the internet and therefore can be used in many applications including risk assessment, forestry management, urban planning, coastal zone management, infrastructure monitoring, post-disaster damage assessment and delivery of medical supplies. …”
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A Lifetime of Catalytic Micro-/Nanomotors by Tao He, Yonghui Yang, Xuebo Chen

“…Microscopic and nanoscopic motors, often referred to as micro-/nanomotors, are autonomous devices capable of converting chemical energy from their surroundings into mechanical motion or forces necessary for propulsion. …”
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