Dynamic Modeling and Nonlinear Position Control of a Quadruped Robot with Theo Jansen Linkage Mechanisms and a Single Actuator by Shunsuke Nansai, Rajesh Elara Mohan, Ning Tan, Nicolas Rojas, Masami Iwase

“…In this paper, we perform for the first time the dynamic modeling and analysis on a four-legged robot driven by a single actuator and composed of Theo Jansen mechanisms. The projection method is applied to derive the equations of motion of this complex mechanical system and a position control strategy based on energy is proposed. …”
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Recurrent Adenomatous Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Middle Ear: A Diagnostic Challenge by J. Vilain, J.-C. Degols, S. Ledeghen

“…Controversial terminology of the neoplasm arises from the differentiation of this tumor composed of both endocrine and exocrine glands. Middle ear (ME) localization is rare and less aggressive than gastrointestinal tract or lung localizations. …”
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Geographies of Violence and Experiences of Re-Existence. The Case of Buenaventura, Colombia, 2005-2015 by Jefferson Jaramillo Marín, Érika Parrado Pardo, Wooldy Edson Louidor

“…This article analyzes how, in the context of Buenaventura crossed by a variety of violence between 2005 and 2015, some collectives and organizing platforms, mostly composed of young people and women, managed to defend life and imagine the future. …”
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Development And Validation of A Customer Relationship Scale For Airline Companies by Gisela Demo, Kesia Rozzett, Natasha Fogaça, Taila Souza

“…Thus the aim of this study was to develop and validate a scale to measure customer’s perception of relationship with airline companies. The scale was composed of four primary factors (customer loyalty, purchase experience, flight experience, and service) and a second order factor (customer relationship), all with good psychometric indices. …”
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Influence of Control and Family Management in the Indebtedness of Brazilian Open Business: a Quantitative Study by Liliane Cristina Segura, Henrique Formigoni

“…The studied population was composed of companies listed on the BM&FBovespa, in 2010, and the final sample consisted of 356 companies. …”
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Dynamic of Innovation in Services for Consumers at the Bottom of the Pyramid by Gibson Meira Oliveira, André Gustavo Carvalho Machado

“…For this purpose, a framework composed of innovation dimensions, capabilities and infrastructure was developed. …”
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Contours of biblical spirituality as a discipline by Huub Welzen

“…The third approach is the discussion of the composing terms. A definition is given: Biblical spirituality is about the divine human relational process in the Bible and about the Bible in the divine human relational process. …”
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O parricídio como espetáculo da violência: O dia em que matei meu pai by Aileen El-Kadi

“…The first person narrative voice in the novel by Mario Sabino, O dia em que matei meu pai, builds an universe composed of two coordinates, one follows the logic of subjective pleasure/perversion where the characters show social pathology des- cribed by the narrator as a result of a context governed by psychological violence and amorality, and where the dynamics is always erotic, the other component is spectacular as the axis from which the characters seem to represent roles built based on stereotypes that arise from mass culture. …”
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BREVILOQUENZA COMPONISTICA - ROBERT SCHUMANN AND FRAUENLIEBE UND LEBEN (PART V) by Claudia POP

“… Robert Schumann, one of the most famous Romantic composers of the first half of the nineteenth century, by his lieder Frauenliebe und Leben made me to feel and to want also, to send this personal reflection of music that addresses the heart of the women to those to whom I’ve extended the positive leaven to approach this music so special: the lied. …”
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The Samurai and the Artist: Henry Miller’s Reflections on the Death of Mishima by Wayne E. Arnold

“…In early 1971, Henry Miller composed Reflections on the Death of Mishima, an essay in which he attempted to formulate his opinions concerning the death of Mishima Yukio on 25 November 1970. …”
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Consumer Labels can Convey Polyphenolic Content: Implications for Public Health by Andrew L. Waterhouse

“…Many of these, in fact much of that found in food, is composed of processing-derived substances too complex for complete identification. …”
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New Plants for Florida: Pine by Richard L. Jones, Mary Duryea, Berry J. Treat

“… The Cooperative Forest Genetics Research Program (CFGRP), founded in 1953 by geneticists Tom Perry and Ray Goddard, is a cooperative organization composed of FAES scientists working together with private industries and state agencies to develop genetically improved varieties of slash pine (Pinus elliottii), loblolly pine (P. taeda), longleaf pine (P. palustris) and sand pine (P. clausa). …”
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Operation Optimization of Microgrid System Based on Intelligent System Model by Jian Kang

“…In addition, this paper adopts the method of extracting the harmonic current command in the synchronous coordinate system based on the band-pass filter composed of SOGI and combines the RDFT algorithm to determine the number of harmonics that can be compensated and the degree of compensation for the harmonic number. …”
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Dynamic Modeling and Analysis of Micro-Video Teaching System Based on Cloud Computing in College English Teaching by Ying Chen

“…After a brief overview of the dynamic rule algorithm, an algorithm for evaluating English grammar learning in colleges and universities is designed by using dynamic algorithm. The algorithm is composed of dynamic rule algorithm, language processing technology, and regular expression. …”
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Accelerated non-linear destruction of the earth's crust by E. V. Artyushkov

“…In most areas, at depths ∼20–40 km the continental crust is composed of basalts with density ∼2900kg m−3. At temperature and pressure typical for this depth, basalts are metastable and should transform into another assemblage of minerals which corresponds to garnet granulites and eclogites with higher densities 3300–3600 kg m−3. …”
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Burger Time ou les Tentations de saint Antoine, or Not Wanting to Say Anything About Mauro Lanza, Gustave Flaubert and Peter Pepper by Andrea Valle

“…The article discusses Burger Time ou les Tentations de Saint Antoine, a 12-minute work of electronic music composed by Mauro Lanza. In particular, it proposes a three-layer interpretative methodology, focusing respectively on audible perception, on signal analysis and finally on a semiotic framework. …”
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Purchase Intention of SUV Category Automobiles: Determinant Factors from the Customer Perspective by Luciene Eberle, Luan Hoffman da Cruz, Gabriel Sperandio Milan

“…For this purpose, quantitative research was carried out by applying a survey, with a convenience sample composed of 237 customers intending to purchase SUVs. …”
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« The Enduring End » by Andria Pancrazi

“…Amongst the recurring aesthetic themes that he explores, the transition between the state of life and the state of death is at the centre of many of his poems, which he composes using innovative forms — the most characteristic one being very long rhapsodic poems and roundels (a particular variation on the rondeau of his own invention). …”
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Nuestra Madre Milpa Joven: una imagen de la totalidad efímera en un ritual wixárika by Regina Lira Larios

“…During an agricultural ritual celebrated in a family shrine in a Wixárika community of West Mexico, an assemblage composed by artefacts, parts of sacrificed animals and persons is produced in the course of an organized sequences of acts and recognized as Our Young Mother Corn Field (Tatei Waxa ‘iimari). …”
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Using Coloured Petri Nets for Evaluating the Power Consumption of Wireless Sensor Networks by Antônio Dâmaso, Nelson Rosa, Paulo Maciel

“…This approach consists of a fully automated process for evaluating the WSN lifetime, a set of reusable Coloured Petri Net (CPN) models that express the power consumption of WSN communication protocols, and a strategy for composing CPN models of WSN applications and protocols. …”
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