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Improved seed yield and phosphorus accumulation in soybean are associated with the enhanced root exudates in south-west China
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Pollution Risk Assessment of Oil Spill Accidents in the Liao-Dong Bay of China
This study presents a stochastic modeling and risk assessment framework to investigate the oil spill pollution risks in the Liaodong Bay of China, where large-scale oil spill accidents from ships, ports, and o...
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Introduction
With the continuous development of natural science and the need of engineering technology, as the classical contents of nonlinear theory, fractal theory, fractal control theory and fractal application in pract...
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Control and Synchronization of Julia Sets Generated by a Class of Complex Time-Delay Rational MAP
Recently, the properties and applications of Julia sets from more general complex maps were investigated. Saitoh et al. [210] discussed a complex system extended from Logistic map, and got the condition under ...
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Fractal Control and Synchronization of Classical Model
Based on the study of the typical Langevin problem and the dynamics of the particle’s movement, the physical applications of M-J sets are discussed
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New Characteristics About the Fractal Control Theory
The natural process can be depicted as discrete dynamic systems which reveal how a process runs from one state to the next via certain rules.
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Fractal Analysis and Control of the SIRS Models
As for disease dynamics, SIRS model is one of classical models, which divides animal states into three categories: susceptible state (S), infectious state (I), and removed state (R). The SIRS model describes t...
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Fractal Phenomena and Control in Economical Models
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Applications of Fractal Control in Biologies
In the 1920s, the American mathematician Lotka obtained the famous mathematical model [365] about the quantitative relation between hosts and parasites; in 1926, the Italian mathematician Volterra proposed the...
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Control and Synchronization of Spatial Fractals
The spatial Julia set, which is the natural extension of planar Julia set, has also attracted significant interest in recent years.
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Application of Fractal Control in Other Fields
It is noticed that in 2011, Yamasaki et al. studied the effects on the growth interaction between H. circularisquama and P. dentatum cells because of competition among them [481]. They found that the growth of...
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Control of Julia Sets in Complex Physical Systems
Nonlinear elements are common in structural and rotating machinery applications. When such systems are subjected to periodic external excitation, they present many complex dynamic behaviors. In the past four d...
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Control of the Thermal Fractal Diffusion Systems
Fractal theory has attracted considerable research interest [169, 171, 178, 181, 183, 241, 453, 454], with the diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA) [455] model proposed by Witten and Sander receiving particular...
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