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Global extreme precipitation characteristics: the perspective of climate and large river basins
With global warming, extreme weather frequently and severely appears globally. Extreme precipitation is one of the extreme weather events that can cause many natural disasters, such as floods and waterlogging....
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Virtual Structure Method UAV Distributed Formation Control Based on Improved Super-Twisting Sliding Mode
In the UAV formation control, the virtual structure method no longer relies on the dominance of the UAV leader who may have faults, but defines a virtual center or virtual rigid body. The UAVs only need to mai...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Intelligent Fault Diagnosis Method of Inertial Sensors for Space Gravitational Wave Detection
Space inertial sensor is one of the key loads in space gravitational wave detection mission. Once it fails, the entire mission is likely to be affected or even fail. The existing data-driven intelligent fault ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Intelligent Penetration Guidance Law Based on DDPG for Hypersonic Vehicle
A novel intelligent guidance law based on Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) is devised in this paper to deal with problems of penetration for hypersonic boost glide vehicle (HBGV). Firstly, an agent ba...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Neural Adaptive Finite-Time Sliding Mode Controller for Air-Breathing Hypersonic Vehicle
A neural adaptive sliding mode controller (NASMC) composed of an adaptive finite-time sliding mode controller (AFSMC) with the long short-term memory (LSTM)-based deep recurrent neural network is presented for...
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Monitoring vegetation drought in the nine major river basins of China based on a new developed Vegetation Drought Condition Index
The effect of global climate change on vegetation growth is variable. Timely and effective monitoring of vegetation drought is crucial for understanding its dynamics and mitigation, and even regional protectio...
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Evaluation of precipitation and its time series components in CMIP6 over the Yellow River Basin
Precipitation is a main part of the regional hydrological cycle, and global warming affects the hydrological cycle because regional precipitation is impacted by mechanistic changes in the hydrological cycle un...
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Open AccessCharacterization of SARS-CoV-2 worldwide transmission based on evolutionary dynamics and specific viral mutations in the spike protein
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is pandemic. However, the origins and global transmission pattern of SARS-CoV-2 remain lar...
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Open AccessIncrease in HIV-1-transmitted drug resistance among ART-naïve youths at the China-Myanmar border during 2009 ~ 2017
HIV-transmitted drug resistance (TDR) is found in antiretroviral therapy (ART)-naïve populations infected with HIV-1 with TDR mutations and is important for guiding future first- and second-line ART regimens. ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Narrow Pulses Less NL-PWM Method for Cascaded Converter with Improved Harmonic Characteristics Under Reduced Switching Frequency
Nearest level pulse width modulation (NL-PWM) is a hybrid modulation method which combines nearest level modulation (NLM) and pulse width modulation (PWM), and has a wide application prospect. The NL-PWM achie...
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Open AccessAssociations of socioeconomic factors with cause-specific Mortality and burden of cardiovascular diseases: findings from the vital registration in urban Shanghai, China, during 1974–2015
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality worldwide. The effect of socioeconomic factors on cause-specific mortality and burden of CVD is rarely evaluated in low- and middle-income countri...
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Open AccessFollistatin-like protein 1 plays a tumor suppressor role in clear-cell renal cell carcinoma
We previously showed that the expression of follistatin-like protein 1 (FSTL1) was significantly down-regulated in metastatic clear-cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). In this study, we aimed to characterize th...
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Open AccessA genetic polymorphism affects the risk and prognosis of renal cell carcinoma: association with follistatin-like protein 1 expression
Few single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with the risk of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) have been identified, yet genetic predisposition contributes significantly to this malignancy. We previously sh...
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Open AccessThe role of hazard vulnerability assessments in disaster preparedness and prevention in China
China is prone to disasters and escalating disaster losses. Effective disaster mitigation is the foundation for efficient disaster response and rescue and for reducing the degree of hazardous impacts on the po...
