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View article: Hollow RuO <sub>2</sub> nanozymes sensitized by carbon dot sonosensitizers for sonodynamic/chemodynamic-activated immunotherapy
Hollow RuO <sub>2</sub> nanozymes sensitized by carbon dot sonosensitizers for sonodynamic/chemodynamic-activated immunotherapy Open
View article: Privacy protection under the exposure of systems' prior information
Privacy protection under the exposure of systems' prior information Open
For systems whose states implicate sensitive information, their privacy is of great concern. While notions like differential privacy have been successfully introduced to dynamical systems, it is still unclear how a system's privacy can be …
View article: Privacy in Distributed Control and Optimization
Privacy in Distributed Control and Optimization Open
View article: Trade-off strategies of individual clonal reproductive traits in Chinese wildrye (Leymus chinensis (Trin.) Tzvel) under NaCl stress
Trade-off strategies of individual clonal reproductive traits in Chinese wildrye (Leymus chinensis (Trin.) Tzvel) under NaCl stress Open
Soil salinity is a serious abiotic stress negatively affecting crop productivity and threatening the global food security. The extent of salt affected soils is continuously increasing due to poor irrigation, improper agricultural practices…
View article: Functional insights into the FW2.2-like gene family in Chinese jujube: Identification, characterization, and impact of ZjFWL10 variants on fruit size and plant height
Functional insights into the FW2.2-like gene family in Chinese jujube: Identification, characterization, and impact of ZjFWL10 variants on fruit size and plant height Open
View article: Continuous Glucose Measurements for Diet Monitoring in Healthy Adults
Continuous Glucose Measurements for Diet Monitoring in Healthy Adults Open
Background: Lifestyle interventions and low glycemic diets have potential in diabetes prevention. However, dietary monitoring relies on self-report, which is prone to under-reporting. This observational study investigated the correlation b…
View article: Graph Neural Network for Product Recommendation on the Amazon Co-purchase Graph
Graph Neural Network for Product Recommendation on the Amazon Co-purchase Graph Open
Identifying relevant information among massive volumes of data is a challenge for modern recommendation systems. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated significant potential by utilizing structural and semantic relationships throug…
View article: Adverse drug reaction signal detection via the long short-term memory model
Adverse drug reaction signal detection via the long short-term memory model Open
Introduction Drug safety has increasingly become a serious public health problem that threatens health and damages social economy. The common detection methods have the problem of high false positive rate. This study aims to introduce deep…
View article: Initial State Privacy of Nonlinear Systems on Riemannian Manifolds
Initial State Privacy of Nonlinear Systems on Riemannian Manifolds Open
In this paper, we investigate initial state privacy protection for discrete‐time nonlinear closed systems. By capturing Riemannian geometric structures inherent in such privacy challenges, we refine the concept of differential privacy thro…
View article: A lightweight detector for small targets using forward-looking sonar in underwater search scenarios
A lightweight detector for small targets using forward-looking sonar in underwater search scenarios Open
View article: Communication-Efficient Distributed Online Nonconvex Optimization with Time-Varying Constraints
Communication-Efficient Distributed Online Nonconvex Optimization with Time-Varying Constraints Open
This paper considers distributed online nonconvex optimization with time-varying inequality constraints over a network of agents, where the nonconvex local loss and convex local constraint functions can vary arbitrarily across iterations. …
View article: Wonders of Harbor and Grey Seal Whiskers: Morphology, Natural Frequencies, and 3D Modeling
Wonders of Harbor and Grey Seal Whiskers: Morphology, Natural Frequencies, and 3D Modeling Open
Seals can track fish using highly sensitive whiskers; however, the extent to which their morphologically diverse whiskers respond to hydrodynamic signals across frequencies remains unexplored. To address this, the lengths, thicknesses, cur…
View article: An SIS diffusion process with direct and indirect spreading on a hypergraph
An SIS diffusion process with direct and indirect spreading on a hypergraph Open
View article: A behavioural–environmental model to study the impact of climate change denial on environmental degradation
A behavioural–environmental model to study the impact of climate change denial on environmental degradation Open
Climate change is the biggest global threat facing humanity in the coming decades. The scientific community agrees that human activity has been responsible for virtually all global heating over the past two centuries, emphasising the urgen…
View article: GenSwarm: Scalable Multi-Robot Code-Policy Generation and Deployment via Language Models
GenSwarm: Scalable Multi-Robot Code-Policy Generation and Deployment via Language Models Open
The development of control policies for multi-robot systems traditionally follows a complex and labor-intensive process, often lacking the flexibility to adapt to dynamic tasks. This has motivated research on methods to automatically creat…
View article: The role of environmental feedback in promoting cooperation among unequal groups
The role of environmental feedback in promoting cooperation among unequal groups Open
View article: Robust simultaneous UWB-anchor calibration and robot localization for emergency situations
Robust simultaneous UWB-anchor calibration and robot localization for emergency situations Open
In this work, we propose a factor graph optimization (FGO) framework to simultaneously solve the calibration problem for Ultra-WideBand (UWB) anchors and the robot localization problem. Calibrating UWB anchors manually can be time-consumin…
View article: Distributed Constrained Online Nonconvex Optimization with Compressed Communication
Distributed Constrained Online Nonconvex Optimization with Compressed Communication Open
This paper considers distributed online nonconvex optimization with time-varying inequality constraints over a network of agents. For a time-varying graph, we propose a distributed online primal-dual algorithm with compressed communication…
View article: On Tensor-based Polynomial Hamiltonian Systems
On Tensor-based Polynomial Hamiltonian Systems Open
It is known that a linear system with a system matrix A constitutes a Hamiltonian system with a quadratic Hamiltonian if and only if A is a Hamiltonian matrix. This provides a straightforward method to verify whether a linear system is Ham…
View article: Maximizing the smallest eigenvalue of grounded Laplacian matrices via edge addition
Maximizing the smallest eigenvalue of grounded Laplacian matrices via edge addition Open
View article: Co-evolutionary control of a class of coupled mixed-feedback systems
Co-evolutionary control of a class of coupled mixed-feedback systems Open
Oscillatory behavior is ubiquitous in many natural and engineered systems, often emerging through self-regulating mechanisms. In this paper, we address the challenge of stabilizing a desired oscillatory pattern in a networked system where …
View article: Optimally Combined Incentive for Cooperation Among Interacting Agents in Population Games
Optimally Combined Incentive for Cooperation Among Interacting Agents in Population Games Open
Combined prosocial incentives, integrating reward for cooperators and punishment for defectors, are effective tools to promote cooperation among competing agents in population games. Existing research concentrated on how to adjust reward o…
View article: Equilibrium-Driven Smooth Separation and Navigation of Marsupial Robotic Systems
Equilibrium-Driven Smooth Separation and Navigation of Marsupial Robotic Systems Open
In this paper, we propose an equilibrium-driven controller that enables a marsupial carrier-passenger robotic system to achieve smooth carrier-passenger separation and then to navigate the passenger robot toward a predetermined target poin…
View article: Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting from Wind-Induced Vibration Under the Interference of the Double-Casement Window-Like Baffle
Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting from Wind-Induced Vibration Under the Interference of the Double-Casement Window-Like Baffle Open
View article: A Lightweight Detector for Small Targets Using Forward-Looking Sonar in Underwater Search Scenarios
A Lightweight Detector for Small Targets Using Forward-Looking Sonar in Underwater Search Scenarios Open
View article: Efficient Purification of Emulsified Oil-Containing Wastewater Via Groove-Structure Pan Nanofiber Membranes Loading Superhydrophilic Amidoxime Functionalized Uio-66 Fabricated Using Coaxial Sacrificial-Template Method
Efficient Purification of Emulsified Oil-Containing Wastewater Via Groove-Structure Pan Nanofiber Membranes Loading Superhydrophilic Amidoxime Functionalized Uio-66 Fabricated Using Coaxial Sacrificial-Template Method Open
View article: An Inline Impedance-Based Leakage Detection Method for Nonconducting Buried Water Mains
An Inline Impedance-Based Leakage Detection Method for Nonconducting Buried Water Mains Open
The ability to detect small leakages in plastic pipes is imperative to ensure water security for the near future, yet it remains challenging. This study seeks to address this challenge by proposing an innovative in-line leakage detection a…
View article: Distributionally Robust Model Order Reduction for Linear Systems
Distributionally Robust Model Order Reduction for Linear Systems Open
In this letter, we investigate distributionally robust model order reduction for linear, discrete-time, time-invariant systems. The external input is assumed to follow an uncertain distribution within a Wasserstein ambiguity set. We begin …
View article: Near-infrared isomeric polymerized small molecular acceptors with thiophene-fused end groups for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution
Near-infrared isomeric polymerized small molecular acceptors with thiophene-fused end groups for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution Open
Two isomeric PSMAs were synthesized for photocatalytic hydrogen production, and PY- α -CPTCN possesses enhanced intramolecular π-conjugation, leading to superior light absorption and charge transport, thus achieving a higher hydrogen evolu…
View article: Approximate Policy Iteration for Robust Stochastic Control of Multiagent Markov Decision Processes
Approximate Policy Iteration for Robust Stochastic Control of Multiagent Markov Decision Processes Open
In stochastic dynamic environments, multi-agent Markov decision processes have emerged as a versatile paradigm for studying sequential decision-making problems of fully cooperative multi-agent systems. However, the optimality of the derive…