The swinging up control for a remotely driven Acrobot (RDA) is studied and an energy based controller is designed via the Lyapunov stability theory. The analysis of convergence of the energy as well as the motion of the RDA under the controller is presented. The conditions on control parameters for achieving a successful swinging up control are given. Furthermore, simulation and experimental re...

Linkage mapping of quantitative trait loci requires analysis of a large number of animals. Although genetic markers isolated by representational difference analysis (RDA) and its modifications meet the needs, the number of these markers has been limited. In the present study, we established the arbitrarily primed (AP)–RDA method to isolate virtually an unlimited number of the high throughput ge...

In Mongolia, drought is a major natural disaster that can influence and devastate large regions, reduce livestock production, cause economic damage, and accelerate desertification in association with destructive human activities. The objective of this article is to determine the optimal satellite-derived drought indices for accurate and real-time expression of grassland drought in Mongolia. Fir...

Over three million hectares of salt-affected soils characterized with high salinity and sodicity caused serious land degradation in Songnen Plain, northeast China. Soil salinity–sodicity heterogeneous distribution under microtopography is usually influenced by several environmental factors. The side direction movement of soil water driven by water from depression is the key factor that aggravat...

Maternal placentophagy has recently emerged as a rare but increasingly popular practice among women in industrialized countries who often ingest the placenta as a processed, encapsulated supplement, seeking its many purported postpartum health benefits. Little scientific research, however, has evaluated these claims, and concentrations of trace micronutrients/elements in encapsulated placenta h...

Considering the need for metadata standards suitable for the Semantic Web, this paper describes the RDA Element Sets and the RDA Value Vocabularies that were created from attributes and relationships defined in Resource Description and Access (RDA). First, we present the vocabularies included in RDA Element Sets: the vocabularies of classes, of properties and of properties unconstrained by FRBR...

in this study, macrobenthic bivalves were identified at 12 stations located in four regions (markazi, shahr no, khalasi, and gabrik creeks). the relationships between density of bivalves and non-biological factors were examined, as well. sampling of sediments was done seasonally from autumn 2009 to summer 2010, by 0.04 m2 van veen grab, in three stations including mouth, middle and end of each ...

The structural characteristics of the rhizosphere soil’s microbial community is crucial to understanding ecological function mangroves. However, mechanism influencing mangrove plants in soil communities has yet be determined. Here, ecosystem Xinying Mangrove National Wetland Park Hainan Province was taken as research object. communities, external regulatory factors, and relationship between wer...

This paper outlines land-use/landscape pattern changes and relationships between land-use change trajectories environmental variables in the Dong ethnic-minority village of Gaoyou southwestern China. In study, landscape metrics were applied to evaluate land use patterns using GeoEye-1 satellite imagery for 2009/2020 drone 2019, redundancy analysis (RDA) was clarify relationship variables. The 1...

BACKGROUND Because different groups of people with low back pain (LBP) engage in different tasks, their lumbopelvic-hip complex may move in different ways in those groups. The purpose of this study was to quantify the differences in lumbopelvic movement pattern during the passive hip external rotation (PHER) test in LBP patients with and without rotational demand activities (RDA). MATERIAL AN...