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The global trend towards urbanisation explains the growing interest in the study of the modification of the urban climate due to the heat island effect and global warming, and its impact on energy use of buildings. Also urban comfort, health and durability, referring respectively [...]

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In order to understand impacts of global warming on dust aerosol over East Asia, a regional climate model (RegCM3) coupled with a dust model is employed to simulate the present (1991–2000, following the observed concentration of the greenhouse gases) and future (2091–2100, following [...]

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Food security has become a significant issue due to the growing human population. In this case, a significant role is played by agriculture. The essential foods are obtained mainly from plants. Plant diseases can, however, decrease both food production and its quality. Therefore, [...]

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In this paper, the problem of trajectory tracking control in an inertia wheel pendulum is studied. Results are presented in a constructive form. First, a model-based controller is obtained by using the output feedback linearization technique. Then, the controller is redesigned by [...]

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Is funding from the European Commission’s Framework Programme an effective investment? And how could you demonstrate the effectiveness? This paper aims to give an answer to those questions from the perspective of MARIN’s involvement in several consecutive projects in the field [...]

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The numerical simulation of modern engineering problems via finite elements requires the solution of sparse linear systems of millions or even billions of unknowns. The algebraic multigrid (AMG) methods are the most common choice as linear solvers because of their fast convergence [...]