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A Discontinuous Lyapunov Function Approach for Hybrid Event-Triggered Control of T–S Fuzzy Systems

This article addresses the $H_{\infty }$ control issue for Takagi–Sugeno (T–S) fuzzy systems via an event-triggered control mechanism. First, a hybrid event-triggered control strategy combined with an adaptively adjusted approach is proposed, by which the data transmission can be effectively reduced, and meanwhile, the Zeno behavior is excluded. Then, a discontinuous Lyapunov function is constructed for the resulting hybrid event-triggered control system, and a novel lemma is developed for studying the exponential stability and disturbance attenuation performance. By utilizing a time-varying variable to manage the error during the interevent intervals together with using the newly proposed lemma, sufficient criteria are established for the stability and control design of the event-triggered T–S fuzzy system with the imperfect premise matching. Finally, numerical simulations are presented to illustrate the usefulness and advantages of the obtained theorems.
Quality Assessment of the Services Delivered by a Court, Based on the Perceptions of Users, Magistrates, and Court Officials

This paper aims to measure the quality of the services delivered by a court by assessing the satisfaction of court users and service providers, i.e., magistrates and court officials. For that purpose, a case study was carried out and data were collected by means of a questionnaire based on the SERVPERF instrument, in which perceived service quality is measured, considering court users, magistrates, and court officials’ perceptions of post-service performance. One hundred and fifty-eight questionnaires were successfully returned. An in-depth interview was later conducted to the court administrator to gain a richer understanding of the results achieved and ask follow-up questions. Overall, findings revealed that court users, magistrates, and court officials clearly have a positive view of the services provided, although improvement is needed, particularly in the court’s facilities and technological equipment. The current research sheds some light on the potentialities and difficulties of assessing service quality in the judiciary and contributes to the validation of the SERVPERF instrument in this context.
Marine biodiversity of a pristine coral reef in French Polynesia

Understanding the natural state of coral reefs is paramount to evaluate the response of these ecosystems to local and global human impacts as well as management and conservation strategies. In French Polynesia, some islands are still pristine or uninhabited, such as Tupai atoll. Tupai has been uninhabited, with access to the lagoon prohibited since 2010. However, fishers from nearby islands often take from the outer reef slope at Tupai. Our marine biodiversity survey (coral, macro-invertebrates, and fish) conducted in 2019 highlighted a low density of commercial fish species and top-predators on the outer slope in comparison to the lagoon, where the top-predators represented 16% (of the density) of functional trophic groups. Our surveys also showed a high living coral cover (46%) on the outer slope of Tupai, perhaps due to the absence of both touristic sub-aquatic activities and local pollution from private and commercial activities. Overall, this initial scientific assessment of Tupai has granted an understanding of the spatial patterns of coral, macro-invertebrates, and fish assemblages in the absence of human impacts (i.e., in the lagoon), representing an ecological baseline that could inform conservation management strategies to ensure the preservation of coral reef ecosystem.
Geotechnical Hazards and Environmental Changes Threatening the Sphinx Avenue and the Project of Luxor: Open Museum

The simulation of the ceremonies of the Pharaonic celebrations in the Sphinx’s Avenue is one of the most important Millennium Goals for Luxor Governorate, which is supported by UNESCO until 2022. All sections of the road were constructed during the eighteenth to thirty dynasty period. Some attachments have been added to the road in different periods, such as wine presses used in major ceremonies that were held on the road such as ophthalmic feasts and beautiful valley feasts, etc. The road has been neglected across different periods, and more than 4 meters of sand, silt and Nile clay were accumulated in different sites. Excavations began on the road in the late 1940s, until work was halted after the January Revolution due to lack of funds. The aim of these study is examination of the geotechnical properties of the project to Facing challenges that led to bury and deterioration of the road and also to develop sustainable geotechnical solutions to resist threats and risks. Scanning Electron Microscope was used to investigate the six samples of soil under the six sections of the road to study the hazards due to the impaction of clay minerals which threaten the Sphinx Avenue and The Project of Luxor, Open Museum. Basic properties test of the foundation soils illustrated the expansive properties which often were classified moderate. Expansive properties are one of the factors of the evaluation of the hazard besides the relevance of the construction to environmental changes and sustainability agents.
The experience of positive psychology coaching following unconscious bias training: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

This study explored the lived experience of four professionals who engaged in positive psychology coaching following an implicit association test and unconscious bias training. Unconscious bias training focuses on a human limitation, avoidance goals, and can result in defensiveness. In contrast, positive psychology coaching leverages strengths, intrinsically motivated approach goals and positive affect. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was applied to analyse data gathered via semi-structured interviews. Findings reveal that participants were self-conscious about being perceived negatively and they experienced deep introspection and reflexivity. Participants also reported increased self-efficacy, motivation to improve and feeling safe to discuss previously avoided personal issues.
Interactive MATLAB based project learning in a robotics course: Challenges and achievements

This paper illustrates the conducted efforts for deploying an interactive project-based learning for robotics course using MATLAB. This project is part of a first course on robotics at the graduate level. The course combines both the theoretical and practical aspects to achieve its goals. The course consists of a set of laboratory sessions ends with a class project, these labs experimentally illustrate the modeling, simulation, path-planning and control of the Robot, using the robotics toolbox under MATLAB tools as well as physical interaction with the different robot platforms. The interaction between the student and the physical robot platforms is finally addressed in the class project; in this project, two tasks are considered. The first one is to control a 5DoF robot manipulator to perform a pick and place task. Initially the task is simulated under MATLAB robotics toolbox; the robot is commended to pick objects from initially known poses and stacks them in target poses. Furthermore, the robot manipulator in the second part of the project, with the aid of a vision system, is commended to work as an autonomous robotic arm that picks up colored objects, and then places them in different poses, based on their identified colors. The demonstrated results from the course evolution and assessment tools reflect the benefits of high-level deployment of robot platform in interactive project based learning to increase the students' performance in the course, about 100% and 75% of the student groups successfully completed the required tasks in the project first part and second part respectively.
Agent-based Simulation of Multi-UAV Search-track for Dynamic Targets in Sweep Coverage

Agent-based modeling and simulation is an important method to evaluate the efficiency of the multi-UAV search-track problem. In this article, firstly analyse common strategies and then illustrate sweep coverage in parallel searching with changing formation strategy compared with the traditional scanning strategy. Establish an agent-based model by analysing the properties and behaviours of the car agent and UAV agent. Conduct simulation experiments in Anylogic with two strategies, as the results shown, the changing formation strategy can improve the UAVs’ recognition rate more effectively than traditional scanning strategy. Recognition rate has positive correlation with the speed of UAV and the maximum rotation range of the detection area, and is more sensitive to the changes of speed.
Study on treatment of hydrogen sulfide odor by high efficiency bio-trickling filter

The removal experiment of odor containing hydrogen sulfide(H_2S) in lab was carried out continuously in high-efficient biological deodorization reactor packed with ceramics on which screened and cultivated bacterium were immobilized.Removal efficiency can reach above 98% under following conditions: the concentration of inlet between 300 mg/m~3and 700 mg/m~3,the gas flow between 0.05 m~3/h and 0.5m~3/h.The decrease of pH did not affect the removing efficiency of hydrogen sulfide.The retention time of the reactor is long enough to treat odor efficiently.
Controlled Multilingual Thesauri for Kazakh Industry-Specific Terms

This article discusses the practical issues of compiling controlled multilingual thesauri for the purposes of industry-specific translation (IST). In the multilingual, transnational and globally connected Kazakhstan, IST is a much-needed translation service. IST is an interdisciplinary field between terminology, computational linguistics, translation theory and practice. Most of the professional guides, dictionaries and glossaries are systemized in alphabetical order and contain multiple variants for the terms searched. Therefore, there is an urgent need to create a systemized controlled multilingual thesaurus of industry-specific Kazakh, English and Russian terms in order to provide multilingual users with an interoperable and relevant term base. Controlled multilingual thesauri for industry-specific terms are the most effective tools for describing individual subject areas. They are designed to promote communication and interaction among professionals, translators and all Automated Information System users of specific fields irrespective of their location and health conditions. Unlike traditional dictionaries, controlled thesauri allow users to identify the meaning with the help of definitions and translations, relations of terms with other concepts, and broader and narrower terms. The purpose of this research is to unify and systematize industry-specific terms in Kazakh, to provide Russian and English equivalents, and to classify the terms into essential rubrics and subjects. Based on the Zthes data scheme to create a controlled multilingual thesaurus of industryspecific terms, the major rubrics have been formulated, and about 10,000 Kazakh mining and metal terms approved by the Terminological Committee of Kazakhstan have been structured.
What Accounts for the Emergence of a New Interaction Pattern? On Generative Mechanisms, Constitutive Rules and Charging Routines

Drawing on the notion of generative mechanisms as constitutive rules, this paper advocates a shift away from the notion of routines as sources of ongoing change and towards a rule-based understanding of routines as institutional facts. While the recent practice turn to routines studies has highlighted sources of endogenous change, this paper adopts a Critical Realist stance to investigate exogenous forces that account for the emergence of a new routine. To this end, the paper endeavours to analyse the passing of new legislation in the criminal justice system of England and Wales. By examining what makes the rules of the game change between the Police and the Crown Prosecution Service, the paper explains an instance of institutionalisation in the making. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. Our contribution stresses that constitutive rules play a pivotal role for recognising, identifying and labelling organisational routines, thus generating order, stability and patterning.
The Dynamics of Sustainability Risks in the Global Coffee Supply Chain: A Case of Indonesia–UK

Indonesia is one of the leading global coffee producers, and the sustainability of its coffee supply chains is therefore of crucial importance, not only for the coffee sector, but also for the thousands of livelihoods involved. Recognising sustainability risks within supply chains is an important component of understanding logistics. This research investigated the sustainability risks in the Indonesia–UK coffee supply chain by using System Dynamics (SD), a simulation modeling paradigm commonly used to assess complex systems. The model parameters and other components of the dynamic model were extracted through interviews with key stakeholders in the coffee supply chain, supported by evidence from a literature review. The model was then verified and validated in different stages, before being used to investigate five different what-if scenarios to consider changes to parameters in the system. The results of this investigation demonstrate the importance of improving agricultural productivity to support a sustainable coffee supply chain. This research also confirms that by combining the SD model and the multiple criteria decision-making technique, it is possible to achieve a more practical and accurate solution than by the individual tool alone, thus ensuring a better understanding of the whole issues affecting the coffee supply chain.
An unavoidable convenience: How post-millennials engage with the news that finds them on social and mobile media

The growing reliance on social media via mobile devices is changing how individuals obtain, engage with, and learn from news content. Based on the cognitive mediation model of learning from the news, this study qualitatively explores this three-step process of news exposure, engagement, and knowledge via digital media. Focus group discussions with post-Millennials (N = 60) and thematic analysis of the results reveal several tensions. Participants see social media as imperfect but unavoidably convenient ways to get news, and they find the personalised news content available to be both a benefit and a drawback. They show a general hesitation to engage publicly with news content, opting mostly to passively observe others’ discussions on social media. Finally, they feel that social media give them a sense of awareness of current events, but do not prompt deeper learning about news topics.
Comments on recent claims about trajectories of control systems valid for particular initial conditions

In recent years, we have witnessed the appearance in the control literature of claims regarding the behavior of the trajectories of closed‐loop systems, which are valid only for a specific set of initial conditions (ICs). Being these “trajectory‐dependent” claims, a natural question that arises is whether these claims are robust, in some well‐defined sense. Regarding Lyapunov stability claims, it is well‐known that this property is equivalent to a form of continuity of solutions with respect to the ICs. For linear time‐invariant (LTI) systems characterized by transfer matrices, the property of internal stability is widely adopted as a necessary condition to ensure robustness. However, to the best of our knowledge, this question has not been addressed for claims—different from stability—concerning the behavior of trajectories of nonlinear time‐varying (NLTV) systems, which is the scenario in the aforementioned claims. The main objective of this note is to propose a framework for the characterization of robustness or fragility (with respect to ICs) of claims of this nature for NLTV systems.
Posting Workers as a New Model of Global Labour? Dilemmas of Economics, Politics and Ethics

Research background: Labour migration, i. e. the transnational movement of foreign workers on the European markets and their integration, is among the key topics of both Czech and European politics. I devote my paper to the regulation of work-related migration in a wider perspective of the global labour market in a specific type of labour migration „posting workers“. Purpose of the article: The paper focus on economic, political, and ethical problematic aspects of posting workers within the European Union in connection with the European Commission’s revision of Directive 96/71/EC with an emphasis on posting workers to the Czech Republic. Methods: I will to analyse the key patterns of the reactions and discourse strategies of selected Czech stakeholders regarding the proposal for a revision of Directive 96/71/EC, in particular that of selected government representatives. For this purpose, it will be used the method of discourse analysis (especially methods developed by Ruth Wodak). Findings & Value added: I would like to demonstrate, using the revision of Directive 96/71/EC as an example of new renovating models of global labour, as a part of the process of integration of the global market in the era of globalization, that the mechanism of posting workers creates a hybrid single European labour market, changes international relations, and contributes to the transnational flexibility of labour.
Migration to online pharmacy education in Namibia: Successes, challenges and competence implications

Background: COVID-19, a global pandemic, has disrupted pharmacy education in Africa, due to unpreparedness to migrate to online Learning. Aim: To assess outcomes and challenges facing migration to online pharmacy education. Methods: An evaluation of implementation of online learning in the Bachelor of Pharmacy programme in Namibia using key informant feedback. The outcomes were outputs and challenges facing migration to online learning, and its impact on pass rates and scores. Results: The pooled mean score was higher in 2020 (66.2%), compared to 2019 (63.4%) and 2018 (62.1%), (p=0.076). A variety of platforms were used as alternatives or supplements to Moodle. The main challenges included inequalities in internet connectivity, monitoring and quality assurance, implementation of experiential learning, and reliability of online assessment. Conclusions: Whilst migration to online learning did not impact on pass rates, there is need for policies and systems to address programmatic challenges to eliminate inequalities in online pharmacy education.
Block motions and strain partition on active faults in Northeast Tibet and their geodynamic implications

An updated GPS velocity field and set of focal mechanism solutions have allowed us to quantify the detailed tectonic deformation of Northeast Tibet. By employing block kinematic modelling, we show how the relative motion of modelled blocks is accommodated by deformation on major fault structures across the region, from the Eastern Kunlun Range to the Qilian Shan, with the slip rate decrease from the centre towards the east in the Kunlun, the Haiyuan and the Altyn Tagh Fault, as well as strain partitioning on these faults. The deflection of both the derived block strains and the focal stress from the west to the east also implies the strain transfer from the strike‐slip shearing to crustal shortening. Combining the different faulting regimes in each block with the distinctive distribution of the strain ratios, our results support a model of diffusive deformation associated with strain partition along tectonic boundary faults.
Clinical outcome of distal radius fractures fixed with volar plating

Introduction: There is an increase in the incidence of fracture of distal radius with the increase in life expectancy and also in young due to increased incidence of road traffic accidents and sports related trauma. They account for approximately one sixth of all fractures seen and treated. This study is intended to analyse the clinical outcome of open reduction and internal fixation of fractures using volar plate and screws. Aims: To Study the clinical outcome of intra and extra articular fracture of distal end of radius treated with open reduction and internal fixation by plating through a volar approach. Methodology: Prospective study conducted in during the period from June 2018 to November 2020. Patients attending to the Department of Orthopaedics at OPD or emergency department where chosen for the study based on previously stipulated inclusion and exclusion criteria. 30 patients underwent open reduction and plate osteosynthesis by a volar approach. They were then followed up for a period of 1 year and progress was monitored. Clinical, functional and radiological assessment were made by standard scoring systems at the end of the follow up period and compared.Results: It was inferred that volar plating showed good to excellent results in a distal radius fracture at the end of 1 year. We also inferred that a good radiological result was important to achieve a good clinical and functional outcome. Conclusion: Hence we suggest volar plate fixation for distal radius fractures, particularly in intra articular fractures, with stress on anatomical reduction of fracture.
Dynamic assessment of registered sexual offenders: the national practitioner perspective on the use of the ‘Active risk management System’

ABSTRACT This paper examines police and national probation service (NPS) practitioners’ experiences of utilising a dynamic risk management tool with registered sexual offenders (RSOs) in the community. The Active Risk Management System (ARMS) was designed as a multi-agency tool providing police with a dynamic tool for use with RSOs and the NPS with a sexual offender specific tool to support their original dynamic risk tool OASys (Offender Assessment System). Based on both quantitative and qualitative research with every police force and every NPS division in England and Wales, this paper highlights that despite a comprehensive adoption of ARMS within policing practice, the theoretical benefits of the ARMS tool have unfortunately not been realised. The resource implications of the tool’s utilisation, the different needs and siloed working practices of the police and NPS as well as a staggered implementation of the tool across both agencies has presented challenges for the practical use of ARMS in both single and joint agency offender management.