FACTORS AFFECTING PAYMENTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES (PES) IMPLEMENTATION IN THE GARANG WATERSHED MANAGEMENT


Contemporary Banditry in the Horn of Africa

Banditry that cannot be categorized as traditional feuding has failed to attract international scholarship despite its pervasiveness and devastation to an already politically fragile Horn of Africa.This article decries the lack of scholarly interest on the subject, which it links to the treatment of the problem as a concern purely for the Third Wor

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A Data-Driven Decision Support System for Scoliosis Prognosis

A decision support system with data-driven methods is of great significance for the prognosis of scoliosis.However, developing an accurate and interpretable data-driven decision support system is challenging: 1) the scoliosis data collected from clinical environments is heterogeneous, unstructured, and incomplete; 2) the cause of adolescent idiopat

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Disturbance-Rejection Control for the Hover and Transition Modes of a Negative-Buoyancy Quad Tilt-Rotor Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

This paper proposes a Negative-buoyancy Quad Tilt-rotor Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (NQTAUV), for which an attitude-tracking controller is designed for the hover and transition modes based on a disturbance-rejection control scheme.First, the structure of NQTAUV is illustrated, a mathematical model based on the Rodrigues Airconditioner Thermistor

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