This paper presents an improvement strategy for conventional sliding mode control. First, in consideration of alleviating chattering phenomenon, unidirectional auxiliary surfaces (UASs) are used to ...

California voters will decide on Nov. 5 whether to pass Prop. 36, which would reclassify some misdemeanor drug and theft crimes as felonies.

Double Entendres Under U.S. trademark law, a "double entendre" is a word or an expression that is capable of more than one interpretation as applied to a class of goods and services. TMEP 1213.05 (c).

In order to further improve the measurement accuracy of the distributed optical fiber flow sensor, this paper proposes a packaging structure of the internal and external double adhesive layers, and ...