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Gourmet rhapsody
A great food critic who can make or destroy the reputation of a chef with a stroke of his pen, Pierre Arthens faces his imminent death by trying to recall the one perfect flavor he sampled in his youth, a flavor that he believes forms the ultimate truth of his life.
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Me and Kaminski
From the internationally bestselling author comes a provocative and wickedly funny novel about two unpredictable men--one an artist and the other a journalist--who together embark on an unexpected adventure with uproarious results.
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Improving quadrotor trajectory tracking by replacing PD critics with fuzzy critics in an adaptive critic-based neurofuzzy controller
Quadrotors are increasingly employed in a wide range of applications, including surveying, agriculture, military operations, and rescue missions, due to their superior maneuverability. However, achieving accurate and stable control continues to pose a significant challenge. This study aims to enhance the performance of an adaptive critic-based neurofuzzy controller for quadrotors by replacing the conventional proportional-derivative (PD) critics with fuzzy critics. The control performance was quantitatively evaluated using the root mean square error (RMSE) criterion. Simulation results demonstrate that incorporating fuzzy critics improves performance by more than 39% compared to the traditional PD-based approach. To evaluate the trajectory tracking performance of the adaptive fuzzy-critic-based neurofuzzy controller under disturbance, external disturbances were introduced into the quadrotor model. The controller employing fuzzy critics exhibited strong disturbance rejection, maintaining accurate trajectory tracking despite external interferences. These findings highlight the effectiveness of fuzzy-critic-based neurofuzzy controllers in improving quadrotor trajectory tracking performance under dynamic and uncertain real-world conditions.
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Tangled Paths
Tangled Paths tells the life story of Aby Warburg, one of the most influential historians of art and culture of the twentieth century. It also tells the story of a man who, throughout his life, struggled to assert his place in the world. Charting Warburg's many projects and identities – ground-breaking historian, public intellectual, ethnographer, shrewd academic administrator and founder of a library – Hans C. Hönes explores not only the vagaries of an academic career but the personal demons of a man who relentlessly sought to live up to his own expectations. This biography – the first in English for over fifty years – presents an evocative and richly detailed portrait of Warburg's personality and career, and of his attempts to make sense of the tangled paths of his life.
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Studying film with Andrâe Bazin
The impact of French film critic Andrâe Bazin (1918-1958) on the development of film studies, though generally acknowledged, remains contested. Although he was a passionate initiator of film culture during his lifetime, his ideas have been challenged, defended and revived throughout his afterlife. 'Studying Film with Andrâe Bazin' offers an entirely original interpretation of major concepts from Bazin's legacy, such as auteur theory, realism, film language and the influence of film on other arts (poetry and painting in particular). By examining mostly unknown and uncollected texts, Blandine Joret explains Bazin's methodology and adopts it in a contemporary reading, linking his ideas to major philosophical and scientific frameworks as well as more recent media practices such as advertising, CGI, 3D cinema and Virtual Reality. In tune with 21st-century concerns in media culture and film studies, this book addresses a wide readership of film scholars, students and cinephiles.
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A Modified CRITIC Method to Estimate the Objective Weights of Decision Criteria
In this study, we developed a modified version of the CRiteria Importance Through Inter-criteria Correlation (CRITIC) method, namely the Distance Correlation-based CRITIC (D-CRITIC) method. The usage of the method was illustrated by evaluating the weights of five smartphone criteria. The same evaluation was repeated using four other objective weighting methods, including the original CRITIC method. The results from all the methods were further analyzed based on three different tests (i.e., the distance correlation test, the Spearman rank-order correlation test, and the symmetric mean absolute percentage error test) to validate D-CRITIC. The tests revealed that D-CRITIC could produce more valid criteria weights and ranks than the original CRITIC method since D-CRITIC yielded a higher average distance correlation, a higher average Spearman rank-order correlation, and a lower symmetric mean absolute percentage error. Besides, additional sensitivity analysis indicated that D-CRITIC has the tendency to deliver more stable criteria weights and ranks with a larger decision matrix. The research has contributed an alternative objective weighting method to the area of multi-criteria decision-making through a unique extension of distance correlation. This study is also the first to propose the idea of a distance correlation test to compare the performance of different criteria weighting methods.
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