Friction represents obstacles to change. Most people try to push through friction instead of reducing it.

Abstract: This letter presents new results on the Gelbrich distance and the corresponding ambiguity sets, to analyze the correlation between two scalar random variables. A closed expression of the ...

Abstract: Conventional medical imaging technologies, including ultrasound, have continued to improve over the years. For example, in oncology, medical imaging is characterized by high sensitivity, i.e ...

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In compliance with Decree 9,291/2018, the IBGE releases today (29) the figures for monthly nominal per capita household income (PCHI) and Coefficients of Regional Imbalance (CRI) relative t o 2024 for ...

A negative temperature coefficient (NTC) refers to any physical value that decreases as the temperature increases or vice versa. In electronics, NTC usually refers to a material’s decreasing ...

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The uniformity coefficient (Cu), curvature coefficient (Cc) and the effective size (D10) are the grading characteristics of the soil. These are the geometric properties of a grading curve that ...