FanSided

The 3-point experiment: How the NBA 3-point line changed the game 45 years ago

On October 12th, 1979, Chris Ford made a shot that changed basketball. The Celtics guard caught a pass from teammate Tiny Archibald, set his feet, and connected on the NBA's first-ever 3-pointer. The ...
World Bank

Scaling Water Reuse: A Tipping Point for Municipal and Industrial Use

Water reuse is a vital solution to growing water insecurity—offering a reliable, climate-resilient supply for cities and industries facing increasing stress on traditional water sources. While the ...
Frontiers

Continuous light at fixed daily light integral enhances lettuce growth due to improved light interception and light use efficiency

Vertical farming (VF) allows precise control of growth conditions, but its high energy demand underscores the need to improve light-use efficiency. This study examined how continuous lighting (CL) ...
IEEE

Using Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network for Satellite Orbit Prediction Based on Two-Line Element Data

Abstract: The space environment is becoming increasingly crowded, raising the likelihood of collisions between satellites. Accurate prediction of satellite orbits is crucial for space transportation ...
IEEE

Model-Free Fast Integral Terminal Sliding Mode Control for Maximum Power Point Tracking with High-Order Disturbance Observer in WECSs

Abstract: This paper proposes a novel model-free fast integral terminal sliding mode control (MFFITSMC) strategy for permanent magnet synchronous generators (PMSGs) to achieve maximum power point ...
GitHub

LINEA: Fast and accurate line detection using scalable transformers

LINEA is a powerful real-time line detector that introduces Line Attention mechanism, achieving outstanding performance without being pretrained on COCO or Object365 datasets. Attention Mechanishm We ...