Thorax

Disparities in lung function trajectories among tobacco-exposed individuals

Background The relationship of social determinants of health (SDOH), environmental exposures and medical history to lung function trajectories is underexplored. A better understanding of these ...
Investopedia

Understanding Store of Value: Definition, Function, and Key Examples

Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and researcher who has ...
Investopedia

Understanding Exchanges: Types, Functions, and Real-World Examples

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...
IEEE

Control Barrier Function-Based Quadratic Programs Introduce Undesirable Asymptotically Stable Equilibria

Abstract: Control Lyapunov functions (CLFs) and control barrier functions (CBFs) have been used to develop provably safe controllers by means of quadratic programs (QPs), guaranteeing safety in the ...
IEEE

Robust Matrix Completion Based on Factorization and Truncated-Quadratic Loss Function

Abstract: Robust matrix completion refers to recovering a low-rank matrix given a subset of the entries corrupted by gross errors, and has various applications since many real-world signals can be ...