A new activation function called Polynomial Linear Unit (PolyLU) is proposed in this paper to improve some of the shortcomings of the existing activation functions. The PolyLU meets the following ...

The concentration of iron in plasma, the total amount of iron in the body and the systemic distribution of iron to various tissues are subject to close homeostatic regulation by the hepatic hormone ...

The most efficient computers are still approximately four orders of magnitude — that’s 10,000 times — higher in energy requirements compared to the human brain for specific tasks such as image ...

The unit's wire drawing mill in Hamilton, Ontario, will be shut down permanently in the coming weeks. This comes after the U.S. hiked tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, effective June 4, for ...

The Trump administration's plan to fire 90% of the staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has raised constitutional questions about whether courts can decide whether a president is taking ...

You can draw from a home equity line of credit and repay all or some of it monthly, somewhat like a credit card. Unlike a credit card, however, HELOCs are not intended for minor expenses.

The main focus of this paper is on the analysis and integrated design of $\\mathcal {L}_2$ observer-based fault detection (FD) systems for discrete-time nonlinear industrial processes. To gain a ...