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With potential implications for mechanical systems, study reveals physics of the 'nick shot' in squash
In squash, the "nick shot" is an emphatic, point-ending play in which a player strikes a ball that ricochets near the bottom of the wall and rolls flat along the floor instead of bouncing, leaving an ...
New class of 'X-type' antiferromagnets enables sublattice-selective spin transport
A research team led by Prof. Shao Dingfu from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...
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Path integral-based stochastic optimal control for rigid body dynamics
Abstract: Recent advances on path integral stochastic optimal control [1],[2] provide new insights in the optimal control of nonlinear stochastic systems which are linear in the controls, with state ...
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Magnetic Control of Protein Expression via Magneto-mechanical Actuation of ND-PEGylated Iron Oxide Nanocubes for Cell Therapy
Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery and Division of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Therapeutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, ...