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Description This dataset inventories the federal obligations to fund ecological capacity in the United States — grant and research programmes, and also the consent orders and permit conditions t…

Description This dataset inventories the federal obligations to fund ecological capacity in the United States — grant and research programmes, and also the consent orders and permit conditions through which federal environmental law requires a municipality to spend on the same capacity — and codes each on four dimensions: where the duty to spend originates, whether the obligation requires any mechanism connecting ecological evidence to planning decisions, whether the duty itself survived the 2025–2026 reversal, and whether the money did. The inventory is not a ULE scoring record and does not apply the ULE scoring scale. It examines the E5 condition — epistemic translation — from the funding side rather than the jurisdictional side, and it treats the 2025–2026 reversal as a comparison rather than as context: one external shock reaching fourteen obligations of differing legal design at the same moment. The simultaneity holds the political period constant; it does not make the obligations otherwise alike, and the inventory is not offered as an identification strategy. Why this inventory exists Analyses of US climate finance typically record funding volume. This inventory records funding architecture. Between 2022 and 2024 US cities received the largest federal climate investment in their history. Between 2025 and 2026, executive action, budget reconciliation, rescissions and the ordinary appropriations process removed much of it. What was removed and what survived did not divide by programme size, agency or policy area. The inventory is structured to make the line that it did divide along legible and testable. Coding scheme The durability coding and the evidence-integration coding were assigned independently of each other, on separate days and from separate source sets. The durability coding and the two status codings carry the principal finding; the evidence-integration coding records an absence and is reported as such. durability_class — where the obligation to spend originates Class — DefinitionL1 Statutory or judicial anchor — The obligation arises from a court order, consent order or permit condition and does not depend on an annual appropriation decisionL2 Standing institutional anchor — The obligation arises from a standing partnership agreement or formula allocation: appropriation-dependent, but recurrent and institutionally heldL3 Appropriation-contingent — The programme rests on an annual or multi-year appropriation that an appropriations decision can endL4 Project-contingent — The programme rests on a competitive award cycle and ends when the award ends Assignment is made from the authorising instrument named in statutory_basis, not from the programme's size, duration or perceived stability. e5_level — does the obligation require evidence integration? Level — Definition0 None — No evidence-based revision mechanism is required. This includes obligations that mandate reporting but no revision1 Partial, compliance-bounded — An evidence-revision cycle operates, but remains inside a regulatory compliance chain and does not reach planning authority2 Required — The obligation requires that ecological evidence reach a planning decision Assignment is made from what the obligation requires in its formal design, without reference to the durability class. Four steps are kept apart: ecological data are generated; they are reported to an oversight body; the programme is revised in light of them; and a planning decision is revised in light of them. Reporting is not revision, and programme revision is not planning revision. The coding records what an obligation requires, not what every funded project does: an obligation coded 0 may have grantees that operate such a mechanism voluntarily. legal_obligation_status and funding_implementation_status — the two axes of the reversal Suspending a payment is not the same event as removing a duty to spend, and in this episode the two came apart repeatedly. The two fields record them separately; two_axis_rationale gives the basis for each row. Field — What it recordslegal_obligation_status — Whether the duty to spend remained in force, was modified, was rescinded in part, was repealed, or is in disputefunding_implementation_status — Whether payment and implementation continued, were paused, were reduced, or ended Read across the fourteen records: the duty to spend was removed or partly rescinded in three cases — the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund by repeal, the urban forestry and Climate Pollution Reduction allocations by rescission of unobligated funds. Payment or implementation was interrupted in six. Both counts fall entirely on the unanchored side; neither reaches an obligation classified L1 or L2. The contrast is sharper on the second axis than the first, which is itself the finding: what the reversal mostly did was stop money moving under authorities that remained formally in force. outcome_2025_26 — the single-axis summary retained from version 2 Value — DefinitionSurvived unaffected — Continued without interruption through the reversalActive but proposed for cut — Operating, but proposed for reduction or elimination in the FY2026 budget request, or with its permanent authorisation removed from agency budget justificationsPaused, terminated, repealed or closed — Disbursements paused, awards terminated, statutory basis repealed, or the programme effectively closed to new applicants Version 3 — what changed and why Version 2 recorded the reversal on a single axis. outcome_2025_26 placed a suspension of payment, a rescission of unobligated funds, a statutory repeal and a lapsed solicitation in one category, "Paused, terminated, repealed or closed". These are not the same event, and treating them as one obscured the most informative thing in the record: in eleven of the fourteen cases the duty to spend was never removed at all. Version 3 adds three fields. legal_obligation_status records what happened to the duty; funding_implementation_status records what happened to the money; two_axis_rationale gives the documentary basis for both, row by row. The source material is unchanged — each value is read from the narrative already held in status_2025_2026 — but it is now coded rather than left for a reader to extract. outcome_2025_26 is retained unchanged so that version 2 remains reconstructible. No durability class, e5_level value, source or figure has been altered. The changes to the description are of two further kinds. The coding of e5_level is now stated in terms of what an obligation requires rather than what it funds, which is what the documents support and what the codebook always said. And the framing of the episode as a natural experiment has been withdrawn: the simultaneity of the shock holds the political period constant across the fourteen cases, but the cases differ in age, purpose, political visibility, funding source and the authority that decided their fate, and the reversal reached them by different routes. Version 2 — what changed and why Three obligations carried an e5_level of 1 in version 1 and are coded 0 here: the standing federal-municipal research partnerships, the IRA Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grants, and the HUD Community Development Block Grant. The rationale recorded for each at the first pass described what the programme permits rather than what it operates — a standing institution "without a formal planning-feedback mandate", capacity-building components that "can support governance infrastructure", and a structure that "permits funding governance infrastructure, though the programme does not require it". The codebook sets level 1 at an evidence-revision cycle that operates. None of the three describes one. What has been corrected is the application of the definition, not the definition itself, which is unchanged and published separately. The two streams left at level 1 — EPA consent decrees and NPDES permits including MS4 — each describe a cycle in operation, and the recoding_note column records why each of the five was decided as it was, for the two that stayed as well as the three that moved. The durability and outcome codings are unchanged. No score, figure or source has been altered other than the three e5_level values and their accompanying text. Findings 1 · No obligation requires that evidence reach a planning decision. Of fourteen, none is coded at level 2. Twelve require no evidence-based revision mechanism at all; two require one partially, and both are partial in the same way — an evidence-revision cycle operates inside a compliance chain and stops at the boundary of planning authority. The distribution across domains is not merely uneven but concentrated in one: two of the three regulatory programmes support a partial mechanism. None of the eleven research, infrastructure, climate or community-development programmes does. Obligations that build ecological capital fund the asset and require evaluation of its completion; none requires the institutional relationship that would make the asset consequential for a planning decision. Whether any funded project builds that relationship anyway is not something programme documents can show. 2 · Durability was associated with legal form. Scale does not order the contrast, since the largest and the most troubled programmes fall on opposite sides of it; performance and political salience are not measured here and cannot be excluded. Nor does the comparison separate legal form from the age and purpose of the obligations, which covary with it. Durability class — Survived — Proposed for cut — Curtailed — nL1 Statutory or judicial anchor — 2 — 0 — 0 — 2L2 Standing institutional anchor — 1 — 1 — 0 — 2L3 Appropriation-contingent — 2 — 2 — 2 — 6L4 Project-contingent — 0 — 0 — 4 — 4 None of the four programmes anchored in law or in a standing institution was withdrawn. Of the ten resting on an appropriation or a competitive award, six were curtailed and two more are proposed for elimination or reduction — eight of ten either lost or under threat. The project-contingent category was cleared entirely. The magnitudes make the point concrete: a USD 27 billion programme lost more than USD 16 billion in terminations and, under section 60103, its statutory basis along with its disbursements; over the same period a consent-order obligation running materially over budget and behind schedule was not touched. Nor was the pattern produced by executive action alone — the Section 319 nonpoint source programme, appropriated at USD 174.3 million in the previous fiscal year, was proposed for elimination through the ordinary appropriations process. 3 · Evidence integration is almost entirely absent, and where present it is statutory in origin. Two of the fourteen require a mechanism connecting monitoring findings to programme revision. Both are anchored in law, and both are creatures of the same regulatory regime: a consent order and a permit condition, each enforceable through the Clean Water Act. The remaining twelve require none. The cross-tabulation is therefore perfectly separated and, read as a correlation, almost uninformative: a two-against-twelve table resting on a single statutory mechanism cannot establish that durability and evidence integration travel together, and it is not offered here as establishing it. What the inventory supports is narrower and firmer. Evidence integration does not appear in federal programme design as a feature a well-constructed grant supplies. It was absent from every obligation outside the four classified as anchored, and from two of those four, so an anchor is not what supplies it; where it appears, a statute has imposed it, and the programme has absorbed the requirement rather than chosen it. Field definitions Field — Meaningprogram_name · administering_agency — Programme and the agency that administers itprogramme_domain — Research, infrastructure, regulatory, climate, or community developmentstatutory_basis — The Act, section or instrument from which the programme derives authoritywhat_it_funds — The object of the expenditurefunds_E5_evidence_integration — Narrative statement of whether and how the programme funds evidence integratione5_level — The coded value, 0–2, per the scheme abovedurability_layer — Narrative statement of where the spending obligation originatesdurability_class — The coded value, L1–L4, per the scheme abovestatus_2022_2024 · status_2025_2026 — Programme status before and after the reversallegal_obligation_status — Whether the duty to spend survived, in the terms defined abovefunding_implementation_status — Whether payment and implementation survived, in the terms defined abovetwo_axis_rationale — The documentary basis for the two status values in that rowoutcome_2025_26 — The single-axis coded value retained from version 2ecoull_relevance — How the programme bears on ecology-oriented urban living lab governancesource_document · verification_status — Source and the date and basis of verification Verification All fourteen records were verified against primary or contemporaneous sources, most recently on 5 September 2026. The verification_status field records the basis and date for each. One record was corrected on 5 September 2026. The standing federal–municipal research partnership exemplified by the NYC Urban Field Station was previously recorded as an NSF partnership. It is not: the Urban Field Station is a USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station and NYC Parks partnership established in 2006, joined by the Natural Areas Conservancy in 2013, now convening more than ninety partner organisations. NSF supports urban ecological research on a separate footing, through the Urban LTER network. The record and its administering-agency field have been corrected accordingly. Four statuses were live and moving at compilation and were held open until confirmed: USDA Urban and Community Forestry. The Inflation Reduction Act appropriated USD 1.5 billion under section 23003; in September 2023 USDA announced over USD 1 billion in awards to 385 recipients. Awards were frozen in early 2025 and subsequently terminated. On 14 August 2025 a federal court partially granted a preliminary injunction enjoining the termination. Section 10201 of Public Law 119-21 (2025) then rescinded unobligated funds under IRA section 23003(a)(2). The outcome divides cleanly: obligated awards protected by judicial injunction continued, unobligated balances were removed by statute. IIJA coastal resilience and ecosystem restoration. Executive Order 14154 (January 2025) paused disbursement of IIJA- and IRA-appropriated funds. The pause proved partial: NOAA continued to operate IIJA-funded habitat restoration and coastal resilience competitions through 2025. The National Coastal Resilience Fund carries a fixed multi-year statutory allocation — USD 100 million per year for fiscal years 2022 through 2026 — which proved more resistant to executive pause than discretionary supplemental funding. Clean Water Act Section 319. Appropriated at USD 174.3 million in FY2025; the FY2026 EPA budget request proposed eliminating the programme in full. Coded as active but proposed for cut, because the threat arrives through the appropriations process rather than through executive action. NSF Coastlines and People. Coded as closed rather than active: the most recent solicitation, NSF 21-613, closed to proposals on 6 December 2021 and no successor call has been issued. Access Files are openly available under CC BY 4.0 from the date of deposit. The coding scheme, the field definitions and all findings are reproduced in this description, so that the evidentiary basis of the analysis is legible from the record page itself as well as from the files. Relationship to other records in this series This record differs in kind from the others: it is a programme inventory rather than a ULE scoring record, and its unit of analysis is the federal programme rather than the metropolitan jurisdiction. It connects to the series through the E5 condition, whose definition it takes from the codebook. Record — Type — DOICodebook and scoring protocol — Method — 10.5281/zenodo.21645631Netherlands and Türkiye — ULE scoring — 10.5281/zenodo.20811366Istanbul and New York City — ULE scoring — 10.5281/zenodo.21649244Three US metropolitan regions — ULE scoring — 10.5281/zenodo.21675193US federal funding mechanisms — Programme inventory — this record Finding 3 above records an absence rather than a relationship. Evidence integration is present in two of fourteen streams, and both are creatures of one statutory regime, so the inventory does not establish that durability and evidence integration travel together and is not offered as establishing it. What it does show is that evidence integration does not arise from programme design on its own. The framework was developed at the metropolitan scale; this record observes a related question at a different unit of analysis, which is why it is deposited separately rather than folded into a scoring record. Reuse The inventory is intended to be useful beyond the associated manuscript. Researchers tracking US climate funding volatility, or examining which federal instruments survived the 2025–2026 reversal, can use it directly. The coding scheme is designed to be extended to further programmes; extensions should cite this record and state whether the durability and evidence-integration codings were assigned independently, and should apply the level-1 definition as written: an evidence-revision cycle that operates, not one that a programme would permit. Citation > Çelik Yılmaz, Ö. (2026). US Federal Climate and Ecological Funding Mechanisms: An Institutional Inventory > [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23037941 Funding Prepared with the support of a TÜBİTAK 2218 National Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, on ecology-oriented urban living labs and watershed governance.

Reproducibility package accompanying the manuscript “Prototype-Filter Coefficient Quantisation in FBMC–OQAM: Predictive Screening and Guarded Shape-Preserving Scaling.”  The arc…

Reproducibility package accompanying the manuscript “Prototype-Filter Coefficient Quantisation in FBMC–OQAM: Predictive Screening and Guarded Shape-Preserving Scaling.”  The archive contains the MATLAB implementation, analysis scripts, deterministic simulation seeds, candidate-search traces, stored coefficient tables, and CSV result files used to reproduce the numerical results reported in the manuscript. The package covers predictive coefficient-quantisation screening, direct and guarded shape-preserving scaling, 16-QAM and 64-QAM AWGN validation, EVA/ETU fading experiments, robustness analysis, and supporting calibration results.  Instructions for reproducing the results and a description of the package structure are provided in the included README file

Abstract The Method a). In the System of a circle [O, OK], of Diameters KK′ ⊥ aa′ = 2R, KK′ ⊥ K(E), and a Chord KA = KEₐ on K(E), Represents The Fixed Twin - Couple of the …

Abstract The Method a). In the System of a circle [O, OK], of Diameters KK′ ⊥ aa′ = 2R, KK′ ⊥ K(E), and a Chord KA = KEₐ on K(E), Represents The Fixed Twin - Couple of the Triangles KAK′, KAEA. Simultaneously, The Midpoint Oₐ of side KEₐ, The Isosceles triangle KAEA, The Base Point Dₐ of Perpendicular ADₐ, and The Perpendicular triangles KADₐ, KAK′ Are Constantly Related to each other;......It is Proved 1... On Triangle KAK′ any Chord KA is related to its Angle φₐ as KA = 2R. sin φₐ, and |KA|² = 2R. hₐ, And on the Triangles KADₐ, KAEA, sin φₐ = ADₐ / KA and Difference of |KA|² = |KEₐ|² = |KA|.|OₑₐDₐ| = Constant, where Point Oₑₐ is Midpoint of KEₐ = KA. 2... The locus of Any Point B, which Summation of squares [BK² + BEᵦ²] = Constant from the Distances to Fixed Points K, Eᵦ, with KB Fixed and equal to k², IS the Circle [Oᵦₑ, OᵦₑB], at Point Oᵦₑ, and to Be Distant from the Midpoint Oₑᵦ of the Side KEᵦ → The distance is equal to ⇒ [BK]² + [BEᵦ]² = k² = 2.|OₑᵦB|² + [KEᵦ]² ← 3... On Any 2-Even Polygon Set-[n,n+2]- of Sides KA- KB is Determinrd fhe Constant Apothemns circle & Archimedes 2n-Sided-Vertex Polygon from the n+1. Midpoints Mₑₐᵦ, Mᵦ.ᵦ of Distances |Eₐ-Eᵦ|, And |BB| on which Circle [Mₑₐᵦ, |Mₑₐᵦ. Mᵦ.ᵦ|] at Point Mₑₐᵦ and Radius |Mₑₐᵦ. Mᵦ.ᵦ| Cuts [O,OK] Circle At Point C such that Side KC Is the In-Between ODD-Polygon. [Fig-6-4-]. The Prior : a...The Unsolvability of the Three famous Ancient Greek Problems—Trisecting the Angle Doubling the Cube, Squaring the Circle and The Construction of the Regular Polygons With a Ruler and a Compass, Stands on the Base justification of the Algebraic Field Theory (specifically Galois Theory) and the Theory of Constructible Numbers, which were developed in the 19 th century. b... The Greeks often used other Techniques (like Conic sections or Mechanical tools) to Solve these Problems, But their self-imposed "Euclidean" constraint with a Ruler and a Compass, (straightedge and compass) made these Specific Problems impossible to solve. c...In the Published Articles [123],[124],[126], it is clearly evident that the Solution of the Ancient, Unsolved Greek Problems, using a Ruler and a Compass (as the constraint has been set by Euclid), Has Become Possible, and is in the Critique of Both, Human Logic Thinking and, The Artificial Intelligence when it uses The Path of Knowledge to the Truths of Nature, and which is the Dialectic Logic of the Euclidean Geometry. In article [123], are given on the 2-Vectors, 3-Poles Rotation Squares Mechanism, where Ē = M̄, such the Geometrical as the Mechanical Proof, By using the Conjugate circles of Polhode and Herpolhode which consist the Spin of Photons and which is their motion. The frequency needed for the velocity vector c̄ to Rotate, is used from Kepler`s Unit meter of Time k = f²e a³, where, a = λ / 2, and which is the clock measuring the changes of motions, In article [124], It was Noted that When in Photons, Ē = M̄, these acquire the common Plane-meter the Square CMNH = [CM]² = π.[EC]², where EC is the circle`s Radius, Using the Bellow-Motion Method by creating the Square CMNH = [CM]² from E, M, and from [E/√2]² = π.[M/√2]², π ≡ [E/√2]² / [M/√2]² and Thus Photon is Squared to an UNID SQUARE. In article [126], It is important to Note that When in Photons, Ē ≠ M̄, these acquire the common Space-meter ³√2, Using Quantum-Cloning Method for creating a Perfect-Copy of E, M, as are when E = 2.M and, [Ē ≠ M̄]³ = 2.[Ē = 2.M̄]³. With this Way Photon is Duplicated to a New-One. The simplified But a Rigorous Proof of the Problem, The Squaring of the Circle using a Ruler and a Compass, as it was first Posed by the Ancient Greeks, is followed by The Photons which Square their, Energy circle ≡ The Herpolhode ≡ SPIN, to equal an Energy Unit Square, which UNIT-Square they Promote, common Plane - meter, either as the Speed of the Photon which is their Electric Field, or they store it Perpendicularly to the motion in an equal area, The Anti-Square which is their Magnetic Field. Promotion is done at the Birefringence angle of 45°, and thus The Bellow-motion is their Torsional motion. At Phase Angle where Ē = 2.M̄, Energy Cube [M / 2]³ is Duplicated and enters INTO . [E]³ = [2.M]³ = 8.M³ ≡ Tetrahedron-Cube-Sphere-Mechanism. [102] d...From [40]--The Special Problems of Euclidean Geometry [47] consist the, Moulds of Quantization, of E - Geometry in it, to become → Monad, through mould of Space Anti-Space in itself, which is the material Dipole in inner monad Structure and which is identical with the Electromagnetic cycloidal field → Linearly through the mould of the Parallel Theorem [44-45], which are the equal distances between Points of Parallel and line → In Plane, through mould of Squaring the circle [46], where the Two Equal and Perpendicular Monad-Vectors, E = M, consist a Plane acquiring The common Plane -meter, π, and in Space (volume) through mould of Duplication of the Cube [46], where Any Two Unequal Perpendicular monads Ē≠M̄, acquire the common Space-meter ³√2, Using Quantum-Cloning Method to be Twice each other as analytically Proved-explained. The Unification of → Space and Energy ← Becomes through [STPL] Geometrical Mould Mechanism of Elements, the minimum Energy - Quanta, In modads → Particles, Anti-Particles, Bosons, Gravity – Force, Gravity - Field, Photons, Dark Matter, and Dark – Energy, consisting the Material Dipoles in inner monad Structures, i.e.→ the innate Electromagnetic Cycloidal Field of monads ← [39-41] Euclid’s Elements consist of assuming a small Set of intuitively appealing Axioms, Proving many other Propositions. Because No One until [9] succeeded to Prove the Parallel Postulate By means of Pure Geometric Logic, many self consistent Non -Euclidean Geometries have been discovered, Based on Definitions, Axiom or Postulates, in order that Non of them contradicts any of the other Postulates. It was Proved [39], that the only Space - Energy Geometry is Euclidean, agreeing with the Physical Reality on Unit AB ≡ Segment ≡ Vector which is The Electromagnetic field of the Quantized on AB Energy Space Vector of Angular Momentum= Spin, on the contrary to the General Relativity of Space-time which is based on the Rays of the Non-Euclidean Geometries to the limited velocity of light in Planck’s cavity. Euclidean Geometry elucidated the Definitions of its geometry - content, i.e. { [ for Point,  Segment, Straight Line, Plane, Volume, Space [S], Anti-space [AS], Sub - space [SS], Cave, The Space-Anti-Space Mechanism of the Six-Triple-Points-Line, that Produces and transfers Points of Spaces, Anti-Spaces and Sub-Spaces in a Common Inertial Sub-Space, and a cylinder, in Gravity field [MF/MF] Particles, and describes the Space-Energy vacuum beyond Plank’s length level [Gravity’s Length 3,969.10⁻⁶² m], reaching the absolute Point Lᵥ = eⁱ.(Nπ/2)ᵇ = 10⁻ⁿ = -∞ m = 0 m, which is Nothing, and the Absolute Primary Neutral Space [PNS] = cave [r = 10⁻³⁵ ~ 10⁻⁶² m] [43-46]. In Physics, there is No single Process called "Duplication of Energy" for Photons Because Energy must always be conserved, or when Two Photons are "merged" into a single Photon. In Mechanics, The Gravity-cave Energy Volume quantity |c̄| = [wr] is Doubled, and is Quantized in Planck’s - cave Space quantity (h/2π) = The Spin = 2.[wr]³ → i.e. Energy Space quantity [wr] is Quantized, doubled, and becomes the Space quantity h/π following Euclidean Space-moulds of Duplication of the cube, Sphere volume V = (4π/3).[wr]³ and follows the Squaring of the circle π, and in Sub-Space-Sphere volume ³√2, as Trisection. Keywords: Quadrature of Electromagnetic Fields, Dual Photons, Squaring of the Circle; Ruler and Compass, Duplication of the Photon, Quantum Cloning Method, Duplication of the Cube, Trisection of the Energy Octave, Directional Triangle, Trisection of Any Angle, Construction of Regular Polygons, 2-Directional Triangles, Geometrical Construction, Euclidean Geometry. 

This repository contains the MATLAB files associated with the paper entitled “Hierarchical Adaptive Sliding Mode Control with Deep Reinforcement Learning for Solar-Assisted Fuel Cell Hybrid Elec…

This repository contains the MATLAB files associated with the paper entitled “Hierarchical Adaptive Sliding Mode Control with Deep Reinforcement Learning for Solar-Assisted Fuel Cell Hybrid Electric Vehicles.” The deposited files support the numerical simulations and performance evaluation reported in the manuscript. They implement the proposed hierarchical energy-management and control framework for a solar-assisted fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle integrating a fuel cell, battery, ultracapacitor, and photovoltaic source. The MATLAB files include the main simulation routines, vehicle and powertrain models, adaptive sliding-mode control algorithms, constrained gain adaptation, deep reinforcement learning-based power-sharing logic, photovoltaic power integration, roadway-preview information processing, and the evaluation procedures used for the considered driving cycles. The repository also includes the routines required to reproduce the principal numerical comparisons, ablation-study scenarios, voltage-regulation results, hydrogen-consumption calculations, state-of-charge evolution, chattering assessment, and photovoltaic-utilization analysis. The code is intended to support the reproducibility of the numerical results presented in the paper, including simulations under standard and unseen driving cycles such as WLTP and FTP-75. The deposited MATLAB implementation corresponds to the computational framework described in the manuscript and can be used to reproduce and further investigate the proposed hierarchical adaptive SMC–DRL methodology. Associated paper:Hierarchical Adaptive Sliding Mode Control with Deep Reinforcement Learning for Solar-Assisted Fuel Cell Hybrid Electric Vehicles Keywords: Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles; Hybrid Energy Storage Systems; Sliding Mode Control; Deep Reinforcement Learning; Adaptive Control; Photovoltaic Integration; Energy Management; MATLAB; Energy Management System; Hybrid Electric Vehicles.

Data, code and pre-specified analysis protocol for a study of machine-learning shear-strength models of reinforced concrete squat walls under test-program shift.Using 341 squat walls from 58 test prog…

Data, code and pre-specified analysis protocol for a study of machine-learning shear-strength models of reinforced concrete squat walls under test-program shift.Using 341 squat walls from 58 test programs of the ACI 445B Shear Wall Database, the study compares random, leave-programs-out and leave-laboratories-out validation. It evaluates nine uncertainty-quantification methods (including split conformal, CV+ and CQR, with and without grouped calibration) and the reliability index delivered by resistance factors calibrated under each protocol.The package contains the unchanged ACI 445B export; the harmonised datasets (with the SHA-256 hash of the frozen analysis dataset); all out-of-fold predictions, prediction intervals, reliability tables and post hoc analyses; the Python scripts with a one-command pipeline; and the dated protocol (French original and English translation), its four addenda and the laboratory notebook.Code: MIT licence. Data and results: CC BY-SA 3.0, inherited from the ACI 445B database.Files are restricted during peer review and will be made public upon publication of the associated article.

This document defines the functional requirements (FRD), at TRL2, for SESAR solution 0520 “Integrated risk models for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in the U-space”. The objective of this d…

This document defines the functional requirements (FRD), at TRL2, for SESAR solution 0520 “Integrated risk models for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in the U-space”. The objective of this document is to analyse and define a SW Tool linking the Operational Authorisation process of the UAS Operations in the Specific category, with the operation in U-space airspace. 

Phosphorus (P) is a finite resource. The depletion of P resources is expected to be reached within a few hundred years. P recovery from municipal wastewater is essential for mitigating eutrophication …

Phosphorus (P) is a finite resource. The depletion of P resources is expected to be reached within a few hundred years. P recovery from municipal wastewater is essential for mitigating eutrophication and ensuring sustainable resource use. Adsorption and ion exchange (IEX) represent promising alternatives to conventional removal methods, offering selective recovery and compliance with increasingly stringent discharge limits. This study presents the first application of Aspen Adsorption to simulate multicomponent continuous-flow P removal and recovery from actual wastewater. The tested sorbent is pyroaurite, a Fe-rich hydrotalcite with high phosphate selectivity. Experimental breakthrough and regeneration tests were reproduced through an Aspen-based multicomponent ion exchange model incorporating competition from chloride, sulphate, and bicarbonate. A hybrid parameter estimation procedure enabled robust calibration of equilibrium constants and mass transfer coefficients, overcoming convergence challenges. The validated model successfully predicted (i) the scale-up from 20 to 60 cm packed beds, (ii) repeated adsorption/desorption cycles through the Cycle Organizer, and (iii) the impact of salinity increases relevant to coastal wastewater scenarios. Results showed high correlation between simulations and experimental data (R² ≥ 0.90) and demonstrated that pyroaurite maintained effective P removal under saline conditions, with only moderate efficiency losses. These findings highlight Aspen Adsorption as a powerful tool for the design, optimization, and scale-up of phosphate recovery processes, contributing to bridge the gap between lab-scale testing and full-scale application.

User friendly and more intuitive interface to ROOT and PyROOT