Soil Conditions Play a Critical Role in Foundation Design and Structural Stability

Soil conditions determine how a foundation performs over time. The type of soil, its moisture content, and how it ...
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Flood control structures – humanity’s last line against disaster

Every year, raging floods tear through cities, killing thousands, wiping out homes, and costing billions in destruction. But hidden beneath our feet and rising along our rivers are colossal structures ...
POWER Magazine

S&C Electric, SEL Collaborate on Interoperable Control Solution for Distribution Grid Modernization

S&C Electric Company and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) have announced a collaboration that pairs S&C Electric’s IntelliRupter PulseCloser Fault Interrupter with the upcoming SEL-651RD ...
Reuters

Mali's president tightens direct control over key mining sector

Ex-Barrick executive to oversee mining policy, compliance Presidency gains direct control over key mining sector functions Industrial gold output down 23% in 2025 on tough rules ACCRA, Jan 22 (Reuters ...
The New York Times

Should the Mayor Control N.Y.C. Schools? Mamdani and Cuomo Don’t Agree.

Zohran Mamdani and the teachers’ union have called for changes in mayoral control. Andrew M. Cuomo and some education leaders say that would be a grave mistake. By Troy Closson It is an eight-word ...
Frontiers

Discrete-time deadbeat control for STATCOMs based on dq reference frame: a high-speed, tuning-free strategy for reactive current regulation

The increasing penetration of distributed generation and the evolving requirements of smart grids have heightened the demand for fast, accurate, and robust reactive power control in Static Synchronous ...
IEEE

Design Method of Quasilinear Nonaffine Nonlinear Control Systems of General Structure

Abstract: The paper is devoted to present a new original design method of nonaffine nonlinear control systems of general structure. The originality of the method lies in the application to a nonlinear ...
C&EN

Structure Control of Condensed Polynuclear Aromatic Resin-Based Activated Carbon for High-Capacitance Supercapacitors

Key Laboratory of Carbon Fiber and Functional Polymers, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Ministry of Education; Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China ...
PBS

How D.C. residents feel about crime and the federal takeover of their city

Residents of Washington, D.C., are still adapting to life under federal control after President Trump seized authority over the city’s police force and deployed the National Guard. Nearly 400 people ...
The New York Times

Trump Administration Backs Off New Attempt to Widen Control of D.C. Police

The chief will remain after a lawsuit challenged the Justice Department’s attempt to install a new leader as part of an effort to put the agency under federal control. By Campbell Robertson and Zach ...
Politifact

President Donald Trump needs Congress to keep control of Washington, D.C., police, experts say

President Donald Trump invoked section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to take control of the district’s police department for up to 30 days. After 30 days, the emergency takeover ...
NPR

Trump asserts control of Washington, D.C., police, will deploy National Guard in nation's capital

WASHINGTON — President Trump says National Guard soldiers will be deployed on the streets of Washington, D.C., and he asserted federal control over the city's Metropolitan Police Department. He said ...