BORED BY BOTHERING? A COST-VALUE APPROACH TO PANDEMIC BOREDOM

Bored by bothering? A cost-value approach to pandemic boredom

Abstract In an effort to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries around the world have employed non-pharmaceutical containment measures.The effectiveness of such mitigation efforts relies on individual compliance (e.g., avoiding to travel or to gather).Crucially, adhering to the required behavioral recommendations places substantial

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Integration of Back Calculation Anti Windup and Smith Predictor on PID Controller for Varying Time Delay System with Input Constraint

Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controller is still the most widely used controller in the industry.However, the presence of varying time delay and input constraint cause PID controller performance to deteriorate and Cutters produce unsatisfactory operation.This situation becomes worsening if the varying time delay and input constraint come

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The Humanities as Contradiction: Against the New Enclosures

This essay begins by surveying our current moment in the humanities, diagnosing the language of crisis that frames much of the discourse about them.It argues that the crisis is a manufactured economic one not a symbolic one.The problems with many recent proposals—such as the new aestheticism, surface reading, and postcritique—is that th

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