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perturb

verb abash, agitate, alarm, annoy, arouse, badger, baffle, bewilder, bother, bring into disorder, cause a fuss, cause agitation, cause alarm, cause confusion, cause disorder, cause upset, churn, complicate, confound, confuse, derange, disarrange, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disquiet, distract, distress, disturb, embarrass, entangle, exasperate, excite, ferment, flurry, fluster, fret, gall, give cause for alarm, grieve, harass, harry, inflame, infuriate, irk, irritate, jar, jolt, madden, make havoc, make unnasy, nonplus, outrage, pain, perplex, perturbate, perturbo, pester, pique, plague, pother, provoke, put out, rouse, ruffle, shake, shake up, shock, snarl, stir, stir up, throw into confuuion, trouble, unnerve, unsettle, upset, vex, work up, worry

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Optimization of Perturb and Observe Maximum Power Point Tracking Method", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, 20(4): 963-973 (2005).

SIMULATION OF IMPROVED PERTURB AND OBSERVE MPPT USING SEPIC CONVERTER

As a result, differential privacy is preserved to perturb the support of an individual pattern.

Mining frequent patterns through microaggregation in differential privacy

When the CN method is used to perturb the database, the best predictor of A, based on A, can be derived as(2)

Security of Random Data Perturbation Methods

That's almost exactly the same amount by which Neptune perturbs Uranus.

Planet U

No loose ends or otherworldly intimations perturb Murphy's finely crafted, emotionally firm choreography.

The Next Ice Age

An integral part of the Computational Toxicology initiative will be the use of relevant model organisms to expand our understanding of the regulation of biological processes and how toxicants can perturb these processes, with the goal of identifying the key mechanistic events for improved risk prediction.

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Breakdown products of some commonly used flame retardants may perturb the normal production of sex hormones, according to preliminary test-tube experiments conducted by Dutch and Swedish scientists.