Two-Stage Over-the-Air (OTA) Test Method for LTE MIMO Device Performance Evaluation by Ya Jing, Xu Zhao, Hongwei Kong, Steve Duffy, Moray Rumney

“…With MIMO technology being adopted by the wireless communication standards LTE and HSPA+, MIMO OTA research has attracted wide interest from both industry and academia. …”
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A Novel Convex Hull Coverage Algorithm for the Deployment of Electric Taxi Swap Stations Based on Urban Traffic Flow by Xudong Zhu, Lijun Yao, Yuxin Mao, Renjie Wang, Hanxiao Shi, Ji Qi

“…Electric taxis have been adopted as a new energy public transportation tool as opposed to traditional taxis in modern city. …”
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Dynamic Spillovers of Economic Policy Uncertainty: A TVP-VAR Analysis of Latin American and Global EPU Indices by Nini Johana Marín-Rodríguez, Juan David González-Ruíz, Sergio Botero

“…These results underscore the need for Latin American economies to adopt resilience strategies—such as trade diversification and regional cooperation—to mitigate vulnerabilities to global shocks. …”
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Niobium Pentoxide as an Acid Catalyst: An Overview by Ana Paula de Melo Guedes, Débora Luísa Rosendo Tomé De Miranda, Amanda Duarte Gondim, Claudio Gabriel Lima Junior

“… The global chemical industry is under increasing pressure to adopt more sustainable practices, as most chemical products exceed environmental safety limits. …”
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Multimodal Green Logistics Network Design of Urban Agglomeration with Stochastic Demand by Jiehui Jiang, Dezhi Zhang, Shuangyan Li, Yajie Liu

“…Simulation results show that to achieve the overall optimization layout of the green logistics network in urban agglomeration the logistics authorities should adopt centralized decisions, construct a multimode logistics network, and make a reasonable carbon tax.…”
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Devastaciones ecosociales: ecología política y perspectivas críticas latinoamericanas by Andrea Lehner, Lina Álvarez Villareal, Nicolas Lema Habash

“…This introductory article to the thematic issue underscores the urgent need to address eco-social devastation through the social sciences, adopting a critical-political perspective that has been foundational to political ecology since its emergence. …”
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New Technology and Experimental Study on Snow-Melting Heated Pavement System in Tunnel Portal by Jinxing Lai, Junling Qiu, Jianxun Chen, Haobo Fan, Ke Wang

“…However, the deicing salt, snow removal with machine, and other antiskid measures adopted by highway maintenance division have many limitations. …”
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Thermodynamic Efficiency of an Advanced 4th Generation VHTR Propulsion Engine for Large Container Ships by Głuch Jerzy, Kodlewicz Tomasz, Drosińska-Komor Marta, Ziółkowska Natalia, Breńkacz Łukasz, Ziółkowski Paweł

“…In response to global initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the maritime industry must adopt green propulsion solutions. This paper analyses the operational potential of very high-temperature reactors (VHTRs) as an innovative propulsion source for large container ships. …”
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Exploring Coevolution of Emotional Contagion and Behavior for Microblog Sentiment Analysis: A Deep Learning Architecture by Qi Zhang, Zufan Zhang, Maobin Yang, Lianxiang Zhu

“…Then, based on user interaction and the correlation with target microblog, the Hawkes process is adopted to quantify the tie strength between microblogs so as to build the corresponding weighted network. …”
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Analyzing customer profitability in hotels using activity based costing by Ana Rita Faria, Leonor Ferreira, Duarte Trigueiros

“…None of the surveyed hotels had adopted activity based costing, despite this technique being viewed as the most appropriate to calculate individual customer profitability.…”
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Analyses of the TIARA 43 MeV Proton Benchmark Shielding Experiments Using the ARES Transport Code by Bin Zhang, Liang Zhang, Yixue Chen

“…To validate the applicability of the code to accelerator shielding problems, ARES is adopted to simulate a series of accelerator shielding experiments for 43 MeV proton-7Li quasi-monoenergetic neutrons, which is performed at Takasaki Ion Accelerator for Advanced Radiation Application. …”
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Well done! Or how to Avoid Dangers of Pseudoscience: Common Standard for Research in Behavioural Analysis and Deception Detection in Aviation Security by Jenny K. Krüger, María C. Feijoo-Fernández, Signe M. Ghelfi

“…In consequence, law enforcement agencies are seeking effective and efficient solutions for ensuring high-level security and are often adopting approaches that include behaviour detection. …”
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How COVID-19 pandemic affected physical activity and mental health interventions – A descriptive example of the Mental Health on the MOVE research project by Raquel Costa, Tânia Bastos, Paulo Lourenço, Rui Corredeira

“…This document pretends to report how COVID-19 changed the project dynamic, mainly during the exercise sessions and research activities, describing the strategies adopted during this difficult time. This information could be helpful for other research teams that also had to adapt and challenge themselves with clinical and scientific methodologies to follow the project purpose, taking into consideration government rules and health standards. …”
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A Scientometric Review on Rockburst in Hard Rock: Two Decades of Review from 2000 to 2019 by Weizhang Liang, Bing Dai, Guoyan Zhao, Hao Wu

“…Then, the CiteSpace software was adopted to conduct a scientometric analysis from five main aspects. …”
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Automatic extraction and geographization of urban traffic event based on natural Chinese text data by Chenyu Hu, Hangbin Wu, Chaoxu Wei, Qianqian Chen, Han Yue, Wei Huang, Chun Liu, Ting Fu, Junhua Wang

“…Next, a step-wise method for automatically extracting is proposed. Finally, we adopt methods for entity disambiguation and spatial computing. …”
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Miniaturization Design for 8 × 8 Butler Matrix Based on Back-to-Back Bilayer Microstrip by Yu Zhai, Xiaoxing Fang, Kejia Ding, Fei He

“…To expand operational bandwidth of the Butler matrix, a three-branch line directional coupler has been employed as 3 dB/90° bridge, and a kind of improved two-order Schiffman phase shifter has been adopted as fixed phase shifter. For application of indoor wireless communication, a compact broadband 8 × 8 Butler matrix has been designed and fabricated. …”
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Energy-Balanced Density Control to Avoid Energy Hole for Wireless Sensor Networks by Jie Jia, Jian Chen, Xingwei Wang, Linliang Zhao

“…Different from other methods in the literature, a new pixel-based transmission mechanism is adopted, to reduce the duplication of the same messages. …”
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Healthcare Marketing Evolution: A Comprehensive Exploration of New-Age Strategies and Patient-Centric Paradigms by Hafize Nurgül Durmuş Şenyapar

“…Enhancing patient involvement, establishing credibility, and improving patient outcomes are all possible for healthcare professionals by adopting digital innovation, personalization, and patient-centric approaches. …”
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Free Vibration Characteristics of Moderately Thick Spherical Shell with General Boundary Conditions Based on Ritz Method by Bing Hu, Cong Gao, Hang Zhang, Haichao Li, Fuzhen Pang, Jicai Lang

“…In this paper, the Ritz method is adopted to investigate the vibration characteristics of isotropic moderately thick annular spherical shell with general boundary conditions. …”
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Joint waveform and precoding design for coexistence of MIMO radar and MU‐MISO communication by Tong Wei, Linlong Wu, Bhavani Shankar Mysore Rama Rao

“…Towards this end, the epigraph‐form reformulation is first adopted, and then an alternating maximisation (AM) method is devised, in which the Dinkelbach’s algorithm is used to tackle the nonconvex fractional‐programing subproblem. …”
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