Influence of End Milling Process Variables on Material Removal Rate and Surface Roughness of Direct Metal Laser Sintered Inconel 718 Plate by N. L. Parthasarathi, Dhinakaran Veeman, Duraisami Dhamodharan, Utpal Borah, M. Ravichandran, L. Natrayan, Wubishet Degife Mammo

“…The end milling experiments were conducted using the design of experiments with an L9 orthogonal array (OA) by varying the process variables like feed rate (mm/min), cutting speed (m/min), and depth of cut (mm). …”
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Advances in Spiky Antibacterial Materials: From Bioinspired Design to Application by Zijun Zhang, Limei Qian, Nan Zhang, Xinyue Wang, Yunshen Fu, Guanbin Gao, Taolei Sun

“…Inspired by natural spike antibacterial structures such as those found on cicada wings, extensive research has been conducted on biomimetic antibacterial materials with spiky structures. …”
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Determination of thermophysical properties of cupuassu (Theobroma grandiflorum) dry almonds by Elisa Santana Cunha, Geovana Pires Araújo Lima, Jorge Henrique Oliveira Sales, Elizama Aguiar de Oliveira

“…Thus, in this study thermophysical properties of cupuassu dry almonds (moisture = 9.68 % d.b.) were determined as: thermal conductivity (k) of 0.14 kW/(m.K), specific heat (cp) of 2.86 kJ/(kg.K), thermal diffusivity (?) …”
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Applying the EDPS Method to the Research into Thermophysical Properties of Solid Wood of Coniferous Trees by Ľuboš Krišťák, Rastislav Igaz, Ivan Ružiak

“…Coefficients of thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity, and specific heat capacity were determined following the research. …”
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Bayesian Estimation of Archimedean Copula-Based SUR Quantile Models by Nachatchapong Kaewsompong, Paravee Maneejuk, Woraphon Yamaka

“…Four simulation studies are conducted to assess the performance of our proposed model and Bayesian estimation. …”
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Diagnosis and Pharmacological Management of Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth in Children with Intestinal Failure by Bushra A Malik, Yuan Y Xie, Eytan Wine, Hien Q Huynh

“…Although treatment trials can be challenging in such a vulnerable population, more investigative clinical studies examining early diagnosis, more effective control of recurrence and the prevention of associated complications must be conducted.…”
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A Study on Multiattribute Aggregation Approaches to Product Recommendation by Jing-Zhong Jin, Yoshiteru Nakamori, Andrzej P. Wierzbicki

“…To test the aggregation models and the ranking methods, a recommendation system was developed and a comparison test was conducted.…”
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Beamspace Unitary ESPRIT Algorithm for Angle Estimation in Bistatic MIMO Radar by Dang Xiaofang, Chen Baixiao, Yang Minglei, Zheng Guimei

“…Simulation results are conducted to show these conclusions.…”
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Reconfigurable and Tunable Metamaterials: A Review of the Theory and Applications by Jeremiah P. Turpin, Jeremy A. Bossard, Kenneth L. Morgan, Douglas H. Werner, Pingjuan L. Werner

“…A range of tuning techniques span from active circuit elements introduced into the resonant conductive metamaterial geometries to constituent materials that change electromagnetic properties under specific environmental stimuli. …”
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Minimizing Sensor Failures in Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks With Obstacles Through Fresnel Diffraction Model by Kun Wang, Zhejun Shen

“…Besides, we also design an effective obstacle avoidance navigation algorithm, which can enable the Mobile Chargers (MCs) to avoid obstacles effectively reducing the moving distances. Simulations are conducted to verify the advantages of our scheme, revealing that our scheme outperforms in terms of the failure sensor number, charging utility, and so on.…”
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The Development Aid for the Agricultural Sector of African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries—Determinants and Allocation by Kinga Smolińska-Bryza, Ewa Kiryluk-Dryjska

“…The results show that the proposed approach allocates funds according to the assumed logic, supporting countries in the low and very low development classes. The research conducted can contribute to the discussion on the allocation of development support to the agricultural sector by potential donors while analyzing different assumptions. …”
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Energy study for the rehabilitation of the old Abbey of Salas de Bureba (Burgos) for residential use. Case study by Raul Briones-Llorente, Juan Maria Hidalgo-Betanzos, Paula Montoya-Saiz, Imanol Ruiz-de-Vergara-Ruiz-de-Azúa, Gabriel Rubio-Pérez, Natalia Muñoz-Rujas, Fernando Aguilar-Romero

“…A detailed energy simulation has been conducted and all viable options have been analysed, applying passive improvements combined with the installation of renewable energies. …”
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Crystal structure and Hirshfeld surface analysis of 1,3,3,4,4,5,5-heptafluoro-2-(3-[(2,3,3,4,4,5,5-heptafluorocyclopenten-1-yl)oxy]-2-{[(2,3,3,4,4,5,5-heptafluorocyclopenten-1-yl)o... by Andrew J. Peloquin, Gary J. Balaich, Abby R. Jennings

“…A Hirshfeld surface analysis was conducted to aid in the visualization of these various influences on the packing: this revealed that the largest contribution to the surface contacts arises from F...F interactions (53.5%), followed by F...H/H...F (34.5%) and F...C/C...F (7.1%).…”
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Energy exchange in vortex tube by V. I. Kuznetsov, V. V. Makarov, A. Yu. Shander, M. Yu. Agarin, I. A. Kuzmenko

“…There is experimentally found dependence on the thermophysical properties of energy gas, a gas pressure value at the inlet of the vortex tube and exit valve and diaphragm geometric parameters of the main elements of the vortex tube. There is conducted research to identify the nature of the vortex effect — of the fibers of the gas temperature. …”
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Experimental Investigations on Tilting Pad Journal Bearings by Renato Brancati, Stefano Pagano, Ernesto Rocca, Michele Russo, Riccardo Russo

“…The results of a survey conducted on an experimental system consisting of a rigid rotor supported on two radial bearings each with five tilting pads is presented. …”
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Job Scheduling with Efficient Resource Monitoring in Cloud Datacenter by Shyamala Loganathan, Saswati Mukherjee

“…The proposed scheduling algorithm considers the types of jobs and the resource availability in its scheduling decision. Finally, we conducted simulations using CloudSim and compared our algorithm with other existing methods, like V-MCT and priority scheduling algorithms.…”
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RECONSTRUCTION OF DIVACANCY IN ZIGZAG-BUCKLED SILICENE NANORIBBONS by Van Chinh Ngo, Nguyen Huu Hanh Pham, Thi Kim Quyen Nguyen, Thi Kim Loan Phan, Thanh Tra Vu

“…This is a favorable condition for controlling the conductive state of materials in future applications in the semiconductor and thermoelectric industries. …”
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Démarche multidisciplinaire appliquée à l’analyse d’une activité dans un environnement dynamique : la conduite de véhicules légers à La Poste pour la distribution du courrier et de... by Florence Hella, Anca Radauceanu, Jean-Jacques Atain-Kouadio, Raphaël Payet, Régis Colin

“…Sparsely studied, health risks other than road accidents were approached in an exploratory multidisciplinary study conducted in collaboration with the La Poste group. …”
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Assessment of the environmental impacts generated by cocoa cultivation biomass in edible mushroom fruiting by A. D. Rincon-Quintero, Zirley Ardila-Caballero, Mauricio Ruiz-Ochoca, W. L. Rondon-Romero, Leidy Mejia-Casadiego, Luis Alfonso Del Portillo-Valdes

“… Based on a bibliographic review of articles and scientific documents regarding the composition of cocoa pod husk (CPH), the benefits of its use as a substrate, and the parameters required for the production of edible mushrooms, an environmental assessment for the operation phase was conducted. A total of 85 environmental aspects were identified, along with 85 direct impacts and 117 indirect impacts related to various environmental components. …”
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A Comparative Study of Routing Protocols of Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks by Guangjie Han, Xu Jiang, Aihua Qian, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Long Cheng

“…We mainly focus on the round of the first node dies (also called the stable period) and the number of packets sent to sink, which is an important aspect to evaluate the monitoring ability of a protocol. We conduct a lot of experiments and simulations on Matlab to analyze the performance of the five routing protocols.…”
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