Performance Assessment of a Floating Photovoltaic Powerplant in Iran: A Case Study on Amir Kabir Dam, Karaj by Maryam Karami, Mojtaba Azhdari Khameneh

“…In this study, a floating photovoltaic power plant (FPVPP) on the Amir Kabir dam in Karaj, Iran is designed and optimized in terms of energy, economic, and environmental analysis. …”
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Instrument to determine needs of parental knowledge about adolescence and its management by Grettel Águila Calero, José Aurelio Díaz Quiñones, Paula Maribel Díaz Martínez, Nicolás Ramón Cruz Pérez

“…<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> A study of technological innovation was developed for designing and validating an instrument directed to parents, adolescents and teachers. …”
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Information Extraction Based on Line Chart for Research Paper in Chemical Science by Hairong Yan, Shaohan Yang

“…For each segmented part, different recognition algorithms were designed to identify various elements in the line charts, including axes, line regions, and legends. …”
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Automated Financial Management System: A Case Study of Batuma’s Dairy Farm. by Kesande, Blendah, Nahwera, Praise

“…The first one was; How can an Automated Financial Management System be effectively designed to address the identified issues with the current manual systems? …”
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A Farm to School Procurement Calculator for Specialty Crop Producers and School Food Service Staff by Jonathan A. Watson, Danielle Treadwell, Ray Bucklin, Anna Prizzia, Kelli Brew

“… Florida Farm to School programs are designed to connect producers with schools. But school food service staff make their purchasing decisions in terms of servings and producers pack their products by weight. …”
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RSU deployment planning based on approximation algorithm in urban VANET by Junyu ZHU, Chuanhe HUANG, Xiying FAN, Kuangyu QIN, Bin FU

“…To minimize the number of RSU deployed to cover a specific area,a c street model transforming the area covering problem to streets covering problem was designed,and a greedy-based polynomial (GBP) time approximation algorithm was developed to obtain the optimal RSU deployment for area coverage.For complex urban environments,a Cue model (complex urban environments model) was proposed.In this model,the target area was divided into different partitions.Then,based on shifting strategy,a polynomial time approximation scheme was designed.Theoretical analysis that include the approximation ratio and time complexity of the proposed algorithm were also presented.Simulation results show that GBP can efficiently solve the coverage problem in urban VANET.…”
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Fault diagnosis based on sliding mode observer for formation of UAVs by Jun-peng SHI, Jian-wei LIU, Pu YANG, Bin JIANG

“…Under the directed network topology,formation of UAVs with leader-follower structure was studied.And a fault estimation method using distributed adaptive sliding mode observer was designed for actuator fault with unknown upper bound.First of all,for each network node,based on the directed network topology,relative output estimation error was introduced to show information exchanges between neighbouring nodes.And a corresponding sliding mode observer was constructed.Then the global error system was defined,and the stability and sliding mode reaching condition was proved by Lyapunov theory.At last,all the parameters to be designed were calculated by the linear matrix inequality toolbox,and the validity of the proposed method was verified by Matlab simulation.…”
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Detection and elimination method for deception jamming based on an antenna array by Shuyan Ni, Jianhua Cui, Naiping Cheng, Yurong Liao

“…To estimate the jamming direction with high accuracy, meanwhile considering the feasibility of airborne installation, a novel configurated array combining medium-length baseline with short baseline is designed, and a fast method to solve the integer ambiguity is discussed. …”
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Distributed high-efficiency entropy energy-saving clustering routing algorithm for SDWSN by Qiaoqiao MA, Ligang DONG, Xian JIANG

“…In order to improve the life of software defined wireless sensor network (SDWSN) and reduce the energy consumption of data transmission, a hybrid optimization algorithm based on firefly algorithm (FA) and biogeography-based optimization (BBO) were designed, and based on the hybrid optimization algorithm, a distributed high-efficiency entropy energy-saving clustering routing algorithm (DHEEC) was designed, using energy entropy and hybrid optimization algorithm for cluster head selection.The simulation results show that the hybrid optimization algorithm outperforms other algorithms on standard functions.The number of death rounds of 10% nodes of DHEEC is about 13.89% higher than that of IFCEER, and about 41.05% higher than that of DEEC-FA, and the energy utilization is improved.…”
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Cache replacement strategy based on content value by Dan HUANG, Rongfang SONG

“…The cache replacement mechanism is one of the important research issues of the content center network.Considering the limited cache space,the reasonable replacement of the cache content becomes a key factor affecting the overall performance of the network.Therefore,a cache replacement scheme based on content value was designed.Considering the dynamic popularity of content,the cost of caching,and the time of the most recently requested,a more realistic content value function was built,and an effective content storage and replacement scheme was designed based on the content value function.Specifically,when the cache space was insufficient,the existing cache contents were replaced according to the value from small to large.Simulation results show that compared with the traditional replacement algorithms LRU,LFU and FIFO,the proposed scheme effectively improves the content cache hit rate of network nodes and reduces the average hops of users’ content acquisition.…”
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Statistical indicators system characterizing state and course of modernization process as a factor of housing and public utility services system in regional development by R. Kh. Mutolapov

“…The main economic and designed indicators of the development have been evaluated. …”
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Data-driven data transmission of the Internet of things based on sensing spectrum by Xuanheng LI, Yi SUN, Jie WANG, Haixia ZHANG

“…Facing the problem of spectrum shortage caused by the mass data,in order to share as a solution,how operators use the sensing spectrum reasonably to transmit data was studied.Considering the limitation of Internet of things(IoT) devices,the ultra-dense cognitive heterogeneous network architecture was designed,based on traffic demand and perception cost,an optimal access control and perception decision method was designed to maximize network utility.Considering the uncertainty of the perceived spectrum,the optimal programming scheme was modeled as a mixed integer stochastic optimization problem,and a data-driven probabilistic solution method based on statistical characteristics was proposed.In the case of unknown probability distribution of available bandwidth,data transmission requirements meeting various service requests were counted.…”
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Timing theoretical-practical test method in Anatomy subject. Ten years of a pedagogical novelty. by Armando Hidalgo de Paz

“…In order to carry out this task avoiding the inconveniences of traditional exams , the method the timed theoretico-practical exam was designed and put into practice with the objective to examine all the theoretic and practical aspects without the direct intervention of the professors and to guarantee that all the students had the same time to answer their questions.. …”
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Adaptive Control Allocation in the Presence of Actuator Failures by Yu Liu, Luis G. Crespo

“…This paper proposes a control allocation framework where a feedback adaptive signal is designed for a group of redundant actuators and then it is adaptively allocated among all group members. …”
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Synchronization of Coupled Networks with Uncertainties by Yi Zuo, Xinsong Yang

“…In order to synchronize the network onto a given isolate trajectory, a novel adaptive controller is designed to overcome the effects of the nonidentical uncertain nonlinear perturbations. …”
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Detection of Microdefects in Fabric with Multifarious Patterns and Colors Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network by Rongfei Xia, Yifei Chen, Yangfeng Ji

“…The proposed system comprises five convolutional layers designed to extract features from the original images effectively. …”
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Rate distortion optimization based on saliency characteristic for HEVC intra coding by Jinlong LI, Fen CHEN, Zongju PENG, Gangyi JIANG, Mei YU

“…Although the perception based rate distortion optimization (RDO) and coding algorithms can improve subjective quality,they significantly decrease rate distortion performance.For the above questions,a saliency-based RDO method was proposed.Firstly,according to the relation between rate distribution and saliency features of coding tree unit in HEVC,a priori saliency-rate model was designed.Furthermore,the initial parameters of the model were determined.Secondly,the rate difference minimization rate distortion model was proposed,and then a calculation method of the adaptive Lagrangian multiplier was derived from the model.Finally,update mechanism of model parameters was designed.Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can improve the subjective quality while it maintains rate distortion performance.…”
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Study on optical fiber multi-parameter sensor by Tongyu LIU, Zhen LI, Xiangjun MENG, Lin ZHAO, Fuqi WANG, Guofeng DONG, Jiqiang WANG

“…Based on the principle of fiber Bragg grating detection,an optical fiber sensor for detecting wind speed and temperature and humidity in underground space was designed.The designed optical fiber wind speed sensor was based on the thermal flow detection method,which has high sensitivity to low wind speed.For the speed rising from 0 to 0.5 m/s,the wavelength variation is about 800 pm.For the demodulator with sensitivity of 1 pm,the speed resolution is 0.7 mm/s.Fiber optic humidity sensor was fabricated by uniform surface coating of FBG element in polyimide solution,and detection sensitivity of 4.2 pm/% RH was achieved with accuracy less than ± 3% RH.…”
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Anomaly detection of large scale network based on data streams by ZHENG Jun, HU Ming-zeng, YUN Xiao-chun, ZHENG Zhong

“…The anomaly detection algorithms of the large scale network（LSN） were required to analysis the vast network traffic of G bit level in real-time and on-the-fly.A novel monitoring mechanism of LSN anomaly detection based on the data stream approach was proposed.The main contributions included: the sketch data structure and the frequent sketch algorithm of data streams were designed for anomaly detection of LSN.Optimized query methods were designed for customizing the security monitoring and detection policy with the correlations of multi data streams.The data reduction was proposed to make it possible that the whole network traffic character could be got using a few of special data streams.The experiments of the real networking environments validate the effectivity of LSN anomaly detection methods.…”
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Self-adapted task allocation algorithm with complicated coalition in wireless sensor network by Wen-zhong GUO, Jin-shu SU, Cheng-yu CHEN, Guo-long CHEN

“…Considering the real-time requirement and some specific limitations (e.g.insufficient computing resource,energy constraint,etc) in task scheduling of wireless sensor networks,different priorities were assigned to tasks according to their deadline,and an adaptive task allocation algorithm with complicated coalition was designed through analyzing historical information.Moreover,a discrete particle swarm optimization algorithm was designed via employing binary matrix coding form.The proposed optimization algorithm generates coalitions in parallel and then performs subtask allocation algorithm based on load and energy balance.Finally,the experimental results show that the proposed algorithm strikes a good balance between local solution and global exploration,and achieves a satisfactory result within a short period of time.…”
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