Adapting the Material Circularity Indicator to evaluate circularity in food systems: two case studies on livestock rearing by Francesco Caraceni, Matteo Cordara, Carlo Brondi, Andrea Ballarino

“…Specifically, the adapted MCI (a-MCI) developed in this research is designed to evaluate meat production in industrial farming. …”
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Novel Distributed PZT Active Vibration Control Based on Characteristic Model for the Space Frame Structure by Hua Zhong, Yong Wang, Hanzheng Ran, Qing Wang, Changxing Shao

“…On basis of this model, a keep tracking controller is designed to suppress the vibration actively. It is shown that the proposed model-free method is very robust and easy to implement. …”
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Identification and characterization of 17 novel polynucleotide microsatellite markers in Ocypode stimpsoni (Decapoda: Ocypodidae) by Ha Yeun Song, Young Ji Choi, Dea-Sung Lee, Hyun Ki Choi, Kyung Min Choi, Kang-Yeol Yu, Namki Cho, Seungki Lee

“…Abstract Objective The ghost crab Ocypode stimpsoni (Decapoda) is designated as a protected marine species in Korea due to its declining population. …”
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Suggestions and Applications for Evaluating Seismic Functionality for Railway Infrastructure Network Based on Fragility Curve by Mintaek Yoo, Jiyun Jeon, Seokjung Kim, Sunnie Haam

“…The hypothetical railway network was designed with three lines, allowing different routes to remain operational depending on the damaged sections and increasing the diversity of network impact scenarios based on the functionality loss. …”
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A domed window chamber for multi-modality optical imaging by Photini Rice, Makenna Aitken, Hasina Shir, Ricky Cordova, Jenna Montague, Dustin Tran, Urs Utzinger, Leilei Peng, Ghassan Mouneimne, Jennifer Barton

“…A modified window chamber with a domed viewing window made from fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP), with n similar to water and tissue, was designed. In vitro imaging of collagen gels and microsphere phantoms with and without the dome showed small decreases in signal strength and image resolution due to the dome. …”
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Seismic Behavior of Short Concrete Columns with Prestressing Steel Wires by Deng Zong-Cai, Jumbe R. Daud, Li Hui

“…The formulas for calculating shear capacity of RC short columns strengthened with PSW were proposed which may be useful for future engineering designs and researches.…”
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Spectrum-effect relationship of immunologic activity of Ganoderma lucidum by UPLC-MS/MS and component knock-out method by Changqin Li, Yiping Cui, Jie Lu, Lijun Meng, Changyang Ma, Zhenhua Liu, Yan Zhang, Wenyi Kang

“…This study was designed to elucidate the immunoregulation of Ganoderma lucidum. …”
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The method for evaluation errors of automated measurements of base tangent length by three-axis indicator on five-axis CNC machine by D. T. Safarov, A. G. Kondrashov

“…The paper considers a method for estimating systematic and random errors in the process of measuring the length of the base tangent using control maps and probabilistic and statistical methods for processing multiple repeated inputs of a three-coordinate indicator to the measured side surfaces of the wheel teeth. The method is designed to assess the acceptability of the measurement process by technologists and adjusters. …”
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P-LEACH: An Efficient Cluster-Based Technique to Track Mobile Sinks in Wireless Sensor Networks by Sungchol Cho, Li Han, Bokgyu Joo, Sunyoung Han

“…For a wireless sensor network (WSN) with a large number of inexpensive sensor nodes, energy efficiency is the major concern in designing network structure and related algorithms. …”
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Enhanced Asymmetric Bilinear Model for Face Recognition by Wenjuan Gong, Weishan Zhang, Jordi Gonzàlez, Yan Ren, Zhen Li

“…We validate the proposed method on a designed data sample and extended Yale B dataset. The experiment results show that the enhanced asymmetric models give promising results and good recognition accuracies.…”
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A Strong Maneuvering Target-Tracking Filtering Based on Intelligent Algorithm by Jing Li, Xinru Liang, Shengzhi Yuan, Haiyan Li, Changsheng Gao

“…The algorithm can map the selection of the model set to the selection of the action label and realize the purpose of a deep reinforcement-learning agent to replace the model switching in the traditional VSMM algorithm by reasonably designing a reward function, state space, and network structure. …”
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On the Problem of Energy Balanced Relay Sensor Placement in Wireless Sensor Networks by Jie Jia, Guiyuan Zhang, Xueli Wu, Jian Chen, Xingwei Wang, Xiaolei Yan

“…We first theoretically conclude that balanced energy depletion is achievable with rational designed deployment density for relay nodes. We then propose a novel relay deploying strategy as well as a data routing scheme to eliminate uneven energy depletion. …”
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Smart contract vulnerability detection method based on pre-training and novel timing graph neural network by ZHUANG Yuan, FAN Zekai, WANG Cheng, SUN Jianguo, LI Yaolin

“…Then, combined with a self-attention mechanism, the event-driven temporal graph neural network was designed to extract temporal information during contract execution. …”
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An ANFIS Approach for Real Power Transfer Allocation by Hussain Shareef, Saifulnizam Abd Khalid, Mohd Wazir Mustafa, Azhar Khairuddin

“…Then the results of MNE method and load flow information are utilized to train the designed ANFIS. It also incorporated an enhanced feature extraction method called principle component analysis (PCA) to reduce the input features to the ANFIS. …”
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A Hybrid Simulated Annealing Heuristic for Multistage Heterogeneous Fleet Scheduling with Fleet Sizing Decisions by Bing Li, Xinyu Yang, Hua Xuan

“…Finally, some experiments are designed to test the proposed heuristic and the results show that the heuristic can generate reasonably good solutions in short CPU times.…”
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Structure Analysis of Factors Influencing the Preference of Ridesplitting by Xinghua Li, Feiyu Feng, Wei Wang, Cheng Cheng, Tianzuo Wang, Pengcheng Tang

“…Understanding cognitive factors affecting ridesplitting preference would be helpful in designing its market measures, regulations, and incentives to achieve high-level customer attractions. …”
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SGC Tests for Influence of Material Composition on Compaction Characteristic of Asphalt Mixtures by Qun Chen, Yuzhi Li

“…Conclusions based on SGC tests can provide basis for how to adjust material composition for improving compaction performance of asphalt mixtures, and for the designed asphalt mixture, its compaction performance can be predicted through these conclusions, which also contributes to the choice of compaction schemes.…”
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Slice scheduling for industrial time-critical services in 5G TSN integration network by GUAN Wanqing, LIU Nuoyan, LI Wei, FU Meixia, ZHANG Haijun

“…Therefore, the types of industrial services were divided according to the differences in requirement characteristics, a slice scheduling strategy for industrial Internet was designed to satisfy the requirements of periodic time-critical services and sporadic burst services, and a resource partitioning algorithm based on uniform distribution was proposed. …”
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Experimental Investigation of Flow Resistance in a Coal Mine Ventilation Air Methane Preheated Catalytic Oxidation Reactor by Bin Zheng, Yongqi Liu, Ruixiang Liu, Jian Meng, Mingming Mao

“…It can also be used in deriving much needed data for preheated catalytic oxidation designs when employed in industry.…”
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Impact of Road Traffic Noise from the R3 Expressway in the Sections Oravský Podzámok – Dolný Kubín – Highway D1 by Trojanova Maria, Malatincova Nikoleta

“…The components of Slovakia’s integrated transport infrastructure should be designed, constructed, maintained, and decommissioned at a reasonable cost and quality, respecting the relevant requirements of users, residents in the surrounding area, and the principles of sustainable development throughout its entire life cycle. …”
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