Optimization of Flow Shop Scheduling in Precast Concrete Component Production via Mixed-Integer Linear Programming by Zhansheng Liu, Zisheng Liu, Meng Liu, Jingjing Wang

“…Flow-arrangement optimization is generally performed using the genetic algorithm. However, this method cannot always yield a perfect optimal solution. …”
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Who does technology serve? A critical analysis of sociocultural factors shaping opportunities, practices and barriers faced by a smallholders in south-western Colombia by Marcela Ramos, Natalia Triana, Stefan Burkart, Jhon Freddy Gutiérrez, Diana María Gutiérrez-Zapata, Alejandro Ruden, Lady Sepúlveda, Brian Barrett

“…However, these new possibilities are unevenly distributed, creating disadvantages for groups that generally experience conditions of vulnerability, such as young farmers and women. …”
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Earthquake induced liquefaction hazard analysis for Chittagong City using machine learning by Md. Mehedi Hasan, Md. Zillur Rahman, Abul Kashem Faruki Fahim

“…In most boreholes, the LPI values are generally higher, with slightly elevated values in SPT data compared to [Formula: see text] data. …”
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The influence of emotional states induced by emotion-related auditory stimulus on ankle proprioception performance in healthy individuals by Keqing Yuan, János Négyesi, Takeshi Okuyama, Ryoichi Nagatomi

“…Overall, sadness improved JPS performance, stabilizing errors, while happiness generally impaired it. These findings suggest that emotional states distinctly influence proprioceptive accuracy and stability, offering new insights into the interplay between emotion and movement.…”
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The Exile Experience Reconsidered: a Comparative Perspective in European Cultural Migration during the Interwar Period by Renato Camurri

“…This has provoked a series of negative effects, such as an excessive generalization of the concept of exile and the loss of the historical specificity of this phenomenon.The author analyzes some features of the experience of Italian exiles in the United States starting from a comparative approach. …”
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A Methodology for Multihazards Load Combinations of Earthquake and Heavy Trucks for Bridges by Dezhang Sun, Xu Wang, Baitao Sun

“…Turkstra’s rule considers one load reaching its maximum value in bridge’s service life combined with another load with its instantaneous value (or mean value), which looks more rational, but the results are generally unconservative. Therefore, a modified model is presented here considering both advantages of Ferry Borges-Castaneda's model and Turkstra’s rule. …”
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La atención a las necesidades educativas especiales en el uso del lenguaje oral desde el enfoque fonológico: Evaluación e intervención educativa by Antonio Sánchez Palomino, Francisco Villegas Lirola

“…Al respecto vamos a tratar de dar algunas líneas generales fruto de la investigación que dio lugar a la tesis doctoral «La atención logopédica a las necesidades educativas especiales desde el enfoque fonológico» y que girarán en torno a primero, cómo organizar dicho servicio en la escuela, segundo, cómo evaluar las dificultades lingüísticas y tercero, cómo se plantea su intervención. …”
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Swarm intelligence–based energy efficient clustering with multihop routing protocol for sustainable wireless sensor networks by Mohamed Elhoseny, R Sundar Rajan, Mohammad Hammoudeh, K Shankar, Omar Aldabbas

“…Wireless sensor network is a hot research topic with massive applications in different domains. Generally, wireless sensor network comprises hundreds to thousands of sensor nodes, which communicate with one another by the use of radio signals. …”
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The Predictive and Prognostic Factors in Patients with Gastric Cancer Accompanied by Gastric Outlet Obstruction by Hongliang Zu, Huiling Wang, Chunfeng Li, Wendian Zhu, Yingwei Xue

“…The patients with distal gastric cancer with GOO generally presented more aggressive pathologic features, a poorer nutritional status, more duodenal infiltration, and peritoneal dissemination than those with cancer without GOO. …”
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Nanoreinforcements of Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Flame Retardant Polymeric Composites: An Overview by Shaolin Lu, Wei Hong, Xudong Chen

“…Due to their unique layered structures, two-dimensional nanomaterials can generally improve the mechanical properties of polymers via uniform dispersion, and they can form effective physical barriers in a matrix to improve the thermal stability of polymers. …”
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A droplet state prediction method for inkjet printing under small sample conditions based on the two-stage TrAdaBoost.R2 algorithm by Yuanyuan Jia, Xiaoding Cheng, Wenai Song, Yaojian Zhou, Haofan Zhao

“…Furthermore, the two-stage TrAdaBoost.R2 model demonstrates strong generalization ability and adaptability to maintain high prediction accuracy under different conditions. …”
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DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES AND THE ROLES OF TRADITIONAL POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS IN PROMOTING PEACE AND SECURITY IN NORTHERN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF GOMBE STATE. by AHMED MUSA, BASHIR ABDULLAHI, MOHAMMED AUWAL, UMAR MUHAMMAD JUNGUDO

“… The adoption of Western Democracy after independence has come with a lot of changes to the hitherto roles and powers of traditional political institutions of building peace and security generally inNorthern Nigeria and Gombe in particular. …”
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Improving Performance of Integrated Ground-HAPS FSO Communication Links With MIMO Application by Emna Zedini, Yalcn Ata, Mohamed-Slim Alouini

“…We then derive the probability density function (PDF) of the end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) under the combined effect of turbulence, AOA fluctuations, attenuation due to absorption and scattering, and generalized pointing error impairments. Capitalizing on this PDF expression, we present novel results for fundamental performance metrics, including outage probability, average bit-error rate (BER) of on-off keying (OOK) modulation scheme, and ergodic capacity expressed in terms of the Meijer's G function. …”
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ClassWise-SAM-Adapter: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Adapts Segment Anything to SAR Domain for Semantic Segmentation by Xinyang Pu, Hecheng Jia, Linghao Zheng, Feng Wang, Feng Xu

“…A segment anything model (SAM), built on the vision transformer (ViT) model with millions of parameters and trained on its corresponding large-scale dataset SA-1B, excels in various segmentation scenarios relying on its significance of semantic information and generalization ability. Such achievement of visual foundation model stimulates continuous researches on specific downstream tasks in computer vision. …”
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Implementation of flexible DEA structure in the management of business processes by Šegrt Slobodan, Tomić Radoljub, Anđelković Maja

“…DEA is a non-parametric technique based on linear programming for measuring the efficiency of decision-making units (DMU) with heterogeneous inputs/outputs. Generally speaking, DEA has a possible large number of inputs and outputs, and the essential problem is that it is often not clear which inputs and which outputs should be chosen when applied to a real problem, that is, when evaluating the efficiency of the system. …”
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Context-Aware and Locality-Constrained Coding for Image Categorization by Wenhua Xiao, Bin Wang, Yu Liu, Weidong Bao, Maojun Zhang

“…In this paper, we introduce a context-aware and locality-constrained Coding (CALC) approach with context information for describing objects in a discriminative way. It is generally achieved by learning a word-to-word cooccurrence prior to imposing context information over locality-constrained coding. …”
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Blog : un journal intime comme mémoire de soi by Nolwenn Hénaff

“…Yet, whether to overcome a crisis, keep the memory of a powerful experience, or, more generally, recount his travels and his vacation, the journal is positioned above all as a space of freedom: one writes when one wants to and the way she wants to. …”
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Association between exposure to urban neighborhood natural environments and human health: A systematic review of multiple exposure indicators by Xingcan Zhou, Kojiro Sho, Hongfei Qiu, Shenglin Chang, Qingya Cen

“…Recent increases in visibility and perceptibility assessments, though infrequent, generally revealed significant positive relationships with human health. …”
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Research Outlines of the Sustainable Profile of Believers in Croatia by Ivana Brstilo Lovrić, Miriam Mary Brgles, Damir Mravunac

“…Given the nonrepresentative sample, the presented data cannot be generalized to the religious population in Croatia, shaping its fundamental contribution in stimulating future scientific analyses and reflections on the Church's relationship with religious practices, and emphasizing active believers as potential social leaders of sustainable lifestyles. …”
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Einstein Aggregation Operators for Pythagorean Fuzzy Soft Sets with Their Application in Multiattribute Group Decision-Making by Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain, Imran Siddique, Fahd Jarad, Y. S. Hamed, Khadijah M. Abualnaja, Aiyared Iampan

“…The Pythagorean fuzzy soft set (PFSS) is the most proficient and manipulative leeway of the Pythagorean fuzzy set (PFS), which contracts with parameterized values of the alternatives. It is a generalized form of the intuitionistic fuzzy soft set (IFSS), which provides healthier and more accurate evaluations through decision-making (DM). …”
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