Optimizing the Long-Term Operating Plan of Railway Marshalling Station for Capacity Utilization Analysis by Wenliang Zhou, Xia Yang, Jin Qin, Lianbo Deng

“…Firstly, a model is developed to minimize railcars’ average staying time with the constraints of minimum time intervals, marshalling track capacity, and so forth. …”
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Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for Solving Optimal Power Flow Problem by Luong Le Dinh, Dieu Vo Ngoc, Pandian Vasant

“…The objective of the OPF problem is to minimize total cost of thermal units while satisfying the unit and system constraints such as generator capacity limits, power balance, line flow limits, bus voltages limits, and transformer tap settings limits. …”
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The Partial Duplication of the 5′ Segment of KMT2A Revealed KMT2A-MLLT10 Rearrangement in a Boy with Acute Myeloid Leukemia by Hiroko Fukushima, Toru Nanmoku, Sho Hosaka, Yuni Yamaki, Nobutaka Kiyokawa, Takashi Fukushima, Ryo Sumazaki

“…Chemotherapy promptly induced the first complete remission in the patient at our facility, and the patient remained in first complete remission with negative minimal residual disease at 3.5 years from diagnosis. …”
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A Woman with Rheumatoid Arthritis and a Bilateral Fracture of the Proximal Tibia by J. Th. (Arjan) Hooghof, Joris J. Mellema, Marcel D. Posthumus, Jos J. A. M. van Raaij

“…A 52-year-old woman presented herself with pain on the medial sides of the proximal tibia after a minimal trauma. Conventional X-rays did not show any pathology. …”
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Mathematical modeling and treating tumors in a fuzzy environment by Aadil Sheergojri, Pervaiz Iqbal

“…Also, it has been demonstrated that fuzzy modeling approaches may be used to investigate the impacts of various components on tumor development estimation, minimize tumor uncertainty, and attain a degree of realism.…”
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Green supply chain for coal: Models and optimization by Xiao Wang, Zhiyuan Chen, Ruoyu Qi, Lin Li

“…The model aims to coordinate coal reclaiming, stacking, and transportation operations while minimizing coal storage costs and sulfur treatment costs, ensuring the uninterrupted fulfillment of power generation tasks. …”
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Profitability and Cost Estimates for Producing Tropical Hibiscus in South Florida by Nicholas Haley, Alexandra M. Revynthi, Hasmeen Abu, Trent Blare

“…Demand for the cultivation of plants with minimal pesticides is rising due to concerns about potential adverse environmental and health effects. …”
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Weld Inspection Based on Radiography Image Segmentation with Level Set Active Contour Guided Off-Center Saliency Map by Mohamed Ben Gharsallah, Ezzeddine Ben Braiek

“…An off-center saliency map exploited as a feature to represent image pixels is embedded into a region energy minimization function to guide the level set active contour to defects boundaries. …”
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Validation of a Novel Landmark-guided Intra-articular Postero-medial Surgeon-administered Injection Technique by Nicolas S. Piuzzi, MD, Andrew I. Spitzer, MD, Jason Mussell, PhD, Ignacio Pasqualini, MD, Stan Dysart, MD, Jeffrey Gonzales, MD, Michael A. Mont, MD, Jess H. Lonner, MD, William Mihalko, MD, PhD

“…Results: This technique consistently reached the infrapatellar branch of the saphenous nerve, nerve to the vastus medialis muscle, and posterior capsule, with minimal proximal dye spread. Conclusions: This technique may be an efficient complement to ACB or surgeon infiltration or an alternative to US-guided ACB when it is not available.…”
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Efficient Cross-Layer Optimization Algorithm for Data Transmission in Wireless Sensor Networks by Chengtie Li, Jinkuan Wang, Mingwei Li

“…Secondly, we propose the cross-layer scheme to minimize the power cost of the whole network by a linear optimization problem. …”
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Research on Adjoint Kernelled Quasidifferential by Si-Da Lin, Fu-Min Xiao, Zun-Quan Xia, Li-Ping Pang

“…Some algebraic properties of the adjoint kernelled quasidifferential are given and the existence of the adjoint kernelled quasidifferential is explored by means of the minimal quasidifferential and the Demyanov difference of convex sets. …”
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Comparative Antifungal Activity of Cilofungin (LY121019) against Candida Species, Including Evaluation of Susceptibility Testing Method by Abdul H Chagla, John H Hii, Daryl J Hoban, Andrew E Simor, Santiago Ferro, Evelyn Witwicki, Ruby Poon, Donald E Low

“…Candida tropicalis and Candida glabrata (90% minimal inhibitory concentration [MIC] 3.2 μg/mL) but was inactive against other Candida species. …”
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The development of production technology of wire rod from chromium-nickel-molibdenum steel grades with subsequent annealing spheroidization by S. V. Аudzeyey

“…The peculiarity of the rod of chromium-nickel-molybdenum steel grades, used in the production of fasteners and automotive components by cold forming, are the high requirements for the quality of the surface, microstructure and physical and mechanical properties.In the process of development of production technology were developed and implemented measures to minimize the identified design features of heat treatment furnaces, and developed methods for obtaining the most optimal primary hot-rolled metal microstructure for further spheroidizing annealingIn industrial conditions OJSC «BSW – Management Company of Holding «BMC» was mastered the most optimal regimes of heat treatment of wire rod from chromium-nickel-molybdenum steel grades, which required the consumer a full range of physical and mechanical properties of wire rod from steel grades 38ХНГМ, 40XH2MA and 41Х1 used further in the manufacture of fasteners and automotive components by cold forging.…”
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Temporal interactions among carnivores in an anthropized landscape of the coastal mountain range in southern Chile by García-Solís Fernando, Zúñiga Alfredo H., Rau Jaime R., Encina-Montoya Francisco, Garcés Cristóbal

“…Therefore, these species must readjust their requirements to minimize interactions derived from competition. For two years, activity patterns of two native carnivores (the cougar Puma concolor and the chilla fox Lycalopex griseus), one exotic carnivore (the domestic dog Canis lupus familiaris) and people were evaluated in an anthropogenic landscape in southern Chile. …”
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Inorganic Photochemistry and Solar Energy Harvesting: Current Developments and Challenges to Solar Fuel Production by Sinval F. Sousa, Breno L. Souza, Cristiane L. Barros, Antonio Otavio T. Patrocinio

“…The large and continuous use of fossil fuels as a primary energy source has led to several environmental problems, such as the increase of the greenhouse effect. In order to minimize these problems, attention has been drawn to renewable energy production. …”
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Optimization and Design of Wideband Antenna Based on Q Factor by Han Liu, Chengyou Yin, Weidong Gao, Yulong Sun

“…Secondly, we study the computation of Q of arbitrary shaped structures, aiming at designing an antenna with maximum bandwidth by minimizing the Q of the antenna. This method is much more efficient for only Q values at specific frequency points that are computed, which avoids optimizing bandwidth directly. …”
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Upper bounds estimates of the distance to cubic or orthotropic elasticity by Desmorat, Rodrigue, Kolev, Boris

“…We extend to cubic symmetry and to orthotropy the technique recently suggested by Klimeš for transverse isotropy: solving analytically an auxiliary quadratic minimization problem whose solution is a second-order tensor that carries the likely cubic coordinate system. …”
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Optimal Power Flow Algorithm Based on Second-Order Cone Relaxation Method for Electricity-Gas Integrated Energy Microgrid by Fan Zhang, Zhuzheng Shen, Wen Xu, Guofeng Wang, Biyi Yi

“…This paper proposes a microgrid optimal scheduling strategy using second-order cone relaxation method to realize linear transformation, so as to minimize the total cost of the microgrid. Firstly, a microgrid system model of electricity-gas integrated energy is established, and the nonlinear constraints of branch power flow are transformed by the second-order cone relaxation method. …”
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Research on OPF Control of Three-Phase Four-Wire Low-Voltage Distribution Network considering Uncertainty by Rui Wang, Xiaoqing Bai, Shengquan Huang, Shoupu Wei

“…The simulation results verify that the proposed method effectively controls the voltage and current amplitude while minimizing the operational cost and three-phase imbalance within acceptable limits. …”
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Salt and Pepper Noise Removal with Noise Detection and a Patch-Based Sparse Representation by Di Guo, Xiaobo Qu, Xiaofeng Du, Keshou Wu, Xuhui Chen

“…An alternating direction minimization algorithm is derived to solve the regularization model. …”
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