Investigation of thermal conductivity of Prosopis juliflora / Acacia leucophloea / Acacia nilotica fibers / ceramic fillers / epoxy composites by Cholapancheri Krishnaswamy Hemalatha, Gopalan Venkatachalam, Mohan Bhuvaneshwari

“…The prepared samples are tested for thermal conductivity and the optimisation of parameters is scrutinized using the Box–Behnken Design (BBD). …”
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Using crafted features and polar bear optimization algorithm for short-term electric load forecast system by Mansi Bhatnagar, Gregor Rozinaj, Radoslav Vargic

“…We also showcased the ability of the Polar Bear Optimisation (PBO) algorithm for hyperparameter tuning of the machine learning models in STLF. …”
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Reinforcement Learning for Reconfigurable Robotic Soccer by M. Shameer Ahamed, J. J. J. Pey, S. M. Bhagya P. Samarakoon, M. A. Viraj J. Muthugala, Mohan Rajesh Elara

“…RL was used with the Proximal Policy Optimisation (PPO) algorithm to train and optimise goal scoring. …”
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LPI‐based cooperative tactic for satellite communication uplink signal accompanied by directed and power limited jamming by Fei Wang, Xiaoyan Huang, Yiyuan Chen, Chenguang Shi, Jun Chen

“…First, based on the satellite link equation, an optimisation model for LPI SCUS is established with coding and synchronisation of symbol and carrier frequency. …”
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Determination of heat input impact on residual stress, microstructure and mechanical characteristics of welded ferrite-pearlite (α-P) steel joints by using taguchi optimization app... by Nagaraju Doredla, Senthil Kumar N

“…Trail runs were conducted using the Taguchi design optimisation approach. Taguchi method is useful to standardise and simplify the use of design of experiments. …”
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Maximum-Power Stirling-like Heat Engine with a Harmonically Confined Brownian Particle by Irene Prieto-Rodríguez, Antonio Prados, Carlos A. Plata

“…This is a crucial aspect, which enables the optimisation of the thermodynamic cycle by maximising the delivered power—thereby addressing a key goal at the practical level. …”
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Resonant Young’s Slit Interferometer for Sensitive Detection of Low-Molecular-Weight Biomarkers by Stefanus Renaldi Wijaya, Augusto Martins, Katie Morris, Steven D. Quinn, Thomas F. Krauss

“…To address this challenge, we used a resonant Young’s slit interferometer geometry and implemented several innovations, such as phase noise matching and optimisation of the fringe spacing, to maximise the signal-to-noise ratio. …”
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Tuning of controller parameters for suppressing low frequency oscillations in electric railway traction networks using meta‐heuristic algorithms by Prasenjit Dey, Phumin Kirawanich, Chaiyut Sumpavakup, Aniruddha Bhattacharya

“…For suppressing LFOs, coronavirus herd immunity optimiser (CHIO), a recently developed meta‐heuristic, has been applied for tuning controller parameters. …”
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Examining information needs of public data service users: a study based on the ‘Message Board for Leaders of People’s Daily in China’ by Xiaoyue Zhang, Jinya Liu, Xinyue Wang, Wanteng Ma, Pu Yan

“…Governance process optimisation is critical to achieve the goal of improving public services efficiency. …”
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Narrowing the gap between machine learning scoring functions and free energy perturbation using augmented data by Ísak Valsson, Matthew T. Warren, Charlotte M. Deane, Aniket Magarkar, Garrett M. Morris, Philip C. Biggin

“…However, current models lack robust evaluation and fail on tasks encountered in (hit-to-) lead optimisation, such as ranking the binding affinity of a congeneric series of ligands, thereby limiting their application in drug discovery. …”
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Optimization of Physiochemical Parameters during Bioremediation of Synthetic Dye by Marasmius cladophyllus UMAS MS8 Using Statistical Approach by Fatin Nur Sufinas Shuib, Ahmad Husaini, Azham Zulkharnain, Hairul Azman Roslan, Tay Meng Guan

“…The use of microorganisms in bioremediation requires the optimisation of parameters used in cultivating the organism. …”
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A Decentralised Task Mapping Approach for Homogeneous Multiprocessor Network-On-Chips by Peter Zipf, Gilles Sassatelli, Nurten Utlu, Nicolas Saint-Jean, Pascal Benoit, Manfred Glesner

“…Also, tasks added at run-time can be handled without any difficulty, allowing for inline optimisation. Based on local information on processor workload, task size, communication requirements, and link contention, iterative decisions on task migrations to other processors are made. …”
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Frailty risk prediction models for patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis in China: a systematic review by Yu Zhong, Songmei Cao, Liangying Chen, Teng Li, Wei Ye

“…Abstract Objective To promote the application of high-quality frailty risk prediction models in the field of debilitation among Chinese patients undergoing MHD, and to provide a basis for optimisation and improvement of future studies. Methods A literature search was conducted in Chinese and English databases (PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, Embase, CNKI, Wanfang, VIP, SinoMed) and the cutoff date for which was April 30, 2024. …”
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A little more conversation, a little more action, please: the carbon footprint of travelling to conferences of the European Health Psychology Society by Lisa M. Warner, Ruvn Fleiner, Gudrun Sproesser, James A. Green, Lucia Rehackova, Jennifer Inauen, Vera Araújo-Soares, Claudia Teran-Escobar

“…The selected European locations of these conferences enable more delegates to choose alternative forms of transportation instead of flying, such as trains, cars or buses, and consequently lead to significantly lower CO2eq emissions.Discussion: The principal avenues for curbing travel-related emissions while maintaining on-site attendance are the provision of hybrid conferences with enhanced online participation and the optimisation of venue locations.…”
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Energy Consumption of an Active Vehicle Suspension with an Optimal Controller in the Presence of Sinusoidal Excitations by Jarosław Konieczny, Waldemar Rączka, Marek Sibielak, Janusz Kowal

“…The control law for such systems is usually determined as a solution of an optimisation problem with a quality indicator. The effectiveness of vibration reduction is possible to be improved in the entire useful frequency range of a system operation, but usually increasing external energy consumption is observed. …”
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Load frequency control in renewable based micro grid with Deep Neural Network based controller by Prasantini Samal, Niranjan Nayak, Anshuman Satapathy, Sujit Kumar Bhuyan

“…This paper introduces a novel control strategy to optimise the load frequency model in a microgrid (MG) with vehicle-to-grid interactions using Particle Swarm Optimisation - deep Artificial Neural Network (PSO-DNN). …”
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Bounded rational real‐time charging pricing strategy under the traffic‐grid coupling network by Chudi Wang, Shaohua Ma, Zhiyuan Cai, Ning Yan, Qiwei Wang

“…Finally, the particle swarm optimisation algorithm is used to solve the game model so as to solve the real‐time charging price under various constraints. …”
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Hardware Efficient Speech Enhancement With Noise Aware Multi-Target Deep Learning by Salinna Abdullah, Majid Zamani, Andreas Demosthenous

“…For optimal speech denoising, the SE system, trained with multiple-target joint learning, switches between mapping-based, masking-based, or complementary processing, depending on the level of noise contamination detected. Optimisation techniques, including ternary quantisation, structural pruning, efficient sparse matrix representation and cost-effective approximations for complex computations, were implemented to reduce area, memory, and power requirements. …”
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A Study Using the Network Simulation Method and Nondimensionalization of the Fiber Fuse Effect by Juan Francisco Sanchez-Pérez, Joaquín Solano-Ramírez, Fulgencio Marín-García, Enrique Castro

“…The results highlight the effectiveness of the NSM in solving nonlinear and coupled problems in thermal engineering, providing a solid framework for future research in the optimisation of optical communication systems.…”
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The never-ending story of public administration reform in Slovenia (from 1991 to further development) by Polona Kovač

“…The recommendations that Slovenia can deliver in conducting public administration reform to ensure optimal results are today the following: orientation towards users, effectiveness and efficiency, openness, adequate rewarding of civil servants, optimisation and informatisation of working processes, involvement in international networks, awareness of public administration doings’ impacts in national economy, consistent political support, long-term strategic planning.…”
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