Material Flow Analysis of Fossil Fuels in China during 2000–2010 by Sheng Wang, Jing Dai, Meirong Su

“…Since the relationship between the supply and demand of fossil fuels is on edge in the long run, the contradiction between the economic growth and limited resources will hinder the sustainable development of the Chinese society. …”
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Trusted Computing Strengthens Cloud Authentication by Eghbal Ghazizadeh, Mazdak Zamani, Jamalul-lail Ab Manan, Mojtaba Alizadeh

“…Cloud computing is a new generation of technology which is designed to provide the commercial necessities, solve the IT management issues, and run the appropriate applications. Another entry on the list of cloud functions which has been handled internally is Identity Access Management (IAM). …”
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A Cost Function Approach to the Prediction of Passenger Distribution at the Subway Platform by Xiaoxia Yang, Xiaoli Yang, Zhenling Wang, Yuanlei Kang

“…Simulation experiments are run for the model calibration and validation combining with the collected field data. …”
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Artificial Reefs in Florida 101: Effects on Fisheries--Part 4 of an Artificial Reef series by Lisa Chong, Angela B. Collins, Holly Abeels, Anna Braswell, Andrew Ropicki, Edward V. Camp

“…This publication, part 4 of the Artificial Reefs series, explores a complicated but fascinating aspect of artificial reefs—should we expect them to lead to better fishing in the long run? Many people think artificial reefs should be a “win-win” since both fish and fishers seem to like them. …”
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Lutte contre l’inflation : enjeux de la fixation des salaires à Électricité de France by Hélène Bénistand

“…In flow industries like EDF, wage setting entailed specific problems. Plants have to run non-stop to maintain output. Workers engaged in “supervision and control” use their skills to operate on the edge of what is predictable. …”
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The performance of the weather research & forecasting model (WRF) using ensemble method to predict weather parameters by Pratama Alvin, Oktaviana Ade A., Kombara Prawira Y., Isnaenda Ikhsan Muhammad

“…In this study, two nested domains have been used for performance analysis, with the resolution of the coarser domain set at 9 km and the inner domain set at 3 km. The model was run for five days in 2019 during a forest fire episode in Riau Province. …”
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Three-Stage Dynamic Games of Government-Park-Visitor in Visitor Education Intervention by Dongping Wei, Shouwen Wen, Diabate Ardjouman, Yizeng Chen

“…When visitor education system develops to a certain stage with the help of government induction fund, it can run autonomously without the external factors. And the win-win-win situation of the government, parks, and visitors is obtained when the Nash equilibrium state of the game is reached. …”
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Optimizing Red Blood Cell Consumption Using Markov's Decision-Making Process (Case study: Blood Bank of Zanjan Province Blood Transfusion Center) by Mahdi Yousefi Nejad, Mehran Khayat Rasouli, Zohreh Khalilpour

“…By investigating different costs and comparing various (LIFO-LIFO), (FIFO-FIFO), and (LIFO, FIFO) policies, it can be concluded over iterations that policies (LIFO-LIFO) and (LIFO -FIFO) policies have better performances than the (FIFO-FIFO) policy, and will cost much less in the long run.…”
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The referral-marketing practices of travel agencies by Mornay Roberts-Lombard, TFJ Steyn

“…The findings stipulate that the owners and managers of travel agencies must create and establish more closely integrated relationships with strategic suppliers to increase the value offering of their products and services to customers, whereby the travel agencies can ensure that the needs and wants of customers can be satisfied more successfully, which, in the long run, could lead to positive word-of-mouth referrals. …”
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Socio-Economic and Regional Determinants of EU Ignorance in Turkiye by Mücahit Aslan

“…To close this gap, this research examines the effects of regions (cities) in Turkey on the EU ignorance by controlling for other variables frequently mentioned in previous research. In order to run the analysis, data from Eurobarometer 93.1 and 94.3 surveys were used and binary logistic regression was employed as a method of analysis because of the dichotomous nature of the dependent variable. …”
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Support algorithm for blast furnace operation with optimal fuel consumption by Bernasowski M., Klimczyk A., Stachura R.

“…On the other hand, using their own experience and decision-making software, a crew can run a blast furnace with minimal fuel consumption under current batch and process conditions. …”
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Present a new method for increasing the intelligence and speed of the Firefly algorithm by Fariba Solaymani, Narges Salehpour, Mohammad Nazari Farokhi

“…So if the number of firefly worms is more than 128, their run time with CPU is 2.5820 milliseconds but with using GPU 1.5090 milliseconds. …”
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EMIKNet: Expanding Multiple-Instance Inverse Kinematics Network for Multiple End-Effector and Multiple Solutions by Youn-Jae Go, Jun Moon

“…The experimental results of 7-Degrees of Freedom (DOF) robot arm manipulator with a single end-effector and 22-DOF robot arm-hand manipulator with multiple end-effectors show that the proposed method reduces both Euclidean Distance and Angular Distance as well as the Run-time, compared with the model-based numerical and earlier neural network methods. …”
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Editorial by Maria Frahm-Arp

“…The article by Resane explores this idea as he examines the impact of the Shepherding Movement within Pentecostalism and how a group of five men in the USA established a model for how churches should be run, but the movement was problematic and fell apart in the 1990s. …”
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Research on the Obstruction Process of Rigid Netting Barriers toward Granular Flow by Yunyun Fan, Fengyuan Wu

“…On this basis, the discrete element method was applied to simulate the obstruction process affecting granular flow under different RNB setting conditions, and the calculation results clearly present the phenomena that occur during the obstruction process of RNBs toward granular flow, such as “run-up,” “overflow,” “passing-through,” and “grain-size segregation.” …”
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Families, Friends, and the Neighborhood of Older Adults: Evidence from Public Housing in Singapore by Treena Wu, Angelique Chan

“…Using 4,542 observations of noninstitutionalized urban adults aged 60 and above, ordered logistic regressions are run to determine the predictors of isolation while controlling for physical health and demographics. …”
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Degradation State Recognition of Rolling Bearing Based on K-Means and CNN Algorithm by Qicai Zhou, Hehong Shen, Jiong Zhao, Xingchen Liu, Xiaolei Xiong

“…The proposed method was tested by bearing run-to-failure dataset provided by the Center for Intelligent Maintenance System, and the result proved the feasibility and reliability of the methodology.…”
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Effect of Earth Ground and Environment on Body-Centric Communications in the MHz Band by Katsuyuki Fujii, Yasuyuki Okumura

“…In this study, we model the human body shunted to earth ground in a radio anechoic chamber to analyze the electric field strength around it and clarify the effect of earth ground during BAN run time. The results suggest that earth ground has little influence on the human body and wearable devices. …”
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Scientific and Societal Considerations in Selecting Assessment Endpoints for Environmental Decision Making by Elizabeth M. Strange, Joshua Lipton, Douglas Beltman, Blaine D. Snyder

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Does Hands-on Science Practices Make an Impact on Achievement in Science? A Meta-Analysis by Serdar Caglak

“…In addition to the estimation of overall effect size using fixed- and random-effects models, subgroup analyses were also run through a mixed-effect model to determine whether heterogeneity in effect size estimates is due to the influence of moderator variables. …”
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