Segmentation of Activated Sludge Flocs in Microscopic Images for Monitoring Wastewater Treatment by Ahmed Elaraby, Walid Hamdy, Humaira Nisar, Monagi H. Alkinani

“…Hence, image processing and analysis could be a time-saving monitoring tool. To address this challenge, we propose a novel framework involving a multiphase edge detection algorithm based on information theory. …”
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The U.S. Tomato Industry: An Overview of Production and Trade by Zhengfei Guan, Trina Biswas, Feng Wu

“…This 4-page fact sheet written by Zhengfei guan, Trina Biswas, and Feng Wu and published by the UF/IFAS Food and Resource Economics Department argues for US government measures to help the domestic tomato industry resolve labor shortages and encourage research and development of labor-saving technologies such as mechanical harvesting to make the US tomato industry more competitive and sustainable. …”
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Percutaneous Emergency Needle Caecostomy for Prevention of Caecal Perforation by Alexandra M. Limmer, Zackariah Clement

“…This case describes the novel use of percutaneous needle caecostomy as a life-saving measure to prevent imminent caecal perforation in a 68-year-old lady with large bowel obstruction secondary to an incarcerated incisional hernia. …”
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Green virtual topology design algorithm based on constraint-based routing by Yuan-sheng WU, Bing GUO, Yan SHEN, Ji-he WANG, Xiao-bin LIU

“…The simulation results indicate that CBR-GVTD can achieve at most 62%～90% power saving with very high resource utilization (80%～90% for interface utilization) and excellent routing performance (not more than 5 for maximum routing hops).…”
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The Buzz Around Access to Financial Services by Individuals by Lusanda Batala

“…Greater access to financial services is essential to people’s well-being as it promotes entrepreneurship, moves people out of poverty, and provides hope for a better economic future. Tools such as savings, payment, and credit services are crucial to smoothing household level consumption, helping insure against risk, and allowing investment in education and other capital forms. …”
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An Energy-Efficient Transmission Protocol for RNC-Based Cooperative WSNs with Partial Energy Harvesting Nodes by Yulun Cheng, Longxiang Yang

“…We develop an energy efficiency model to investigate the tradeoff mechanism between the saved energy and the waiting time of the EH node, through which the corresponding parameters in the policy are also optimized. …”
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Application of 5G in railway smart stations by Ruifeng CHEN, Jun LI, Chunjie XU, Qingbo CHENG, Xiaojun LV

“…Accelerating the 5G “new infrastructure” strategy has become the inevitable development trend of railway smart stations.Firstly, state-of-the-art of relevant business of railway smart stations in China was analyzed.Afterwards, the application requirements of 5G communication in railway smart stations were outlined, and then 5G communication network architecture of railway smart stations was constructed based on cloud edge collaboration.Finally, the application modes of railway smart stations based on 5G communication and cloud edge collaboration were respectively proposed for passenger travel service, station operating organization, security guarantee and green energy saving.The application of railway smart stations based on 5G communication can promote the transformation and upgrading of stations, enhance the quality of passenger service, improve passenger travel experience, and increase the efficiency of passenger transport operating organization.…”
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A Real-Time Structure of Attitude Algorithm for High Dynamic Bodies by Xingcheng Li, Shuangbiao Zhang

“…During the update of the attitude matrix, the real-time structure saves every element of attitude matrix in minor loop in real time and updates the next attitude matrix based on the previous matrix every subsample time. …”
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A Novel Execution Mode Selection Scheme for Wireless Computing by Jiadi Chen, Wenbo Wang

“…However, the offloading is not an always advantageous strategy for under some circumstances the overhead in time and energy may turn out to be greater than the offloading savings. Therefore, an offloading decision scheme is in demand for mobile devices to decide whether to offload a computation task to the server or to execute it in a local processor. …”
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Research on the Method of Improved Indexing Accuracy for Gear Shaper based on TE Detection and Control Theory by Yong Zheng, Donglin Peng, Yan Chen, Tianheng Zhang, Qiwu Zhou

“…The method of adjusting and installing many times in the past is replaced, which saves the installation time and improves the installation precision. …”
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Significance of the analysis of banking and financial performance in the countries of the Western Balkans in the period 2010-2019 by Lutovac Jelena

“…Namely, by centralizing money capital, it collects and transforms savings and deposits of citizens, companies and the state. …”
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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

“…Simulation results show that P-LEACH performs better than previous techniques in terms of energy saving of sensor nodes and data transmission performance.…”
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Event-Based Nonfragile H∞ Filter Design for Networked Control Systems with Interval Time-Varying Delay by Zhongda Lu, Guangtao Ran, Guoliang Zhang, Fengxia Xu

“…An event-triggered scheme is addressed to determine sampled data to be transmitted so that network communication resource can be saved significantly. The nonfragile filter design is assumed to include multiplicative gain variations according to the filter’s implement. …”
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Influence of 3D Printed Topological Structure on Lightweight Mullite Load Bearing Board in Thermal Environment by Yiran Man, Xudong Luo, Zhipeng Xie, Dianli Qu

“…In order to achieve the purpose of resource and energy saving in the process of producing ceramics products, the hollow lightweight load bearing board in thermal environment with topological structures was made by 3D printing. …”
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Collapse Pressure Analysis of Transversely Isotropic Thick-Walled Cylinder Using Lebesgue Strain Measure and Transition Theory by A. K. Aggarwal, Richa Sharma, Sanjeev Sharma

“…This is because of the reason that percentage increase in effective pressure required for initial yielding to become fully plastic is high for beryl as compared to steel which leads to the idea of “stress saving” that reduces the possibility of collapse of thick-walled cylinder due to internal and external pressure.…”
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Outsourcing in Sandy Springs and Other US Cities: Insights for Other Countries by Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, Stephen J. Bailey, Pekka Valkama

“…However, there is now a public sector austerity context within which to reassess Sandy Springs’ use of turnkey outsourcing to achieve significant cost savings and improve services. The paper reports empirical research which it uses to derive insights for municipalities considering outsourcing. …”
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Providers’ Beliefs and Values: Understanding Their Approach to Gender-Affirming Care by Ahona Shirin, Maya Daniello, Laura Stamm

“…They emphasized the importance of respecting patients’ gender identities and viewing GAC as life-saving. Conclusion: Despite legislative challenges, the study highlights a strong consensus among providers on the medical necessity of GAC for TGD youth.…”
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Internal Gripping Device of the Manipulator based on Worm and Worm Gear and Crank Connecting Rod Drive by Xia Chunfeng, Wang Mingdi, Zhong Kangmin

“…The device has the characteristic of compact structure,easy operation,time-saving and less effort,well flexibility and high greenization.…”
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Effects of Knowledge and Attitude, E-Health Literacy, and Health Self-Efficacy on COVID-19 Vaccine Intention in India by Anamika Chandra, Devina Sharma, Apurvakumar Pandya, Arpit Datey, Ashu Singh

“…The most promising method for saving people against the pandemic proved to be vaccination. …”
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Using Multi-Sensor Soil Moisture Probes to Decide When and How Long to Run Drip Irrigation by Sanjay Shukla, Nathan Holt

“…Implementation and proper management of more efficient crop irrigation systems can create significant water savings. Drip irrigation for vegetable production in Florida has been shown to be more efficient than the seepage irrigation (20%–50% efficiency), because drip irrigation supplies water and nutrients directly to the root zone, allowing efficiencies of 80%–90% to be achieved with proper management. …”
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