ACKNOWLEDGMENT TO REVIEWERS

“… We extend our sincere appreciation to the reviewers listed below of this year (2023) for their valuable time,  thoughtful insights, and constructive feedback, which significantly contributed to the enhancement of  manuscript  …”
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START Triage Scale in Disasters by Galip Usta, Kemal Torpuş, Uçar Küçük

“…Disasters are events that occur since the beginning of time. When previous records are investigated, information on various types of disasters occurred in different parts of the World are encountered. …”
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Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Sleep Quality and Mental Health of College Students by Lu Li

“…In recent years, people’s living standards have been greatly improved, but at the same time, it also brings many health problems, among which mental health problems and sleep problems of college students are important problems. …”
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Daily Activity Pattern of Geladas (Theropithecus gelada, Ruppell 1835) in Kotu Forest, Northern Ethiopia by Degu Abate, Zerihun Girma

“…Therefore, there is a need for further in-depth research on diet availability and quality to justify why geladas allocate more time for feeding and moving nexus for conservation interventions.…”
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Effect of Compost Addition on Porosity and Hydraulic Properties of Different Textured Soils by Nurten İşler, Yasemin Kavdır

“…At the same treatment and time, total porosity increased by 14.29% in clay soil. …”
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High-resolution isotope dietary analysis of Mesolithic and Neolithic humans from Franchthi Cave, Greece. by Valentina Martinoia, Anastasia Papathanasiou, Sahra Talamo, Rebecca MacDonald, Michael P Richards

“…However, at Franchthi Cave previous isotope research did not show changes in diets between these two periods, and also showed relatively little input from marine foods in diets in either time period, despite the coastal location of the site and the presence of marine shellfish and fish, including tuna. …”
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Influence of Crucible Thermal Conductivity on Crystal Growth in an Industrial Directional Solidification Process for Silicon Ingots by Zaoyang Li, Lijun Liu, Yunfeng Zhang, Genshu Zhou

“…Increasing the crucible thermal conductivity can shorten the time for melting of silicon feedstock and growing of silicon crystal significantly, and therefore large thermal conductivity is helpful in saving both production time and power energy. …”
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Direction Finding Using Multiple Sum and Difference Patterns in 4D Antenna Arrays by Quanjiang Zhu, Shiwen Yang, Ruilin Yao, Zaiping Nie

“…The full 4D array is divided into two subarrays and the differential evolution (DE) algorithm is used to optimize the time sequence of each subarray to generate multibeams at the center frequency and low sidebands. …”
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Optimization of Deep Oxidative Desulfurization Process Using Ionic Liquid and Potassium Monopersulfate by Yinke Zhang, Hang Xu, Mengfan Jia, Zhuang Liu, Deqiang Qu

“…The sequence of four experimental conditions on desulfurization followed the order temperature > time > [Bmim]Cl/CoCl2 dosage > PMS solution dosage.…”
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Interhemispheric Transfer in Down’s Syndrome by C. M. J. Braun, L. Riopel

“…Callosal agenesics and callosotomized epileptics manifest markedly increasing simple visual reaction time (SVRT) from conditions of ipsilateral to contralateral stimulus-response relation (SRR). …”
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Experimental Studies on Damage Detection in Frame Structures Using Vibration Measurements by Giancarlo Fraraccio, Adrian Brügger, Raimondo Betti

“…This paper presents an experimental study of frequency and time domain identification algorithms and discusses their effectiveness in structural health monitoring of frame structures using acceleration input and response data. …”
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Preparation of Biodiesel through Transesterification of Animal Oil and AlcoholUnder the Catalysis of SO42- / TiO2 by Xiu-Yan Pang, Ting-Ting You

“…With animal oil as raw materials, ethanol as transesterifying agent and SO42- / TiO2as catalyst, the influence of reaction time, mass ratio of ethanol to oil and the dosage of catalyst were investigated. …”
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Design and Implementation of Automatic Wheat Mower Based on Smart Sensor Fed by a Photovoltaic by Hikmet Esen, Abdullah Kapicioglu, Onur Ozsolak

“…The biggest problems of our time are environmental pollution and the reduction of fossil fuel resources. …”
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Features of Adjusting the Frozen Soil Properties Using Borehole Temperature Measurements by Mikhail Semin, Lev Levin, Aleksandr Bogomyagkov, Aleksei Pugin

“…It was shown that the discrepancy functional minimum under certain conditions moves over time or is nonunique. This phenomenon results in ambiguity in adjusting the mathematical model parameters in the frozen soil to fit the borehole temperature survey data. …”
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On the Use of Molecular Weight Cutoff Cassettes to Measure Dynamic Relaxivity of Novel Gadolinium Contrast Agents: Example Using Hyaluronic Acid Polymer Complexes in Phosphate-Buff... by Nima Kasraie, Henry Wayne Oviatt, Geoffrey David Clarke

“…The aims of this study were to determine whether standard extracellular contrast agents of Gd(III) ions in combination with a polymeric entity susceptible to hydrolytic degradation over a finite period of time, such as Hyaluronic Acid (HA), have sufficient vascular residence time to obtain comparable vascular imaging to current conventional compounds and to obtain sufficient data to show proof of concept that HA with Gd-DTPA ligands could be useful as vascular imaging agents. …”
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A Fast Fully Parallel Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm Based on CUDA for Solving TSP by Zhi Zeng, Yuxing Cai, Kwok L. Chung, Hui Lin, Jinwei Wu

“…The experimental results show that, compared with the effective strategies ACO (ESACO) that runs on CPU, the speed-up ratio of the proposed algorithm reaches 35, and the running time is less than that of the max–min ant system-roulette wheel method-bitmask tabu (MMAS-RWM-BT) that runs on GPU. …”
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A Survey of Open Source Products for Building a SIP Communication Platform by Pavel Segec, Tatiana Kovacikova

“…The integration of SIP into existing IP networks has fostered IP networks becoming a convergence platform for both real-time and non-real-time multimedia communications. …”
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Mayfly Taylor Optimisation-Based Scheduling Algorithm with Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Scheduling in Fog-Cloud Computing by G. Shruthi, Monica R. Mundada, B. J. Sowmya, S. Supreeth

“…Fog computing domain plays a prominent role in supporting time-delicate applications, which are associated with smart Internet of Things (IoT) services, like smart healthcare and smart city. …”
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Capnography and the Bispectral Index—Their Role in Pediatric Sedation: A Brief Review by Maria Sammartino, Barbara Volpe, Fabio Sbaraglia, Rossella Garra, Alessandro D'Addessi

“…The Bispectral index (BIS) allows the reduction of dose requirements of anaesthetic drugs, the reduction in the time to extubation and eye opening, and the reduction in the time to discharge. …”
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Pick-Up and Delivery Problem for Sequentially Consolidated Urban Transportation with Mixed and Multi-Pupropse Vehicle Fleet by Haoye Chen, Jonas Hatzenbühler, Erik Jenelius

“…Results show that the proposed algorithm is time-efficient and able to generate robust and high-quality solutions. …”
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