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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Robust H∞ Control Implementation in IFOC for High-Performance Electric Vehicle Induction Motors by Boudallaa Abdelhak, Chennani Mohammed, Belkhadir Ahmed, Rhofir Karim, Belkhayat Driss

“…This technique was simulated in MATLAB/Simulink environment and subsequently implemented in real time.…”
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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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People’s perception of the impact of parks on increasing physical activity in the community by Joni Marcio de Farias, Ricardo Teixeira Quinaud

“…Data was analyzed using multilevel ordinal regression analysis considering the variability by gender, civil state, distance from the park, education, age group, living time in the city, time spent by the users in the park and wage. …”
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Efficient and fully simulated oblivious transfer protocol on elliptic curve by Jiashuo SONG, Zhenzhen LI, Haiyang DING, Zichen LI

“…Oblivious transfer protocol, an important technology in secure multi-party computation, is the research hotspot on network and information security.Based on the bilinear pairs and the difficult problems on elliptic curves, an efficient 1-out-of-N oblivious transfer protocol in the semi-honest model and in the standard malicious model were proposed respectively.The protocol in semi-honest model was designed.It only needed two rounds of interaction.The receiver needed two times of bilinear pair arithmetic and one time of multi point arithmetic, and the sender needed n times of multi point arithmetic and n times of modular exponentiation.The security of the protocol was based on the discrete logarithm problem on elliptic curves.A zero-knowledge proof protocol and the oblivious transfer protocol in the standard malicious model were proposed respectively.The oblivious transfer protocol only needed four rounds of interaction.The receiver needed three times of bilinear pair arithmetic and three times of multi point arithmetic, and the sender needed n+1 times of multi point arithmetic and n+1 times of modular exponentiation.Besides, it can resist malicious behaviors of the party.The results show that the average running time of the protocol in the semi-honest model and in the standard malicious model were 0.787 9 s and 1.205 6 s respectively, which can further demonstrate the efficiency of the protocol.…”
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ANALYSIS OF THE INFLUENCE OF CONTACT RATIO ON VIBRATION CHARACTERISTICS OF HERRINGBONE GEAR TRANSMISSION SYSTEM (MT) by YIN XunMin, JIA HaiTao, ZHANG RunBo, ZHANG XiJin

“…Then, the influence of contact ratio on time-varying meshing stiffness and meshing impact force is analyzed. …”
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Wavelets, approximation, and comperssion by Sarkout Abdi, Aram Azizi, Mahmoud Shafiei, Jamshid Saeidian

“…The contributions of wavelets have often been in the subtle interplay between discrete-time and continuous-time signal processing. The purpose of this article is to look at recent wavelet advances from a signal processing perspective. …”
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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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THE SECURITY ASPECT OF TURKEY-UNITED STATES RELATIONS: IN SEARCH FOR A NEW MODEL by I. A. Svistunova

“…Both Turkey and the USA started to use cooperation within NATO for the purpose of strengthening their global positions. At the same time the USA aspiration to use military bases in Turkey beyond NATO obligations frequently becomes a source of disagreement and crises in the relations of the two countries as it happened during the American intervention to Iraq in 2003. …”
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IMPACT OF FISH WASTE PROTEIN ENZYMETIC HYDROLYSATE ON GROWTH OF SOME OF Lactobacillus sp. AND Bifidobacterium sp. by A. S. Mohammed

“…The highest degree of hydrolysis for the concentrate was acheived after 120 minutes of enzymatic reaction time, being (50.8 and 52.4)%, their solubilities were increased with increasing enzymatic reaction time, and highest values were recorded at pH 2 and 10. …”
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Empowering drones in vehicular network through fog computing and blockchain technology. by Shivani Wadhwa, Divya Gupta, Shalli Rani, Maha Driss, Wadii Boulila

“…The performance of drones, especially for time-sensitive tasks, is critical in various applications. …”
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Multiaxial fatigue criterion based on parameters from torsion and axial S-N curve by M. Margetin, R. Ďurka, V. Chmelko

“…In recent years, a great deal of recommendations how to address problems with multiaxial fatigue life time estimation have been made and a huge progress in the field has been achieved. …”
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Spatial Spectroscopy Approach for Detection of Internal Defect of Component without Zero-Position Sensors by Qizhou Wu, Yong Jin, Zhaoba Wang, Zhaoqian Xiao

“…Conventional approach to detect the internal defect of a component needs sensors to mark the “zero” positions, which is time-consuming and lowers down the detecting efficiency. …”
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Multirule Based Diagnostic Approach for the Fog Predictions Using WRF Modelling Tool by Swagata Payra, Manju Mohan

“…Through this approach model identified foggy and nonfoggy days successfully 94% of the time. Further, the onset of fog events is well captured within an accuracy of 30–90 minutes. …”
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