Using GIS-Based Tools for the Optimization of Solid Waste Collection and Transport: Case Study of Sfax City, Tunisia by Amjad Kallel, Mohamed Moncef Serbaji, Moncef Zairi

“…Expenditure for waste collection and transport in Tunisia constitutes 75–100% of the total solid waste management budget. …”
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Produire le logement social. Hausse de la construction, changements institutionnels et mutations de l’intervention publique en faveur des HLM (2004-2014) by Matthieu Gimat

“…Since the early 2000s, social housing production in France has become increasingly more expensive: both land prices and construction costs have increased. At the same time, the State has considerably reduced the direct subsidies granted to each new development. …”
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Spatial and Temporal Distribution Law and Influencing Factors of the Mining-Induced Deformation and Failure of Gas Boreholes by Fei Xue, Xiaowei Feng

“…Because gas boreholes are easy to damage by integrated coal mining and gas exploration, based on the practice of relieving pressure in deep thin coal seams in the Huainan mining area, a multidimensional coupling numerical simulation method was used to reveal the space-time evolution characteristics and influence factors of fracture deformation of gob-side gas boreholes. …”
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Comparison of Fluid Pressure Wave between Biot Theory and Storativity Equation by Guangquan Li, Kui Liu, Xiang Li

“…At frequency lower than 100 kHz, Biot theory yields a wave velocity 8 percent higher than storativity equation does. …”
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EdgeNet: An End-to-End Deep Neural Network Pretrained with Synthetic Data for a Real-World Autonomous Driving Application by Leanne Miller, Pedro J. Navarro, Francisca Rosique

“…In addition, pretraining with synthetic data reduces training time and enhances model performance when using real-world data.…”
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Unmasking Fitness in Healthy Adults Versus Hypertensives Through Cardiorespiratory Responses to Treadmill Exercise: A Case-Control Study by Ruchi Kothari, Suryadev A. Vrindavanam, Alekhya Emandi, Rashmita Vakamullu, Mohana Kanthamneni, Sai S. Vemparala

“…Methodology: This case-control study included 100 participants, 50 hypertensive patients, and 50 age- and sex-matched healthy controls. …”
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Research and Verification of Key Techniques in the Simulation of Space Extremely Rapid Decompression in Millisecond by Junwei Wang, Lei Zhang, Guohua Li, Ran Liu, Juan Ning, Xiao Han, Xin He

“…The simulation results show that the effect of the opening on the decompression process is very obvious and the decompression time corresponding to 50%, 75%, and 100% opening is 479.1 ms, 320.7 ms, and 290.1 ms, respectively. …”
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Morphological and Molecular study of Seven New Recorded of Ostracod in - Kurdistan Region, Iraq by Berivan A. Latef, Luay A. Ali

“…After the maturation period, adult species were fixed (were preserved) in 70% and 100% ethanol for morphological and molecular analysis respectively. …”
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Extending NGOMSL Model for Human-Humanoid Robot Interaction in the Soccer Robotics Domain by Rajesh Elara Mohan, Carlos Antonio Acosta Calderon, Changjiu Zhou, Pik Kong Yue

“…The NGOMSL modelled human-humanoid interaction design of Robo-Erectus Junior was evaluated and the results of the experiments showed that the interaction design was able to find faults in an average time of 23.84 s. Also, the interaction design was able to detect the fault within the 60 s in 100% of the cases. …”
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RESEARCH ON ACTIVE CONTROL OF VARIABLE MASS SEAT SUSPENSION USING PD CONTROL by AN CunSheng, CHEN XiaoLiang, WEI WeiZhen, LIU Kui

“…At the same time, the suspension stroke is reduced respectively by 4.76%, 33.87% and 18.18%. …”
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Effect of load and temperature on the abrasion behavior of the 20CrMnTi alloy steel by WU Xiaolong, DU Yaosen, GAO Pengju, TANG Xiaoren, WANG Xiaosai

“…These will inevitably affect its service performance over time. It is very important to master the failure mechanism of surface abrasion damage of 20CrMnTi alloy steel during actual service.MethodsBased on the wear test device and electrochemical corrosion workstation, the damage behavior and corrosion kinetics of the 20CrMnTi alloy steel at different temperatures (25 ℃/100 ℃) and loads (35 N/55 N/75 N) were studied.ResultsThe test results show that the increase of wear temperature and normal load will aggravate the wear of the material, and then reduce the electrochemical corrosion resistance of the surface. …”
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Assessing the Physical Surface Temperature Patterns in Urban Environment (Case Study: Tehran) by Aliakbar Shamsipour, Ghasem Azizi, Mostafa Karimi Ahmadabad, Masoumeh Moghbel

“…To extract different land cover surface temperature patterns such as Asphalt, Soil, Cement and Stone, three OPUS 200/300 Data Loggers with six PT100 sensors were installed in Geophysic Weather Station in University of Tehran and the temperatures of land covers were measured in 10 minute-time intervals during one statistical period (2012-2013). …”
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Effect of Ionizers on Indoor Air Quality and Performance of Air Cleaning Systems by Francisco J. Romay, Qisheng Ou, David Y. H. Pui

“…The experiments measured the indoor particle concentration decay of a polydisperse NaCl aerosol as a function of time for a variety of indoor room conditions including: (1) zero ventilation in the room, (2) HVAC system (100% outdoor air) at fixed flow rate, (3) Indoor air cleaners at different flow settings. …”
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Racial/Ethnic inequality & contemporary disparities in mortgage lending. by Meghan M O'Neil, Vincent J Roscigno

“…Our analyses, which make use of multilevel modeling, reveal durable inequalities for African Americans and Hispanics across time and advantages for Non-Hispanic White and Asian-American applicants. …”
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Gadospin F—Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Diagnosis and Monitoring of Atherosclerosis: Validation with Transmission Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Fluorescence Imaging in t... by Caroline Jung, Tanja Dučić, Rudolph Reimer, Eva Koziolek, Fabian Kording, Markus Heine, Gerhard Adam, Harald Ittrich, Michael G. Kaul

“…Contrast-enhanced MRI was performed at 7 T Clinscan (Bruker, Ettlingen, Germany) before and 2 hours after intravenous injection of GDF (100 μmol/kg) to determine the blood clearance. Plaque size and contrast to noise ratio (CNR) were calculated for each time point using region of interest measurements to evaluate plaque progression. …”
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The possible usage of konjac gum in ice-cream production by K. Kaan Tekinşen, Ahmet Güner, Gürkan Uçar

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Authenticity Detection of Black Rice by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Support Vector Data Description by Hui Chen, Chao Tan, Zan Lin

“…On average, the optimized SVDD model achieves acceptable performance, i.e., a specificity of 100% and a sensitivity of 94.2% on the independent test set with tight boundary. …”
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Monitoring the Number of Pedestrians in an Area: The Applicability of Counting Systems for Density State Estimation by D. C. Duives, W. Daamen, S. P. Hoogendoorn

“…However, there are no sensor systems that are 100% accurate. Detection errors might have severe consequences for the density state estimation at large squares. …”
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Controlled Assembly of Nanorod TiO2 Crystals via a Sintering Process: Photoanode Properties in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Saeid Vafaei, Kazuhiro Manseki, Soki Horita, Masaki Matsui, Takashi Sugiura

“…We present for the first time a synthetic method of obtaining 1D TiO2 nanorods with sintering methods using bundle-shaped 3D rutile TiO2 particles (3D BR-TiO2) with the dimensions of around 100 nm. …”
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Development and Validation of Activity Based Learning Scale among Teachers by Ritu Samaddar, Deb Prasad Sikdar

“…Results: After item analysis, the scale had 25 items remaining, covering six broad dimensions: Time Management, Content Complete, Student Interest, Class Control, Child Psychology, Preparation. …”
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