Delphi Fuzzy Elicitation Technique in the Determination of Third Party Failure Probability of Onshore Transmission Pipeline in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria by GO Ariavie, GC Ovuworie

“…Using, ten (10) experts opinion elucidated individually via email questionnaires and summarizing their responses in linguistic languages expression that were converted into failure probabilities for twelve (12) identified third part activities in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria using Fuzzy Set Theory tools. …”
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On Fuzzy Portfolio Selection Problems: A Parametric Representation Approach by Omid Solaymani Fard, Mohadeseh Ramezanzadeh

“…To this end, by the increasing representation of CCF, the main problem is converted to a parametric multiobjective programming problem and some solution concepts from a similar framework in the multiobjective programming are proposed for the CFOP. …”
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Kinematics Research of the Plunger Pump of the Gear-linked Cylinders Hydraulic Engine by Xu Wei, Zhang Hongxin, Shu Pei, Gao Lei

“…The plunger pump of the gear- linked cylinders hydraulic engine is a kind of liner reciprocating plunger pump that direct convert the indicated work into fluid pressure,it has advantages of compact structure and high volumetric efficiency. …”
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TRANSFORMATION OF THE RUSSIAN TAX SYSTEM IN THE CONTEXT OF ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY by E. Kirova, N. Morozova, A. Bezverkhiy

“…The controversial issues of a new approach to solving the problem of transformation of the tax system of the Russian Federation in the context of establishment of the digital economy have been considered. The problems of converting the tax system of the Russian Federation in digital reality and search for approaches to their solution have been identified. …”
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Growing Potatoes in the Florida Home Garden by Christian T. Christensen, Libby R. Rens, Jeffrey E. Pack, Lincoln Zotarelli, Chad Hutchinson, Wendy Dahl, Doug Gergela, James M. White

“…For example, in storage, the starches in potatoes convert to sugars, resulting in a less desirable texture and taste. …”
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SELECTION, TECHNO-ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS OF OFF-GRID POWER SYSTEM FOR APPLICATION IN A NIGERIAN UNIVERSITY BUILDING by CHIDIEBERE DIYOKE, THOMAS OKECHUKWU ONAH, OKWUCHUKWU INNOCENT ANI

“…The feasible system for serving the demand load of 250kWh/day for the building is a hybrid power system consisting of a 75kW rated solar PV, 40kW biogas engine and a 30 number 1kWh battery bank storage operating with a 33.6kW converter. The OES’s COE and NPC are 0.253$/kWh and $175219.7 respectively. …”
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Antenna selection algorithm based on cut-off rate for secure spatial modulation with finite alphabet input by Qingfeng DING, Tao XI, Qian YANG, Xu DING

“…For the security transmission of artificial noise with finite alphabet inputs in secure spatial modulation system,an antenna selection algorithm based on cut-off rate (COR) was proposed.Considering that it was difficult to obtain the closed-form expression of the secrecy rate,the problem of maximizing the secrecy rate into that of maximizing the COR was converted by the algorithm.Meanwhile,in order to reduce the complexity,the COR algorithm was optimized by expanding the matrix norm in columns,which was corresponding to the problem of antenna combination.Finally,the artificial noise vector was mapped in the legitimate channel space to optimize secrecy rate,which only interferes with eavesdropper.The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm based on COR is superior to the leakage-based algorithm and the maximum secrecy rate algorithm,and has lower complexity.…”
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Off-Grid DOA Estimation Based on Compressed Sensing on Multipath Environment by Bin Hu, Xueyong Shen, Min Jiang, Kaiheng Zhao

“…Then, the problem of multipath propagation coefficients estimation is converted to the estimation of an error matrix and the grid is refined iteratively. …”
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Multi-cell downlink coordinated beam forming algorithm based on fairness duality theory by Shi-wen HE, Yong-ming HUANG, Lv-xi YANG

“…With the goal to optimize the multi-cell downlink beamforming based on the criterion of the worst-user rate maximization,the Lagrangian duality theory was first used to derive a virtual multi-cell uplink optimization problem that was dual to the primal multi-cell downlink beamforming optimization problem.Base on that,an iterative algorithm was developed to solve the virtual uplink problem by combining the methods of bisection search and geometric programming.Then,the primal multi-cell downlink coordinated beamforming optimization problem could be solved by converting the solution of the virtual uplink problem to the downlink.Simulation results demonstrate that,in contrast to the existing coordinated beamforming schemes,the proposed scheme achieves better performance in terms of both the worst-user rate and the rate per energy (RPE).…”
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Sepsis, leukocytes, cytokines and disseminated intravascular coagulation by Ramazan Çöl, Zafer Durgun

“…Inflammatory cytokines initate coagulation mechanism by converting endothelium from an antithrombotic surface to a prothrombotic surface. …”
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PENDIDIKAN TAUHID MELALUI METODE BERPIKIR RASIONAL-ARGUMENTATIF by Fitriyani Rismawati

“… God sent His servant thinks to find faith, but in reality the majority of muslims with an identity crisis by simply accept the doctrine without thinking process. Felix Siauw as a convert to Islam who believe the thought, share the concept of rational-argumentative thinking to guides Muslims in their faith. …”
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Blind estimation of MPSK carrier frequency by DENG Zhen-miao, LIU Yu

“…The blind carrier frequency estimation of multi-phase shift keying（MPSK） signals was discussed.The carrier frequency was coarsely estimated without the prior knowledge of received signals.Consequently the signals were trans-formed to the baseband-modulated PSK signals by correlation to estimate the symbol rate.With the estimations of the carrier frequency and the symbol rate,the problem of carrier frequency estimation was converted to that of frequency offset.Because the phase of baseband-modulated PSK signal is a piecewise linear function and the slope coefficient of every segment is a linear function of frequency offset,the multi-segment line can be transformed to a straight-line and then the least squares fitting method was applied to estimate the slope coefficient.The simulation results show that this method can accurately estimate the carrier frequency without the prior knowledge.…”
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Recent Developments in Maximum Power Point Tracking Technologies for Photovoltaic Systems by Nevzat Onat

“…The solution to this problem is that switching power converters are used, that is called maximum power point tracker (MPPT). …”
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Design and research of service customized networking architecture by Tao HUANG, Chen ZHANG, Yuming XIAO, Shui YU, Yunjie LIU

“…A new network architecture of SCN (service customized networking) was systematically expounded, which provided a novel network underlying capability and usage method for Internet applications.TCP/IP network architecture served the application with “best effort” quality of service, while SCN converted the subject-object relationship between the application and network that allowed the application to “on-demand customize” the QoS of networks.From the perspective of applications, three major connotations “declarable”, “fine-grained” and “end-to-end” were excavated to deduce the overall design of SCN, where a concrete SCN architecture and a feasible SCN system realization were present.In future, SCN can be applied in scenarios of man-machine-things, such as remote industrial control, and augment reality, to provide a novel and ideal means for NaaS (network as a service).…”
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Issues at the Rural-Urban Fringe: Methods to Sustain Agricultural Land -- Use-Value Assessment by Rodney L. Clouser

“…Many states use more than one technique in an attempt to prevent land from converting from agricultural to non-agricultural use. …”
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Migrer et réveiller les Églises : Diversification des cultes chrétiens en Tunisie by Katia Boissevain

“…This highlights the special place that Tunisian converts hold in the churches discourse of religious conquest.…”
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Whitefringed Beetles, Naupactus (= Graphognathus) spp. (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by Wayne N. Dixon

“…Whitefringed beetles are considered serious pests of many agricultural crops (Young et al. 1950) and have become pests of young pines planted on converted croplands in the South. This document is EENY-294 (originally published as DPI Entomology Circular 309), one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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An overview of low resolution quantization in wireless communication system by Dan QIAO, Chaokai WEN, Feifei GAO, Shi JIN

“…Compared to the 4th generation (4G) mobile communication technology,the 5th generation (5G) mobile communication technology will provide tens of times of peak rate increase,reaching up to several thousands megabit per second.The coming wireless communication systems face the problems of expensive hardware cost and high power consumption,which is becoming a bottleneck of high-rate communication systems.To cope with these problems,redesigning communication systems with the receiver using finite precision analog-to-digital converters (ADC) is one possible approach.The analysis of recent information theory for the AWGN channel shows that the performance loss due to 2~3 bit ADC acceptable.The application of low resolution quantization in wireless communication systems was focused on,an overview of the channel capacity and receiver design under low-precision ADC was provided.…”
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Computational Insights of Bioconvective Third Grade Nanofluid Flow past a Riga Plate with Triple Stratification and Swimming Microorganisms by Safak Kayikci

“…Using correct transformations, these systems are converted to an ordinary differential model. Ordinary systems are solved using convergent series solutions. …”
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THE FORMS OF FRESHMEN’S ADAPTATION DURING THE SESSION by Marina A. Krylova

“…Static forms of adaptation characterize orientation towards smoothing the inconsistencies between their own features and the conditions of life.Dynamic forms allow to convert the whole situation. The person using the dynamic variant ofadaptation becomes the subject of activity, because the conversion requires a high activity, personal attitude, ability to plan, monitor activity. …”
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