Door-Triggering Mechanism for Large-Scale Rapid-Decompression Experiments by Lei Zhang, Xiao Han, Xinbin Zhang, Jihong Yan

“…Quick opening of the door is realized by utilizing a spring-based release mechanism to instantly convert large amounts of elastic potential energy into kinetic energy. …”
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A Cable-Passive Damper System for Sway and Skew Motion Control of a Crane Spreader by La Duc Viet, Youngjin Park

“…The idea in this paper is to convert those deflections into energy dissipated by the viscous dampers, which connect the cables and the spreader. …”
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A New Simple Chaotic Lorenz-Type System and Its Digital Realization Using a TFT Touch-Screen Display Embedded System by Rodrigo Méndez-Ramírez, Adrian Arellano-Delgado, César Cruz-Hernández, Rigoberto Martínez-Clark

“…Finally, the DV of NCS was implemented, in real-time, by using a novel embedded system (ES) Mikromedia Plus for PIC32MX7 that includes one microcontroller PIC32 and one thin film transistor touch-screen display (TFTTSD), together with external digital-to-analog converters (DACs).…”
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Bulky Vehicles Recycling. Part 2 - Recycling of Selected Vehicle Components by Anna Matuszewska, Piotr Wieczorek, Marlena Owczuk

“…The article describes the recycling methods for selected components (tires, windows, catalytic converters, polymer and metal materials, operating fluids), with an indication of the differences between heavy goods vehicles and passenger cars. …”
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Processing Agroindustry By-Products for Obtaining Value-Added Products and Reducing Environmental Impact by Iván Almaraz-Sánchez, Aldo Amaro-Reyes, Jorge Alberto Acosta-Gallegos, Magdalena Mendoza-Sánchez

“…It also exposes the main chemical, physical, and biochemical treatments for converting by-products into raw materials with added value through low environmental impact processes. …”
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Semidefinite Optimization Providing Guaranteed Bounds on Linear Functionals of Solutions of Linear Integral Equations with Smooth Kernels by Guangming Zhou, Chao Deng, Kun Wu

“…Firstly, the primal problem with smooth kernel is converted to a series of approximative problems with Taylor polynomials obtained by expanding the smooth kernel. …”
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Time-Frequency Feature Extraction of HRRP Using AGR and NMF for SAR ATR by Xinzheng Zhang, Zhouyong Liu, Shujun Liu, Guojun Li

“…Firstly, SAR target images have been converted into HRRPs. And the time-frequency matrix for each of HRRPs is obtained by using AGR. …”
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Gold recovery from flotation concentrate from gold mine tailings using dissolve smelting by Erdenebold U., Sung C.-M., Wang J.-P.

“…The sulphides in the flotation concentrate are fully converted into an oxide form during oxidative roasting, therefore, the chemical composition of the roasted concentrate is considered to be a copper slag. …”
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Speech Recognition System Based on Machine Learning in Persian Language by Shahed Mohammadi, Niloufar Hemati, Neda Mohammadi

“…For this purpose, two standard and native datasets were prepared for this model one for train and the other for the test. Both datasets were converted into images of audio waveforms. Using the object detection technique, the model could extract different bounding boxes for each test audio, and then each box image goes through a CNN classifier and returns a corresponding label. …”
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Adaptive Neural Control of Hypersonic Vehicles with Actuator Constraints by Changxin Luo, Humin Lei, Dongyang Zhang, Xiaojun Zou

“…This scheme firstly converts the original control problem with input constraints into a new control problem without input constraints based on the control input saturation function. …”
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Phosphorus Flame Retardants for Polymeric Materials from Gallic Acid and Other Naturally Occurring Multihydroxybenzoic Acids by Bob A. Howell, Kendahl L. Oberdorfer, Eric A. Ostrander

“…Both compounds, as the anilide and methyl ester, respectively, have been converted to a series of phosphorus esters, both phosphonate and phosphate. …”
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Improved Power Control Using Optimal Adjustable Coefficients for Three-Phase Photovoltaic Inverter under Unbalanced Grid Voltage by Qianggang Wang, Niancheng Zhou, Xiaoxuan Lou, Xu Chen

“…Unbalanced grid faults will lead to several drawbacks in the output power quality of photovoltaic generation (PV) converters, such as power fluctuation, current amplitude swell, and a large quantity of harmonics. …”
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Non-probabilistic Solution of Uncertain Vibration Equation of Large Membranes Using Adomian Decomposition Method by Smita Tapaswini, S. Chakraverty

“…Using the single parametric form of fuzzy number, the original fuzzy vibration equation is converted first to an interval fuzzy vibration equation. …”
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Optimization of the supercritical extraction and decarboxylation process of industrial hemp by Taja Žitek Makoter, Petra Kotnik, Teo Makoter, Željko Knez, Maša Knez Marevci

“…., obtained by a suitable extraction method and decarboxylation, in which the acid forms of the cannabinoids are converted into active forms. Supercritical CO2 extraction method and decarboxylation process were optimized for 7 cannabinoids (CBD, CBDA, THC, THCA, CBGA, CBN and CBC). …”
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Agricultural and Forest Residues towards Renewable Chemicals and Materials Using Microwave Liquefaction by Huijuan Shao, Hongli Zhao, Jiulong Xie, Jinqiu Qi, Todd F. Shupe

“…This work presents an overview on achievements using liquefaction in combination with microwave energy to convert lignocellulosic biomass into value-added products and chemicals.…”
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The history, current state and future possibilities of the non-invasive brain computer interfaces by Frederico Caiado, Arkadiy Ukolov

“…BCIs have evolved from early studies in neurophysiology to real-world applications that convert brain impulses into executable commands. The study discusses the two main categories of BCIs: invasive and non-invasive, highlighting their benefits and limitations. …”
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The Effect of Antihypertensive Drugs on Endothelial Function as Assessed by Flow-Mediated Vasodilation in Hypertensive Patients by Michiaki Miyamoto, Kazuhiko Kotani, Shun Ishibashi, Nobuyuki Taniguchi

“…Angiotensin II receptor blockers and angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors appeared to improve FMD more than other drug types. …”
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Defluorinative functionalization approach led by difluoromethyl anion chemistry by Kensuke Muta, Kazuhiro Okamoto, Hiroki Nakayama, Shuto Wada, Aiichiro Nagaki

“…Defluorinative functionalization, which converts the trifluoromethyl to the difluoromethyl motifs, represents the most efficient synthetic strategy. …”
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Thermal performance of a moving fin with temperature-dependent thermal conductivity in convective and radiative environment by Yanqun Han, Xulong Peng

“…The NODE is solved by converting it to a nonlinear Fredholm integral equation. …”
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The Effect of Lyso-PAF on Ciliary Activity of Human Paranasal Sinus Mucosa in vitro by T. Ganbo, K. Hisamatsu, H. Inoue, T. Nakajima, Y. Murakami

“…These findings indicated the existence of an enzyme in the paranasal sinus mucosa, by which lyso-PAF is converted to PAF, and that lyso-PAF can inhibit ciliary activity by means of PAF.…”
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