Hybrid stochastic and robust optimization of a hybrid system with fuel cell for building electrification using an improved arithmetic optimization algorithm by Fude Duan, Mahdiyeh Eslami, Mustafa Okati, Dheyaa J. Jasim, Arsalan Khadim Mahmood

“…The hybrid framework integrates the strengths of UT for scenario generation and IGDT-RA (hybrid UT-IGDT-RA) for optimizing the system robustness and maximum uncertainty radius (MRU) of building energy demand and renewable resource generation. The deterministic model focuses on minimizing the cost of energy production over the project’s lifespan (CEPLS) and considers a reliability constraint defined as the demand shortage probability (DSHP). …”
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Enhancing Campus Mobility: Simulated Multi-Objective Optimization of Electric Vehicle Sharing Systems Within an Intelligent Transportation System Frameworks by Omar S. Aba Hussen, Shaiful J. Hashim, Nasri Sulaiman Member, S.A.R. Alhaddad, Bassam Y. Ribbfors, Masanobu Umeda, Keiichi Katamine

“…Findings indicate that the NEDD scenario, which concentrates on specific demand areas, effectively decreases unserved demands and operational costs. …”
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Introduction: The Participatory Turn in Urbanism by Maroš Krivý, Tahl Kaminer

“…When and how does genuine empowerment of collectives take place? Does the demand for the empowerment of local organisations and communities strengthen the market forces at the expense of central government? …”
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Laws of computing power in the computing power era by Zhengmao LI, Guirong WANG

“…From the perspective of the growing demand for computing power, it was pointed out that the construction of ubiquitous, green, trusty, intelligent and agile computing power facilities was an inevitable choice for enterprises, regions and countries.The digital information infrastructure with the core of computing power will directly affect the development speed of the digital economy and the development height of social intelligence.Driven by both policy and demand, the arrival of era with “the laws of computing power” as the underlying operating rules is the general trend.Computing power will promote the high-quality development of the digital economy, by replacing electricity and heat as a new type of productivity, and promote unprecedented changes in society, life and scientific research.…”
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2016 US Beef Cattle Market Outlook by Chris Prevatt

“… US cattle markets have experienced a roller coaster ride over the last several years, with cattle prices have been supported by a declining US beef cow herd and strong beef demand. But a turning point in the US cattle industry occurred at the beginning of 2015. …”
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A Determination Method of Optimal Customization Degree of Logistics Service Supply Chain with Mass Customization Service by Weihua Liu, Qian Wang, Donglei Zhu, Yang Liu

“…Its improvement could enhance customer satisfaction and further increase customer demand while correspondingly it will increase service price and decrease customer satisfaction and demand. …”
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Data-Driven Modular Vehicle Scheduling in Scenic Areas by Yilin Hong, Min Xu, Yong Jin, Shuaian Wang

“…As tourism demand continues to grow and fluctuate, the problems of increasing empty capacity and high operating costs for tourist shuttle buses have become more acute. …”
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Predicting Optimum Dilution Factors for BOD Sampling and Desired Dissolved Oxygen for Controlling Organic Contamination in Various Wastewaters by Hisham A. Maddah

“…High biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) concentrations in water minimize oxygen availability, damage ecosystem biodiversity, impair water quality, and spoil freshwater. …”
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MIKE BASIN Based Decision Support Tool for Water Sharing and Irrigation Management in Rangawan Command of India by R. K. Jaiswal, N. C. Ghosh, Poonam Guru, Devakant

“…The models have been used to generate twelve different scenarios for evaluation of irrigation demands, water supply, and demand deficit/excess for actual cropping pattern in command of Madhya Pradesh part. …”
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Positive-Sum Game-Based Capacity Configuration Planning Method of Solar-Wind-Battery System Designed for Black-Start by Hejun Yang, Zhibo Liu, Yinghao Ma

“…Second, a black-start capacity demand model is constructed considering the continuous power demand on the auxiliary devices of the operated thermal power generator. …”
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Progressive Collapse of Typical and Atypical Reinforced Concrete Framed Buildings by Solomon Abebe Derseh, Tesfaye Alemu Mohammed, Girum Urgessa

“…The alternative load path mechanism, the linear-static analysis procedure amplified by dynamic increase factors, and the demand capacity ratio criterion limits from the U.S. …”
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Analysis and optimization of small modular reactors contribution to the power production of Greece by Kaissas Ioannis M., Nikolaidis Nikolaos I.

“…Due to the time variations in the energy production of these systems, a complementary power source is needed, with the ability to change its output on demand. Small modular reactors combine zero-carbon emissions with the ability to vary the power production on demand. …”
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Is There a Link between Mitochondrial Reserve Respiratory Capacity and Aging? by Claus Desler, Thomas Lau Hansen, Jane Bruun Frederiksen, Maiken Lise Marcker, Keshav K. Singh, Lene Juel Rasmussen

“…Oxidative phosphorylation is an indispensable resource of ATP in tissues with high requirement of energy. If the ATP demand is not met, studies suggest that this will lead to senescence and cell death in the affected tissue. …”
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Research of cloud disk system construction in campus network by Jun LI, Feng-dan LAO, Ren-ming ZOU

“…According to the significance and demand of cloud disk system in campus network,a solution of combining the miniyun open source project,LVS(Linux virtual server) load balancing,Moosefs distribute file system and MySQL master-slaver replication read/write splitting was proposed to construct high availability cloud disk system.A cloud disk system was built and put into practice based on this solution in China agricultural vnirersity.The application results shows that it meets the demand for cloud disk in campus network with characteristics of low cost,dynamic scalable and high availability.…”
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Methodology of 5G network planning and design for vertical industry with product solutions by Ziyu XIAO, Hongwei LV, Cun ZHAO, Yan HAN, Jian SU

“…The methodology of 5G toB network planning was discussed.The current situation of 5G network was introduced and the challenges of network planning were analyzed for vertical industry requirements with diversification and customization.Then the methodology of 5G toB scenario-oriented planning and design was put forward, based on the network technology system, oriented the future business layout of the industry, focused on the planning ability of accurate identification, on-demand delivery and network elasticity, so as to achieve the goal of on-demand planning and agile network construction.At the same time, on the basis of methodology, an end-to-end planning and design platform algorithm was proposed to achieve the collaborative planning for toC (public network) and toB (vertical network).…”
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Optimal Transfer-Ordering Strategy for a Deteriorating Inventory in Declining Market by Nita H. Shah, Kunal T. Shukla

“…The retailer's optimal procurement quantity and the number of transfers from the warehouse to the display area are determined when demand is decreasing due to recession and items in inventory are subject to deterioration at a constant rate. …”
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L’initiation. Entretien avec un client de la prostitution by Sébastien Roux

“…But rather than analyzing male demand for prostitution as a form of essentialized deviance, I propose to consider Damien’s discourse as relevant to understand how the social and historical contexts transform prostitutional relations.…”
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The market impact of leveraged ETFs: A Survey of the literature by Stephen L. Lenkey

“…Moreover, the broader literature suggests that the market provides enough liquidity to satisfy LETF rebalancing demand with an insignificant degradation of market quality. …”
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Cloud Backup Solution by Wei Si, Feng Wang

“…As a new data backup form，cloud backup service provides users with putting the local data backup to the remote cloud.The cloud backup is being more and more focused by the industry.Combined with the demand of data backup under cloud computing environment，three aspects of“end-pipe-cloud”cloud backup solution were comprehensively analyzed，including cloud backup client，cloud backup network channel and cloud backup resource pool.In addition，according to the different business scenarios and user demand，feasible public cloud and hybrid cloud backup solutions were proposed，which could provide an important reference for the research and deployment of related field.…”
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An architecture of database-based open resource service networking by Fenlin ZHOU, Xiaocong QIAN, Dongyu YUAN

“…The deep cloud-network integration hopes that the network side can provide fine-grained and on-demand customized services for cloud-side services, which poses a great challenge to existing IP bearer networks.To this end, an architecture of database-based open resource service networking was proposed.By abstracting the atomic service capabilities of the network and publishing services through a strongly consistent distributed key-value database, on-demand use of networking services at the cloud-side, joint cloud-network orchestration, and one point of business access could be achieved, which could flexibly meet the needs of cloud-network integration and achieve efficient carrying and refined services for diversified businesses.…”
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