Studies on Dry Sliding Wear and Solid Particle Erosive Wear Behaviours of Natural Fibre Composite Developed from Water Hyacinth Aquatic Plant for Automotive Application by A. Ajithram, Jappes J. T. Winowlin, Khan M. Adam, N. C. Brintha, Faris Waleed Fekry

“…From a novel approach, the new fibre extraction machine is designed to extract the hyacinth fibre from the parent plant and reinforce it to the epoxy matrix material to produce a natural fibre composite for frictional applications. …”
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Predicting Nanobinder-Improved Unsaturated Soil Consistency Limits Using Genetic Programming and Artificial Neural Networks by Ahmed M. Ebid, Light I. Nwobia, Kennedy C. Onyelowe, Frank I. Aneke

“…Meanwhile, several studies are being carried out to design infrastructures even with the limitations of insufficient or lack of equipment needed for efficient design performance. …”
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Development of digital pop-up book media to improve learning outcomes about Denok Semarang dance by Fairuz Intan Amalia, Atip Nurharini

“…This study aims to develop learning media designs, test the feasibility, and test the effectiveness of digital pop-up book media in fourth grade at Ngaliyan 01 Elementary School, Semarang. …”
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Effect of neutering timing in relation to puberty on health in the female dog-a scoping review. by Rachel Moxon, Gary C W England, Richard Payne, Sandra A Corr, Sarah L Freeman

“…<h4>Design</h4>A protocol was registered, and literature searches were conducted in CAB Abstracts, Medline and Web of Science. …”
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A Comparative Study of Impeller Modification Techniques on the Performance of the Pump as a Turbine by Abdulbasit Nasir, Edessa Dribssa, Misrak Girma, Tamerat Demeke

“…The initial performance of the PAT is refined by controlling basic design parameters (i.e., increasing the number of impeller blades, decreasing blade thickness, blade tip rounding, and adjusting blade inlet angle). …”
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Instance-level semantic segmentation of nuclei based on multimodal structure encoding by Bo Guan, Guangdi Chu, Ziying Wang, Jianmin Li, Bo Yi

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Preference learning based deep reinforcement learning for flexible job shop scheduling problem by Xinning Liu, Li Han, Ling Kang, Jiannan Liu, Huadong Miao

“…First, a reward predictor based on preference learning is designed to model reward prediction by comparing random fragments, eliminating the need for complex reward function design. …”
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مستوى التفکیر الابداعى فى حل المشکلات لدى العاملین فى المکتبات الجامعیة بمنطقة مکة المکرمة :دراسة میدانیة... by د.جیهان محمود السید

“…Likert’s method was designed to measure the level of creativethinking in solving the problems and barriers related to the process of creativethinking in these libraries. …”
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Mobile clinics routing and scheduling in the Witzenberg region of South Africa. by Hannah J Callaghan, Linke Potgieter, Nadia Le Roux

“…Final routes and schedules are designed based on model results, AHP results, and contextual input from decision makers. …”
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The R&D of HTR-STAC Program Package: Source Term Analysis Codes for Pebble-Bed High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor by Hongyu Chen, Chuan Li, Haoyu Xing, Chao Fang

“…Source term analysis is important in the design and safety analysis of advanced nuclear reactor and also provides a radiation safety analysis basis for Modular High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (HTR). …”
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Pengembangan panduan konseling rational emotive behavioral teknik dispute cognitive untuk meningkatkan konsep diri dan resiliensi terhadap kemandirian pada siswa by I Gst. Agung Diah Rusdayanti, Ni Ketut Suarni, I Ketut Dharsana, Nyoman Dantes, Putu Ari Dharmayanti

“…This research aims to compile and produce a design for a guidebook, determine the validity of the contents of the guidebook, determine the practicality of implementing the guidebook, and determine the effectiveness of implementing the rational emotive behavioral counseling guidebook, cognitive dispute techniques to increase self-concept and resilience towards independence in students. …”
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Ecological momentary interventions for mental health: A scoping review. by Andreas Balaskas, Stephen M Schueller, Anna L Cox, Gavin Doherty

“…The interventions target a range of mental health problems, with diverse aims, intervention designs and evaluation approaches. The studies employed a variety of features for intervention delivery, but recent research is overwhelmingly comprised of studies based on smartphone apps (30 of 42 papers that described an intervention). …”
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Observing the Coming of Age of Video Game Graphics: Exploring the historical development of video game graphics through distant viewing, hermeneutics and image clustering by Adrian Demleitner

“…Further, the analysis shows an intricate entanglement of video game design with computing history, as well as the influx of pop-cultural references.…”
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Soil Moisture Response to Short-Term Inorganic Fertilization on Tef (Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter) Crop Varieties in Northern Ethiopia by Gebreyesus Brhane Tesfahunegn

“…A rain-fed fertilizer experiment using tef varieties as the test crop was conducted for two years (2012-2013) in the Chromic Cambisols of northern Ethiopia. The experimental design was laid down in randomized complete block design with three replications. …”
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Detecting and quantifying deep sea benthic life using advanced object detection by Karthik H. Iyer, Camilla M. Marnor, Daniel W. Schmid, Ebbe H. Hartz

“…We present a new dataset combined with the DeepSee model, which utilizes the YOLOv8 architecture, designed to rapidly and accurately detect benthic lifeforms in deep-sea environments of the North Atlantic. …”
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ESO-Based Non-Singular Terminal Filtered Integral Sliding Mode Backstepping Control for Unmanned Surface Vessels by Jianping Yuan, Zhuohui Chai, Qingdong Chen, Zhihui Dong, Lei Wan

“…Subsequently, a backstepping sliding mode controller based on the Lyapunov theory is designed to generate the steering torque control commands for the USV. …”
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Enhancing Seismic Performance of Steel-Plated Stress-Ribbon Bridge with Tuned Mass Dampers: A Finite-Element Study by Hua Dong, Yi Zhang, Zhiqiang Huang, Wuchuan Pu, Kaiwen Liu, Qishuo Zhang

“…The study aims to analyze the performance of various TMD designs focusing on both vertical and torsional modes. …”
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Legal deposit in Lithuania in 1945 - 1992 by Ringailė Bagušytė

“…The article, analyzing the documents regulating legal deposit, discusses in detail the types of components of the legal deposit and the number of legal deposits designated to the Books Palace, which was not always optimal. …”
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Mathematical Modelling of Disease Outbreak by Favour Christian, Matthew Molloy

“…The zombie framework provides an accessible and relatively simple representation of the nature of infectious disease spread, allowing for tractable assumptions and the development of more complex situations. The models are designed around a zombie outbreak in which the zombie virus is spread through a susceptible population. …”
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Relationship Between Lumbar Locked Rotation, Trunk Rotation During Pitching, and Pitch Velocity in High School Baseball Players by Shun Okamura, Kai Iida

“…In addition, a tracking device specifically designed for pitching：Pitching2.0 was employed to measure ball velocity. …”
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