Exploring the dynamics of energy security and energy poverty in the Andean basin by Darío Xavier Zhiña, María Isabel Fárez-Plasencia, Alex Avilés-Añazco, Otilia Vanessa Cordero-Ahiman, Jorge Leonardo Vanegas, Alexandra Guanuchi-Quito

“…The ES assessment used an index composed of four dimensions: energy accessibility, financial, environmental and housing factors, while EP was assessed using five established indices (10% Index, MIS, AFCP, 2M, M/2), providing a multidimensional perspective. …”
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Conference Room Reverberation Time Correction Using Helmholtz Resonators Lined with Absorbers by Hossein Namvar Arefi, Seyyed Mohammad Amin Ghiasi, Seyyede Mahshid Ghaffari, Farhad Ramezanghorbani, Shiva Sharifpour, Peyman Irajizad, Seyede Delaram Ghoreishi Langroudi, Ahmad Amjadi

“…The aim of this research is to improve reverberation time (RT) of the conference room using Helmholtz resonators with defined dimensions, diffusers, and sound absorbers. …”
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Cross-Provincial City-Regionalism in China: Evidence from Smart Planning and Integrated Governance of the Yangtze River Delta by Tianren Ge, Yang Yu, Xiaohua Zhong, Yongli Jiao

“…We propose a theoretical framework of cross-provincial city-regionalism from the two dimensions of smart planning and integrated governance. …”
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Small-Signal Stability Analysis for Large-Scale Power Electronics- Based Power Systems by Liang Qiao, Yaosuo Xue, Le Kong, Fei Wang, Nupur

“…However, the original implementation of NAM method is tailored for the entire system, thereby correlating the matrix dimensions with the number of converters present in the system. …”
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Ultra-wideband (UWB) antennas for breast cancer detection with microwave imaging: A review by Tale Saeidi, Sarmad Nozad Mahmood, Sahar Saleh, Nick Timmons, Ahmed Jamal Abdullah Al-Gburi, Faroq Razzaz

“…Various factors need to be considered when designing antennas, including the choice of materials and dimensions, operational bandwidth, the impact of the human body on antenna performance, and the dynamics of short-pulse propagation. …”
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Design and Control of a Lower Limb Exoskeleton for Robot-Assisted Gait Training by Pieter Beyl, Michaël Van Damme, Ronald Van Ham, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber

“…The design was focused on the optimal dimensioning of the actuator configuration. Safety being the most important prerequisite, a proxy-based sliding mode controller (PSMC) was implemented as it combines accurate tracking during normal operation with a smooth, slow and safe recovery from large position errors. …”
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Optimizing Red Blood Cell Consumption Using Markov's Decision-Making Process (Case study: Blood Bank of Zanjan Province Blood Transfusion Center) by Mahdi Yousefi Nejad, Mehran Khayat Rasouli, Zohreh Khalilpour

“…On the other hand, with regard to the problem solving dimensions, the number of solution iterations would be limited. …”
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Morphofunctional variations of the Echinometra lucunter (Echinoidea) on Bahia Coast, Brazil by Walter Ramos Pinto Cerqueira, Yara Aparecida Garcia Tavares, Natalie Petrovna Semanovschi, Daniele Nascimento de Jesus

“…Proportionally, this population also showed higher AL and tooth height, indicating that the dimensions of this structure exhibit particularities in the spatial arrangement along the oral-aboral axis of the echinoids. …”
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Reducing gas pressure pulsations in the suction line of a piston compressor when using throttle washers by S. S. Busarov, A. A. Kapelyukhovskaya, V. V. Voronin, K. A. Bakulin, N. G. Sinitsin

“…When installing a diaphragm with dimensions different from those recommended, it is necessary to install it closer to the suction valve.…”
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Endpoint carbon content and temperature prediction model in BOF steelmaking based on posterior probability and intra-cluster feature weight online dynamic feature selection by Wang Haodong, Liu Hui, Chen FuGang, Li Heng, Xue XiaoJun

“…First, a genetic algorithm with fixed feature space dimensions is introduced, which narrows the solution space by predefining the number of selected features, thereby enhancing the stability of feature selection. …”
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Chaotic Behavior Analysis of a New Incommensurate Fractional-Order Hopfield Neural Network System by Nadjette Debbouche, Adel Ouannas, Iqbal M. Batiha, Giuseppe Grassi, Mohammed K. A. Kaabar, Hadi Jahanshahi, Ayman A. Aly, Awad M. Aljuaid

“…Several numerical simulations are implemented, and the obtained findings are illustrated through constructing bifurcation diagrams, computing Lyapunov exponents, calculating Lyapunov dimensions, and sketching the phase portraits in 2D and 3D projections.…”
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Medicinal plants mediated the green synthesis of silver nanoparticles and their biomedical applications by Haajira Beevi Habeeb Rahuman, Ranjithkumar Dhandapani, Santhoshini Narayanan, Velmurugan Palanivel, Ragul Paramasivam, Ramalakshmi Subbarayalu, Sathiamoorthi Thangavelu, Saravanan Muthupandian

“…Over the last two decades, scientists have become increasingly interested in metallic nanoparticles to discover their new dimensions. Green nano synthesis is a rapidly expanding field of interest in nanotechnology due to its feasibility, low toxicity, eco‐friendly nature, and long‐term viability. …”
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Excel as an electronic method for determining thermal diffusivity from experimental data by Camila Rodrigues Carneiro, Mateus Tomaz Neves, Adamu Muhammad Alhaji, Rita de Cássia Superbi de Sousa

“…However, considering that experimentally, a series of data is obtained related, for example, to the dimensions of the equipment, as well as the time values, and efficiently in order to obtain results that make it possible to infer as much information about the object of study as possible. …”
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Representing groups of students as personas: A systematic review of persona creation, application, and trends in the educational domain by Ali Farooq, Amani Alabed, Pilira Stella Msefula, Reham AL Tamime, Joni Salminen, Soon-gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen

“…Most studies constructed small persona sets—typically four or fewer—focusing on dimensions such as behaviors, beliefs, goals, needs, experiences, perceptions, and demographics, contrasting with larger sets found in industry. …”
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Self-driving lab for the photochemical synthesis of plasmonic nanoparticles with targeted structural and optical properties by Tianyi Wu, Sina Kheiri, Riley J. Hickman, Huachen Tao, Tony C. Wu, Zhi-Bo Yang, Xin Ge, Wei Zhang, Milad Abolhasani, Kun Liu, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Eugenia Kumacheva

“…Abstract Many applications of plasmonic nanoparticles require precise control of their optical properties that are governed by nanoparticle dimensions, shape, morphology and composition. Finding reaction conditions for the synthesis of nanoparticles with targeted characteristics is a time-consuming and resource-intensive trial-and-error process, however closed-loop nanoparticle synthesis enables the accelerated exploration of large chemical spaces without human intervention. …”
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A Novel Hybrid Meta-Heuristic Algorithm for Optimum Performance-Based Seismic Designs (PBSDs) of Steel Shear Walls (SSWs) by Behzad Eftekhar, omid rezayfar

“…The MDVC-UHS algorithm was applied to optimize the dimensions of the steel shear wall in accordance with high performance-based seismic design principles. …”
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On Harvesting Energy from Tree Trunks for Environmental Monitoring by Cleonilson P. Souza, Fabrício B. S. Carvalho, Filype A. N. Silva, Hening A. Andrade, Nathália de V. Silva, Orlando Baiocchi, Ivan Müller

“…As the trunk of a living tree can be divided into isothermal subvolumes, which are generally referred to as annual rings, and the trunk is a good heat storage material, depending on the tree dimensions and its species, it can potentially offer different temperature gradients according to the tree trunk depths. …”
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Parallel Swarms Oriented Particle Swarm Optimization by Tad Gonsalves, Akira Egashira

“…The two interweaved stages of evolution demonstrate better performance on test functions, especially of higher dimensions. The attractive feature of the PSO-PSO version of the algorithm is that it does not introduce any new parameters to improve its convergence performance. …”
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High-Gain Quad Array of Nonuniform Helical Antennas by Jelena Lj. Dinkić, Dragan I. Olćan, Antonije R. Djordjević, Alenka G. Zajić

“…The resulting quad array fits into a box whose dimensions are 2.5×3.3×3.3 wavelengths, and the gain in the main radiating direction is about 20.5 dBi in the frequency range from 0.9 GHz to 1.1 GHz. …”
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Development and validation of the experience of separation from migrant parent scale: a pilot study among Chinese left-behind children by Kexin Wang, Fang Yu, Xiang Cao, Weiqi Mu, Mingjie Zhou, Bin Wang, Shuang Chen

“…Study 3 (N = 380, Mage = 13.39, 43.4% male) further examined how parent-child attachment, conflict with the migrant parent, and online communication with the migrant parent were significantly associated with the two dimensions of the scale. Findings indicate that the scale effectively identifies the negative separation experiences of LBC, facilitating early interventions to improve their well-being.…”
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