Economic and Environmental Evaluation and Optimal Ratio of Natural and Recycled Aggregate Production by Milad Ghanbari, Armin Monir Abbasi, Mehdi Ravanshadnia

“…In the second part, the results of the first part are used to estimate the optimal combination of production of NA and RA and thereby find an optimal solution (scenario) for a more eco-friendly aggregate production. …”
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Modeling Multilevel Supplier Selection Problem Based on Weighted-Directed Network and Its Solution by Chia-Te Wei, Hong Zuo, Chang-Bing Jiang, Shu-fang Li

“…Firstly, this paper discusses and forms the evaluation system to estimate the supplier from the two indicators of risk and greenness and then applies the value as the weight of the network between two nodes to build a weighted-directed supplier network; secondly, the study establishes the optimal combination model of supplier selection based on the global network perspective and solves the model by the dynamic programming-tabu search algorithm and the improved ant colony algorithm, respectively; finally, different scale simulation examples are given to testify the efficiency of the two algorithms. …”
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Differences in Nanosecond Laser Ablation and Deposition of Tungsten, Boron, and WB2/B Composite due to Optical Properties by Tomasz Moscicki

“…The main origin of differences is optical properties of studied materials. A method estimating phase explosion occurrence based on material data such as critical temperature, thermal diffusivity, and optical properties is shown. …”
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Motorcyclist Is the Right-of-Way Violator: A Population-Based Study of Motorcycle Right-of-Way Crash in Taiwan by Ping-Ling Chen, Yi-Chu Chen, Chih-Wei Pai

“…Using the National Taiwan Crash Database, the present study estimates a logistic regression model to predict the likelihood of an approach-turn motorcycle-turning crash (relative to a car-turning crash). …”
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Will Automated Vehicles Negatively Impact Traffic Flow? by S. C. Calvert, W. J. Schakel, J. W. C. van Lint

“…With low-level vehicle automation already available, there is a necessity to estimate its effects on traffic flow, especially if these could be negative. …”
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Fractional-Order Active Disturbance Rejection Controller Design for Large Radio Telescope Antenna by Jian-Yu Jiang, Bin Wu, Ting Zhou

“…First, the fractional-order active disturbance rejection control scheme is chosen to estimate and compensate both the wind disturbance and other uncertain mechanical dynamics. …”
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Monitoring Total Water Storage Changes with GRACE Mission and GLDAS Model and Effect of Climatic Factors on These Changes: Case Study in Konya Basin by Emel Zeray Öztürk

“…In recent years, it is possible to produce maps for the monitoring of water resources, trend estimations and visualization of changes in water areas, with remote sensing technology. …”
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An Observational Study on React Native (RN) Questions on Stack Overflow (SO) by Luluh Albesher, Razan Aldossari, Reem Alfayez

“…Afterward, we utilized a number of proxy measures to estimate the popularity and difficulty of these topics. …”
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The SSIM index is not a metric and it is badly evaluate the similarity of images by V. V. Starovoitov

“…However, this index, as well as any comparison function with a reference image (such as full-reference), in principle, cannot assess the quality of the analyzed images. They estimate only a certain degree of similarity between the template image and its distorted copy. …”
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Assessment of Economic Effectiveness of Competing IT-projects: Approaches and Mathematical Tools by E. V. Vasileva, E. A. Deeva

“…The article presents examples of results of expert opinion for estimation of expected cash flows, considering the risks when investing in competing projects, based on the methods of mathematical statistics. …”
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Preparation of Copper Nanoparticles/Diatomite Nanocomposite for Improvement in Water Quality of Fishponds by Truong Thi Hanh, Nguyen Thuy Lan Chi, Nguyen Ngoc Duy

“…Antibacterial activity of CuNPs/DA nanocomposite against pathogenous bacteria for catfish such as Aeromonas hydrophila and Edwardsiella ictaluri was estimated.…”
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The introduction of the Stanford-Binet intelligence scales in Paraguay by José E. García

“…Although the first strategies to evaluate the human intellectual skills find millennial precedents in the ancient China, the attempts of measurement in the modern period began with the English psychologist Francis Galton in the decade of 1880, applying physiological measurements to estimate the human talent. At the beginning of the XXth century, the French psychologists Alfred Binet and Théodore Simon constructed the first metric scales to calculate children’s intelligence. …”
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Removal of Cr(VI) from Aqueous Solutions Using Biowastes: Tella Residue and Pea (Pisum sativum) Seed Shell by Abayneh Kebede, Kassim Kedir, Fekadu Melak, Tsegaye Girma Asere

“…The experimental equilibrium adsorption data fitted well with Freundlich isotherm indicating multilayers adsorption. The estimated Cr(VI) adsorption capacities of TR and PSS were 15.6 mg/g and 8.5 mg/g, respectively. …”
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Adaptive Neural Network Control for Nonlinear Hydraulic Servo-System with Time-Varying State Constraints by Shu-Min Lu, Dong-Juan Li

“…A radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) is used to estimate the uncertainties. Based on analyzing the stability of the hydraulic servo-system, we show that the error signals are bounded in the compacts sets; the time-varying state constrains are never violated and all singles of the hydraulic servo-system are bounded. …”
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Probabilistic Assessment of Degree of Bending in Tubular X-Joints of Offshore Structures Subjected to Bending Loads by Hamid Ahmadi, Amirreza Ghaffari

“…Finally, after substituting the values of estimated parameters for each distribution, a set of fully defined PDFs have been proposed for the DoB in tubular X-joints subjected to bending loads.…”
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Carbonate Chemistry and Isotope Characteristics of Groundwater of Ljubljansko Polje and Ljubljansko Barje Aquifers in Slovenia by Sonja Cerar, Janko Urbanc

“…The radioactive isotope tritium was also used to estimate the age of groundwater. Sampled groundwater is recent with tritium activity between 4 and 8 TU and residence time of up to 10 years.…”
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Investigation of Mechanical Properties of FDM-Processed Acacia concinna–Filled Polylactic Acid Filament by S. Muthu Natarajan, S. Senthil, P. Narayanasamy

“…The significance of factors impacting the mechanical properties was determined using analysis of variance. To estimate the strength of PLA/AC composites, mathematical models were developed. …”
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Generalized functional varying-index coefficient model for dynamic synergistic gene-environment interactions with binary longitudinal traits. by Jingyi Zhang, Honglang Wang, Yuehua Cui

“…This model examines how the genetic effects on a disease trait are nonlinearly influenced by a combination of environmental factors. We derive an estimation procedure for the varying-index coefficient functions using quadratic inference functions combined with penalized splines. …”
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Evaluation of the 3D Topographic Effect of Homogeneous and Inhomogeneous Media on the Results of 2D Inversion of Electrical Resistivity Tomography Data by Marzhan Kabdykalievna Turarova, Tolkyn Mirgalikyzy, Balgaisha Gafurovna Mukanova, Igor Nikolaevich Modin, Pavel Aleksandrovich Kaznacheev

“…The influence of the 3D model with topography, flat ground surface, and immersed inhomogeneity on the results of 2D inversion was estimated. Influencing factors of the 3D model, such as the slope angle of the topography, the resistivity ratio of the inhomogeneity and the host medium, the average size of inhomogeneity and topography, the distance from the inhomogeneity to the measuring line for the medium with and without topography, and the distance between the electrodes of the electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) array, were studied. …”
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Green Spectrophotometric Determination of Organophosphate in Selected Fruits and Vegetables by Hemraj Sharma, Hari Prasad Sapkota, Kanchan Paudel, Anusha Raila, Sujata Kandel, Pramod Chaudhary, Kritika Bhattarai

“…The greenness of the methods was estimated using an ecoscale (84), the Green Analytical Procedure Index, and AGREE (0.89), which were found to be excellent green method based on spectrophotometric determination. …”
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