Kinetics and mechanisms of 4-chloroguaiacol removal by adsorption onto a novel amorphous carbon thin film synthesized from Hamelia patens leaves by Zaharaddeen N. Garba, Chavalit Ratanatamskul

“…Central composite design was used to optimize batch adsorption performance with the optimal conditions of 139 mg of adsorbent, 285 mg/L of 4CG concentration, and 195 min of adsorption time. …”
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Prestress Design of Tensegrity Structures Using Semidefinite Programming by Yafeng Wang, Xian Xu

“…The stiffness of the whole system can also be optimized by maximizing the minimum eigenvalue of the tangent stiffness matrix. …”
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Efficient information transfer by Poisson neurons by Lubomir Kostal, Shigeru Shinomoto

“…Such a situation resembles inmany ways the optimal information transmission protocol for thecontinuous-time Poisson channel known from information theory. …”
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A study on data-driven and multi-scale modeling method for production system simulation “Model configuration and identification for flow shop production systems” by Satoshi NAGAHARA, Toshiya KAIHARA, Nobutada FUJII, Daisuke KOKURYO

“…In this study, we proposed a data-driven and multi-scale modeling approach that optimizes model configuration by combining multiple modeling methods. …”
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Clinical case of the postinfarction ventricular septum defect successful closure with occluder at the 4th day of the disease by B.М. Todurov, М.F. Rotar, А.V. Khokhlov, К.S. Boiko, Yu.V. Hutsuliak

“…The article presents a clinical case of successful endovascular closure of a postinfarction ventricular septum defect with an occluder with its subsequent surgical closure. The optimal timing of the intervention, the choice of the type of intervention, the optimal medical and hemodynamic support at the stage of preparing the patient for the correction of this complication and in the early postoperative period are described. …”
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Limiting Performance of Helmets for the Prevention of Head Injury by Z.Q. Cheng, W.D. Pilkey, J.R. Crandall, C.R. Bass, K. Darvish

“…This is a study of the theoretical optimal (limiting) performance of helmets for the prevention of head injury. …”
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Asymptotic analysis of American call options by Ghada Alobaidi, Roland Mallier

“…This leads to a free boundary problem for the optimal exercise boundary, which determines whether or not it is beneficial for the holder to exercise the option prior to expiration. …”
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Protein and metabolite acclimations to temperature variability in a calcareous green macroalga Halimeda macroloba by Hao Zhang, Yuyu Wang, Lingshuai Zhang, Zhiqin Wang, Zejun Zhu, Lijuan Long, Lijuan Long

“…At the sub-optimal temperature of 25°C, the alga modulated its fatty acid composition to maintain membrane fluidity and accumulated selenium-containing metabolites to mitigate oxidative stress. …”
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Toward super-clean bearing steel by a novel physical-data integrated design strategy by Jian Guan, Guolei Liu, Wenguang Hu, Hongwei Liu, Paixian Fu, Yanfei Cao, Dong-Rong Liu, Dianzhong Li

“…Finally, a systematic framework based on a genetic algorithm was proposed to select the optimal combination of CAS. Here, the ML-optimized processing parameters comprised current of 4255 A, helium pressure of 0.69 kPa, and melting rate of 2.5 kg/min. …”
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Healthy Chilean Adolescents with HOMA-IR ≥ 2.6 Have Increased Cardiometabolic Risk: Association with Genetic, Biological, and Environmental Factors by R. Burrows, P. Correa-Burrows, M. Reyes, E. Blanco, C. Albala, S. Gahagan

“…Of the participants, 16% were obese and 9.4 % met criteria for MetS. The optimal cutoff for MetS diagnosis was a HOMA-IR value of 2.6. …”
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Ultrasound-assisted extraction of phenolic compounds from ear mushrooms (Auricularia auricula-judae): Assessing composition and antioxidant activity during fruiting body developmen... by Albert Nugraha, Asadin Briliantama, M Umar Harun, Li Sing-Chung, Chin Xuan Tan, Vuanghao Lim, Amir Husni, Widiastuti Setyaningsih

“…Application of this method during fruiting body development (7–19 d) revealed that the optimal harvest time for maximum TPC and antioxidant activity was 8 d fruiting age.…”
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Microstructure and properties of NiCoCrAlYTa-Cr2O3-Cu-Mo high-temperature wear-resistant coating prepared by APS by ZHANG Ang, GUO Mengqiu, WANG Changliang, ZHANG Mei, YUE Zhen, WANG Tianying, NIE Zixing, GAO Shen

“…The range analysis method is used to study the primary and secondary relationships of the process parameters on the microstructure， hardness， and bonding strength of the NiCoCrAlYTa-Cr2O3-Cu-Mo coating， and the spraying process parameters are optimized. The optimized process parameters are that the argon flow rate is 50 L/min， the hydrogen flow rate is 12 L/min， the current is 500 A， and the spraying distance is 100 mm. …”
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Effects of synergistic fermentation of tea bee pollen with bacteria and enzymes on growth and intestinal health of Apis cerana cerana by Panpan Xue, Le Xu, Yakai Tian, Mingkui Lv, Pingping Fang, Kun Dong, Qiuye Lin, Zhenhui Cao

“…A. c. cerana workers were subsequently fed tea bee pollen processed with this optimized method. Under the optimal processing condition of fermented tea bee pollen, the pH value was 4.41, the protein content was 27.75 %, and the viable count of LAB was 2.31×10⁹ CFU/g. …”
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Effect of Ethanol Processing on Functional Properties and Composition of Peanut Proteins by ZHANG Xiang-feng, GUO Xing-feng, ZHANG Qian, ZHU Ting-wei, ZHAO Shu-chao, ZHANG Ming, LIN Feng-yan

“…Response surface methodology was employed to optimize the preparation conditions and analyze the functional properties of the peanut proteins. …”
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Measuring system for control of kinematic parameters of continuous horizontal casting by E. I. Marukovich, Ju. L. Stanjulenis, V. V. Chubuk, V. A. Zemtsov

“…The report describes the computer aided measuring system allowing to define optimal pressing effort of pulling stand rolls depending on the casting drawing force.…”
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Pediatric Sand Aspiration Managed Using Bronchoscopy and Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation by Khaled Baqais, Meagan Mahoney, Kathleen Tobler, Anita Hui, Mary Noseworthy

“…Sand aspiration is a rare but potentially fatal occurrence to consider in near-drownings, accidental burials or cave-ins. Optimal management is not well defined.…”
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Deadline Aware Retransmission Threshold Setting Protocol in Cyber-Physical Systems by Ran Bi, Jianzhong Li, Hong Gao, Quan Chen

“…In this paper, we focus on finding the optimal retransmission thresholds for the relay nodes, such that the summation of the probability of a packet being transmitted to the next relay node or destination node within the specified deadline is maximized. …”
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Environmental Protection in Strategic Instruments of Spatial Policy in Poland by Maciej J. Nowak

“…The article indicates optimal expectations for spatial policy instruments, from an environmental perspective. …”
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Sepsis-induced suicidal left ventricular in a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy/hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy by K Roshan Rao, Sarita Rao, Ankur Gupta

“…He was initiated on antibiotics but gradually started developing hypotension and oliguria. After optimizing the medical therapy and as a life-saving measure, alcoholic septal ablation was done in this patient as a last resort. …”
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A Systematic Review on the Advancement in the Study of Fuzzy Variational Problems by Mansi Verma, Chuei Yee Chen, Adem Kılıçman, Risman Mat Hasim

“…The study of fuzzy variational problems has received significant attention over the past decade due to its successful applications in numerous fields, such as image segmentation and optimal control theory. The fuzzy Euler-Lagrange equations provide the necessary optimality conditions for solving fuzzy variational problems explicitly and have been studied under several differentiability conditions. …”
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