Energy, Exergy Analysis, and Optimizations of Collector Cover Thickness of a Solar Still in El Oued Climate, Algeria by Abderrahmane Khechekhouche, A. Muthu Manokar, Ravishankar Sathyamurthy, Fadl A. Essa, Milad Sadeghzadeh, Alibek Issakhov

“…Researches in many laboratories on solar still desalination are concerned with increasing efficiency using only solar energy. …”
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Efficient Wireless Vibration Data Sensing and Signal Processing Technique Based on the Android Platform by Chan-Seob Park, Ryong Baek, Woong Hoe, Byung-Gyu Kim, Hyun-Jun Lee

“…Recently, many researches on big-data sensing and analysis have been actively promoted. …”
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Nominative Linkage of Records of Officials in the China Government Employee Dataset-Qing (CGED-Q) by Cameron Campbell, Bijia Chen

“…The issues we have identified and the approach that we have developed will be of interest to researchers engaged in similar efforts to construct and link datasets based on elite males in historical China. …”
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Joint Residence-Workplace Location Choice Model Based on Household Decision Behavior by Pengpeng Jiao, Tuo Sun, Jin Guo, Yangwei Li

“…Residence location and workplace are the two most important urban land-use types, and there exist strong interdependences between them. Existing researches often assume that one choice dimension is correlated to the other. …”
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Biomechanical Sensing Systems for Cardiac Activity Monitoring by Hamza Abu Owida

“…To this purpose, a significant amount of interest among researchers has been directed toward the creation of flexible sensors that may be worn or implanted and are capable of constant, immediate observation of a variety of main physiological indicators. …”
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ZigBee’s Received Signal Strength and Latency Evaluation under Varying Environments by H. H. R. Sherazi, Razi Iqbal, Sana Ul Hassan, M. H. Chaudary, Syed Asfandyar Gilani

“…Even after a decade of its emergence, it has been well serving the communication needs of numerous modern applications belonging to multiple industries and is still a spotlight for the researchers working on certain aspects to enhance productivity along with a major cost reduction. …”
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A Review on Natural Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite and Its Applications by Layth Mohammed, M. N. M. Ansari, Grace Pua, Mohammad Jawaid, M. Saiful Islam

“…Natural fibers are getting attention from researchers and academician to utilize in polymer composites due to their ecofriendly nature and sustainability. …”
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Bacterial Performance in Crack Healing and its Role in Creating Sustainable Construction by Digafe Alemu, Wubetie Demiss, Gamachis Korsa

“…Different civil and biotechnology researchers have turned to microorganisms for the production of bio construction materials that are environmentally friendly, socially acceptable, and economically feasible but can also produce high strength. …”
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Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Malay Version Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire Tested among Mothers of Primary School Children in Malaysia by Shamarina Shohaimi, Wong Yoke Wei, Zalilah Mohd Shariff

“…The present study extends the usability of the CFPQ and enables researchers and parents to better understand the relationships between parental feeding practices and related problems such as childhood obesity.…”
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The effect of service quality and customer value on customer satisfaction and customer loyalty in Bank Sultra by Abdul Razak, Abdul hakim, Asraf Yunus

“…In connection with these findings, researchers suggest the need to build and maintain customer loyalty with a strategy to increase factors that are considered not optimal by customers, such as reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy, in addition to the need to maintain and develop a high sense of belonging to Bank Sultra customers by trying to emphasize to staff the importance of building emotional relationships with customers by greeting in a friendly manner, serving politely, interacting, and trying to understand the identity of the customer's background so that intimacy with customers is established.…”
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Using a mobile application for antiretroviral therapy adherence in people living with HIV: A longitudinal pilot study by Rejane Caetani, Susana L. Wiechmann, Jacques D. Brancher, Vitor H.F Oliveira, Rafael Deminice

“…The application was developed by the researchers, and uses an alarm system to record ART use. …”
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Assessing the Static and Dynamic Sensitivity of a Commercial Off-the-Shelf Multicore Processor for Noncritical Avionic Applications by Pablo F. Ramos, Vanessa C. Vargas, Nacer-Eddine Zergainoh, Raoul Velazco

“…Additionally, the E16G301 is the coprocessor for parallel processing of the Parallella platform, which was considered by NASA researchers for onboard health management of the DragonEye UAS. …”
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Evaluation of Different Stemming Techniques on Arabic Customer Reviews by Hawraa Fadhil Khelil, Mohammed Fadhil Ibrahim, Hafsa Ataallah Hussein, Raed Kamil Naser

“…Arabic customer analysis and classification also began to gain researchers’ attention due to the wide range of Arabic language speakers. …”
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Assessing future climate change with a weather generator: A case study in Bali, Indonesia by Ayu Puspitasari Sylvatera, Wu Chen-Fa

“…This study offers valuable insights into climate change impact models on agriculture, which is helpful for farmers, researchers, planners, and decision-makers.…”
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Victims’ profile by firearm related injuries in the municipality of the state of Rio de Janeiro by Graciele Oroski Paes, Simone Mendes Carvalho, Celso Alexandre Tavares Rodrigues, Joyce Maria dos Santos de Faria

“…There were found 305 notifications of victims of PAF in both of years researched, which 96% of the victims were identified by gender and age-group, and another 55% of the victims were between fifteen and thirty years old. …”
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Effect of E-Learning on Public Health and Environment During COVID-19 Lockdown by Avani Agarwal, Sahil Sharma, Vijay Kumar, Manjit Kaur

“…During the COVID-19 lockdown, e-learning is successfully providing potential information to the students and researchers. In developing nations like India, with limited resources, e-learning tools and platforms provide a chance to make education available to middle and low income households. …”
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Sensual Environmental Robots: Entanglements of Speculative Realist Ideas with Design Theory and Practice by Santer Steven C.

“…two propositions are discussed from a design researcher’s perspective. Four devices across two speculative projects Habitat Robots and Soil Protector Robots are presented. …”
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Modeling and Assessment of a Biomass Gasification Integrated System for Multigeneration Purpose by Shoaib Khanmohammadi, Kazem Atashkari, Ramin Kouhikamali

“…The use of biomass due to the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impacts has attracted many researchers’ attention in the recent years. Access to an energy conversion system which is able to have the optimum performance for applying valuable low heating value fuels has been considered by many practitioners and scholars. …”
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Numerical Study of Ground Vibrations Caused by Cylindrical Wave Propagation in a Rock Mass with a Structural Plane by Shaobo Chai, Wei Tian, Liyuan Yu, Hao Wang

“…Finally, parametric researches are carried out on the influence of the monitoring point’s position, the structural plane stiffness, and the frequency of incident wave on the peak particle velocities (PPVs) of the ground vibrations.…”
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Discharge Estimation for an Ungauged Inland River in an Arid Area Related to Anthropogenic Activities: A Case Study of Heihe River Basin, Northwestern China by Shuang Liu, Zhenghui Xie, Yujin Zeng

“…In general, the method is feasible to provide support pertaining to water management or eco-hydrological researches and could be easily extended to other similar places.…”
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