Hybrid power system options for off-grid rural electrification in northwestern region of Nigeria by Boluwaji Moses Olomiyesan, Onyedi David Oyedum

“…Two off-grid hybrid power systems and a stand-alone diesel generator are modeled, simulated, and analyzed for the two locations with different solar and wind energy resources using Hybrid Optimization Model for Electric Renewable (HOMER Pro 3.7.5) software. The optimization results show that a PV-wind-diesel hybrid power system is sufficient to meet the load demand of the two locations at the least cost. …”
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Manufacture of Green-Composite Sandwich Structures with Basalt Fiber and Bioepoxy Resin by J. P. Torres, R. Hoto, J. Andrés, J. A. García-Manrique

“…Permeability measurements of the basalt fabrics were carried out in order to perform numerical simulations of liquid composite moulding (LCM) processes on the PAM-RTM software. The proposed green-composite sandwich material was used for the fabrication of a longboard as a case study for a sports equipment application. …”
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Study on Dynamics of Hydraulic Control System for Automatic Loading and Unloading of Drill Pipe of Geological Drilling Rig by Zhijian Liu, Yunlong Chen, Hailong Ruan

“…The hydraulic control system is simulated by AMESim software. The simulation model verifies the mathematical model. …”
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Test and Analysis of Performance of Flat Single-axis Photovoltaic Tracking Bracket Multi-point Drive Rotary Reducers by Ma Tao, Li Wei, Chen Xuehui, Gao Ting, Li Wei, Tang Xing

“…Secondly, the performance of the rotary reducer under rated output torque and overturning torque was numerically simulated using Romax software, and a comprehensive performance testing platform for the rotary reducer was built to test the transmission performance of the prototype under rated output torque and overturning torque. …”
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How can brand equity for tourism destinations be used to preview tourists’ destination choice? An overview from the top of Tower of Babel by Francisco Dias, Lucília Cardoso

“…This paper describes a new research programme – Favourite Destinations Worldwide – that includes three interrelated innovative tools: (1) the destination brand choice model that allows a better conceptualization of CBBE-TD in the context of destination choice; (2) the Tower of Babel platform, a multilingual online survey for data gathering, to assess CBBE-TD of all destinations competing in the world market; and (3) the Destination Brand Gnosis, a propriety software for qualitative data analysis, transforming the meta-data into a system for constantly evaluating brand attractiveness. …”
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Space-Based FPGA Radio Receiver Design, Debug, and Development of a Radiation-Tolerant Computing System by Zachary K. Baker, Mark E. Dunham, Keith Morgan, Michael Pigue, Matthew Stettler, Paul Graham, Eric N. Schmierer, John Power

“…Los Alamos has recently completed the latest in a series of Reconfigurable Software Radios, which incorporates several key innovations in both hardware design and algorithms. …”
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Multi-objective optimization of the heating oil circuit inside the calendering roller for the lithium battery pole piece by Shuangqiu Sun, Junqiang Wang, Rongying Zhang, Zhenchao Si, Zhijie Yang

“…In the multi-objective optimization procedure, an integrated optimization framework is established by the prebuilt CAD module and the FEM module in the commercial software. Then, the improved NSGA-II algorithm is selected to execute the optimization loop. …”
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Impact analysis of tunnel crossing pile foundation at different angles by Zhongxi Tian, Zhiyu Zhang, Guangzhan Zhang, Xiangjun Shan, Wanrong Liu

“…This paper takes the actual engineering project as the background, uses the finite element analysis software midas GTS NX to creating 3D computational models, and analyzes the effect of tunnel crossing on the surface settlement and pile foundation deformation when the shield tunnel and the axes of the underpinned beams are at different angles. …”
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Application of Mobile Internet Applications in Rehabilitation by LI Jiehui, LI Dongxia, ZHOU Mingchao, XUE Kaiwen, LONG Jianjun, WANG Yulong

“…However, there are still many difficulties in the application of APPs in rehabilitation profession, such as lack of universal applicability, limited functions, and unstandardized software design and use. In the future, it is necessary to conduct research on the combination of internet mobile APPs and rehabilitation, to find and develop the comprehensive APPs suitable for people with different functional disabilities, in order to maximize efficiency of the APPs in assisting rehabilitation.…”
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Experimental and numerical investigation of the thermal - hydraulic performance of flow inside helical coil elliptic tubes by Ghanem Alabdali, Wael M. El-Maghlany, Yasser S. Mohamed, M.A. Qassem, Mohamed A. Alnakeeb

“…The numerical simulation is conducted using the ANSYS FLUENT CFD software (Version 19.2). The experimental and numerical results indicate that the increase in heat transfer due to an increase in mass flow rate is significantly greater than the improvement gained by changing the aspect ratios. …”
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Human Thermal Comfort and Heat Stress in an Outdoor Urban Arid Environment: A Case Study by A. M. Abdel-Ghany, I. M. Al-Helal, M. R. Shady

“…The thermal indices THI, WBGT, PET, and UTCI were used to evaluate thermal comfort and heat stress. RayMan software model was used to estimate the PET, and the UTCI calculator was used for UTCI. …”
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Kinematic Analysis and Motion Simulation of a 2D Cable Robot Designed for Greenhouse Applications by Hassan Masoudi, Ali Madadi Kahkesh

“…In this research, the kinematic analysis of a two-dimensional laboratory cable robot, which is being developed for agricultural applications, and the results of its movement simulation in Simscape Multibody environment of MATLAB software are presented. The motions simulation of the robot in reaching a hypothetical point and traveling a certain path have been done using PID controller. …”
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Designs of PMSMs with Inner and Outer Rotors for Electric Bicycle Applications by Harwan Mohammed Taha, Ismaeil Alnaab

“…In this work, Motor Solve software is used to design and analyze the performance of both motors. …”
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Assessment of the Geographical Factors Contributing to the Occurrence of the Flood and Flash Flood in Şanlıurfa on March 15, 2023 by Mustafa Recep İrcan, Neşe Duman

“…In the study prepared for this purpose, the boundary of the research area was determined by hydrology analysis using ArcGIS for Desktop 10.5 software. With this analysis, lithology, slope and precipitation maps of the determined river basins (Karakoyun, Cavsak and Karaköprü-Sırrın Creeks) were produced. …”
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Steady Three-Dimensional MHD Mixed Convection Couple Stress Flow of Hybrid Nanofluid with Hall and Ion Slip Effect by Ali Rehman, Waris Khan, Ebenezer Bonyah, Samsul Ariffin Abdul Karim, Ahmed Alshehri, Ahmed M. Galal

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An Adaptive View Selection Algorithm for Large-scale Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction by Jingsong Lin, Singanallur Venkatakrishnan, Obaidullah Rahman, Gregery T. Buzzard, Amirkoushyar Ziabari, Charles A. Bouman

“…During the view selection process, all reconstructions are performed using MBIRJAX, a novel software library that enables fast, high-quality cone-beam CT reconstructions. …”
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Detecting Silent Data Corruptions in Aerospace-Based Computing Using Program Invariants by Junchi Ma, Dengyun Yu, Yun Wang, Zhenbo Cai, Qingxiang Zhang, Cheng Hu

“…To increase the coverage of SDC, we further propose an extension of Radish, named Radish_D, which applies software-based instruction duplication mechanism to protect the uncovered code sections. …”
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Numerical Research of the Water Entry of Hyperelastic Spheres Within Low Froude Numbers by L. Zhang, R. Xie, H. Jia

“…The water-entry process of solid and hollow hyperelastic spheres was numerically simulated using the arbitrary Lagrange–Euler method, based on the finite element analysis software LS-DYNA. The effect of the different initial velocities on the cavity evolution and deformation of the sphere in a range of low Froude (Fr) numbers was investigated. …”
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Fitting the Integrated Model of Location of the Pre-urban Areas with Emphasis on Environmental Balance by Atefeh Moradi, Mariam Daneshvar, Seyed Abdol-Hadi Daneshpour, Hooman Bahmanpour

“…The initial model of the research was investigated and tested using SEM using Smart PLS 2 software. The results showed that the factor loadings of all questionnaire questions were more than 0.4 and were therefore acceptable. …”
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Gene Set Analyses of Genome-Wide Association Studies on 49 Quantitative Traits Measured in a Single Genetic Epidemiology Dataset by Jihye Kim, Ji-sun Kwon, Sangsoo Kim

“…Each analysis result was subjected to subsequent gene set analyses based on Gene Ontology (GO) terms using gene set analysis software, GSA-SNP, identifying a set of GO terms significantly associated to each trait (pcorr < 0.05). …”
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