Engineering Education in the Context of Digitalization and Transition to a Green Economy (SYNERGY 2022 Conference Results Review) by M. F. Galikhanov, V. V. Kondratyev, I. G. Akhmetov, G. R. Ganieva

“…The organizers of the event were the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP), the Association of Engineering Education of Russia (AEER), as well as the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Kazan National Research Technological University. …”
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Leveraging IoT and industry 4.0 for enhanced environmental safety by Javad Pourqasem, Duško Tešić, Eisa Abdolmaleki

“…The Web of Things (IoT) gets the associations among different gadgets with the capacity to trade and getting information. IoT additionally stretches out its ability to ecological issues notwithstanding the computerization industry by utilizing industry 4.0. …”
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Impact of electric vehicle battery recycling on reducing raw material demand and battery life-cycle carbon emissions in China by Rui Jiang, Chengke Wu, Wei Feng, Kairui You, Jian Liu, Guangmin Zhou, Lujing Liu, Hui-Ming Cheng

“…However, this reuse strategy delays battery recycling and risks lithium supply shortage, necessitating trade-offs between carbon reduction and material supply. …”
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Finite element-based nonlinear dynamic optimization of nanomechanical resonators by Zichao Li, Farbod Alijani, Ali Sarafraz, Minxing Xu, Richard A. Norte, Alejandro M. Aragón, Peter G. Steeneken

“…To that end, we generate Pareto frontiers that highlight the trade-offs between optimization objectives and validate the results both numerically and experimentally. …”
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On-chip power efficient MHz to GHz tunable Brillouin microwave photonic filters by Reena Parihar, Choon Kong Lai, Ziqian Zhang, Duk-Yong Choi, Stephen J. Madden, Benjamin J. Eggleton, Amol Choudhary, Moritz Merklein

“…However, broadband filters utilizing Brillouin scattering typically necessitate multiple pump sources or linear frequency modulated waveforms, which necessitate the use of overall high pump powers to achieve broadband and multi-band filter configurations. To overcome the trade-off between bandwidth and power consumption, we introduce an on-chip broadband bandpass filter scheme leveraging the SBS response and the concept of radio frequency interference. …”
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A Decomposed-Ensemble Prediction Framework for Gate-In Operations at Container Terminals by Yifan Shen, Beng Xuan, Hongtao Hu, Yansong Wu, Ning Zhao, Zhen Yang

“…Container terminals play a crucial role in global logistics and trade, with gate-in operations significantly impacting overall terminal efficiency and cargo turnover speed. …”
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Impacts of Industry 4.0 in developed countries & BRICs by Guilherme Rodrigues de Sousa, Jorge Muniz Jr, Marta Lígia Pomim Valentim, Liane Mahlmann Kipper, Elaine Mosconi, Márcio Giannini Pereira

“…Patent records related to high-tech products Patentscope of the World Intellectual Property Organization and the list of exported products in TradeMap were also searched to identify and analyze the contribution of each country’s policies. …”
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Roma Eterna? Roman rule explains regional well-being divides in Germany by Martin Obschonka, Fabian Wahl, Michael Fritsch, Michael Wyrwich, P. Jason Rentfrow, Jeff Potter, Samuel D. Gosling

“…Additional analyses suggest that Roman investments in economic institutions (e.g., trade infrastructure such as Roman roads, markets, and mines) were crucial in creating this long-term effect. …”
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Effect of Microwave Treatment on Microbial Contamination of Honeys and on Their Physicochemical and Thermal Properties by Paz Moliné María de la, Fernández Natalia Jorgelina, Medici Sandra Karina, Fasce Diana, Gende Liesel Brenda

“…The main quality factors that are used in the honey international trade are moisture, hydroxymethylfurfural content (HMF), and enzymatic indices. …”
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Exploring possibilities of broccoli (Brassica oleracea L. var. italica) production under organic management by Amit Kumar, Satesh Kumar, Divyanshu Sharma, Parshant Bakshi, S. K. Singh, R. K. Samnotra

“…Its introduction has helped J&K farmers to increase their income through higher market prices and to gain access to new markets and trade opportunities. It being a nutrient-demanding crop, farmers use high doses of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides and if consumed as salad or half-boiled in many culinary dishes, these chemicals are likely to impact the health of consumers and affect the environment. …”
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Automated generation of dispatching rules for the green unrelated machines scheduling problem by Nikolina Frid, Marko Ɖurasević, Francisco Javier Gil-Gala

“…The experiments show that GP-generated DRs efficiently solve the problem under dynamic conditions, providing a trade-off between optimising standard and energy-related criteria.…”
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THE NEXUS OF EXTERNAL DEBT, PRIVATE INVESTMENT AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT: EVIDENCE FROM SELECTED SACU COUNTRIES by Brian Muyambiri, John-Baptiste Mabejane

“… This paper examines the dynamic causal relationship between financial development, external debt and investment in Lesotho, Namibia and Eswatini from 1980–2020 using a multivariate Granger–causality model. The study considers trade, savings and economic growth as intermittent variables in the analysis. …”
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Design of antiferroelectric polarization configuration for ultrahigh capacitive energy storage via increasing entropy by Yongxiao Zhou, Tianfu Zhang, Liang Chen, Huifen Yu, Ruiyu Wang, Hao Zhang, Jie Wu, Shiqing Deng, He Qi, Chang Zhou, Jun Chen

“…Here, entropy increase effect is utilized to simultaneously break the long-range antiferroelectric order and locally adjust the fourfold commensurate modulated polarization configuration, leading to a breakthrough in the trade-off between recoverable energy storge density (14.8 J cm−3) and efficiency (90.2%) in medium-entropy antiferroelectrics. …”
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Voltage-driven autonomous cooperative control of EHLs for load stabilization by Bing Qi, Rui Liu, Deying Zhang, Zhuoqun Wang, Qi Qi

“…Firstly, an optimal control model of EHLs is constructed, where the adaptive historical influence factors are introduced to achieve the dynamic trade-off between load rate stability and user comfort. …”
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Optimal information dissemination strategy to promote preventivebehaviors in multilayer epidemic networks by Heman Shakeri, Faryad Darabi Sahneh, Caterina Scoglio, Pietro Poggi-Corradini, Victor M. Preciado

“…Launching a prevention campaign to contain the spread of infection requires substantial financial investments; therefore, a trade-off exists between suppressing the epidemic and containing costs. …”
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Precision and efficiency in skin cancer segmentation through a dual encoder deep learning model by Asaad Ahmed, Guangmin Sun, Anas Bilal, Yu Li, Shouki A. Ebad

“…Existing methods for skin lesion segmentation often face trade-offs between efficiency and feature extraction capabilities. …”
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Gene Technology for Papaya Ringspot Virus Disease Management by Md. Abul Kalam Azad, Latifah Amin, Nik Marzuki Sidik

“…Recent studies have revealed that the success of adoption of transgenic papaya depends upon the application, it being a commercially viable product, bio-safety regulatory issues, trade regulations, and the wider social acceptance of the technology. …”
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BOARD CHARACTERISTICS AND AUDIT QUALITY OF LISTED CONSUMER GOODS FIRMS IN NIGERIA by Aliyu Shehu Usman, Danson Andrew Gyar, Abdullahi Bala Ado

“… The study investigates the effects of board characteristics on the audit quality of publicly traded listed consumer goods firms in Nigeria from 2013 to 2022. …”
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Subsistence hunting impacts wildlife assemblages and functional ecology in tropical forests by Bradley Cain, Julia E. Fa, Rajan Amin, Jacqueline Morrison, Eva Avila Martin, Stephan M. Funk, Martin Jones, David P. Mallon, Robert Okale, Guillermo Ros Brull, Selvino R. de Kort

“…While high levels of extraction linked to commercial trade have received significant attention, the sustainability of subsistence hunting by Indigenous Peoples in Africa has been less studied. …”
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THE ATTRACTIONS OF GUAR KEPAH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE, PENANG, MALAYSIA AS AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE TOURISM SITE by Mohd Hasfarisham ABD HALIM, Shaiful SHAHIDAN, Shyeh Sahibul Karamah MASAN, Mokhtar SAIDIN

“…The findings from this site have the potential to shed light on human relations with aquatic habitats, the importance of the mari ne environment in human evolution and ecology, island colonisation, and the establishment of maritime trade networks. The development of the Guar Kepah site as an archaeological heritage tourism location in northern Peninsular Malaysia demonstrates the commitment of the government and stakeholders to promoting sustainable heritage tourism in the region.…”
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