ANFIS-optimized control for resilient and efficient supply chain performance in smart manufacturing by Mona A. AbouElaz, Bilal Naji Alhasnawi, Bishoy E. Sedhom, Vladimír Bureš

“…Due to the dramatic revolution in global trade, competition, and the epidemic of COVID-19, the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME's) production paradigm has been evolving and gaining traction to meet its dynamic demands and challenges for industrial process adaptability and standards. …”
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Facilitating free travel in the Schengen area—A position paper by the European Association for Biometrics by Christoph Busch, Farzin Deravi, Dinusha Frings, Els Kindt, Ralph Lessmann, Alexander Nouak, Jean Salomon, Mateus Achcar, Fernando Alonso‐Fernandez, Daniel Bachenheimer, David Bethell, Josef Bigun, Matthew Brawley, Guido Brockmann, Enrique Cabello, Patrizio Campisi, Aleksandrs Cepilovs, Miles Clee, Mickey Cohen, Christian Croll, Andrzej Czyżewski, Bernadette Dorizzi, Martin Drahansky, Pawel Drozdowski, Catherine Fankhauser, Julian Fierrez, Marta Gomez‐Barrero, Georg Hasse, Richard Guest, Ekaterina Komleva, Sebastien Marcel, Gian Luca Marcialis, Laurent Mercier, Emilio Mordini, Stefance Mouille, Pavlina Navratilova, Javier Ortega‐Garcia, Dijana Petrovska, Norman Poh, Istvan Racz, Ramachandra Raghavendra, Christian Rathgeb, Christophe Remillet, Uwe Seidel, Luuk Spreeuwers, Brage Strand, Sirra Toivonen, Andreas Uhl

“…Provided a holistic approach is adopted, it may be possible to reach a more optimal trade‐off with regards to open borders while maintaining a high‐level of security and protection of fundamental rights. …”
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Joint Optimization of Energy Conservation and Migration Cost for Complex Systems in Edge Computing by Xiaolong Xu, Yuan Xue, Mengmeng Cui, Yuan Yuan, Lianyong Qi

“…With the consideration of this issue, a Balanced Resource Scheduling Method, named BRSM, for trade-offs between virtual machine (VM) migration cost and energy consumption of VM migrations for edge server management, named BRSM, is designed in this paper. …”
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Economic Space Movement: Shifting Functions of Semarang Suburban Land at the Beginning of the 21st Century by Santi Muji Utami, Nur Aini Setiawati, Nur Aeni Marta

“…In long-term planning, the central area of Semarang City is intended to serve as a centre for government, business development, and trade. As a result, more and more settlements are being evicted or marginalized. …”
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Ongoing invasions by American bullfrogs and red-eared sliders in the Republic of Korea by Desiree Andersen, Amaël Borzée, Yikweon Jang

“…American bullfrogs (Lithobates catesbeianus) and red-eared sliders (Trachemys scripta elegans) have become invasive in South Korea since their introduction in the 1970s through the food and pet trades. One of the first steps to their population regulations is to determine each species’ distribution in the country, which will allow for the identification of at-risk areas. …”
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Synchronization in graph analysis algorithms on the Partially Ordered Event‐Triggered Systems many‐core architecture by Ashur Rafiev, Alex Yakovlev, Ghaith Tarawneh, Matthew F. Naylor, Simon W. Moore, David B. Thomas, Graeme M. Bragg, Mark L. Vousden, Andrew D. Brown

“…The paper explores the trade‐offs between the related overheads and performance factors on a message‐passing prototype machine with 49,152 RISC‐V threads distributed over 48 FPGAs (called the Partially Ordered Event‐Triggered Systems platform). …”
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Thrips Management Program for Horticultural Crops by Vivek Kumar, Garima Kakkar, Cristi L. Palmer, Cindy L. McKenzie, Lance S. Osborne

“…Thrips infestations present a huge problem in the regional and international trade of plant materials and products, due to the quarantine risks and damage associated with several species in the order. …”
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Advances in Henry Gas Solubility Optimization: A Physics-Inspired Metaheuristic Algorithm With Its Variants and Applications by Mohammed A. El-Shorbagy, Anas Bouaouda, Hossam A. Nabwey, Laith Abualigah, Fatma A. Hashim

“…Since its introduction by Hashim et al. in 2019, HGSO has gained significant attention for its unique features, including minimal adaptive parameters and a balanced exploration-exploitation trade-off, leading to favorable convergence. This study provides an up-to-date survey of HGSO, covering the walk through the historical development of HGSO, its modifications, and hybridizations with other algorithms, showcasing its adaptability and potential for synergy. …”
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Thrips Management Program for Horticultural Crops by Vivek Kumar, Garima Kakkar, Cristi L. Palmer, Cindy L. McKenzie, Lance S. Osborne

“…Thrips infestations present a huge problem in the regional and international trade of plant materials and products, due to the quarantine risks and damage associated with several species in the order. …”
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Regional Development: New Challenges for Engineering Education (SYNERGY-2021 Conference Results Review) by V. V. Kondratyev, M. F. Galikhanov, F. T. Shageeva, P. N. Osipov, L. V. Ovsienko

“…The event was organized by 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 (AIOR), as well as the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Tatarstan and Kazan National Research Technological University. …”
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Game-Theoretic Camera Selection Using Inference Tree Method for a Wireless Visual Sensor Network by Yeong-Jae Choi, Go-Wun Jeong, Yong-Ho Seo, Hyun S. Yang

“…In a wireless visual sensor network consisting of wireless, battery-powered, and field-of-view (FoV) overlapping and stationary visual sensors, trade-offs exist between extending network lifetime and enhancing its sensing accuracy. …”
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Design of a release-free piezo-optomechanical quantum transducer by Paul Burger, Joey Frey, Johan Kolvik, David Hambraeus, Raphaël Van Laer

“…Traditionally, these transducers are suspended to confine mechanical fields, but this complicates manufacturing and comes with the major challenge of poor thermal anchoring and a trade-off between noise and efficiency. To overcome these issues, we introduce the—to our knowledge—first design of a release-free electro-optomechanical quantum transducer. …”
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Combined Nonlinear Analysis of Atrial and Ventricular Series for Automated Screening of Atrial Fibrillation by Juan Ródenas, Manuel García, Raúl Alcaraz, José J. Rieta

“…Finally, the combination of this algorithm with the classical analysis of RR series variability also yielded a promising trade-off between AF accuracy and detection delay. …”
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Use of Immunostimulants in Shrimp Farming—A Bioeconomic Perspective by Héctor Rodrigo Nolasco-Alzaga, Elizabeth Monreal-Escalante, Mariel Gullian-Klanian, Juan Antonio de Anda-Montañez, Antonio Luna-González, Fernando Aranceta, Marcelo E. Araneda-Padilla, Carlos Angulo

“…Aquaculture is the fastest-growing food industry worldwide because it allows faster intensive production in a limited space and short time. However, the trade-off of this production scheme has led to infectious disease outbreaks that harm food production with economic impacts. …”
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Genomics Reveal Population Structure and Intergeneric Hybridization in an Endangered South American Bird: Implications for Management and Conservation by Marisol Domínguez, Larissa S. Arantes, Pablo D. Lavinia, Nicole Bergjürgen, Agustin I. Casale, Pablo A. Fracas, Darío A. Lijtmaer, Pablo Tubaro, Sarah Sparmann, Susan Mbedi, Camila Mazzoni, Bettina Mahler, Ralph Tiedemann

“…This study uses genomic data to provide new insights to aid conservation and management of endangered species, using as a case study the Yellow cardinal (Gubernatrix cristata), a bird endemic to southern South America severely affected by illegal trade and the transformation of its natural habitat. …”
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Evolutionary Hyperheuristics for Location-Routing Problem with Simultaneous Pickup and Delivery by Yanwei Zhao, Longlong Leng, Jingling Zhang, Chunmiao Zhang, Wanliang Wang

“…Experimental results show that the proposed approaches outperform most fine-tuned bespoke state-of-the-art approaches in the literature, and PS-AM and AS-AM perform better when compared to the rest of the pairs in terms of obtaining a good trade-off of solution quality and computing time.…”
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Natural and anthropogenic noise shape bat activity and sonar behavior by Ryan Vosbigian, Ryan Wardle, Hannah S. Rempel, Ellie Brauer, Michael Huggins, Samantha West, Joshua S. Willems, Clinton D. Francis

“…Overall, we found evidence that temporal patterning of noise may strongly influence bat activity and that signaling in noise may involve trade‐offs among call features.…”
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Numerical investigation of the effects of hydrogen/ammonia addition to n-heptane combustion and emissions for a dual injection compression-ignition engine by K. Ghadamkheir, F. Safamanesh, M. Moghiman, M. Hatami

“…The study also investigates the Soot-NOx trade-off, revealing significant insights into emission control strategies. …”
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The climate change influence on Indonesia medicinal plants: A review by Ngezahayo Eric, Komariah Komariah, Masykuri Mohammad

“…However, the changing climate, deforestation, population growth, overharvesting and the unsustainable manner of medicinal plant collection for trade, may drive many populations extinct. The study aimed to review some climate change effects on Indonesian medicinal plants as potential medicine sources for discovery and human being development. …”
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Enhancing Freeway Safety through Intervening in Traffic Flow Dynamics Based on Variable Speed Limit Control by Jinming You, Shouen Fang, Lanfang Zhang, John Taplin, Jingqiu Guo

“…By taking into account the trade-off between safety benefits and delay in travel time, the speed limit strategies were optimized under various traffic conditions and the model with gradient feedback produces more satisfactory performance in controlling real-time crash risks. …”
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