The duality of knowledge by Paul Hildreth, Chris Kimble

“…Most KM projects appear to be primarily concerned with knowledge that can be quantified and can be captured, codified and stored - an approach more deserving of the label Information Management. …”
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A Novel Engine Mount with Semi-Active Dry Friction Damping by M. Lorenz, B. Heimann, V. Härtel

“…The normal force of the friction contact is applied by an electromagnetic actuator and can be varied dynamically. The nonlinear current-force-relation of the actuator is linearized. …”
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Recognition of Reconstructed Frontal Face Images Using FFT-PCA/SVD Algorithm by Louis Asiedu, Felix O. Mettle, Joseph A. Mensah

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Evaluating Transition Rules for Enhancing Fairness in Bonus–Malus Systems: An Application to the Saudi Arabian Auto Insurance Market by Asrar Alyafie, Corina Constantinescu, Jorge Yslas

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Robotic Systems for Hand Rehabilitation—Past, Present and Future by Bogdan Gherman, Ionut Zima, Calin Vaida, Paul Tucan, Adrian Pisla, Iosif Birlescu, Jose Machado, Doina Pisla

“…The research shows significant technological evolution with considerable variation in design complexity, with 29.4% of devices using five or more actuators while 24.8% employ one or two actuators. …”
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Investigation on inherent angle ventilation control of residential kitchen range hoods by Zhilin Guo, Huixing Li, Guohui Feng, Kailiang Huang, Tengfei Yu

“…Increasing the exhaust airflow rate of the range hood enhances particle capture efficiency by 9.8 %. The induced airflow generated by opening windows improves particle capture efficiency by 12.9 %. …”
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Cerebral Embolic Protection in Patients Undergoing Left Atrial Appendage Closure by Julia Seeger, Philipp Seppelt, Mario Iturbe-Orbe, David Leistner, Jochen Wöhrle, Michael Joner

“…Clinical outcome measures were disabling and non-disabling stroke within 72 h; (3) Results: In most filters, no material was captured. The predominant captured debris was acute or organized thrombi. …”
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ENHANCING PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY IN A HOME-BASED TEMPE CHIPS INDUSTRY by Latifatul Ummi Qurrota'ayun, Muhamad Zainudin, Siti Nur Mahmudah

“…Management has five functions, namely, planning, organizing, actuating, and controlling. Home industry is a company whose family members are directly involved in the ownership and position or function. …”
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STUDIES ON STEWART PLATFORM – A REVIEW by Alina-Elena LUPULESCU (MACHIDON)

“…The full assembly is a parallel robotic system consisting of a rigid body top or mobile plate connected through six prismatic actuators to an immobile base plate. The actuators (legs) also have an in-built mechanism that allows changing their lengths individually (Fig.1). …”
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On the preparation and characterization of thin NiTi shape memory alloy wires for MEMS by Riccardo Casati, Maurizio Vedani, Syed A. M. Tofail, Calum Dikinson, Ausonio Tuissi

“…Shape memory alloy (SMA) wires are employed as actuators in small devices for consumer electronics, valves and automotive applications. …”
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Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Table Tennis Trajectory Based on Digital Video Image Processing by Chuan He, Xiaoquan Zhang, Yulong Gui, Yang Liu, Wei Zhang

“…Meanwhile, to further improve the accuracy of the inertial motion capture system in restoring the position posture of the trainees, this paper improves the original inertial motion capture system from two aspects: contact judgment of both feet and correction of the position posture based on the contact position constraint. …”
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An Example-Based Super-Resolution Algorithm for Selfie Images by Jino Hans William, N. Venkateswaran, Srinath Narayanan, Sandeep Ramachandran

“…As selfies are captured by front camera with limited pixel resolution, the fine details in it are explicitly missed. …”
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The place of trainings in psychological support of personal transformations of police officers by N. Ye. Tverdokhliebova

“…The development of the value sphere of the personality of law enforcement officers helps to optimize their behavior and self-actuating in such spheres of life as occupation, family life, relationships, hobbies. …”
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Status and New Data of the Geochemical Determination of the pp-Neutrino Flux by LOREX by M. K. Pavićević, F. Bosch, G. Amthauer, I. Aničin, B. Boev, W. Brüchle, V. Cvetković, Z. Djurčić, W. F. Henning, R. Jelenković, V. Pejović, A. Weiss

“…LOREX (LORandite EXperiment) addresses the determination of the solar (pp) neutrino flux during the last four million years by exploiting the reaction  205Tl+νe→ 205Pb+e- with an incomparably low-energy threshold of 50 keV for the capture of solar neutrinos. The ratio of 205Pb/205Tl atoms in the Tl-bearing mineral lorandite provides, if corrected for the cosmic-ray induced background, the product of the flux of solar neutrinos and their capture probability by 205Tl, averaged over the age of lorandite. …”
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Mixed Portmanteau Test for Diagnostic Checking of Time Series Models by Sohail Chand, Shahid Kamal

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Effect of blade inclination angle for straight-bladed vertical-axis wind turbines by L. Morgan, A. K. Amiri, W. Leithead, J. Carroll

“…Many studies have been completed on the rotor design for straight-bladed rotors (H-rotors); however, there is sparse information on the effect of blade inclination angle on VAWT aerodynamic performance and the optimal blade design of VAWTs with inclined blades (V-rotors) for maximum power capture.</p> <p>This paper presents a systematic study into the effect of blade inclination angle and chord distribution on VAWT performance for different aspect ratios using a 3D implementation of the 2D actuator cylinder model which has been previously validated against higher-fidelity methods. …”
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D-MGDCN-CLSTM: A Traffic Prediction Model Based on Multi-Graph Gated Convolution and Convolutional Long–Short-Term Memory by Linliang Zhang, Shuyun Xu, Shuo Li, Lihu Pan, Su Gong

“…The Conv-LSTM processes the approximation coefficients to capture the long-term characteristics of the time series, while the multiple layers of the MGDCN process the detail coefficients to capture short-term fluctuations. …”
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Digital Coalescence and Consolidated Geoconservation Outcomes: A Case Study Using ArcGIS Mobile Applications at Tasmanian Coastal Geoconservation Sites by Jake Crisp, Joanna Ellison, Andrew Fischer

“…Geoconservation outcomes are hindered by highly subjective and conflicting criteria, varying assessment objectives, disparities in geoconservation strategy steps and the inadequate capturing and representation of geological data in dynamically changing inventories. …”
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Position Determination for Dynamic Scenes With Unsynchronized Image Sequences by Kai Guo, Rui Cao, Chenyang Yue, Xin Zhou, Boyu Liu

“…Also, one plane can be determined with unsynchronized image sequences captured by one camera, one ray can be determined with 2D projection captured by another camera, and the intersection of the plane and ray represents the current position. …”
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A Shock Mitigation of Pedestrian-Vehicle Impact Using Active Hood Lift System: Deploying Time Investigation by Tae-Hoon Lee, Gun-Ha Yoon, Seung-Bok Choi

“…This paper investigates the deploying time (or response time) of an active hood lift system (AHLS) of a passenger vehicle activated by gunpowder actuator. In this work, this is accomplished by changing principal design parameters of the latch part mechanism of the hood system. …”
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