Process Improvement for Error Records in a Financial Institution with the Analysis of Simulation on Using Value Stream Mapping by İbrahim Yel, Orhan Engin

“…Then, based on the information obtained from the current situation, approval flow of the error records is simulated with the Arena simulation program. …”
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Investigation of Rheological Behavior of Low Pressure Injection Molded Stainless Steel Feedstocks by Muhammad Aslam, Faiz Ahmad, Puteri Sri Melor Binti Megat Yusoff, Khurram Altaf, Mohd Afian Omar, H. P. S. Abdul Khalil, M. Rafi Raza

“…The main idea consists in development of various formulations by varying 316L SS powder contents in feedstocks and evaluating the temperature sensitivity of feedstock via flow behavior index and activation energy. For this purpose, the irregular shape, spherical shape, and combination of both shapes and sizes (bimodal approach) of 316L SS powders are compounded with wax based composite binder. …”
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Driving-Related Cognitive Abilities Prediction Based on Transformer’s Multimodal Fusion Framework by Yifan Li, Bo Liu, Wenli Zhang

“…With the increasing complexity of urban roads and rising traffic flow, traffic safety has become a critical societal concern. …”
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Heteronuclear Fe-Mn Cyclopentadienyl Complexes Supported on Boehmite. Thermochemistry and Thermodynamics of their Decomposition by A.I. Rustamova, R.M. Muradxanov, S.N. Osmanova, F.K. Pashayeva, A.N. Mammadov, D.B. Tagiyev, E.H. Ismailov

“… Boehmite samples with compounds of the composition (C5H5)2FeMnX2(μ-CO)n, where X=Cl, Br and n=1.2, precipitated at room temperature from tetrahydrofuran solutions and then heated in an air flow up to 873 K were obtained and characterized using X-ray diffractometry, infrared Fourier spectroscopy, electron magnetic resonance and temperature-programmed desorption methods. …”
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Metrics for code obfuscation based on symbolic execution and N-scope complexity by Yuqiang XIAO, Yunfei GUO, Yawen WANG

“…Code obfuscation has been well developed as mitigated endogenous security technology, to effectively resist MATE attacks (e.g.reverse engineering).And it also has important value for the reasonable metrics of code obfuscation effect.Since symbolic execution is widely used in anti-obfuscation attacks, metrics for code obfuscation resilience can refer to the efforts of generating input test set for executing all program paths.However, some adversarial techniques could reduce the symbol execution efficiency significantly based on the nested structure of the program and increase the error of the resilience reference.To solve the above problems, a metrics for code obfuscation was proposed based on symbolic execution and N-scope complexity.The obfuscation resilience was defined with symbolic execution time and obfuscation potency was defined based on the proposed N-scope complexity for better robustness in measuring the resilience of multi-nested structure programs.Furthermore, the correlation analysis of obfuscation effect was proposed and the effect was quantified by symbolic execution and control flow diagram extraction of programs.Over 4000 obfuscated programs from 3 open-sourced assemblies were evaluated with proposed metrics in the experiment, which indicated the generalization performance and practicality of the metrics.And an example of this metrics application was presented in a simulated obfuscation scenario which provided references of obfuscation technology metrics and obfuscation configuration for obfuscation users.…”
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Temperature Effect on Stability of Tunnel Face Under Unsaturated Seepage Condition by Yi Xie, Hong Liao, De Zhou

“…These models are subsequently incorporated into the stability assessment of tunnel faces in unsaturated soils under steady-state flow conditions. A three-dimensional logarithmic spiral model is utilized to ascertain the unsupported pressure on tunnel faces, with the safety factor (FS) being calculated through an iterative methodology. …”
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A Novel Excavation and Construction Method for an Extra-Long Underwater Tunnel in Soft Soils by Jian Wu, Zhifang Zhou, Wenjun Xia, Haixiao Wang, Zhongqiang Fang

“…The most distinctive advantage of this method is that the excavation did not cut off the normal flow of the lake water and the shipping routes, with low environmental impact. …”
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Design and Detection Performance of Metal Contaminant Sensor with Triple Coil Structure by Changzhi Gu, Zuo Zhang, Shaoxuan Zhang, Hongliang Zhao, Shukui Hu, Wenbo Zhang, Chenzhao Bai, Hongpeng Zhang, Chenyong Wang

“…When the sensor detects metal particles in the oil, the ferromagnetic and non-ferromagnetic particles flowing through the sensor produce magnetization and eddy current effects, resulting in variable inductive signals that complete the detection of metal particles. …”
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Room temperature CRISPR diagnostics for low-resource settings by Eric A. Nalefski, Selma Sinan, Jason L. Cantera, Anastasia G. Kim, Remy M. Kooistra, Rafael E. Rivera, Jordyn P. Janshen, Sanchita Bhadra, Joshua D. Bishop, Andrew D. Ellington, Ilya J. Finklestein, Damian Madan

“…RPA-TsCas12a reactions performed at 25 °C effectively detected HPV-16 in crudely prepared cervical swab samples with high sensitivity and specificity using both optical and lateral flow readouts. The reactions developed herein reduce the complexity and equipment requirements for affordable diagnostics in low- and middle-income countries.…”
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MHD Analysis of Couple Stress Hybrid Nanofluid Free Stream over a Spinning Darcy-Forchheimer Porous Disc under the Effect of Thermal Radiation by Muhammad Zubair, Muhammad Jawad, Ebenezer Bonyah, Rashid Jan

“…The analysis of such kind of mixed convective flow is most important due to numerous industrial applications such as electronic devices, atomic reactors, central solar energy equipment, and heat transferring devices. …”
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Utilizing Connection Usage Characteristics for Faster Web Data Transport by Gautam Raj Moktan, Nutti Varis, Jukka Manner

“…We discuss the effect of the transport protocol on object transfer, connection duration, idle times during the page load, connections, and concurrency of flows that cumulate into page load times.…”
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Evaluating the environmental effects of Japan's tourism: insights into pandemic-induced changes and driving forces by Yuzhuo Huang, Yosuke Shigetomi, Ken’ichi Matsumoto

“…Accordingly, we used the latest data available from the global multi-regional input–output table of EXIOBASE3 and Japan’s tourist consumption statistics to estimate the TCF from all tourist sources in Japan based on the global economic system, and we visualized the carbon flow caused by population mobility. The decomposition of the environmental impact of the pandemic response further identified the driving forces of TCF changes. …”
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Fighting Another’s War: Imperialist Projections on the Victorian Novel’s Continent by Tamara Wagner

“…They were seen as a threat, spilling over into Britain, as bringing in competing flows of refugees, and most importantly perhaps, as demanding a rethinking of imperialist legacies of guilt. …”
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Comparative analysis of neural network models performance on low-power devices for a real-time object detection task by A. Zagitov, E. Chebotareva, A. Toschev, E. Magid

“…The results of experiments provide insights into trade-offs between accuracy, speed, and computational efficiency of MobileNetV2 SSD, CenterNet MobileNetV2 FPN, EfficientDet, YoloV5, YoloV7, YoloV7 Tiny and YoloV8 neural network models on Raspberry Pi 4B, Raspberry Pi 3B and NVIDIA Jetson Nano with TensorFlow Lite. We fine-tuned the models on our custom dataset prior to benchmarking and used post-training quantization (PTQ) and quantization-aware training (QAT) to optimize the models’ size and speed. …”
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Changes in T-Cell and Monocyte Phenotypes In Vitro by Schistosoma mansoni Antigens in Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Patients by Aline Michelle Barbosa Bafica, Luciana Santos Cardoso, Sérgio Costa Oliveira, Alex Loukas, Alfredo Góes, Ricardo Riccio Oliveira, Edgar M. Carvalho, Maria Ilma Araujo

“…Cells were stained with fluorochrome conjugated antibodies and analyzed by flow cytometry. The addition of rSm29 to the cultures decreased the expression of HLA-DR in nonclassical (CD14+CD16++) monocytes, while the addition of PIII diminished the expression of this molecule in classical (CD14++CD16-) and intermediate (CD14++CD16+) monocytes. …”
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THE PROBLEM OF CORRUPTION OF BASIC SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS IN PARTICULAR: FORMAL-ETHIC AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS by V. O. Lobovikov

“…The submitted definition (criterion) gives a possibility to establish at any moment of time definite borderline between the basic and the applied scientific search (the line undergoes change in the flow of time). The effective criterion of basic scientific researches offered by the author, and also exact specifying of their place and role in lifecycle of knowledge as goods in market economy (at the conceptual level of the Boston Chart) allow to designate an urgent problem of corruption of the scientific sphere in a new perspective. …”
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Parametric Optimization of Abrasive Water Jet Cutting on AA 5083 through Multiobjective Teaching-Learning Method by R. Meenakshi Reddy, K. Logesh, S. V. Alagarsamy, A. Nagaraj, Rishabh Chaturvedi, Mylavarapu Kalyan Ram, A. H. Seikh, M. H. Siddique, Beruk Hailu

“…Water pressure, transverse speed, stand-off distance, and abrasive flow rate are some of the major cutting parameters that may be adjusted such that the output values such as material removal rate and surface roughness are at their optimal levels.…”
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Fragile Histidine Triad (FHIT) Suppresses Proliferation and Promotes Apoptosis in Cholangiocarcinoma Cells by Blocking PI3K-Akt Pathway by Qiang Huang, Zhen Liu, Fang Xie, Chenhai Liu, Feng Shao, Cheng-lin Zhu, Sanyuan Hu

“…The viability and apoptosis of QBC939 cells were then assessed using MTT assays and flow cytometry. Our results revealed that the expression of survivin and Bcl-2 was downregulated, and caspase 3 was upregulated, in cells overexpressing FHIT. …”
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Simulation of a Reverse Electrodialysis–Absorption Refrigeration Integration System for the Efficient Recovery of Low-Grade Waste Heat by Xi Wu, Linjing Yan, Xiaojing Zhu, Mingjun Liu

“…Based on this model, the authors simulated and analyzed the impact of various factors on system performance, including the heat source temperature (90 °C to 130 °C), concentrated solution concentration (3 mol∙L⁻¹ to 9 mol∙L⁻¹), dilute solution concentration (0.002 mol∙L⁻¹ to 0.5 mol∙L⁻¹), condensing temperature of the dilute solution (50 °C to 70 °C), solution temperature (30 °C to 60 °C) and flow rate (0.4 cm∙s⁻¹ to 1.3 cm∙s⁻¹) in the RED stacks, as well as the number of RED stacks. …”
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Revolutionizing urban solid waste management with AI and IoT: A review of smart solutions for waste collection, sorting, and recycling by Abderrahim Lakhouit

“…The integration of IoT-based smart waste management enables municipalities to utilize real-time data to analyze waste flow, predict generation trends, and improve operational efficiency. …”
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