Banana leaf ash as sustainable alternative raw material for the production of concrete: a review by Bamidele Charles Olaiya, Mustapha Muhammad Lawan, Kolawole Adisa Olonade, Sani Aliyu Abubakar

“…Water absorption rates have remained within acceptable construction limits, typically below 10% at optimal mix designs. The findings suggest that moderate cement replacement with BLA can yield concrete with sufficient compressive strength, workability, and durability in line with industry standards such as BS EN 206 and ASTM C618. …”
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Federated deep reinforcement learning-based edge collaborative caching strategy in space-air-ground integrated network by LIU Liang, JING Tengxiang, DUAN Jie, MAO Wuping, YAN Hongcheng, MA Wenjie

“…With the reconfigured reward function as the optimization objective, the optimal cache replacement policy was learned by maximizing the expectation of negative long-term rewards. …”
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Transforming waste into stability: improving the soft clay soil with polyethylene terephthalate (PET) column as a sustainable solution by Ng Jun Shen, Muzamir Hasan

“…The varying column designs have been established with different area replacement ratios, height penetration ratios, and volume replacement ratios. …”
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Reliability analysis-based life cycle assessment of railway components using long-term maintenance data by Koochul Ji, Ilyoon Choi, Jongmuk Won

“…Additionally, the study investigates the effects of rail grinding and establishes optimal rail replacement intervals. It was found that the optimal maintenance interval of 2.04 and 2.36 months for fasteners and sleepers and optimal replacement interval of 89 months with griding interval of 10 months for rail would be recommended. …”
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ITP Adjuster 1.0: A New Utility Program to Adjust Charges in the Topology Files Generated by the PRODRG Server by Diogo de Jesus Medeiros, Wilian Augusto Cortopassi, Tanos Celmar Costa França, André Silva Pimentel

“…Usually additional steps of structure optimization and charges calculation, followed by a tedious manual replacement of atomic charges in the *.itp file, are needed. …”
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Experimental Investigation of Opuntia ficus-indica Mucilage as a Concrete Admixture for Sustainable Construction by Besrat Berhanu, Zenagebriel Gebremedhn Khshen

“…However, excessive dosages (>2%) negatively affect the strength. Partial cement replacement with mucilage also improved early and long-term strength while reducing permeability. …”
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An Overview of Lithium-Ion Battery Safety: Existing Problems and Potential Solutions by Fu Wenduo, Sun Shiqi, Wang Bo

“…This paper focuses on the optimization of Lib, which can reduce the TR caused by mechanical, electrical and TR. …”
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IDE-SVM algorithm and it's usage in physical layer security method for IoT by WANG Qiang, ZHU Chenming, PAN Su, QIN Yuxi

“…To address the problem that there is no standard for the parameter selection of support vector machine (SVM) algorithm, a parameter optimization selection method based on the integrated improved differential evolution (IDE) algorithm is proposed, which uses the minimization of the classification error rate as the optimization criterion and the improved differential evolution algorithm to optimize the combination of SVM parameters to obtain an SVM algorithm with higher classification accuracy. …”
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Analysis and Treatment of Floating Slab Track Bed Defects in Shanghai Rail Transit by QU Feng

“…[Result & Conclusion] Through various measures such as online monitoring, precise load force adjustment, and maintenance and component replacement, the service condition of floating slabs can be ensured. …”
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Multispectral Images for Drought Stress Evaluation of Arabica Coffee Genotypes Under Different Irrigation Regimes by Patrícia Carvalho da Silva, Walter Quadros Ribeiro Junior, Maria Lucrecia Gerosa Ramos, Maurício Ferreira Lopes, Charles Cardoso Santana, Raphael Augusto das Chagas Noqueli Casari, Lemerson de Oliveira Brasileiro, Adriano Delly Veiga, Omar Cruz Rocha, Juaci Vitória Malaquias, Nara Oliveira Silva Souza, Henrique Llacer Roig

“…The experiment tested three coffee genotypes (Catuaí 62, E237 and Iapar 59) under five water regimes: (1) FI 100 (year-round irrigation with 100% replacement of evapotranspiration), (2) FI 50 (year-round irrigation with 50% evapotranspiration replacement), (3) WD 100 (no irrigation from June to September (dry season) and, thereafter, 100% evapotranspiration replacement), (4) WD 50 (no irrigation from June to September (water stress) and, thereafter, 50% evapotranspiration replacement) and (5) rainfed (no irrigation during the year). …”
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Rapid AI-based generation of coverage paths for dispensing applications by Simon Baeuerle, Ian F. Mendonca, Kristof Van Laerhoven, Ralf Mikut, Andreas Steimer

“…We propose the novel AI-based approach DeepTIM to generate dispense paths for TIM and similar dispensing applications. It is a drop-in replacement for optimization-based approaches. An Artificial Neural Network (ANN) receives the target cooling area as input and directly outputs the dispense path. …”
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Erratum: Hydrogen production by biomass gasification (2017, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 228-234, doi: 10.5937/ZasMat1702228J) by Editorial Board

“…New Reference: [3] M.Martin, I.E.grosman (2010) Energy optimization of hydrogen production from biomass, Computers and chemical engineering, 35(9), 1798-1806. 2. …”
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Numerical Simulation and Analytical Validation of the Drive and Transmission Mechanism for Truck Vehicles by Peter Droppa, Matúš Riečičiar, Karol Semrád, Katarína Draganová

“…In spite of its complexity, the proposed simulation model can serve as a basis for the optimization of not only the gearshift control under specific input or output quantities and operational or environmental conditions but also for the simulation of the system behavior with modified or replaced components of the drive and transmission mechanism of this type of truck vehicle.…”
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Predicting the Compressive Strength of Desert Sand Concrete Using ANN: PSO and Its Application in Tunnel by He Cai, Taichang Liao, Shaoqiang Ren, Shuguang Li, Runke Huo, Jie Yuan, Wencui Yang

“…Based on the current research situation, a prediction technology of compressive strength of desert sand concrete (DSC) is proposed based on an artificial neural network (ANN) and a particle swarm optimization (PSO). The technology is a prediction model that adjusts the network architecture by using the PSO method based on the ANN optimization model. …”
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Presenting a Stochastic Model of Simultaneous Planning Problem of Distribution and Subtransmission Network Development considering the Reliability and Security Indicators by Seyed Hossein Moayed, Hosein Hasan Shahi, Mohammadreza Akbarizadeh, Morteza Jadidoleslam, Arash Aghatehrani, Afshin Pirouzi

“…The aforementioned problem is in the form of an optimization problem whose objective function is to minimize the costs of construction, replacement, operation, maintenance, reliability, and security. …”
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A Novel Scheme with FG-FFT for Analysis of Electromagnetic Scattering from Large Objects by Jia-Ye Xie, Guang Yu, Li-Li Pang, Wei-Bin Kong, Zhi-Xiang Huang

“…As is shown in the research, the accuracy of fitting Green’s function of near element is affected by different replacement values. The experiments show that an appropriate replacement value can improve the accuracy of fitting Green’s function of near element, and it is called the optimal replacement value in this paper. …”
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The combined effect of marble powder and polypropylene fibre on the properties of self-compacting repair mortar by Fatiha Bendjilali, Mohamed Said Mansour, Ali Makhlouf, Mohamed Ghrici, Akram Salah Eddine Belaidi

“…First, the optimization of fibre’s dosage is obtained at fresh and hardened states (compressive and flexural strength) at 28 days. …”
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Simultaneous Adsorption and Purification of Low-Concentration SO₂ and H₂S by Xiaoli Cao, Lin Zhang, Qun Cui, Haiyan Wang

“…The dynamic adsorption process showed the sequence of initial adsorption, breakthrough, replacement, and equilibrium. The breakthrough curves were characterized by the distinct hump (roll-up) for H₂S, resulting from the replacement effect. …”
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ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY DURING CRITICAL ILLNESS – A GLOBAL CHALLENGE by M. Ostermann

“…The therapeutic tactics are based on the assessment of the risk of development AKI in critically ill patient, hemodynamic optimization, revision of drug therapy to exclude nephrotoxic drugs and the use of renal replacement therapy (RRT). …”
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PREDICTION OF FLAT RING FATIGUE LIFE OF SCRAPER CHAIN BASED ON TEST DATA by MAO Jun, WANG HongTao, XIE Miao, ZHENG Wei

“…The stress and strain results are obtained, and the weak key points are found.Finally, based on the results of static strength analysis, the fatigue load of flat ring was simulated by ANSYS nCode DesignLife.The simulation results show that the fatigue life of the flat ring of the scraper conveyor is 30750 cycles, and the chain link is 61500 times.The life conclusion can provide important reference for the later maintenance, replacement and structural optimization of the scraper chain.…”
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