Effect of Alternating Magnetic Field Treatment on the Friction/Wear Resistance of 20Cr2Ni4A Under Lubricated Conditions by Sufyan Akram, Mose Bevilacqua, Anatolii Babutskyi, Andreas Chrysanthou

“…High-strength nickel–chromium steel (20Cr2Ni4A) is typically used in bearing applications. …”
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Calibration of the Performance of Bidirectional Shaker Table in Centrifuge Model Tests Using Sensor Networks by Hongjun Li, Hong Zhong, Xuedong Zhang, Yanyi Zhang, Yujing Hou

“…In the present research, refined calibration of bidirectional shaker table, which can be actuated in both horizontal and vertical directions simultaneously and placed on the swing bucket, was achieved via the distributed sensor network used in a centrifuge model test. …”
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An Approach to Estimate SCC Growing Rate in Slow Strain Rate Tensile Test Based on EPFEM by Shuai Wang, He Xue, Yinghao Cui, Fuqiang Yang, Rui Guo

“…As a supplementary means to obtain the crack growth rate during the test, the SSRT process of nickel-based Alloy 600 CT specimens is investigated by using the elastic-plastic finite element method (EPFEM) in this paper. …”
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A Successful Pregnancy by Utilization of Gradually Increasing Low Dose Gonadotrophin Stimulation in a Modified Natural Cycle in Vitro Fertilization Procedure: Case Report by Serkan Kahyaoğlu, Ayşe Seval Erdinç, Nafiye Karakaş Yılmaz, Mahmut Nedim Çiçek

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Identification of Antibiotic Resistance of Acinetobacter baumannii in Iraqi Patients by Maha E. Zidan, Jaleel Samanje, Hiba Mansour Nasir

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A Bi‐level stacked LSTM‐DNN‐based decoder network for AGC dispatch under regulation market framework in presence of VPP and EV aggregators by Kingshuk Roy, Sanjoy Debbarma, Siddhartha Deb Roy, Liza Debbarma

“…The performance of the proposed method is analysed by considering packet loss, delay, unexpected generation failure, and denial of service attacks. …”
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A Numerical Approach to Analysis of an Environment-Friendly Sn-Based Perovskite Solar Cell with SnO2 Buffer Layer Using SCAPS-1D by Sunirmal Kumar Biswas, Md. Shamsujjoha Sumon, Kushal Sarker, Mst. Farzana Orthe, Md. Mostak Ahmed

“…The absorber layer CH3NH3SnI3, buffer layer SnO2, and electron transport layer (ETL) ZnO, with aluminium as the front contact and nickel as the back contact, have been used in this simulation. …”
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Monitoring square and circular fields with sensors using energy-efficient cluster-based routing for underwater wireless sensor networks by Arshad Sher, Nadeem Javaid, Irfan Azam, Hira Ahmad, Wadood Abdul, Sanaa Ghouzali, Iftikhar Azim Niaz, Fakhri Alam Khan

“…Moreover, clustering is performed in dense regions to minimize redundant transmissions of a data packet, while sink mobility is exploited to collect data from sensor nodes with an objective of minimum energy consumption. …”
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QoS-Aware Routing Mechanism in OpenFlow-Enabled Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks by Li Han, Shimin Sun, Bokgyu Joo, Xianshu Jin, Sunyoung Han

“…Applications supporting various multimedia data in wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs) have specific QoS requirements on bandwidth, delay, and/or packet loss. Perception of applications' QoS requirements and detection of link states are indispensable for the design of QoS-aware routing mechanism. …”
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Enhanced Handoff Scheme for Downlink-Uplink Asymmetric Channels in Cellular Systems by Sunghyun Cho, Ji-Su Kim, Jae-Hyun Kim

“…In the latest cellular networks, data services like SNS and UCC can create asymmetric packet generation rates over the downlink and uplink channels. …”
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Analysis of Travel Hot Spots of Taxi Passengers Based on Community Detection by Shuoben Bi, Yuyu Sheng, Wenwu He, Jingjin Fan, Ruizhuang Xu

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X-Ray Diffraction Technique for Residual Stress Measurement in NiCrMo Alloy Weld Metal by Vladimir Ivanovitch Monine, João da Cruz Payão Filho, Rodrigo Stohler Gonzaga, Elisa Kimus Dias Passos, Joaquim Teixeira de Assis

“…In the present work, residual stresses in nickel-based (Ni 625) superalloy weld metal of a 9%Ni steel-welded joint were measured by X-ray diffraction (XRD). …”
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A novel topology optimization of coverage-oriented strategy for wireless sensor networks by Shuxin Wang, Hairong You, Yinggao Yue, Li Cao

“…Through algorithm simulation and result analysis, compared with the particle swarm optimization algorithm and artificial fish swarm algorithm, the wolf swarm algorithm shows its advantages in terms of the residual energy of the sensor node, the average transmission delay, the average packet delivery rate, and the coverage of the network. …”
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Quality of Commercial Coffees: Heavy Metal and Ash Contents by Mariana Teixeira Pigozzi, Flávia Regina Passos, Fabrícia Queiroz Mendes

“…The ash content was determined by incineration of the samples, and the quantification of heavy metals was performed by flame atomic absorption spectrophotometry for the following metals: cadmium, lead, copper, chromium, nickel, and zinc. According to the ash analysis, 15% of the roasted ground coffee samples were within the standards established by the legislation of the state of São Paulo, which has set an ash content of below 5%. …”
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Accounting Data Encryption Processing Based on Data Encryption Standard Algorithm by Meixi Chen

“…As a block encryption algorithm, the Data Encryption Standard (DES) algorithm uses 64-bit packet data for encryption and decryption. Each eighth bit of the key is used as a parity bit; that is, the actual key length is 56 bits. …”
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Bloom filter–based efficient broadcast algorithm for the Internet of things by Anum Talpur, Faisal K Shaikh, Thomas Newe, Adil A Sheikh, Emad Felemban, Abdelmajid Khelil

“…The work proposes a probabilistic structure (bloom filter)-based technique, which uses a new broadcast structure that attempts to reduce the number of duplicate copies of a packet at every node. This article utilizes a clustering concept to make the broadcast efficient in terms of memory space, broadcast overhead, and energy usage. …”
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An Intelligent Medical Imaging Approach for Various Blood Structure Classifications by Madallah Alruwaili

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Investigation of Occult Hip Fractures: The Use of CT and MRI by S. K. Gill, J. Smith, R. Fox, T. J. S. Chesser

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Smelting process of direct reduction iron bearing Ni and Cu to prepare Fe-Ni-Cu ternary alloy by Zhu D.-Q., Pan L.-T., Guo Z.-Q., Pan J.

“…The smelting behavior of direct reduction iron powder containing Ni and Cu from co-reduction followed by a magnetic separation of copper slag and nickel laterite was investigated in this paper. The results show that the perfect ternary alloy with 90.66% Fe, 5.24% Ni, 1.20% Cu and minor impurities can be prepared by smelting under optimum conditions at 1550 °C for 30 min with 1.1 slag basicity. …”
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A Collision Avoidance MAC Protocol with Power Control for Adaptive Clustering Underwater Sensor Networks by Libin Xue, Hong Lei, Rongxin Zhu

“…The simulation results show that the throughput of the proposed adaptive power control clustering MAC protocol (APCC-MAC) is 26.5% and 19.5% higher than that of packet-level slot scheduling (PLSS) algorithm and Cluster-Based Spatial–Temporal Scheduling (CSS) algorithm, respectively, providing better communication performance and stability for clustered underwater acoustic networks.…”
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