Stabilizing rammed earth using xanthan gum or animal glue as bio-binder by Ahmed Abdelaal, Jiaming Ma, Mohamed Gomaa, Filippo Giustozzi, Yi Min Xie

“…Unconfined compressive strength tests are conducted on XG and AG-stabilized specimens for mechanical performance evaluation, and unstabilized RE samples as baseline for comparison. …”
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Investigation of smart grid technologies deployment for energy reliability enhancement in electricity distribution networks by Lukas M.N. Gabriel, John A. Adebisi, Leokadia N.P. Ndjuluwa, Dickson K. Chembe

“…CENORED network was modeled using ETAP software for performance evaluation. Result from this study shows that DERs, FLISR and DSR possess a potential to improve distribution network reliability and possible implementation.…”
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Optimizing Spectrum Trading in Cognitive Mesh Network Using Machine Learning by Ayoub Alsarhan, Anjali Agarwal

“…The extracted policy is used by PUs to manage renting the spectrum to SUs and it helps PUs to adapt to the changing network conditions. Performance evaluation of the proposed spectrum trading approach shows that it is able to find the optimal size and price of spectrum for each primary user under different conditions. …”
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Joint approximate diagonalization technique for modal identification of the Donghai Bridge by Ben Li, Lin Chen, Satish Nagarajaiah, Limin Sun

“…The results suggest the effectiveness of the proposed techniques and also provide a performance evaluation of these methods.…”
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Impact of synthesized Zero-valance silver nanoparticles on acetylcholinesterase and xanthine oxidase: Toxicological and environmental implications by Srwa Hashim Mohammed, Ahmed Mahdi Rheima, Dhiey A. Al-aameri, Haider Kamil Zaidan, Zainab T. Al-Sharify

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Reconstructing a lightweight security protocol in the radio‐frequency identification systems by Alireza Abdellahi Khorasgani, Mahdi Sajadieh, Mohammad Rouhollah Yazdani

“…Furthermore, a comparison was drawn between the proposed protocol and the existing similar protocols in terms of performance evaluation. The comparison will reveal that the proposed protocol is both lightweight and highly secure.…”
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Future aerial sustainable and environment-friendly transport using stratospheric platforms by Ayodele A. Periola, Opeyeolu Timothy Laseinde, Olugbenga K. Ogidan

“…The proposed research presents the cargo intelligent network architecture which demonstrates how using stratospheric platforms for cargo transport solutions can address this challenge. Performance evaluation results show that using the proposed mechanism instead of the existing mechanism enhances the number of completed trips and reduces carbon emissions. …”
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DESIGN ANALYSIS OF AN AUTOMATIC PHASE SELECTOR by ADEDOTUN O. OWOJORI, ABIODUN M. AKINBOLADE, KAYODE F. AKINGBADE

“…The design analysis was first carried out accompanied with computer simulation on a software tool (Proteus 8 Professional, version 8.4) to carry out performance evaluation of the sub-circuits, thereafter, a practical implementation of the design was carried out and tested with the utility power supply using five (5) switches, three of which represents the three-phase primary supply and the other two represents the secondary supply. …”
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Parameter Selection Guidelines for a Parabolic Sliding Mode Filter Based on Frequency and Time Domain Characteristics by Shanhai Jin, Ryo Kikuuwe, Motoji Yamamoto

“…This paper presents the results of quantitative performance evaluation of an authors’ new parabolic sliding mode filter, which is for removing noise from signals in robotics and mechatronics applications, based on the frequency and time domain characteristics. …”
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UAV-Aided Data Delivery Scheme Based on Opportunistic Virtual Intersections for Smart Transportation Networks by Wei Li, Xianxing Liu, Xiaoyong Ma, Xianwei Wang, Yi Zhou

“…The data forwarding rules are devised based on expected delivery delay and delivery probability of data packets. The performance evaluation demonstrates that the proposed UAV-assisted data delivery scheme can achieve a significant improvement of data delivery performance in terms of delivery delay and delivery ratio.…”
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Talent identification and succession planning strategies for the appointment of nursing unit managers: A systematic review by Azam Kamali, Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini, Khalil Alimohammadzadeh, Ali Hassan Shaban Khamseh

“…The findings of this review demonstrated that the most important of talent acquisition and succession planning strategies included competency assessment, leadership development programs, coaching programs, and performance evaluation. The strategies are effective in identifying and developing managers of nursing units with high potential. …”
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Numerical Study of Thermal and Resistance Characteristics in the Vortex-Enhanced Tube by Yiang Li, Wenzhi Cui, Xuefeng Jiang, Longjian Li, Juanfang Liu

“…Based on the Performance Evaluation Criteria (PEC) of the tubes, the optimal parameters of the vortex-enhanced tube are obtained. …”
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Effective Lock Detectors Based on Costas Loop Output for SBPSK Mobile Communications by D. Ferramola, T. Casilli, S. Pradella, G. Giunta, D. Orlando

“…Moreover, when possible, we provide exact statistical characterizations of the considered decision schemes (including the competitors) or, in the other case, suitable approximations that allow for a straightforward performance evaluation. The numerical examples are obtained by means of simulated data and in comparison with the most common lock detectors for this kind of communications. …”
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Randomized and Efficient Time Synchronization in Dynamic Wireless Sensor Networks: A Gossip-Consensus-Based Approach by Nan Xiong, Minrui Fei, Taicheng Yang, Yu-Chu Tian

“…Finally, extensive simulations are performed on the MATLAB and OMNeT++ platform for performance evaluation. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithms are not only efficient for synchronization issues required for dynamic topology changes but also give a better performance in terms of converging speed, collision rate, and the robustness of resisting delay, and outperform other existing protocols.…”
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Security-enhanced three-factor remote user authentication scheme based on Chebyshev chaotic maps by Yan Zhao, Shiming Li, Liehui Jiang, Tieming Liu

“…The security analysis indicates that the proposed scheme can withstand various well-known attacks including offline guessing attack, impersonation attack, and so on. The performance evaluation shows that the proposed scheme provides stronger security guarantee at the cost of acceptable computation overhead. …”
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The Relationship Between Young Amateur Footballers’ Ego States and Accordance Levels Based on Their Positions In The Team and Their Performance: Samsun Province Sample by Fatih Samet Atasoy, Soner Çankaya

“…For this purpose, TA Ego Status Scale, Personal Information Form and Performance Evaluation Scale were used as data collection instruments. …”
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Assessing the performance of zero-shot visual question answering in multimodal large language models for 12-lead ECG image interpretation by Tomohisa Seki, Yoshimasa Kawazoe, Yoshimasa Kawazoe, Hiromasa Ito, Yu Akagi, Toru Takiguchi, Kazuhiko Ohe, Kazuhiko Ohe

“…These findings suggest a need for improved control over image hallucination and indicate that performance evaluation using the percentage of correct answers to multiple-choice questions may not be sufficient for performance assessment in VQA tasks.…”
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ACCOUNTING FOR USERS' INFLATED ASSESSMENTS OF ONLINE CATALOG SEARCH PERFORMANCE AND USEFULNESS: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY by Charles R. Hildreth

“…User-oriented approaches to information retrieval (IR) system performance evaluation assign a major role to user satisfaction with search results and overall system performance. …”
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Investigating the effect of cold fluid flow direction used in the outer tube on heat transfer and hot fluid pressure drop in the inner tube by numerical method by Karrar A. Hammoodi, Rassol H. Rasheed, Seyyed Amirreza Abdollahi, Taher Yousefzadeh Adeli, Seyyed Faramarz Ranjbar, Amin Hadidi, Seyed Hossein Hashemimian, Pooya Pasha

“…In the current work, we selected thermal efficiency (performance evaluation criteria) as the performance index to better understand the efficiency of the intended spiral exchanger. …”
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Standard for Organization Construction and Management of Rehabilitation Institutions by Working Group of Standard for Organization Construction and Management of Rehabilitation Institutions

“…Organization construction standards mainly include building construction standards, department construction standards, equipment configuration standards, etc; organization management standards mainly include leadership structure, formulation of strategies, collection of opinions and suggestions, legal requirements, financial planning and management, risk management, safety management, patients' rights and interests, performance evaluation and management, performance improvement, etc; rehabilitation service standards mainly include the scope of rehabilitation service and the way of rehabilitation service. …”
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