Respiratory Muscle Strength as a Predictor of VO2max and Aerobic Endurance in Competitive Athletes by Gökhan Deliceoğlu, Banu Kabak, Veli O. Çakır, Halil İbrahim Ceylan, Muntean Raul-Ioan, Dan Iulian Alexe, Valentina Stefanica

“…A total of 41 athletes, drawn from the disciplines of biathlon, judo, and cross-country, participated in this study. Respiratory function tests (RFTs) were administered to assess various respiratory parameters, including changes in chest circumference. …”
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Comparison and System Development of a Two-Coil and Three-Coil Inductive Link for Transcutaneous Power Transfer by Maarten Schelles, Ward Lievens, Laurens Goyvaerts, Frederik Ceyssens, Rikky Muller, Michael Kraft

“…Keeping all geometric constraints constant, we investigated the differences between a two-coil and three-coil inductive link, showing that the two-coil system has a higher peak efficiency of the inductive link of 84%, while the three-coil system displays a flatter efficiency curve with a peak of 78%, as a function of the variable power consumption. …”
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Some Iterative Methods Free from Derivatives and Their Basins of Attraction for Nonlinear Equations by Farahnaz Soleimani, Fazlollah Soleymani, Stanford Shateyi

“…First, we make the Jain's derivative-free method optimal and subsequently increase its efficiency index from 1.442 to 1.587. Then, a novel three-step computational family of iterative schemes for solving single variable nonlinear equations is given. …”
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Analysis of Heat Transfer Performance in a Brayton Cycle Recuperator by Elvis Falcão de Araújo, Guilherme Borges Ribeiro, Lamartine Nogueira Frutuoso Guimarães

“…The characteristic curves of heat transfer rate, effectiveness, convection coefficient and Colburn factor are built for each of the studied geometries in function of the Reynolds number. …”
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THE PROPOSAL MODEL OF RATIONAL WORKFORCE ASSIGNMENT IN DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY BY ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS BASED 0-1 INTEGER PROGRAMMING by Yılmaz GÖKŞEN, Hakan AŞAN, Onur DOĞAN, Mustafa ÜNLÜ, Osman PALA

“…The Assignment model of the type of linear programming models is a mathematical method used to match the right person for the right job. The coefficients of the variables in the objective function of the assignment model constitute potential contributions of employees. …”
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Optimal Control Problem of Converter Steelmaking Production Process Based on Operation Optimization Method by Jun Zhang

“…The optimal control indicator is determined via current state of converter smelting production process, and the set values of operation variable would control converter production. Relationship between various operating variables, current temperature, and carbon content is constructed through operation analysis of a great deal of actual production data; then, the dynamic optimal control indicator is derived from historical excellent smelting data; finally, the dynamic operation optimization model is built by taking the minimum deviation between the current data—molten steel temperature and carbon content—and optimal data which are determined by the optimal control indicator as objective function. …”
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Performance assessment of water vortex power plant: Effect of material type and blade number by Hussein M. Zainal, Omer K. Ahmed

“…These results highlight that increasing the number of blades can enhance the rotation speed but may decrease efficiency, reflecting the importance of balancing design and function to achieve optimal performance.…”
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Thermoelastic damping in piezothermoelastic nanobeam resonators under the strain gradient theory with micro-inertia and non-fourier heat conduction by Olha Hrytsyna, Maryan Hrytsyna

“…To account for small-scale effects, the Helmholtz free energy density is defined as a function of the strain tensor, strain gradient tensor, electric field vector, and temperature field, considering these parameters as independent state variables. …”
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INVESTIGATION OF UV/TiO2-ZnO-Co PHOTOCATALITIC DEGRADATION OF AZO DYE (REACTIVE RED 120) BY RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY by MOHSEN MANSOURI, MARJAN TANZIFI, HOSSEIN LOTFI, MOHSEN NADEMI

“…Results were in agreement with empirical values and the sensitivity analysis showed above parameters as the most efficient variables in decolorization efficiency. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed highly determination coefficient value (R2 = 0.9996 and adjusted-R2 = 0.999) and satisfactory prediction second-order regression model. …”
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Commercial Vehicle Ride Comfort Optimization Based on Intelligent Algorithms and Nonlinear Damping by Shuilong He, Keren Chen, Enyong Xu, Wei Wang, Zhansi Jiang

“…The sum of the frequency-weighted RMS of the driver seat acceleration, the RMS of dynamic tyre load, and suspension working space is taken as the objective function in this article, using nonlinear damping coefficients and stiffness of suspension as design variables. …”
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN THE AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITIES FROM ROMANIA AND REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA USING THE NONPARAMETRIC METHOD OF DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS by Ilie CERCEL, Gina FÎNTÎNERU, Elena TOMA, Augustin VOLCONOVICI, Alla CHIRSANOVA, Anatol RACUL

“…As a result of analyzing the academic performance rating by option variable returns to scale, it is possible to determine the resources for improving staff activity by evaluating the distance function for each causal factor.…”
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A Reliable Approach for Solving Transmission Network Expansion Planning with Objective of Planning Cost Reduction by Yongqiu Liu

“…The candidate plans are evaluated using a fitness function that considered objective function for transmission expansion planning problem is composed of two terms. …”
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Implications of thermal stratification and radiative heat flux in blood-based ternary and dihybrid nanomaterial flow through a stretchable cylinder by Muzher Saleem, Ghada A. Khouqeer, Fazal Haq, Naglaa AbdelAll, Arshad Hussain, Mohammed Sallah

“…Non-dimensional mathematical model representing the physical phenomenon is solved through NDSolve function of Mathematica. Behavior of micropolar THNF and HNF velocity and thermal field versus influential variables are investigated. …”
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Pareto Optimal Solutions for Stochastic Dynamic Programming Problems via Monte Carlo Simulation by R. T. N. Cardoso, R. H. C. Takahashi, F. R. B. Cruz

“…Instead of using the expected values of the objective function, the randomness nature of the decision variables is kept along the process, while Pareto fronts weighted by all quantiles of the objective function are determined. …”
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同轴全铰链双输出脉冲发生机构尺度综合与优化 by 杜力, 邹昌平, 冯俊, 向成宣, 黄茂林

“…In order to enhance the efficiency,stability and simplify the structure of the mechanism,the dimension synthesis of the full hinge coaxial two-output function generator is performed by using group-synthesis scheme and regarding the six-bar mechanism as the parallel mechanism of a set of basic four-bar mechanism and a set of equivalent four-bar mechanism.Firstly,a basic four-bar mechanism synthetic model is established and solved based on two position synthesis and equal instantaneous transmission ratio.Then the dimensional parameters of an equivalent four-bar mechanism（a five-bar loop） is solved by using equivalent principle of a variable link-length four-bar mechanism based on the basic four-bar mechanism.By this scheme,the dimensional synthesis of high order of motion parameter can be solved with good results,and the results show that the pulse data of the full hinge coaxial two-output function generator is only six percent.…”
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Quality Control Measures in Project Management: A Study of Construction Companies in Lusaka by Mwanza Jacob, Chimbomba Kelvin

“…A solid positive relationship appeared between how well technology supports quality control and general quality control practices (Pearson coefficient = 0.893). Quality control measures improve the efficiency of construction projects, but they should be further improved as many projects still get delayed as a result of quality issues. …”
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Predicting biogas production in real scale anaerobic digester under dynamic conditions with machine learning approach by M. Erdem Isenkul, Sevgi Güneş-Durak, Yasemin Poyraz Kocak, İnci Pir, Mertol Tüfekci, Güler Türkoğlu Demirkol, Selçuk Sevgen, Aslı Seyhan Çığgın, Neşe Tüfekci

“…In recent years, the use of machine learning techniques (ML) has become widespread for analysing the effects of operational factors on anaerobic digestion efficiency. Among these, Support Vector Regression (SVR) with a Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernel has been used to predict biogas yield based on diverse operating parameters. …”
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Analysis Method of Agricultural Total Factor Productivity Based on Stochastic Block Model (SBM) and Machine Learning by Yanzi Li, Cai Chen, Fuqiang Liu, Jian Wang

“…It uses the SBM direction distance function and the Luenberger productivity index to measure the agricultural efficiency, total factor productivity, and their components. …”
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A DQN-Based Algorithm for Operational Optimization of Freight Trains in Long Steep Downhill Sections by HE Zhiyu, LI Yinan, LI Hui, JI Zhijun

“…The study employed the batch collection of training samples utilizing experience replay and a double-network mechanism, along with the preprocessing of neural network state inputs, and the investigation into feasible regions within the action space using a variable ε-greedy strategy. A loss function based on the value function was then constructed, and network parameters were updated iteratively by a batch gradient descent method. …”
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Reliability analysis of landing gear operation based on improved support vector machine-based decomposed-coordinated by ZHANG Lei, CHEN Junyu, FENG Jun, FENG Yunwen, LIU Lei

“…The case results show that the proposed ISVM-DC can accurately decompose and coordinate the architecture of landing gear operational failure, and efficiently construct and solve the reliability performance function.…”
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