Assessing Project Resilience Through Reference Class Forecasting and Radial Basis Function Neural Network by Shu Chen, Chen Wang, Kesheng Yan

“…This overall capability is known as project resilience. In order to make efficient project decisions when the project is subjected to disruption, such as adjusting the project budget, reformulating the work plan, and rationalizing the allocation of resources, it is necessary to quantitatively understand the level of project resilience. …”
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Numerical Investigation on Influential Factors for Quality of Smooth Blasting in Rock Tunnels by Baoping Zou, Zhipeng Xu, Jianxiu Wang, Zhanyou Luo, Lisheng Hu

“…In this case, the dominant factors and secondary factors can be quantitatively identified. Considering the dominant factors often orient the development of things; in this work, a numerical-based approach was proposed to quantitatively identify the dominant factors influencing the quality of smooth blasting. …”
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Management of mucopolysaccharidosis type I using enzyme replacement therapy: Egyptian experience by Ekram Fateen, Sally A. F. El Sahrigy, Mona Ibrahim, Rasha M. Elhossini, Hoda H. Ahmed, Asmaa Esmail, Amira Radwan, Iman Ibrahim Salama, Abeer M. NourElDin Abd ElBaky, Nada Ezzeldin, Azza M. O. Abdel Rahman, Mona Aglan

“…Initial and follow-up of quantitation of GAGs in urine, echocardiography, pulmonary function tests and abdominal ultrasound were done for cooperative compliant patients. …”
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Quantity of Cu(II) ions in a copper pot by a DNAzyme-based fluorescent sensor by Dazhi Jiang, Shijin Wang, Changrong Yang, Ziyi Jia, Fulong Wang, Yongjie Sheng, Yongxing Ai, Jiacui Xu

“…In this study, we have developed a fluorescent Cu(II) sensor using an efficient DNAzyme, a novel cofactor 2-mercaptoethanol and an optimized fluorophore. …”
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Functional multispectral optoacoustic tomography imaging of hepatic steatosis development in mice by Shan Huang, Andreas Blutke, Annette Feuchtinger, Uwe Klemm, Robby Zachariah Tom, Susanna M Hofmann, Andre C Stiel, Vasilis Ntziachristos

“…This study establishes MSOT as an efficient imaging tool for lipid visualization in preclinical studies, particularly for the assessment of NAFLD.…”
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Electronic descriptors for designing high-entropy alloy electrocatalysts by leveraging local chemical environments by Guolin Cao, Sha Yang, Ji-Chang Ren, Wei Liu

“…However, the intricate local chemical environment poses challenges to the rational and efficient design of HEA electrocatalysts with high reactivity. …”
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Analyzing and predicting short-term substance use behaviors of persons who use drugs in the great plains of the U.S. by Nguyen Thach, Patrick Habecker, Bergen Johnston, Lillianna Cervantes, Anika Eisenbraun, Alex Mason, Kimberly Tyler, Bilal Khan, Hau Chan

“…Understanding the change in substance use behaviors of persons who use drugs (PWUDs) over time, therefore, is important in order to inform healthcare providers, policymakers, and other stakeholders toward more efficient allocation of limited resources to at-risk PWUDs.…”
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Determination of Finasteride in Tablets by High Performance Liquid Chromatography by K. Basavaiah, B. C. Somashekar

“…The retention time was ∼ 6.1 min and each analysis took not more than 10 min. Quantitation was achieved by measurement of peak area without using any internal standard. …”
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Effects of Experimental Conditions on Extraction Yield of Extracellular Polymeric Substances by Cation Exchange Resin by Jinwoo Cho, Slawomir W. Hermanowicz, Jin Hur

“…Comparing the model parameters allows one to quantitatively compare the extraction efficiencies under various extracting conditions. …”
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Pilot Innovative Territorial Clusters in Russia: A Sustainable Development Mode by Evgeniy Kutsenko

“… Leading countries consider regional clusters an efficient tool of interaction between actors of a regional innovation system, which enables new poles of economic growth to be formed. …”
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Study on Structural Optimization and Thermal Management Performance of Embedded Composite Cooling Plate Based on Wavy Channel by 蔡云翔, 孙 钦, 张博博, 顾晓滨, 张衍俊, 董凯军

“…An efficient battery thermal management system is crucial for the safe operation of lithium batteries. …”
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Vulnerability Analysis of Urban Rail Transit Network by Considering the Station Track Layout and Passenger Behavior by Taoyuan Yang, Peng Zhao, Ke Qiao, Xiangming Yao, Tao Wang

“…Then, we propose two section vulnerability indexes that quantitatively evaluate the effect of a URT section disruption from two aspects: detour delay and loss in passenger flow. …”
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Predicting Thermochemical Equilibria with Interacting Defects: Sr_{1−x}Ce_{x}MnO_{3−δ} Alloys for Water Splitting by Anuj Goyal, Michael D. Sanders, Ryan P. O’Hayre, Stephan Lany

“…Solar thermochemical hydrogen is one of the few potential routes towards direct fuel production from renewable energy sources, but the thermodynamic boundary conditions for efficient and economic energy conversion are challenging. …”
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Optimization design of internal space layout of three-bedroom residential apartment based on IGA and DE algorithm. by Ling Zhao, Baijun Li

“…This study provides an efficient solution for intelligent building layout design and has certain practical value.…”
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Pedagogical Translanguaging in L2 Teaching for Adult Migrants: Assessing Feasibility and Emotional Impact by Julie Franck, Despina Papadopoulou

“…Recent studies indicate that PTL is efficient in the teaching of morphological awareness to bilingual children. …”
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Soil moisture characteristics of four artificial plant communities in aerial seeding afforestation area and their response to different levels of rainfall by Tiejun Zhang, Tiejun Zhang, Yanping Liu, Yanping Liu, Jianying Guo, Jianying Guo, Guodong Tang, Guodong Tang, Zhenqi Yang, Zhenqi Yang

“…Studying the characteristics of soil moisture in afforestation area and its response to different grades of rainfall is helpful to quantitatively analyze the change law of soil moisture in afforestation area and provide theoretical basis for rational and efficient use of soil moisture. …”
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Accurate Radar-Based Heartbeat Measurement Using Higher Harmonic Components by Itsuki Iwata, Kimitaka Sumi, Yuji Tanaka, Takuya Sakamoto

“…The performance of the proposed method is quantitatively evaluated using data acquired from eleven participants that were measured using a millimeter-wave radar system. …”
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MATLAB Application for User-Friendly Design of Fully Convolutional Data Description Models for Defect Detection of Industrial Products and Its Concurrent Visualization by Fusaomi Nagata, Shingo Sakata, Keigo Watanabe, Maki K. Habib, Ahmad Shahrizan Abdul Ghani

“…The authors’ propose a MATLAB application that enables users to efficiently and in a user-friendly way design, train, and test various kinds of neural network (NN) models for defect detection. …”
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Evaluation of the Genericity of an Adaptive Optimal Control Approach to Optimize Membrane Filtration Systems by Aymen Chaaben, Fatma Ellouze, Nihel Ben Amar, Alain Rapaport, Marc Heran, Jérôme Harmand

“…The strategy was successfully applied to both microfiltration (MF) and ultrafiltration (UF) systems and quantitatively demonstrated its effectiveness in reducing energy consumption and controlling fouling. …”
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A cutter contacting point trajectory prediction method combining harmonic functions and dimensionality reduction for improving machining precision in flat-end milling by Liangji Chen, Haohao Xu, Huiying Li, Hansong Gao, Haixiong Wang

“…Our approach is integrated into five-axis linear trajectory interpolation, where it quantitatively addresses nonlinear errors that exceed tolerance limits. …”
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