Comparative Analysis of A3C and PPO Algorithms in Reinforcement Learning: A Survey on General Environments by Alberto del Rio, David Jimenez, Javier Serrano

“…A3C is ideal for applications requiring rapid training, while PPO is better suited for those prioritizing training stability.…”
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Impact of long trains on the railway track by V. S. Kossov, A. A. Lunin, Y. A. Panin, A. V. Trifonov, I. E. Il’In

“…The article presents results of pilot and theoretical studies of JSC VNIKTI in the field of interaction of railway track and a rolling stock and perspective of their application. Questions of longitudinal dynamics in the conditions of different types of braking of trains of increased weight and lengths and their influence on infrastructure are considered. …”
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Neonatal Circumcision Simulation: A Resource for Beginners by Rakhi Gupta Basuray, Sofia Davila, Jennifer Springer

“…Methods Participants received an instructional video for asynchronous viewing in advance of an in-person small-group session. …”
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Method-Level Syntactic and Semantic Clustering for Microservice Discovery in Legacy Enterprise Systems by Adambarage Anuruddha Chathuranga de Alwis, Alistair Barros, Colin Fidge, Artem Polyvyanyy

“…Enterprise systems, such as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and supply chain management systems, are widely used in corporate sectors and are notorious for being large, inflexible and monolithic. Their many application-specific methods are challenging to decouple manually because they manage asynchronous, user-driven business processes and business objects having complex structural relationships. …”
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Experimental Study on Single-Particle Combustion Characteristics of Large-Sized Wheat Straw in a Drop Tube Furnace by Haoteng Zhang, Lihui Yu, Cuina Qin, Shuo Jiang, Chunjiang Yu

“…This work provides essential experimental data on the fundamental combustion characteristics and alkali metal release of large-sized wheat straw particles under pulverized coal boiler combustion conditions, offering engineering application guidance for the direct co-firing of large-sized flexible straw biomass in pulverized coal boilers.…”
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Detection of Sensitive Malicious Android Functionalities Using Inter-Component Control-Flow Analysis by Rati Bhan, Parvez Faruki, Rajendra Pamula

“…The proposed technique detects sensitive features exploited by persistent malware without user knowledge. Despite the asynchronous characteristics of the ICC Application Programming Interface (API), we develop a precise ICC-based component-interaction graph (CIG) from the app bytecode. …”
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Time Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Max and Average Consensus Protocol by Zhao Dengchang, An Zhulin, Xu Yongjun

“…The proposed protocol has the advantage of being totally distributed, asynchronous, and robust to packet drop and sensor node failure. …”
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Features of minimizing total electrical losses in high-voltage electromechanical systems for stationary industrial fan installations by A.V. Synetskyi, I.M. Kotsur

“…The proposed methodology can be applied to minimizing losses in high-voltage electromechanical drive systems for both AC and DC applications used in various industrial mechanisms. …”
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Beyond the campus context: Reducing stress among students and community members through virtual canine comfort modules by Christine Y. Tardif-Williams, John-Tyler Binfet, Freya L.L. Green, Rebecca J.P. Godard, Akshat Singal, Camille X. Rousseau, Renata P.S. Roma, Amelia Willcox

“…Using a two-phased method, we assessed the effects of a 5-min asynchronous virtual canine-assisted intervention (CAI) on self-reports of stress in both students (Phase I; N = 963) and community members (Phase II; N = 122). …”
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NULL Convention Floating Point Multiplier by Anitha Juliette Albert, Seshasayanan Ramachandran

“…This paper presents the design of an IEEE 754 single precision floating point multiplier using asynchronous NULL convention logic paradigm. Rounding has not been implemented to suit high precision applications. …”
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A Comprehensive Study of the Synthesis, Spectral Characteristics, Quantum–Chemical Molecular Electron Density Theory, and In Silico Future Perspective of Novel CBr₃-Func... by Karolina Zawadzińska-Wrochniak, Karolina Kula, Mar Ríos-Gutiérrez, Bartłomiej Gostyński, Tomasz Krawczyk, Radomir Jasiński

“…We hope that the presented study will be helpful for searching for the future direction of application for this class of organic compounds.…”
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Ensuring the Reliability and Efficiency of the Power Industry in the Agricultural Sector of the Republic of Belarus in Modern Conditions by I. V. Protosovitskii, E. P. Zabello, M. A. Prishchepov, V. A. Daineko

“…Since there are a number of technologies in agriculture where electric energy is used without the electric drive units application and each of the technological processes has its own requirements for the reliability and quality of electric energy, the scheme of mutual redundancy from adjacent substations using distributed generation sources and technical means of automated energy accounting, control and management of electrical loads, is considered.…”
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A CCP-Based Decentralized Optimization Approach for Electricity–Heat Integrated Energy Systems with Buildings by Xiangyu Zhai, Xuexue Qin, Jiahui Zhang, Xiaoyang Liu, Xiang Bai, Song Zhang, Zhenfei Ma, Zening Li

“…With the widespread application of combined heat and power (CHP) units, the coupling between electricity and heat systems has become increasingly close. …”
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Controllable vibration of mobility links of production mechanism by Nikolay F. Karnaukhov, Maxim N. Filimonov, Roman S. Mironenko

“…Discussion and Conclusions. The application domain of the developed technical solution covers many PMs with FCD for which the short-time operation modes (with CY of 40% and more) are considered basic. …”
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On the Recursive-Parallel Programming for the .NET Framework by V. V. Vasilchikov

“…They are dynamic link libraries providing the necessary functionality for developing and debugging applications for parallel execution on a local network. …”
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Population-level respiratory virus–virus interactions, Puerto Rico, 2013-2023 by Zachary J. Madewell, Joshua M. Wong, Maile B. Thayer, Vanessa Rivera-Amill, Diego Sainz de la Peña, Jorge Bertrán Pasarell, Gabriela Paz-Bailey, Laura E. Adams, Yang Yang

“…Wavelet coherence analysis investigated synchronous or asynchronous viral co-variation, while a Bayesian hierarchical model estimated pairwise interactions. …”
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Virtual Primary Care for People With Opioid Use Disorder: Scoping Review of Current Strategies, Benefits, and Challenges by Shawna Narayan, Ellie Gooderham, Sarah Spencer, Rita K McCracken, Lindsay Hedden

“… BackgroundThere is a pressing need to understand the implications of the rapid adoption of virtual primary care for people with opioid use disorder. …”
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Performance assessment of basalt fibre concrete under freeze-thaw cycles using hybrid long short-term memory models by Qingguo Yang, Honghu Wang, Qigui Yi, Liuyuan Zeng, Rui Xiang, Longfei Guan, Jiawei Cheng, Keling Chen, Yunhao Li

“…The findings not only offer technical support for the efficient and sustainable design of concrete materials but also lay the foundation for their widespread application in complex engineering environments in the future.…”
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EC-WAMI: Event Camera-Based Pose Optimization in Remote Sensing and Wide-Area Motion Imagery by Isaac Nkrumah, Maryam Moshrefizadeh, Omar Tahri, Erik Blasch, Kannappan Palaniappan, Hadi AliAkbarpour

“…ECs, which detect asynchronous pixel-level <i>brightness changes</i>, offer key advantages over traditional frame-based sensors such as high temporal resolution, low power consumption, and resilience to dynamic lighting. …”
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Position-Based Aggregator Node Election in Wireless Sensor Networks by Levente Buttyán, Péter Schaffer

“…The novelty of PANEL with respect to other aggregator node election protocols is that it supports asynchronous sensor network applications where the sensor readings are fetched by the base stations after some delay. …”
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