Effect of phase change materials on the thermal behavior of biomass-based composites by Benjamin Durakovic, Nadir Mujković, Alma Hudović-Kljuno, Emira Gibanica

“…The effective thermal conductivity of each sample was determined using the guarded hot plate method under steady-state conditions. …”
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Cyclopentadienyl Ruthenium(II) Complex-Mediated Oxidation of Benzylic and Allylic Alcohols to Corresponding Aldehydes by Ching-Yuh Chern, Ching-Chun Tseng, Rong-Hong Hsiao, Fung Fuh Wong, Yueh-Hsiung Kuo

“…This work reports an efficient method for the oxidation reaction of aliphatic, aromatic allylic, and benzylic alcohols into aldehydes catalyzed by the cyclopentadienyl ruthenium(II) complex (RuCpCl(PPh3)2) with bubbled O2. …”
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Repositioning Small and Medium Scale Enterprises for Growth: Focus on Rural Women Entrepreneurs in Abia State, Nigeria by Elsie N. Alozie

“…Reliability rate was determined using Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient Statistical Procedure. …”
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Encapsulation of Beta vulgaris extract by electrospraying and evaluation of antimicrobial potential by Marjana Radünz, Helen Cristina dos Santos Hackbart, Taiane Mota Camargo, Chirle de Oliveira Raphaelli, André Luiz Radünz, Eliezer Avila Gandra, Elessandra da Rosa Zavareze

“…The extract and capsules were characterized, as well as the encapsulation efficiency determined. Antibacterial activity was determined against gram-positive bacteria (Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus) and gram-negative bacteria (Salmonella Typhimurium, Escherichia coli) by the disk diffusion method using the minimum inhibitory concentration and the minimum bactericidal concentration. …”
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Optimal spectroscopic measurement design: Bayesian framework for rational data acquisition by Yusei Ito, Yasuo Takeichi, Hideitsu Hino, Kanta Ono

“…We propose an optimal experimental design method for spectroscopic measurements that can determine the appropriate number and placement of measurement points in a rational manner. …”
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Optimal Design of Gain-Flattened Raman Fiber Amplifiers Using a Hybrid Approach Combining Randomized Neural Networks and Differential Evolution Algorithm by Jing Chen, Hao Jiang

“…An efficient method based on a hybrid approach that combines extreme learning machine (ELM) technique and differential evolution (DE) algorithm is proposed to optimize the multipumped Raman fiber amplifier (RFA). …”
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Physicochemical and Antibacterial Properties of Chitosan Extracted from Waste Shrimp Shells by José Carlos Vilar Junior, Daylin Rubio Ribeaux, Carlos Alberto Alves da Silva, Galba Maria De Campos-Takaki

“…Chitosan obtained by Method 2 was more efficient: chitin (36%) and chitosan (63%), with a high degree of deacetylation (81.7%). …”
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Local Similarity-Based Fuzzy Multiple Kernel One-Class Support Vector Machine by Qiang He, Qingshuo Zhang, Hengyou Wang, Changlun Zhang

“…Simultaneously, this method of calculating membership has a higher efficiency. …”
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Validation of the Group Environment Questionnaire (GEQ) in a Simulated Learning Environment by José Manuel García-Álvarez, Alfonso García-Sánchez, Alonso Molina-Rodríguez, María Suárez-Cortés, José Luis Díaz-Agea

“…Internal consistency was assessed using McDonald’s omega coefficient. Test-retest reliability was determined using Spearman’s correlation coefficient. …”
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Mechanical-mathematical model of unbalanced non-rigid gimbal gear by Oleg A. Polushkin, Oleg O. Polushkin, Ismael M. Fofana

“…In this connection, a method for determining the coefficient of change in the elastic deflection of the gear rotation axis is developed. …”
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Optimization of Pertamax Fuel Distribution Using Clarke-Wright Savings, Nearest Neighbour, and Goal Programming (Case Study: Malang City) by Tharisa Melani, Sobri Abusini, Marjono Marjono

“…The CWS is applied to group routes efficiently by reducing travel distances, while NN determined the delivery sequence within each route. …”
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Health Diagnosis of Roadheader Based on Reference Manifold Learning and Improved K-Means by Xiaodong Ji, Yang Yang, Yuanyuan Qu, Hai Jiang, Miao Wu

“…In this paper, a health state analysis method based on reference manifold (RM) learning and improved K-means clustering analysis was proposed; the method was verified by using the real-time collected roadheader cutting reducer fault signal. …”
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Power of quantum measurement in simulating unphysical operations by Xuanqiang Zhao, Lei Zhang, Benchi Zhao, Xin Wang

“…The manipulation of quantum states through linear maps beyond quantum operations has many important applications in various areas of quantum information processing. Current methods simulate unphysical maps by sampling physical operations according to classically determined probability distributions. …”
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Rough decision rules extraction and reduction based on granular computing by Hong-can YAN, Feng ZHANG, Bao-xiang LIU

“…Rule mining was an important research content of data mining,and it was also a hot research topic in the fields of decision support system,artificial intelligence,recommendation system,etc,where attribute reduction and minimal rule set extraction were the key links.Most importantly,the efficiency of extraction was determined by its application.The rough set model and granular computing theory were applied to the decision rule reduction.The decision table was granulated by granulation function,the grain of membership and the concept granular set construction algorithm gener-ated the initial concept granular set.Therefore,attribute reduction could be realized by the distinguish operator of concept granule,and decision rules extraction could be achieved by visualization of concept granule lattice.Experimental result shows that the method is easier to be applied to computer programming and it is more efficient and practical than the existing methods.…”
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Developing a real-time hand-gesture recognition technique for wheelchair control. by Md Rafiul Huda, Md Liakot Ali, Muhammad Sheikh Sadi

“…The model is developed using the positions of the significant hand landmarks, distances among them and some critical thresholds which are determined by good number of samples of hands. The proposed method offers more users' flexibility through less hand movement in operation of the wheelchair. …”
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Fractional-Order Epidemic Model for Measles Infection by Philip N. A. Akuka, Baba Seidu, Eric Okyere, Stephen Abagna

“…In addition, the model equilibria are determined, and the novel Jacobian determinant method recently constructed in the literature of epidemiological modeling of infectious diseases is applied to determine the threshold quantity, R0. …”
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Parameter Adaptive LCD Screen Defect Detection Framework by LIU Wang, SHAO Huili, HE Yongjun, XIE Yining, CHEN Deyun

“…It is necessary to detect defects in the production process of LCD screens for quality improvements Manual detection brings a heavy workload and low accuracy Therefore, an efficient and accurate automatic detection method is urgently needed To this end, this paper proposes a new defect detection framework, which mainly includes screen area extraction, preprocessing, threshold segmentation and defect selection By adaptive adjustment of parameters, the detection method can adapt to various complex situations In order to eliminate the influence of illumination changes, the defect region is segmented by automatic parameter adjustment in the threshold segmentation First, the maximum grayscale value of the image is calculated, and then the fixed parameters and the coefficient of the defect image are determined according to the nodefect image, and finally the maximum value which was selected as the minimum threshold of the threshold segmentation from the fixed parameters and the product of the maximum grayscale value and the coefficient In addition, in order to solve the problem that the brightness difference of the images captured by lowresolution cameras is too small to detect defects in the saturation condition, selfadaptive adjustment of exposure parameters was used to collect images to process different parts of images with large difference in light and shade Experiments show that the method can achieve high performance and efficiency in detecting defects such as points, lines, Mura, saturation…”
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High-Fidelity Reprogrammed Human IPSCs Have a High Efficacy of DNA Repair and Resemble hESCs in Their MYC Transcriptional Signature by Pratik K. Nagaria, Carine Robert, Tea Soon Park, Jeffrey S. Huo, Elias T. Zambidis, Feyruz V. Rassool

“…The DNA damage response (DDR) is critical for maintenance of such genomic integrity. Herein, we determined whether cell of origin and reprogramming method influence the DDR of hiPSCs. …”
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Microwave-Assisted Optimization of Polyvinyl Alcohol Cryogel (PVA-C) Manufacturing for MRI Phantom Production by Ivan Vogt, Martin Volk, Emma-Luise Kulzer, Janis Seibt, Maciej Pech, Georg Rose, Oliver S. Grosser

“…Conclusions: The MWM offers a promising, easily implementable, and time-efficient method for manufacturing PVA-C-based phantoms. …”
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PECULIARITIES OF FORMING TOTAL REVENUES OF UNITED TERRITORIAL COMMUNITIES IN UKRAINE UNDER CURRENT CONDITIONS OF TRANSFORMING THE SYSTEM OF PUBLIC FINANCES by V. Melnyk, N. Kriuchkova, R. Shchur

“…It is proved that in the process of accumulation of revenues in budgets of joint territorial communities common methods can be used — accumulation of income from productive activity, from property and property rights, from resource base, loan method; and special methods - tax, normative, method of redistribution, method of coefficients, emission, forecast. …”
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