Optimization of microwave vacuum drying of pineapples: A three-stage approach by Wei-Mon Yan, Chu-Yu Chen, Bo-Lin Chen, Mohammad Amani, Liang-Han Chien, Wen-Ken Li

“…The present study aims to optimize the microwave vacuum drying (MVD) of pineapples using three analytical stages: One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), the Taguchi method, and process adjustment. Key performance indicators, including drying curve, rehydration rate, color, texture, energy consumption, and sensory evaluation, were assessed to determine optimal settings. …”
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Optimal Multi-Area Demand–Thermal Coordination Dispatch by Yu-Shan Cheng, Yi-Yan Chen, Cheng-Ta Tsai, Chun-Lung Chen

“…The concurrent integration of the energy, transmission, and reserve capacity markets necessitates a new formulation for determining schedules and marginal prices, which is expected to enhance economic efficiency and reduce transaction costs. …”
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The Conceptual Principles of Evaluating the Economic Potential of Agricultural Enterprises by Krasnorutskyy Oleksiy O., Marenych Tetiana H., Kalchenko Mykola M., Sherstiuk Oleksandr V.

“…It is found that, despite the significant number of scientific publications on the issue of assessing the economic potential of an enterprise, the analysis of literary sources has revealed unresolved issues regarding: the differentiation of the concepts of «assessment» and «evaluation», which are often equated and used as synonyms; the lack of a sufficiently clear scientific position on defining the principles of potential evaluation; insufficient attention from scientists to the criteria for evaluating the potential of an enterprise; the substantiation of the targeted orientation of evaluating the economic potential of an enterprise and the directions of its evaluation; the debate over assessing the economic potential of an enterprise in both natural and monetary terms; the significant number of methods for evaluating the potential of an enterprise, which requires systematization; the determination of individual indicators of assessment of the economic potential of an enterprise, which is more closely related to the efficiency of its implementation. …”
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Development of algorithms for constructing two-dimensional optimal boundary-adaptive grids and their software implementation by A. E. Chistyakov, V. V. Sidoryakina, S. V. Protsenko

“…The application of such methods contributes to improving the accuracy, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of computational algorithms.Materials and Methods. …”
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Energy savings in SWRO desalination via PRO hybridization: a parametric study by Ahmed S. Alghamdi, Amr Mohamed Mahmoud, Sultan Ahmed

“…The study confirms the viability of PRO-SWRO hybridization as a method for enhancing desalination energy efficiency, and highlights areas for further optimization in membrane design and hydraulic configuration.…”
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Exploring the effects of ambient conditions on the cryogenic cooling times of offshore structures: towards optimising sustainability and the decommissioning timescale by Kenneth Bisgaard Christensen, Alireza Maheri, M Amir Siddiq

“…The critical role of the surface area in determining the cooling efficiency is also identified, and the trade-off between enhanced cooling, the internal surface area, costs, and energy consumption are discussed to advocate for a balanced approach. …”
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Automated Analysis of Service Life of Air-Lines of the Electricity Transmission of Electric Power Systems by E. M. Farhadzadeh, A. Z. Muradaliyev, S. A. Abdullayeva, A. A. Nazarov

“…Basic EPS objects, which service life has exceeded normative value, increasingly affect – every year to a greater extent – the efficiency of overall performance. This manifests itself in increase of a number of automatic emergency shutdowns, an amount and complexities of accident-hazardous defects. …”
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Parameter Identification Problem in the discrete-time SIR Model by J. A. Mandujano Valle, A. Loureiro Madureira

“…This is a nontrivial task that we accomplish by carefully crafting auxiliary problems. To show the efficiency of the method, we consider examples involving real COVID-19 data. …”
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A Novel Approach for Lateral Buckling Assessment of Double Tapered Thin-Walled Laminated Composite I-Beams by Masoumeh Soltani

“…The buckling loads are finally determined by applying the Ritz method. To demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed formulation, the analytical solutions for a sample case of tapered I-beam are compared with results obtained from ANSYS's shell element. …”
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Importance Measure for Fuzzy Structural Systems from the Probabilistic Perspective and Its Solving Algorithms by Guijie Li, Miaomiao Zhu, Sanyuan Li

“…By transforming the fuzzy failure probability into the expected value of the function for the failure domain, the proposed FFP-IM index can be represented as the variance-based IM of that index function. Then, an efficient solution algorithm for the proposed FFP-IM index is established based on the state-dependent parameter method. …”
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Optimizing Vehicle Body Cross-Sections Using a Parametric Mathematical Model by Zhaohui Hu, Shuai Mo, Huang Liu, Fuhao Mo

“…In the example of this paper, after the optimization of the established meshless model, the mass of the whole vehicle is reduced by 30%, and the stiffness of the whole vehicle is greater than that of the benchmark vehicle (5128 N/mm, 4386 N/mm), and at the same time, compared with the conceptual design method of the body of CAE technology, the modeling time is greatly reduced, and the computational efficiency of the analytical method is greatly improved compared with the finite element method.…”
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Research on citrus grading system based on machine vision by Miao Xu, Xuan Zhang, ChangJun Zhan, JianYu Ge, Hua Yang

“…The system integrates methods of diameter measurement, colouring rate evaluation, and roundness analysis to achieve precise and efficient automated grading of citrus. …”
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Fibroblast-Specific Protein-Protein Interactions for Myocardial Fibrosis from MetaCore Network by Klaus M. Frahm, Ekaterina Kotelnikova, Oksana Kunduzova, Dima L. Shepelyansky

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Optimizing TSP-MMC Performance in Non-Homogeneous Environments by Yessica Yazmín Calderon-Segura, Gennadiy Burlak, Jośe Antonio García Pacheco

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A versatile HPLC method collaborated with NaDES-ultrasound-assisted LLE and machine learning for purity testing and trace analysis of 1,4-benzodiazepines in crime scene evidence, h... by Walaa Nabil Abd-AlGhafar, Rasha Abo Shabana, Rania El-Shaheny, Manar M. Tolba

“…The method’s greenness was confirmed using ComplexMoGAPI and AGREE tools.…”
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Effect of organic solvents on earwax cortisol extraction in Hanwoo cattle by Mohammad Ataallahi, Geun-Woo Park, Kyu-Hyun Park

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Positive controls with representative materials are essential for the advancement of microplastics research by Hayley K. McIlwraith, Penelope K. Lindeque, Trevor J. Tolhurst, Matthew Cole

“…For protocols attaining > 50% microplastic recovery, these methods were optimized to attain maximal recovery of all plastic types, and optimal methods replicated to determine precision. …”
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Proposing Hybrid Architecture to Implement Cloud Computing in Higher Education Institutions Using a Meta-synthesis Appro by hamid reza bazi, ali moeini, alireza hasanzadeh

“…The aim of this study is to use a meta-synthesis method for the first time to analyze the previously published studies and to suggest appropriate hybrid cloud migration architecture (IUHEC). …”
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Automated system for high-throughput process-structure-property dataset generation of structural materials: A γ/γ′ superalloy case study by Thomas Hoefler, Ayako Ikeda, Toshio Osada, Toru Hara, Kyoko Kawagishi, Takahito Ohmura

“…While the necessary topographic data is typically acquired using atomic force microscopy, a significant speedup was achieved by automatic indent detection and scanning using Angular selective Backscatter FE-SEM analysis. As a method to rapidly assemble comprehensive and consistent P-S-P datasets, we expect it to facilitate efficient alloy design, given a vast majority of modeling approaches still heavily rely on empirical data.…”
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Engineering europium nanoparticle-HIV-1 p24 conjugates as a novel platform for rapid and sensitive antibody detection by Aditya Kurdekar, Sai Manohar Chelli, Mohan Kumar Haleyur Giri Setty, Indira K. Hewlett, Venkataramaniah Kamisetti

“…However, fluorescent nanoparticle-antigen conjugates have become an innovative method for immunogenic detection thanks to the recent developments in nanotechnology. …”
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