Investigation of Building Profiles for the Energy Simulation of a Factory Building: A Case Study in South Korea by Hansol Lim, Guan-Ho Park, Seheon Kim, Yeweon Kim, Ki-Hyung Yu

“…To achieve these goals, significant efforts are underway to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. Building energy simulation is a standard method for evaluating energy performance as it assesses the current performance and predicts the potential contributions of energy retrofitting initiatives. …”
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Structural Designing of Supersonic Swirling Devices Based on Computational Fluid Dynamics Theory by Qian Huang, Huirong Huang, Xueyuan Long, Yuan Tian, Jiang Meng

“…The structure of the supersonic swirling device has an important impact on the liquefaction efficiency. Therefore, this study presents a structural design method for supersonic cyclones based on CFD theory. …”
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A study by V.M. Abbasov, Hany M. Abd El-Lateef, L.I. Aliyeva, E.E. Qasimov, I.T. Ismayilov, Mai M. Khalaf

“…The investigation involved weight loss, LPR corrosion rate and extrapolation of cathodic and anodic Tafel lines method. Results obtained show that the surfactants studied are efficient corrosion inhibitors for carbon steel in CO2 saturated brine. …”
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Fabrication of the Polyvinyl fluoride Nanofibers Membranes Via Electrospinning Technique for Oil Removal by Thamer Diwan, Zaidun N. Abudi, Mustafa H. Al-Furaiji, Rouhollah Y. Farsani

“…The water contact angle and wettability were determined using the Contact Angle Measuring Instrument; Porosity was evaluated through a gravimetric method, while the average diameter of the nanofibers was measured with ImageJ software. …”
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Direct and rapid screening of four organic compound metabolites in urine by paper spray mass spectrometry by Junyu PAN, Mengmeng LIU, Qiang ZENG

“…Under the optimized experimental conditions, both external standard and internal standard methods were used for quantitative analysis. Limit of detection, limit of quantification, accuracy, and precision of the proposed method were determined by spiking blank urine samples. …”
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Quantification of Plasmodium falciparum: validation of quantitative polymerase chain reaction assays for detection of parasites in controlled human malaria infection studies by Elizabeth Kibwana, Domtila Kimani, Nick J. Edwards, Kelvias Keter, Agnes Mutiso, Lydia Nyamako, Rose Gatheru, Adrian V. S. Hill, Philip Bejon, Philip Bejon, Katie J. Ewer, Melissa C. Kapulu, Melissa C. Kapulu

“…Other qPCR methods should be considered where high volumes of blood are required.…”
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BUN‐to‐ALB ratio as an effective predictor of 30 day mortality in ADHF patients in eastern China by Xin Huang, Chao Wang, Shiming He, Guoan Jian, Kun Jiang, Zihao Lu, Guotai Sheng, Yang Zou, Guobo Xie

“…ROC curve analysis determined that the predictive efficiency of BAR for short‐term mortality in ADHF patients was ~84%, with an area under the ROC curve (AUC) of 0.84. …”
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Immobilization of Oat Bran Polyphenols in Complex Coacervates of Whey Protein and Malthodextrin by Zyaitdinov Damir R., Ewteew Alexandr V., Bannikova Anna V.

“…After that, the mixes were treated by ultrasonication and 10% w/w of guar gum solution as double wall material. The encapsulation efficiency (EE) was determined as a ratio of encapsulated phenolic content to total phenolic content. …”
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Predicting Endpoint Temperature of Molten Steel in VD Furnace Refining Process Using Metallurgical Mechanism and Bayesian Optimization XGBoost by Ji XU, Zicheng XIN, Mo LAN, Wenhui LIN, Bo ZHANG, Qing LIU

“…If the endpoint temperature is too low, the molten steel must be reheated in the ladle furnace (LF), severely impacting production efficiency. Therefore, the refining endpoint temperature significantly influences the quality of molten steel, production efficiency, and continuous casting. …”
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Parameter Sensitivity Analysis and Algorithm Improvement of Optimization Scheduling Model for Cascade Pumping Stations by LIU Xiaolian, LI Zhenrong, WANG Xue-ni, ZHAI Yu, ZHANG Lei-ke, GUO Weiwei, TIAN Yu

“…The proposed optimal scheduling method of cascade pumping stations based on TRUN could effectively improve the current operating efficiency of the system, and the efficiency of the optimization scheme calculated by TRUN was better than that obtained by RUN, TPSO, PSO, TGA and GA, which demonstrated that the improved algorithm could be applied to the scheduling decision-making of cascade pumping stations and had excellent solving performance. …”
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Multiple Criteria Assessment of Pile-Columns Alternatives by Saulius Sušinskas, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Zenonas Turskis

“…The criteria for evaluation are selected by taking into consideration the interests and goals of the client as well as factors that influence the efficiency of construction process. Their weights were determined by applying entropy method. …”
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Developing an Extenics-Based Model for Evaluating Bus Transit System by Yufeng Liu, Steven Chien, Dawei Hu, Ning Wang, Rui Zhang

“…The hybrid weights associated with the indices are determined by subjective weights through analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and objective weights through the entropy method. …”
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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

“…The results obtained attest for the efficiency and efficacy of the algorithm in solving these important stochastic optimization problems.…”
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Markers of Brain Damage in Severe Concomitant Injury by Ye. V. Grigoryev, Ye. A. Kameneva, T. G. Grishanova, M. N. Deragin, A. V. Budayev

“…The paper describes a clinical case of early enteral feeding with an immune formula in a patient with significant heart failure after cardiosurgical intervention who is on venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. The safety and efficiency of nutritional support were monitored, by estimating blood acid-base balance and oxygenation level and by controlling the residual gastric volume, which enabled the volume of the given enteral mixture to be increased up to 2600 kcal by day 3, by providing the body’s energy needs determined by calculation techniques. …”
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Dynamic switching based real-time routing in low-duty-cycle wireless sensor networks by Quan CHEN, Hong GAO

“…The dynamic switching based real-time(DSRT)routing protocol was proposed to handle the arbitrary end-to-end(E2E)real-time communication in the low-duty-cycle wireless sensor networks.Firstly,the concept of available speed was designed to compensate for the big sleep latency and facilitate discovering the routes with less latency based on two-hop neighbors’ information(at lease about 20% routing path with less latency was discovered by DRST in the experiments).Moreover,it was noticed that the congestion extent in the low-duty-cycle network was determined not only by the number of packets in the network output queue,but also the destination of the packets.However,the traditional method with one-hop neighbors’ information cannot differentiate this kind of congestion.Therefore,combined with the dynamic switching mechanism,the DSRT proposed a congestion avoiding algorithm by classifying the packets in the queue.Through comprehensive experiments,the efficiency of routing discovering and congestion avoiding of the DSRT protocol is demonstrated,and the E2E delay is decreased by at least 200% when the traffic was high.…”
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Water Leaching of Wood Barks for Biocarbon Production by Zsuzsanna Czegeny, Istvan S. Czirok, Gergo Szabo, Zoltan Sebestyen, Bence Babinszki, Emma Jakab, Liang Wang, Oyvind Skreiberg

“…Water leaching of birch bark, pine bark and spruce bark performed at 25 and 60 °C with and without stirring was tested as a pretreatment method to reduce the inorganic content of the feedstock. …”
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Simultaneous Shape and Stacking Sequence Optimization of Laminated Composite Free-Form Shells Using Multi-Island Genetic Algorithm by Bingbing San, Zhi Xiao, Ye Qiu

“…The optimization objective is determined as maximizing fundamental natural frequency to obtain largest stiffness of shells. …”
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Application of Wood’s Lamp in Dermatological and Dental Photodiagnostics by Mirosław Kwaśny, Paulina Stachnio, Aneta Bombalska

“…In the experimental part, this study examined the possibilities of the light source in photodiagnostics combined with the photodynamic method (PDT) and determined the lower detection limit of the basic photosensitizer in dermatology—protoporphyrin IX (PPIX). …”
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Influence of the Technological Parameter and Die Structure on Metal Flow Line for Precision Forging Car Gear Blank by Li Tianxing, Zhang Xunlei, Fu Jianzhong, Gao Zhenshan, Wu Shuaibin, Yang Chao

“…The method of pre- control optimization can effectively reduce the number of tests,reduce the production costs and increase the production efficiency. …”
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Research on Visualization of Cylindrical Gear Hobbing Cutting Force and the Influence of Cutting Parameter on Hobbing Cutting Force by Xiaoqing Tian, Xinrong Zheng, Ruofeng Chen, Jiang Han, Lian Xia

“…The predictive model helps to optimize the design of the gear hobbing process to improve the quality and efficiency of the machining and reduce the cost.…”
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