Performance Enhancement of Second-Life Lithium-Ion Batteries Based on Gaussian Mixture Model Clustering and Simulation-Based Evaluation for Energy Storage System Applications by Abdul Shakoor Akram, Woojin Choi

“…In this paper, we compare four clustering approaches including random grouping, equal-number Support Vector Clustering, K-means, and an equal-number Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) to organize 60 retired cells into 48 V modules consisting of 15-cell groups. …”
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A new framework to assess the impact of new IT-based technologies on the success of quality management system by Yiying Cao, Farah Qasim Ahmed Alyousuf

“…The statistical population of this research is the managers and employees of the technology sectors, which is equal to 400 people. The sample size was equal to 196 people, and a simple random sampling method was used to obtain the sample size. …”
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Identifying and prioritizing the Factors Affecting Drug Addiction to Drug Addiction Centers in Sistan and Baluchistan Province by Ali Reza Moradi, Hadi Nouri

“…It has been made and referred to the documents. The sampling method, and the sampling method, were also targeted clusters. …”
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Comparing Effectiveness of Active and Passive Client Follow-Up Approaches in Sustaining the Continued Use of Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARC) in Rural Punjab: A Multice... by Waqas Hameed, Syed Khurram Azmat, Moazzam Ali, Muhammad Ishaque, Ghazunfer Abbas, Erik Munroe, Rebecca Harrison, Wajahat Hussain Shamsi, Ghulam Mustafa, Omar Farooq Khan, Safdar Ali, Aftab Ahmed

“…Participants in the first two study groups received counselling on scheduled follow-up from the field workers at 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 month post-insertion whereas participants in the third group were asked to contact the health facility if in need of medical assistance relating to LARC method use. Study participants were recruited with equal allocation to each study group, but participants were not randomized. …”
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A Comparative Study of the Actual and Ideal State of Social Welfare between Rural and Urban Dwellers (Case Study of Azna City) by Kobra Shahrisvand, Hosein Asadi Davodabadi, Omid Aliahmadi, Roshanaei Ali

“…The purpose of this research is to study the real and ideal social well-being of rural and urban residents of Azna city, which was conducted by survey method. The statistical population of this research includes all the citizens of Azna city, which according to the census of 2015 was equal to 71586 people. …”
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Extraction of Exosomes from Glioblastoma Multiforme Patients’ Blood Plasma by I. F. Gareev, O. A. Beylerli, Sh. Zhao, G. Yang, J. Sun, A. T. Beilerli, Sh. M. Safin

“…Equally this method can be used in research involving other human pathologies.…”
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A Comparative Analysis of Fairness and Satisfaction in Multi-Agent Resource Allocation: Integrating Borda Count and K-Means Approaches with Distributive Justice Principles by Atef Gharbi, Mohamed Ayari, Nasser Albalawi, Yamen El Touati, Zeineb Klai

“…According to our findings, the BC method effectively prioritized the highest needs of the agents and resulted in higher satisfaction. …”
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A Novel Hybrid Dynamic Harris Hawks Optimized Gated Recurrent Unit Approach for Breast Cancer Prediction by Rajesh Natarajan, Sujatha Krishna, H. L. Gururaj, Francesco Flammini, Badria Sulaiman Alfurhood, C. M. Naveen Kumar

“…This method significantly improved the accuracy of BC prediction.…”
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Immediate and late follow-up results of auto- and alloplastic operations in inguinal hernias by Z. T. Shirinov, E. A. Alieva, Z. N. Azadova, N. Kh. Khankishiev

“…Good results of autoplasty in other methods were noted merely in equal quantity of the patients - in up to 70%, and statistically significant difference was absent. …”
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Data structures for deductive simulation of HDL conditional operators by Yevhenii Shovkovyi, Olena Grinyova, Serhii Udovenko, Larysa Chala

“…The subject of research is methods of automated sign language translation using intelligent technologies. …”
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A decade-long study on the effect of furrow and subsurface drip irrigation using unconventional water on soil salinity and the growth of pistachio trees by Abdolhamid Sherafati, Mehrnoush Eskandari Torbaghan

“… Furrow irrigation is the most common method of irrigating pistachio orchards in Iran. Water use efficiency using this method of irrigation is close to 35%. …”
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Optimization of the parameters of truss beams with two posts by A. K. Yusupov, H. M. Musеlеmov, T. O. Ustarhanov

“…An optimal parameter has been obtained that makes it possible to reduce the calculated bending moment in the cross section of a truss beam with two struts.Method. By equalizing the bending moments in various design sections of the truss beam, the internal force factors are reduced. …”
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Power-Efficient UAV Positioning and Resource Allocation in UAV-Assisted Wireless Networks for Video Streaming with Fairness Consideration by Zaheer Ahmed, Ayaz Ahmad, Muhammad Altaf, Mohammed Ahmed Hassan

“…Extensive simulations are performed to verify the effectiveness of the proposed solution method. The simulation results reveal that the proposed method outperforms 95–97% over equal allocation, 77–89% over random allocation, and 17–40% over joint allocation schemes.…”
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Discrete Optimization Model and Algorithm for Driver Planning in Periodic Driver Routing Problem by Lin Huang, Wenya Lv, Qian Sun, Chengle Ma

“…Consequently, assigning equal workload for drivers so as to improve drivers’ acceptance is a reasonable and efficient workforce plan for managers. …”
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Boosted Whittaker–Henderson Graduation by Zihan Jin, Hiroshi Yamada

“…The Whittaker–Henderson (WH) graduation is a smoothing method for equally spaced one-dimensional data such as time series. …”
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Adaptive Binaural Cue-Based Amplitude Panning in Irregular Loudspeaker Configurations by Shang Zhao, Yunjia Zhou, Zhibin Lin

“…The amplitude panning method is a prevalent technique for controlling sound image directions in stereophonic and multichannel surround systems. …”
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Multi-view Fusion 3D Model Classification by GAO Yuan, DING Bo, HE Yong-jun

“…At present, view-based 3D model classification is a research hotspot. However, current methods produce many redundant views, and all views are treated equally, ignoring their differences and importance. …”
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Measurement of Solid Waste Performance of Giresun Province in 2018-2023 by Hatice Doğan

“…Within the scope of the sensitivity analysis, the criteria were weighted using the MEREC, ENTROPY and Equal Weighting methods and integrated into the MARCOS method for solution. …”
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RATIONALIZATION OF THE NUSANTARA TAFSIR AND THE MIDDLE EAST: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE INTERPRETATION OF AL-FĀTIHAH BY KH. ZAINI MUN’IM AND AHMAD MUST{AFĀ AL-MARĀGHĪ by Mas'ud Ubaidillah

“…The analysis technique used is the comparative descriptive-analytical method. The results of the study indicate that both interpretations have similarities in the use of the tahlīlī method, but differ in approach. …”
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Efficient feature selection based on Gower distance for breast cancer diagnosis by Salwa Shakir Baawi, Mustafa Noaman Kadhim, Dhiah Al-Shammary

“…This study presents an efficient feature selection method based on the Gower distance to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of standard classifiers on high-dimensional medical datasets. …”
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