Universal method for contact fatigue determination by Igor Stepankin, Abdrakhman Naizabekov, Evgeniy Pozdnyakov, Dmitry Kuis, Sergey Lezhnev, Yevgeniy Panin

“…The authors have developed a universal method for determining the contact fatigue of materials, providing opportunities for resource-efficient design of parts operating under the action of pulsating contact stresses. • Design and operating principle of the patented testing device. • Universal methodology for determining the contact fatigue of materials. • Our novel test method demonstrated a convergence of finite element modeling and real test in terms of crack formation in maximum stress zones.…”
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Learning to Maximize Speech Quality Directly Using MOS Prediction for Neural Text-to-Speech by Yeunju Choi, Youngmoon Jung, Youngjoo Suh, Hoirin Kim

“…Although recent neural text-to-speech (TTS) systems have achieved high-quality speech synthesis, there are cases where a TTS system generates low-quality speech, mainly caused by limited training data or information loss during knowledge distillation. Therefore, we propose a novel method to improve speech quality by training a TTS model under the supervision of perceptual loss, which measures the distance between the maximum possible speech quality score and the predicted one. …”
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Optimal Configuration of Virtual Links for Avionics Network Systems by Dongha An, Kyong Hoon Kim, Ki-Il Kim

“…However, since previous research interests for AFDX are mainly bounded for analyzing the response time where flows information is given, configuration problem for both Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) and Bandwidth Allocation Gap (BAG) over virtual links in AFDX networks has not been addressed yet even though it has great impact on required bandwidth. …”
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Attack-Defense Game between Malicious Programs and Energy-Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Epidemic Modeling by Guiyun Liu, Baihao Peng, Xiaojing Zhong, Lefeng Cheng, Zhifu Li

“…Based on the Pontryagin Maximum Principle, this paper proposes the optimal strategies based on the SILRD with solar energy harvesters and the ΛSILRD. …”
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Performance and Improvement Analysis of the Underwater WSN Using a Diverse Routing Protocol Approach by K. Sathish, C. V. Ravikumar, Asadi Srinivasulu, A. Rajesh, Olutayo Oyeyemi Oyerinde

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Freeform Optics for Achieving Collimated and Uniform Light Distribution in LCD-Type UV-Curable 3D Printing by Zhengbo Zhu

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Analysis of Rooftop Photovoltaic Potential and Electricity Planning in Lanzhou Urban Areas by Yifu Chen, Shidong Wang, Tao Li

“…Therefore, based on Geographic Information System (GIS) and deep learning modeling, this paper proposes a method to efficiently assess the potential of urban rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV), which is analyzed in a typical area of Lanzhou New District, which is divided into 8774 units with an area of 87.74 km². …”
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Special Issue on Contemporary Research Studies in Operations Research, Business Analytics, and Business Intelligence by Viswanath Kumar Ganesan, S. Vinodh, Malolan Sundararaman, M. Vimala Rani, M. Mathirajan

“…These involve utilizing information technology and analytics more effectively, innovating manufacturing and service support systems, and employing novel problem-solving methods. …”
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Paternal identification of mango controlled-pollination seedling progenies based on fluorescent SSR markers by YAN Jinyuan, ZHENG Bin, WANG Songbiao, MA Xiaowei, XU Wentian, XIE Kunliang, WU Hongxia

“…The paternal analysis used the maximum likelihood method, and the implementation of the maximum likelihood method was based on Cervus V3.07 software. …”
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Ozone source attribution in polluted European areas during summer 2017 as simulated with MECO(n) by M. Kilian, V. Grewe, V. Grewe, P. Jöckel, A. Kerkweg, M. Mertens, A. Zahn, H. Ziereis

“…Our analysis shows that the contributions of European emissions from land transport and anthropogenic non-traffic sectors strongly increase with increasing values of MDA8 (daily maximum 8 h average) ozone over the Po Valley and in the Benelux region. …”
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Integrating Nitrogen, Water, and Other Management Practices to Improve Grain and Ratoon Forage Yields in Perennial Rice by Fuxian Xu, Dingbing Wang, Xingbing Zhou, Lin Zhang, Xiaoyi Guo, Mao Liu, Yongchuan Zhu, Hong Xiong, Changchun Guo, Peng Jiang

“…Perennial rice has recently garnered global attention due to its potential to save on seeds and labor costs and its high production efficiency. The “mid-season rice–ratoon forage” mode is a new planting system that has emerged in recent years. …”
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Classifying and Localizing Abnormalities in Brain MRI Using Channel Attention Based Semi-Bayesian Ensemble Voting Mechanism and Convolutional Auto-Encoder by Syed Muhammad Ahmed Hassan Shah, Asad Ullah, Jawaid Iqbal, Sami Bourouis, Syed Sajid Ullah, Saddam Hussain, Muhammad Qasim Khan, Yaser Ali Shah, Ghulam Mustafa

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Advanced antistatic composites for electrostatic Dissipation: Development of EPDM based conductive elastomeric nanocomposites by Habiba Tanveer, Shaista Taimur, Mujtaba Ellahi, Talha Baig, Nazeeha S. Alkayal, Ahsan Ali, Tariq Yasin, Wael A. Altabey, Mohammad Noori, Sallam A. Kouritem

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Research progress in globular fruit picking recognition algorithm based on deep learning by LI Hui, ZHANG Jun, YU Shuochen, LI Zhixin

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A Comparative Investigation of Transfer Learning Frameworks Using OCT Pictures for Retinal Disorder Identification by Ghadah Naif Alwakid, Mamoona Humayun, Walaa Gouda

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Underwater Magnetic Sensors Network by Arkadiusz Adamczyk, Maciej Klebba, Mariusz Wąż, Ivan Pavić

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FAULT DIAGNOSIS OF GEARBOX UNDER VARIABLE WORKING CONDITION BASED ON WEIGHTED SUBDOMAIN ADAPTIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORK by ZHANG Huiyun, ZUO Fangjun, YU Xi, YANG Ting

“…Concurrently, during adversarial training of the feature extractor and domain discriminator, maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) and linear discriminant analysis (LDA) were introduced to measure the domain alignment degree of the current cross-domain task feature representation and the diagnostic task decision boundary. …”
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The methodology of environmental protection organization at the geography lessons by Seyıdova Elnara

“…Ecological culture should be considered a part of pedagogical culture, and therefore it considers the maximum possible use of general pedagogical methods of education. …”
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Prediction of lithium-ion battery SOC based on IGA-GRU and the fusion of multi-head attention mechanism by Pei Tang, Minnan Jiang, Weikai Xu, Zhengyu Ding, Mao Lv

“…BMS can monitor various status information of lithium-ion batteries in real-time, and the State of Charge (SOC) of lithium-ion batteries is a key parameter among them. …”
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An Improved MOEA/D Based on Reference Distance for Software Project Portfolio Optimization by Jing Xiao, Jing-Jing Li, Xi-Xi Hong, Min-Mei Huang, Xiao-Min Hu, Yong Tang, Chang-Qin Huang

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