Introduction to ORC–VCC Systems: A Review by Tomasz Suchocki

“…By optimizing working fluid selection and implementing a shared shaft connection between the ORC turbine and VCC compressor, the system achieves dual functionality—simultaneous electricity generation and cooling—with higher efficiency than conventional methods. …”
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ROLE OF ACCOUNTING IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA by Amaka Elizabeth AGBATA, Sunday Chukwunedu OKARO, Ogochukwu Nkiru ONYEOGUBALU

“…Accountants in their decision-making functions played active roles in influencing the sustainability strategies of their companies. …”
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Cultural Landscape and Heritage as an Opportunity for Territorial Resilience—The Case of the Border Between Castile and Leon and Cantabria by María Teresa Pérez Cano, Ainhoa Maruri Arana

“…After the COVID-19 pandemic and in a context of overpopulation in large cities, the rural area emerged as a space of opportunity for more sustainable territorial rebalancing. Despite the evident tendency towards their population emptying, they are places endowed with their own qualities and specific values, currently in danger, especially in border areas between the regions, which are far from centralised nuclei and generate conflicts due to the transfer of powers to them from the State. …”
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Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Driver Training in the Use of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems by Małgorzata Pełka, Adam Rosiński

“…Given the large volume and nonlinear nature of the input data, a heuristic, expert-based approach was used to identify key evaluation criteria, structure the decision-making process, and define fuzzy rule sets and membership functions. This phase served as the foundation for the development of a fuzzy logic model in the MATLAB environment. …”
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Design and Fabrication of Shell Structures by Yu-Chou Chiang

“…The first part of this dissertation introduces a new algorithm based on RBFs for designing smooth membrane shells, which is more versatile than existing methods. The algorithm can generate membranes with both tensile and compressive stresses. …”
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Investigation using single point incremental forming (SPIF) to fabricate patient-specific, titanium orbital floor implants by Mamros Elizabeth M., Blaha Lauren E., Kauffman Christian A.

“…Incremental forming has the potential to revolutionize the implant manufacturing industry through the generation of functionally-graded components.…”
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Urban Landscape Resilience: Reconnecting the River with Al-Kut’s Traditional City Centre by Shahd Alhussen, Husam Sachit Senah

“…Strategies can be established and enhanced to adapt to the riverside and preserve it for future generations in a more flexible and sustainable manner. …”
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SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PORT OF SINGAPORE AGAINST THE COUNTRY’S ECONOMIC GROWTH by Maciej MINDUR

“…This research covers the port’s ownership and organisational structure, and its terminals have been reviewed in terms of their location, infrastructure and functions by taking into account the new generation terminal of the port of Tuas, currently under development. …”
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Co-existence of Democracy and Capitalism: A Reflection of Reciprocity or Ideology? by Tareq Hossain Khan

“…This relationship is far more interest-oriented and power-centric than ideological.…”
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Deadpan contributes to the robustness of the notch response. by A Burcu Babaoğlan, Ben E Housden, Marc Furriols, Sarah J Bray

“…One member of this family in Drosophila, deadpan (dpn), was originally found to have functions independent of Notch in promoting neural development. …”
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Spindle shaped human mesenchymal stem/stromal cells from amniotic fluid promote neovascularization. by Maria G Roubelakis, Grigorios Tsaknakis, Kalliopi I Pappa, Nicholas P Anagnou, Suzanne M Watt

“…Interestingly, although the kinetics of vascular tubule formation in vitro were similar when the supporting SS-AF-MSCs were compared with the best vasculogenic supportive batches of bone marrow MSCs (BMSCs) or human dermal fibroblasts (hDFs), SS-AF-MSCs supported vascular tubule formation in vivo more effectively than BMSCs. In NOD/SCID mice, the human vessels inosculated with murine vessels demonstrating their functionality. …”
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Enhanced recovery pathway for older people with hip fracture and cognitive impairment in acute hospitals: the PERFECTED research programme including an RCT by Chris Fox, Simon P Hammond, Lee Shepstone, Fiona Poland, Catherine Henderson, Tamara Backhouse, Bridget Penhale, Simon Donell, Martin Knapp, Douglas Lewins, Alasdair MacLullich, Martyn Patel, Opinder Sahota, Toby O Smith, Justin Waring, Jane L Cross

“…In the 12 months after fracture, patients are at increased risk of cognitive and functional decline, admission to long-term care institutions and higher mortality. …”
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Augmented secretary bird optimization algorithm for wireless sensor network deployment and engineering problem. by Qingwen Meng, Xi Kuang, Zihan Yu, Minghui He, Hanzhi Cui

“…The results show that in the CEC2017 30-dimensional case, ASBOA performed best on 23 out of 30 functions; in the CEC2017 100-dimensional case, ASBOA performed best on 26 out of 30 functions; and in the CEC2022 20-dimensional case, it performed best on 9 out of 12 functions. …”
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What makes the synergy between pollution and carbon emission control effective? Based on an evaluation of the carbon emissions trading pilot policy by Shiming Zheng, Yue Li, Huiyi Xie

“…Third, the synergy between air contamination and carbon emission management in pilot areas substantially reduces pollution emissions, suggesting that a greater degree of synergistic control generates more effective incentive or restraint effect.…”
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Distributionally robust optimal scheduling of flexible distribution networks considering dynamic spatio-temporal correlation of renewable energy by Shunxiang Yu, Xiaoming Dong, Chengfu Wang, Tianguang Lu

“…The proposed model is linearized and relaxed through second-order cone programming and solved using the column and constraint generation (C&CG) algorithm. Case studies utilizing the improved IEEE 33-bus and PG&E 69-bus system demonstrate that the proposed strategy offers a more accurate and resilient scheduling method for FDNs.…”
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Software diversity evaluation method based on the properties of ROP/JOP gadgets by Yuning CHI, Yunfei GUO, Yawen WANG, Hongchao HU

“…In order to reduce the risk of rapid spread of homogeneous attacks in network systems, and enhance network and software security, software diversification technologies are applied widely nowadays.Software diversification aims to generate functionally equivalent but internally changed program variants, thereby alter a single operating environment and mitigating homogenization attacks.The existing diversified technical evaluation index ROP gadgets survival rate is difficult to directly reflect the safety impact and the evaluation method is single.In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the diversification method more comprehensively and effectively, a software diversification evaluation method based on the properties of ROP/JOP gadgets is proposed, by analyzing common code reuse attacks, and turns abstract quantification into concrete indicators evaluates the security gain and effect of diversified methods from three aspects of space, time and quality.The method first discusses how diversification techniques affect ROP/JOP attacks according to the three properties of gadgets similarity, damage degree and availability.Nine kinds of diversification methods, such as instruction replacement, NOP insertion, and control flow flattening, are used to diversify the GNU coreutils assembly to generate diversification assembly.Experiments based on the property of gadgets are carried out on the diverse assemblies, and the effectiveness of different diversification methods and the impact on attacks are evaluated according to the experimental results.The experimental results show that this method can accurately evaluate the security gain of software diversification methods, the diversification technology will lead to the increase of the attack chain space required by the ROP/JOP attack, the longer time to construct the attack chain and the lower the attack success rate.The effects of different diversification methods are different, it has a guiding role for the follow-up research on diversified technologies with higher safety gains.…”
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Memory consolidation from a reinforcement learning perspective by Jong Won Lee, Min Whan Jung, Min Whan Jung

“…From this perspective, memory consolidation functions as a form of offline reinforcement learning, aimed at enhancing adaptive decision-making.…”
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Optimization of the treatment of patients with severe chronic urticaria by Ye.M. Dytiatkovska, N.O. Nedohybchenko

“…According to our data, patients with SCU are mostly people of working age, more than half of whom have a history of the disease for five years or more, in 70% of cases of a valid study, they are characterized by an increased content of total IgE and have a low level of indicators according to the questionnaire SKINDEX-29 at the level of physical symptoms, emotional sphere and functioning. …”
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Is Clonal Integration a Buffer for the Stress of Resource Acquisition Depletion in <i>Eichhornia crassipes</i> (Pontederiaceae) Ramets? by Guilherme Ramos Demetrio, Dalton Serafim, Flávia de Freitas Coelho

“…Natural selection favors the allocation of finite resources to different functions maximizing fitness. In this sense, some functions may decrease whereas others increase when resources are limited in a process called a trade-off. …”
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A New Approach to the Study of Regional Integration: Practice Theory and its Application in European Integration Studies by Milad Lotfi, Seyed Jalal Dehghani Firoozabadi

“…Theories such as federalism, functionalism, neo-functionalism, communication theory, etc. are among the most important theories that specifically seek to explain how regional integration occurs in a specific region. …”
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