Research on the volatility characteristics and evolutionary mechanism of the “Asian premium” for natural gas by Jian Chai, Mingxiao Zhao, Xiaokong Zhang, Na Li, Zhefei Zhang, Zenghui Liu

“…The impulse response results showed that when the financial crisis hit in 2008, the impact of energy security and economic fundamentals on the “Asian premium” was more obvious. In the case of supply shortages, financial speculation and geographical factors played a more significant role in the “Asian premium” for natural gas. …”
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High-resolution high-throughput spatiotemporal strain imaging reveals loss mechanisms in a surface acoustic wave device by Tao Zhou, Alexandre Reinhardt, Marie Bousquet, Joel Eymery, Steven Leake, Martin V. Holt, Paul G. Evans, Tobias Schülli

“…Quantitative analysis of the strain amplitude using a wave decomposition method allowed the determination of several key device parameters. …”
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An Exploration of the Use of Educational Robotics in Preschool Education by Veronica Mihaela Rus, Beatrice Almășan

“…Future research is needed to study the more in-depth effects of STEAM activities on children's cognitive acquisitions and social-emotional skills.…”
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Comprehensive Framework of Major Power Project Management Based on System Thinking by Xue-Wen Zhu, Ai-Hua Pei, Fei Peng, Nan-Nan Xue, Wei Zhang

“…Then, by combining the G1 method with the cloud model, a new way of management performance evaluation of power projects is provided. …”
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Carbon Emission Influencing Factors and Scenario Prediction for Construction Industry in Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei by Wensheng Liu, Danchen Ren, Changbo Ke, Wei Ying

“…In this paper, the factors causing the change in carbon emissions from direct energy consumption in the construction industry in Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei are decomposed using the logarithmic mean divisia index (LMDI) method to analyze the effect values and contribution rates of each macrofactor. …”
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Twin Support Vector Regression Model Based on Heteroscedastic Gaussian Noise and Its Application by Shiguang Zhang, Ge Feng, Feng Yuan, Shuangle Guo

“…The Lagrange multiplier method is used to solve the problem, and the optimization algorithm is used to find the global optimization. …”
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Prediction of Remaining Useful Life of Packing Sets in a Plunger-Type High-Pressure Compressor Based on the PCA/SVD Analysis and NN Model by Jin-Wei Liang, Shyh-Chin Huang, Chun-Ling Lin

“…The effectiveness of the method is examined using the averaged difference (over 13 data sets) between predicted and real failure events. …”
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Influence of Mechanical Activation on the Evolution of TiSiCN Powders for Reactive Plasma Spraying by Lazat Baimoldanova, Bauyrzhan Rakhadilov, Aidar Kengesbekov, Rashid Kuanyshbai

“…Cross-sectional micrographs further revealed that the TiCN + Si coating has a greater average thickness (39.87 μm) and more uniform distribution compared to Ti + SiC (35.48 μm), indicating better application control and a more homogeneous material structure. …”
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Feature Extraction from Regenerated EEG – A Better Approach for ICA Based Eye Blink Artifact Detection by Maliha Rashida, Mohammad Ashfak Habib

“…For almost all features, ReEEG-based approach achieved up to 12.25% higher accuracy, 24.95% higher precision, 13.49% higher recall, and 12.89% higher f1 score than the IC-based traditional method. Conclusion: The proposed model will be useful for researchers in dealing with the eye blink artifacts of EEG signals with more efficacy. …”
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Upper-Bound Analysis of Slope Reliability Considering Anisotropic Spatial Variability and Reinforcement with Anti-slide Piles by ZHAO Zi-hao, WANG Jia-rui, FU Tao-tao, ZHU En-lin

“…This paper introduced the discrete mechanism of limit analysis into general rotational anisotropic random fields and employs the upper-bound analysis method to assess slope reliability. MethodsFirstly, the random field was generated adopting the Cholesky decomposition method. …”
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Mitigation of Atmospheric Effects in Deformation Monitoring Using Dual-Polarization MTInSAR and Improved Wavelet Correlation Analysis by Guanxin Liu, Xiaoli Ding, Songbo Wu, Haiqiang Fu, Jianjun Zhu

“…A hybrid indicator is then designed to determine the optimal wavelet decomposition scale in WCA, which enables more accurately separation of APS phase component of the ZTBI. …”
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Automatic crop type mapping based on crop-wise indicative features by Junru Yu, Longcai Zhao, Yanfu Liu, Qingrui Chang, Na Wang

“…The time series analysis method (i.e., seasonal trend decomposition) and imputation method was then utilized for the discrete time series of CIF extractors, which were separately trained based on training samples on each day. …”
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Improved Deorientation Processing for Polarimetric SAR Data Using a Phenomenological Approach by Reza Bordbari, Andrew J. Hooper

“…Here, we present a new approach to deorientation that greatly improves on existing methods. Our algorithm innovatively employs phenomenological target decomposition theory and the concept of polarization nulls to extract and deorient orientation-perturbed components of the target. …”
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Hyperspectral Anomaly Detection via Merging Total Variation Into Low-Rank Representation by Linwei Li, Ziyu Wu, Bin Wang

“…Anomaly detection (AD) aiming to locate targets distinct from the surrounding background spectra remains a challenging task in hyperspectral applications. The methods based on low-rank decomposition utilize the inherent low-rank characteristic of hyperspectral images (HSIs), which has attracted great interest and achieved many advances in recent years. …”
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Sparse representation for massive MIMO satellite channel based on joint dictionary learning by Qing yang Guan, Shuang Wu

“…Additionally, a joint dictionary updating method with singular value decomposition under constraint boundary conditions is proposed. …”
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Detection of Abrupt Changes in Runoff in the Weihe River Basin by Yanling Li, Jianxia Chang, Zhiliang Wang, Huiling Li

“…Hilbert-Huang transform-based time-frequency analysis is employed in this study to detect abrupt changes and periods of the runoff at five hydrological stations in the Weihe River Basin, China, from 1951 to 2010. The key part of the method is the empirical decomposition mode with which any complicated data set can be decomposed into small number of intrinsic mode functions that admit well adaptive Hilbert transforms. …”
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Recovery of Absorption Line Shapes With Correction for the Wavelength Modulation Characteristics of DFB Lasers by Thomas Benoy, Michael Lengden, George Stewart, Walter Johnstone

“…The modulation response of the laser is measured, and we demonstrate how the phasor decomposition method (PDM) may be used to obtain accurate line shapes from the first harmonic WMS signals by correcting for phase variation across the laser's low-frequency current sweep. …”
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Population ageing and income inequality in rural China: an 18-year analysis by Ming Gao, Fan Jiang, Jiwen Wang, Bi Wu

“…Results based on the decoupling index and decomposition method reveal that the issue of income inequality in the surveyed rural areas has not intensified with the progression of ageing, which overturns the predominant view in existing research that population ageing exacerbates income inequality. …”
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Bridging Neuroscience and Machine Learning: A Gender-Based Electroencephalogram Framework for Guilt Emotion Identification by Saima Raza Zaidi, Najeed Ahmed Khan, Muhammad Abul Hasan

“…First, the novel approach employed involved feeding the data to SVM classifier without computing any features. This method provided an average accuracy of 83%. In the second approach, data were divided into Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Theta and Delta frequency bands using Discrete Wavelet Decomposition. …”
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Photoresist Removal Using H Radicals Generated by Iridium Hot-Wire Catalyst by Masashi Yamamoto, Shiro Nagaoka, Hironobu Umemoto, Keisuke Ohdaira, Takashi Nishiyama, Hideo Horibe

“…We examined an environmentally friendly photoresist removal method using H radicals produced by decomposing hydrogen on a hot iridium catalyst. …”
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