High-efficient RPL routing for analyzing mobility of nodes by Huibin XU

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Price discovery and market efficiency of cardamom in India by A.N. Vijayakumar

“…Design/methodology/approach – This study used Johansen co-integration, vector error correction model, Granger causality and regression with dummy variables to understand a day of the week effect in high-value agri-commodity of cardamom e-auction prices. …”
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Tuning Ru/Ni sites in the perovskite-based precursor synthesis to make more efficient and durable dual-function materials for integrated CO2 capture and methanation by Jon A. Onrubia-Calvo, Beñat Pereda-Ayo, Unai De-La-Torre, José A. González-Marcos, Juan R. González-Velasco

“…Different parameters such as pH of the starting solution, calcination protocol were modified in order to synthesize materials with variable nanostructure, surface chemistry and textural properties, thereby effectively tuning the material activity and stability for the integrated CO2 adsorption and in situ methanation operation. …”
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Increasing constraint of aridity on tree intrinsic water use efficiency by Mengjie Wang, Shushi Peng, Zihan Lu, Xiangtao Xu, Andrew Felton, Anping Chen

“…Abstract The intrinsic water use efficiency (W) of trees serves as a key variable linking water and carbon fluxes in forest ecosystems. …”
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Improvement of Multi-functional Air-conditioning Water Heaters by Wang Haifeng, Li Yuduo, Yuan Huihui, Sun Yajuan, Zhang Shoubing, Dong Shanshan

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Modelling Sustainable Port Operations: Balancing Inputs and Outputs with the Cobb–Douglas Function by Claudia Durán, Ivan Derpich, Fabricio Moreno, Amir Karbassi Yazdi, Yong Tan

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Efficient techno-economic modelling of smart parking lots within the electricity distribution networks by Seyed Ashkan Nejati, David Greenwood, Sanchari Deb, Saman Nikkhah

“…This paper proposes a cost-driven optimisation framework that converts a smart parking lot into an equivalent energy storage system, retaining hourly accuracy while collapsing thousands of binary charging decisions into a handful of continuous variables, allowing for the co-optimisation of the smart parking lot and the electricity distribution network. …”
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A Self-Tuning Variable Universe Fuzzy PID Control Framework with Hybrid BAS-PSO-SA Optimization for Unmanned Surface Vehicles by Huixia Zhang, Zhao Zhao, Yuchen Wei, Yitong Liu, Wenyang Wu

“…Benchmarks using Rastrigin, Griewank, and Sphere functions show superior convergence and 68% stability improvement. …”
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Experimental Study on Optimal Refrigerant Charge of Multi-functional Air-conditioning Hot Water Heater by Wang Haifeng, Zhang Shoubing, Yuan Huihui, Sun Yajuan, Li Yuduo, Dong Shanshan

“…A new type of double-flow accumulator was developed, which can automatically adjust the amount of circulating refrigerant on the system of multi-functional air-conditioning/hot-water heater so that the system was more stable and efficient under multi-working modes. …”
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Efficient discovery of large magnetic anisotropy with thermodynamically stable materials via multi-objective Bayesian optimization by Kohei Nakamura, Daigo Furuya, Yoshio Miura, Takahiro Yamazaki, Alexandre Lira Foggiatto, Yuma Iwasaki, Masato Kotsugi

“…As a result, MBO efficiently suggested the following three materials – Fe/Fe/Fe/Ni/Fe/Ni, Fe/Co/Fe/Co/Fe/Ni, and Fe/Co/Co/Fe/Ni/Ni – that exhibit thermodynamic stability while demonstrating an MCA value up to four times larger than that of L10-FeNi. …”
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Identification of High-Photosynthetic-Efficiency Wheat Varieties Based on Multi-Source Remote Sensing from UAVs by Weiyi Feng, Yubin Lan, Hongjian Zhao, Zhicheng Tang, Wenyu Peng, Hailong Che, Junke Zhu

“…These indices include soil and plant analyzer development (SPAD), leaf area index (LAI), net photosynthetic rate (Pn), transpiration rate (Tr), intercellular CO₂ concentration (Ci), stomatal conductance (Gsw), photochemical quantum efficiency (PhiPS2), PSII reaction center excitation energy capture efficiency (Fv’/Fm’), and photochemical quenching coefficient (qP). …”
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Optimal Sequencing Control of Variable-speed Air-source Heat Pumps in Office Building by Liu Zhaohui, Li Zhenyu, Tan Hongwei, Xu Wen, Feng Wenbo, Yi Biyi

“…To develop this strategy, a variable-speed heat-pump model and the objective function for optimization of the heat-pump sequence control were first established, so as to determine the optimal solutions under partial building loads. …”
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Interdecadal Variability of Summer Precipitation Efficiency in East Asia by Jian Wang, Shu Gui, Anqi Ma, Ruowen Yang, Qi Zhang

“…Two major modes of summertime precipitation efficiency are identified using Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis. …”
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Optimization of Liquefied Air Energy Storage System Coupled with Organic Rankine Cycle by Jianshe LI, Yihua DONG, Haihua LUO

“…To construct the liquefied air energy storage model coupled with organic Rankine cycle, the system cycle efficiency and the exergy efficiency in the air energy release and generation stage are set as objective functions. …”
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qBiCo: a method to assess global DNA conversion performance in epigenetics via single-copy genes and repetitive elements by Faidra Karkala, Roy B. Simons, Floor Claessens, Vivian Kalamara, Manfred Kayser, Athina Vidaki

“…It estimates four parameters: converted DNA concentration, fragmentation, global conversion efficiency, and potential PCR inhibition. We optimized qBiCo using synthetic DNA standards and assessed it using standard developmental validation criteria, showcasing that qBiCo is reliable, robust and sensitive down to picogram level. …”
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Addressing Challenges in Simulating Inter–Annual Variability of Gross Primary Production by Ranit De, Shanning Bao, Sujan Koirala, Alexander Brenning, Markus Reichstein, Torbern Tagesson, Michael Liddell, Andreas Ibrom, Sebastian Wolf, Ladislav Šigut, Lukas Hörtnagl, William Woodgate, Mika Korkiakoski, Lutz Merbold, T. Andrew Black, Marilyn Roland, Anne Klosterhalfen, Peter D. Blanken, Sara Knox, Simone Sabbatini, Bert Gielen, Leonardo Montagnani, Rasmus Fensholt, Georg Wohlfahrt, Ankur R. Desai, Eugénie Paul‐Limoges, Marta Galvagno, Albin Hammerle, Georg Jocher, Borja Ruiz Reverter, David Holl, Jiquan Chen, Luca Vitale, M. Altaf Arain, Nuno Carvalhais

“…Both models simulated hourly GPP and were parameterized for (a) each site–year, (b) each site with an additional constraint on IAV (CostIAV), (c) each site, (d) each plant–functional type, and (e) globally. This was followed by forward runs using calibrated parameters, and model evaluations using Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE) as a model‐fitness measure at different temporal scales across 198 eddy‐covariance sites representing diverse climate–vegetation types. …”
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Research on Energy-Efficient Building Design Using Target Function Optimization and Genetic Neural Networks by Youxiang Huan

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Optimization of PLGA-Doxorubicin Hybrid Nanoparticles using Design of Experiments: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications by Adina TURCU-STIOLICA, Andrei BITA, Maria Viorica CIOCILTEU

“… Background and Aim: Poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) exhibits a range of advantageous properties, including tunable particle sizes, stability, biodegradability, and the potential for surface functionalization. …”
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An Efficient Line Search Algorithm for Large Scale Optimization by Abbas Al-Bayati, Ivan Latif

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Thrust-efficiency limits of a swimming tail with variable chordwise flexural rigidity by Hossam Alqaleiby, Muhammad R. Hajj

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