Investigation of Solar Hybrid Electric/Thermal System with Radiation Concentrator and Thermoelectric Generator by Edgar Arturo Chávez Urbiola, Yuri Vorobiev

“…The system included an electrical generating unit with 6 serially connected TEGs using a traditional semiconductor material, Bi2Te3, which was illuminated by concentrated solar radiation on one side and cooled by running water on the other side. A sun-tracking concentrator with a mosaic set of mirrors was used; its orientation towards the sun was achieved with two pairs of radiation sensors, a differential amplifier, and two servomotors. …”
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Convolutional Neural Network Classification using Three Cepstrums Combinations with Time, Time Derivative and Reassigned STFT of Doppler Signatures from Radar Human Locomotion by Dalila Yessad

“…Real data were collected from a Doppler radar system, capturing nine return echoes while monitoring three distinct human activities: walking, fast walking, and running. These activities were performed by three subjects, either individually or in pairs. …”
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Trade-off between pollinator-wildflower diversity & grassland yields by Nicholas J. Balfour, Ciaran Harris, Jonathan Storkey, Francis L. W. Ratnieks

“…Our two-year study at the world’s longest-running ecological experiment, Park Grass, Rothamsted, examines the relationship between soil fertilisation, grassland yield and biodiversity. …”
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Novel Techniques to Speed Up the Computation of the Automorphism Group of a Graph by José Luis López-Presa, Luis F. Chiroque, Antonio Fernández Anta

“…This is also reflected in a reduction of the running time, which is substantial for some graph families. …”
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Locomotive Gear Fault Diagnosis Based on Wavelet Bispectrum of Motor Current by Mingming Zhang, Jiangtian Yang, Zhang Zhang

“…The presented method was effectively applied to the locomotive online running operations, and faults of the drive gear were successfully diagnosed.…”
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Analysis of Gear Dynamic Characteristic of Oil Churning Resistance under Stochastic Disturbance by Wenyu Liu, Yongguo Sun, Guangbin Yu, Valerii Tupolev, Wei Liu

“…Considering the viscoelasticity of the lubricant oil will result in additional resistance upon gears immersed in the oil while running at high-speed，and the gear system can get disturbed at all times due to self-exciting vibration and other factors. …”
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Ideophones are more reliable than metaphors in Japanese pain descriptions by Kimi Akita

“…We examined how reliable pain ideophones are in comparison with pain metaphors, such as denki-ga hashiru-yoona itami ‘pain like an electric current running through one’s body’. In Experiment 1, Japanese speakers rated visually presented pain ideophones and metaphors on 15 semantic-differential scales (e.g., strong–weak, momentary–continuous). …”
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Research on Windage Power Loss of High-speed Arc Tooth Cylindrical Gear by Shuai Mo, Heyu Dang, Zhenxing Zou, Wenjie Tang, Zongxiang Yue, Hanjun Gao

“…For gears running at high speeds， windage power loss is one of the main factors for low transmission efficiency. …”
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Design and Optimization of Trapezoidal Steering Mechanism based on Improved Particle Swarm Algorithm by Jianhua Zhai, Laiqi Qiu, Xiaohua Wei, Dongshan Yang

“…The error between the trajectory of the steering mechanism and the ideal running trajectory can be effectively reduced， and the maneuverability and track control of the mobile robot can be improved.…”
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Preventing sensory and motor dysfunctions in children receiving neurotoxic chemotherapy: PrepAir study - an update by Céline Hammadou, Bianca Celine Schmidli, Christina Schindera, Nicolas von der Weid, Uta Tacke, Oliver Faude, Sarah Koch, Fiona Streckmann

“…It leads to delays in motor milestones (e.g. running, climbing), which limits social reintegration as well as quality of life (Bjornard et al. 2018). …”
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Penerapan Mekanisme Continuous Deployment dalam Pengembangan dan Pembaruan Perangkat Lunak Sistem Benam Berbasis Internet of Things by Yohanna Fransiska Aladina, Adhitya Bhawiyuga, Reza Andria Siregar, Primantara Hari Trisnawan

“…This process has a significant positive impact because only by running the automated script, then can everything run smoothly as expected. …”
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The Optimization of the Location of the Cargo in Three-Dimension Shelf: Employing the FP-Tree and the Artificial Fish Swarm Algorithms by Shuiwang Zhang, Linping Fu, Rui Wang, Rong Chen

“…The performance and efficiency of the novel introduced method have been confirmed by running the experiment. The outcomes of the simulation suggest that the introduced method has a higher performance concerning criterion called the picking order distance.…”
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Efficient and fully simulated oblivious transfer protocol on elliptic curve by Jiashuo SONG, Zhenzhen LI, Haiyang DING, Zichen LI

“…Oblivious transfer protocol, an important technology in secure multi-party computation, is the research hotspot on network and information security.Based on the bilinear pairs and the difficult problems on elliptic curves, an efficient 1-out-of-N oblivious transfer protocol in the semi-honest model and in the standard malicious model were proposed respectively.The protocol in semi-honest model was designed.It only needed two rounds of interaction.The receiver needed two times of bilinear pair arithmetic and one time of multi point arithmetic, and the sender needed n times of multi point arithmetic and n times of modular exponentiation.The security of the protocol was based on the discrete logarithm problem on elliptic curves.A zero-knowledge proof protocol and the oblivious transfer protocol in the standard malicious model were proposed respectively.The oblivious transfer protocol only needed four rounds of interaction.The receiver needed three times of bilinear pair arithmetic and three times of multi point arithmetic, and the sender needed n+1 times of multi point arithmetic and n+1 times of modular exponentiation.Besides, it can resist malicious behaviors of the party.The results show that the average running time of the protocol in the semi-honest model and in the standard malicious model were 0.787 9 s and 1.205 6 s respectively, which can further demonstrate the efficiency of the protocol.…”
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An Enhanced Supervisory Control Strategy for Periodicity Mutual Exclusions in Discrete Event Systems Based on Petri Nets by Zhongyuan Jiang, Huan Wang, Xiaoliang Chen, Mingwei Tang, Jianhong Ye

“…Mutual exclusion problems widely exist in discrete event systems in which several processes will compete for the common resource for maintaining their normal running. This competition is mutually exclusive. However, a special behavior, that is, periodic mutual exclusion behavior, is important for many discrete event systems. …”
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CONTRACTORS’ PERCEPTIONS OF LATE PAYMENTS by R CUMBERLEGE, B BOTHA, M BENTLEY

“…An understanding of the effects of late payments will assist contractors in the smooth running of a construction project financially. Contractors will also benefit from being knowledgeable in terms of contractual agreements in the event of a delay in payment from the client. …”
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Pathway Detection from Protein Interaction Networks and Gene Expression Data Using Color-Coding Methods and A* Search Algorithms by Cheng-Yu Yeh, Hsiang-Yuan Yeh, Carlos Roberto Arias, Von-Wun Soo

“…On the other hand, our method is more efficient than previous ones and detects the paths of length 10 within 40 seconds using CPU Intel 1.73GHz and 1GB main memory running under windows operating system.…”
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Apocalypse Now: Dombey in the Twenty-First Century by Jennifer Gribble

“…Acts of unimaginable terror, catastrophic natural disasters and a global sense of humankind’s time running out might make us particularly receptive to the apocalyptic tone and message of Dombey and Son. …”
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Hardware Accelerators Targeting a Novel Group Based Packet Classification Algorithm by O. Ahmed, S. Areibi, G. Grewal

“…Speedups achieved with these hardware accelerators ranged from 9x to 18x compared with a pure software implementation running on an Xeon processor.…”
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Temperature Field Study of Offshore Heavy Oil Wellbore with Coiled Tubing Gas Lift-Assisted Lifting by Kechao Gao, Qibin Zhao, Xinghua Zhang, Suogui Shang, Lijun Guan, Jizhi Li, Na Xu, Dagui Cao, Liang Tao, Hongxing Yuan, Yonghai Gao

“…The model analyzes the effects of coiled tubing running depth, gas injection temperature, gas injection volume, coiled tubing diameter, and crude oil production on the temperature distribution of heavy oil in deep-water and shallow water wellbores. …”
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Assessing the Static and Dynamic Sensitivity of a Commercial Off-the-Shelf Multicore Processor for Noncritical Avionic Applications by Pablo F. Ramos, Vanessa C. Vargas, Nacer-Eddine Zergainoh, Raoul Velazco

“…Results show that the failure rate of the E16G301 running a matrix multiplication as application reaches level D of the DO-178B/C guideline, being the device well suited for minor failure conditions of avionic applications.…”
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