A Systemic Approach to the Preservation of Audio Documents: Methodology and Software Tools by Federica Bressan, Sergio Canazza

“…Some recommendations are given for the rerecording process, aimed at minimizing the information loss and at quantifying the unintentional alterations introduced by the technical equipment. …”
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Effective Ayurvedic Treatment of Pilonidal Sinus using Udumber Ksheer Sutra: A Case Study by Harshadkumar Prajapati, Ashvini D. Pardhekar, Abhilash Pardhekar, Manisha Davkare

“…The Kshara Sutra is a minimally invasive, cost-effective technique with a low recurrence rate for treating pilonidal sinus. …”
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Scale-free fault-tolerant topology control algorithm in wireless sensor network with optimization of path energy consumption by Hao-ran LIU, Tao HAN, Ya-qian LI, Rong-rong YIN

“…For the issue of path energy consumption produced in the process of transmitting data in large-scale sensor network, an optimization model of network path energy consumption based on the mode of multi-hop was established, and then the law of obtaining the value of the node degree that could minimize the energy consumption of network was deduced. …”
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Displacement and Force Control of a Quarter Car Using a Mixed Mode MR Mount by Shuo Wang, Mohammad Elahinia, The Nguyen

“…Moreover, a hierarchical controller for minimizing the two requirements for transmissibility was also constructed. …”
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Secure data offloading strategy for multi-UAV wireless networks based on minimum energy consumption by Gaofeng CUI, Yuanyuan XU, Shanghong ZHANG, Weidong WANG

“…To solve the problems of ground passive eavesdropping when ground users offload data to the multi-UAV(unmanned aerial vehicle) edge computing network, a secure data offloading strategy that minimized system energy consumption by jointly optimizing user matching and resource allocation was proposed.Considering the constraints of system delay, communication resources and computing resources, the probability of security interruption was used to restrict the security performance of the data offload process.By using block coordinate descent and successive convex approximation algorithm, the user transmission power, offload factor, UAV computing resource allocation and jamming power were jointly optimized.A pair-wise stable user matching algorithm was proposed to minimize the total energy consumption of UAV system.Simulation results demonstrate that the algorithm can realize the safe offloading of data, and has good performance in energy consumption and delay by comparing with the conventional strategies.…”
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An Improved NSGA-II Algorithm for Transit Network Design and Frequency Setting Problem by Shushan Chai, Qinghuai Liang

“…Considering not only the influence of transfers but also the delay caused by congestion on passengers’ travel time, a multi-objective transit network design model is developed. The model aims to minimize the travel time of passengers and minimize the number of vehicles used in the network. …”
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Semi-fragile video watermarking algorithm for H.264/AVC based on cost strategy by Wei-wei ZHANG, Chen ZHAO, De-tian HUANG, Pei ZHANG, Yi-xian YANG

“…In order to solve some existing problems on detecting malicious tampering by video watermarking based on H.264/AVC video compression standard,a semi-fragile video watermarking algorithm for H.264/AVC based on cost strategy was proposed.To further improve the robustness of the feature codes in semi-fragile video watermarking algorithm,a new generation algorithm for feature codes by eliminating the correlation of them was proposed.In order to meet the requirement that the semi-fragile watermarks should be uniformly embedded into the video frames to locate the tampered region accurately,a minimal cost function was introduced to select a DCT coefficient in the 4 × 4 block residual to embed watermark which had minimal impact on the video quality and bit rates.Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can significantly reduce impact on video quality and bit rate because of embedding the watermarking by adopting the minimum cost function and it is sensitive to malicious manipulations.The retrieved feature code and watermarking can detect and locate malicious manipulations.…”
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Methods and Approaches to Optimizing the Number of Staff by T. V. Suvalova

“…Currently almost every organization is an urgent issue to minimize the costs in the first place information, the number of personnel to a minimum. …”
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Optimization strategies in NOMA-based vehicle edge computing network by Jianbo DU, Nana XUE, Yan SUN, Jing JIANG, Shulei LI, Guangyue LU

“…Nowadays, vehicular network is confronting the challenges to support ubiquitous connections and vast computation-intensive and delay-sensitive smart service for numerous vehicles.To address these issues, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and mobile edge computing (MEC) are considered as two promising technologies by letting multiple vehicles to share the same wireless resources, and the powerful edge computing resources were adopted at the edge of vehicular wireless access network respectively.A NOMA-based vehicular edge computing network was studied.Under the condition of guaranteeing task processing delay, the joint optimization problem of task offloading, user clustering, computing resource allocation and transmission power control was proposed to minimize the task processing cost.Since the proposed problem was difficult to solve, it was divided into sub-problems, and a low-complexity and easy-to-implement method was proposed to solve it.The simulation results show that compared with other benchmark algorithms, the proposed algorithm performs well in minimizing costs.…”
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Electronic Energy in Itinerant-Electron Metamagnetism by M. A. Grado Caffaro, M. Grado Caffaro

“…Electronic energy in the context of itinerant-electron metamagnetism is considered in a new way. In particular, the minimal value of this energy is calculated within the Stoner model. …”
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AN ALGORITHM FOR IMAGE FORMING OF PHOTOGRAPHING OBJECT HAVING LARGE RANGE OF BRIGHTNESS by V. G. Kolobrodov, D. O. Pivtorak

“…An algorithm for image forming of photographing object having large range of brightness  from a series of  images obtained by exposure bracketing of LDR-images that minimizes loss of information had been proposed.…”
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Improving glycemic control by transitioning from the MiniMedTM 640G to 770G in Japanese adults with type 1 diabetes mellitus: a prospective, single-center, observational study by Satoshi Kubota, Ai Sato, Manami Hosokawa, Yosuke Okubo, Shohei Takayama, Atsuko Kaneko, Yasuho Shimada, Yuki Asano, Yoshihiko Sato, Masanori Yamazaki, Mitsuhisa Komatsu

“…Therefore, we assessed the effect impact of the MiniMed 770G HCL system on glycemic control in this population. …”
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A general asymptotic dynamic model for Lipschitzian elastic curved rods by Rostislav Vodák

“…We study the asymptotic behaviour of solutions to the linear evolution problem for clamped curved rods with the small thickness ε under minimal regularity assumptions on the geometry. In addition, nonconstant density of the curved rods is considered.…”
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Validation and Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of King’s Parkinson’s Disease Pain Scale by Yeray González-Zamorano, Marcos Moreno-Verdú, Josué Fernández-Carnero, Jaime Herreros-Rodríguez, Juan Pablo Romero

“…Conclusion: The present study provides evidence that the Spanish KPPS effectively measures pain in individuals with PD, with its total score demonstrating good reliability, minimal measurement error, and adequate criterion and convergent validity.…”
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COOLING METHOD OF SILUMINA CASTINGS AK15M3 AT VERTICAL CENTRIFUGAL CASTING by V. Yu. Stecenko, K. N. Baranov, A. P. Gutev

“…The way of cooling of castings from silumin AK15M3 is developed at the vertical centrifugal casting, enabling to receive bimetallic blanks with high-disperse eutectic and hypereutectic microstructures and minimal allowance for machining.…”
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LOW POWER RACE-FREE STATE ASSIGNMENT OF AN ASYNGHRONOUS AUTOMATON by Yu. V. Pottosin

“…A method for the state assignment is suggested that provides the minimization of the number and theswitching activity of the memory elements along with the elimination of the critical races betweenthem.…”
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Parameter Identification Problem for the Kirchhoff-Type Equation with Viscosity by Jinsoo Hwang

“…The problem is formulated by a minimization of quadratic cost functionals by distributive measurements. …”
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Towards optimizing the thermal processes in aluminum alloys using a full-field CA based approach for static recrystallization modeling by Abhijit Brahme, Chal-Lan Park, Jeffrey Tschirhart, Aaditya Lakshmanan, Sazol Das, Kaan Inal

“…The proposed model can further be utilized to optimize the manufacturing process while minimizing expensive plant trials.…”
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Design and technological provision of wear resistance of elastomer surface of rubber-cord casings of damping devices by V. G. Churankin, A. V. Lyamtsev, V. V. Derkach

“…One of the main problems of increasing the resource of pneumatic dampers is minimizing the wear of the covering layer of the rubber-cord casing (RCC). …”
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A new model of Fleet Size and Mix Green Inventory Routing Problem, Solution: Multi-Objective Quantum Evolutionary Algorithm by Mohsen Zamani, Mahdi Alinaghian

“…The objectives of the proposed model are to minimize the emissions, the fleet, routing and inventory costs. …”
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