A Modular Step-Up DC–DC Converter Based on Dual-Isolated SEPIC/Cuk for Electric Vehicle Applications by Ahmed Darwish, George A. Aggidis

“…The proposed step-up modular converter provides several benefits including scalability, better controllability, and improved reliability, especially in the presence of partial faults. …”
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Trust evaluation model of social internet of things based on implicit social relationship by Hongbin ZHANG, Fan FAN, Dongmei ZHAO, Bin LIU, Yan YIN, Jian LIU

“…The social internet of things （SIoT） is a new paradigm that combines social networks and the internet of things to enhance network scalability and navigability.However, with increased openness and mobility of intelligent objects, there are rising security risks related to information security and reliable service delivery, which poses a significant challenge to the SIoT.Trust is a critical factor in providing secure and reliable services.Therefore, a new trust assessment model was proposed from the perspective of social relationships.A trust transfer algorithm was proposed based on the explicit social relationships and potential features between nodes.The algorithm can tap and establish the implicit social relationships among nodes to solve the SIoT sparsity and cold start problem.Additionally, the social relations were fine-grained and divided to build a single-relationship sub-network.Multiple single-relationship sub-networks were fused to build a multiple-relationship composite network.Thus, the impact of multiple dynamically changing social relationships among nodes on trust evaluation can be effectively fused.The comprehensive trust assessment of intelligent objects was conducted based on three indicators: direct trust, indirect recommendation trust, and service satisfaction.The experimental results on real smart city datasets demonstrate the model’s robustness in non-sparse and sparse network scenarios.It can effectively evaluate trusted and untrusted objects in the network and improve the accuracy and convergence of trust evaluation.…”
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Recent advances in conventional and innovative extraction techniques for recovery of high-added value compounds for food additives and nutraceuticals by Abhishek Bisht, Subash Chandra Sahu, Anand Kumar, Sammra Maqsood, Mukul Machhindra Barwant, Swapnil G. Jaiswal

“…This review critically examines traditional and emerging extraction technologies against their efficiency, environmental sustainability, scalability, and stability of the compounds extracted. …”
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A review on control systems hardware and software for robots of various scale and purpose. Part 2. Service robotics by Aleksey M. Romanov

“…The goal of the review is finding common approaches used in various areas of robotics to build on their basis a uniform methodology for designing scalable intelligent control systems for robots with a given level of fault tolerance on a unified component base. …”
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Comprehensive Study on Zero-Shot Text Classification Using Category Mapping by Kai Zhang, Qiuxia Zhang, Chung-Che Wang, Jyh-Shing Roger Jang

“…Existing zero-shot text classification methods based on large pre-trained models with added prompts exhibit strong representational capacity and scalability but have relatively poor commercial applicability. …”
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A spherical vector-based adaptive evolutionary particle swarm optimization for UAV path planning under threat conditions by Yanfei Liu, Hao Zhang, Hao Zheng, Qi Li, Qi Tian

“…Finally, we conducted comparative studies and in six benchmark scenarios with varying threat levels, and the results demonstrated that the proposed algorithm outperforms others in the initial solution effectiveness, the final solution accuracy, convergence stability, and scalability.…”
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Kinetic study on the extraction of ethanimidic acid from hibiscus flowers using microwave assisted hydrodistillation by Hesham Hussein Rassem, Mohd Hairul Bin Khamidun, Ahmer Ali Siyal, Radin Maya Saphira Radin Mohamed

“…The second-order kinetic model ensures precise control of ethanimidic acid extraction, enabling efficient scalability for industrial production and consistent quality for pharmacological applications, emphasizing sustainable and cost-effective manufacturing practices. …”
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Wireless sensor network for fire detection with network coding to improve security and reliability by Johannes Braun, Faouzi Derbel

“…This technique operates locally on nodes through the use of virtual cluster heads and an innovative Weighted Composite Value (WCV) Table, optimizing routing decisions for improved performance and scalability. This article provides a comprehensive exploration of the benefits of network coding in WSNs for fire alarm systems and presents a real-world implementation, demonstrating its potential for improving the performance of these systems.…”
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Beyond Needles: Immunomodulatory Hydrogel-Guided Vaccine Delivery Systems by Md Mohosin Rana, Cigdem Demirkaya, Hector De la Hoz Siegler

“…Additionally, this review addresses critical challenges, including safety, scalability, and regulatory considerations, offering insights into hydrogel-guided strategies for eliciting targeted immune responses and advancing global immunization efforts.…”
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Damage Detection and Localization from Dense Network of Strain Sensors by Simon Laflamme, Liang Cao, Eleni Chatzi, Filippo Ubertini

“…When dealing with large structures, damage diagnosis, localization, and prognosis necessitate a large number of sensors, which is a nontrivial task due to the lack of scalability of traditional sensing technologies. In order to address this challenge, the authors have recently proposed a novel sensing solution consisting of a low-cost soft elastomeric capacitor that transduces surface strains into measurable changes in capacitance. …”
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Survey of Distributed Computing Frameworks for Supporting Big Data Analysis by Xudong Sun, Yulin He, Dingming Wu, Joshua Zhexue Huang

“…In performing such tasks, these frameworks face three challenges: computational inefficiency due to high I/O and communication costs, non-scalability to big data due to memory limit, and limited analytical algorithms because many serial algorithms cannot be implemented in the MapReduce programming model. …”
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A fair non-collateral consensus protocol based on Merkle tree for hierarchical IoT blockchain by Seyedeh Somayeh Fateminasab, Davoud Bahrepour, Seyed Reza Kamel Tabbakh

“…This paper proposes a fair non-collateral consensus protocol named Proof of Action (PoAct), which utilizes Merkle tree-based techniques to address scalability, lightweightness, and energy efficiency in HIoTB. …”
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Big Data-Based E-Commerce Transaction Information Collection Method by Bingwen Yan, Chunqiong Wu, Rongrui Yu, Baoqin Yu, Nafang Shi, Xiukao Zhou, Yanliang Yu

“…Through the efficiency test of the collection method, the information scalability ability test, and the accuracy test, the important context was sorted out after integration, the sources of trading information were sorted out, and the data analysis of the collected information was conducted to optimize the information collection method and verify the feasibility of the method.…”
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SNCA: Semi-Supervised Node Classification for Evolving Large Attributed Graphs by Faima Abbasi, Muhammad Muzammal, Qiang Qu, Farhan Riaz, Jawad Ashraf

“…We perform an extensive experimental study on real-world datasets to showcase the efficiency, scalability, robustness, and pertinence of the solution. …”
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State-of-the-art survey of smart contract verification based on formal methods by Wenbo ZHANG, Simin CHEN, Lifei WEI, Wei SONG, Dongmei HUANG

“…Smart contract represents an essential application scenario of blockchain technology.Smart contract technology improves programmability and scalability of blockchain, and has broad development prospects.However, a series of security incidents caused a great number of economic losses and weakened users’ confidence in the Ethereum platform.The security of smart contract has become a critical problem that restricts the further development of smart contract.Defects in smart contract code may cause serious consequences and cannot be modified once deployed, it is especially important to verify the correctness of smart contract in advance.In recent years, researchers have obtained many achievements in verification of smart contract, but there is a lack of systematic summary of these research results.Therefore, some basic principles of Ethereum were introduced, including the transaction, gas mechanism, storage and programming language.Eight common types of vulnerabilities in smart contract were summarized and their causes were explained.Some real security events were reviewed and some examples of vulnerability codes were presented.Then, the research work on automatic verification of smart contract based on symbolic execution, model checking and theorem proving was classified and summarized.Three open-source automated tools were selected, including Mythril, Slither and Oyente.And experiments were implemented to evaluate and compare the three tools from the aspects of efficiency, accuracy and the types of vulnerability can be detected.Furthermore, related review articles were surveyed, and the advantages of this paper compared with these works were summarized.The critical problems in the vulnerability detection technology of smart contract were also summarized and the direction of future research was proposed at last.…”
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Enhancing energy autonomy of greenhouses with semi-transparent photovoltaic systems through a comparative study of battery storage systems by Mohammadreza Gholami, Ali Arefi, Anwarul Hasan, Chengdao Li, S. M. Muyeen

“…The study provides insights into optimizing renewable energy systems in greenhouses, emphasizing practical implications for scalability and economic feasibility.…”
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Effect of lighting cycles and wastewater concentrations on biomass growth and lipid content of green microalgae in laundry wastewater treatment by Vera Viena, Elvitriana, Juwandi, Suhendrayatna

“…This study highlights the dual benefits of pollution control and biodiesel feedstock production, demonstrating scalability and cost-effectiveness for sustainable wastewater treatment and biofuel generation. …”
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A systematic and comprehensive review on low power wide area network: characteristics, architecture, applications and research challenges by Ass Diane, Ousmane Diallo, El Hadji Malick Ndoye

“…This research work has developed the characteristics of LPWANs and the techniques used to achieve long-range energy efficiency, high scalability, and low cost. In addition, it presents the application areas of LPWAN technologies with use-case network architectures for each area, addresses spectrum and energy optimization, and discusses open research challenges that need to be focused to provide guidelines for further contributions.…”
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Review of Progress on Printing Techniques Towards Commercialization of Perovskite Solar Cells by Mai Ali Alharbi, Shubhranshu Bhandari, Tapas Mallick

“…Future research should focus on optimizing printing techniques to improve the stability and scalability of PSCs. Exploring novel perovskite materials, deposition techniques, and innovative fabrication methods may further enhance the PSCs and facilitate their commercialization.…”
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Method for synthesizing a logic element that implements several functions simultaneously by S. I. Sovetov, S. F. Tyurin

“…Moreover, using a single LUT for a single function reduces system-on-a-chip (SoC) scalability. Therefore, the purpose of the present work is to develop a LUT structure for implementing several logic functions simultaneously on inactive transmitting transistors.Methods. …”
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