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Guoquan Xiao, Bing Ren, Chao Tong and Xiaobin Hong
In response to the urgent need for quantitative evaluation of the obstacle avoidance performance of an unmanned ship, a quantitative evaluation model is established to evaluate quantitatively the obstacle perception performance, static obstacle avoidance...
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Filipe Machado, Nelson Duarte and António Amaral
Project Management Maturity Models (PMMM) are considered practical tools to deal with poor Project Management (PM) performance, an issue that concerns academics and practitioners. However, the models that exist are something close to ?one size fits all?....
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José Nauri Cazuza de Sousa Júnior, Teresa Galvão Dias and Mário Angelo Nunes de Azevedo Filho
The public transport system is responsible for the displacement of a large part of the population, particularly in developing countries. This fact makes it relevant to evaluate the performance of public transport to provide an efficient and effective ser...
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Hui Tian, Zhongshuo Wang, Hao Zhu, Yudong Lu, Jingfei Gao and Guobiao Cai
Catalytic hybrid rocket motors using hydrogen peroxide (HP) are easy and efficient to achieve multiple starts and stops, and hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) grains are commonly used due to their excellent mechanical properties. The low regressio...
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Javier Zamora
The article herein presents a closed-form mathematical equation by which it is possible to estimate the propulsion power demand of ships as a function of the propeller parameters and total Resistance. The validation of the derived model is conducted by u...
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Muhyiddine Jradi
When considering that over 80% of buildings in Denmark were built before the 1980's, a holistic energy retrofitting of the existing building stock is a major milestone to attain the energy and environmental targets of the country. In this work, a case st...
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Enhanced heat transfer surfaces allow more energy-efficient, compact and lightweight heat exchangers. Within this study, a method for comparing different types of enhancement and different geometries with multiple objectives is developed in order to eval...
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Kuen-Suan Chen, Chun-Min Yu, Ting-Hsin Hsu, Shang-Ru Cai and Kuo-Ching Chiou
Reliability and product process quality are essential in meeting market demand and enhancing competitiveness in the machine tool industry. In addition, manufacturing time performance is also one of the important indices. Therefore, this paper focuses on ...
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Johannes Kroß and Helmut Krcmar
Evaluating and predicting the performance of big data applications are required to efficiently size capacities and manage operations. Gaining profound insights into the system architecture, dependencies of components, resource demands, and configurations...
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Faith M. Muema, Patrick G. Home and James M. Raude
The inefficient water use, and variable and low productivity in Kenyan public irrigation schemes is a major concern. It is, therefore, necessary to periodically monitor and evaluate the performance of public irrigation schemes. This prompted evaluation o...
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Thi-Nham Le and Chia-Nan Wang
The impressive growth of the Vietnam textile and apparel industry has led to some concerns due to its insufficient value chain and fierce competition within the industry. Thus, performance evaluation is significant issue to estimate the values of compani...
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João Nascimento Nerasti,Claudio Ribeiro Lucinda
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This paper aims to investigate the existence of persistence in superior performance in Brazilian stock market funds from 2001 to 2014. In order to do so, we used a sample free of survivorship bias and four different market models to characterize the expe...
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Gonçalo J. M. Rosa, João M. S. Afonso, Pedro D. Gaspar, Vasco N. G. J. Soares and João M. L. P. Caldeira
Pedestrian crossings are an essential part of the urban landscape, providing safe passage for pedestrians to cross busy streets. While some are regulated by timed signals and are marked with signs and lights, others are simply marked on the road and do n...
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Mauro Femminella and Gianluca Reali
The need for adaptivity and scalability in telecommunication systems has led to the introduction of a software-based approach to networking, in which network functions are virtualized and implemented in software modules, based on network function virtual...
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Huang Feng and Yu Zhang
Extensive research in predicting annual passenger throughput has been conducted, aiming at providing decision support for airport construction, aircraft procurement, resource management, flight scheduling, etc. However, how airport operational throughput...
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Zlatin Zlatev, Vanya Stoykova, Galya Shivacheva and Miroslav Vasilev
The design and implementation of a measuring device for the determination of pigment content in plant leaves is a topic of essential importance in plant biology, agriculture, and environmental research. The timely and sufficiently accurate determination ...
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Yingli Liu, Minghua Hu, Jianan Yin, Jiaming Su, Shuce Wang and Zheng Zhao
In view of the common U-shaped apron structure of large- and medium-sized airports at home and abroad, this study considered the optimization design and performance evaluation of the U-shaped apron operation procedure. First, by analyzing the physical st...
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Indrakshi Dey and Nicola Marchetti
In this paper, we develop a tractable mathematical model and an emulation framework for communicating information through water using acoustic signals. Water is considered one of the most complex media to model due to its vastness and variety of characte...
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Frédéric Moëns
A multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization process is developed at ONERA for the design of tube and wing and blended wing?body aircraft configurations. This process is composed of different disciplinary modules (geometry, propulsion, aerodynami...
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Fawaz Alharbi, Meshal I. Almoshaogeh, Anwar H. Ibrahim, Husnain Haider, Abd Elaziz M. Elmadina and Ibrahim Alfallaj
Saudi Arabian urban roads and highways have witnessed a large number of traffic crashes. Road lighting is one of the most important factors influencing drivers? safety during the nighttime. Street-lighting design (e.g., spacing and height), visibility (e...
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