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João Tiago Silveira, Tiago Fidalgo de Freitas, Gonçalo Fabião and Miguel Assis Raimundo
The present paper intends to provide an overview and a critical assessment of the administrative simplification policies implemented in Portugal over the past 20+ years. Throughout these decades, the major instruments for administrative simplification ha...
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Ivan Corazza, Pier Luca Rossi and Romano Zannoli
Background: Despite the growing interest in CO2 angiography, some mechanical aspects related to CO2 injection still need to be deepened, and some improvements are still possible. This work explores the possibility of optimizing gas injection into small-s...
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Donghae Baek, Il Won Seo, Jun Song Kim, Sung Hyun Jung and Yuyoung Choi
The dispersion coefficients are crucial in understanding the spreading of pollutant clouds in river flows, particularly in the context of the depth-averaged two-dimensional (2D) advection?dispersion equation (ADE). Traditionally, the 2D stream-tube routi...
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Christopher Tsang, James Parker and David Glew
A substantial number of dwellings in the UK have poor building fabric, leading to higher carbon emissions, fuel expenses, and the risk of cold homes. To tackle these challenges, domestic energy efficiency policies are being implemented. One effective app...
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Giovanni Boccia, Federica Di Spirito, Francesco D?Ambrosio, Francesco De Caro, Domenico Pecora, Riccardo Giorgio, Luigi Fortino, Walter Longanella, Gianluigi Franci, Biagio Santella and Massimo Amato
The risk of microbial air contamination in a dental setting, especially during aerosol-generating dental procedures (AGDPs), has long been recognized, becoming even more relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, individual pathogens were rarely stu...
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Claudia Sangüesa, Roberto Pizarro, Ben Ingram, Francisco Balocchi, Pablo García-Chevesich, Juan Pino, Alfredo Ibáñez, Carlos Vallejos, Romina Mendoza, Alejandra Bernal, Rodrigo Valdés-Pineda and Felipe Pérez
The availability of water in Chile has shown signs of decline in recent decades. This is problematic because Chile?s economy depends on mining, forestry, and agricultural activities, all limited by the availability of water resources. In this study, dail...
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Ivan G. Ivanov, Yordan Kumchev and Vincent James Hooper
Stroke is a major public health issue with significant economic consequences. This study aims to enhance stroke prediction by addressing imbalanced datasets and algorithmic bias. Our research focuses on accurately and precisely detecting stroke possibili...
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Elisa Crabu, Federica Pes, Giuseppe Rodriguez and Giuseppa Tanda
The standard photometric stereo model makes several assumptions that are rarely verified in experimental datasets. In particular, the observed object should behave as a Lambertian reflector, and the light sources should be positioned at an infinite dista...
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Shiu-Shin Lin, Jheng-Hua Song, Kai-Yang Zhu, Yi-Chuan Liu and Hsien-Cheng Chang
Typhoon intensity forecast is an important issue. The objective of this study is to construct a 5-day 12-hourly typhoon intensity forecast model based on the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference systems (ANFIS) to improve the typhoon intensity forecast in the ...
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Ludan Zhang, Xueman Zuo, Ziyi Wu, Cheng Chen, Zibao Pan and Xisheng Hu
The phenomenon of polarized development among regional cities has sparked extensive contemplation and indicated a need for research on multi-source regional networks. However, such research faces two obstacles: the absence of quantitative measurement of ...
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Hyun-joong Kim, Yeong-hun Seong, Jong-wook Han, Seung-hee Kwon and Chul-young Kim
Deteriorated facility maintenance is a critical social issue in advanced countries. Its cost increases when considering the social consequences in terms of asset value and direct maintenance costs. Data from Korea?s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and ...
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Van-Tinh Nguyen, Vu-Minh Tran and Ngoc-Tam Bui
Differential evolution (DE) is one of the best evolutionary algorithms (EAs). In recent decades, many techniques have been developed to enhance the performance of this algorithm, such as the Improve Self-Adaptive Differential Evolution (ISADE) algorithm....
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Leonardo Vita and Davide Gattamelata
The proposed analytical method is suitable to check the stability (lateral and longitudinal) of the combination of a counterbalanced forklift truck with an interchangeable equipment and to assess if the interchangeable equipment could be safely assembled...
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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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Seung-Yong Lee and Minyoung Sung
Open platform communications (OPC) unified architecture (UA) is a communication standard increasingly used in industrial automation systems to enable the exchanging of control and management data between distributed entities. This paper proposes the desi...
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Kyusur Jung, Songju Kim, Beechuilla Jung, Seyeon Kim, Hyunwoo Kang and Changbong Kang
Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) is a traffic management system enabling drones to safely and efficiently fly in low-altitude airspace below 120~150m (400~500ft). UTM provides services such as communication, flight route management, loca...
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Valentin Weber, Gerhard Navratil and Franz Blauensteiner
The coordinate system of the Austrian cadastre is physically realised through control points provided by the national institution for surveying. Due to historical development over the centuries and changes in measurement technologies, inhomogeneities can...
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Jaehyun Shin, Dongsop Rhee and Inhwan Park
In this study, the performance of two routing procedures were evaluated to estimate the two-dimensional dispersion coefficients. The two-dimensional Stream-Tube Routing Procedure (2D ST-RP) has been widely used to obtain the dispersion coefficients from ...
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Salvatore Cafiso, Giuseppina Pappalardo and Nikiforos Stamatiadis
The opportunities for data collection in smart cities and communities provide new approaches for assessing risk of roadway components. This paper presents and compares two different methodological approaches for cycling safety assessment of objective and...
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Giuseppe Cantisani and Giulia Del Serrone
The aim of this research is to look for an automated, economical and fast method able to identify the elements of an existing road layout, whose original geometric design could date back to distant ages and could have undergone major modifications over t...
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