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Thomas Parr, Karl Friston and Peter Zeidman
Bayesian inference typically focuses upon two issues. The first is estimating the parameters of some model from data, and the second is quantifying the evidence for alternative hypotheses?formulated as alternative models. This paper focuses upon a third ...
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Xiang Shen, Xu Deng, Barrie Mecrow, Rafal Wrobel and Richard Whalley
The work specifically targets the enhancement of cooling mechanisms in high-power permanent magnet electrical machines, with a direct application in improving the thermal management of stator windings in such devices. This advancement can significantly b...
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Hicham Yazid, Taoufiq Bouzid, El mountassir El mouchtari, Lahoucine Bahsis, Mamoune El Himri, Salah Rafqah and Mohammadine El haddad
Walnut shells were used to produce highly microporous activated carbon. The prepared activated walnut shells were found to be an efficient adsorbent for removing Cr(VI). The study used the response surface methodology to investigate four independent vari...
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Jordi Renau Martínez, Víctor García Peñas, Manuel Ibáñez Arnal, Alberto Giménez Sancho, Eduardo López González, Adelaida García Magariño, Félix Terroba Ramírez, Francisco Javier Moreno Ayerbe and Fernando Sánchez López
This article presents the design and manufacturing of a hydrogen-powered unmanned aquatic surface vehicle (USV) hull. The design process comprised three stages: (1) defining the requirements for a preliminary geometry, (2) verifying the hydrodynamic hull...
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Beichen Lu, Yanjun Liu, Xiaoyu Zhai, Li Zhang and Yun Chen
In recent years, clean and renewable energy sources have received much attention to balance the contradiction between resource needs and environmental sustainability. Among them, ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), which consists of surface warm seaw...
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Carmen Tesoro, Maria Assunta Acquavia, Barbara Giussani, Giuliana Bianco, Raffaella Pascale, Filomena Lelario, Rosanna Ciriello, Angela Capece, Rocchina Pietrafesa, Gabriella Siesto and Angela Di Capua
For oenological products, most of the intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of perceived quality are associated with specific aromatic profiles. Aromatic diversity has been recognized as a central element in perceived quality as it is able to transmit the comp...
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Rita B. Domingues, Benjamin A. Mosley, Patrícia Nogueira, Inês B. Maia and Ana B. Barbosa
It is generally assumed that the larger the bottle volume, the longer the duration of phytoplankton microcosm experiments. We hypothesize that volume and duration are independent, as volume does not regulate the extension of the exponential growth phase....
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Daniele Cafolla, Jorge E. Araque-Isidro and Marco Ceccarelli
Space robots are one of the most promising solutions for on-orbit servicing (OOS) duties like docking, berthing, refueling, re-pairing, upgrading, transporting, rescuing, and orbital trash disposal. Numerous enabling techniques and technological demonstr...
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Xindan Qiao, Dequan Liu, Xiaolei Wang, Wang Li, Jiawei Wang and Decong Zheng
This article focuses on the low accuracy, poor stability, and other shortcomings of the traditional outer-groove buckwheat seed-metering wheel. A wheel-type large-ridge double-row seed-metering device with inner seed-filling holes was designed. The seed-...
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Karin S. Levin, Felizitas Winkhart, Kurt-Jürgen Hülsbergen, Hans Jürgen Reents and Karl Auerswald
Agricultural ammonia (NH3) emissions can have serious environmental impacts, lower fertiliser nitrogen-use efficiencies, and cause economic losses. NH3 losses may not only occur directly from organic fertilisers such as biogas digestates when applied to ...
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Karla Y. Mora-Bonilla, Iván F. Macías-Quiroga, Nancy R. Sanabria-González and María T. Dávila-Arias
The present study investigated the degradation of an aqueous Allura Red AC (AR?AC) solution by activating hydrogen peroxide with bicarbonate using cobalt ion (Co2+) as the catalyst. Four independent variables (H2O2, NaHCO3, Co2+, and dye concentrations) ...
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Weiwei Sun, Yue Liu, Qi An, Shouqing Huang and Fangyong Li
Multilayer insulation (MLI) components are important parts of spacecraft, in which thin films are the core elements. The film thicknesses are generally small, between 10 and 30 µm, to reduce the weight of the spacecraft. During the launch of a spacecraft...
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Salvatore Corcione, Vincenzo Cusati, Danilo Ciliberti and Fabrizio Nicolosi
This paper deals with the estimation of propulsive effects for a three-lifting surface turboprop aircraft concept, with rear engine installation at the horizontal tail tips, conceived to carry up to 130 passengers. This work is focused on how the propuls...
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Bowen Zeng and Yong Li
Masonry is among the most widely used construction materials around the world. Contemporary masonry buildings are primarily designed to comply with prescriptive building code regulations. In recent decades, performance-based design (PBD) has gained incre...
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Lei Sheng, Weichao Zhao, Ying Zhou, Weimeng Lin, Chunyan Du and Hongwei Lou
An optimization model for the optical imaging system was established in this paper. It combined the modern design of experiments (DOE) method known as Latin hypercube sampling (LHS), Kriging surrogate model training, and the multi-objective optimization ...
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Daniel Sarabia, María Cruz Ortiz and Luis Antonio Sarabia
In this paper, an integrated design of a supermarket refrigeration system has been used to obtain a process with better operability. It is formulated as a multi-objective optimization problem where control performance is evaluated by six indices and the ...
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Isha Kharub, Michael Lwin, Aila Khan, Omar Mubin and Suleman Shahid
This exploratory study examines the effectiveness of social robots? ability to deliver advertising messages using different ?appeals? in a business environment. Specifically, it explores the use of three types of message appeals in a human-robot interact...
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Miguel A. Losada, Pilar Díaz-Carrasco and María Clavero
The mean sea level rising predicted for this century and the following centuries will make necessary to protect most of the human properties located on the coast. One of the alternatives is the construction of slope breakwaters along hundreds of kilomete...
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Maitrik Shah, Beena Baloni, Salim Channiwala
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The design and off-design performance of a centrifugal pump largely depends on geomechanical parameters. This study aims at enhancing the performance by optimizing three geomechanical parameters of impeller-volute interactions. The present optimization i...
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Tom Burr, Ian Schwerdt, Kari Sentz, Luther McDonald and Marianne Wilkerson
A major goal in pre-detonation nuclear forensics is to infer the processing conditions and/or facility type that produced radiological material. This review paper focuses on analyses of particle size, shape, texture (?morphology?) signatures that could p...
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