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Syed Nasir Danial, Doug Smith and Brian Veitch
Traditional techniques for accident investigation have hindsight biases. Specifically, they isolate the process of the accident event and trace backward from the event to determine the factors leading to the accident. Nonetheless, the importance of the c...
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Rehana Anwar,Jaleel Ahmed
AbstractPurpose: Owing to the voluntary nature of CSR activities, the decision to participate or not could be affected by the motives of corporate directors. The purpose of this research was to investigate whether family involvement in business moderates...
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Kashif Shaheed, Hangang Liu, Gongping Yang, Imran Qureshi, Jie Gou and Yilong Yin
Biometric identification is the study of physiological and behavioral attributes of an individual to overcome security problems. Finger vein recognition is a biometric technique used to analyze finger vein patterns of persons for proper authentication. T...
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Jiang Wang, Xiaoyan Wang, Hongwen Li, Caiyun Lu, Jin He, Qingjie Wang, Di Liu, Bo Deng and Meiyu Zhang
Aiming at the problem wherein a straw crushing and throwing device (SCTD) installed in a rice combine harvester (RCH) has a small throwing width and does not match the harvesting width, this paper proposes an improved plan for installing wind blades (WB)...
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Ching-Yun Mu, Tien-Yin Chou, Thanh Van Hoang, Pin Kung, Yao-Min Fang, Mei-Hsin Chen and Mei-Ling Yeh
Spatial information technology has been widely used for vehicles in general and for fleet management. Many studies have focused on improving vehicle positioning accuracy, although few studies have focused on efficiency improvements for managing large tru...
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Edgardo Cayon,Juan Santiago Correa,Julio Sarmiento-Sabogal
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In this paper, we explore the difference in quality between public and private higher education institutions (HEIs) in Colombia. We test whether the differences in the national exam that measures student performance (Saber Pro) between public and private...
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Wentao Li, Wenbo Li, Yunqin He and Guozhu Liang
The reverse design of solid propellant grain for a performance-matching goal, one of the most challenging directions of the solid rocket motor designing work, is limited by the traditional semi-empirical parameter-driven optimization methods based on som...
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Lieven Billiet, Thijs Swinnen, Kurt De Vlam, Rene Westhovens and Sabine Van Huffel
In current clinical practice, functional limitations due to chronic musculoskeletal diseases are still being assessed subjectively, e.g., using questionnaires and function scores. Performance-based methods, on the other hand, offer objective insights. He...
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Octavio Loyola-González, Emilio Francisco Ferreira Mehnert, Aythami Morales, Julian Fierrez, Miguel Angel Medina-Pérez and Raúl Monroy
We study the impact of minutiae errors in the performance of latent fingerprint identification systems. We perform several experiments in which we remove ground-truth minutiae from latent fingerprints and evaluate the effects on matching score and rank-n...
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Zejun Xiang, Ronghua Yang, Chang Deng, Mingxing Teng, Mengkun She and Degui Teng
The common feature matching algorithms for street view images are sensitive to the illumination changes in augmented reality (AR), this may cause low accuracy of matching between street view images. This paper proposes a novel illumination insensitive fe...
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Demián García-Violini, Nicolás Faedo, Fernando Jaramillo-Lopez and John V. Ringwood
The design of controllers for wave energy devices has evolved from early monochromatic impedance-matching methods to complex numerical algorithms that can handle panchromatic seas, constraints, and nonlinearity. However, the potential high performance of...
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Jihui Zhang, Thushara D. Abhayapala, Wen Zhang and Prasanga N. Samarasinghe
In this paper, we investigate the maximum active noise control performance over a three-dimensional (3-D) spatial space, for a given set of secondary sources in a particular environment. We first formulate the spatial active noise control (ANC) problem i...
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Benjamin Manrique Delgado, Reino Ruusu, Ala Hasan, Simo Kilpeläinen, Sunliang Cao and Kai Sirén
A focal point of ongoing research is matching the energy demand in the built environment to the energy supply from onsite generation, to maximize the self-consumption, and from the energy grids, to lower energy costs and reduce peak loads on the system. ...
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Guangcheng Ren, Xueqin Zhu and Shuyi Feng
Developing economies face challenges in improving the overall performance of farms. An essential challenge could be a substantial shift in the agricultural labor force to off-farm sectors during the process of economic transition. This paper estimates th...
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Jozsef Pap, Csaba Mako, Miklos Illessy, Zef Dedaj, Sina Ardabili, Bernat Torok and Amir Mosavi
Given the importance of identifying key performance points in organizations, this research intends to determine the most critical intra- and extra-organizational elements in assessing the performance of firms using the European Company Survey (ECS) 2019 ...
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Haitang Zhu, Yunjian He, Dongdong Ji, Jiyu Tang and Chuanchuan Li
In the precast building structure, the joint is the key part that affects the mechanical performance of the assembly structure. By selecting coarse and fine fraction aggregate; adding high quality mineral admixture, expansive agent, and water-reducing ag...
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Petr Kurapov,Daniil Kulikov,Areg Melik-Adamyan
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Analytical query performance improvement can be achieved via efficient work distribution among devices of a heterogeneous system. The resulting performance gain highly depends on the ability of an optimizer to compare execution plans. One way to manage t...
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Lingji Xu, Lixing Chen, Yaan Li and Weihua Jiang
Due to the complex ocean propagation environments, the underwater acoustic (UWA) multipath channel often exhibits block sparse time-varying features, and while dynamic compressed sensing (DCS) can mitigate the time-varying effects of the UWA channel, DCS...
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Qin Wang, Jinke Jiang, Hua Chen, Junwei Tian, Yu Su and Junde Guo
An approach of ease-off flank modification for hypoid gears was proposed to improve the meshing performance of automobile drive axle. Firstly, a conjugate pinion matching with gear globally was developed based on gear meshing theory. Secondly, a modified...
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Ju-Sang Lee, Joon-Choul Shin and Choel-Young Ock
Natural language models brought rapid developments to Natural Language Processing (NLP) performance following the emergence of large-scale deep learning models. Language models have previously used token units to represent natural language while reducing...
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