A container terminal is a facility used to collect containers from the hinterland and ports for distribution to the end destination. Based on these essential functions, container terminals often reflect the economic conditions in a country. Many stud...
Wildfire spread on a large scale is heavily driven by the transport of firebrands, as it leads to short- and long-range spotting. Detailed knowledge of terminal velocity can help predict firebrand transport and therefore overall wildfire spread model...
Background: Rail operations form a critical interface between maritime container terminals and their hinterlands, yet their operational planning remains underexplored; this paper introduces the Train Unloading Planning Problem (TUPP), which jointly d...
With the development of offshore wind generation, the interest in cross-country connections is also increasing, which requires models to study their complex static and dynamic behaviors. This paper presents the mathematical modeling of an offshore wi...
The complex structure of gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) cable terminals leads to serious electric field concentration, which is a frequent fault position of a high-voltage cable system. At present, due to the differences in the frequency bands of sen...
A three-terminal synaptic transistor enables more accurate controllability over the conductance compared with traditional two-terminal synaptic devices for the synaptic devices in hardware-oriented neuromorphic systems. In this work, we fabricated IG...
Terminal airspace is the convergence area of air traffic flow, which is the bottleneck of air traffic management. With the rapid growth of air traffic volume, the impact of convective weather on flight operations is becoming more and more serious. To...
Delivery systems to lymph node-resident T cells around tumor tissues are essential for cancer immunotherapy, in order to boost the immune responses. We previously reported that anionic dendrimers, such as carboxyl-, sulfonyl-, and phosphate-terminal...
The crimping of copper terminals via hand-operated and hydraulic compressors is used to generate a compressive force between a terminal and a wire, generally on a worksite. However, this equipment often causes compression defects because non-uniform...
This study reviewed the existing studies on the types of variable air volume (VAV) terminal units, control and operation methods, prediction models, and sensor calibration methods. As a result of analyzing the existing research trends on the system t...
In this paper, a new calibration device for an air flow sensor of the VAV terminal unit is designed. Multi-aperture air outlets are designed to meet the calibration requirements of the air flow sensor in a variety of measurement range. The device can...
The paper discusses the issue of unproductivity during the implementation of operations in inland container terminals. The authors hypothesize that the two main factors influencing the number of unproductive manipulations are the adopted operating st...
Container terminal yards are automated terminal yards. The rail-mounted gantry crane (RMGC) and rail-mounted gantry crane tracks (RMGCTs) that frequently operate in terminal yards need to be inspected regularly to ensure the safe operation of contain...
The main contribution of this paper is to quantify the impact of the allocation of facilities, including the number of facilities and the fuels adopted by facilities, on carbon emissions. In order to deal with the complex queuing network of container...
Propargyl terminal Polybutadiene (PTPB) was successfully prepared through hydroxyl terminal polybutadiene (HTPB) end-capping modification. The FTIR and 13C NMR results indicated that the HTPB terminal hydroxyl was thoroughly replaced and yielded the...
This paper presents the results of a numerical analysis for evaluating the effects of different stack terminal configurations on the odor levels estimated at the receptors located close to the plant. Stack terminals may be of different types, for exa...
N-terminal acetylation (Nt-acetylation) catalyzed by conserved N-terminal acetyltransferases or NATs embodies a modification with one of the highest stoichiometries reported for eukaryotic protein modifications to date. Comprising the catalytic N-alp...
With the rapid development of the automotive industry, terminals—as critical components of wiring harnesses—play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability and stability of signal transmission. At present, terminal crimping quality inspec...
Traveling-wave-based methods perform poorly for the fault location of multi-terminal lines as a result of the limitation introduced by being a highly branched structure. The requirement for multi-terminal time synchronization is also a drawback and n...
Productivity is an extremely important factor in the competitiveness of a container terminal. Productivity itself is largely influenced by the handling mechanisation, the main task of which is to serve the quay cranes on one side and the yard cranes...
Solar photovoltaic energy is the most prominent candidate to speed up the transition from the existing non-renewable energy system to a more efficient and environmentally friendly one. Currently, silicon cells dominate the photovoltaic market owing t...
Y6 derivatives with asymmetric terminal groups have attracted considerable attention in recent years. However, the effects of the asymmetric modification of terminal groups on the photovoltaic performance of Y6 derivatives are not well understood yet...
In recent years, low-orbit satellites have become an important development direction in satellite IoT systems. The number of terminals is large and data collisions occur frequently in the low-orbit satellite IoT scenario. How to design a reliable ran...
Airports are often the centers driving the economic development of the local community in which they are located and have a significant impact on national economies. Therefore, infrastructural airport development is of great importance. New airport i...
Protein biosynthesis in mitochondria is organized in a bacterial manner. However, during evolution, mitochondrial translation mechanisms underwent many organelle-specific changes. In particular, almost all mitochondrial translation factors, being ort...
The multiple processes taking place on a daily basis at an intermodal container terminal are often considered individually, given the complexity of their joint consideration. Nevertheless, the integrated planning and scheduling of operations in an in...
Maritime transport in the European Union has increased in the last years, triggering congestion in many of the most important sea and river ports. A lot of works have highlighted how the connection between these ports and dry ports can contribute to...
This paper introduces a simulation model designed as a decision-making tool to assess and analyze various crowd management strategies with a focus on enhancing sustainability in airport operations. This model specifically addresses the challenges and...
With the development of modern military ship equipment, the airspace operation environment of shipboard aircraft is becoming increasingly complex. The objective and accurate evaluation of ship-terminal capacity is the basis of air traffic flow manage...
N-terminal acetylation catalyzed by N-terminal acetyltransferases (NATs) has various biological functions in protein regulation. N-terminal acetyltransferase D (NatD) is one of the most specific NAT with only histone H4 and H2A proteins as the known...
The evolution of a terminal lake at the end of a river not only reflects the climate change characteristics within the basin but also the impact of regional human activities, especially in arid areas. In the Hexi Interior of China, three terminal lak...
Climate change and anthropogenic activities drive the shrinkage of terminal lakes in arid areas to varying degrees. Ecological water conveyance (EWC) projects have emerged globally to restore the ecology of terminal lakes. However, there remains a la...
The safe integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) into the National Airspace System
(NAS) requires robust Detect-and-Avoid (DAA) capabilities that maintain appropriate
separation from other aircraft. The RTCA DO-365Well Clear thresholds were dev...
Empty container depot (ECD) design significantly impacts maritime terminal efficiency, yet traditional evaluation approaches assess limited operational factors, constraining comprehensive performance optimization. This study develops an integrated di...
DNA-binding proteins from starved cells (Dps) are homododecameric nanocages, with N- and C-terminal tail extensions of variable length and amino acid composition. They accumulate iron in the form of a ferrihydrite mineral core and are capable of bind...
As an indicator of health risk, the deposition of microparticles in terminal pulmonary acini is of great significance in the medical field. To control particulate pollution and optimize aerosol delivery, it is necessary to perform an in-depth study o...
Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) is the first reported oncogenic virus and infects more than 90% of adults worldwide. EBV can establish a latent infection in B lymphocytes which is essential for persistence and transmission. Glycoprotein gp42 is an ind...
Despite effective treatment for those living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), there are still two million new infections each year. Protein-based HIV entry inhibitors, being highly effective and specific, could be used to protect people from...
Cooperative interception by multiple aircraft requires coordination of physical event times and terminal line-of-sight (LOS) directions under strongly coupled three-dimensional motion. A limitation of predictor-based designs is that agreement of esti...
Terminal alkynes, characterized by sp-hybridized carbon atoms at the molecular termini, possess high electron density and exceptional chemical reactivity. These properties make them ideal candidates for the synthesis of one-dimensional molecular wire...
In response to the trajectory tracking control problem of manipulators under measurement disturbances, a novel multi-input multi-output discrete integral terminal sliding mode control scheme is proposed. Initially, this scheme establishes a dynamic m...
Container terminals comprise multiple interdependent operational areas, yet conventional data envelopment analysis models often treat terminal operations as a single production process or represent them using only broad ship-side and landside functio...
The growth in containerized shipping has led to the expansion of seaports, resulting in the emergence of multiple terminals. While multi-terminal systems increase port capacity, they also pose significant challenges to container transportation, parti...
The outer layer of the skin, the epidermis, is the principal barrier to the external environment: post-mitotic cells terminally differentiate to form a tough outer cornified layer of enucleate and flattened cells that confer the majority of skin barr...
Indonesia’s high logistics costs—approximately 14.6% of its GDP—pose a significant challenge to national economic competitiveness. Key contributing factors include complex geography, fragmented multimodal transport systems and ineff...
Abstract: Cell surface signaling (CSS) is a means of rapidly adjusting transcription in response to extracellular stimuli in Gram-negative bacteria. The pseudobactin BN7/8 uptake (Pup) system not only imports iron but also upregulates its own transcr...
To investigate the effect of C-terminal helix on the stability of the FF domain, we studied the native domain FF3-71 from human HYPA/FBP11 and the truncated version FF3-60 with C-terminal helix being deleted by molecular dynamics simulations with GRO...
The intermodal transportation system plays a pivotal role in a global supply chain. Despite the benefits of intermodal transportation, it still has negative impacts, which are associated with congestion and emission. Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission is...
The article deals with a specific research study discussing the possibility to revitalize a specific non-functional intermodal transport terminal. The structure of the manuscript consists of five sections. The first part is focused on the analysis of...
Given the accelerating speed and scale of urbanization in China, a rational formulation of a composite development plan to increase the vitality and value of various areas is required. Thus, this study proposes a method for evaluating the spatial rel...
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