Members of the ubiquitin-like protein family are known for their ability to modify substrates by covalent conjugation. The highly conserved ubiquitin relative UBL5/Hub1, however, is atypical because it lacks a carboxy-terminal di-glycine motif requir...
Hub ports play an important role in reducing the number of container routes and saving the operating costs of liner companies. However, hub failures caused by uncertainties such as natural disasters may cause huge recovery costs. Considering the acci...
In the literature, hub-networks have often been modeled such as only one mode is considered for all transportation. Also, the consolidated demand flows are assumed to be transferred directly between each origin-destination hub pairs. The previous ass...
This paper examines the integration and operationalization of GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) across GitHub and Azure DevOps to enhance DevSecOps practices in cloud-native software delivery. As organizations increasingly adopt continuous integration...
The hub location problem is constantly examined in the field of air transportation, especially when designing networks for passenger airlines or express cargo providers. The competition that characterizes these businesses combined with the small bene...
By binding to the spliceosomal protein Snu66, the human ubiquitin-like protein Hub1 is a modulator of the spliceosome performance and facilitates alternative splicing. Small molecules that bind to Hub1 would be of interest to study the protein-protei...
Automatic detection and recognition of wheel hub text, which can boost the efficiency and accuracy of product information recording, are undermined by the obscurity and orientation variability of text on wheel hubs. To address these issues, this pape...
The structural and optimal operation of an Energy Hub (EH) has a tremendous influence on the hub’s performance and reliability. This paper envisions an innovative methodology that prominently increases the synergy between structural and operational o...
This conceptual paper focuses on the Agro-Food Hub paradigm as the main enabler for the sustainable development of agro-food Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the context of the currently established agro-food systems. This paper is based on a s...
Platooning technology, which reduces fuel consumption by decreasing aerodynamic drag, is emerging as a key solution for enhancing road efficiency and environmental sustainability in logistics. Conventional vehicle-to-vehicle communication has limitat...
The optimal scheduling of multi-energy hub systems plays an important role in the safety, stability, and economic operation of the system. However, due to the strong uncertainty of renewable energy access, serious coupling, and the interaction among...
The United States food system is highly centralized with only three of the fifty states producing more than 75 percent of U.S. fruits and vegetables. The high reliance on long-distance transportation and cold chains undermines the sustainability of t...
This study investigates the influence of roughness on hydrodynamic performance, especially for the hub vortex—and, hence, hub vortex cavitation—of a benchmark propeller operating under uniform flow conditions using the RANS method. The Sc...
Food hubs have emerged as innovative alternatives to the conventional United States food system. As aggregators of small local farms, food hubs hold the potential to transform food production, distribution, and consumption, while fostering environmen...
Aviation hubs are pivotal intermediate nodes for connecting people around the world. However, there has been limited investigation on the competitive hub landscape in the China–Oceania market. Employing an updated Connectivity Utility Model, we...
The concept of energy hubs has grown in prominence as a part of future energy systems, driven by the spread of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and the inception of the smart grid. This paper systematically reviews 200 articles about energy hubs,...
Hubs are proteins with a large number of interactions in a protein-protein interaction network. They are the principal agents in the interaction network and affect its function and stability. Their specific recognition of many different protein partn...
Tungsten carbide (WC) has been widely utilized in recent years in the hardware, mechanical, and chemical industries and in national defense because of its high hardness, anti-wear, low temperature, and anti-corrosion properties. However, using it for...
Mining dump trucks play an important role in engineering construction and resource extraction. Current research mainly focuses on the dynamic modeling and reliability analysis of the vehicle frame, suspension and overall model. However, with the deve...
The increasing demand for multimodal freight transportation makes the expansion of new secondary hubs necessary. The carbon tax has also received attention from various sectors due to the development requirements of green transportation. Therefore, t...
In recent years, software developers have started to appropriate GitHub repositories to curate resources, in order to systematically select, evaluate, and organize existing artifacts for preservation and future use. Curation behaviors in social media...
With the development of open source community, through the interaction of developers, the collaborative development of software, and the sharing of software tools, the formation of open source software ecosystem has matured. Natural ecosystems provid...
In the 21st century, the concept of the Innovation Hubinnovation hub (IH) has become increasingly significant with the emergence of collaborative spaces, entrepreneurial ecosystems, and the pursuit of creative, sustainable solutions to contemporary c...
We propose a hub ridesharing method that considers path similarity to swiftly evacuate high volumes of passengers arriving at a high-speed railway hub. The technique aims to minimize total mileage and the number of service vehicles, considering the c...
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The growing transportation risk of hazardous materials (hazmat) is an important threat to public safety. As an efficient and reliable mode of transportation, the multimodal hub-and-spoke transport network helps to achieve economies of scale and reduc...
The hub ratio of a bulb turbine has an important influence on the unit’s flow capacity, efficiency, and operating stability and is one of the key parameters governing the hydraulic performance and structural safety of the turbine. To select the...
Active mobility in peri-urban areas is influenced by sprawl, limited public transportation, and reliance on private vehicles. This study redefines active mobility in peri-urban and low-density contexts from a territorial perspective and reframes micr...
Energy-consuming countries are affected by obstructions in supplies or conflicts that may occur along the energy transit path. Hence, the presence of a global logistics hub for energy acting as a connecting bridge between energy-supplying and energy-...
Composite work tools have many components, and complex shapes when compared to standard tools such as rotaries and plows. In addition, the component durability for the tools is critical because the load varies severely according to the soil condition...
This paper argues that creative hubs are enablers and curators of intercultural dialogue. Building upon an internationally funded project bringing together creative hubs from Turkey, Greece, Serbia and the UK, research was carried out through a surve...
The hub-and-spoke network (HSN) design generally assumes direct transportation between a spoke node and its assigned hub, while the spoke’s demand may be far less than a truckload. Therefore, the total number of trucks on the network increases...
It is a well-known fact that air approaches the eye region of the rotating impeller of a centrifugal fan with shock-less entry conditions in an ideal scenario. The flow in this region is associated with induced swirl losses, leading to cumulative per...
The wheel hub is an important component of automotive components, and its quality directly affects the stability, safety, and comfort of the vehicle during driving. In the face of increasingly stringent industry standards, traditional runout measurem...
Carbon peaking and carbon neutrality have become important considerations in today’s manufacturing industry. Vehicle lightweight design can reduce carbon emissions and it is an important means to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality. In th...
With respect to a traditional point-to-point (P-P) network, a hub-and-spoke (H-S) network not only uses a smaller number of links/paths but also utilizes the scale economy advantage on consolidated flows on hub–hub links and at hubs. However, t...
Mass vaccination is proving to be the most effective method of disease control, and several methods have been developed for the operation of mass vaccination clinics to administer vaccines safely and quickly. One such method is known as the hockey hu...
Airline hubs are often defined as nodes with a high degree of connectivity. Connectivity is measured by the “degree” of the node. The degree distribution of hub networks tends to have a convex shape (curved towards the origin), while poin...
A knurled interference fit is a machine part connection made by a plastic joining, which includes the advantages of commonly-used shaft-hub-connections. The combination of the friction and form fit, which are responsible for torque transmission, resu...
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Although the hub blockage effect is generally disregarded for large-sized horizontal axis wind machines, it can significantly affect the performance of small-sized turbines whose ratio between the hub and rotor radii can attain values up to 25–...
We describe a strategy for the development of a rational approach of neoplastic disease therapy based on the demonstration that scale-free networks are susceptible to specific attacks directed against its connective hubs. This strategy involves the (...
The theoretical expressions commonly used in the design of interference fits do not take into account the huge stress concentrations located at the edges of the hub. This underestimation of the real stress state can induce the incorrect performance o...
Under the massive pedestrian flow, pedestrians arching phenomenon forms easily at bottleneck in subway hubs, which might stampede and crush. To explore pedestrian arching mechanism at bottleneck in subway transit hub, this paper conducts a series of...
Last-mile logistics is an essential yet highly expensive component of city logistics responsible for many nuisances in urban areas. Mobile access hubs are flexible consolidation and transshipment points aiming at creating more sustainable city logist...
This research paper proposes a Lagrangian method to address the passing capacity of the calculation problem (PCCP) for a hub station in a high-speed railway (HSR) system. The passing capacity of a hub station is critical for determining the train tim...
Background: This paper proposes a conceptual framework for a multifunctional mobility hub (MMH) that co-locates shared e-mobility services, urban logistics, and charging/storage infrastructure within a single site. Aimed at high-density European citi...
This study investigated the optimization design methods for automotive wheel hub structures based on lightweight and economic considerations through static and modal analyses. A comprehensive static analysis and modal analysis of the automotive wheel...
In the wheel hub industry, the quality control of the product surface determines the subsequent processing, which can be realized through the hub defect image recognition based on deep learning. Although the existing methods based on deep learning ha...
The interference fit is a common process for the assembly of mechanical parts on a shaft for diverse mechanical engineering applications. One of the manufacturing methods consists of introducing a shaft into a hub by applying a force being the hub di...
Globalization activates qualitative changes in multiple economic entities and requires the development of alternative forms of business organization. At present, one of the most promising development tracks is represented by the implementation of net...
This paper presents an enhanced hub location model tailored to port–hinterland logistics planning, grounded in the Capacitated Multiple-Allocation Hub Location Problem (CMAHLP). The formulation incorporates nonlinear cost structures, hub-specif...
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