Federated Learning (FL), as an emerging paradigm in distributed machine learning, has received extensive research attention. However, few works consider the impact of device mobility on the learning efficiency of FL. In fact, it is detrimental to the...
Resilience is a complex system that represents dynamic behaviours through its complicated structure with various nodes, interrelations, and information flows. Like other international organizations NATO has also been dealing with the measurement of t...
Aggregate–asphalt adhesion plays an important role in the water stability of asphalt concrete. In various test standards of different countries, it is evaluated via the subjective judgment of testers using the boiling water test. The subjective...
The location-based aggregate queries, consisting of the shortest average distance query (SAvgDQ), the shortest minimal distance query (SMinDQ), the shortest maximal distance query (SMaxDQ), and the shortest sum distance query (SSumDQ) are new types o...
Concrete with crushed concrete aggregates (CCA) shows lesser compressive strength than reference concrete with natural aggregates. The goal of this study is to improve the strength of structural concrete with 53% and 100% CCA replacements without inc...
Waste from the aggregate processing industry has the potential to be used for value-added products. Its plastic properties and sinterability allow for the production of lightweight aggregates. This process can yield materials with high open porosity...
The size, shape, gradation and appearance of aggregate have a significant impact on the road performance of asphalt mixtures, which is directly related to the deformation characteristics and fatigue resistance of asphalt mixtures. In order to be able...
This paper has two aims: to describe the current status and challenges of aggregates producers regarding the analysis and communication of environmental information of their products and to present a layout of a pre-verified tool with simulation capa...
In this document, we examine the effects of the age process on aggregate discounted claims by studying the conditional raw and joint moments, the moment generating function and the distribution function of the increments of compound renewal sums with...
The present work analyses the physical characteristics of aggregates recovered with the waterjigging process from comminuted concrete. In this work, conventional concrete (C16/20) was crushed to a top size of 20 mm with a jaw crusher and classified i...
The waterborne epoxy resin (WER) colored antiskid thin layer has been widely used in asphalt pavement to improve driving safety. The tectonic depth determines the antiskid performance of aparticle antiskid type thin layer. The spalling of aggregate f...
This study presents a modified compaction concept of asphalt mixtures based on aggregate frictional behavior using self-developed image processing for measuring the aggregate orientation. The compaction energy index was introduced to evaluate the agg...
Based on the Aggregate Imaging Measurement System (AIMS) and the Particle Flow Code in Two Dimensions (PFC2D), an algorithm for modeling two-dimensional virtual aggregates was proposed in this study. To develop the virtual particles precisely, the re...
Forest road aggregate changes due to traffic. The physical processes that cause these aggregate changes need to be understood for more effective road management that can help reduce maintenance costs and efforts, and negative environmental impacts of...
Particle size distribution (PSD) determination is a typical practice for the characterization of the slurries generated in a precipitation plant. Furthermore, the precipitates generated in these processes form colloidal or aggregated suspensions. Nev...
Protein function and flexibility is directly related to the native distribution of its structural elements and any alteration in protein architecture leads to several abnormalities and accumulation of misfolded proteins. This phenomenon is associated...
The influence of the physical, geometric and chemical properties of particles on the results of aggregate separation by means of a laboratory ring jig is presented in this paper. The experiment was based on separation of chalcedonite particles in a n...
Search engines use significant hardware and energy resources to process billions of user queries per day, where Boolean query processing for document retrieval is an essential ingredient. Considering the huge number of users and large scale of the ne...
Mineral processing may decisively influence recycled aggregate (RA) production, yet it is systematically underreported. This critical review screened 338 Scopus-indexed publications (2004–2024) and retained 204 studies after eligibility assessm...
The purpose of this study is to experimentally design the drying, calcination, and sintering processes of artificial lightweight aggregates through the orthogonal array, to expand the data using the results, and to model the manufacturing process of...
In many tasks related to an object’s observation or real-time monitoring, the gathering of temporal multimodal data is required. Such data sets are semantically connected as they reflect different aspects of the same object. However, data sets...
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by the presence of proteinaceous aggregates of αSynuclein (αSyn) in the dopaminergic neurons. Chaperones are key components of the proteostasis networ...
Automated quality inspection has been receiving increasing attention in manufacturing processes. Since the introduction of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), many researchers have attempted to apply CNNs to classification and detection of defect i...
The knowledge graph was first used in the information search of the Internet as a way to improve the quality of the search because it contains a huge amount of structured knowledge data. In this paper, the knowledge map algorithm is studied through n...
Urban development increases impervious surfaces and stormwater runoff, while the construction sector generates large volumes of construction and demolition waste (CDW). Pervious concrete can mitigate runoff through infiltration and may also valorize...
The reuse of construction and demolition waste has become vitally important because of the requirements of environmental protection and sustainable development. The vibration mixing process is a new technology and novel method that improves the perfo...
The processes of land use and cover change (LUCC) are highly diverse and complex, being heavily influenced by natural factors, economic factors, and other related factors. These changes have a significant impact on ecological environments and landsca...
Amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP) attracts attention as a precursor of crystalline calcium phosphates (CaPs) formation in vitro and in vivo as well as due to its excellent biological properties. Its formation can be considered to be an aggregation pr...
To address the challenges of complex harmonic characteristics, multi-source coupling, and strong time variability in aggregated loads downstream of high-voltage substations, this paper proposes an Adaptive Multi-Task Gaussian Process Regression (AMT-...
Waste valorization represents one of the main social challenges when promoting a circular economy and environmental sustainability. Here, we evaluated the effect of the polyphenols extracted from apple peels, normally disposed of as waste, on the amy...
Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed Deep Learning (DL) technique that creates a global model through the local training of multiple edge devices. It uses a central server for model communication and the aggregation of post-trained models. The ce...
Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) is a robotic software that uses a set of Quality of Service (QoS) policies to manage the quality of robot data transmissions in a network, such as the RELIABLE and KEEP_LAST options. In ROS 2 node communication, the R...
The construction industry is a major source of environmental degradation as it is responsible for a significant share of global CO2 emissions, especially from cement and aggregate consumption. This study fills the need for sustainable construction ma...
Aggregation methods in group decision-making refer to techniques used to combine the individual preferences, opinions, or judgments of group members into a collective decision. Each aggregation method has its advantages and disadvantages, and the bes...
In this paper, the recursive aggregation of OWA operators for intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (IFN) based on a non-additive measure (NAM) with
With the advancement of information technology, the Internet is pivotal in today’s society, serving as a global connectivity platform. Leveraging Internet technology within an enterprise can improve operational efficiency and curtail costs. How...
The antihistamine astemizole has shown disease-modifying effects in several preclinical disease models of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Astemizole also interacts with an anomalous aggregation of Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-β (A&b...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative pathology characterized by the presence of neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques, the latter mainly composed of Aβ(1–40) and Aβ(1–42) peptides. The control of the Aβ aggregation process as a thera...
Currently, there are quite a few data on the ways silver nanoparticles get into the aquatic environment, on their subsequent dissolution in water, and on the release of toxic Ag+ ions. Differences in the experimental conditions hinder the determinati...
This research proposes a hierarchical aggregation approach using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for indicators. The core logic of the proposed approach is to reflect the hierarchical structures of indicators and...
The zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) and surfactants that are widely used in commercial and industrial products lead to the likelihood of their co-occurrence in natural water, making it essential to investigate the effect of surfactants on the fate...
In this paper, we study a generalised CIR process with externally-exciting and self-exciting jumps, and focus on the distributional properties and applications of this process and its aggregated process. The aim of the paper is to introduce a more ge...
The role of tillage practices on soil aggregate properties has been mainly addressed at the pedon scale (i.e., soilscape scale) by treating landscape elements as disconnected. However, there is observed heterogeneity in aggregate properties along flo...
This article presents an analysis of separation results in a specially designed and activated light fraction separator used to remove impurities from mineral aggregates. Laboratory tests conducted on a quarter-technical scale involved performing expe...
To study the effect of aggregate type on the adhesion between asphalt and aggregate, limestone, basalt, diabase, and 70# asphalt with SBS asphalt were selected. The mineral phase composition of the aggregates was analyzed by X-ray diffraction. The su...
Nowadays, asbestos waste still remains a serious problem. Due to the carcinogenic properties of asbestos, which are related to its fibrous structure, the exposure to asbestos mineral and asbestos-containing materials (ACM) causes dangerous health eff...
Compared to the bottom ash obtained by a water-cooling system (wBA), dry process bottom ash (dBA) makes hardly any unburnt carbon because of its stay time at the bottom of the boiler and contains less chloride because there is no contact with seawate...
Moisture is a significant problem in standard pavements, causing asphalt mixtures to deteriorate due to insufficient water permeability. This failure from moisture damage is often caused by precipitation accumulation or poor drainage, which allows wa...
This Process Synthesis and Intensification (PS+I) framework uses a low-aggregation superstructure to solve the synthesis problem, and its solution is interpreted and translated into a task-integrated intensified process. Then, the process is post-opt...
In this work, three different samples of solid industrial wastes cement kiln dust (CKD), granulated blast furnace slag and marble sludge were employed in a cold bonding pelletization process for the sustainable production of artificial aggregates. Th...
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