Global warming trends and the rapid reduction of summer Arctic sea ice extent have increased the feasibility of transarctic transport. How the process of glacier melting affects the existing containerized sea–rail shipping network and container...
The development of inland terminals helps seaports mitigate inevitable storage capacity problems, extending their gravitational field and strengthening their competitive advantage. Optimizing the container storage, efficiency, and productivity of sea...
Fat-tree networks have many equal-cost redundant paths between two hosts. To achieve low flow completion time and high network utilization in fat-tree, there have been many efforts to exploit topological symmetry. For example, packet scatter schemes,...
Traffic flow prediction is an important function of intelligent transportation systems. Accurate prediction results facilitate traffic management to issue early congestion warnings so that drivers can avoid congested roads, thus directly reducing the...
The sustainable development of geo-strategic transport networks plays a key role to meet the current expansion of the demand for commerce and economic growth. In this paper, a new geo-strategic railway network for freight services is designed with th...
To address the efficiency and safety challenges arising from the mixed operation of autonomous and human-driven container trucks during the automation transformation of traditional container terminals, this study designed a simulation-based optimizat...
Ergot alkaloids present in endophyte-infected tall fescue can cause a series of negative effects in exposed cattle. This study evaluated the effectiveness of molasses-based block supplements (MBSs) in alleviating vasoconstriction, which leads to redu...
The introduction of an energy storage system plays a vital role in the integration of renewable energy by keeping a stable operation and enhancing the flexibility of the power flow system, especially for an islanding microgrid which is not tied to a...
Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) was used to evaluate the thermal stability and the amount of coke deposition resulting from the deactivation of catalysts during ethanol dehydration reaction in a fixed bed continuous flow reactor. In this study, a se...
Intrusion detection system (IDS) research relies on accurately labeled network traffic datasets; however, label quality in IDS datasets is seldom audited prior to modeling. Many publicly available IDS datasets assign ground-truth labels based on capt...
Ductile fracture is the macroscopic result of a micromechanical process consisting in void nucleation and growth to coalescence. While growing in size, voids also evolve in shape because of the non-uniform deformation field in the surrounding materia...
Due to increased container traffic, the problems of congestion at terminal gates generate serious air pollution and decrease terminal efficiency. To address this issue, many terminals are implementing a truck appointment system (TAS) based on several...
Due to climate extremes and limited natural resources, especially water, we can expect increased demand in the future for species that can better tolerate climate extremes such as drought. One potentially valuable horticultural species is the endemic...
We evaluated the effects of feeding 60% dried corn distillers’ grains plus solubles (DDGS) or the equivalent sulfur as CaSO4 on sperm characteristics and transcript abundance. Thirty-six half-sibling Angus bulls (256 ± 8.5 d; initial BW...
Blockchain-based crowdsourcing logistics is a promising decentralized paradigm for solving the “last-mile delivery” problem, in which smart contracts automatically execute the business logic. Since crowdsourcing logistics inherently invol...
Advances in flow cytometry enable the acquisition of large and high-dimensional data sets per patient. Novel computational techniques allow the visualization of structures in these data and, finally, the identification of relevant subgroups. Correct...
Hub-and-Spoke (H&S) network modeling is a form of transport topology optimization in which network joins are connected through intermediate hub nodes. The Short Sea Shipping (SSS) problem aims to efficiently disperse passenger flows involving mul...
Rye (Secale cereale) is a climate-resilient cereal grown extensively as grain or forage crop in Northern and Eastern Europe. In addition to being an important crop, it has been used to improve wheat through introgression of genomic regions for improv...
With the continued recognition of the devastating effects of natural hazards, the construction of shelters has become essential in urban disaster preparedness planning systems. After analyzing the deficiency of the conventional spatial allocation mod...
This paper presents an advanced rescheduling approach that jointly applies two sets of objective functions within a novel multi-objective search algorithm and a production simulation of the manufacturing system. The role of the first set of objective...
This study examines the impact of mung bean (Vigna radiata) protein consumption on endothelial function in middle-aged adults, focusing on antioxidant enzyme activity and anti-inflammatory markers. Mung beans have shown promise in enhancing cardiovas...
The study of biomagnetic fluid flow and heat transfer containing magnetic particles through an unsteady stretching/shrinking cylinder was numerically investigated in this manuscript. Biomagnetic fluid namely blood taken as base fluid and CoFe2O4 as m...
Konjac glucomannan (KGM) is a renewable polysaccharide with high hydration capacity, abundant hydroxyl groups, and tunable gelation, making it a versatile platform for hazardous-contaminant remediation. Chemical functionalization and hybridization wi...
This study focused on the analysis of two-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamic Carreau nanofluid flow across a stretching cylinder containing microorganisms with the impacts of chemical reactions and multiple slip boundary conditions. Moreo...
Natural hybridization between closely related species in sympatry is an evolutionary process that is common in orchids. Once seen as a threat to parent species, interspecific genetic change is increasingly viewed as a source of novel variation in som...
Population growth and the increasing demand for raw materials with the expanding amount of waste in the environment have resulted in the need to change the production–consumption model based on a one-way flow of materials (from raw materials th...
The establishment and control of oxygen levels in packs of oxygen-sensitive food products such as cheese is imperative in order to maintain product quality over a determined shelf life. Oxygen sensors quantify oxygen concentrations within packaging u...
This study aims to evaluate the dietary replacement effect of various levels of fish meal (FM) with meat meal (MM) on the growth, feed utilization, chemical composition, hematological parameters, and innate immune responses of olive flounder. A total...
The objective of this study was to determine the effect of grazing plantain-based pastures on urine volume, urination frequency, and urinary nitrogen (UN) concentration of dairy cows under a typical pastoral dairy practice offering approximately 25%...
Oral ulcerations are complex pathological lesions with multifactorial etiology and diverse clinical manifestations. Current treatment options are mostly symptomatic with a different adverse effect. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a mucoadhesiv...
Here, we present proof of principle studies to demonstrate how the product ions associated with the ion mobility peaks obtained from a High Kinetic Energy-Ion Mobility Spectrometer (HiKE-IMS) measurement of a volatile can be identified using a Proton...
Carica papaya Linn. is one of the most common plants in almost all tropical countries. Its fruit is widely used as food or an ointment in traditional medicine. It is one of the few tropical fruits to contain glucotropaeolin (benzyl glucosinolate) det...
A goal of this work was to investigate the influence of the preparation procedure and activation conditions (reduction temperature and reducing medium: pure hydrogen (100% H2) or hydrogen-argon mixture (5% H2-95% Ar)) on the activity of Co-containing...
26 September 2017
Background: We sought to determine if a pre-workout supplement (PWS), containing multiple ingredients thought to enhance blood flow, increases hyperemia associated with resistance training compared to placebo (PBO). Given the potential interaction wi...
Using multi-color flow cytometry analysis, we studied the immunophenotypical differences between leukemic cells from patients with AML/MDS and hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) from patients in complete remission (CR) following their su...
A feeding trial was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary supplementation of Chlorella vulgaris (CV) or Tetradesmus obliquus (TO) on laying performance, egg quality, and gut health indicators of laying hens. A total of 144 Hy-Line Brown layi...
The accuracy of data captured by sensors highly impacts the performance of a computer vision system. To derive highly accurate data, the computer vision system must be capable of identifying critical objects and activities in the field of sensors and...
A 12-week feeding trial aimed to evaluate the effects of dietary linoleic acid (LA, 18:2n-6) on the growth performance, fatty acid profile, and lipid metabolism enzyme activities of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) alevins. Six experimental diets (...
Propolis or “bee glue” is a resinous waxy substance that is produced by honeybees (Apis mellifera) by mixing the exudates collected from plants, namely tree buds, sap flows, leaves, branches and barks with their saliva and beeswax. Propol...
Native disulfide formation is crucial to the process of disulfide-rich protein folding in vitro. As such, analysis of the disulfide bonds can be used to track the process of the folding reaction; however, the diverse structural isomers interfere with...
Impulsive overtopping generated by dam-break surges is a critical hazard for dikes and flood-protection embankments, especially in reservoirs and mountainous catchments. Unlike classical coastal wave overtopping, which is governed by long, irregular...
In this study, the uniaxial compression and cyclic loading and unloading experiments were conducted on the non-water reactive foaming polyurethane (NRFP) grouting material with a density of 0.29 g/cm3, and the microstructure was characterized using s...
Daily conversations contain rich emotional information, and identifying this emotional information has become a hot task in the field of natural language processing. The traditional dialogue sentiment analysis method studies one-to-one dialogues and...
Residual chestnut biomass was evaluated in a cascading valorization route combining hot-water extraction, extractant reuse, reverse osmosis (RO), spray drying, and subsequent use of the extracted solid. Two heterogeneous residual Castanea sativa stre...
31 May 2016
In wireless networks, low-power Zigbee is an excellent network solution for wireless medical monitoring systems. Medical monitoring generally involves transmission of a large amount of data and easily causes bottleneck problems. Although Zigbee’s AOD...
Short-term fermented soybeans (chungkookjang) with specific Bacillus (B.) spp. have anti-obesity, antidiabetic, and anti-stroke functions. We examined the hypothesis that the long-term consumption of B. amyloliquefaciens SCGB 1 fermented (CKJ1) and B...
Background/Objectives: Massively parallel sequencing technologies have advanced chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) diagnostics and precision oncology. Illumina platforms, while offering robust performance, require substantial infrastructure investmen...
The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of krill meal (KM) inclusion at various levels (0%, 2.5%, 5%) in plant-based and animal-based feeds, that were fishmeal (FM) and fish oil (FO) free, on Atlantic salmon growth. A FM/FO feed cont...
Background: Whilst exogenous carbohydrate oxidation (CHOEXO) is influenced by mono- and disaccharide combinations, debate exists whether such beverages enhance fluid delivery and exercise performance. Therefore, this study aimed to ascertain CHO) is...