Boiler forced draft systems play a critical role in maintaining power plant safety and efficiency. However, their control is notoriously intractable in terms of modelling difficulty, multiple disturbances and severe noise. To this end, this paper dev...
Waterborne transportation serves as a critical pillar of trunk-line freight systems, offering unparalleled advantages in transport capacity, energy efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. As cargo throughput demands escalate, optimizing lock capacity bec...
Francis turbines are most widely used in hydropower due to their characteristics which include a fast response and wide time-scale operation. The vortex rope inside Francis turbines is a common flow phenomenon, which always causes strong vibration, p...
The power oscillation induced by pressure fluctuation in the draft tube of the hydraulic turbine is one of the limiting factors preventing the Francis turbine from operating in the vibration zone. At the present power grid with a high proportion of r...
One of the directions for expanding the functional properties of modular draft devices (MDD) is their use with semitrailers (using a fifth-wheel coupling, installed on the technological module). The issue with this is due to their ability to create s...
In this paper, the energy diagnostic of tractor performance consists in evaluating the energy (fuel consumption per hectare—dm3 ha−1) for a given agricultural operation and in combining it with working capacity, also called productivity (area product...
Climate change is an important issue that affects energy consumption, causes health problems, such as heat stroke, and requires urgent countermeasures. Serious health problems, including cardiac arrest, often occur in winter in traditional residences...
Expanding waste-to-energy (WtE) facilities is difficult, and with tightening incineration regulations, improvements in WtE facility operations are required to dispose of waste that is increasing by an average of 4.8% annually. To achieve this, an int...
Large language models (LLMs) are advancing intelligent writing systems from local text continuation and language polishing toward long-form structured text generation. However, directly generating full-length academic paper drafts remains challenging...
The overall cost of a hydropower plant is mainly due to the expenses of civil works, mechanical equipment (turbine and control units) and electrical components. The goal of a new draft tube design is to obtain a geometry that reduces investment costs...
The accessibility and reuse of legal data is paramount for promoting transparency, accountability and, ultimately, trust towards governance institutions. The aggregation of structured and semi-structured legal data inevitably leads to the big data re...
In higher education, agentic AI goes beyond drafting content to creating learning management system (LMS) artefacts and scheduling releases under teacher oversight. Adoption research has modelled intention towards tools that draft rather than act, le...
During roll-on load-out of a semi-submersible barge, ballast-water regulation directly affects floating-state accuracy, operational safety, and longitudinal structural response. Conventional ballasting relies heavily on predefined plans and operator...
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In industrialized countries, existing regulations generally require the use of renewable energy to the greatest feasible extent. A major difficulty with renewable sources is the inherent fluctuation in their power output due to the main source charac...
A strong nonlinear ice load has a significant impact on the resistance and power demand of polar transport ships under different drafts in brash ice channels. In this study, the CFD-DEM coupling method is used to investigate the self-propulsion perfo...
The vortex rope in the draft tube is considered as the major contributor to pressure pulsation at partial load (PL) conditions, which causes the hydro unit to operate unstably. Based on the prototype Francis turbine HLA551-LJ-43 in the laboratory, J-...
This study investigates the influence of die design parameters on forging forces and thermomechanical responses during near-solidus forging (NSF) of complex steel components. Finite element simulations using Forge NxT analyzed six die configurations...
Warm water masses circulating at depth off the coast of Greenland play an important role in controlling rates of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet through feedbacks associated with the melting of marine glacier termini. The ability of these warm...
In the course of our investigations, we burned high-quality logs as well as wood briquettes in a conventional, manually fed mixed-fired boiler, under different operating parameters. Based on the evaluation of the measurement results, there is a signi...
Mechanical draft cooling towers are among the most critical water-consuming equipment in industries such as thermal power and petrochemicals. Strengthening their water usage performance is therefore crucial for alleviating China’s water resourc...
Instructors can prescribe which part of a writing task a student may delegate to generative AI, but not how the student works. This four-arm randomised experiment separated them. At Site A, 744 undergraduates were randomised to one of four divisions...
Background: Systemic therapy options are needed for women with recurrent, metastatic, or persistent cervical cancer. This systematic review and clinical practice guideline were developed to address that need, and to update a 2007 guideline from Cance...
In this study, fast Fourier transform and inverse transform are adopted for noise reduction filtering the data of load rejection pressure of a single unit in a one-tube, four-unit pumped storage power station. Five-spot triple smoothing method is use...
This study is focused on the impact of the Eurocode 8 draft revision on the seismic zonation of Romania, one of the countries with the highest hazard levels in Europe. In this study, the design response spectra are evaluated for a number of sites in...
We report on the experimental study of a precessing vortex core (PVC) in an air model of a Francis turbine. The focus is placed on the modal decomposition of the PVC that occurs in the draft tube of the model turbine for a range of operation conditio...
Dynamic ventilation has proven effective in enhancing indoor thermal comfort. However, previous studies often expose participants to inconsistent thermal environments, potentially compromising the accuracy of subjective evaluations. To address this l...
The process drawing of ventilation and air conditioning systems in subway stations is an important component of HVAC design deliverables because it describes monitoring requirements, control logic, and operating modes. However, the large number of mo...
This study presents a numerical investigation of the internal flow characteristics within the draft tube of a Kaplan turbine using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The distribution and evolution of vortical structures, particularly the formation a...
In mechanized agricultural activities, fuel is particularly important for tillage operations. In this study, the impact of seven distinct parameters on fuel usage per unit of draft power was examined. The parameters are tractor power, soil texture in...
Owing to its efficient energy recovery capability, the pump as turbine (PAT) has attracted considerable attention and has been widely applied in micro hydropower systems. However, under off-design conditions, large-scale helical vortex ropes are read...
Sustainable ridge-based peanut production following winter wheat requires soil preparation technologies capable of simultaneously ensuring precise ridge formation, reduced energy consumption and efficient in situ utilisation of crop residues. This st...
The first objective of this paper was to provide an inventory of developments of certification schemes for sustainable biomass production, following recent EU legislation (both formalized and under development). One main pillar is the EU Timber Regul...
Streptomyces kanasensis ZX01 produces some antibiotics and a glycoprotein with antiviral activity. To further evaluate its biosynthetic potential, here we sequenced the 7,026,279 bp draft genome of S. kanasensis ZX01 and analyzed all identifiable sec...
As the demand for productivity increases, machines are becoming heavier, and large coverage implements cause the slippage of tractor driving wheels, which initiate soil compaction and displacement. Sources indicate that compaction has an adverse impa...
The pitch motion of offshore floating structures induced by wave loading is a critical design issue affecting operational safety and performance. The focus of this investigation was a tuned liquid multiple-column damper (TLMCD), which employed multip...
African American girls are at a greater risk of obesity than their nonminority peers. Parents have the primary control over the home environment and play an important role in the child obesity prevention. Obesity prevention programs to help parents d...
Objective: The purpose of this guideline is to recommend systemic therapy options for women with recurrent epithelial ovarian cancer, including fallopian tube and primary peritoneal cancers. Methods: This document updates the recommendations publishe...
Flowering time (in rice, termed the heading date), plant height, and grain number are crucial agronomic traits for rice productivity. The heading date is controlled via environmental factors (day length and temperature) and genetic factors (floral ge...
Dam and powerhouse operation sustainability is a major concern from the hydraulic engineering perspective. Powerhouse operation is one of the main sources of vibrations in the dam structure and hydropower plant; thus, the evaluation of turbine perfor...
Objective: To provide recommendations for a surveillance regimen that leads to the largest overall survival benefit for patients after curative treatment for Stage I–IV colon and rectal cancer. Methods: Consistent with the Program in Evidence-B...
The management of intellectual property (IP) agreements in universities continues to rely on static legal documents that are signed, archived, and consulted when necessary, but whose content is rarely formalized to facilitate their operation and veri...
Hydraulic turbines exhibit total load rejection during operation because of high fluctuations in the grid parameters. The generator reaches no-load instantly. Consequently, the turbine runner accelerates to high speed, runaway speed, in seconds. Unde...
Artificial intelligence has increasingly been applied to residential floor plan generation, producing outputs in diverse forms such as semantic raster images, graph-structured layouts, and vector polygons. However, these outputs still require substan...
Pitaya canker, caused by Neoscytalidium dimidiatum, is a destructive disease that significantly threatens the safety of the pitaya industry. The authors of previous studies have mainly focused on its biological characteristics and chemical control. H...
Large language models (LLMs) generate fluent Chinese, but controlling lexical difficulty remains challenging. This study examined a Python-orchestrated external-control workflow using one GPT model, two sequential prompting conditions (no-word-list a...
This work is devoted to the second order rational Bézier curve coefficients estimation. We present the methodology of unique coefficients for each type of ship computation. In the presented formulas of ship’s length, a draft and angular...
Objective: The purpose of the present guideline is to recommend surgical or systemic treatment for metastatic testicular cancer; T3b or T4, or node-positive, and metastatic renal cell cancer (rcc); and T3, T4, or node-positive upper tract urothelial...
WaveCat, a novel overtopping Wave Energy Converter, was tested with the aim of determining its performance under different sea states, establishing a starting point for optimisation of the device, numerical model validation and proof-of-concept for t...
This study develops a real-time energy-efficient control strategy for distributed-drive electric tractors (DDETs) to minimize electrical energy consumption during traction operations. Taking a four-wheel independently driven DDET as the research obje...
The evolution of polygenic scores for use in for disease prevention and control compels the development of guidelines to optimize their effectiveness and promote equitable use. Understanding the motivations and barriers to participation in genomics r...
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