This is an overview of a Key Note lecture; the quote for this lecture is from T.S. Eliot: “We must not cease from exploration and at the end of all our exploring will be to arrive, where we began, and, to know the place for the first time&rdquo...
In the early construction of an underground gas storage facility in an oil and gas field in southwest China, the increasing gas injection volume led to a continuous rise in energy consumption, which affects the economic sustainability of gas injectio...
Superalloy scraps are deemed as potential unconventional sources of rare metals. In this study, an ultrasonic leaching method with a two-stage separation process was proposed. A series of Eh-pH diagrams for rare metals was constructed, and the result...
To investigate the deformation and stability of the rock surrounding a tunnel excavated through layered rock, a three-dimensional numerical simulation was conducted to compare and analyze the right line of the YD2K100+560–630 two-stage docking...
In recent decades, the rapid development of transportation construction has increased the possibility of concrete-filled steel tubes (CFSTs) subjected to soft lateral impact. Some kinds of deviation may still exist between the soft impact process and...
A matheuristic approach based on a reduced two-stage Stochastic Integer Linear Programming (SILP) model is presented. The proposed approach is suitable for obtaining a policy constructed dynamically on the go during the rollout algorithm. The rollout...
Asteroids are remnants of primordial material from the early stages of solar system formation, approximately 4.6 billion years ago, and they preserve invaluable records of the processes underlying planetary evolution. Investigating asteroids provides...
This paper addresses the two-stage hybrid flow shop scheduling problem with a batch processor in the first stage and a discrete processor in the second stage. Incompatible job families and limited buffer size are considered. This hybrid flow shop con...
Fingerprinting acoustic localization usually requires tremendous time and effort for database construction in sampling phase and reference points (RPs) matching in positioning phase. To improve the efficiency of this acoustic localization process, an...
The rapid development of the resin industry has led to a large amount of high-concentration resin production wastewater, which has created serious water pollution problems while limiting the development of related enterprises. In this study, a combin...
Wastewater from factories producing polysulfone-based membranes mainly contains the used organic solvent, i.e., dimethylacetamide (DMAc). Due to the environmental impact of DMAc, wastewater treatment is mandatory. Several biological treatment options...
Impact monitoring is an effective approach to ensuring the safety of composite structures. The accuracy of current algorithms mostly depends on the number of physical sensors, which is not an economical way for large-area composite structures. In ord...
A fully sustainable sanitation system was developed for a rural hospital in Haiti. The system operates by converting human waste into biogas and fertilizer without using external energy. It is a hybrid anaerobic/aerobic system that maximizes methane...
Converting a camera’s RAW image to an RGB format for human perception involves utilizing an imaging pipeline, and a series of processing modules. Existing modules often result in varying degrees of original information loss, which can render th...
This paper presents a data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach to benchmark a group of wind farm (WF) projects in Greece by employing a series two-stage structure. In the first stage, the investment performance of projects is evaluated using contract...
Concealed pipes are vital facilities for transporting water, air, electricity, and natural gas in modern buildings. These pipes are constructed inside slabs of buildings, and thus conventional piping algorithms, dedicated to arranging exposed pipes i...
To enhance the accuracy and real-time capability of estimated in-block time (EIBT) predictions at airports, this study proposes a two-stage integrated prediction method. By extending the prediction time window for arrival times, this method systemati...
The pansharpening (PS) of remote-sensing images aims to fuse a high-resolution panchromatic image with several low-resolution multispectral images for obtaining a high-resolution multispectral image. In this work, a two-stage PS model is proposed by...
Maintaining stable linkages between farmers and APS service providers is conducive to cutting transaction costs, increasing service organizations’ willingness to invest in the long term and motivation to innovate on their own, improving agricul...
Degradation data plays a crucial role in the reliability assessment and condition monitoring of engineering systems. The stage-wise changes in degradation rates often signal turning points in system performance or potential fault risks. To address th...
Oil–water separation is an important method for treating oily wastewater and recovering oil resources. Based on the different affinities of superhydrophobic surfaces to water and oil, long-term oil–water separation devices with low-energy...
This paper presents a building construction approach that is based on forty years of experience and a focus on multi-disciplinary synergies. After 1980, the migration science-based design was accelerated by the “Integrated Design Process (IDP)”. As a...
Effective supply and demand matching for construction materials is a crucial challenge in large-scale railway projects, particularly in complex and hazardous environments. We propose a two-stage stochastic programing model that incorporates environme...
With global plastic production creating immense environmental pressure and conventional recycling methods facing limitations, advanced chemical recycling techniques are crucial. This paper presents details of the design, construction, and operation o...
Target detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery remains a significant technical challenge, particularly in scenarios involving multi-target interference and clutter edge effects that cannot be disregarded, notably in high-resolution imagin...
This paper divides the typical social scientific research process into two stages: the research development stage and the research innovation stage, with personnel as a shared input between them. We construct an input-shared multi-period two-stage DE...
In the presence of unknown array errors, sparse recovery based space-time adaptive processing (SR-STAP) methods usually directly use the ideal spatial steering vectors without array errors to construct the space-time dictionary; thus, the steering ve...
Drought directly affects environmental sustainability. Predicting the drought at the earliest opportunity will help to execute drought mitigation plans. Several drought indices are used to predict the severity of drought across different geographical...
Aiming at issues such as reactive power distribution fluctuations and insufficient local support caused by large-scale integration of renewable energy in new power systems, as well as the poor adaptability of traditional methods and bottlenecks of de...
In the field of wireless charging technology for electric vehicles, the charging process of lithium-ion batteries is typically divided into two stages: constant-current (CC) charging and constant-voltage (CV) charging. This two-stage charging method...
As a critical mineral, magnesite plays a vital role in industries such as steelmaking, construction, and advanced technologies due to its high thermal stability and chemical resistance. However, the beneficiation of low-grade magnesite ores (~38.36%...
Accurate cutting of salmon parts and surface defect detection are the key steps to enhance the added value of its processing. At present, mainstream manual inspection methods have low accuracy and efficiency, making it difficult to meet the demands o...
To fully use high-pressure air, the two-stage piston expander (TSPE) has been widely studied. The following factors obstruct the use of the TSPE: A high expansion ratio will inevitably result in a lower air temperature in the cylinder, causing advers...
The article describes the research on the analysis of the economic use of mining and processing waste produced and stored on the premises of active mining plants exploiting rock raw materials in the context of the reduce-recycle-reuse (3R) concept. T...
The excellent generalization ability of deep learning methods, e.g., convolutional neural networks (CNNs), depends on a large amount of training data, which is difficult to obtain in industrial practices. Data augmentation is regarded commonly as an...
In the face of increasing demands for tasks such as mountain rescue, geological exploration, and military operations in complex wilderness environments, planning an efficient walking route is crucial. To address the inefficiency of traditional two-di...
This paper reviews the characteristics of leachate produced from municipal solid waste landfills, incineration plants, transfer stations, and food waste anaerobic fermentation plants. In addition, the development of the leachate treatment technology...
To improve the accuracy of lane detection in complex scenarios, an adaptive lane feature learning algorithm which can automatically learn the features of a lane in various scenarios is proposed. First, a two-stage learning network based on the YOLO v...
To address the issue of vertical settlement in existing tunnels beneath newly constructed two-lane tunnels, and to mitigate further impacts on tunnel operations, it is essential to investigate the effect of tunnel construction on the integrity of the...
An approach to design analog building blocks based on digital standard cells is presented in this work. By ensuring that every CMOS inverter from a standard-cell library operates with a well-defined quiescent current and output voltage, the suggested...
A two-stage simulation-based framework is proposed to derive Identification Robust confidence sets by applying Indirect Inference, in the context of Autoregressive Moving Average (ARMA) processes for finite samples. Resulting objective functions are...
Corrugated box printing machines are precision equipment produced by markedly few manufacturers. They involve high investment cost and risk. Having a corrugated box precision printing machine (CBPPM) supplier with a good reputation enables a corrugat...
A mechanistic model was developed to simulate one-dimensional pesticide transport in two-stage vertical flow constructed wetland. The two pesticides taken under study were carbendazim and chlorothalonil. The water flow patterns within the constructed...
Ecological welfare performance (EWP) serves as a crucial measure for assessing the green development of a region. Exploring the spatial characteristics, network structure, and transfer paths of its specific stages is crucial for grasping an internal...
Ship collision avoidance decision-making is a core determinant of navigational safety, and its effectiveness directly governs a ship’s ability to operate safely in a complex environment. Although successive editions of the COLREGs have provided...
It is vital to promote and optimize the technological innovation efficiency of new energy vehicle (NEV) enterprises for the green transformation of China’s automobile industry. However, China’s NEV enterprises still have problems such as...
Accurate cooling load prediction is essential for energy-efficient HVAC system operation. However, the stochastic and nonlinear nature of load data challenges conventional neural networks, causing prediction delays and errors. To address this, a nove...
Economic efficiency plays a crucial role in both resource conservation and food security, which is why numerous scholars have expressed a keen interest in improving production stage efficiency. Nevertheless, only a few have studied allocation stage e...
Masked cold spray additive manufacturing (CSAM) is investigated for fabricating nickel-based electrodes with pyramidal pin-fins that enlarge the active area for the hydrogen-evolution reaction (HER). To bypass the high cost of purely CFD-driven optim...
This paper examines public architecture in Baghdad during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, focusing on how public buildings contributed to the formation of urban centrality and how this process interacted with local architectural pr...
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