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One of the aims of Artificial General Intelligence(AGI) is to use the same methods to reason over a large num- ber of problems spanning different domains. Therefore, advancing general tools that are used in a number of domains like language, vision and intention reading is a step toward AGI. Probabilistic...

Forest and land fires occur annually in Bengkalis Regency, especially during the dry season. According to the Riau Governor, as of October 2023, fires have affected 398.29 hectares in Bengkalis. Based on the Riau Provincial Coordination Meeting (rakor) for forest and land fire management (kartahutla),...

Among the contextual antecedents of creative performance that have been extremely confirmed, innovative climate in organizations is yet to receive constant attention and research. This article exclusively and systematically reviews and integrates theoretical and empirical efforts that have examined how...

Active energy management for power optimization is essential for successful commercialization of battery powered electric vehicles. In this paper we propose and implement an energy aware electric vehicle using an efficient battery management system, EffBMS which estimates the remaining charge of the...

Metallic pollutants released from industry into aquatic environment has become a concern that progressively pollutes ecosystems and poses a risk to public health due to their toxicity, persistence nature, and non-biodegradability. Traditional wastewater treatment techniques essentially targets on contaminant...

Traction electric vehicles are on a certain rise today. Traction battery systems for these electric drives are related to this. Each specific application requires its own approach to the design of a good battery system. Existing technologies have their positives and negatives, which need to be minimized....

The presented research considers the tribological properties of titanium carbide coatings TiC and their areas of application. It is noted that titanium carbide TiC is one of the most effective materials used as a wear resistant coating. TiC to the greatest extent satisfies the requirements for coatings:...

In this paper, results of the demonstration project Hybrid-Optimal are presented. The project partners are installing a hybrid battery storage, which consists of a Vanadium Redox Flow Battery (VRFB) and a Lithium-Ion Battery (LIB), in an energy cell with high photovoltaic (PV) generation. First, this...

Many proteins function execution depends on the process of protein and ligand interact with each other. The identification of ligand binding residues is important for the research of the protein function. The 4442 protein chains with

Traditional signal enhancement techniques, such as oversampling, face limitations due to their increased computational complexity and power consumption. As the demand for higher data rates and quality continues to grow, noise shaping techniques become crucial for improving the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)...

Dispersive soil poses significant risks in civil engineering due to their susceptibility to erosion and structural instability, particularly in embankments, dams, and infrastructure. Since the discovery of dispersive soils, their dispersion mechanism has been a widely discussed and researched topic....

The presence of floating solid waste in water bodies is a serious concern from an environmental and health perspective, especially in the case of small lakes, ponds, and canals. This paper describes the design, development, and testing of a low-cost, manually operated smart trash removal boat. The proposed...

Tin dioxide is one of the most promising anode materials for the next generation rechargeable Li-ion batteries owing to its high theoretical capacity (782 mAh g 1). The flower-like SnO2 clusters were successfully prepared via a facile one-step hydrothermal method using sodium stannate as a Sn source...

Oxygen vacancy formation and migration in La0.9Sr0.1Ga0.8Mg0.2O3 (LSGM) with various crystal symmetries (cubic, orthorhombic and monoclinic) are studied by employing first-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT). The calculated vacancy formation energy of the cubic LSGM is 3.96...

The competitiveness of the global market has been challenging for the SME sector for quite some time. Generally, good management will increase the chances of a small business to continue its activity on the market and even further develop it. Along with the Internet-of-Things, a wide array of management...

In order to research on the transport of chloride ions in prestressed box girders under coupling action of salt fog and fatigue loading, the volumetric strain and porosity as the intermediate variables, coupled processes was established based on the fatigue damage criterion. And compared with the related...

Nowadays, issues like sustainable development and clean energy have drawn the attention from all walks of life. As a result, the electric vehicle industry is developing ever rapidly, and one of the most successful manufacturers of electric vehicles, Tesla, has caught people’s sight. Behind the success...

In the absence of urea, urease is demonstrated to catalyze the hydrolysis and polycondensation of the SnCl2 aqueous system to form crystalline mesoporous SnO2 at room temperature. The resulting SnO2 has a high specific surface area of 231~248 m2 g-1 with uniform pore size at 3.3nm, and the porous structure...

Case-by-case Problem Solving solves each occurrence, or case, of a problem using available knowledge and resources on the case. It is different from the traditional Algorithmic Problem Solving, which applies the same algorithm to all occurrences of all problem instances. Case-by-case Prob- lem Solving...

Lithium ion battery and its safety are taken more consideration with fossil energy consuming and the reduction requirement of CO2 emission. The safety problem of lithium ion battery is mainly contributed by thermal runaway caused fire and explosion. When the lithium ion battery fire and explosion, gases...

Dental implant treatment is an alternative to tooth replacement with high success and survival rates. Evaluation of implant treatment is useful for predicting a treatment protocol that can determine the best surgical and implant systems. The purpose of this study was to evaluate implant treatments by...

Dissolving pulp (DP) has a high cellulose content and low chemical components and is obtained from wood through PHK. It is a raw material for various cellulose products, such as viscose fibers, cellulose esters, and ethers. More than 70% of dissolving pulp is utilized in viscose fiber production. Rayon...

The water quality in Fuyang River (hengshui section) had been detected by atomic absorption spectroscopy analysis and titration analysis and other analysis methods, such as, the hardness, turbidity, coloration, pH, conductivity and the content of four kinds of heavy metal ions.The test results showed...

The experimental electronically controlled plasma power system is presented, with an estimated heat output ranging from 8 to 50 kW, and an electrical output ranging from 5 to 35 kW. The installation is based on the physical principles of ion and plasma fluxes compaction with discrete changes in the control...

Zakat plays an important role in alleviating poverty, and contributes to the economy, but in reality zakat funds raising has not been optimally organized. To achieve this goal, zakat institutions require effective risk management. Risk management is an important thing in zakat institutions, starting...

In this study, surrogate assisted teaching learning based optimisation was conducted for designing a non-circular drawing (NCD) sequence in order to improve the deformation homogeneity of the drawn wire. The objective function was introduced to minimise inhomogeneous distribution of effective strain...

A method for the fabrication of double-cone shape pores in polyethylene terephthalate (PET)-based nuclear track membranes (NTMs) is presented here. PET films of 25 æm thickness were irradiated with Bi ions (kinetic energy 9.5 MeV/u, fluence 5ž107 ions/cm2) at room temperature under vacuum at the Heavy...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of super set weight training model and high protein diet on the changes in body fat levels for overweight and obese adult men. The method used in this study was true experimental design with the randomized subject control group pretest-posttest design....

Passing ball action runs through the RoboCup simulation games, both teams spare no effort to win the game, the paper is going to study the connection between passing ball action and the game deeply. It puts forward to adopt the idea of Data Mining, analyzes games' log files by C language program in order...

To define the vascular role of the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) in cardiovascular pathophysiology, we generated a conditional transgenic mouse model with MR overexpression in the endothelium. We previously described increase sensitivity to several vasoconstrictors in mesenteric arteries such as in...

In this paper, the corrosion characteristics of Austenitic steel 304 in nearcritical aqueous solutions containing 1000 ppm chlorides, and chemical oxygen demand (COD) of 2000 ppm, was investigated. The samples surface were examined using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) equipped with energy dispersive...

This study examines the impact of live streaming engagement on English language proficiency using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology as a theoretical framework. Key UTAUT constructs, including effort expectancy, performance expectancy, and social influence, are explored in the context...

The ion nitrocarburized layer was prepared on the surface of 42MnCr52 steel sample by using the ion nitrocarburizing process. The nitrocarbonide grains and holes all in smaller scale distribute equably. The nitrocarbonide surface layer is about 18 æm in thickness. The ion nitrocarburized layer is composed...

Since anomaly detection systems often need to handle large amounts of data, feature selection, which is an ef-fective method for reducing data complexity, is usually applied for anomaly detection. In this paper, an im-proved genetic algorithm based feature selection method is proposed to obtain optimal...

Chicken meat is one of the primary protein sources for the Indonesian market. However, due to the warm and humid climate, chicken meat is subject to microbial contamination, i.e., Escherichia coli dan Salmonella sp. The source of the contamination is the chicken gastrointestinal environment during rearing...

The research aims to systematically evaluate the effect of psychological intervention on perimenopausal syndrome. We searched CNKI, VIP, WanFang Data and China Biomedical Literature Database to collect randomized controlled trials on psychological intervention combined with drugs for menopausal syndrome....

Lithium-ion battery recycling is crucial for conserving valuable materials, reducing environmental impacts, and ensuring a sustainable supply chain of critical metals for future energy storage technologies. However, establishing methods for selectively separating valuable metals through cost-effective,...

This study investigates the effects of efficient crack resistant agent (HME®-V) with different dosage levels (0, 5%, 10%, 15%) on the fresh properties, mechanical properties and chloride ion penetration resistance of mass concrete. Hydration heat tests, XRD analysis and numerical simulation were carried...

The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the perceived read-iness of managers towards public sector transformational change. Data was col-lected using digital questionnaire from 40 managers in various public sector organi-sations. Data was analysed using Rasch measurement and Winsteps@...

Phosphorus in nature is very important both in water and in soil. The form of the compound phosphate has become an important study in agriculture and the environment. Potentiometry is a recommended effective method to measure or monitor ion phosphate’s concentration in nature compared to the spectrometric...

A promising approach to amino acids extracting from industrial enterprises wastewater is ion-exchange sorption. The plant for the sorption extraction of amino acids from wastewater includes three ion-exchange columns of vertical type, a reservoir for source water, condensate and regenerating solution...

We have successfully obtained highly isolated Co2+ active sites on the surface of titanate nanotubes (TNTs) by a simple ion-exchange process. The as-prepared Co-TNTs were applied in heterogeneous catalysis to generate powerful radicals from peroxymonosulfate (PMS) for the removal of recalcitrant pollutant....

To ensure low cost and high maintenance cost protection devices can be used for a long time. In order to im-prove availability of protection system, the methods of adding redundancy and periodic replacement are pro-posed. First we establish the equivalent model of cumulative failure probability and convert...

The article discusses the immobilization on Iodine ion by using fly ash based geopolymer materials, the compressive strength, XRD and IR patterns vary with the amount of immobilization. The leaching experiment and the fitting of leaching kinetics data are done on the previous basis. The experimental...

Lithium-ion batteries can still be used in many applications after removal from their first use in electric vehicles, e.g. as a storage media in photovoltaic systems and for grid support. Therefore, there is a great need to develop reliable methodologies and tools to characterize the expected performance...

Accurate short-term forecasting of power load has important significance in Safe and stable operation and im-provement of economic benefits of electric power system. The electric power system load forecasting usually adopts BP neural network (BPNN) method, but this method has slow convergence speed,...

Optically active fluorescent sensor containing a 1,1 -binaphthyl core and N,N'-diamine was synthesized and characterized by NMR spectroscopy. S-N1,N1'-(2,2'-dimethoxy-[1,1'-binaphthalene]-6,6'-diyl)bis (ethane-1,2-diamine) was synthesized by coupling reaction with Pd(dppf)Cl2 and Cu(phen)Cl2.

Most batteries generate a significant amount of heat during charge or discharge, which has to be dissipated by adequate cooling, as the temperature of the battery is a crucial parameter for the battery performance. An ideal battery thermal management system (BTMS) should be able to maintain a uniform...

Tm3+-doped Li2O-SrO-ZnO-Bi2O3 (LSZB) glasses that are suitable for optical amplifier applications have been fabricated through the conventional melt-quenching method, and the spectroscopic properties of Tm3+ in the glasses were characterized. The density, the refractive indices, the optical absorption,...

Cyanide ion, a kind of extremely toxic chemical, is used as chemical warfare agents, as well as civilian chemical raw stuffs. Many detection methods for cyanides ion have been researched. This paper reviewed on some research progress of fluorescent molecular probe for cyanide ion in recent 5 years in...