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Evaluation of sustainability indicators of machine tools: a hybrid Fuzzy DEMATEL approach
As the world is more focused on develo** products and services, which are sustainable, special attention is needed in the design and manufacture of machine tools. There is a multitude of elements that contri...
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Sustainable Approaches for Closure of Coal Ash Impoundments: A Quantitative Assessment
In the past two decades, large coal ash spills (e.g., Tennessee Valley Authority Kingston plant in Tennessee in 2008, the Dan River Coal Ash spill in North Carolina in 2014) spurred a national interest in regu...
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Analyzing Barriers in Adoption of Artificial Intelligence for Resilient Health Care Services to Society
Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as an alternative solution in the healthcare sector, offering opportunities to enhance efficiency and optimize the utilization of precious resources. The nascent stage ...
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Sustainability and Resilience: A New Paradigm in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Geotechnical engineering structures, such as dams, embankments, and retaining walls, are integral components of modern infrastructure, and geoenvironmental engineering systems, such as landfills and impoundmen...
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Correction to: Analyzing the barriers for aquaponics adoption using integrated BWM and fuzzy DEMATEL approach in Indian context
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Analyzing the barriers for aquaponics adoption using integrated BWM and fuzzy DEMATEL approach in Indian context
Aquaponic system in greenhouses which can recycle and reuse the water and nutrients is gaining importance across the world to counter the uncertainties due to weather fluctuations. However, there is a slow pac...
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Open AccessStrange processes in general two Higgs doublet model
In the general two Higgs doublet model (g2HDM) that has extra Yukawa couplings, we analyze their New Physics (NP) contributions to kaon mixing parameter εK, direct CP violation parameter ε′/ε, and rare ...
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Evaluation of Municipal Solid Waste Management Scenarios using Multi-Criteria Decision Making under Fuzzy Environment
Treatment of municipal solid waste in India is facing a grave crisis, where merely 25% of waste is treated per day. There is a desperate need for efficient as well as compatible options for the proper manageme...
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Synthetic data augmentation for surface defect detection and classification using deep learning
Deep learning techniques, especially Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), dominate the benchmarks for most computer vision tasks. These state-of-the-art results are typically obtained through supervised learni...
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Open AccessCharged lepton EDM with extra Yukawa couplings
In a two Higgs doublet model with extra Yukawa couplings, we assess the new physics contributions to charged lepton electric dipole moment. We focus especially on muon (and tau) EDM where in the coming decade ...
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Obstacle avoidance for a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles operating on particle swarm optimization: a swarm intelligence approach for search and rescue missions
An approach, based on a multi-plane system, is conceptualized in this work to solve the problem of collision avoidance for a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles, being used for search and rescue to minimize affe...
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Open AccessCharged lepton flavor violation in light of muon \(g-2\)
The recent confirmation of the muon \(g-2\) g - ...
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Modeling elasto-visco-bio-plastic mechanical behavior of municipal solid waste in landfills
This paper presents a mechanical model for the prediction of short-term and long-term settlement of municipal solid waste in landfills. The load-induced volumetric compression, shear behavior, tensile behavior...
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Big data analytics application for sustainable manufacturing operations: analysis of strategic factors
In the present era of Industry 4.0, organizations are transforming from traditional production systems to digital production systems. This transformation is in terms of additional deployment of technologies th...
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Temperature Effects on Stability and Integrity of Geomembrane–Geotextile Interface in Municipal Solid Waste Landfill
Review of the limited experimental studies available in the published literature that investigate the effects of temperature on the shear strength of typical geomembrane (GM) and geotextile (GTX) interface is ...
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Rejection of the beneficial acclimation hypothesis (BAH) for short term heat acclimation in Drosophila nepalensis
Beneficial acclimation hypothesis (BAH) is the phenotypic plasticity in response to changing environments which enables organisms to enhance their fitness. In recent years, however, BAH has received vigorous c...
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Estimating maintenance budget using Monte Carlo simulation
Asset maintenance is driven by allocation of yearly maintenance budget (YMB). Lack of scientific methods for its evaluation has led to allocations that are subjective and erroneous causing wastage or lack of r...
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Two-Phase Flow Modeling to Evaluate Effectiveness of Different Leachate Injection Systems for Bioreactor Landfills
Leachate injection in bioreactor landfills increases the moisture content within the municipal solid waste and facilitates rapid waste decomposition, thereby leading to early waste stabilization. Three types o...
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Modelling and simulation of repairable mechanical systems reliability and availability
Markov approach is applicable for reliability and availability modelling when time to failure and repair follow an exponential distribution. Since failure time of mechanical components follows Weibull distribu...
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Open AccessReconciling B-meson decay anomalies with neutrino masses, dark matter and constraints from flavour violation
Motivated by an explanation of the R K