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Dual-filler reinforced PVDF-HFP based polymer electrolyte enabling high-safety design of lithium metal batteries
Despite the high energy density of lithium metal batteries (LMBs), their application in rechargeable batteries is still hampered due to insufficient safety. Here, we present a novel flame-retardant solid-state...
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Open AccessDistribution of antibiotic resistance genes and their pathogen hosts in duck farm environments in south-east coastal China
Livestock farms are major reservoirs of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) that are discharged into the environment. However, the abundance, diversity, and transmission of ARGs in duck farms and its impact on ...
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Open AccessA retrospective analysis for the management of oromaxillofacial invasive mucormycosis and systematic literature review
Mucormycosis is a type of fatal infectious disease, rarely involved in the oromaxillofacial region. This study aimed to describe a series of 7 cases with oromaxillofacial mucormycosis and to discuss the epidem...
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Saddle point approximation approaches for two-stage robust optimization problems
This paper aims to present improvable and computable approximation approaches for solving the two-stage robust optimization problem, which arises from various applications such as optimal energy management and...
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Is third-party remanufacturing necessarily harmful to the original equipment manufacturer?
Conventional wisdom suggests that competition from a third-party remanufacturer lowers the original equipment manufacturer (OEM)’s profits. In this paper, we show that this may not hold for the remanufacturing...
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Open AccessA Nanometer Water Pump Induced by the Brownian and Non-Brownian Motion of a Graphene Sheet on a Membrane Surface
Energy-saving water pump and efficient semipermeable membranes are the cores of reverse osmosis technology. Applying nanotechnology to improve the performance is a fashion in recent years. Based on the competi...
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Hot channels engineer enhanced water transport
Designing the high-flux nanofluidic devices is still a challenge. In this work, we show by molecular dynamics simulations that the permeation of single-file water molecules through a carbon nanotube (CNT) can ...
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A stochastic production planning problem in hybrid manufacturing and remanufacturing systems with resource capacity planning
Hybrid manufacturing and remanufacturing systems have become a topic of considerable interest in the advanced manufacturing industry due in part to the profit and cost saving by reusing remaufacturable parts i...
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Optimal production planning in a hybrid manufacturing and recovering system based on the internet of things with closed loop supply chains
During the last decades many companies have to retrieve and treat their end-of-use products when products leave their end users in order to contribute to environmental protection and avoid defiance of relevant...
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Optimization for a three-stage production system in the Internet of Things: procurement, production and product recovery, and acquisition
Recovery of the end-of-use products has become a topic of considerable interest in the advanced manufacturing industry due in part to uncertainties in the quality and volume of product returns. The Internet of...
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Incidence Coloring-Assisted Frequency Assignment in Two-Hop OFDMA-based Cellular Networks
In this paper, we consider frequency assignment for orthogonal frequency division multiple access-based cellular networks. We develop a new framework for the mathematical modeling of the frequency assignment p...
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Graph coloring based channel assignment framework for rural wireless mesh networks
IEEE 802.11 based wireless mesh networks with directional antennas are expected to be a new promising technology and an economic approach for providing wireless broadband services in rural areas. In this paper...
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Open AccessGroup Evidential Reasoning Approach for MADA under Fuzziness and Uncertainties
Multiple attribute decision analysis (MADA) problems often include both qualitative and quantitative attributes which may be either precise or inaccurate. The evidential reasoning (ER) approach is one of relia...
