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Open AccessImpacts of climate change, population growth, and power sector decarbonization on urban building energy use
Climate, technologies, and socio-economic changes will influence future building energy use in cities. However, current low-resolution regional and state-level analyses are insufficient to reliably assist city...
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Maternal tamoxifen exposure leads to abnormal primordial follicle assembly
Tamoxifen (TAM) is an accredited drug used for treatment and prevention of breast cancer. Due to the long-term taking and the trend for women to delay childbearing, inadvertent conception occasionally occurs d...
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Evaluation of the ventilation system in an LNG cargo tank construction platform (CTCP) by the AHP-entropy weight method
Owing to the vulnerability of Invar to moisture in the membranes of LNG tanker cargo tank construction platforms (CTCPs), an energy-efficient ventilation system is needed to maintain a suitable thermal-moistur...
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Masked Generative Distillation
Knowledge distillation has been applied to various tasks successfully. The current distillation algorithm usually improves students’ performance by imitating the output of the teacher. This paper shows that te...
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Open AccessOptimizing wheel profiles and suspensions for railway vehicles operating on specific lines to reduce wheel wear: a case study
The selection of a wheel profile is a topic of great interest as it can affect running performances and wheel wear, which needs to be determined based on the actual operational line. Most existing studies, how...
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Open AccessRotary-scaling fine-tuning (RSFT) method for optimizing railway wheel profiles and its application to a locomotive
The existing multi-objective wheel profile optimization methods mainly consist of three sub-modules: (1) wheel profile generation, (2) multi-body dynamics simulation, and (3) an optimization algorithm. For the...
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Kinetics and Mechanism of Ketonization of Acetic Acid on Ru/TiO2 Catalyst
Ru/TiO2 shows great promise as a catalyst in ketonization of carboxylic acids, an effective reaction for upgrading pyrolysis vapors that contain significant amounts of acetic acid. In this study, we have investig...
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Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite markers in Cupressus chenggiana S. Y. Hu (Cupressaceae)
Cupressus chenggiana S. Y. Hu (Cupressaceae) is an endemic and endangered conifer species in southwest China. In order to study the population genetics and design the effective conservati...