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Selection of Third-Party Reverse Logistics Partners Using Multi-criteria Decision Making: A Case Study of EV Industry
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Factors Influencing Poka-Yoke Implementation in the Healthcare Industry
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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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Prioritization of Functional Areas in Manufacturing Sector for BDA Application
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Xanthan Gum-Based Drug Delivery Systems for Respiratory Diseases
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Application of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Tool for Choosing Right Biogas Plants: Process Controllability, Suitability, and Cost Perspectives in the Indian Context
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Open AccessStrange processes in general two Higgs doublet model
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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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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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Managing Healthcare Supply Chain During Epidemic and Pandemic
With the advent of twenty-first century, epidemics and pandemics are frequently hitting the human society severely and affecting the world as whole and poor people in particular. As the globalization trend is ...
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Study of Filters for Improving the Output of Cascaded Seven-Level Inverter
Poor quality is one of the prime problems in the electrical system. In recent times, high power demand and good quality of power are major concerns in an electrical system. In this paper, a conventional multil...
