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Evaluation of the solvent effect on the extraction and antioxidant activity of phenolic compounds from the nettle (Urtica dioica L.) seeds: application of PCA and regression analyses
The solubility of phenolics is not only determined by the chemical composition of the plant sample, but also by the polarity of the solvents used. In this paper, the influence of solvents with different polari...
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The European Parliament’s shifting perspectives on climate justice with regard to China and India
Justice and responsibility are central notions sha** the international climate negotiations. However, countries have different perspectives on how to translate these concepts into solutions for climate chang...
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Activity and Stability of Dextranase from New Penicillium Funiculosum TFZ.91: Optimization by Response Surface Methods
With the aid of experimental design, in this study, we have investigated the activity and stability of dextranase, an important extracellular inducible enzyme that specifically hydrolyzes the α-1,6 glycosidic lin...
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Phenolics and mineral content in St. John’s wort infusions from Serbia origin: An HPLC and ICP-OES study
For quantitative analysis, contents of the selected three phenolic compounds and 17 minerals were determined in seven tea samples, i.e., infusions prepared on a traditional way from the dried aerial parts (herba)...
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Immobilization of Horseradish Peroxidase on Modified Cellulose Carriers via Hydrophobic Interactions: Catalytic Properties and Stability
Cellulose is one of the most common biopolymers on earth with well-known non-toxic, biocompatible, and environmentally friendly properties. Structural and chemical properties of cellulose fibers give additiona...
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Open AccessFully automating fine-optics manufacture - why so tough, and what are we doing?
Precision and ultra-precision surfaces are crucial for many products – quality optics, joint & cranial implants, turbine blades, and industrial moulds & dies, to name a few. Automation in this context is disti...
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Open Access“You have to get wet to learn how to swim” applied to bridging the gap between research into personnel scheduling and its implementation in practice
Personnel scheduling problems have attracted research interests for several decades. They have been considerably changed over time, accommodating a variety of constraints related to legal and organisation requ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Thermal Energy Storage of Composite Materials Based on Clay, Stearic Acid, Paraffin and Glauber’s Salt as Phase Change Materials
Thermal protection and insulation are important problems in many fields such as industry, agriculture and medicine. New composite materials with good thermal storage capacities have become important in the la...
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The removal of heavy metal ions from aqueous solutions by hydrogels based on N-isopropylacrylamide and acrylic acid
The temperature- and pH-sensitive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-acrylic acid) hydrogels, poly(NIPAM-co-AA), were synthesized by radical polymerization. The characterizations of hydrogels based on N-isopropylacryl...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Expert Sourcing to Support the Identification of Model Elements in System Descriptions
Context. Expert sourcing is a novel approach to support quality assurance: it relies on methods and tooling from crowdsourcing research to split model quality assurance tasks and parallelize task executi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Improving Model Inspection Processes with Crowdsourcing: Findings from a Controlled Experiment
The application of best-practice software inspection processes for early defect detection requires considerable human effort. Crowdsourcing approaches can support inspection activities (a) by distributing insp...
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Open AccessA Step Counting Hill Climbing Algorithm applied to University Examination Timetabling
This paper presents a new single-parameter local search heuristic named step counting hill climbing algorithm (SCHC). It is a very simple method in which the current cost serves as an acceptance bound for a nu...
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Open AccessUnified encoding for hyper-heuristics with application to bioinformatics
This paper introduces a new approach to applying hyper-heuristic algorithms to solve combinatorial problems with less effort, taking into account the modelling and algorithm construction process. We propose a ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Investigation into Minimising Total Energy Consumption, Total Energy Cost and Total Tardiness Based on a Rolling Blackout Policy in a Job Shop
Manufacturing enterprises nowadays face the challenge of increasing energy price and emission reduction requirements. An approach to reduce energy cost and become environmental friendly is to incorporate energ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Predicting Road Accidents Based on Current and Historical Spatio-temporal Traffic Flow Data
This paper presents research work towards a novel decision support system that predicts in real time when current traffic flow conditions, measured by induction loop sensors, could cause road accidents. If flo...
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Radiotherapy Scheduling
This chapter concerns radiotherapy scheduling problems identified at two cancer centres in the UK. The scheduling of radiotherapy pretreatment and treatment appointments is a complex problem due to various med...
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Calibrating continuous multi-objective heuristics using mixture experiments
A genetic algorithm heuristic that uses multiple rank indicators taken from a number of well established evolutionary algorithms including NSGA-II, IBEA and SPEA2 is developed. It is named Multi-Indicator GA (...
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Combined mathematical programming and heuristics for a radiotherapy pre-treatment scheduling problem
Demand for radiotherapy treatment services has increased due to higher cancer incidence, ageing population, and a larger number of prescribed radiotherapy fractions. This higher demand can, in turn, produce lo...
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A comparison of two approaches to nurse rostering problems
Despite decades of research into automated methods for nurse rostering and some academic successes, one may notice that there is no consistency in the knowledge that has been built up over the years and that m...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Local Rule-Based Attribute Weighting Scheme for a Case-Based Reasoning System for Radiotherapy Treatment Planning
This paper presents a novel local rule-based weighting scheme to determine attribute weights in a case-based reasoning system for radiotherapy treatment planning in brain cancer. A novel method of generating I...
