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Jiawei Liu, Hailong Yin, Yixin Zhang, Xiufeng Li, Yongquan Li, Xueru Gong and Wei Wu
Safety barriers (SBs) are important means of reducing failure risks of process systems. As barriers vary in type and function, their effectiveness needs to be evaluated in order to find a more reasonable configuration strategy. However, in practice, ther...
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Caitlyn B. O?Connor and Phillip S. Levin
Managing social?ecological systems that benefit both humans and nature is the central challenge of natural resource management. Integrating multiple perspectives into decision-making adds flexibility to social?ecological systems by reducing rigidity and ...
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Gabriele Sottocornola, Sanja Baric, Fabio Stella and Markus Zanker
Post-harvest diseases are one of the main causes of economical losses in the apple fruit production sector. Therefore, this paper presents an application of a knowledge-based expert system to diagnose post-harvest diseases of apple. Specifically, we deta...
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Vladislav T. Todorov, Dmitry Rakov and Andreas Bardenhagen
Disruptive technologies and novel aircraft generations represent a potential approach to address the ambitious emission reduction goals in aviation. However, the introduction of innovative concepts is a time-consuming process, which might not necessarily...
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Gayan Dharmarathne, Gabriela F. Nane, Andrew Robinson and Anca M. Hanea
Mathematical aggregation of probabilistic expert judgments often involves weighted linear combinations of experts? elicited probability distributions of uncertain quantities. Experts? weights are commonly derived from calibration experiments based on the...
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Jaime K Devine, Lindsay P. Schwartz, Jake Choynowski and Steven R Hursh
Global demand for sleep-tracking wearables, or consumer sleep technologies (CSTs), is steadily increasing. CST marketing campaigns often advertise the scientific merit of devices, but these claims may not align with consensus opinion from sleep research ...
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Chongchong Guo and Wenhua Wu
Marine nuclear power platforms can continuously supply electricity and fresh water for marine resource exploration and surrounding islands. China?s first marine nuclear power platform uses a soft yoke multi-joint connect mode as the mooring positioning d...
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Christian Ulrich, Benjamin Frieske, Stephan A. Schmid and Horst E. Friedrich
Companies facing transformation in the automotive industry will need to adapt to new trends, technologies and functions, in order to remain competitive. The challenge is to anticipate such trends and to forecast their development over time. The aim of th...
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Johanna Merisalu, Jonas Sundell and Lars Rosén
Construction below the ground surface and underneath the groundwater table is often associated with groundwater leakage and drawdowns in the surroundings which subsequently can result in a wide variety of risks. To avoid groundwater drawdown-associated d...
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Emad Mohamed, Parinaz Jafari and Simaan AbouRizk
Currently, input modeling for Monte Carlo simulation (MSC) is performed either by fitting a probability distribution to historical data or using expert elicitation methods when historical data are limited. These approaches, however, are not suitable for ...
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