Forging a green future: synergizing Industry 4.0 technologies and circular economy tactics to achieve net-zero in sustainable supply chains by El Jaouhari, Asmae, Samadhiya, Ashutosh, Benbrahim, Fatima Zahra, Kumar, Anil, Luthra, Sunil

“…As part of this objective, the paper conducts an exploratory systematic review of selected articles published in peer-reviewed journals. Three main categories are identified from the selected articles: (i) CE principles and I4.0 technologies integration, (ii) the role of CE-I4.0 nexus in a sustainable supply chain (iii) leveraging CE-4.0 integration for net zero sustainable supply chains. …”
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Unequal health: the scandal of our times by Dorling, D

“…He provides nine new chapters and updates a wide selection of his highly influential writings on health, including international-peer reviewed studies, annotated lectures, newspaper articles, and interview transcripts, to create an accessible collection that is both contemporary and authoritative. …”

Sexual selection predicts the persistence of populations within altered environments by Parrett, Jonathan M., Mann, Darren J., Chung, Arthur Y. C., Slade, Eleanor M., Knell, Robert J.

“…The effect of sexual selection on species persistence remains unclear. The cost of bearing ornaments or armaments might increase extinction risk, but sexual selection can also enhance the spread of beneficial alleles and increase the removal of deleterious alleles, potentially reducing extinction risk. …”
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A novel approach based on the elastoplastic fatigue damage and machine learning models for life prediction of aerospace alloy parts fabricated by additive manufacturing by Zhan, Zhixin, Li, Hua

“…In the aerospace engineering, many metal parts produced using Additive Manufacturing (AM) technique often bear cyclic loadings, so the fatigue failures of AM alloy parts become very common phenomena. …”
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Minimum Wage Policy Effects on Economic Efficiency and Poverty (S/O 12183) by Abd Karim, Mohd Zaini, Hassan, Sallahuddin, Gee, Chan Sok

“…First, the mere presence of minimum wage policy does not have any bearing on efficiency, poverty and income inequality. …”
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Resonant forward-scattered field in the high-saturation regime : elastic and inelastic contributions by Kwong, Chang Chi, Wellens, T., Pandey, K., Wilkowski, David

“…We measure the resonant forward scattering of light by a highly saturated atomic medium through the flashes emitted immediately after an abrupt extinction of the probe beam. The experiment is done in a dilute regime where the phenomena are well captured using the independent scattering approximation. …”
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Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography with dual-balanced detection for auto-correlation artifacts reduction by Bo, En, Liu, Xinyu, Chen, Si, Yu, Xiaojun, Wang, Xianghong, Liu, Linbo

“…This system employed a free-space Michelson interferometer, at the refraction plane of whose beam splitter, the light reflected experienced a π/2 phase shift with respect to the light transmitted. …”
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A deterministic mechanism for efficient removal of arsenic and lead from wastewater using rapidly synthesized TiO2-(α-Fe2O3) nanoshells by Alshammari, Teflah K., Ghoshal, Sib Krishna, Bakhtiar, Hazri, Alhajj, Mahmood, Salim, Ali Aqeel, Alias, Siti Salwa

“…The produced nanocomposites were customized by targeting Ti that was submerged in deionized water as growth medium and then irradiate using the laser pulses with an optimum laser energy 10.6 J/cm2, spot focused size of 1.2 ± 0.2 mm, frequency of 6 Hz, and laser beam with a pulse duration of 8 ns for 15 minutes. …”

Behaviour of steel reinforced concrete columns with high strength materials by Cai, Yan Qing

“…Nevertheless, the proposed method was conservative in predicting the bearing capacity of columns with normal and high strength materials. …”
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Compression dynamics and radiation emission from a deuterium plasma focus by Muhammad Shahid Rafique.

“…In order to study the correlation between the total neutron yield and the time-integrated energy spectra of the axially emitted deuteron beam, on a shot-to-shot basis, a magnetic spectrometer was successfully designed, constructed and implemented. …”
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Adaptive macro spatial modulation for mmWave dense networks by Luo, Sheng, Che, Yue Ling, Wu, Kaishun, Teh, Kah Chan

“…In the proposed scheme, a user equipment (UE) adaptively establishes communication links with multiple small base stations (SBSs) and switches its beam direction between these SBSs according to part of its transmitting information. …”
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Study on the passive mode-locking of Nd:GdVO4 laser by Lim, Kang Wei.

“…Measurements were taken from the output beam. From the experiment, we will demonstrate the stable high-power continuous wave mode-locking in the diode-pumped Nd:GdVO4 crystal laser.…”
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Robotic formation control in micro world by Lai, Chin Hong

“…Optical Tweezer (OT) systems operate via the use of a laser beam to create piconewton force over a focal point. …”
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Impact of E-learning activities on English as a second language proficiency among engineering cohorts of Malaysian higher education: a 7-month longitudinal study by Buragohain. Dipima, Punpeng, Grisana, Jaratjarungkiat, Sureenate, Chaudhary, Sushank

“…Moreover, the implementation of such innovative technology can motivate students to engage in more peer interactivity, learning engagement, and self-directed learning.…”
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Evaluating the effectiveness of online lectures in developing problem-solving skills in engineering students by Puah, Alice Xee Ran

“…The study suggest that online lectures and courses should incorporate digital tools and implement regular formative assessments to allow for peer collaboration and immediate feedback from instructors, thereby enhancing learning outcomes. …”
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Content routing and lookup schemes using global bloom filter for content-delivery-as-a-service by Jin, Yichao, Wen, Yonggang

“…The global CCBF adds our system with the capability to early check the existence of any specific content among all the peering surrogates, before any local checking on each cache node. …”
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Impact of international professional mobility programmes: a systematic literature review by Hanley, N, Tyson, LS, Wang, Z, Kwak, J, Akkad, A, Vari-Lavoisier, I, Chankseliani, M

“…(2) What contributions do participants make at organisational, community, and national levels after participating in IPM? Drawing on 78 peer-reviewed studies and employing a Mixed-Methods Research Synthesis approach, this review provides a comprehensive analysis of how IPM fosters professional expertise, intercultural competencies, and career advancement, while also generating broader societal impacts. …”

Game-theoretic expert importance evaluation model guided by cooperation effects for social network group decision making. by Liu, Zeyi, Tao, Wen, Yong, Deng, Fujita, Hamido

“…An interaction indicator is then exploited to represent peer interaction effort (PIE). With the log-sigmoid transition technique, individual social cooperation networks (ISCNs) are then constructed. …”

36 stratagems & applications by Soe Thiha @ Nyan Lin Htun

“…There are some 6 different fields of strategies for different state of the situation, starting when one is superior, gaining ground to losing, each bearing 6 individual strategies each. It is now widely accepted that some war strategies could be applied in business world, behavioral science and thus taken another leap trying to better apply in other areas such as geopolitical affairs, behavioral change, public policy etc. …”
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Impact of jet fuel hedging on firm value : a study on global airlines. by Quah, Hui Li., Tan, Jazreel Yan Zhen., Teo, Lay Hui.

“…We also find three factors, namely managerial shares and options holdings, financial distress costs and the presence of alternative hedging mechanism that have significant bearing on airlines’ hedging decisions. Upon understanding how hedging value adds across different regions and periods of fuel price volatility, investors can pay more attention to these three factors in order to accurately predict and assess airlines’ hedging decisions. …”
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