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Young Hwan Choi and Joong Hoon Kim
This study compares the performance of self-adaptive optimization approaches in efficient water distribution systems (WDS) design and presents a guide for the selection of the appropriate method employing optimization utilizing the characteristic of each...
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João Dehon Pontes Filho, Maria Manuela Portela, Ticiana Marinho de Carvalho Studart and Francisco de Assis Souza Filho
The standardized precipitation index (SPI), is one of the most used drought indices. However, it is difficult to use to monitor the ongoing drought characteristics because it cannot be expeditiously related to precipitation deficits. It also does not pro...
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Lin Guo, Anand Balu Nellippallil, Warren F. Smith, Janet K. Allen and Farrokh Mistree
When dealing with engineering design problems, designers often encounter nonlinear and nonconvex features, multiple objectives, coupled decision making, and various levels of fidelity of sub-systems. To realize the design with limited computational resou...
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Dthenifer Cordeiro Santana, Gustavo de Faria Theodoro, Ricardo Gava, João Lucas Gouveia de Oliveira, Larissa Pereira Ribeiro Teodoro, Izabela Cristina de Oliveira, Fábio Henrique Rojo Baio, Carlos Antonio da Silva Junior, Job Teixeira de Oliveira and Paulo Eduardo Teodoro
Using multispectral sensors attached to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can assist in the collection of morphological and physiological information from several crops. This approach, also known as high-throughput phenotyping, combined with data processin...
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Gamil Gamal, Pavol Nejedlik and Ahmed M. El Kenawy
Understanding long-term variations in precipitation is crucial for identifying the effects of climate change and addressing hydrological and water management issues. This study examined the trends of the mean and four extreme precipitation indices, which...
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Naseer Muhammad Khan, Liqiang Ma, Muhammad Zaka Emad, Tariq Feroze, Qiangqiang Gao, Saad S. Alarifi, Li Sun, Sajjad Hussain and Hui Wang
The brittleness index is one of the most integral parameters used in assessing rock bursts and catastrophic rock failures resulting from deep underground mining activities. Accurately predicting this parameter is crucial for effectively monitoring rock b...
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Davinder Malhotra and Srinivas Nippani
This study investigates the risk-adjusted performance of energy equity mutual funds across a 23-year period, employing the Cumulative Wealth Index (CWI) to gauge their long-term performance relative to benchmark indices. Despite inherent volatility due t...
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Leonardo Pinto de Magalhães and Fabrício Rossi
In the cultivation of maize, the leaf area index (LAI) serves as an important metric to determine the development of the plant. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that capture RGB images, along with random forest regression (RFR), can be used to indirectly ...
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Niki Balkamou and George Papagiannopoulos
Steel Plate Shear Walls (SPSW) provide significant lateral load capacity and can be utilized in the seismic retrofit and upgrade of existing reinforced concrete (r/c) buildings. In this study, the application of SPSW to retrofit a r/c building designed a...
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Jian Liang, Meng-Yuan Shu, Hai-Rui Huang, Chae-Woo Ma and Seon-Kyu Kim
As the global population continues to grow, sandy beaches, one of the most valuable ecosystems, have been widely impacted by human activities. Therefore, to develop policies for the conservation and management of sandy beaches, the impact of human activi...
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