CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study introduces a data‐driven surrogate modelling framework that combines an artificial neural network (ANN) with particle swarm optimisation (PSO) and a genetic algorithm (GA) to optimise methanol production under uncertain conditions.
Muhammad Zulkefal +4 more
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Hydrocracking of Waste Plastic Pyrolysis Oil and Light Cycle Oil (PPO/LCO) Blends in a Trickle-Bed Reactor: Catalyst Assessment and Operating-Condition Screening. [PDF]
Energy FuelsCrespo I +4 more
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CAFE Increases: Missing the Elephant in the Living Room [PDF]
In a Joint Center paper, Kleit and Lutter identify externalities of about $0.08 per mile for driving light duty vehicles. Rather than recognize the huge externalities from current driving, they focus on a tiny increment that would come from increasing ...
Gerard, David, Lave, Lester B.
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Lead in archived hair documents a decline in lead exposure to humans since the establishment of the US Environmental Protection Agency. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S ACerling TE, Fernandez DP, Smith KR.
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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Enhancing a job exposure matrix with subject-specific information to assess combined exposure to benzene, toluene, and xylene in a case-control study. [PDF]
Ann Work Expo HealthFriesen MC +9 more
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Homogeneous, heterogeneous or shrinkage estimators? Some empirical evidence from French regional gasoline consumption [PDF]
This paper contrasts the performance of heterogeneous and shrinkage estimators versus the more traditional homogeneous panel data estimators. The analysis utilizes a panel data set from 21 French regions over the period 1973-1998 and a dynamic demand ...
Alain Pirotte +3 more
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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
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Air-Liquid Interface (ALI) Exposure of Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells to Whole Gasoline Engine Exhaust Disrupts Autophagy and Proinflammatory Responses. [PDF]
ToxicsLi G +7 more
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