Predicting mammographic density with linear ultrasound transducers
Background High mammographic density (MD) is a risk factor for the development of breast cancer (BC). Changes in MD are influenced by multiple factors such as age, BMI, number of full-term pregnancies and lactating periods.
Annika Behrens+18 more
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Evaluation of the methanogenic potential of anaerobic digestion of agro-industrial wastes
Waste management technologies have become a way to generate value-added products. Anaerobic digestion (AD) allows biogas generation by treating organic wastes.
Rodrigo Sequeda Barros+4 more
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This paper presents a design approach of robust active vibration control schemes for vehicle suspension systems using differential flatness, sliding modes and Generalized Proportional-Integral control techniques to attenuate undesirable vibrations ...
Esteban Chávez Conde+3 more
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MANAGEMENT ELEMENTS OF THE EMERGENT METROPOLITAN AREAS IN A TRANSITION COUNTRY. ROMANIA, AS CASE STUDY [PDF]
Complex processes, specific to the countries in transition, have had major impacts on restructuring the territorial management systems. The removal of restrictions of limiting urban expansion, imposed by the totalitarian regime, has allowed the rapid ...
Ioan IANOȘ+3 more
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Cost-Effective Edge Server Placement in Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks
Remote clouds are gradually unable to achieve ultra-low latency to meet the requirements of mobile users because of the intolerable long distance between remote clouds and mobile users and the network congestion caused by the tremendous number of users ...
Feng Zeng+3 more
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Measuring Sustainable Development Goals at a Local Level: A Case of a Metropolitan Area in Romania
Metropolitan areas became the breeding ground for economic, political, and cultural concentration as well as for creativity and innovation. Therefore, sustainability within the urban dimension plays a crucial role in the overall success to attain the ...
J. Nagy, J. Benedek, K. Ivan
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SUSTAINABLE METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT – GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES IN CLUJ METROPOLITAN AREA
Nowadays the success of the urban management is largely dependent on the capacity to adopt efficient instruments that are able to deal with and adjust the complexity of urban systems to the necessities demanded under the ethos of sustainable development.
Júlia A. NAGY
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Sustainable Mobility in Metropolitan Areas [PDF]
Transport is one of the four priorities of the EU Thematic Strategy on Urban Environment. Cities concentrate 80% of European population and transport is a key element for their economic vitality. However it also produces pollution, noise, global warming, congestion, etc.
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Spatiotemporal Simulation of Future Land Use/Cover Change Scenarios in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area
Simulating future land use/cover changes is of great importance for urban planners and decision-makers, especially in metropolitan areas, to maintain a sustainable environment.
Ruci Wang, Ahmed Derdouri, Y. Murayama
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Emission reduction strategy between Chinese and foreign metropolitan areas [PDF]
Because of the important position of metropolitan areas in the national economy, this paper puts forward the important responsibility of metropolitan areas in a country’s emission reduction task.
Wang Jun
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