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A Particle Swarm Optimization With Lévy Flight for Service Caching and Task Offloading in Edge-Cloud Computing

IEEE Access, 2022
Edge-cloud computing is an efficient approach to address the high latency issue in mobile cloud computing for service provisioning, by placing several computing resources close to end devices. To improve the user satisfaction and the resource efficiency,
Tieliang Gao, Qigui Tang, Jiao Li, Yi Zhang, Yiqiu Li, Jingya Zhang   +5 more
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Microbiological safety of processed meat products formulated with low nitrite concentration — A review [PDF]

Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2018
Nitrite plays a major role in inhibiting the growth of foodborne pathogens, including Clostridium botulinum (C. botulinum) that causes botulism, a life-threatening disease. Nitrite serves as a color-fixing agent in processed meat products.
Soomin Lee, Heeyoung Lee, Sejeong Kim, Jeeyeon Lee, Jimyeong Ha, Yukyung Choi, Hyemin Oh, Kyoung-Hee Choi, Yohan Yoon   +8 more
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Results of testing of the efficacy of sublethal concentrations of bacterial-chemical insecticides combinations against cabbage moth larvae

Acta Agriculturae Slovenica, 2023
Using chemical pesticides has adverse effects on the environment and humans. Bacterial preparations may provide an alternative to chemical pesticides.
Hrant TERLEMEZYAN, Masis SARGSYAN, Harutyun HARUTYUNYAN, Noushig ZARIKIAN, Sona SARGSYAN, Gabriel KARAPETYAN, Habetnak MKRTCHYAN   +6 more
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Managing uncertainty in flood protection planning with climate projections [PDF]

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2018
Technical flood protection is a necessary part of integrated strategies to protect riverine settlements from extreme floods. Many technical flood protection measures, such as dikes and protection walls, are costly to adapt after their initial ...
B. Dittes, O. Špačková, L. Schoppa, D. Straub   +3 more
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Salmonella Derby adaptation to swine and simultaneous attenuation for humans go through decay of Salmonella Pathogenicity Island I

Microbiology Spectrum, 2023
We report the identification, within the global population of Salmonella Derby, of a lineage highly diffused and expanding in swine while being significantly under-represented in humans which carries stop mutations in the Salmonella Pathogenicity Island ...
Melissa Berni, Luca Bolzoni, Ilaria Menozzi, Alessandra Dodi, Chiara Bracchi, Marina Morganti, Erika Scaltriti, Stefano Pongolini, Martina Tambassi   +8 more
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MATLAB Virtual Toolbox for Retrospective Rockfall Source Detection and Volume Estimation Using 3D Point Clouds: A Case Study of a Subalpine Molasse Cliff

Geosciences, 2021
The use of 3D point clouds to improve the understanding of natural phenomena is currently applied in natural hazard investigations, including the quantification of rockfall activity.
Dario Carrea, Antonio Abellan, Marc-Henri Derron, Neal Gauvin, Michel Jaboyedoff   +4 more
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Assessing the Hazard of Deep-Seated Rock Slope Instability through the Description of Potential Failure Scenarios, Cross-Validated Using Several Remote Sensing and Monitoring Techniques

Remote Sensing, 2023
Foreseeing the failure of important unstable volumes is a major concern in the Alps, especially due to the presence of people and infrastructures in the valleys.
Charlotte Wolff, Michel Jaboyedoff, Li Fei, Andrea Pedrazzini, Marc-Henri Derron, Carlo Rivolta, Véronique Merrien-Soukatchoff   +6 more
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Natural hazard events affecting transportation networks in Switzerland from 2012 to 2016 [PDF]

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2018
Switzerland is threatened by many natural hazards. Many events occur in built-up environments, affecting infrastructure, buildings, and transportation networks, occasionally producing expensive damages.
J. Voumard, M.-H. Derron, M. Jaboyedoff
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On off-line and on-line Bayesian filtering for uncertainty quantification of structural deterioration

Data-Centric Engineering, 2023
Data-informed predictive maintenance planning largely relies on stochastic deterioration models. Monitoring information can be utilized to update sequentially the knowledge on model parameters.
Antonios Kamariotis, Luca Sardi, Iason Papaioannou, Eleni Chatzi, Daniel Straub   +4 more
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Mutation of hilD in a Salmonella Derby lineage linked to swine adaptation and reduced risk to human health

Scientific Reports, 2020
Salmonella enterica variants exhibit diverse host adaptation, outcome of infection, and associated risk to food safety. Analysis of the distribution of Salmonella enterica serovar Derby (S.
Martina Tambassi, Melissa Berni, Chiara Bracchi, Erika Scaltriti, Marina Morganti, Luca Bolzoni, Jennifer R. Tanner, Gaëtan Thilliez, Robert A. Kingsley, Stefano Pongolini, Gabriele Casadei   +10 more
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