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

open access: yesIEEE 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   +5 more
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Microbiological safety of processed meat products formulated with low nitrite concentration — A review [PDF]

open access: yesAsian-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   +8 more
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Results of testing of the efficacy of sublethal concentrations of bacterial-chemical insecticides combinations against cabbage moth larvae

open access: yesActa 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   +6 more
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Managing uncertainty in flood protection planning with climate projections [PDF]

open access: yesHydrology 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   +3 more
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Salmonella Derby adaptation to swine and simultaneous attenuation for humans go through decay of Salmonella Pathogenicity Island I

open access: yesMicrobiology 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   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

MATLAB Virtual Toolbox for Retrospective Rockfall Source Detection and Volume Estimation Using 3D Point Clouds: A Case Study of a Subalpine Molasse Cliff

open access: yesGeosciences, 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   +4 more
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Natural hazard events affecting transportation networks in Switzerland from 2012 to 2016 [PDF]

open access: yesNatural 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
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesRemote 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   +6 more
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A Risk Analysis of Risk Analysis [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Contemporary Water Research & Education, 2008
Probabilistic risk or decision analysis is the most rigourous approach to engineering solutions to fiddicult diecision making problems involvingt uncertainty. A large body of theory and applications has been developed for probabilistic risk analysis, and it is commonly taught at universities.
openaire   +1 more source

Detecting and characterizing mixed infections with genetic variants of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) by developing an ankA cluster-specific nested PCR

open access: yesParasites & Vectors, 2017
Background Anaplasma phagocytophilum is a tick-transmitted Gram-negative obligate intracellular bacterium able to infect a wide variety of wild and domestic animals worldwide.
Maggy Jouglin   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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