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Forecasting Traits: Human Personality Prediction with Machine Learning
In today's data-driven world, machine learning applications have permeated various aspects of our daily lives, presenting innovative solutions to complex problems. One such significant application lies in the realm of personality prediction, where individuals are classified based on their unique personality traits 
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  • 31 Oct 2024
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Pulsed Electric Fields' Impact on Milk's Nutritional Composition
Milk processing can cause the demolition of the milk fat globule membrane and induce interactions between whey protein and casein with membranes, leading to changes in pH, protein, and lactose content, as well as the destruction of vitamins and enzymes, hydrolysis of proteins and lipids, disruption of calcium and phosphorus equilibrium, and reduction of the cream layer. Pulsed electric fields (PEF) are gaining recognition in food processing due to their energy efficiency, minimal energy loss, flexibility, instantaneity, non-thermal nature, and environmental friendliness. It has also been found to reduce spoilage by microorganisms and the inactivation of undesirable enzymes, as well as its better retention of organoleptic and nutritional characteristics.
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  • 12 Jun 2023
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Authentic Learning
In education, authentic learning is an instructional approach that allows students to explore, discuss, and meaningfully construct concepts and relationships in contexts that involve real-world problems and projects that are relevant to the learner. It refers to a "wide variety of educational and instructional techniques focused on connecting what students are taught in school to real-world issues, problems, and applications. The basic idea is that students are more likely to be interested in what they are learning, more motivated to learn new concepts and skills, and better prepared to succeed in college, careers, and adulthood if what they are learning mirrors real-life contexts, equips them with practical and useful skills, and addresses topics that are relevant and applicable to their lives outside of school." Authentic instruction will take on a much different form than traditional teaching methods. In the traditional classroom, students take a passive role in the learning process. Knowledge is considered to be a collection of facts and procedures that are transmitted from the teacher to the student. In this view, the goal of education is to possess a large collection of these facts and procedures. Authentic learning, on the other hand, takes a constructivist approach, in which learning is an active process. Teachers provide opportunities for students to construct their own knowledge through engaging in self-directed inquiry, problem solving, critical thinking, and reflections in real-world contexts. This knowledge construction is heavily influenced by the student's prior knowledge and experiences, as well as by the characteristics that shape the learning environment, such as values, expectations, rewards, and sanctions. Education is more student-centered. Students no longer simply memorize facts in abstract and artificial situations, but they experience and apply information in ways that are grounded in reality.
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  • 14 Oct 2022
Biography
Jack R. Janney
Jack Raymond Janney (June 17, 1924 – October 9, 2006), born in Alamosa, Colorado, was a U.S. structural engineer and an innovator in the understanding of structural behavior and a recognized leader in the investigation of structural collapses. Janney’s love of mathematics and science spurred his decision to become an engineer, and in 1942, he enrolled in the College of Engineering at the Uni
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  • 06 Dec 2022
Biography
Rolf Heinrich Sabersky
Rolf Heinrich Sabersky (October 20, 1920 – October 24, 2016) was professor emeritus in mechanical engineering at Caltech. He worked with luminaries throughout his career including Apollo M. O. Smith and Theodore von Kármán at Aerojet. James Van Allan sought his expertise for the development of the Ajax and Bumblebee rocket programs. Rolf Heinrich Sabersky was born in Berlin, Germany. His
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  • 27 Dec 2022
Topic Review
Sea Waste to Enhance Sustainability in Composite Materials
The term “sea waste” generally refers to any solid, liquid, or gaseous material or substance that is discarded, disposed of, or abandoned in the ocean, sea, or any other body of salty water, such as a lagoon, etc. This includes waste generated by human activities on land that makes its way into the ocean, as well as waste generated by ships and other vessels at sea. Examples of sea waste include plastic debris, chemicals and toxic substances, oil spills, sewage, and other forms of pollution. These pollutants can harm marine ecosystems, endanger marine life, and impact human health and wellbeing. Sea waste can be recovered by its use into composite materials, as their reinforcement or as their matrix.  
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  • 26 May 2023
Topic Review
Photoactive Heterostructures
In this study we consider the results on the development and exploration of heterostructured photoactive materials with major attention focused on what are the better ways to form this type of materials and how to explore them correctly. Regardless of what type of heterostructure, metal–semiconductor or semiconductor–semiconductor, is formed, its functionality strongly depends on the quality of heterojunction. In turn, it depends on the selection of the heterostructure components (their chemical and physical properties) and on the proper choice of the synthesis method. Several examples of the different approaches such as in situ and ex situ, bottom-up and top-down, are reviewed. At the same time, even if the synthesis of heterostructured photoactive materials seems to be successful, strong experimental physical evidence demonstrating true heterojunction formation are required. A possibility for obtaining such evidence using different physical techniques is discussed.
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  • 24 Mar 2021
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Rent Regulation
Rent regulation is a system of laws, administered by a court or a public authority, which aim to ensure the affordability of housing and tenancies on the rental market for dwellings. Generally, a system of rent regulation involves: The classic objective is to limit the price that would result from the free market. The loose term "rent control" can apply to several types of price control: Comprehensive rent regulation is common in Commonwealth and European Union countries, including Canada, Germany, Ireland, Cyprus, Sweden, and four states in the United States . A majority of OECD countries maintain rent-regulation laws, some changing to softer rent controls. A 2009 review of the economic literature:106 by Blair Jenkins through EconLit covering theoretical and empirical research on multiple aspects of the issue, including housing availability, maintenance and housing quality, rental rates, political and administrative costs, and redistribution for both first generation and second generation rent control systems found that “the economics profession has reached a rare consensus: Rent control creates many more problems than it solves”.:105 :1 :1 :1
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  • 09 Nov 2022
Biography
Billy Guin
Billy James Guin, Sr. (born November 14, 1927),[1] is a retired businessman and engineer from Shreveport, Louisiana, who was from 1977 to 1978 his city's last public utilities commissioner under the former commission system of municipal government.[2] Since 1961, Guin has been involved in the development of the Louisiana Republican Party to majority status in his state. In 1964, he and two other
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  • 27 Dec 2022
Topic Review
Nano-grating Assisted Light Absorption and MSM-PDs Performance
The nano-grating assisted MSM-PDs are preordained to be decorous for many emerging and existing communication device applications. There have been a significant number of research works conducted on the implementation of nano-gratings, and still, more researches are ongoing to raise the performance of MSM-PDs particularly, in terms of enhancing the light absorption potentialities.
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  • 15 Dec 2021
Topic Review
List of AMD Athlon XP Microprocessors
The Athlon XP microprocessor from AMD is a seventh-generation 32-bit CPU targeted at the consumer market.
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  • 10 Oct 2022
Biography
Robert W. Farquhar
Robert Willard Farquhar (September 12, 1932 – October 18, 2015) was an American mission design specialist who worked for NASA. He designed halo orbits and was involved in a number of spaceflight missions. Robert Farquhar was born Robert Greener on September 12, 1932 in Chicago , Illinois. His father left when he was six weeks old and his mother remarried when he was thirteen years old, marr
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  • 22 Nov 2022
Topic Review
KhalifaSat
KhalifaSat is a remote sensing Earth observation satellite which was manufactured starting in South Korea but eventually moved to the United Arab Emirates in the last stages of production. Satrec Initiative have previously built both two satellites for the UAE in the past: DubaiSat-1 and DubaiSat-2. It launched into orbit on 30 October 2018 from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center using the Korean Satrec SI-300 bus. The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre is a Dubai government based space centre working on the National Space programme. MBRSC already has two Earth observation satellites in orbit, DubaiSat-1 and DubaiSat-2, which were built in partnership with Satrec Initiative, a South Korean satellite manufacturer. The project was officially announced by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Ruler of Dubai, in December 2013. The manufacture of KhalifaSat began in South Korea at Satrec Initiative's facilities. A team of Emirati engineers used the facilities there while the Advanced Technology Laboratories under the supervision of Korean Satrec scientists. In early 2015, the project was moved to MBRSC for the finishing touches.
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  • 24 Nov 2022
Biography
Murray Raney
Murray Raney (October 14, 1885 – March 3, 1966) was an United States mechanical engineer born in Carrollton, Kentucky. He was the developer of a nickel catalyst that became known as Raney nickel, which is often used in industrial processes and scientific research for the hydrogenation of multiple covalent bonds present in molecules. Raney was born in Carrollton, Kentucky, to William Wallace
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  • 17 Nov 2022
Biography
David R. Bennion
David Ralph Bennion was a leading California winemaker who was the founder and winemaker at Ridge Vineyards in California from 1959 to 1969. From an early period, Bennion labeled Ridge Vineyards wines by vineyard, district and appellation, a first for California Zinfandel and a practice later followed by nearly every winery in the state. Bennion started his career at Stanford Research Institu
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  • 02 Dec 2022
Biography
Sergey Oulianine
Sergey Alekseevich Oulianine (Russian: Серге́й Алексе́евич Улья́нин, (25 September [O.S. 13 September] 1871, Moscow — 13 October 1921, London) was a Russia aircraft designer and military pilot, a pioneer of military use of aerial photography, commander of Russian Air Force in 1917-1918. Born into a family of gentry of the Moscow Governorate. The other spelling of t
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  • 06 Dec 2022
Topic Review
Behavior of Nuclear Fuel During a Reactor Accident
This page describes how uranium dioxide nuclear fuel behaves during both normal nuclear reactor operation and under reactor accident conditions, such as overheating. Work in this area is often very expensive to conduct, and so has often been performed on a collaborative basis between groups of countries, usually under the aegis of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI).
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  • 19 Oct 2022
Biography
Elzy Burroughs
Elzy Burroughs (1771/77–1825) was an American stonemason, engineer, lighthouse builder and keeper. Elzy Burroughs was born and raised in Stafford County, Virginia. Elzy Burroughs' family leased and operated a sandstone quarry in the Aquia Creek area of Stafford County. Known as Aquia sandstone, material from quarries in this area was utilized in the construction of Mount Vernon, the United St
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  • 13 Dec 2022
Topic Review
Smart City Transformation
Cities worldwide are experiencing rapid urbanization and an increasing population, creating a pressing need for smart infrastructure to enhance citizen services. Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, faces similar technological and socio-economic challenges, making it crucial to transform it into a sustainable smart city.
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  • 21 Apr 2023
Topic Review
Level of Service
Level of service (LOS) is a qualitative measure used to relate the quality of motor vehicle traffic service. LOS is used to analyze roadways and intersections by categorizing traffic flow and assigning quality levels of traffic based on performance measure like vehicle speed, density, congestion, etc.
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  • 12 Oct 2022
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