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Category: Engineering & Energy

  • Optimized acoustic switch improves transmission contrast

    This research indicates that a tunable acoustic switch based on multiresonant asymmetric scatterers can control acoustic insulation and transmission by rotating the scatterers by 90 degrees.

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  • ICSSSM 2025 highlighted interdisciplinary smart systems research

    This research indicates that the First International Conference on Smart Systems and Social Management featured strong interdisciplinary engagement across seven major tracks, with presentations on AI, IoT, digital governance, and smart library services.

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  • About 10% of medicines reviewed were classified as dangerous goods

    This research indicates that around 10% of medicines examined in a U.K. healthcare setting were classified as dangerous goods, and that current compliance procedures may not scale well as drone logistics expands.

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  • Online genetic programming improved flexible job shop scheduling

    This research indicates that online genetic programming can learn scheduling strategies directly in the operating environment and outperform existing algorithms on dynamic flexible job shop scheduling problems.

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  • CORSIA may conflict with WTO trade rules

    This research indicates that Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation measures may conflict with World Trade Organization nondiscrimination and trade rules, especially around exemptions, sustainable aviation fuel mandates, and carbon credit standards.

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  • V2G cycling showed similar fade to high-SOC storage

    This research indicates that vehicle-to-grid cycling at shallow state of charge ranges can produce capacity fade similar to storage at high state of charge, while temperature is the main factor speeding degradation.

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  • Hybrid renewable microgrids met zero-reliability-loss EV charging goals

    This research indicates that a hybrid solar-wind-battery-hydrogen microgrid can meet near-zero power-supply loss for electric vehicle charging, with different optimal designs in Egypt and Türkiye.

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  • Fuel-cell hybrid truck shows energy losses and thermal management limits

    This research indicates that a fuel-cell hybrid electric heavy-duty truck had substantial energy losses in the powertrain, limited energy recovery during braking, and temperature-control challenges under user-defined driving cycles.

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  • Coupled finite element method simulates frost-driven rock cracking

    This research indicates that a thermo-hydro-mechanical coupled field-enriched finite element method can accurately simulate water-ice phase transition induced crack propagation in rock masses.

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  • Energy transition model shows long-term GDP gains and higher unemployment

    This research indicates that an energy transition aligned with carbon neutrality could raise gross domestic product in the long term but also increase unemployment during the transition.

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