The paper outlines the most important shipbuilding strategies in Romania that would allow this industry to increase its performance to be competitive.The research is mainly based on the collection of information from experts in the field from ANCONAV (Romanian Shipbuilders Association), specialists in design and production, and shipyard managers in
This paper is a first step towards a conservation plan for the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve (K2C) on the South African Central Lowveld, quantifying the historical land-cover trends (1993 - 2006).During the analysis period, 36% of the biosphere reserve (BR) underwent land-cover change.Settlement areas increased by 39.7%, mainly in rural areas
Deep-learning architectures were employed to simulate the self-piercing riveting process of steel and aluminum sheets and predict the cross-sectional joint shape with a zero head height.Four steels (SPRC440, SPFC590DP, GI780DP, SGAFC980Y) and three aluminum alloys (Al5052, Al5754, Al5083) were considered as the materials for the top and bottom shee
The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of 10 mM silicon (Si) application on salt stress (50, 100, and 200 mM NaCl) tolerance in Hungarian vetch seedlings (Ege Beyazi-79) based on growth parameters (shoot length and fresh weight, organic dry matter, and moisture), bioactive compounds as chlorophyll, carotenoid, proline, protein, n
The digital transformation process of power systems towards smart grids is resulting in improved reliability, efficiency and situational awareness at the expense of increased cybersecurity vulnerabilities.Given the availability of large volumes of smart grid data, machine learning-based methods are considered an effective way to improve cybersecuri