While the European Union (EU) might not do likewise, Fortress Europe is definitely enlarging. Reports (see, for example, Akkerman 2018) underline the momentous growth in Europe's border externalisation policies using various ...

This paper introduces two significant contributions: one is a new feature based on histograms of MFCC (Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients) extracted from the audio files that can be used in emotion classification from ...

Recently, digital manufacturing has been termed the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0). Implementation of digital manufacturing revolutionizes the construction industry with the potential of freeform architecture, ...

Investigating the influence of process parameters is vital to enhance the mechanical properties of nanoparticle reinforced polymer composites. Nanocomposites of polypropylene/nanoclay are prepared by the extrusion method. ...

We describe a proposal to add a set of very forward detectors to the CMS experiment for the high-luminosity era of the Large Hadron Collider to search for beyond the standard model long-lived particles, such as dark photons, ...

The purpose of this study is to identify the locations of distribution facilities and choose the suppliers in a two echelon system where items are purchased from suppliers under quantity discount policy and distributed to ...

This paper reports on an investigation of Turkish English-medium university students’ perceptions of the change in their language ability and the factors affecting this change. Results revealed that 1) when students are ...

We study a sports scheduling problem with the objective of minimizing carry-over effects in round robin tournaments. In the first part, focusing on tournaments that allow minimum number of breaks (at most one) for each ...