To address the increasing interest towards more environmentally friendly naval transportation and the introduction of IMO2020 restrictions on pollutant emissions onboard ships, the present work details the preliminary design of a mini gas turbine engine, i.e., a gas turbine engine with an output power up to 5 MW, for onboard energy generation.In co
The use of convolutional neural networks improved greatly data synthesis in the last years and have been widely used for data augmentation in scenarios where very imbalanced data is observed, such as land cover segmentation.Balancing the proportion of classes for training 9002nc segmentation models can be very challenging considering that samples w
It is well established that Asian Americans are fairly represented in professional occupations due to their high educational attainment.However, the representation of Asian sukrensi.com Americans in managerial occupations is still small.Despite the dramatic increase of Asian Americans as a percentage of the population in recent decades, not many st
IntroductionWhile increasing evidence points toward the benefits of musical activities in promoting cognitive and emotional well-being in older adults, more longitudinal studies are needed to establish their long-term effects and uncover the mechanisms through which musical activities affect well-being.Most previous research has focused on instrume