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CONSORT 2010 statement: extension to randomised pilot and feasibility trials by Eldridge, Sandra M, Chan, Claire L, Campbell, Michael J, Bond, Christine M, Hopewell, Sally, Thabane, Lehana, Lancaster, Gillian A

“…The Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement is a guideline designed to improve the transparency and quality of the reporting of…”
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Converse flexoelectricity yields large piezoresponse force microscopy signals in non-piezoelectric materials by Abdollahi, Amir, Domingo, Neus, Arias, Irene, Catalan, Gustau

“…Converse flexoelectricity is a mechanical stress induced by an electric polarization gradient. It can appear in any material, irrespective of symmetry,…”
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The Shared Customer Collaboration Vehicle Routing Problem by Fernández, Elena, Roca-Riu, Mireia, Speranza, M. Grazia

“…•We introduce the Shared Customer Collaboration Vehicle Routing Problem.•There are potential savings when carriers collaborate to serve shared customers.•Two…”
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n-Fold integer programming in cubic time by Hemmecke, Raymond, Onn, Shmuel, Romanchuk, Lyubov

“…n -Fold integer programming is a fundamental problem with a variety of natural applications in operations research and statistics…”
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Optimization of a regularized distortion measure to generate curved high-order unstructured tetrahedral meshes by Gargallo-Peiró, A., Roca, X., Peraire, J., Sarrate, J.

“…Summary We present a robust method for generating high‐order nodal tetrahedral curved meshes. The approach consists of modifying an initial linear mesh by…”
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Flexoelectric MEMS: towards an electromechanical strain diode by Bhaskar, U K, Banerjee, N, Abdollahi, A, Solanas, E, Rijnders, G, Catalan, G

“…Piezoelectricity and flexoelectricity are two independent but not incompatible forms of electromechanical response exhibited by nanoscale ferroelectrics. Here,…”
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Finding the most sustainable wind farm sites with a hierarchical outranking decision aiding method by Afsordegan, Arayeh, Del Vasto-Terrientes, Luis, Valls, Aida, Agell, Núria, Sánchez, Mónica

“…This paper considers the problem of finding suitable sites for wind farms in a region of Catalonia (Spain). The evaluation criteria are structured into a…”
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Confined Bilayers Passively Regulate Shape and Stress by Staykova, Margarita, Arroyo, Marino, Rahimi, Mohammad, Stone, Howard A.

“…Lipid membranes are commonly confined to adjacent subcellular structures or to artificial substrates and particles. We develop an experimental and theoretical…”
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Ideal Hierarchical Secret Sharing Schemes by Farras, O., Padro, C.

“…Hierarchical secret sharing is among the most natural generalizations of threshold secret sharing, and it has attracted a lot of attention since the invention…”
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Power in voting rules with abstention: an axiomatization of a two components power index by Freixas, Josep, Lucchetti, Roberto

“…In order to study voting situations when voters can also abstain and the output is binary, i.e., either approval or rejection, a new extended model of voting…”
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Scheduling policies for multi-period services by Núñez-del-Toro, Cristina, Fernández, Elena, Kalcsics, Jörg, Nickel, Stefan

“…•Integer programming formulations are proposed and analyzed.•A heuristic solution algorithm is presented…”
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A surface mesh smoothing and untangling method independent of the CAD parameterization by Gargallo-Peiró, Abel, Roca, Xevi, Sarrate, Josep

“…A method to optimize triangular and quadrilateral meshes on parameterized surfaces is proposed. The optimization procedure relocates the nodes on the surface…”
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Passenger flow simulation in a hub airport: An application to the Barcelona International Airport by Fonseca i Casas, P., Casanovas, J., Ferran, X.

“…•Theoretical model that can be applied to the microsimulation of an airport.•Formal language to represent all the airport processes.•Representation of the…”
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Multi-depot rural postman problems by Fernández, Elena, Rodríguez-Pereira, Jessica

“… Linear integer programming formulations that only use binary variables are proposed for the problem that minimizes the overall routing costs and for the model that minimizes the length of the longest route…”
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The Generalized Arc Routing Problem by Aráoz, Julián, Fernández, Elena, Franquesa, Carles

“… into clusters and a route is sought that visits at least one vertex of each cluster. A mathematical programming formulation that exploits the structure of the problem and uses only binary variables is proposed…”
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Algebraic and Parametric Solvers for the Power Flow Problem: Towards Real-Time and Accuracy-Guaranteed Simulation of Electric Systems by García-Blanco, Raquel, Díez, Pedro, Borzacchiello, Domenico, Chinesta, Francisco

“…The power flow model performs the analysis of electric distribution and transmission systems. With this statement at hand, in this work we present a summary of…”
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Promoting consensus in the concept mapping methodology: An application in the hospitality sector by Fornells, Albert, Rodrigo, Zaida, Rovira, Xari, Sánchez, Mónica, Santomà, Ricard, Teixidó-Navarro, Francesc, Golobardes, Elisabet

“…•A new method for improving the concept mapping methodology is presented.•The global index of consensus (GIc) scores the clustering configurations.•GIc is…”
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An atomistic-based foliation model for multilayer graphene materials and nanotubes by Ghosh, Susanta, Arroyo, Marino

“…We present a three-dimensional continuum model for layered crystalline materials made out of weakly interacting two-dimensional crystalline sheets. We…”
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Voting games with abstention: Linking completeness and weightedness by Freixas, Josep, Tchantcho, Bertrand, Tedjeugang, Narcisse

“…Weighted games for several levels of approval in input and output were introduced in [9]. An extension of the desirability relation for simple games, called…”
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Analysis of Applications to Improve the Energy Savings in Residential Buildings Based on Systemic Quality Model by Fonseca i Casas, Antoni, Fonseca i Casas, Pau, Casanovas, Josep

“…Creating a definition of the features and the architecture of a new Energy Management Software (EMS…”
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