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Implementing smart factory of Industrie 4.0: an outlook
TL;DR: This paper proposes a brief framework that incorporates industrial wireless networks, cloud, and fixed or mobile terminals with smart artifacts such as machines, products, and conveyors and concludes that the smart factory of Industrie 4.0 is achievable by extensively applying the existing enabling technologies while actively coping with the technical challenges.
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Towards smart factory for industry 4.0
TL;DR: A smart factory framework that incorporates industrial network, cloud, and supervisory control terminals with smart shop-floor objects such as machines, conveyers, and products is presented and an intelligent negotiation mechanism for agents to cooperate with each other is proposed.
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Changes in the worldwide epidemiology of peritoneal dialysis
Philip Kam-Tao Li,Kai Ming Chow,Moniek W.M. van de Luijtgaarden,David W. Johnson,Kitty J Jager,Rajnish Mehrotra,Sarala Naicker,Roberto Pecoits-Filho,Xueqing Yu,Norbert Lameire +9 more
TL;DR: Use of this therapy is increasing in some countries, but has proportionally decreased in parts of Europe and in Japan, and further growth in peritoneal dialysis use is required to enable this modality to become an integral part of renal replacement therapy programmes worldwide.
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Polluting thy neighbor: Unintended consequences of China's pollution reduction mandates
Hongbin Cai,Yuyu Chen,Qing Gong +2 more
TL;DR: This article applied the difference-in-differences-indifferences (DDD) method to a unique dataset on industry-level activities in counties along 24 major rivers in China from 1998 through 2008, and found that the most downstream county of a province has up to 20 percent more water-polluting activities than otherwise identical counties.
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China rethinks unrest
TL;DR: In this article, internal data from China's own police indicate that protests are growing in number and increasing in size, and the struggle to control unrest will force Beijing's leaders and other countries to face riskier dilemmas than at any time since the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations.