Background: Building defects and inadequate maintenance management can compromise the safety, functionality, serviceability, and long-term performance of public buildings. In Jordan, empirical evidence linking defect assessment with systematic maintenance prioritisation remains l...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i81985
Suleiman S. Abba, Oluwadayo Mafolasere Olaniyi, Odunayo Sekinat Sobowale, Sunday Abayomi Joseph & Abayomi Titilola Olutimehin·Journal of Engineering Research and Reports·2026
Enterprise cybersecurity has shifted from perimeter defence toward continuously verified architectures, yet zero trust, layered defence, and formal risk governance are typically adopted in isolation, producing fragmented estates in which expenditure rises while measurable resilie...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i81984
Aims: This study developed and evaluated a humanoid joint-space motion-tracking controller integrating standard Kalman filtering, adaptive proportional-integral-derivative feedback and model-based inverse-dynamics feedforward compensation. Study Design: A twenty-trial Monte Carlo...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i81983
Photographic practice has been reorganised twice within a single generation. The first reorganisation replaced chemical development with electronic sensing and file-based editing; the second replaced single-exposure capture with multi-frame estimation, learned reconstruction and,...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i81982
Railway networks remain capital-intensive and safety-critical, yet maintenance still relies heavily on reactive and calendar-driven regimes that underexploit the condition data modern systems generate. Published machine-learning applications remain fragmented across asset classes...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i81979
Groundwater is the principal source of water for domestic purposes in many parts of Eket Metropolis, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, and its quality is therefore relevant to public health. This study presents a health risk assessment of heavy metals in groundwater used for domestic pur...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i81980
The present study investigates the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) mixed convection flow and heat transfer characteristics of an Eyring-Powell nanofluid over a cone in the presence of nonlinear thermal buoyancy, thermal radiation, Brownian motion, thermophoresis, temperature-dependent...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i81981
This study addresses voltage instability in developing-economy transmission grids by determining the optimal placement and sizing of Static Var Compensators (SVCs) on the Nigerian 330 kV, 50-bus network. Although metaheuristic techniques have been widely applied to FACTS device a...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i81976
Aims/Objectives: This study aimed to develop a multiparametric Model Predictive Control (mp-MPC) framework for the thermal regulation of a single-zone space conditioned by a window-type air-conditioning (AC) unit. The framework shifts the optimisation burden offline so that an ex...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i81977
Ginger is highly perishable because of its high moisture content, and conventional sun drying is often constrained by variable weather conditions, contamination, and prolonged drying periods. Indirect forced-convection photovoltaic/thermal solar dryers offer a promising approach...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i81978