Reuse of building components – Assessment system to support decisions in indoor re-layout interventions by Giancarlo Paganin, Cinzia Maria Luisa Talamo, Nazly Atta, Elisa Tinelli

“… Compared to other industrial fields, the construction sector, although encouraged by a framework of international policies that push towards spreading circular economy principles, still needs to adopt new ‘closed cycle’ resource management models. …”
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Probability of Local Liquefaction of Saturated Sands in Half-Space Domains under a Train of Surface Point Explosions by Luis A. de Béjar

“…The load effect is evaluated in approximate closed form using three-dimensional tensorial mathematical physics in polar cylindrical coordinates. The adopted criterion of liquefaction has been experimentally verified both in the laboratory and in the field when continua of saturated sands were subjected to equivalent cyclic shear stress due to earthquake excitation. …”
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Analytic Formula for the Vibration and Sound Radiation of a Nonlinear Duct by Yiu-Yin Lee

“…A classic method combined with Vieta’s substitution technique is adopted to develop an analytic formula for computing the nonlinear structural and acoustic responses. …”
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A Novel Extended Susceptible, Exposed, Infected, and Recovered Model with Surveys for Analysis of COVID-19 Pandemic in Rajasthan by Meena Malik, Chander Prabha, Punit Soni, Khushboo Bhardwaj, Anshu Arora

“…This article presents the prediction and forecasting technique for COVID-19, using the widely adopted susceptible–exposed–infected–recovered (SEIR) model. …”
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Simplified Finite Set Model Predictive Control Strategy of Grid-Connected Cascade H-Bridge Converter by Jingang Han, Chao Li, Tengfei Yang, Jun Han

“…Firstly, adjacent levels method is used to reduce the amount of the calculation, and then two-step FS-MPC is adopted to compensate the calculation delay. The control strategy is validated by the simulation and experimental results of a grid-connected cascaded H-bridge converter.…”
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Mutual Authentication Scheme Based on Lattice for NFC-PCM Payment Service Environment by Sung-Wook Park, Im-Yeong Lee

“…In particular, most electronic payment services, such as those used by Google Inc. and Apple Inc., are adopting payment methods based on NFC to replace credit cards. …”
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Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Ground Shock Coupling Factor for Near-Surface Detonations by Timothy W. Shelton, John Q. Ehrgott, Ramon J. Moral, Michele Barbato

“…It was found that the coupling factor curve currently adopted in design of buried structures does not accurately represent the actual ground shock propagation in soil and that different coupling factor curves are needed for different physical quantities of interest in design. …”
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Influence of External Factors on Airborne Missile’s Horizontal Backward Launching by Xiao Pan, Yi Jiang, Dong Hu, Huihui Guan

“…The method of comparison with experiment was adopted to verify the accuracy of the finite element model during the ejection process. …”
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Strategic collaboration for technology-supported development and use of multilingual children’s storybooks in Kenya by Dorcas Wepukhulu

“…In this paper I describe a collaborative strategy that the South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE) adopted to implement the African Storybook (ASb) in sub-Saharan Africa in response to the shortage of multilingual literacy resources. …”
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Impact of CAP on the Cash-Flow Components in Slovak Agriculture by Zuzana Čierna, Tomáš Rábek, Marián Tóth

“…The research has shown that entering EU and adopting Common agricultural policy had a positive impact on the cash flow from operating activities. …”
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The urgency of moral aqeedah education and religious moderation for the millennial generation by Rina Rehayati, Kasmuri Kasmuri, Suhertina Suhertina, Nurhasnawati Nurhasnawati, Sariah Sariah

“…Moral education has helped millennial adopt moderate religious values. Therefore, this study examined aqeedah, moral, and religious moderation education of millennial. …”
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The Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) for Longitudinal Historical Microdata, version 4 by George Alter, Kees Mandemakers

“…The Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) is a standard data format that has been adopted by several large longitudinal databases on historical populations. …”
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The ANC and Apartheid South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons Program by Jo-Ansie van Wyk, Anna-Mart van Wyk

“…The organisation had early on adopted an anti-nuclear weapons position and its awareness of, and resistance against, the apartheid regime’s secret nuclear weapons program became one of the pillars of its global struggle to end apartheid. …”
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A Novel Cuckoo Search Optimized Deep Auto-Encoder Network-Based Fault Diagnosis Method for Rolling Bearing by Jinyu Tong, Jin Luo, Haiyang Pan, Jinde Zheng, Qing Zhang

“…First, multiscale analysis is adopted to extract the multiscale features from the raw vibration signals of rolling bearing. …”
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Study on Some Physico-Chemical Characteristics of Ground Water of District Rampur - A Statistical Approach by Susheel Kumar Sindhu, Amit Sharma

“…Present study recommends that the top priority should be given to water quality monitoring and indigenous technologies should be adopted to make water fit for drinking after treatment such as defluoridation, desalination.…”
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Hiszpańskie i niemieckie osiągnięcia w rozwoju energetyki odnawialnej: aspekt prawny by Leszek Karski

“…It results from both the energy policy and EU law. Poland should adopt national law to the EU requirements in the field of renewable energy sources. …”
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Long-Term Strength of Porous Geomaterials by a Micromechanical Model considering Alternate Wetting and Drying Condition by Jin Zhang, Shirong Fu, Tao Ni, Bei Han, Chong Shi

“…In the framework of micromechanics of porous materials, Gurson’s hollow sphere model with Drucker-Prager solid matrix is adopted as the representative volume element. The effects of alternate wetting and drying are considered as variable water pressure imposed on the inner boundary surface of the unit cell. …”
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A Penalized Linear and Nonlinear Combined Conjugate Gradient Method for the Reconstruction of Fluorescence Molecular Tomography by Shang Shang, Jing Bai, Xiaolei Song, Hongkai Wang, Jaclyn Lau

“…A quadratic penalty method is adopted to gain a nonnegative constraint and reduce the illposedness of the problem. …”
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Study on Cumulative Damage Law of Stainless Steel-Reinforced Concrete Columns under Step Impact Loading by Bo Wu, Shixiang Xu, Guoxue Zhang

“…In this study, an ultrahigh drop hammer impact test system was adopted for multiple horizontal impact tests on stainless steel-reinforced concrete columns and ordinary-reinforced concrete columns with the same longitudinal reinforcement diameter. …”
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Research on the Influence of Sensor Network Communication in the Electromagnetic Environment of Smart Grid by Yiying Zhang, Suxiang Zhang, Yuemin Ding

“…Smart grid adopts wildly various sensors for lots of applications to sense work environment, monitor production process and realize the automation control, and so forth. …”
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