Experimental Study on Reasonable Horizontal Load Value on the Top of Railings of Glass Bridges or Gallery Roads in Scenic Area by Qingwen Sun, Qiushi Yan, Liqu Liu, Haowei Wang

“…These results provide a reference for the design, inspection, and evaluation of railings of glass bridges or gallery roads in the scenic area.…”
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Experimental and Analytical Study on Deformation Behavior in Hogging Moment Regions of Composite Beams by Aiming Song, Qi Luo, Shui Wan, Zhicong Li

“…The calculation values of the proposed models showed good agreement with the test results. Finally, the design recommendations of fatigue deformation were proposed according to the experimental and analytical study on steel-concrete composite beams subjected to hogging moment.…”
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Developing Performance Tests to Measure Digital Skills: Lessons Learned From a Cross-National Perspective by Ester van Laar, Alexander J. A. M. van Deursen, Ellen J. Helsper, Luc S. Schneider

“…This article discusses the development of task-based performance tests designed to measure digital skills among children aged between 12 and 17 years old. …”
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Study on Single Event Upset and Mitigation Technique in JLTFET-Based 6T SRAM Cell by Aishwarya K, Lakshmi B

“…JLTFET-based SRAM circuit is designed using the look up table-based Verilog A code obtained from TCAD values of the device. …”
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A review of university chatbots for student support: FAQs and beyond by Kevin Peyton, Saritha Unnikrishnan, Brian Mulligan

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Experimental Study on Constant-Amplitude Fatigue Performance of Weld Toe in Steel Tube of Welded Hollow Spherical Joints in Grid Structures by Jian-li Zhang, Hong-gang Lei, Shi-hong Jin

“…The corresponding fatigue design method for allowable stress amplitude was established. …”
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Dynamic Vibration Characteristic Analysis for the Power-Split Transmission System Based on Loaded Tooth Contact Analysis by Hao Dong, Yan Cao, Zhou Fang

“…The results show that establishment, solution, and analysis of the system dynamics model could provide a basis for the dynamic design and have an important significance for the dynamic efficiency analysis and dynamic performance optimization design of the power-split transmission. …”
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Parametric Optimization of Wire Electrical Discharge Machining in AA7075 Metal Matrix Composite by K. Raju, M. Balakrishnan, C. B. Priya, M. Sivachitra, Dasari Narasimha Rao

“…Results of experimentation showed improved machining characteristics for higher pulse ON time and current for machining the synthesized composite through the Taguchi design of the experiment.…”
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The impact of virtual exchange on East–West social relations: lessons from a China-Portugal foreign language exchange by Rienties Bart, Rets Irina

“…At the same time, few studies have looked at collaboration patterns between Asian and Western students, while using robust mixed methods research design (i.e., pre-post TPACK, foreign language competence, diaries) and social network analysis. …”
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Efficient Synthesis of Large Finite Patch Arrays for Scanning Wide-Angle Anomalous Reflectors by Sravan Kumar Reddy Vuyyuru, Risto Valkonen, Sergei A. Tretyakov, do-Hoon Kwon

“…A design methodology for planar loaded antenna arrays is proposed to synthesize a perfect anomalous reflection into an arbitrary direction by optimizing the scattering characteristics of passively loaded array antennas. …”
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Asphalt Concrete Mixtures: Requirements with regard to Life Cycle Assessment by Jan Mikolaj, Frantisek Schlosser, Lubos Remek, Aurelia Chytcakova

“…Methods described and results are presented in a case study for asphalt mixture AC 11; I design.…”
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Prediction of Pollutant Emissions from Bluff-Body Stabilised Nonpremixed Flames by Nelu Munteanu, Shokri M. Amzaini

“…Construction of a stable flame is one of the critical design requirements in developing practical combustion systems. …”
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CubeSat’s Deployable Solar Panel with Viscoelastic Multilayered Stiffener for Launch Vibration Attenuation by Shankar Bhattarai, Hongrae Kim, Hyun-Ung Oh

“…The effectiveness of the proposed design for launch vibration attenuation was demonstrated through qualification level sine and random vibration tests.…”
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Operation and Economic Analysis for Ring Road: Baqubah City as Case Study by Raquim Nihad Zehawi, Ali Hussein Hameed, Yassir Nashaat A Kareem

“…The traffic data was collected for all entries, and then the fractions of traffic that expected to utilize the new ring road were estimated and projected for the design lifetime of the road taken as 20 years after two years of design and construction. …”
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A social dynamics of the development of community network: problems raised by two cases of community network development by Dong Hee Shin

“…A community network project was studied by tracing the developmental processes from network design to the stabilization of information infrastructure. …”
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CoMFA and CoMSIA Studies on Inhibitors of HIV-1 Integrase - Bicyclic Pyrimidinones by V. Radhika, S. Sree Kanth, M. Vijjulatha

“…To understand the structural requirements of HIV-1 integrase inhibitors and to design new ligands against human HIV-1 integrase with enhanced inhibitory potency, a 3D QSAR (quantitative structure-activity relationship) study with comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA) and comparative molecular similarity indices analysis (CoMSIA) for a dataset of 35 bicyclic pyrimidinones which are inhibitors of human HIV-1 integrase was performed. …”
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NEED ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH FOR TOUR AND TRAVEL DEPARTMENT OF VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL IN BENGKULU CITY by Rahamdina Salisna, Alamsyah Harahap, Dedi Sofyan

“…The research used mixed method and convergent parallel design. The sample of this research consisted of three groups of respondents. …”
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DQN-based energy-efficient routing algorithm in software-defined data centers by Zan Yao, Ying Wang, Xuesong Qiu

“…In order to cope with a large solution space, we design the deep Q-network-based energy-efficient routing algorithm to find the energy-efficient data paths for traffic flow and control paths for switches. …”
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Sign Stability for Switched Linear Systems and Its Application in Flight Control by Qing Wang, Tong Wang, Yanze Hou, Chaoyang Dong

“…The provided method has natural robustness and more design freedoms than the familiar Lyapunov function method, which bears relative conservativeness as the requirement of solving LMIs. …”
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Appropriate Dynamic-Stall Models for Performance Predictions of VAWTs with NLF Blades by Christian Masson, Christophe Leclerc, Ion Paraschivoiu

“…This paper illustrates the relative merits of using Natural Laminar Flow (NLF) airfoils in the design of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWT). This is achieved by the application of the double-multiple-streamtube model of Paraschivoiu to the performance predictions of VAWTs equipped with conventional and NLF blades. …”
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