Shaking Table Test of a RC Frame with EPSC Latticed Concrete Infill Wall by Baizan Tang, Xiaojun Li, Su Chen, Lihong Xiong

“…The expansive polystyrene granule cement (EPSC) latticed concrete wall is a new type of energy-saving wall material with load-bearing, insulation, fireproof, and environmental protection characteristics. …”
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Low-Cost and Secure Communication System for SCADA System of Remote Microgrids by Amjad Iqbal, M. Tariq Iqbal

“…Renewable energy-based local microgrids are gaining popularity despite the unavailability of low-cost, power efficient, and secure communication system for its supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system. …”
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Hydromagnetic Stability of Metallic Nanofluids (Cu-Water and Ag-Water) Using Darcy-Brinkman Model by J. Ahuja, U. Gupta, R. K. Wanchoo

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The Effect of Welding Speed on the Micromorphology and Mechanical Properties of Laser-Sealed Vacuum Flat Glazing Joints by Hong Miao, Chong Li, Qiang He, Shanwen Zhang, Yanjun Zhang, Sixing Liu

“…To explore the effect of welding speed on the micromorphology and mechanical properties of the laser-welded vacuum plate glazing joints, this paper introduced the research status of the laser welding vacuum glazing and then carried out the preparation for experimental materials. …”
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Investigating the Source of Planck-Detected AME: High-Resolution Observations at 15 GHz by Yvette C. Perrott, Anna M. M. Scaife, Natasha Hurley-Walker, Keith J. B. Grainge

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Coupling Metallic Nanostructures to Thermally Responsive Polymers Allows the Development of Intelligent Responsive Membranes by J. Rubén Morones-Ramírez

“…Development of porous membranes capable of controlling flow or changing their permeability to specific chemical entities, in response to small changes in environmental stimuli, is an area of appealing research, since these membranes present a wide variety of applications. …”
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Linear Correlation of Ba and Eu Contents by Hydrothermal Activities: A Case Study in the Hetang Formation, South China by Chao Chang, Qi Fu, Xiaolin Wang

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Low fluctuation stiffness design method for vibration reduction of helical gears by YOU Zhiwei, GAO Jingtao, LI Haonan, SUN Zhou, XUE Cheng

“…Then the RMS of vibration energy before and after optimization was compared. …”
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Inverse Kinematics Solution for Manipulators Based on the Artificial Evolved Hummingbird Algorithm by Wang Junru, Qin Pengfei, Sun Guangbin

“…Taking the six-degree-of-freedom manipulator as the research object, a nonlinear equation system of its inverse kinematics was established; taking the position error of the end of the manipulator as the optimization objective, the fitness function was constructed by combining with the energy loss, so as to transform the inverse kinematics problem into the optimization problem of the objective function, and the proposed algorithm was used to solve the problem. …”
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FIRM INNOVATIVENESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISCLOSURE: EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIAN MANUFACTURING FIRMS by Mubaraq Sanni, Lukman Adebayo Oke ABDULRAUF, Jamiu Alabere Abdulrasheed

“… The persistent increase in economic activities of companies, specifically manufacturing companies in Nigeria, has resulted in high levels of outputs, energy consumption, air pollution, and materials used. …”
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Projections of Heat Waves Events in the Intra-Americas Region Using Multimodel Ensemble by Moises Angeles-Malaspina, Jorge E. González-Cruz, Nazario Ramírez-Beltran

“…Significant accelerated warming of the Sea Surface Temperature of 0.15°C per decade (1982–2012) was recently detected, which motivated the research for the present consequences and future projections on the heat index and heat waves in the intra-Americas region. …”
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Study on the Mathematical Model and Propagation Characteristics of AE Waveform Signals during Rock Fracture by Xun You, Bin Gong, Xin Lv, Longfei Hu

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ANALYSIS OF DYNAMICS PARAMETERS FOR THE STEEL CORD RUBBER CONVEYOR BELT by CHEN HongYue, ZHANG Kun, LI EnDong

“…The determination of the dynamics parameters for the steel cord rubber conveyor belt is the key problem to research the dynamic characteristics and the operation energy consumption of the belt conveyor.Firstly,the transition state and the stable state for the dynamics parameters are defined according to the relaxation and the time-variant characteristics of the rubber conveyor belt.Secondly,the stress analytic solution of the conveyor belt under the dynamic strain is derived by taking the standard solid model as the viscoelastic constitutive model,the transition state and the stable state are analyzed according to the attenuation term in the analytic solution,and the general identification model and the simplified identification model for the standard solid model parameters of the conveyor belt are established.Finally,the dynamic strain loading experiment using st1600 steel cord rubber conveyor belt is performed,and the Matlab cftool tool box is employed to identify the experiment result.The result shows that under the experimental parameters,the difference between the general model identifying result and the simplified model identifying result decreases with the increase of loading cycling times,and the general model identifying result and the simplified model identifying result are the same and maintain stable when the loading cycling times is greater than 67.The loading cycling times or the loading cycling time that the general model identifying result and the simplified model identifying result are the same first can be taken as the criterion to distinguish the transition state and the stable state for the dynamics parameters of the conveyor belt.…”
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Statistical Characterization of GITM Thermospheric Horizontal Winds in Comparison to GOCE Estimations by Daniel A. Brandt, Aaron J. Ridley

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A Reduced-Order Model of Lithium–Sulfur Battery Discharge by Noushin Haddad, Hosam K. Fathy

“…Previous research presents different Li-S battery models, including “zero-dimensional” models that neglect diffusion while using the laws of electrochemistry to represent reduction–oxidation (redox) rates. …”
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Hydrothermal Upgrading of Korean MSW for Solid Fuel Production: Effect of MSW Composition by Daegi Kim, Pandji Prawisudha, Kunio Yoshikawa

“…In Korea, municipal solid waste (MSW) treatment is conducted by converting wastes into energy resources using the mechanical-biological treatment (MBT). …”
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ANALYSIS OF LOAD CAPACITY AND TEMPERATURE FIELD OF SPHERICAL HYBRID SLIDING BEARINGS (MT) by XUE Hao, SHEN JingFeng, QIN Wei, CHENG Pan, ZHU Rui

“…Therefore, the fluid lubrication mathematical model is established by taking the spherical hybrid sliding bearings with orifice throttling mode as the research object, and the Reynolds equation and energy equation of lubricating oil film are derived. …”
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Modeling Effective Budgeting and Production For Sustainable Competitive Advantage: Evidence from Kufa Cement Factory, Iraq by ALAWAED Husam Muhammed Ali, AL-KAWAZ Salah Mahdi Jawad, ABBAS Ali Abdulhassan, ALNASRAWI Salam Adil Abbas

“…This model gets rid of environmental problems, identifies idle energy as output from the time-driven activity-based budget, and uses it for increasing the production, sales, and profitability. …”
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Numerical study on the cyclic behavior of the stiffened steel plate shear walls containing sandwich panels with corrugated core by Shuna Zhang, Peng Zhang, Shaopeng Wang, Amir Ghiasvand

“…The infill plate of SSW is important due to the absorption of the induced external energies. The current research paper studied different configurations of the sandwich panels with trapezoidal corrugated cores as the stiffeners inside the infill plate of the SSWs numerically in the presence of cyclic loading conditions. …”
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How Will the Railway Look Like in 2050? A Survey of Experts on Technologies, Challenges and Opportunities for the Railway System by Michael Nold, Francesco Corman

“…The railway system can fulfil society’s current and future transportation goals; compared to other transport modes, it does that with high energy, space and resource efficiency. It can deliver high-quality transport services, superior speed, safety and comfort to most competing modes. …”
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