Modeling and Analysis of Truck Mounted Concrete Pump Boom by Virtual Prototyping by Wu Ren, Zhongwei Li, Yanping Bi, Shan Zhao, Bo Peng, Liming Zhou

“…Finally an experiment has been done on a boom test rig which proved that the established simulation model is reasonable and the frequency results are correct. All of these provide design reference to mechanical manipulator as well as reducing product development cost of such mechanism.…”
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Exact Dynamic Characteristic Analysis of Steel-Concrete Composite Continuous Beams by Qikai Sun, Nan Zhang, Guobing Yan, Xinqun Zhu, Xiao Liu, Wangwang Li

“…And it is only affected by bending stiffness. Furthermore, the reasonable ratio of the side span to the main span is 0.9∼1.0.…”
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Enhanced Cutting Performance of 50Cr15MoV Martensitic Stainless Steel Through Controlled Residual Austenite Stability by Fujian Guo, Zhimin Peng, Guangyi Lu, Wenle Liu, Guoqing Li, Pan Zhang, Chengjia Shang

“…This study elucidates the effect of residual austenite content on the sharpness of the knives, providing a foundation for the reasonable control of residual austenite content in the actual production settings.…”
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WAND: A multi-modal dataset integrating advanced MRI, MEG, and TMS for multi-scale brain analysis by Carolyn B. McNabb, Ian D. Driver, Vanessa Hyde, Garin Hughes, Hannah L. Chandler, Hannah Thomas, Christopher Allen, Eirini Messaritaki, Carl J. Hodgetts, Craig Hedge, Maria Engel, Sophie F. Standen, Emma L. Morgan, Elena Stylianopoulou, Svetla Manolova, Lucie Reed, Matthew Ploszajski, Mark Drakesmith, Michael Germuska, Alexander D. Shaw, Lars Mueller, Holly Rossiter, Christopher W. Davies-Jenkins, Tom Lancaster, C. John Evans, David Owen, Gavin Perry, Slawomir Kusmia, Emily Lambe, Adam M. Partridge, Allison Cooper, Peter Hobden, Hanzhang Lu, Kim S. Graham, Andrew D. Lawrence, Richard G. Wise, James T. R. Walters, Petroc Sumner, Krish D. Singh, Derek K. Jones

“…In addition to raw data, we provide brain-extracted T1-weighted images, and quality reports for diffusion, T1- and T2-weighted structural data, and blood-oxygen level dependent functional tasks. Reasons for participant exclusion are also included. …”
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Meningococcal Antigen Typing System Development and Application to the Evaluation of Effectiveness of Meningococcal B Vaccine and Possible Use for Other Purposes by Alexander Domnich, Roberto Gasparini, Daniela Amicizia, Giuseppe Boccadifuoco, Marzia Monica Giuliani, Donatella Panatto

“…To date, MATS has proved advantageous for several reasons, including its ability to assess both qualitative and quantitative aspects of surface antigens of single strains in a highly reproducible, rapid, and resource-saving manner, while its shortcomings include a possible underestimation of 4CMenB coverage and the use of pooled sera to calculate the positive bactericidal threshold. …”
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dStream: An Online-Based Dynamic Operator-Level Query Mapping Scheme on Discrete CPU-GPU Architectures by Gyeonghwan Jung, Yeonwoo Jeong, Kyuli Park, Dongjae Lee, Hongsu Byun, Suyeon Lee, Sungyong Park

“…However, this coarse-grained approach can limit performance for two main reasons. Firstly, PCIe transfer overhead is minimal for small data sizes, and the device preference of each operator within a query may change with variations in data size. …”
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State of the Art, Unresolved Issues, and Future Research Directions in the Fight against Hepatitis C Virus: Perspectives for Screening, Diagnostics of Resistances, and Immunization by Cecilia Trucchi, Andrea Orsi, Cristiano Alicino, Laura Sticchi, Giancarlo Icardi, Filippo Ansaldi

“…Finally, effective screening strategy is crucial to early identifying and treating all HCV chronically infected patients. For all these reasons, even though new drugs may contribute to impacting HCV spread worldwide a preventive HCV vaccine remains a cornerstone in the road to significantly reduce the HCV spread globally, with the ultimate goal of its eradication. …”
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Feasibility of Stabilized Zn and Pb Contaminated Soils as Roadway Subgrade Materials by Mingli Wei, Hao Ni, Shiji Zhou, Yuan Li

“…The water stability coefficient and resilient modulus of the KMP stabilized soils are found to be higher than PC stabilized soils. The reasons for the differences in these properties between KMP and PC stabilized soils are interpreted based on the stability and dissolubility of the main hydration products of the KMP and PC stabilized soils, the soil pore distribution, and concentration of Mg or Ca leached from the KMP and PC stabilized soils obtained from the acid neutralization capacity tests. …”
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Research on Characteristic Stress and Constitutive Equation of Confined Sandstone during Damage Evolution Based on Energy Evolution Analysis by Xiaobin Yang, Hongming Cheng, Xin Hou, Chaogang Nie, Jiaqi Lv

“…Finally, the theoretical curve and experimental curve of damage evolution are compared according to the five stages of dissipation energy proportion evolution, and the result shows that the damage evolution constitutive equation is reasonable.…”
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Short bowel syndrome: pathogenesis, clinical presentation and treatment by Anna F. Sheptulina, O. Z. Okhlobystina, O. S. Shifrin

“…The aim of review was to highlight features of pathogenesis, clinical manifestations and treatment of SBS after small intestinal resection for various reasons. Localization and volume of resection, presence of the background affection of the small intestine and other abdominal organs involved in digestion process and also adaptation capacity of the remaining part of the gut fragment are the basic factors that determine severity of SBS and prognosis of patients. …”
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Reducing sewing defects to increase productivity in the apparel industry of Bangladesh by integrating lean methodology by Md. Limonur Lingkon, Pronab Saha, Abdulla Al Manzid, Md. Hasan, Showra Mahalanobish

“…The purpose of this study is to determine how the Bangladeshi garment industry's sewing defect reduction and productivity enhancement are affected by the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) and 5S (Sort, Set in order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain) techniques. One of the main reasons for production delays and increased costs is sewing defects. …”
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Metabolism of Mycotoxins, Intracellular Functions of Vitamin B12, and Neurological Manifestations in Patients with Chronic Toxigenic Mold Exposures. A Review by Ebere C. Anyanwu, Mohammed Morad, Andrew W. Campbell

“…This paper evaluates the possible reasons for consistent vitamin B12 deficiency in chronic toxigenic mold exposures and the synergistic relationships with the possible mycotoxic effects on one-carbon metabolism that lead to the manifestations of clinical neuropathological symptomology. …”
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Determination of Spatial Pattern of Urban Green Spread (Case Study: District 5 of Tehran Municipality) by SAHEL TABATABAYEE, MARYAM ROBATI, ZAHRA AZIZI

“…After the Islamic Revolution, due to various reasons such as overflow of population to Tehran from the central and southern regions and the flood of refugees to Tehran, it has faced with the increase in population and development, which makes it important to study the distribution of green space in different parts of the city. …”
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LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT OF YOUTH IN THE ARCTIC ZONE OF RUSSIA: SOCIO-CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS (CASE OF ARKHANGELSK AGGLOMERATION) by Lyudmila A. Chizhova, Olga V. Lets, Andrey O. Podoplekin

“…It has been established that the main reasons for the migration attitudes of the younger generation of the Arctic region are both the lack of employment opportunities, career growth and decent earnings, as well as dissatisfaction with the “future” and “cultural environment”. …”
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Determining the Layout Parameters of the Gas Drainage Roadway: A Study for Sima Coalmine China by Zhiliu Wang, Bo Liu, Yanhui Han, Zhaoyang Li, Yingjie Cao, Fuzhou Qi

“…The gas drainage effect of GDR indicated that the proposed parameters are scientific and reasonable.…”
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Research on BHAST Test Method for Plastic Encapsulated Microcircuit by Yuege Zhou, Bo Wan, Qingsheng Liu, Jingyang Zhong, Shupeng Li, Tengfei Ma, Wei Guo

“…It can be concluded that a reasonable bias voltage application method can be summarized as follows: after supplying power to the power pins, apply bias voltage alternately to the IO pins as much as possible.…”
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An Optimal DoS Attack Strategy Disturbing the Distributed Economic Dispatch of Microgrid by Yihe Wang, Mingli Zhang, Kun Song, Tie Li, Na Zhang

“…On this basis, an optimal attack strategy based on enumerating-search algorithm is presented to allocate the limited attack resources reasonably, so as to maximize the effect of DoS attacks. …”
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1 × N All‐Logic Optical Switch Based on Polymer Platform Using Multimode Interferometer by Guoyan Zeng, Daming Zhang, Fei Wang, Xibin Wang, Yuexin Yin

“…In this article, a universal method for modeling the 1 × N switch using multimode interferometer (MMI) through transmission matrixes is proposed. Herein, the reasons for the narrowing of the operating bandwidth switch are analyzed. …”
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Determination of an Indoor Target Position: An Accurate and Adaptable Approach Based on Differential Positioning by Siye Wang, Chang Ding, Weiqing Huang, Yanfang Zhang, Jianguo Jiang, Shaoyi Zhu, Yue Cui, Jun-yu Lin

“…This combination of techniques is reasonable for the environment under consideration (small scale, wireless), as the multipath effects for the signal are approximately equal under these conditions. …”
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Numerical and Experimental Stability Investigation of a Flexible Rotor on Two Different Tilting Pad Bearing Configurations by Weimin Wang, Qihang Li, Feng He, Paul Allaire

“…The numerical results correlate reasonably well with the experimental results. The investigation results indicate that the new method satisfies the desired features of rotating machine stability identification. …”
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