Serviceability Properties of Solid Buoyancy Materials for Deep-Sea HOV by Hailong Zhang, Guoliang Ma, Zhiwei Zhu

“…To explore the influence mechanism of different pressure, temperature, loading rate and load cycle times on deformation, failure, and water absorption behavior of solid buoyant materials, hydrostatic pressure tests of solid buoyant materials under different conditions are conducted in this study. …”
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Robust Indoor Sensor Localization Using Signatures of Received Signal Strength by Yungho Leu, Chi-Chung Lee, Jyun-Yu Chen

“…However, due to the interference of other wireless devices and human activities, the RSS value varies significantly over different times. This hinders exact location prediction using RSS values. …”
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HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE ORANYAN CULTURAL FESTIVAL IN NEW OYO: A STRATEGIC MEASURE TO PRESERVE YORÙBÁ ANTIQUITIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY by OYEDOKUN MOJEED OYETUNJI, AKANBI SHOLA AHMED, ADEYEMI KAMIL HAMZAH

“… This study investigated the different ways in which Yorùbá cultural indigenous identities are presented to the world in contemporary times through the Oranyan festivals. The Oranyan festival in New Oyo is a traditional celebration of Yorùbá heritage, with roots dating back to the late 14th century. …”
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Pembentukan Perda Berbasis Syari’ah dalam Bingkai Negara Hukum Pancasila by Thomas Febria, Dendi Kurniawan

“…Juridically, the provisions in Article 10 paragraph (1) letter f of Constitution Number 23 of 2014 concerning Regional Government have been amended several times, most recently by Law Number 11 of 2020 concerning Job Creation and their explanations. …”
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Structure and properties forming in ductile iron during isothermal hardening using ultrasound by M. S. Kovalko, A. T. Volochko, A. V. Ziziko, V. V. Rubanik

“…With the help of metallographic analysis, measurements of hardness and friction coefficient, the beneficial effect of ultrasonic treatment of the cooling medium on the structure and properties is shown, which is reflected in an increase in the uniformity of the distribution of hardness over the cross section of cast iron and in its wear resistance, as well as a reduction in the isothermal holding time by up to two times.…”
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Detecting Invalid Associations between Fare Machines and Metro Stations Using Smart Card Data by Pengfei Zhang, Zhenliang Ma, Xiaoxiong Weng

“…The tensor decomposition extracts features of passenger flows and travel times passing through fare machines. The isolation forest coupled with a neural network (NN) takes these features as inputs to detect the wrongly associated fare machines and infer the correct association stations. …”
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Phytotoxicity of exotic species on the physiological potential of crambe seeds (Crambe abyssinica Hochs) by Silvana Fraga Silva, Halina Stéffany Lopes Costa, Jesimiel Silva Viana, Sebastião Medeiros Filho

“…Petri dishes, lined with germitest paper sheets, were moistened with aqueous extracts at 2,5 times de paper weight. In the experimental trial, we used the completely randomized, with four treatments (three extracts + control treatment) and four replicates of 25 seeds. …”
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Canadian Thoracic Society 2011 Guideline Update: Diagnosis and Treatment of Sleep Disordered Breathing by John Fleetham, Najib Ayas, Douglas Bradley, Michael Fitzpatrick, Thomas K Oliver, Debra Morrison, Frank Ryan, Frederic Series, Robert Skomro, Willis Tsai, The Canadian Thoracic Society Sleep Disordered Breathing Committee

“…The recommendations regarding maximum assessment wait times, portable monitoring, treatment of asymptomatic adult obstructive sleep apnea patients, treatment with conventional continuous positive airway pressure compared with automatic continuous positive airway pressure, and treatment of central sleep apnea syndrome in heart failure patients replace the recommendations in the 2006/2007 guidelines. …”
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Imaging method for airborne SAL data by Guangzuo Li, Ning Wang, Ran Wang, Keshu Zhang, Yirong Wu

“…Synthetic aperture ladar (SAL) is analogous to the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) but works at wavelength 104–5 times shorter. SAL has the potential for much finer resolution than SAR. …”
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Hydraulic Fracturing Behavior in Shale with Water and Supercritical CO2 under Triaxial Compression by Jianming He, Yixiang Zhang, Chao Yin, Xiao Li

“…According to the experimental results, SC-CO2 fracturing is more time-consuming due to its compressibility which takes about 20 times more time than hydraulic fracturing using water under the same preset conditions. …”
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Investigation of the Impact of Two Types of Epoxidized Vietnam Rubber Seed Oils on the Properties of Polylactic Acid by Nguyen Thi Thuy, Pham Ngoc Lan

“…Elongation at break is increased by 9.1 times, and impact strength and tensile toughness improved by 139% and 1370%, respectively. …”
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Effect of Plant Spacing on Yield and Yield Components of Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) in Shewarobit, Central Ethiopia by Getachew Amare, Hailay Gebremedhin

“…The treatment comprises of three intrarow spacing (20, 30, and 40 cm) and four interrow spacing (60, 80, 100, and 120 cm) replicated three times and arranged in randomized complete block design using tomato variety Weyno. …”
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Information scrambling with higher-form fields by Karunava Sil, Sourav Maji, Stavros Christodoulou, Abhishek Chowdhury

“…Abstract The late time behavior of OTOCs involving generic non-conserved local operators show exponential decay in chaotic many body systems. …”
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Design of Network and Pole for Meeting Lighting, Communication, and Energy Needs from a Single Source in Disasters by Levent Aksoy, İlknur Yardımcı Coşkun

“…However, in densely populated cities, post-disaster response times are prolonged. Growing urbanization and population increase the impact of disasters and complicate response plans. …”
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A Full-Scale Experimental Study of the Vertical Dynamic and Static Behavior of the Pier-Cap-Pile System by Jianlei Liu, Meng Ma

“…The results show that (1) in the low-frequency range (between 10 and 30 Hz in this study), the dynamic stiffness of the whole system is approximately four times of that of a single pile; (2) the ratio of dynamic and static stiffness of the cap-pile system tested in the study is approximately 1.74, which was similar to other tested values of a single pile; (3) to evaluate the capacity of similar cap-pile system and with similar soil layer conditions by TRM, the value of Kd/Ks tested in the study can be used as a reference.…”
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Dynamics of CO2 emission under sweet corn (Zea mays Saccharata) cultivation at ultisol applied with compost by Yulnafatmawita, Suwita Vanessa Putri, Rasyidin Azwar

“…CO2 emission was measured 4 times (initial, after compost application, maximum vegetative growth, and after harvest). …”
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Relationship between intimate partner violence and depression symptoms in Turkish women: A cross-sectional study by Meltem Demirgöz bal, Özlem Aşcı

“…According to the multiple linear regression analysis, in which sociodemographic variables were controlled, one-unit increase in violence exposure scores increased the BDI scores by 0.49 times (p<0.001). Conclusion: Regardless of sociodemographic characteristics, beliefs about violence, and perceived social support, depressive symptomatology increased with increasing IPV exposure in women. …”
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Poland’s Cultural Diplomacy in Ukraine by Halyna Lutsyshyn, Lesia Kornat, Olena Lukachuk

“…Considerable attention is paid to the analysis of the basic foundations and principles of the development of Polish cultural diplomacy in modern modern times, and the activities of governmental and non-governmental institutions working in the field of cultural diplomacy. …”
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Retóricas em disputa: o debate intelectual sobre as políticas de ação afirmativa para estudantes negros no Brasil by Karine Pereira Goss

“…Hirschman delimits three thesis of the rhetorical conservative that have been elaborated by intellectuals, many of them social scientists, at different times, evaluating politics as progressive and/or reformist: the thesis of perversity, the thesis of futility and the thesis of threat. …”
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Identifying the Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco-Related Predictors on Frequencies of Heavy Vehicle Traffic Accidents in Bangladesh: Linear and Binary Logistic Regression-Based Approa... by Md. Anwar Uddin, Mithun Debnath, Sumit Roy, Saima Adiba, Mohammad Mahbub Alam Talukder

“…This study demonstrates a strong association between the incidence of accidents and the number of times a person smokes, smokes while driving, and uses smokeless tobacco (SLT) daily. …”
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