The Effects of High Alkaline Fly Ash on Strength Behaviour of a Cohesive Soil by A. Binal

“…Direct shear tests on the cohesion value of Ankara clay have shown increases by multiples of 15.85 and 3.01 in internal friction angle values. The California bearing ratio has seen a more drastic increase in value (68.7 times for 25% fly ash mix).…”
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Evaluation of Wind-Induced Response Bounds of High-Rise Buildings Based on a Nonrandom Interval Analysis Method by Xianglei Wei, An Xu, Ruohong Zhao

“…That is, for a certain wind direction angle, the reference wind speed (usually refers to the mean wind speed at the building height) is assumed to be a constant corresponding to a certain return period. …”
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GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES WITHOUT GROWTH: THE CASE OF TURKEY by Orçun Söylemez, Özkan Zülfüoğlu

“…Five important variables that might affect government expenditures from different angles are evaluated regarding their contributions to the out-of-sample predictions of government expenditures using random forest methodology. …”
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An Analytical Method for Determining the Bottom-Hole Pressure of Vertical Well With Multiple Fractures by Longxin Li, Tao Qi, Changcheng Yang, Xian Peng, Tao Li, Die Hu

“…The results indicate that increasing the fracture wings, fracture intersection angle, and fracture length uniformity can enhance the well productivity. …”
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EVALUATION OF IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS IN SUBTYPES OF PECTUS EXCAVATUM AND CARINATUM by Davi de Podesta Haje, Guilherme Antunes Barriviera, Marcos Vinícius Santana Silva, Caroline Kaori Maebayashi

“…Methods: A medical record analysis of 418 patients with pectus, associated with idiopathic scoliosis above 10°, with research on: subtypes of pectus (Lateral Pectus Carinatum, Inferior Pectus Carinatum, Superior Pectus Carinatum, Broad Pectus Excavatum, and Localized Pectus Excavatum), and characteristics of the scoliotic curve (Cobb angle, laterality, and location). Results: The mean age was 14.6 years (22° mean Cobb, 52% females and 48% males). …”
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A Review of Cocoa Drying Technologies and the Effect on Bean Quality Parameters by Banboye Frederick Dzelagha, Ngwabie Martin Ngwa, Divine Nde Bup

“…For solar dryers, materials, angles of elevation, heaters, and fans are manipulated to optimize energy absorption and drying parameters. …”
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Numerical Analysis on the Structure Type and Mechanical Response of Tunnel Crossing Active Reverse Fault by Xianmin Han, Wenjiang Li

“…The size of tunnel expansion and the minimum length of segment across fault plane can be geometrically determined according to fault dislocation magnitude and dip angle.…”
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A Compact Planar Ultra-Wideband Array Antenna by Junli Zhu, Mengfei Chen, Ziting Li, Jingping Liu

“…Using the new ultra-wideband array method that combines series feed and angle feed and the defective ground structure (DGS), the array maintains the ultrawide bandwidth span of 10–38 GHz of the array element, and the maximum gain of the antenna in the bandwidth was increased from 5.18 dBi to 9.55 dBi. …”
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Analysis on the Low Speed Performance of an Inward-Turning Multiduct Inlet for Turbine-Based Combined Cycle Engines by Chengxiang Zhu, Haifeng Zhang, Zhancang Hu, Yancheng You

“…Our numerical and experimental studies of an inward-turning tetraduct inlet indicate that the performance of the T-duct is seldom affected by the angle of attack, which however is of crucial importance for takeoff/landing of flight vehicles. …”
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Stokes flows in a two-dimensional bifurcation by Yidan Xue, Stephen J. Payne, Sarah L. Waters

“…We compute the flow conductances of bifurcations with different channel widths, bifurcation angles, curved boundary geometries and fixed circular objects. …”
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Improving Critical Frequency of the Electrothermal V-Shaped Actuator Using the Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm by Phuc Hong Pham, Phuc Truong Duc, Kien Trung Hoang, Ngoc-Tam Bui

“…., length L, width w, and incline angle θ of the beam) on the variation of critical frequency fC is investigated and evaluated. …”
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State switch control of magnetically suspended flywheel energy storage system in uninterrupted power supply system by Lingbo Zheng, Yili Zheng, Biao Xiang, Xiangbo Xu

“…Then, the switch strategy using the angle compensation of the flux linkage is designed to control the FESS-UPS system among different working states, and the peak values of current and voltage at the switch moment are suppressed. …”
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Breaking up the Canon of Literary Modernity: Classicism in the Ecopoetics of David Hinton and the Materialism of Zeng Shaoli. A Preliminary Outline of Epistemological Changes in Co... by Frank Kraushaar

“… The target of this essay is to open possible pathways to approach the phenomenon of a self-remodeling of classicist poetry in the 20th and early 21st century by focusing on the process from two different angles rarely perceived as related to each other: first, the remodeling of Chinese lyrical classicism through a strand of modern American poetry harking back to Ezra Pound and currently crystallized in the translations of David Hinton and, second, the transition that modern Chinese poetry written in classical language and conforming to prosodic rules of classical style poetry, sometimes referred to as “old style poetry” jiu ti shi, underwent after its rebirth as “unofficial” poetry online since the beginning of this century. …”
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Steady Glide Dynamic Modeling and Trajectory Optimization for High Lift-to-Drag Ratio Reentry Vehicle by Liang Yang, Wanchun Chen, Xiaoming Liu, Hao Zhou

“…This scheme comprehensively considers all factors acting on the flight path angle and suppresses the trajectory oscillation by regulating the vertical acceleration in negative feedback form and keeping the lateral acceleration invariant. …”
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Influence of Error in Estimating Anisotropy Parameters on VTI Depth Imaging by S. Y. Moussavi Alashloo, D. P. Ghosh, Y. Bashir, W. Y. Wan Ismail

“…Thin layers in sedimentary rocks lead to seismic anisotropy which makes the wave velocity dependent on the propagation angle. This aspect causes errors in seismic imaging such as mispositioning of migrated events if anisotropy is not accounted for. …”
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Imaging 3D Sea Surfaces from 3D Dual-Sensor Towed Streamer Data by Okwudili C. Orji, Walter Söllner, Leiv-J. Gelius

“…In the latter case, the resulting sea surface profiles corresponding to each time frame are interpolated to demonstrate that the main sea surface characteristics are preserved, and artefacts due to 2D processing of 3D data are mainly limited to areas corresponding to large angles of incidence. Time-varying sea surfaces from two different 3D field data are imaged. …”
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Treatment of Class III Malocclusion: Atypical Extraction Protocol by Fernando Pedrin Carvalho Ferreira, Maiara da Silva Goulart, Renata Rodrigues de Almeida-Pedrin, Ana Claudia de Castro Ferreira Conti, Maurício de Almeida Cardoso

“…The treatment of Angle Class III malocclusion is rather challenging, because the patient’s growth pattern determines the success of long-term treatment. …”
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Dynamic Shear Strength of Rock Joints and Its Influence on Key Blocks by Shuhong Wang, Feili Wang, Zhanguo Xiu

“…The degradation of friction angle becomes more sensitive than that of cohesion. …”
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Arc-Surfaced Frictional Damper for Vibration Control in Container Crane by Gongxian Wang, Yang-Yang Wang, Jianming Yuan, Yi Yang, Dong Wang

“…Performance of AFD control system is assessed though various parameters including displacement and maximum portal frame drift angle. Results prove a feasible application of AFD control system to absorb large amounts of seismic energy and significantly reduce the structural responses.…”
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Solving of Two-Dimensional Unsteady-State Heat-Transfer Inverse Problem Using Finite Difference Method and Model Prediction Control Method by Shoubin Wang, Rui Ni

“…As demonstrated by empirical analysis, the proposed method remains highly precise despite the presence of measurement errors or the close distance of measurement point position from the boundary angular point angle.…”
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