Study of the Permanent Deformation of Soil Used in Flexible Pavement Design by Wendel S. Cabral, Suelly H. A. Barroso, Samuel A. Torquato

“…The results showed that both the test procedure and the prediction models performed satisfactorily in obtaining PD behavior. Moreover, designs using the methods adopted resulted in distinct structures, that is, thickness different from the granular pavement layers. …”
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Disulfidptosis as a key regulator of glioblastoma progression and immune cell impairment by Yifu Shu, Jing Li

“…Immune infiltration was assessed via ssGSEA, while transwell assays and immunofluorescence examined the effects of disulfidptosis-Tex genes on glioma cell behavior and immune response.ResultsEleven disulfidptosis-Tex genes were found critical for glioblastoma survival outcomes. …”
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Effect of Carbon Nanotubes on the Microstructure and Thermal Property of Phenolic/Graphite Composite by The Huu Nguyen, Minh Thanh Vu, Van Thu Le, Tuan Anh Nguyen

“…FESEM analysis indicated that the surface structure of phenolic/graphite composites became more dense and homogeneous with the presence of CNTs. The carbonization behavior of composites was characterized by using thermal gravimetric analyses (TGAs). …”
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Numerical Investigation of Pull-In Instability in a Micro-Switch MEMS Device through the Pseudo-Spectral Method by P. Di Maida, G. Bianchi

“…It is shown that the pseudo-spectral method appears more effective in accurately approximating the behavior of the cantilever near its tip. This fact is crucial to capturing the threshold voltage on the verge of pull-in. …”
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Democratic State Governance: The Urgency of Implementing Conventions in Constitutional Practices in Indonesia by Muhammad Mutawalli Mukhlis, Paul Atagamen Aidonojie, Zulhilmi Paidi, Muhammad Saleh Tajuddin

“…Constitutional conventions are not formed and built from laws, court decisions, or parliamentary customs but are outside of them to regulate political behavior. This research aims to determine the urgency of constitutional practice conventions in Indonesia. …”
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Research on the Numerical Simulation of the Nonlinear Dynamics of a Supercavitating Vehicle by Tianhong Xiong, Xianyi Li, Yipin Lv, Wenjun Yi

“…In this paper, based on a four-dimensional dynamical system of this vehicle, its complicated dynamical behaviors were analyzed in detail by numerical simulation, according to the phase trajectory diagram, the bifurcation diagram, and the Lyapunov exponential spectrum. …”
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The Self-Potential Anomaly Produced by a Subsurface Flow at the Contact of Two Horizontal Layers and Its Quantitative Interpretation by Georgios Aim. Skianis

“…Then, the expression for the Fourier transform of the SP anomaly is found and the behavior of the amplitude spectrum is studied. Based on this study, a direct interpretation method at the spatial frequency domain is proposed, in order to calculate the depth of the flow and the reflection coefficient of the stratified medium. …”
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Differential Game and Simulation Study on Management Synergy of Regional Coal Mine Emergencies in China by Yu Hao, Chaolun Sun, Jianping Wei, Sasa Gu, Fan Zhang

“…Then, it established differential game models of the management synergy, explored the selection process of the behavior strategy of each stakeholder under different situations, and provided important tools for quantitative analysis on emergency management synergy practice. …”
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Photocorrosion Mechanism of TiO2-Coated Photoanodes by Arjen Didden, Philipp Hillebrand, Bernard Dam, Roel van de Krol

“…The degradation of the film initiates from small pinholes and shows oscillatory behavior that can be explained by an Avrami-type model for photocorrosion that is halfway between 2D and 3D etching. …”
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The kinetic relativity theory – hiding in plain sight by Loen Mark V.

“…A question in physics is whether Special Relativity (SR) is the only theory that explains relativistic behavior. SR measures time dilation by a relative velocity between two frames. …”
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Stability and Hopf Bifurcation of a Delayed Epidemic Model of Computer Virus with Impact of Antivirus Software by Zizhen Zhang, Ranjit Kumar Upadhyay, Dianjie Bi, Ruibin Wei

“…Numerical simulations are carried out to analyze the effect of some of the parameters in the system on the dynamic behavior of the system.…”
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Improving the soft skills competence of political party cadre through training: a phenomenological approach by Budi Pramono, Ayu Larasati

“…Soft skills are an important factor considered by many organizations including political parties because they can lead each individual to change behavior for the better. This research is intended to answer the question of how soft skills are applied in their duties and roles as political party cadres, also what problems are encountered by people's representatives who lack competence in soft skills, and what kind of training should be done to overcome the lack of soft skills competence for political party cadres. …”
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A new Track of Fatigue crack growth in Aluminum Alloy (2219) under Cyclic Stresses by Abdullah Dhayea Assi

“…Each formula describes the behavior of the cracks in the particular phase. The comparison showed that the proposed model is safer than the experimental results for the designed parts of aircraft. …”
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Seismic Vulnerability Analysis of Prefabricated Concrete Frame with a Cam-Type Response Amplifying Device of Viscous Damper by Luyao Wei, Huijiao Nie

“…Through the analysis of the vulnerability curve, it could provide the basis for the design method based on the behavior of the prefabricated concrete structures.…”
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Influence of Bilinguism on Socio-Cognitive Personality Development by I. V. Sokolova

“…The paper emphasizes the influence of bilinguism on cognitive decentration, ability to learn foreign languages and develop higher social sensitivity regarding both verbal and non-verbal communication (i.e. interpretation of mimics, gestures, intonations), and more adequate reaction to communicative behavior of surrounding people.The author concludes that bilinguism stimulates creativity, facilitates divergent thinking necessary for observing a variety of possible solutions and creative ideas development. …”
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Birhythmicity and Hard Excitation from Coupled Synthetic Feedback Loops by Aimin Chen, Caixia Liu, Junwei Wang

“…Synthetic biology opens up the possibility of creating circuits that would not survive in the natural world and studying their behaviors in living cells, expanding our notion of biology. …”
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The Mathematical Modeling Approach for the Wastewater Treatment Process in Saudi Arabia during COVID-19 Pandemic by Abdullah Ahmadini, Ahmed Msmali, Zico Mutum, Yashpal Singh Raghav

“…In this paper, we highlight the transmission behavior, occurrence, and persistence of the virus in sewage and wastewater treatment plants. …”
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The Mechanical properties and statistical analysis of the Charpy impact test using the Weibull distribution in jute-polyester and glass-polyester composites by Tahar Tioua, Djamel Djeghader, Bachir Redjel

“…The experimental results were statistically analyzed by using the Weibull theory to better understand the impact behavior of the composites. It is found that the glass-polyester composite has better properties than the jute-polyester composite. …”
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The Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Daily Precipitation on the Central and South Western Iran by Amirhossein Halabian, Freshta Hosseinalipour, Fatemeh Jafari Shendi

“…In this research, temporal and spatial behavior of precipitation on the central and south western areas of Iran was studied at 114 synoptic, climatology and rain gauge stations, which had a statistic more than 10 years, in a period from 1329/10/11 to 1383/10/11. …”
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Existence, uniqueness and stability analysis of a nonlinear coupled system involving mixed ϕ-Riemann-Liouville and ψ-Caputo fractional derivatives by Said Zibar, Brahim Tellab, Abdelkader Amara, Homan Emadifar, Atul Kumar, Sabir Widatalla

“…This study extends and generalizes various results in the literature and provides new insights into the qualitative behavior of fractional differential systems.…”
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