An Electro Breakdown Damage Model for Granite and Simulation of Deep Drilling by High-Voltage Electropulse Boring by Changping Li, Longchen Duan, Songcheng Tan, Victor Chikhotkin, Xiaohui Wang

“…A shock-wave model is also constructed and solved. To simulate the heterogeneity of rocks, EPB rock breaking in deep environments is simulated using the two-dimensional Particle Flow Code (PFC2D) program. …”
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Heat transfer software for local materials in Cameroon (HTSLM 1.0): simplified building energy software based on local realities by Lynda Phalone Ndjonnou Tchawa, Lucien Mandeng Mandeng, Joël Durel Tchinang Tchameu, Ramses Tanankem Menkem, Florian Kamsu Kom, Jacques Lionel Ntamag, Joseph Pondi

“…Abstract We report in this work the overall design of a software application for calculating the indoor temperature in a room of a building constructed from local materials in Cameroon based on heat transfer modes. …”
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Mass Laplacian Discriminant Analysis and Its Application in Gear Fault Diagnosis by Guangbin Wang, Ying Lv, Tengqiang Wang, Xiaohui Wang, Huanke Cheng

“…Based on the Laplace eigenmaps algorithm, the gravitational Laplacian matrix between the same kind of data and the heterogeneous data is obtained, and the discriminant function is constructed by the ratio of the virtual gravitation between the heterogeneous data and the virtual gravitation between the similar data; the projection function with the largest discriminant function value is the optimal feature mapping function. …”
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Date Attachable Offline Electronic Cash Scheme by Chun-I Fan, Wei-Zhe Sun, Hoi-Tung Hau

“…Both systems have their own pros and cons and they can be used to construct various applications. In this paper, we pioneer to propose a provably secure and efficient offline e-cash scheme with date attachability based on the blind signature technique, where expiration date and deposit date can be embedded in an e-cash simultaneously. …”
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A Critical Review on the Book Advanced Accounting II of Payame Noor University by Ahmad Fathi Abdollahi, Mohammadreza Nikbakht, Arash Tahriri, Firooz Mahmoodi

“…Jonassens prepared checklist was used to gather information and a researcher-constructed questionnaire was employed. Experts’ opinions were obtained for the justifiability of tools and for the reliability of the questionnaire Cronbach's alpha 0.98 was calculated. …”
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Feedback Control of Injection Rate of the Injection Molding Machine Based on PID Improved by Unsaturated Integral by An Yang, Weigang Guo, Tianlong Han, Congrong Zhao, Hongwei Zhou, Jianping Cai

“…Taking an injection molding machine as the control object, the transfer function of the injection system was constructed. Then, the improved PID was simulated using Matlab/Simulink. …”
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A chitosan/acellular matrix-based neural graft carrying mesenchymal stem cells to promote peripheral nerve repair by Zhifa Zhang, Molin Li, Gang Cheng, Peng Wang, Chunhui Zhou, Yang Liu, Xiaofeng Duan, Jing Wang, Fang Xie, Yaqiong Zhu, Jianning Zhang

“…This study therefore aimed to explore the efficacy of a neural graft constructed using adipose mesenchymal stem cells (ADSC), acellular microtissues (MTs), and chitosan in the treatment of peripheral nerve defects. …”
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Energy-Momentum for a Charged Nonsingular Black Hole Solution with a Nonlinear Mass Function by Irina Radinschi, Theophanes Grammenos, Farook Rahaman, Andromahi Spanou, Sayeedul Islam, Surajit Chattopadhyay, Antonio Pasqua

“…The energy-momentum of a new four-dimensional, charged, spherically symmetric, and nonsingular black hole solution constructed in the context of general relativity coupled to a theory of nonlinear electrodynamics is investigated, whereby the nonlinear mass function is inspired by the probability density function of the continuous logistic distribution. …”
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Parameterized resetting model captures dose-dependent entrainment of the mouse circadian clock by Kosaku Masuda, Ryusuke Yoshimoto, Ruoshi Li, Takeshi Sakurai, Arisa Hirano

“…Our previous work demonstrated that resetting a desynchronized circadian clock (singularity response, SR) simplifies the analysis by requiring only amplitude and phase parameters. In this study, we construct a comprehensive model for phase resetting in the mouse circadian clock by converting PRCs into SR parameters. …”
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Comparative Hydrological and Geoelectrical Study on the Quaternary Aquifer in the Deltas of Wadi Badaa and Ghweiba, El Ain El Sukhna Area, Northwest Suez Gulf, Egypt by M. M. El Osta, A. El. El Sheikh, M. S. Barseem

“…Finally, priority map for drilling water wells is constructed to make the results more illustrative and useful for decision maker. …”
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Nonrigid Medical Image Registration by Finite-Element Deformable Sheet-Curve Models by Jianhua Xuan, Yue Wang, Matthew T. Freedman, Tulay Adali, Peter Shields

“…Specifically, deformable curves are constructed to match the boundaries dynamically, while a deformable sheet of thin-plate splines is designed to model complex local deformations. …”
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Maximizing Information Dissemination in Social Network via a Fast Local Search by Lijia Tian, Xingjian Ji, Yupeng Zhou

“…To tackle this complex NP-hard optimization problem, a rapid local search algorithm named FastIM is introduced. A fast constructive heuristic is initially used to quickly find a starting solution, while a sampling selection method is incorporated to minimize complexity during the local search. …”
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City-level estimation of vehicle CO2 emission factors regarding driving behaviors: The case of Tianjin, China by Haipeng Ye, Yu Li, Ji Zheng, Zehong Li

“…To enrich the research methods of city-level vehicle CO2 EFs, this paper constructs a vehicle–road–driver three-layer regression model and estimates vehicle CO2 EFs empirical parameters for Tianjin. …”
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Observation-based temperature and freshwater noise over the Atlantic Ocean by A. A. Boot, H. A. Dijkstra, H. A. Dijkstra

“…Here we study the noise characteristics in reanalysis data for two fields that are commonly used to force ocean-only models: evaporation minus precipitation and 2 m air temperature. We construct several noise models for both fields, and a pointwise normal inverse Gaussian distribution model gives the best performance. …”
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An Improved Coupled Modeling Method for Coalbed Methane Extraction after Hydraulic Fracturing by Hao-Hao Zhang, Jun-Xing Wang, Chao-Jun Fan, Hui-Jie Bi, Li Chen, Chen-Yu Xu

“…Based on the damage mechanics theory, we introduce a state damage variable to record the damage changes at different times and construct the coupling governing equations of the seepage field and solid mechanics field in the hydraulic fracturing process. …”
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Impact of Baseline BMI upon the Success of Latina Participants Enrolled in a 6-Month Physical Activity Intervention by Sheri J. Hartman, Shira I. Dunsiger, Dori W. Pekmezi, Brooke Barbera, Charles J. Neighbors, Becky Marquez, Bess H. Marcus

“…Overall, a trend for a negative association was found between baseline BMI and self-reported physical activity and theoretical constructs targeted by the intervention over time. For example, someone with a 25 kg/m2 BMI would report, on average, 27.5 more minutes/week of activity compared to someone with a 30 kg/m2 BMI at followup. …”
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Identifying Key Nodes and Enhancing Resilience in Grain Supply Chains Under Drought Conditions by Shuiwang Zhang, Chuansheng Zhou

“…Secondly, the fragmentation of the scenario is based on the description of the scene, the scene stream is constructed, the event network is obtained, and the Bayesian network structure is built on the basis. …”
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Global Sound Field Reconstruction in the Room Environment Based on Inverse Wave-Based Simulation by Haitao Wang, Lin Zhang, Yakun Wang, Yaocheng Nie, Xiangyang Zeng

“…In particular, the shape function with the property of sparsity is constructed in building the wave model. Then, the intensity on the point source is represented by a sparse vector over the subdomains, and then, the sparse method can be used to achieve the recovery of this vector, which reduces the sampling burden in the space. …”
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IMPACT OF HARDENING ON SLIGHTLY CURVED ELASTICITY-PLASTICITY CRACK TIP DISPLACEMENT UNDER QUASI-STATIC LOADS by YANG DaPeng, WANG JunJie, ZHAO Yao, LI TianYun, CHEN JianQiao

“…Diagrams have been constructed to analyse the transformation relationships between curved crack tip opening displacement size and hardening exponents. …”
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A global open-source dataset of monthly irrigated and rainfed cropped areas (MIRCA-OS) for the 21st century by Endalkachew Abebe Kebede, Kevin Ong’are Oluoch, Stefan Siebert, Piyush Mehta, Sarah Hartman, Jonas Jägermeyr, Deepak Ray, Tariq Ali, Kate A. Brauman, Qinyu Deng, Wei Xie, Kyle Frankel Davis

“…Yet despite the key role that croplands play in global land use and Earth systems, there remains little understanding of how spatial patterns of global crop cultivation have recently evolved and which crops have contributed most to these changes. Here we construct a new data library of subnational crop-specific irrigated and rainfed harvested area statistics and combine it with global gridded land cover products to develop a global gridded (5-arcminute) irrigated and rainfed cropped area (MIRCA-OS) dataset for the years 2000 to 2015 for 23 crop classes. …”
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