Micro and Macro Structural Investigations on Welded Joints of Composite Truss Steel Concrete Beams by Silvia Caprili, Walter Salvatore, Renzo Valentini

“…So, it is advisable to refrain from using such steel grade, especially in constructions in seismic-prone areas, where ductility is a major influencing and design factor.…”
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Catching up with the Past: A Small Contribution to a Long History of Interactive Environments by Michael Fox

“…The paper concludes with an explanation of how technical advancements in manufacturing, fabrication and computational control will continue to expand the parameters of what is possible in robotics, and consequently influence the scale by which we understand and construct our environments. The future of interactive environments will most certainly involve re-examining the scale by which things operate to the extent that much of the operations happen within the materials themselves. …”
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Robust Optimization Design for Combined Tooth Surface Modification of Helical Gear Pair Considering Load Variation Domain by Xu Wenbo, Yuan Bing, Ma Guoliang, Yu Wentao

“…In order to provide an effective method to solve tooth surface modification design of helical gear pairs considering the load variation domain, firstly, the loaded tooth contact equations are constructed using the flexibility matrix method, the efficient model for calculating the flexibility of potential contact points on tooth surface based on the energy and slicing method is established, and the fast calculation model of transmission error of modified helical gear pairs is developed. …”
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Supply-demand Balance Prediction of Water Resources in Hebei Province Based on System Dynamics by WANG Jianquan, QIN Huanhuan, HUANG Lixiang, ZHU Shiyi

“…To ease the long-term contradiction between the supply and demand of water resources in Hebei Province, the system dynamics method was used to construct a supply-demand model of water resources in Hebei Province. …”
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Classroom Expression Recognition Based on Deep Learning by Yang Gao, Linyan Zhou, Jialiang He

“…To address the above problems, this paper constructs a dataset covering five typical classroom expressions (resistance, confusion, understanding, fatigue, and neutrality). …”
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Single-cell bilayer design of a terahertz six-channel metasurface for simultaneous holographic and grayscale images by Zhiqiang Du, Chunhui Zhu, Zhengyong Song

“…A “six-in-one” meta-device is constructed by combining phase change properties of VO2 to realize simultaneous near-field grayscale imaging and far-field holography. …”
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Effect of Vaccination and Culling on the Dynamics of Rabies Transmission from Stray Dogs to Domestic Dogs by Demsis Dejene Hailemichael, Geremew Kenassa Edessa, Purnachandra Rao Koya

“…The mathematical model is constructed by dividing the dog population into two categories: stray dogs and domestic dogs. …”
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Reconstruction of LDPC code check matrix based on random extraction at high bit error rate by Zhongyong WANG, Zhenghao LI, Kexian GONG, Peng SUN, Qingtao LI

“…In order to improve the performance of the sparse check matrix reconstruction algorithm of LDPC codes at high BER, an open set recognition algorithm of the check matrix with strong fault tolerance under the condition of sufficient and insufficient number of received code words was proposed.Firstly, a new code word space was constructed by randomly extracting part bits of the code words for many times.Gaussian elimination method was used to solve the dual vector and restore the check vector in a lower dimension.Secondly, using the check vector, the proportion of error-free code groups in the received data was continuously increased by using the methods of “eliminating error code words” or“flipping the lowest unreliable bits” for iterative processing.Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is superior to comparison algorithm under different bit error rates, different code lengths, different code rates and different number of code words.For (648,324) LDPC codes in IEEE 802.11n protocol, when the number of received code words is sufficient, the reconstruction rate of check matrix can reach more than 95% under the condition of bit error rate of 0.003.When the number of received code words is insufficient (the number of code words is 450), the reconstruction rate of check matrix can reach more than 90% under the condition of bit error rate of 0.0015.…”
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Identification of bald patches in degraded alpine meadows by UAV-based remote sensing and deep learning by Lu Wang, Lulu Cui, Zihan Song, Min Zheng, Chengyi Li, Xilai Li

“…Afterwards, a standardized dataset was constructed through data screening and normalization, combined with expert experience to manually annotate the bald patches in the images. …”
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Voices in the Machine: Class, Subjectivity and Desire in Victorian Women’s Factory Poems by Fabienne Moine

“…Finally, ‘factory girls’, who write autobiographical poems and construct their subjectivity as real insiders, produce factory poems that give prestige and dignity to manual work and that develop their pride, their working-class consciousness and their sense of communal solidarity. …”
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Conceptualizing Discussions on the Dark Web: An Empirical Topic Modeling Approach by Randa Basheer, Bassel Alkhatib

“…Our proposed approach highlights the ability to discover the latent thematic patterns in conversations and messages in the common language used in social networks on the Dark Web, constructing topics as groups of terms and their associations. …”
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The 2020 IDS Release of the Antwerp COR*-Database. Evaluation, Development and Transformation of a Pre-Existing Database by Sam Jenkinson, Francisco Anguita, Diogo Paiva, Hideko Matsuo, Koen Matthijs

“…The Antwerp COR*-IDS database 2020 is a transformed and harmonized historical demographic database in a cross-nationally comparable format designed to be open and easy to use for international researchers. The database is constructed from the 2010 release of the Antwerp COR*-historical demographic database, which was created using a letter sample of the whole district of Antwerp (Flanders, Belgium). …”
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The evolution and driving mechanism of education inequality in China: From 2003 to 2020. by Yuanzhi Guo, Xuhong Li

“…In addition, the research on the evolution and internal mechanism of educational development inequality in China can also provide experience and reference for the Global South. Therefore, we construct a comprehensive evaluation index system to measure the level of regional educational development, reveal the regional inequalities in China's educational development, and employ spatial econometric model to dissect the factors influencing the regional inequalities. …”
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Surely not!Between certainty and disbelief by Graham Ranger

“…More precisely, surely marks a correspondence between, on the one hand, a preconstructed trajectory leading from a start point to an end point (from (p, non-p) to p), and on the other, the same trajectory constructed in the speech situation by the speaker. …”
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What was Killing Babies in Amsterdam? A Study of Infant Mortality Patterns Using Individual-Level Cause of Death Data, 1856–1904 by Angélique Janssens, Tim Riswick

“…We contribute to the discussion on the development of infant mortality and its determinants and test the newly-constructed ICD10h coding system. First, our results demonstrate that the ICD10h and groupings of causes worked quite well for our period and city data. …”
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The use of technology for social interaction by people with dementia: A scoping review. by Merryn Anderson, Rachel Menon, Katy Oak, Louise Allan

“…A sensitive search strategy was constructed using combinations of free text and thesaurus terms to retrieve articles about dementia, technology and social-interaction. …”
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Optimization of Overcast Stripping Technology Parameters Based on Discrete Event System Simulation by Zhang Zhao, Ruixin Zhang, Jiandong Sun, Shuaikang Lv

“…The barycentric circular projection method is used to simplify the control logic of the system, and a system storage state model is constructed to identify dynamic changes in the system and obtain the operation parameters of the dragline. …”
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The Profile of Professional Identity of English Course Teachers in Yogyakarta by Maria Dewi Rosari

“…Self-efficacy was founded as the strongest element and occupational commitment as the weakest element constructing the profile. Factors influencing the strength and the weakness of the elements of professional identity were elaborated to provide more thorough insight on how to provide working environment in which English Course teachers could work at their best and finally to retain them. …”
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Application of Enhanced EWT and Enhanced Dictionary Learning in Bearing Faults Identification by Wu Caixia, Li Fan, Liu Yubo

“…Finally, the sparsity constraint is used to learn the typical structural characteristics in the bearing fault sample layer by layer, and the deep fault dictionary (DFD) is constructed. Then the fault samples are fed into the DFD to determine the fault category according to the reconstruction error of the samples. …”
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Moral Foundations of the Theory of Education in Russian Neo-Kantianism by P. A. Vladimirov, A. V. Lebedeva

“…The article discusses the specificity of constructing pedagogical research within the tradition of Russian Neo-Kantianism. …”
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