A New Empirical Correlation for Estimation of EBF Steel Frame Behavior Factor under Near-Fault Earthquakes Using the Genetic Algorithm by Seyed Abdonnabi Razavi, Navid Siahpolo, Mehdi Mahdavi Adeli

“…The most important feature of the behavior factor is that it allows the structural designer to be able to evaluate the structural seismic demand, using an elastic analysis, based on force-based principles quickly. …”
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Experimental Investigation of a Multicylinder Unmodified Diesel Engine Performance, Emission, and Heat Loss Characteristics Using Different Biodiesel Blends: Rollout of B10 in Mala... by M. J. Abedin, H. H. Masjuki, M. A. Kalam, M. Varman, M. I. Arbab, I. M. Rizwanul Fattah, B. M. Masum

“…Energy balance analysis allows the designer to appraise the internal energy variations of a thermodynamic system as a function of ‘‘energy flows’’ across the control volume as work or heat and also the enthalpies associated with the energy flows which are passing through these boundaries. …”
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Effect of Proximity on The Layout and Selection of Chair Types in The Coffee Shop Industry by Eulis Yulianti Faridah, Riza Septriani Dewi

“…The conclusion of this research is that the wrong placement or selection of furniture, especially chairs, will cause visitors to be uncomfortable in it and if the designer is less precise in choosing the type of chair, it can cause an area that is not in demand so that the area is not utilized properly.…”
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A critical assessment of ionic liquid-based aqueous biphasic systems for biomolecules extraction and CO2 absorption by Viggy Wee Gee Tan, Yazan Abuhasheesh, Doris Ying Ying Tang, Yongyu Zhang, Zengling Ma, Lin Chen, Rambabu Krishnamoorthy, Pau Loke Show

“…Ionic liquids (ILs) are green designer solvents that have gained research interest in industrial applications, including solvent chemistry, catalysis, and electrochemistry. …”
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Numerical nonlinear analysis of RC beams with un-strengthened and CFRP-strengthened opening drilled under service loads within shear zones by Magdy Khalaf, Louay Aboul-Nour, Mahmoud Khater, Marwa Ibrahim

“…Some important conclusions and recommendations for designer and executive engineers are stated.…”
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Les limites de la cartographie des risques littoraux : des perspectives pour la compréhension de tous by Aurélie Arnaud

“…However, the emergence of this new cartography should not forget the basic construction rules and methods to represent information correct dimensions depending on the end user and reduce / eliminate designer subjectivity. In 2010, Xynthia storm (western France) marks development of a large cartographic production highly contested (Mercier et al, 2012), imposing a re-questioning of process of construct maps. …”
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Kansei Analysis of the Japanese Residential Garden and Development of a Low-Cost Virtual Reality Kansei Engineering System for Gardens by Tatsuro Matsubara, Shigekazu Ishihara, Mitsuo Nagamachi, Yukihiro Matsubara

“…Residential garden design using Kansei engineering is a challenging problem. …”
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ANALYSIS OF THE VARIATION OF THE ROUGHNESS OBTAINED DURING TURNING WITH TRANSVERSE FEED DUE TO THE MODIFICATION OF THE FUNCTIONAL GEOMETRY OF THE CUTTING TOOL by Mădălin TOMESCU, Ionela Magdalena ROTARU

“…The role of machining by chipping is to generate surfaces that must correspond to the requirements imposed by the designer through the execution drawing of the part. …”
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A narrative account of third space technology enhanced learning and teaching roles working in Australian higher education by Kate Mitchell, Kashmira Dave, Meredith Hinze, Alex Tsirgialos

“… We provide a collaborative autoethnographic narrative account (Poulos, 2021) of our experiences as practitioners working in overlapping, related Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) roles (academic developer, learning designer, educational technologist) in Australian universities. …”
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Automation of ship hull surface simulation by E. V. Popov, I. N. Shorkina

“…The program allows you to quickly analyze variants of the geometry of the ship hull model by adjusting the initial data, which significantly increases the productivity of the designer. It is possible to export the formed NURBS-surface for use in other design systems, including ship hull construction modeling, stability calculations, hull shell cutting and other tasks.…”
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Impact Analysis of Window-Wall Ratio on Heating and Cooling Energy Consumption of Residential Buildings in Hot Summer and Cold Winter Zone in China by Qiaoxia Yang, Meng Liu, Chang Shu, Daniel Mmereki, Md. Uzzal Hossain, Xiang Zhan

“…The influence of the factors can be regarded as reference mode for the window-wall ratio when designing residential buildings.…”
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Inhibition of the Wall-attached Fuel Combustion and the Formation of Aerosol Particle by Han Wu, Cong Liu, Longmin Tang, Chunze Cen, Sheng-Lun Lin, Chien-Er Huang

“…This finding provides valuable information to the designer of combustor control unit to inhibit and destroy the wall-attached fuel layer during the spry combustion and further inhibit the formation of combustion aerosol particles.…”
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The proline-rich antimicrobial peptide Api137 disrupts large ribosomal subunit assembly and induces misfolding by Simon Malte Lauer, Jakob Gasse, Andor Krizsan, Maren Reepmeyer, Thiemo Sprink, Rainer Nikolay, Christian M. T. Spahn, Ralf Hoffmann

“…Abstract The proline-rich antimicrobial designer peptide Api137 inhibits protein expression in bacteria by binding simultaneously to the ribosomal polypeptide exit tunnel and the release factor (RF), depleting the cellular RF pool and leading to ribosomal arrest at stop codons. …”
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Hormones and Hormonal Anabolics: Residues in Animal Source Food, Potential Public Health Impacts, and Methods of Analysis by Belachew B. Hirpessa, Beyza H. Ulusoy, Canan Hecer

“…Hormones such as steroidal (estrogens, gestagens, and androgens), nonsteroidal, semisynthetic, and synthetic or designer drugs are all growth-promoting and body-partitioning agents. …”
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Features of the Processes of Digitalization of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses in Ukraine by Reshetnyak Olena I., Bielikova Nadiia V., Yurchenko Oleksiy K., Kalashnikova Kateryna Yu.

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Mitigation of human factor in tomographic post processing of additive manufactured critical parts for aviation application by Stefano Benuzzi, Davide Borghi, Maria Grazia Righi, Natanaele Galavotti, Fabio Esposito

“… Over the past decade, the development of the additive manufacturing process resulted in the manufacture of parts with increasingly complex geometries. The design freedom that Additive Manufacturing allows, enables the designer to develop increasingly optimized parts, capable of joining different geometries (lattice structures, thick walls, geometries optimized for heat dissipation) on a scale that can vary significantly depending on the required application. …”
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Du mode d’inexistence des mathématiques by Vincent Bontems

“…Le virtuel, qui est invoqué explicitement pour désigner le statut d’un futur anticipé au cours de l’acte d’invention, désignerait implicitement le mode d’inexistence des mathématiques. …”
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Female Consumers’ Involvement in Intentional Non-Sustainable and Unintentional Sustainable Apparel Decisions: An Emerging Market Perspective by Elizabeth Kempen, Rejoice Tobias-Mamina, Mariette Strydom, Lorna Christi, Mirriam Makopo

“…An exploratory descriptive qualitative research design was used to determine consumers’ involvement and was facilitated through eleven digitally recorded small focus groups with female apparel shoppers who make use of a custom-made apparel designers. …”
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HPRS: hierarchical potential-based reward shaping from task specifications by Luigi Berducci, Edgar A. Aguilar, Dejan Ničković, Radu Grosu

“…Consequently, this signal should faithfully reflect the designer’s intentions, which are often expressed as a collection of high-level requirements. …”
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Postcards from Inside the Practices by Alicia Lazzaroni, Antonio Bernacchi, Enrique Espinosa Pérez, Lydia Maria Arantes, Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff

“… ALICIA LAZZARONI & ANTONIO BERNACCHI The Problem Space We Cohabit: Inter-Methodological Approaches for More-Than-Human Design A shift to an ecological and critical perspective in design calls for a profound methodological restructuring of its disciplines, towards a condition of methodological hybridity and contamination. …”
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