Analysis of a Methodology for Torsional Test under Normal Stress and Shear Performance for Asphalt Mixtures by Jun Xie, Yiqun Zhan, Yifan Wang

“…The failure mode of the specimen was the appearance of an oblique crack of about 45° from the vertical axis after the specimen was destroyed, which accorded with shear failure characteristics. …”
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Experimental Study and Numerical Analysis on Impact Resistance of Civil Air Defense Engineering Shear Wall by Chenglong Shi, Jigang Zhang, Junbo Zhang, Feng Shao, Yicong Zhang, Menglin Zhang

“…With the increase of pendulum weight, the number of concrete horizontal cracks in the back of the civil air defense engineering shear wall increased, while the number of vertical cracks decreased, but the impact surface was destroyed. Through multiple impact tests on the civil air defense engineering shear wall, the civil air defense engineering shear wall had accumulated damage. …”
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Histological characterization of HIFU lesions by Ian Rivens, Chaturika Jayadewa, Petros Mouratidis, Gail ter Haar

“…Background: High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) can destroy tissue by thermal ablation which may be accompanied by acoustic cavitation and/or tissue water boiling, but the biological and histological effects of these treatments have not been fully documented. …”
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Isolation and Characterization of Gram-Negative Bacterial Species from Pasteurized Dairy Products: Potential Risk to Consumer Health by Solomon H. Mariam

“…Pathogenic bacterial contaminants of dairy products cause economic and human life losses if not destroyed by pasteurization. Gram-negative bacteria are among such major contaminants. …”
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Genetic advancements in breast cancer treatment: a review by Marzieh Shokoohi, Sadaf Sedaghatshoar, Homaira Arian, Milad Mokarami, Fatemeh Habibi, Fatemeh Bamarinejad

“…Simultaneously, OVT leverages genetically engineered viruses to selectively destroy cancer cells and stimulate robust antitumor immune responses. …”
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Physical Simulation of the Water-Conducting Fracture Zone of Weak Roofs in Shallow Seam Mining Based on a Self-Designed Hydromechanical Coupling Experiment System by Hao Zha, Weiqun Liu, Qinghong Liu

“…Due to inappropriate mining practices, water-conducting fracture zones can develop in an aquifer, not only destroying the surface-water environment but also causing water inrush, even hurting or killing workers. …”
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Maksimovka I Grave Field (Forest-Steppe Volga Region): Results of the 2019 Excavations by Arkadii I. Korolev, Anton A. Shalapinin

“…Two burials had been destroyed and are nothing but heaps of heavily fragmented bones with no grave goods observed. …”
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Study on the Seismic Performance of Box-Plate Steel Structure Modular Unit by Hui Mao, Guang-chong Qin, Tao Lan

“…In addition, the quasi-static loading test has been performed on the test pieces where the destruction process, destroy mode, bearing capacity, hysteretic behavior, etc., have been studied and the impact of reinforcing measures with a corner or not on the seismic performance of test pieces has been mainly analyzed. …”
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Natural Disaster Risk Assessments for Pine Honey Apiaries in Muğla, Turkey by Fatih Sarı

“…On the other hand, due to the mountainous topography and high precipitation rate of Muğla, the province has a high rate of flood formation (20 per year), which threatens the hive sites by destroying the entire colony. In this study, Apiary Locations Risk Index (ALRI) was carried out to guide the insurance process for apiary locations by applying the Forest Fire Risk Index (FFRI) and the Flood Hazard Risk Index (FHRI). …”
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Minirhizotron measurements can supplement deep soil coring to evaluate root growth of winter wheat when certain pitfalls are avoided by Jessica Arnhold, Facundo R. Ispizua Yamati, Henning Kage, Anne-Katrin Mahlein, Heinz-Josef Koch, Dennis Grunwald

“…Abstract Background Root growth is most commonly determined with the destructive soil core method, which is very labor-intensive and destroys the plants at the sampling spots. The alternative minirhizotron technique allows for root growth observation throughout the growing season at the same spot but necessitates a high-throughput image analysis for being labor- and cost-efficient. …”
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The Last Victory of the Crimean Yurt: The Battle near Migeya Tract on June 7 (18), 1769 by Vasiliy Kashirin

“…Despite of their fierce resistance, it was taken by storm, and most of the Russian detachment was destroyed. This was the last victory in history of the armed forces of the Crimean Khanate in a field battle. …”
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The Impact of Digital Technologies on Leadership in Global Processes: from Platforms to Markets? by I. V. Danilin

“…It is doubtful that potential competitors from third nations may ever destroy this duopoly. Also, the information functions of the platforms are reviewed as resource for global leadership. …”
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The End of Akıncı Corps in The Ottoman Empire by Mustafa Alkan

“…In 1595, during the attacks carried out against Walachia Voivodina Mihail, who rebelled, the Akıncıs which stayed behind the Ottoman army, which was retreating over the wooden bridge, were nearly destroyed due to the inconsiderate act of Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha. …”
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State Budget Execution under Martial Law by Lesia Zaburanna

“…In such conditions, the rational distribution of budget expenditures remains relevant, with a special emphasis on the efficiency of their use to strengthen the armed forces' capabilities, restore critical infrastructure facilities destroyed by the war, and provide social support to the population. …”
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Multi-Objective Optimization of the Energy, Exergy, and Environmental Performance of a Hybrid Solar–Biomass Combined Brayton/Organic Rankine Cycle by Guillermo Valencia-Ochoa, Jorge Duarte-Forero, Daniel Mendoza-Casseres

“…Thus, an increase in overall system efficiency of 30.3% is obtained. In addition, the destroyed exergy is reduced by 23% due to the bypass before the evaporation process. …”
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Le port romain du quartier de Saint-Lupien à Rezé/Ratiatum (Loire-Atlantique) : origine et évolution by Jimmy Mouchard, David Guitton, Martial Monteil, Xavier Favreau, Nicolas Ménez, Matthieu Yacger

“…Along with a nascent hydrological crisis at the end of the Early Roman Empire, the docks were subsequently destroyed and abandoned, gradually being replaced by the installation of a slipway, that would remain active until the beginning of the Middle Ages.…”
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Reversible data hiding in encrypted images based on additive homomorphic encryption and multi-MSB embedding by Wenqian XIAO, Gaobo YANG, Dewang WANG, Ming XIA

“…Reversible Data Hiding in Encrypted Images (RDHEI) combines image encryption and reversible data hiding to improve the security and information transmission efficiency for the network transmission of images.In RDHEI, the conventional bit-by-bit encryption destroys the spatial correlation in an original image and has side effects on the preservation of embedding spaces.An approach for RHDEI was proposed, which utilized additive homomorphic encryption and a multi-MSB (Most Significant Bit) embedding strategy to create room within the encryption process.The original image was divided into non-overlapped blocks, and each block was subjected to the same key for additive homomorphic encryption.This helped transfer the pixel correlation within an original block to the encrypted image block as much as possible.To enhance security, the encrypted image was further subjected to an Arnold transformation on a block-by-block basis.The decision of whether data will be embedded in a block and the embedding capacity were determined by the pixel differences within the block and the predicted values.When a block was selected for embedding, a small number of LSBs (Least Significant Bits) were used to store the prediction differences, ensuring reversibility.The redundant multi-MSBs were embedded with secret information by bit replacement.For the possible errors caused by multi-MSBs prediction, an embedding position selection strategy was designed by vacating MSBs in terms of the values of prediction errors, then more MSBs were reserved for those pixels with less prediction errors.During decryption, the secret information can be accurately extracted from the multiple MSBs of the pixels in a block, and the image content can be losslessly recovered using the number of embedded multi-MSBs, predicted values, and prediction differences.Experimental results on the BOWS-2 image dataset demonstrate that the average embedding capacity is improved to 2.58 bit/pixel, surpassing existing methods.…”
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Fast Disinfection of Escherichia coli Bacteria Using Carbon Nanotubes Interaction with Microwave Radiation by Samer M. Al-Hakami, Amjad B. Khalil, Tahar Laoui, Muataz Ali Atieh

“…The produced CNTs were tested for their efficiency in destroying the pathogenic bacteria (E. coli) in water with and without the effect of microwave radiation. …”
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State tax policy in Ukraine: historical and legal aspect (based on the example of the XX century) by G. L. Gufman

“…The attention has been focused on the fact that post-war years of the government budget was subordinated to the solution of the major task to mitigation of consequences of war and restoration of the destroyed economy of the country. Growth of receipts in the budget in the form of tax from a turn and assignments from the profit of the restored industrial enterprises allowed to lower taxes on the population a few. …”
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Pore-Size Distribution Evolution of Intact, Compacted, and Saturated Loess from China during Consolidation and Shearing by Ping Li, Shengjun Shao, Tao Xiao, Dandan Zhu

“…Clay cementations that play the dominant role in particle aggregating in compacted loess are resistant to loading; thus, aggregates could not be destroyed by loading and the mechanical responses of compacted loess are in fact interactions among aggregates. …”
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