Numerical Study on Crack Propagation by Using Softening Model under Blasting by Rong Hu, Zheming Zhu, Jun Xie, Dingjun Xiao

“…The linear equation of state (EOS) was used for rock, and the JWL EOS was applied to the explosive. In order to validate the numerical simulation results, experiments by using PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate) with a crack and a borehole were carried out. …”
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A Street Parking System Using Wireless Sensor Networks by Zusheng Zhang, Xiaoyun Li, Huaqiang Yuan, Fengqi Yu

“…Recently, with the explosive increase of automobiles in cities, parking problems are serious and even worsen in many cities. …”
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Modeling and Simulation Based on the Hybrid System of Leasing Equipment Optimal Allocation by Ying Tian, Wei-qing Zhong

“…After studying equipment unit’s hybrid automata model (the hybrid and basic structure), the hybrid system facing manufacture demand can be considered as the synthesis of some hybrid and basic structures, which efficiently avoid combination explosion of models due to the increase of systematic scale. …”
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Exploiting social reciprocity for auction-based spectrum allocation in femtocell networks by Feng Zhao, Haibo Tang, Hongbin Chen

“…With the explosive demand for wireless communications, users are always experiencing poor quality-of-services. …”
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Preface by Francois Tolmie

“…History shows that this article (and his commentary published shortly thereafter) led to an explosion of interest in the rhetorical analysis of this letter. …”
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Tensile Properties of Very-High-Strength Concrete for Penetration-Resistant Structures by E.F. O’Neil, B.D. Neeley, J.D. Cargile

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Demographics and the Irony of Existential Profiling in Yorùbá Thought: Policy Considerations for Nigeria by Wale Olajide

“… This essay interrogates what can be described as Yorùbá population philosophy, within the context of Yorùbá existential thought, and the effects it has on Nigeria’s population explosion. The essay explores the seemingly contradictory proverbs that both vindicate and vilify the act of giving birth to many children. …”
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Kreis in Verse: Robert Duncan and the Masters in Poetics Program at New College of California by Nicholas James Whittington

“…The paper plays on the aural cognates (to the ear most accustomed to English) of the German kreis and the French crise to show how this close circle of poets and scholars banded together to face the perceived crisis of professionalization and careerism represented by the explosive growth of the creative writing complex and the long devaluation of poetry as a vital form of knowledge.…”
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DIGITAL ECONOMY AS A NEW STAGE OF GLOBALIZATION by G. G. Goloventchik

“…The article shows how the digital transformation of society under the influence of the explosive growth of cross-border data led to the next stage of globalization, a characteristic feature of which is a new form of organization of economic relations — the digital economy. …”
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İNSAN VE DOĞA İLİŞKİSİ ÜZERİNE by Kubilay Aysevener

“…The world of the late twentieth century is experiencing a global ecological crisis such as Global warming, the explosion of human population. On the other hand, global capitalist system is based on the same fundamental division between industrialized economies and underdeveloped or peripheral economies, forming an economic hegemony. …”
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Helicobacter pylori: Genomic Insight into the Host-Pathogen Interaction by Kathryn P. Haley, Jennifer A. Gaddy

“…Infectious disease research in particular has experienced an explosion of bacterial genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic data complementing the phenotypic methods employed in traditional bacteriology. …”
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Log Pattern Mining for Distributed System Maintenance by Jia Chen, Peng Wang, Shiqing Du, Wei Wang

“…To solve the well-known problem of pattern explosion, we resort to the minimum description length (MDL) principle and take a step forward in summarizing the temporal relationships between adjacent events of a pattern. …”
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Open model of education using Open Source principles by Viduka Dejan, Ličina Boris, Kraguljac Vladimir

“…The open model of education has experienced explosive growth in the last decade thanks to the increasing availability of modern technologies. …”
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Simulation of Supersonic Flow in an Ejector Diffuser Using the JPVM by Carlos Couder-Castañeda

“…The ejectors are used commonly to extract gases in the petroleum industry where it is not possible to use an electric bomb due the explosion risk because the gases are flammable. The steam ejector is important in creating and holding a vacuum system. …”
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Improvement of the technology of flame arrester manufacturing by K. N. Pantyukhova, O. Yu. Bourgonova, Yu. O. Filippov, G. P. Ulyasheva

“…These emissions are the reason for the formation of an explosive mixture when mixed with mine air, and also contribute to the spontaneous combustion of coal. …”
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Sexual Transmission of XMRV: A Potential Infection Route by Prachi Sharma, Kenneth A. Rogers, Suganthi Suppiah, Ross J. Molinaro, Nattawat Onlamoon, John Hackett, Gerald Schochetman, Eric A. Klein, Robert H. Silverman, François Villinger

“…In spite of the intravenous inoculation, all infected macaques exhibited readily detectable XMRV signal in the reproductive tract of all 4 males and 1 female during both acute and chronic infection stages. XMRV showed explosive growth in the acini of prostate during acute but not chronic infection. …”
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Big Data Analytics for Complex Credit Risk Assessment of Network Lending Based on SMOTE Algorithm by Aiwen Niu, Bingqing Cai, Shousong Cai

“…With the continuous development of big data technology, the data of online lending platform witness explosive development. How to give full play to the advantages of data, establish a credit risk assessment model, and realize the effective control of platform credit risk have become the focus of online lending platform. …”
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Jean-Jacques et Hippolyte, deux commandeurs meneurs de grève, ou comment sonner l’alarme à la sucrerie des Manquets (Saint-Domingue, 1782) by Jean-Louis Donnadieu

“…The analysis of these letters, however, completed with the examination of other documents from other sources, shows that the overseer’s responsibility was far from being insignificant and that his way of running the estate, from 1779 to 1789, was very approximate, leading to an explosive situation. This didn’t escape the notice of the leaders of the August 1791 forthcoming slaves’ riot.…”
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Smart breeding driven by advances in sequencing technology by Chenji Zhang, Sirong Jiang, Yangyang Tian, Xiaorui Dong, Jianjia Xiao, Yanjie Lu, Tiyun Liang, Hongmei Zhou, Dabin Xu, Han Zhang, Ming Luo, Zhiqiang Xia

“…Systematic analysis of the mainstream genotyping approaches based on principle, application scenario and supporting software revealed that the changes in genotyping technology have led to an explosion in data. This data expansion will drive a breakthrough in sequencing technology and integrate artificial intelligence with automation. …”
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Hyperspectral Image Classification Based on Attentional Residual Networks by Ning Wang, Xin Pan, Xiaoling Luo, Xiaojing Gao

“…Firstly, the residual network is used to extract the features of hyperspectral images, and the quality of feature extraction is effectively improved by solving the problem of gradient disappearance and gradient explosion in deep neural network training. Then, the Attention Module (AM) is introduced to optimize the feature extraction process, so that the model can focus on the important regions in the image. …”
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