Nonlocal fracture analysis of fiber reinforced composites under heat flux loading by Kunyang Cao, Ruchao Gao, Wenzhi Yang, Zhijun Liu, Zengtao Chen

“…After evaluating the integral equations numerically, the temperature and nonlocal stresses around the crack tips are illustrated graphically. The effects of the fiber volume fractions, fiber orientations, and the nonlocal characteristic lengths are investigated in detail. …”
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More Than Grades: How Students Define Holistic Student Success by Anjali Sundararaman, Kathy Baek, Matthew Gee, Audrey Weber, Monica A. Corzo, Jacob Dinardi, Cara J. Connor, Kathryn Nesbit, Elaine Musselman, Linda M. Platas, Susanna Jones

“…Students’ perceptions of success build upon institutionally defined metrics of success, highlighting personal growth, wellbeing, tenacity, the ability to give back to communities, and progress toward career goals. Our research illustrates that students’ views of success are not ubiquitous. …”
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Assessment tool addresses implementation challenges of ecosystem-based management principles in marine spatial planning processes by Ibon Galparsoro, Natalia Montero, Gotzon Mandiola, Iratxe Menchaca, Ángel Borja, Wesley Flannery, Stelios Katsanevakis, Simonetta Fraschetti, Erika Fabbrizzi, Michael Elliott, Maria Bas, Steve Barnard, GerJan Piet, Sylvaine Giakoumi, Maren Kruse, Ben McAteer, Robert Mzungu Runya, Olga Lukyanova, Telmo Morato, Annaïk Van Gerven, Steven Degraer, Stefan Neuenfeldt, Vanessa Stelzenmüller

“…Here, we use a comprehensive literature review and a co-development process with experts to build an assessment framework and tool that integrates the fundamental principles of an ecosystem approach to management and translates them into specific actions to be undertaken during planning processes. We illustrate the potential of this tool through the evaluation of two national marine spatial plans (Spain and France), in consultation with the representatives involved in their development and implementation. …”
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A Staged Finite-Time Control Strategy for Formation of Underactuated Unmanned Surface Vehicles by Hui Ye, Xiaofei Yang, Chunxiao Ge, Zhaoping Du

“…Numerical simulations are carried out to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed formation control strategy.…”
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Collaboration and Evolution of E-Commerce and Express Delivery Industry Supply Chain by Ying Xu, Xuemei Zhang, Jian Cao, Ya Chen, Xuhong Ye

“…Besides, evolutionary model of the e-commerce and express delivery industry is established and analyzed according to self-organization method of system dynamic theory to illustrate order parameters’ role in system evolution, and numerical analyses emerged to intuitively demonstrate the solutions. …”
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Numerical Algorithm for Coupled Fixed Points in Normed Spaces with Applications to Fractional Differential Equations and Economics by Lifang Guo, Salha Alshaikey, Abeer Alshejari, Muhammad Din, Umar Ishtiaq

“…We demonstrate the existence and uniqueness of fixed points for these operators and provide an example to illustrate our findings. Moreover, we discuss the applications of our results in solving nonlinear integral equations. …”
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SppC Based Energy Frontier Lepton-Proton Colliders: Luminosity and Physics by Ali Can Canbay, Umit Kaya, Bora Ketenoglu, Bilgehan Baris Oner, Saleh Sultansoy

“…Physics search potential of proposed lepton-proton colliders is illustrated by considering small Björken x region as an example of SM physics and resonant production of color octet leptons as an example of BSM physics.…”
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A Dynamic Stiffness Element for Free Vibration Analysis of Delaminated Layered Beams by Nicholas H. Erdelyi, Seyed M. Hashemi

“…The bending vibration of an illustrative example problem, characterized by delamination zone of variable length, is investigated. …”
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An Antenna-Theory Method for Modeling High-Frequency RF Coils: A Segmented Birdcage Example by Xin Chen, Victor Taracila, Timothy Eagan, Hiroyuki Fujita, Xingxian Shou, Tanvir Baig, Robert Brown

“…We suggest that center-fed dipole antenna analytics can be employed in the optimized design of high-frequency MRI RF coil applications. The method is illustrated in the design of a single-segmented birdcage model and a short multisegmented birdcage model. …”
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Multi attribute decision-making algorithms using Hamacher Choquet-integral operators with complex intuitionistic fuzzy information by Tehreem, Harish Garg, Kinza Ayaz, Walid Emam

“…Finally, we conducted a comprehensive comparison between the proposed methodology and existing approaches, using illustrative examples to validate the effectiveness and demonstrate the advantages of the proposed methods.…”
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Physical One‐Way Functions for Decentralized Consensus Via Proof of Physical Work by Marvin Winkler, Catharina Peither, Simon Petrick, Lothar Seidemann, Holger Jelich, Frank Kleine Jäger, Jörn Müller‐Quade, Alexander Colsmann, Hermann Nirschl, Frank Rhein

“…In the context of the applied methods, this setup promises to be mathematically unclonable, steady, reproducible, collision resistant and non‐invertible and illustrates the feasibility of a physical one‐way function. …”
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Time to invest in cholera by Rebecca C. Stout, Nicholas Feasey, Marion Péchayre, Nicholas Thomson, Benson Z. Chilima

“…In this personal view, we look at Malawi as a case example to illustrate how current approaches lack sufficient investment. …”
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The global stability of an SIRS model with infection age by Yuming Chen, Junyuan Yang, Fengqin Zhang

“…The theoretical results are illustrated with numerical simulations.…”
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A Mixed Prediction Model of Ground Subsidence for Civil Infrastructures on Soft Ground by Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Kiyoyuki Kaito

“…Through a case study, this paper discussed the applicability of the proposed method and illustrated its possible application and future works.…”
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Graph-theoretic conditions for zero-eigenvalue Turing instability in general chemical reaction networks by Maya Mincheva, Gheorghe Craciun

“…If the SR graph satisfies certain conditions, similar to the conditions for ruling out multiple equilibria in spatially homogeneous differential equations systems, then the corresponding mass-action reaction-diffusion system cannot exhibit zero-eigenvalue Turing instability for any parameter values.On the other hand, if the graph-theoretic condition for ruling out zero-eigenvalue Turing instability is not satisfied, then the corresponding model may display zero-eigenvalue Turing instability for some parameter values. The technique is illustrated with a model of a bifunctional enzyme.…”
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Asset Price Dynamics in a Chartist-Fundamentalist Model with Time Delays: A Bifurcation Analysis by Loretti I. Dobrescu, Mihaela Neamtu, Gabriela Mircea

“…Finally, we provide some numerical illustrations to confirm our theoretical findings.…”
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Universal Approximation of a Class of Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Neural Networks in Nonlinear Identification by Oscar Castillo, Juan R. Castro, Patricia Melin, Antonio Rodriguez-Diaz

“…Simulation results of nonlinear function identification using the IT2FNN for one and three variables and for the Mackey-Glass chaotic time series prediction are presented to illustrate the concept of universal approximation.…”
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Continuum flow model of MHD Casson nanofluid over a rotating disk with multiple slips by Khuram Rafique, Aisha M. Alqahtani, Ayesha Rehman, Najla A. Mohammed, Ilyas Khan

“…The Keller box technique is utilized to find the numerical outcomes of the resulting nonlinear ODE's. Graphs illustrated that how non-dimensional physical factors affect the velocity, temperature and concentration patterns. …”
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Augmented Lagrange Based on Modified Covariance Matching Criterion Method for DOA Estimation in Compressed Sensing by Weijian Si, Xinggen Qu, Lutao Liu

“…The effectiveness and satisfactory performance of the proposed method are illustrated by simulation results.…”
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Structural Performance Assessment Based on Statistical and Wavelet Analysis of Acceleration Measurements of a Building during an Earthquake by Mosbeh R. Kaloop, Jong Wan Hu, Mohamed A. Sayed, Jiyoung Seong

“…The results indicate that (1) the acceleration, displacement, and torsional responses of the roof recording point on the top floor of the building are more dominant in the X direction; (2) the rotation of the building has occurred at the base recording point; (3) 95% of the energy content of the building response is shown in the dominant frequency range (6.25–25 Hz); (4) the wavelet spectrum illustrates that the roof vibration is more obvious and dominant during the shaking; and (5) the wavelet spectrum reveals the elasticity responses of the structure during the earthquake shaking.…”
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