An Updated Design Formula for Predicting the Compressive Strength of Plate: Elastic Buckling and Ultimate Compressive Strength by Do Kyun Kim, Hee Yeong Yang, Shen Li, Seungjun Kim

“…In total, 600 cases of reasonable plate scenarios are selected to update the design formula by broadly considering the plate geometry (i.e., plate length, breadth, and thickness), material property (i.e., elastic modulus and yield strength), and initial deflection. …”
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An Isothermal Sorption Model Based on the Flory-Huggins Theory: Application to Analyze Water Sorption of Wheat Flour by Wangming LI, Rongkun MA, Qingchao JIA, Na XU, Xinxin KONG, Xiaoxiao WEI

“…The results showed that the proposed model could give a good prediction of isothermal water sorption in wheat flour, with the Flory-Huggins interaction parameter χ ranging from 0.86 to 1.52 and the cross-linking density of polymer ranging from 3000 to 6400 mol/m3, which suggested that the model was reasonable. Analyzing the water sorption of wheat flour based on the proposed model indicated that the impact of temperature on equilibrium water content could mainly attribute to its influence on the Langmuir water, in addition, mixing effect dominated the chemical potential of water at low-mediate water activities, while elasticity effect became nonnegligible at high water activity levels.…”
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Comparison of earthquake emergency management system in China and Japan by Zhongzhi Min, Xiaojun Li, Mianshui Rong

“…This study revealed the unique advantages of China’s emergency management system in dealing with earthquakes from the perspectives of geographical conditions and national culture, and explained the reason why Japan’s emergency management system cannot form a unified leadership. …”
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Modeling and Analysis of Truck Mounted Concrete Pump Boom by Virtual Prototyping by Wu Ren, Zhongwei Li, Yanping Bi, Shan Zhao, Bo Peng, Liming Zhou

“…Finally an experiment has been done on a boom test rig which proved that the established simulation model is reasonable and the frequency results are correct. All of these provide design reference to mechanical manipulator as well as reducing product development cost of such mechanism.…”
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Exact Dynamic Characteristic Analysis of Steel-Concrete Composite Continuous Beams by Qikai Sun, Nan Zhang, Guobing Yan, Xinqun Zhu, Xiao Liu, Wangwang Li

“…And it is only affected by bending stiffness. Furthermore, the reasonable ratio of the side span to the main span is 0.9∼1.0.…”
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Enhanced Cutting Performance of 50Cr15MoV Martensitic Stainless Steel Through Controlled Residual Austenite Stability by Fujian Guo, Zhimin Peng, Guangyi Lu, Wenle Liu, Guoqing Li, Pan Zhang, Chengjia Shang

“…This study elucidates the effect of residual austenite content on the sharpness of the knives, providing a foundation for the reasonable control of residual austenite content in the actual production settings.…”
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WAND: A multi-modal dataset integrating advanced MRI, MEG, and TMS for multi-scale brain analysis by Carolyn B. McNabb, Ian D. Driver, Vanessa Hyde, Garin Hughes, Hannah L. Chandler, Hannah Thomas, Christopher Allen, Eirini Messaritaki, Carl J. Hodgetts, Craig Hedge, Maria Engel, Sophie F. Standen, Emma L. Morgan, Elena Stylianopoulou, Svetla Manolova, Lucie Reed, Matthew Ploszajski, Mark Drakesmith, Michael Germuska, Alexander D. Shaw, Lars Mueller, Holly Rossiter, Christopher W. Davies-Jenkins, Tom Lancaster, C. John Evans, David Owen, Gavin Perry, Slawomir Kusmia, Emily Lambe, Adam M. Partridge, Allison Cooper, Peter Hobden, Hanzhang Lu, Kim S. Graham, Andrew D. Lawrence, Richard G. Wise, James T. R. Walters, Petroc Sumner, Krish D. Singh, Derek K. Jones

“…In addition to raw data, we provide brain-extracted T1-weighted images, and quality reports for diffusion, T1- and T2-weighted structural data, and blood-oxygen level dependent functional tasks. Reasons for participant exclusion are also included. …”
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Meningococcal Antigen Typing System Development and Application to the Evaluation of Effectiveness of Meningococcal B Vaccine and Possible Use for Other Purposes by Alexander Domnich, Roberto Gasparini, Daniela Amicizia, Giuseppe Boccadifuoco, Marzia Monica Giuliani, Donatella Panatto

“…To date, MATS has proved advantageous for several reasons, including its ability to assess both qualitative and quantitative aspects of surface antigens of single strains in a highly reproducible, rapid, and resource-saving manner, while its shortcomings include a possible underestimation of 4CMenB coverage and the use of pooled sera to calculate the positive bactericidal threshold. …”
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dStream: An Online-Based Dynamic Operator-Level Query Mapping Scheme on Discrete CPU-GPU Architectures by Gyeonghwan Jung, Yeonwoo Jeong, Kyuli Park, Dongjae Lee, Hongsu Byun, Suyeon Lee, Sungyong Park

“…However, this coarse-grained approach can limit performance for two main reasons. Firstly, PCIe transfer overhead is minimal for small data sizes, and the device preference of each operator within a query may change with variations in data size. …”
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State of the Art, Unresolved Issues, and Future Research Directions in the Fight against Hepatitis C Virus: Perspectives for Screening, Diagnostics of Resistances, and Immunization by Cecilia Trucchi, Andrea Orsi, Cristiano Alicino, Laura Sticchi, Giancarlo Icardi, Filippo Ansaldi

“…Finally, effective screening strategy is crucial to early identifying and treating all HCV chronically infected patients. For all these reasons, even though new drugs may contribute to impacting HCV spread worldwide a preventive HCV vaccine remains a cornerstone in the road to significantly reduce the HCV spread globally, with the ultimate goal of its eradication. …”
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Feasibility of Stabilized Zn and Pb Contaminated Soils as Roadway Subgrade Materials by Mingli Wei, Hao Ni, Shiji Zhou, Yuan Li

“…The water stability coefficient and resilient modulus of the KMP stabilized soils are found to be higher than PC stabilized soils. The reasons for the differences in these properties between KMP and PC stabilized soils are interpreted based on the stability and dissolubility of the main hydration products of the KMP and PC stabilized soils, the soil pore distribution, and concentration of Mg or Ca leached from the KMP and PC stabilized soils obtained from the acid neutralization capacity tests. …”
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Enhancing Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Polyurethane Rubber Reinforced with Polyethylene Glycol-g-Graphene Oxide by Li Wang, Wen Fu, Wenlong Peng, Haotuo Xiao, Shenglin Li, Jianning Huang, Cuiwen Liu

“…The strength and toughness of vulcanizate were significantly improved by adding MGO. The reason was that the hydrogen bond interactions between MGO and PUR were destroyed and the hidden length was released during the strain process. …”
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Research on Characteristic Stress and Constitutive Equation of Confined Sandstone during Damage Evolution Based on Energy Evolution Analysis by Xiaobin Yang, Hongming Cheng, Xin Hou, Chaogang Nie, Jiaqi Lv

“…Finally, the theoretical curve and experimental curve of damage evolution are compared according to the five stages of dissipation energy proportion evolution, and the result shows that the damage evolution constitutive equation is reasonable.…”
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Short bowel syndrome: pathogenesis, clinical presentation and treatment by Anna F. Sheptulina, O. Z. Okhlobystina, O. S. Shifrin

“…The aim of review was to highlight features of pathogenesis, clinical manifestations and treatment of SBS after small intestinal resection for various reasons. Localization and volume of resection, presence of the background affection of the small intestine and other abdominal organs involved in digestion process and also adaptation capacity of the remaining part of the gut fragment are the basic factors that determine severity of SBS and prognosis of patients. …”
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Reducing sewing defects to increase productivity in the apparel industry of Bangladesh by integrating lean methodology by Md. Limonur Lingkon, Pronab Saha, Abdulla Al Manzid, Md. Hasan, Showra Mahalanobish

“…The purpose of this study is to determine how the Bangladeshi garment industry's sewing defect reduction and productivity enhancement are affected by the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) and 5S (Sort, Set in order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain) techniques. One of the main reasons for production delays and increased costs is sewing defects. …”
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Numerical Study of the Air Ingress Accident of the HTR-PM and Possible Mitigation Measures by Wei Xu, Han Zhang, Heng Xie, Lei Shi, Jun Sun

“…The preliminary results show that only the flow rate of nitrogen injected reaches a certain value, which can effectively alleviate the consequences, while for helium injection, both high and small flow rate can prevent or cut off the natural circulation and alleviate the consequences. The reason is that helium is much lighter than nitrogen, and the density difference between the coolant channel and the reactor core is small when helium is injected. …”
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Shifting paradigms in primary aldosteronism: reconsideration of screening strategy via integrating pathophysiological insights by Takumi Kitamoto, Yutaro Ruike, Hisashi Koide, Kosuke Inoue, Yoshiro Maezawa, Masao Omura, Kazuki Nakai, Yuya Tsurutani, Jun Saito, Katsuhiko Kuwa, Koutaro Yokote, Tetsuo Nishikawa

“…However, the pathogenesis of PA has now been shown to be far more complex. For this reason, the traditional classification needs to be updated. …”
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Metabolism of Mycotoxins, Intracellular Functions of Vitamin B12, and Neurological Manifestations in Patients with Chronic Toxigenic Mold Exposures. A Review by Ebere C. Anyanwu, Mohammed Morad, Andrew W. Campbell

“…This paper evaluates the possible reasons for consistent vitamin B12 deficiency in chronic toxigenic mold exposures and the synergistic relationships with the possible mycotoxic effects on one-carbon metabolism that lead to the manifestations of clinical neuropathological symptomology. …”
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Determination of Spatial Pattern of Urban Green Spread (Case Study: District 5 of Tehran Municipality) by SAHEL TABATABAYEE, MARYAM ROBATI, ZAHRA AZIZI

“…After the Islamic Revolution, due to various reasons such as overflow of population to Tehran from the central and southern regions and the flood of refugees to Tehran, it has faced with the increase in population and development, which makes it important to study the distribution of green space in different parts of the city. …”
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LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT OF YOUTH IN THE ARCTIC ZONE OF RUSSIA: SOCIO-CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS (CASE OF ARKHANGELSK AGGLOMERATION) by Lyudmila A. Chizhova, Olga V. Lets, Andrey O. Podoplekin

“…It has been established that the main reasons for the migration attitudes of the younger generation of the Arctic region are both the lack of employment opportunities, career growth and decent earnings, as well as dissatisfaction with the “future” and “cultural environment”. …”
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