Thermohydraulic Performance Improvement in Heat Exchanger Square Duct Inserted with 45° Inclined Square Ring by Amnart Boonloi, Withada Jedsadaratanachai

“…The effects of flow blockage ratios and spacing ratios for the inclined square ring on fluid flow and heat transfer are considered. …”
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Application of Heterogeneous Network Oriented to NoSQL Database in Optimal Postevaluation Indexes of Construction Projects by Airong Yang, Guoxin Yu

“…“House construction” refers to projects with roofs, beams, columns, walls, and foundations that can form internal spaces to meet people’s needs in production, living, learning, and public activities. …”
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Végétation des espaces boisés et paysage urbain by Francesca Di Pietro, Lotfi Mehdi

“…Our results confirm elements identified in large agglomerations: spontaneous vegetation in urban wooded spaces is linked to the structure of the urban landscape; urban forestry management strategies should take into account the colonisation process of semi-natural vegetation at the level of the landscape.…”
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The Missionary-Colonial Forms of Marriages and Sexualities Within African Pentecostalism: A Sankofa-De-Colonial Perspective by Themba Shingange

“…Looking retrospectively at pre-colonial African marriages and sexualities is critical in the urge to transform the contemporary narratives about marriage and sexuality within African Christian spaces. In Africa, marriage and sexuality had cultural, spiritual, and religious intersectionality. …”
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Chitin Fiber and Chitosan 3D Composite Rods by Zhengke Wang, Qiaoling Hu, Lei Cai

“…XRD indicated that the crystallinity of CHF/CS composites decreased and CS crystal plane d-spacing of CHF/CS composites became larger than that of pure CS rod. …”
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LOCAL VALUES OF HEAT TRANSFER PARAMETERS ON THE INTERIOR SURFACES OF THE BUILDING ENVELOPE by A. E. Zakharevich

“…The developed two-dimensional physical and mathematical model takes into account the complex conjugated heat transfer in the building envelopes and indoor free spaces, the influence of heater type on the transfer processes. …”
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Computational Swarming: A Cultural Technique for Generative Architecture by Sebastian Vehlken

“…By taking advantage of the self-organisational capabilities of computational agent collectives whose global behaviour emerges from the local interaction of a large number of relatively simple individuals (as it does, for instance, in animal swarms), architects are able to understand buildings and urbanscapes in a novel way as complex spaces that are constituted by the movement of multiple material and informational elements. …”
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Effects of Geofoam Panels on Static Behavior of Cantilever Retaining Wall by Navid Hasanpouri Notash, Rouzbeh Dabiri

“…In addition, the performance of the double EPS buffer system, which involves two vertical geofoam panels, in retaining walls’ stability with four panel spacing (50, 100, 150, and 200 cm) was also evaluated in this research. …”
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Affordances-in-Practice: How Social Norm Dynamics in Climate Change Publics Are Shaped on Instagram and Twitter by Nathalie Van Raemdonck, Ike Picone, Jo Pierson

“…They are shaped by humans, whose actions in turn are shaped by their environment, including the online social spaces they venture into. The objective of this research is to create an understanding of how the affordances of social media platforms shape social norm dynamics in online publics, particularly in climate change publics. …”
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Key factors influencing school violence in Peruvian emblematic schools post-pandemic by Hilda Beraun-Vasquez, Eugenia Fabian-Arias, Maribel Ruiz-Balvin

“…The educational factor impacts school violence when norms are not enforced, supervision is insufficient, and spaces are limited.…”
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Controlled Capture of Magnetic Nanoparticles from Microfluidic Flows by Ferromagnetic Antidot and Dot Nanostructures by Reyne Dowling, Mikhail Kostylev

“…In the parallel field configuration, MNPs can be focused into the regularly spaced antidot indents in the nanostructure, which may be useful when detecting or observing MNPs and their conjugates. …”
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Extended Newton-type Method for Nonsmooth Generalized Equation under n,α-point-based Approximation by M. Z. Khaton, M. H. Rashid

“…Let X and Y be Banach spaces and Ω⊆X. Let f:Ω⟶Y be a single valued function which is nonsmooth. …”
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Design and Construction of an Improvised Vertical Axis Wind Turbine. by Owamaani, Babrah

“…The horizontal axis is mainly used in large-scale applications and thus its implementation is generally a concern due to the huge installment setup and initial cost; whereas vertical axis wind turbines offer promising solutions for smaller rural areas or medium-sized residential spaces. Energy generation from wind turbines will surely be affected by the geometry of the blade it is using and its orientation in the turbine. …”
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Resonant Young’s Slit Interferometer for Sensitive Detection of Low-Molecular-Weight Biomarkers by Stefanus Renaldi Wijaya, Augusto Martins, Katie Morris, Steven D. Quinn, Thomas F. Krauss

“…To address this challenge, we used a resonant Young’s slit interferometer geometry and implemented several innovations, such as phase noise matching and optimisation of the fringe spacing, to maximise the signal-to-noise ratio. As a result, we achieved a limit of detection of 2.9 × 10⁻⁶ refractive index units (RIU). …”
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Identification of the Causative Disease of Intermittent Claudication through Walking Motion Analysis: Feature Analysis and Differentiation by Tetsuyou Watanabe, Takeshi Yoneyama, Hiroyuki Hayashi, Yasumitsu Toribatake

“…We constructed a simple walking measurement system that is easy to set up and calibrate and suitable for use by nonspecialists in small spaces. We analyzed the obtained gait patterns and derived input parameters for SVM that are also visually detectable and medically meaningful/consistent differentiation features. …”
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Retiming dynamics of harmonically mode-locked laser solitons in a self-driven optomechanical lattice by Xiaocong Wang, Benhai Wang, Wenbin He, Xintong Zhang, Qi Huang, Zhiyuan Huang, Xin Jiang, Meng Pang, Philip. St. J. Russell

“…In addition, we show, through statistical analysis of the intra-cavity pulse spacing, how the trapping potentials are effective for suppressing timing jitter. …”
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Forward and Reverse Process Models for the Squeeze Casting Process Using Neural Network Based Approaches by Manjunath Patel Gowdru Chandrashekarappa, Prasad Krishna, Mahesh B. Parappagoudar

“…Forward mapping aims at predicting the density and secondary dendrite arm spacing (SDAS) from the known set of squeeze cast process parameters such as time delay, pressure duration, squeezes pressure, pouring temperature, and die temperature. …”
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High-Performance Optical Fiber Displacement Sensor with Extended Linear Range and Sensitivity by Gorka Zubia, Joseba Zubia, Josu Amorebieta, Gotzon Aldabaldetreku, Asier Zubia, Gaizka Durana

“…These features make OFDSs ideal for use in confined spaces, such as turbines, where direct laser access is impossible. …”
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A multi-population multi-stage adaptive weighted large-scale multi-objective optimization algorithm framework by Lixue Xiong, Debao Chen, Feng Zou, Fangzhen Ge, Fuqiang Liu

“…Experiments of three types designed on several typical function sets demonstrate that MPSOF exceeds the comparison algorithms in the three metrics for Inverse Generation Distance, Hypervolume and Spacing.…”
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An Evaluation of Secondary School Students’ Use and Understanding of Learning Strategies to Study and Revise for Science Examinations by Fatema Sultana, Richard C. Watkins, Tarek Al Baghal, John Carl Hughes

“…Our findings also suggest many students do not have a complete understanding of the strategies that are known to have higher utility (i.e., retrieval and spaced practice). These results represent the first attempt to gather information using robust survey methods and are of interest to secondary school science teachers and education policymakers.…”
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