Effect of braking speed on the property of high-performance copper-based brake pads by WEI Dong-bin, ZHANG Lin, ZHANG Peng, WU Pei-fang, CAO Jing-wu, SHIJIA Cai-rang, DING Xiang-ying, ZHAO Shang-jie, QU Xuan-hui

“…The results show that, with the increase of the braking speed, the friction coefficient of the self-made brake pads first decreases and then increases, while the friction coefficient of the commercial brake pads remains unchanged after decreasing. …”
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Pre-Sowing Treatment of Leguminous Crop Seeds with a Magnetic Field by V. V. Kozyrskiy, V. V. Savchenko, A. Yu. Sinyavskiy

“…Pre-sowing treatment of seeds in a magnetic field can increase crop yields, reduce the incidence of plants and improve product quality.Research purpose To analyze the mechanism of the magnetic field influence on seeds, determine the most effective mode of pre-sowing treatment of leguminous crop seeds in a magnetic field and design parameters of the equipment.Materials and methods The authors have determined that under the influence of a magnetic field, the rate of chemical and biochemical reactions in plant cells increases, the transport of ions and molecules through the cell membrane increases, and the membrane permeability increases, so the sowing qualities of seeds improve and their yield increases. …”
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Wind-Induced Vibration Response and Weak Locations of 110 kV Diverging Branch Rods Under Strong Wind by Ziye YANG, Mengwei WANG, Chunlin KUANG, Weiguo SHI, Chang HE

“…Under a 45° wind reaction angle, the displacement at the top of the tower is the smallest, but the stress at the base is second only to that under a 90° wind reaction angle. …”
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Dynamic Response of Railway Subgrade Under Train Load and Freeze–Thaw Action by Lei Gao, Linzeng Luo, Ding Lu, Bingbing Wei, Lau Wa Hawng Nan

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Seismic Response Characteristics of High-Speed Railway Hub Station Considering Pile-Soil Interactions by Ning Zhang, Ziwei Chen

“…The results show that the hub station structural system, considering pile-soil interaction, presents the ‘soft-upper-rigid-down’ characteristics as a whole, and the natural vibration is lower than that of the station structure with a rigid foundation assumption. Under the action of three strong seismic motions, the nonlinear site seismic effect is significant, the surface acceleration is significantly enlarged, and decreases with the buried depth. …”
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ANALYSIS OF SHRINKAGE PERFORMANCE OF U-SHAPED RUBBER OUTER WINDSHIELD OF HIGH-SPEED TRAIN AT LOW TEMPERATURE by GU Cheng, XU Lei, YU Chengtao, WANG Jiazheng

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The Influence of Running Technique Modifications on Vertical Tibial Load Estimates: A Combined Experimental and Machine Learning Approach in the Context of Medial Tibial Stress Syn... by Taylor Miners, Jeremy Witchalls, Jaquelin A. Bousie, Ceridwen R. Radcliffe, Phillip Newman

“…This study investigated whether changes to speed, cadence, stride length, and foot-strike pattern influence vGRF and TA. …”
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Mechanical Properties and Failure Mechanisms of Sandstone Under Combined Action of Cyclic Loading and Freeze–Thaw by Taoying Liu, Huaheng Li, Longjun Dong, Ping Cao

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DEM-Based Simulation Study on the Operational Performance of a Single Horizontal Shaft Forced-Action Mixer by Haipeng Yang, Guanguo Ma, Wei Zhao

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Damage mechanism and evolution model of geopolymer stabilized coarse grained fillings subjected to repeated freeze-thaw actions by Shengnian Wang, Yuting Xiang, Zhijian Wu, Honglei Hui, Shuguang Hou, Zhujun Sun

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Kinetic analysis of change of direction simulating a defensive action in soccer players with and without acute fatigue by Matías de Pablo, Carol Torres, David Ulloa-Díaz, Gabriel Fábrica

“…Times, forces, impulses, and force rates for different subphases during support were compared. Speeds remained consistent across pre-fatigue (4.53 ± 0.55 m s-1) and post-fatigue (4.58 ± 0.70 m s-1) trials. …”
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The direct cost and geography of Brussels mass transport’s operating delays by Frédéric Dobruszkes, Yves Fourneau

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Feasibility of a Non-Anticipatory, Random-Action Target System to Improve Shooting Performance: A Brief Field Trial by Matthew Lee Smith, Ali Boolani

“…Observational data were gathered from a single-day, three-round trial to test shooting accuracy and shooting errors when shooters were unable to anticipate target appearance location and target exposure speed. In Trial 1, the target exposure time was 0.5 s, which increased to 0.7 s in Trial 2, and decreased back to 0.5 s in Trial 3. …”
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Associations Between the Mortality Trends by Cause of Death and Hazardous Alcohol Consumption in Russia. The “Conveyor Belt Effect” in Action? by Elena S. Zamyatnina, Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, Alexey E. Shchur

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An Adiabatic-Expansion-Induced Perturbation Study on Gas–Aerosol Partitioning in Ambient Air—Formation of NH₄NO₃ and Microdroplet Nitrogen Fixation (2) by Yating Gao, Qinchu Fan, Yujiao Zhu, Hengqing Shen, Qi Yuan, Yang Gao, Huiwang Gao, Xiaohong Yao

“…Moreover, our analysis suggests that the line speed of microdroplets may be one of the key factors in determining the occurrence, stoichiometric ratio and efficiency of the redox reaction. …”
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Effect of biochar and cyanobacteria crust incorporation on soil wind erosion in arid mining area under freeze-thaw action by Zhe Wang, Xueshi Liu, Fenghui Sun, Qinghong Jiang, Haili Shang, Chunli Zheng

“…Cyanobacteria crusts can inhibit wind erosion, but their biomass decreases under freeze-thaw conditions. There is limited research on whether combining biochar with cyanobacteria crusts can alleviate the impact of freeze-thaw on their wind erosion resistance. …”
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Measurement report: Long-term assessment of primary and secondary organic aerosols in the Shanghai megacity throughout China's Clean Air actions since 2010 by H. Yu, Y. Chang, L. Cheng, Y. Duan, J. Hu

“…Furthermore, SOC concentrations exhibited simultaneous increases in summer, particularly when O<span class="inline-formula">₃</span> concentrations exceeded 50 <span class="inline-formula">µ</span>g m<span class="inline-formula">⁻³</span>, indicating that stronger oxidation reactions contribute to higher SOC concentrations. …”
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Current Analytical Methods and Challenges for the Clinical Diagnosis of Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis Infection by Madeline C. R. Schwarz, Alex E. Moskaluk, Joshua B. Daniels, Sue VandeWoude, Melissa M. Reynolds

“…Further study into methods that offer increased speed and both analytical and clinical sensitivity to decrease diagnosis time for IPA is warranted.…”
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Development of technologies and tools for drilling additional wells from artificial bottom-hole with whipstock of continuous action in hard and very hard rocks by V. V. Neskoromnykh, D. V. Lysacov

“…A feature of the work of a milling type whipstocks is that the creation of a deflecting force is carried out due to the constant influence of the axial load, the value of which proportionally affects the speed of drilling. A review of the materials used to create an artificial bottom led to the conclusion that at present there are no curable materials that would have a hardness higher than category 8 for drillability, which means that when trying to drill a new direction of a well in rocks more than 8 grade for drillability, the speed drilling with a continuous action whipstocks will exceed the optimum and reduce the intensity of the buildup rate whipstock.Conclusion. …”
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Method for Solving the Problem of Load Movement over the Ice Cover of a Reservoir along a Complex Trajectory by A. V. Galaburdin

“…Calculations showed that the deflection of the ice cover increased markedly with the growth of speed and tangential acceleration of the load movement. …”
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