Vulnerability Analysis of Catenary-Bridge-Track System by Bin Yan, Limei Yu, Zhe Li, Zhiping Zeng

“…The ballastless track can significantly increase the probability of no damage to the fasteners, and it is recommended that the ballastless track be used when designing high-speed railway bridges in earthquake-prone regions.…”
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Community-Engaged Approach for Health Equity: Enhancing an Active Environment in Michigan by Tsu-Yin Wu, Xining Yang, Alex Swartzinski, Jessica Kwek

“…Introduction: During the COVID-19 pandemic, a decrease in physical activity (PA) has been reported in the United States and worldwide. …”
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Exploring the relationship between climate change, air pollutants and human health: Impacts, adaptation, and mitigation strategies by Gibson Owhoro Ofremu, Babatunde Yusuf Raimi, Samuel Omokhafe Yusuf, Beatrice Akorfa Dziwornu, Somtochukwu Godfrey Nnabuife, Adaeze Mary Eze, Chisom Assumpta Nnajiofor

“…The rising temperature of the planet could lead to increasingly severe health impacts from climate change in the future. …”
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Gaze–Hand Steering for Travel and Multitasking in Virtual Environments by Mona Zavichi, André Santos, Catarina Moreira, Anderson Maciel, Joaquim Jorge

“…We present a gaze–hand steering technique that combines eye tracking with hand pointing: users steer only when gaze aligns with a hand-defined target, reducing unintended actions and enabling free look. Speed is controlled via either a joystick or a waist-level speed circle. …”
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Features of ignition and combustion of low-grade coal mixed with pyrolysis liquid by K. V. Slyusarskiy, A. K. Asilbekov

“…It was found that an increase in the concentration of the additive in the mixture leads to a stable decrease in the ignition delay times, while the amount of gas-phase products formed varied additively with respect to the composition of the mixture. …”
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Hardware implementation of Boolean functions based on the automaton model by A. A. Butov

“…Currently, electronic control devices are increasingly being introduced into various household and production products. …”
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Cluster of factors associated with physical frailty in community-dwelling elderly people by Saulo Vasconcelos Rocha, Manuela Alves dos Santos, Iasmim de Santana Meira Santos, Clarice Alves dos Santos, Mariana Alves dos Santos, Maria Luiza Oliveira Silva, Guilherme Eustáquio Furtado, Hector Luiz Rodrigues Munaro

“…As for sociodemographic variables, those who were older and had lower levels of education were more likely to have three or more risk factors. The development of actions that encourage a healthier lifestyle to favor the prevention and treatment of physical frailty, as well as to increase health literacy and knowledge, may reduce the problems related to this condition in older adults, mainly thinking about the next generations. …”
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Intellectual Rooms based on AmI and IoT technologies by Radhakrishnan Delhibabu, Pham Tuan Anh, Nataly Zhukova, Alexey Subbotin

“…The system's effectiveness was evaluated using simulated test data representing various patient scenarios and abnormal actions, comparing four conditions with incrementally added data sources (public camera, smartphone, sensors, and environmental objects).ResultsThe system demonstrated a significant increase in the speed of providing assistance, with an average improvement of over 25%. …”
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Population analysis of mortality risk: Predictive models from passive monitors using motion sensors for 100,000 UK Biobank participants. by Haowen Zhou, Ruoqing Zhu, Anita Ung, Bruce Schatz

“…The rise of passive monitors to measure participant activity without requiring specific actions opens the possibility for population level analysis. …”
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Federated deep reinforcement learning-based urban traffic signal optimal control by Mi Li, Xiaolong Pan, Chuhui Liu, Zirui Li

“…The proposed method improves the model generalization ability of different local models during global cross-region distributed joint training under the premise of ensuring information security and data privacy, solves the problem of non-independent and homogeneous distribution of environmental data faced by different agents in real intersection scenarios, and significantly accelerates the convergence speed of the model training phase. By reasonably designing the state, action and reward functions and determining the optimal values of several key parameters in the federated collaboration mechanism, the RL model could ensure high learning efficiency and fast convergence in the face of the gradual increase of road network size and the exponential increase of state and action space with the number of intersections. …”
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Basal ganglia components have distinct computational roles in decision-making dynamics under conflict and uncertainty. by Nadja R Ging-Jehli, James F Cavanagh, Minkyu Ahn, David J Segar, Wael F Asaad, Michael J Frank

“…The basal ganglia (BG) play a key role in decision-making, preventing impulsive actions in some contexts while facilitating fast adaptations in others. …”
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Adjuvants to improve efficacy of miticides in managed honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies to control Varroa destructor. by Brandon Shannon, Rui Zhang, Lucas Marsh, Reed M Johnson

“…Additionally, mite drop data indicated increased speed for the miticidal effect when an adjuvant is included with oxalic acid. …”
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Artificial Intelligence in the Politics of the EU and China by Nikolay V. Litvak, Natalia B. Pomozova

“…The examples of problems of ethics, competition, and security show the differences in the regulation of AI implementation processes, as well as the uncertainty that increasingly determines the actions of European politicians. …”
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The influence of the mode of engine operation of transport and technological cars on the beating at the coupling piston-cylinder by Shtain G.V., Panfilov A.A.

“…Relocation or beating of the piston occurs due to the action of lateral force in the crank mechanism, which leads to an increase in friction forces and shock loads in conjunction with the sleeve. …”
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Industrial multi-machine data aggregation, AI-ready data preparation, and machine learning for virtual metrology in semiconductor wafer and slider production by Feiyang Ou, Julius Suherman, Chao Zhang, Henrik Wang, Sthitie Bom, James F. Davis, Panagiotis D. Christofides

“…Smart Manufacturing is rooted in AI, Machine Learned (ML), and Data Synchronized (DS) modeling to tap into invaluable operating data. By making data actionable at larger scales, SM opens new ways to increase productivity, precision, and process performance. …”
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Rail surface identification and adhesion control based on dynamic adhesion characteristics by Wen Liu, Hongfeng Qi, Jingchun Huang, Yiyuan Chen, Sheng He, Haoxiang Feng

“…However, as the speed of high-speed trains continues to increase, the use of wheel-rail adhesion is also being challenged. …”
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Quantitative Evaluation for Reinforcement Effect of Auxiliary Steel Beams Based on Running Safety and Dynamic Response by Gong Kai, Liu Linya, Xiang Jun, Yang Haiming, Yu Cuiying

“…Compared with the previous speed (115.56 km/h), the speed is 132.73 km/h after the auxiliary steel beam reinforcement; at the same time, the allowable limit speed increases from 92.49 km/h to 106.18 km/h. …”
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A Design of Workflow-Based Automated Failure Recovery Framework in IoT Edge Environment by Phuong Bac Ta, Vitumbiko Mafeni, Younghan Kim

“…Although short-term resource usage increases (not exceeding 30% of system capacity) occur during recovery, this trade-off is justified by significant gains in recovery speed, reliability, and data preservation, ensuring stable service operation in IoT Edge environments.…”
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Dilemma of Prioritising Health and the Economy During COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia by Siti Setiati, Muhammad K Azwar

“…Pandemics also depress economy through decrease in both supply and demand. Data from flu pandemic a century ago suggested the importance of aggressiveness and speed of intervention. …”
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The influence of pulse current on drop transfer during double-electrode gas surfacing by Sergey K. Elsukov, Ilya V. Zorin, Dmitry S. Nesin

“…The application of a circuit with a common pulse current source for surfacing with two electrode wires increases the energy efficiency of the arc process and the welding arc technological properties, but requires a more detailed study of the influence of the mode parameters on its stability. …”
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