Analysis of the Spatial Pattern of Military River Defense on the Ming Great Wall: A Case Study of the Shanxi Section of the Yellow River by Tianlian WANG, Zhe LI

“…ObjectiveRiver defence plays a vital role in the development of the Ming Great Wall’s military defence system. …”
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A Modified Cubic Law for Rough-Walled Marble Fracture by Embedding Peak Density by Baohua Guo, Chenlin Wang, Long Wang, Yan Chen, Tan Cheng

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Experimental Study on a Low-Rise Shear Wall with the Built-In Shear Steel Plate by Xingyu Song, Lin Zhao, Lingkun Chen, Yuan Duan, Yehao Jiang, Yuan Tian

“…In this paper, a new reinforcement scheme is proposed to improve the seismic performance of low-rise shear walls. …”
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Effect of the Wall-Back Inclination Angle on the Inertial Loading Distribution along Gravity-Retaining Walls: An Experimental Study on the Shaking Table Test by Shuzhi Ma, Hongbiao Jia, Xiaolang Liu

“…Such a distribution of acceleration amplification is of great importance to comprehend the safe design of retaining walls. …”
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Bilocation - Dislocation - Xlocation : The Apocalypse of Place in Eamonn Wall’s Poetry by Pascale Guibert

“…Contemporary Irish-American poet Eamonn Wall, commuting between continents, has experienced a new form of exile, made of impermanence and mutation. …”
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Deformation of the Geocell Flexible Reinforced Retaining Wall under Earthquake by Yalin Zhu, Kun Tan, Yin Hong, Ting Tan, Manrong Song, Yixian Wang

“…As a new type of reinforced material, geocells are widely used in flexible reinforced retaining wall projects, and a lot of practical experience shows that the geocell retaining wall has a great effect on earthquake resistance, but theoretical research lags behind engineering practice, and the deformation and failure mechanism under earthquake need to be further studied. …”
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Genesis of the Bairendaba Ag-Zn-Pb Deposit, Southern Great Xing’an Range, NE China: A Fluid Inclusion and Stable Isotope Study by Shunda Li, Keyong Wang, Yicun Wang, Xuebing Zhang, Hongyan Quan

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Analysis of Stress Characteristics and the Engineering Application of the Self-Balancing Retaining Wall by Fei Gan, XiaoMing Ye, Ke Yin, Meilin Li, Jing Bi

“…The results show that the idea of using upper gravity retaining wall as the resistance of lower retaining wall is clever and reasonable that the self-balance retaining wall has a very wide scope of application relying on the anchor tensile conditions rarely and that the self-balance retaining wall has a great economic value with low cost. …”
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Commentary on “The Feasibility of Hybrid IMRT treatment planning for Left-sided Chest wall irradiation: A Comparative Treatment Planning Study” by Gautam Sarma, Hrishikesh Kashyap, Partha Medhi

“…With great interest, we read the article “The Feasibility of Hybrid IMRT treatment planning for Left-sided Chest wall irradiation: A Comparative Treatment Planning Study” by Haldar S et al. (1). …”
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The Influence of Complex Subway Station Construction on High Retaining Walls and Appropriate Countermeasures by Kai Wang, Zhaoping Li, Xuezhao Xu, Leilei Shi, Fanbo Zhang

“…Anzhen Bridge Station of Beijing metro line 12, which adopts a separated-island platform constructed by the undermining method, passes along the retaining wall of the North Third Ring Road. …”
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Uptake of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Conjugated with DNA by Microvascular Endothelial Cells by Joseph Harvey, Lifeng Dong, Kyoungtae Kim, Jacob Hayden, Jianjie Wang

“…Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) have been proposed to have great therapeutic potential. …”
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Study on the Failure Characteristics of Coal Wall Spalling in Thick Coal Seam with Gangue by Guosheng Li, Zhenhua Li, Feng Du, Zhengzheng Cao

“…The results show that, compared with coal wall spalling in coal seam without gangue, coal seam with the lower and middle gangue has a significant weakening effect on the wall spalling, and coal seam with the upper gangue has little effect on the wall spalling. …”
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Numerical Study on Deformation Capacity of Steel Plate Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls by Zhi Zhou, Jiang Qian, Wei Huang

“…The lateral resistance and deformation capacity of the shear wall are greatly improved. This paper investigates the deformation capacity of the SPRC shear wall under cyclic loads. …”
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Successful Use of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy for Abdominal Wall Necrosis Caused by a Perforated Ascending Colon Using the ABThera System by Kouki Imaoka, Takuya Yano, Yasuhiro Choda, Ko Oshita, Yuma Tani, Tetsushi Kubota, Michihiro Ishida, Daisuke Satoh, Masanori Yoshimitsu, Kanyu Nakano, Masao Harano, Hiroyoshi Matsukawa, Hitoshi Idani, Shigehiro Shiozaki, Masazumi Okajima

“…This study was aimed at presenting a successful experience of treating a case of abdominal wall necrosis caused by a perforated ascending colon using the ABThera System. …”
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Research on Image Recognition of Building Wall Design Defects Based on Partial Differential Equation by Xiwen Yu, Kai Wang, Shaoxuan Wang

“…The detection of building wall surface defects is of great significance to eliminate potential safety hazards. …”
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Spatiotemporal evolutionary patterns of the hydrochemistry of Jurassic conglomerate aquifers under the influence of curtain walls by Luwang CHEN, Minghui WU, Xiaowei HOU, Yongsheng HU, Miao ZHANG, Xinyue CAI, Xiaoxi YIN, Xiaoping SHI

“…ObjectiveCurtain walls, recognized as a primary project for the prevention and control of water disasters in coal mines, will change the dynamic field of groundwater. …”
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Flexural Capacity Calculation Approach for Precast Grouted Shear Wall Influenced by Joint Interface Displacements by Dong-yue Wu, Shu-ting Liang, Zheng-xing Guo, Xiao-jun Zhu

“…In order to make the design approach of precast grouted shear wall convenient and to achieve economic superiorities and properties advances, this paper proposed a new flexural capacity calculation approach considering joint interface displacements influences and properties improvement by confinement steels. …”
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Numerical Analysis of J-Hook Connectors’ Effect on the Performance of Steel-Concrete Composite Shear Walls by Seyed Mohammad Farnam, Mohsen Khorshidi

“…The results of this study show that the J-Hook connector positively affects increasing load capacity and reducing the out-of-plane displacement of the composite shear wall. Additionally, the number and location of the connectors have a great impact on the both load and buckling capacity of the steel plate. …”
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Experimental Study and Numerical Analysis on Impact Resistance of Civil Air Defense Engineering Shear Wall by Chenglong Shi, Jigang Zhang, Junbo Zhang, Feng Shao, Yicong Zhang, Menglin Zhang

“…The increase of impact times has a great influence on the impact resistance of the civil air defense engineering shear wall. …”
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Effect of Cell Wall Ductility and Toughness on Compressive Response and Strain Rate Sensitivity of Aluminium Foam by Alexandra Byakova, Svyatoslav Gnyloskurenko, Andrey Vlasov, Nikolay Semenov, Yan Yevych, Oleksandra Zatsarna, Vladimir Danilyuk

“…Two kinds of Al alloys including relatively ductile AlSiMg alloy and high-strength AlZnMg alloy, which comprises a great amount of brittle eutectic domains, were used as matrix materials. …”
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