High Response Performance of a Tuned-Mass Damper for Vibration Suppression of Offshore Platform under Earthquake Loads by Qiong Wu, Xilu Zhao, Rencheng Zheng, Keisuke Minagawa

“…Currently, tuned-mass dampers (TMDs) are widely applied to maintain the stability of offshore platforms in hostile environments; however, the stability system of offshore platforms faces considerable challenges under critical earthquake loads of the initial period. …”
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Nigeria: Hungry Nation in a Land of Plenty by Philip Fwaldin Kasuwa

“…Often heralded as a land of vast agricultural potential and rich natural and human resources, Nigeria faces a paradoxical struggle with pervasive hunger and food insecurity. …”
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Lobbying of Qatar's Interests in the United States and the Qatar Diplomatic Crisis by D. B. Grafov

“…The article analyses the lobbying campaign against the blockade. It uses the facts and data disclosed by the consulting and lobbying firms according to “The Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938” and “The Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995”. …”
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An Investigation on Low Velocity Impact Response of Multilayer Sandwich Composite Structures by S. Jedari Salami, M. Sadighi, M. Shakeri, M. Moeinfar

“…The panel includes polymer composite laminated sheets for faces and the internal laminated sheet called extra layer sheet, and two types of crushable foams are selected as the core material. …”
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Justification of fracture criteria for salt rocks by Alexander Baryakh, Andrey Tsayukov

“…The results of uniaxial compression tests on large salt rock specimens are presented as a loading curve and diagrams of the transverse-longitudinal displacements at various distances from the side faces. Based on an isotropic elastoplastic model, a multivariant numerical simulation was performed. …”
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A Technique: Exposure Therapy by Serkan AKKOYUNLU, M. Hakan TÜRKÇAPAR

“…Avoidance and safety seeking behaviors prevent disconfirmation of anxious beliefs. In exposure client faces stimulates or cues that elicit fear or distress, by this avoidance is inhibited. …”
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Genesis of a Poetics of Silence by Enora Lessinger

“…Her reluctance to report certain facts and to express some of her feelings is emphasised by the overabundance of details provided on safer subjects. …”
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Improvement of the Method of Calculating Plates for Punching by N. N. Trekin, V. V. Krylov, K. R. Andrian

“…With such a stress-strain state, in the calculation scheme, when evaluating the tensile strength, the stretched part of the side surface of the “reduced” pyramid, bounded by the neutral axis along all faces, should be excluded. As a result, expressions are presented to determine the parameters of the reduced punching pyramid and the value of forces in concrete and reinforcement at the maximum bearing capacity stage.…”
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Numerical Analysis for U-Shaped Thin-Walled Structure Reinforced Timber Beam Based on Thin-Layer Beam Theory by Hui Liu, Jun Hu, Guohui Li, Guangying Mo

“…And it is shown that the model provided here correlates consistently and satisfactorily with a wide range of timber beams reinforced by a thin-walled structure such as steel or aluminum alloy sheet bonded to their tension faces.…”
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Literature and History: Study of Nigerian Indigenous Historical Novels by Lere Adeyemi

“… The assumption that history posits itself as a fact, while literature is to be taken as an artistic form, only for entertainment (i.e., the difference between truth and falsehood, reality and illusion) has long been debated by formalists and soclologlsts of literature. …”
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Legitimacy of Social Justice in the Terrorism Regulations: Insight from Several Countries by Ali Masyhar, Rohadhatul Aisy, Akhmedova Mehrinigor Bahodirovna, Gaini Mukhanova

“…Indonesia continues to experience recidivist terrorism regularly as a result of the injustices it faces. As a result, it is critical to prioritize the legitimacy of social justice for both victims and perpetrators, as well as adopt a humanitarian approach to non-criminal terrorism to mitigate and avert criminal acts of terrorism. …”
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Study on Key Cost Drivers of Prefabricated Buildings Based on System Dynamics by Na Lou, Jingjuan Guo

“…Most of the current research focuses on the construction cost of prefabricated building as a static object. …”
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Efficient Truss Design: A Hybrid Geometric Mean Optimizer for Better Performance by Vu Hong Son Pham, Nghiep Trinh Nguyen Dang, Van Nam Nguyen

“…These findings confirm that hGMO is a crucial tool in advancing sustainable construction practices by focusing on the strategic optimization of truss structure mass.…”
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Safety Evaluation for Highway Geometric Design Based on Spatial Path Properties by Lu Wang

“…A few cases involving geometric design data and crash facts were utilized for verification. The results revealed a considerable positive correlation between curvature or torsion variance and crashes per million vehicles kilometers, as a slight difference between curvature and torsion could also be spotted. …”
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Exploiting Interslice Correlation for MRI Prostate Image Segmentation, from Recursive Neural Networks Aspect by Qikui Zhu, Bo Du, Baris Turkbey, Peter Choyke, Pingkun Yan

“…As a result, this kind of approaches faces many difficulties when segmenting the base and apex of the prostate due to the limited slice boundary information. …”
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Multialgorithmic Frameworks for Human Face Recognition by Radhey Shyam, Yogendra Narain Singh

“…This paper presents a critical evaluation of multialgorithmic face recognition systems for human authentication in unconstrained environment. …”
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Quantifying Potential Error in Painting Breast Excision Specimens by Thomas Fysh, Alex Boddy, Amy Godden

“…Margins are ascribed to breast specimens such that six faces are identifiable to the pathologist, a process that may be prone to error at several stages. …”
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About myths and true story of Muslims of Ust-Ishim district of Omsk region (Islam through the prism of local history) by A. P. Yarkov

“…The purpose of this article is to refute these historical myths on the basis of scientific and historical facts of the history of Muslims of the Ust-Ishim district of the Omsk region. …”
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Assessing the critical success factors for the sustainable construction project management of Saudi Arabia by Abdullah Alghuried

“…The construction sector in Saudi Arabia faces significant challenges in achieving sustainability in project management, encompassing activities from design to project completion. …”
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Based on the form of new energy, the development prospect of supercapacitors in electric vehicles is discussed by Dong Kangcheng

“…However, the development of supercapacitors also faces challenges such as high costs, limited energy density, and insufficient technological maturity. …”
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