Enhanced Ozone Aging Resistance of Natural Rubber with 2-Mercaptobenzothiazole as the Constant-Viscosity Agent by Juan Zhou, Peng Deng, Hongxing Gui, Junxiao Xu, Jianhe Liao, Aiwu Ding

“…For the actual storage and serving, a phenomenon of hardening and cracking always occurs in the natural rubber (NR), which sharply reduces the mechanical performance and hinders the further application of NR. …”
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EFFECTS OF WASTE STEEL FIBRES ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MODIFIED SELF COMPACTING CONCRETE by ABIOLA ADEBANJO, MUTIU KAREEM, OLUWOLE OLAWUYI, KAZEEM ISHOLA, AYOMIPO ODEFEMI

“…The results showed that the blocking ratio varied marginally while other fresh properties of the SCC with WSF compared favourably to the standard. The CS of the hardened control samples after 56 days of curing was 36.18 N/mm2 while the CS of SCC with 15 % of RHA and 0.0 %-0.5 % of WSF, ranged from 37.04 - 43.64 N/mm2 with the maximum CS at 0.4 % WSF addition. …”
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Analysis of Top Quark Pair Production Signal from Neutral 2HDM Higgs Bosons at LHC by Majid Hashemi, Mahbobeh Jafarpour

“…The production mechanism is pp→H/A→tt¯ assuming a fully hadronic final state through t→Wb→jjb. In order to distinguish the signal from the main background which is the standard model tt¯, we benefit from the fact that the top quarks in signal events acquire large Lorentz boost due to the heavy neutral Higgs boson. …”
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Action Recognition for Support of Adaptive Gameplay: A Case Study of a First Person Shooter by S. Kazmi, I. J. Palmer

“…More recently, games have made much of the “adaptive” mechanisms that tailor the player experience during the game, but much of this appears to be implemented by merely making the game harder according to the success of the player. Some go further than this by incorporating adaptive AI that change agent tactics to suit the player's style of play. …”
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Comparing Multicomponent Erlang Distribution and Lévy Distribution of Particle Transverse Momentums by Hua-Rong Wei, Ya-Hui Chen, Li-Na Gao, Fu-Hu Liu

“…The results calculated by the two models are found in most cases to be in agreement with experimental data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The multicomponent Erlang distribution that resulted from a multisource thermal model seems to give a better description as compared with the Lévy distribution. …”
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Plasma coatings made of mechanically synthesized composite powders based on the «iron-aluminum» system by F. G. Lovshenko, A. S. Fedosenko

“…The basis of the coating is intermetallic FeAl. The role of hardening phases is played by ultrafine compounds of intermetallics and oxides.Powder annealing has a significant effect on the structure and properties of coatings and, first of all, on layers from compositions with complex alloying with oxides. …”
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Mechanical Properties of Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Using Composite Binders by Roman Fediuk, Aleksey Smoliakov, Aleksandr Muraviov

“…Results showed that the grinding of active mineral supplements allows crystallization centers to be created by ash particles as a result of the binding of Ca(OH)2 during hardening alite, which intensifies the clinker minerals hydration process; the presence of fine grains limestone also leads to the hydrocarboaluminates calcium formation. …”
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Dynamic Behavior of Self-Piercing Riveted and Mechanical Clinched Joints of Dissimilar Materials: An Experimental Comparative Investigation by Yulong Ge, Yong Xia

“…Considering the realistic baking process in a painting shop, the deforming and hardening effects on the SPR and the clinched joints induced by baking are also studied. …”
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Investigation in Gas Carburizing of AISI 4140, EN36, and 16MnCr5 Steels Using the Grey Incidence-Based Taguchi (GIBT) Method by G. L. Arumparithy, R. Adalarasan, M. Santhanakumar, N. Balaji, Yalew Asres

“…The study reports an application of grey-incidence based Taguchi (GIBT) method in gas carburizing of case-hardening steels like AISI 4140, EN36, and 16MnCr5 which are widely employed in precision levers, transmission shafts, and pinions. …”
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Study of the ψ(1S,2S) and ηc(1S,2S) Weak Decays into DM by Junfeng Sun, Yueling Yang, Jinshu Huang, Lili Chen, Qin Chang

“…Inspired by the recent measurements on the J/ψ(1S)→Dsρ, DuK⁎ weak decays at BESIII and the potential prospects of charmonium at high-luminosity heavy-flavor experiments, we study ψ(1S,2S) and ηc(1S,2S) weak decays into final states including one charmed meson plus one light meson, considering QCD corrections to hadronic matrix elements with QCD factorization approach. …”
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Analyzing the speed of sound in neutron star with machine learning by Sagnik Chatterjee, Harsha Sudhakaran, Ritam Mallick

“…This hints towards the appearance of new degrees of freedom and smooth transition from hadronic matter in massive stars. The trace anomaly is maximum at low density (surface of the stars) and decreases as we reach high density. …”
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La memoria de las mujeres en las ciudades romanas de Occidente: epigrafía, arquitectura e imagen pública by Irene Mañas Romero

“…Se exponen algunas formas a través de las cuales la memoria de las mujeres, unida en muchas ocasiones a la de sus familias, encontró una expresión normalizada y pudo hacerse material, poblando los espacios públicos de las comunidades.…”
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Supporting Image Search with Tag Clouds: A Preliminary Approach by Francesco Guerra, Giovanni Simonini, Maurizio Vincini

“…When the collections of data include images, the task becomes harder, mainly for two reasons. From one side the user expresses his needs through one medium (text) and he will obtain results via another medium (some images). …”
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Fabrication, Characterization, and Impact of Heat Treatment on Sliding Wear Behaviour of Aluminium Metal Matrix Composites Reinforced with B4C by Krishna Mohan Singh, Akhilesh Kumar Chauhan

“…In this investigation, the wear tests on the as-cast and age-hardened specimens were performed on an advanced rotary tribometer. …”
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Effect of pack carburizing and viscosity of quenching media on AISI 1010 steel by Agris Setiawan, Anggar Dipogusti

“…Pack carburizing is a method of surface hardening of steel which is carried out by diffusing carbon into the material where the carbon is initially solid. …”
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Effect of Low-Stress Fatigue on the Off-Crack-Plane Fracture Energy in Engineered Cementitious Composites by Longlong Liu, Shuling Gao, Jianda Xin, Dahai Huang

“…Furthermore, the strain-hardening phenomenon of the specimen enhanced initially and then weakened with the increment of stress levels. …”
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Network and Agent Dynamics with Evolving Protection against Systemic Risk by Chulwook Park

“…The conceptual principle and methodological techniques behind the mechanisms involved (in such dynamics) have been harder to grasp than researchers understood them to be. …”
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Azimuthal Anisotropy in High-Energy Nuclear Collision: An Approach Based on Complex Network Analysis by Susmita Bhaduri, Dipak Ghosh

“…Analysis of data obtained from experiments on hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus interactions results in values of Power of Scale-Freeness of Visibility Graph (PSVG) parameter extracted from the visibility graphs. …”
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A Numerical Modelling Approach for Time-Dependent Deformation of Hot Forming Tools under the Creep-Fatigue Regime by B. Reggiani, L. Donati, L. Tomesani

“…With the aim of predicting this accumulated deformation, a novel procedure was developed, presented, and applied to the extrusion process as an example. A time-hardening primary creep law was used and novel regression equations for the law’s coefficients were developed to account not only for the induced stress-temperature state but also for the dwell-time value, which is determined by the selected set of process parameters and die design. …”
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B → J / ψ K (... by Mahboobeh Sayahi, Hossein Mehraban

“…The hadronic B → J / ψ K ( 1270 ) and B → J / ψ K ( 1400 ) has been analyzed in “QCD factorization” approach and generalized factorization. …”
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