Vous avez dit rock arabe ? Retour sur la trajectoire du groupe Carte de séjour (1980-1989) by Philippe Hanus

“…In 1981, journalists have hailed Carte de Séjour (Residence permit) a highly topical name – formed in Lyon’s suburbs a few years earlier – as the first example of « arab rock » band. This group, which incorporates electric guitar, bass and drums established a core rock sound that was “orientalised” by the use of the oud, and North African percussions. …”
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Experimental and Dynamic Study of the Piston Rod Lateral Friction for the Twin-Tube Hydraulic Shock Absorber by Yanqing Liu, Jianwu Zhang, Xiaoming Cheng

“…From viewpoint of vehicle system dynamics and experiment, such key factors as road unevenness, very high car speed and severe shock induced vibrations are investigated, by which stochastic bending moments and dramatically increasing shock loading are introduced directly to the piston rod. …”
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An Investigation on Water Quality of Darlik Dam Drinking Water using Satellite Images by Erhan Alparslan, H. Gonca Coskun, Ugur Alganci

“…Water quality (WQ) in the Darlik Dam was investigated from Landsat 5 TM satellite images of the years 2004, 2005, and 2006 in order to determine land use/land cover changes in the watershed of the dam that may deteriorate its WQ. …”
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Service customized networking by Yun-jie LIU, Tao HUANG, Jiao ZHANG, Jiang LIU, Hai-peng YAO, Ren-chao XIE

“…Today's Internet faces many challenges,two of which need to be addressed urgently.One is that most band-width is taken by OTT services,and the other one is that the content in the Internet is highly redundant.To address these two problems,a novel future Internet architecture,named as service customized networking (SCN),is proposed to pro-vide differentiated services.SCN is designed based on the software-defined networking (SDN) technology.It inherits the two advantages of SDN,that is,separation of control and data plane and programmable networking.Besides,SCN adds the function of network virtualization,and intelligent content scheduling.SCN avoids OTT services taking too much bandwidth through employing the network virtualization technology to provide differentiated services.Besides,SCN ef-fectively eliminates content redundancy by intelligent content scheduling.The results of experiments conducted on a real small-scale testbed indicate that SCN indeed provides differentiated services for different users and largely reduces con-tent redundancy.…”
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Topological electronic structure and transport properties of the distorted rutile-type WO2 by Yuto Muramatsu, Daigorou Hirai, Mitsuaki Kawamura, Susumu Minami, Yoshitaka Ikeda, Takahiro Shimada, Keita Kojima, Naoyuki Katayama, Koshi Takenaka

“…Although these DNLs mostly disappeared in the presence of SOIs, band crossings at high-symmetry points in the reciprocal space existed as Dirac points. …”
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Orthogonally polarized dual-wavelength Nd:GdVO4/Nd:YVO4 laser at 1341 and 1342 nm with adjustable power ratio. by Hao Yu, Yongliang Li, Fahad Moazzam, Lin Lin, Bo Gao

“…A continuous-wave (CW) orthogonally polarized dual-wavelength (OPDW) Nd:GdVO4/Nd:YVO4 laser at 1341 and 1342 nm on the 4F3/2 →4I13/2 transition was realized using in-band laser diode (LD) pumping with tunable wavelength from 909.40 to 915.02 nm for the first time. …”
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A Compact Dielectric Resonator Antenna Excited by a Planar Monopole Patch for Wideband Applications by Xuping Li, Yabing Yang, Fei Gao, Hanqing Ma, Xiaowei Shi

“…In particular, consistent broadside radiation patterns, stable gain, and high radiation efficiency are also obtained within the operation frequency band.…”
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Magnetic-Electric Dipole Antenna with Circular Polarization Feature and Directional Pattern with Improved Bandwidth by Seied Ali Banihashem, Pejman Mohammadi, Yashar Zehforoosh

“…The maximum total gain of the antenna in the designed frequency band is about 10 dBi..…”
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Numerical Simulation Study on Influence of Rock Mass Mechanical Parameters on Stability of Anti-dip Slope by CAI Guojun, CHEN Xirui, YIN Baoguo, SUN Wenpeng, CHENG Yuhang, ZHOU Yang, ZHAO Da′an, JIA Jun

“…Taking the anti-dip slope of Caizi dam in Lueyang County in southern Qinling as an example,this paper studies the effect of physical and mechanical parameters (such as tensile strength,joint stiffness,internal friction angle and cohesion) of rock mass on slope stability by discrete element software UDEC,and calculates safety factor based on discrete element strength reduction method.It can be concluded from the comparison of the displacement and deformation failure caused by the three parameters:Although the tensile strength has a limited effect on the stability of the anti-dip slope,as the tensile strength is greatly reduced,the slope instability will increase;The reasonable selection of joint stiffness plays an important role in the bending deformation of the structural surface which can affect the slope stability;As the internal friction angle and cohesion decrease,the potential damage range of the slope gradually increases.In addition,the effect of the three parameters on the toppling deformation is as follows:internal friction angle and cohesion>joint stiffness>tensile strength.…”
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Gearbox Fault Identification and Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks by ZhiQiang Chen, Chuan Li, René-Vinicio Sanchez

“…In the frequency domain, the spectrum obtained with FFT is divided into multiple bands, and the root mean square (RMS) value is calculated for each one so the energy maintains its shape at the spectrum peaks. …”
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Periodic splay Fréedericksz transitions in a ferroelectric nematic by Bijaya Basnet, Sathyanarayana Paladugu, Oleksandr Kurochkin, Oleksandr Buluy, Natalie Aryasova, Vassili G. Nazarenko, Sergij V. Shiyanovskii, Oleg D. Lavrentovich

“…As the voltage increases, the polarization acquires stationary distortions, first splay and twist in a stripe pattern and then splay and bend in a square lattice of +1 and -1 defects. In all patterns, $${{\bf{P}}}$$ P oscillates around the stationary orientations. …”
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A Design of CP-MIMO System with Elements of a Diamond-Ring Slot for 5G Mobile-Phone by Alyaa Sami Abdullah, Seham A. Hashem, Mahmood F . Mosleh

“…Also, the results show that the MIMO system is suitable for operation in a sub-6 band that qualified for 5G smartphone applications. …”
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SCAR Marker for Gender Identification in Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) at the Seedling Stage by Fahad Al-Qurainy, Abdulhafed A. Al-Ameri, Salim Khan, Mohammad Nadeem, Abdel-Rhman Z. Gaafar, Mohamed Tarroum

“…Of the 300 tested randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) primers, only one primer (OPC-06) produced reproducible band (294 bp) in male plants. The PCR product of this primer was cloned and sequenced. …”
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Cholesterol Induces Uneven Curvature of Asymmetric Lipid Bilayers by S. O. Yesylevskyy, A. P. Demchenko, S. Kraszewski, C. Ramseyer

“…It is shown that cholesterol induces uneven membrane curvature promoting the formation of extended flattened regions of the membrane interleaved by sharp bends. It is shown that the affinity of cholesterol to anionic DOPS or neutral DOPC lipids is curvature dependent. …”
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Notch Effect on Plastic Deformation of Metallic Glass: A Numerical Study by Revised Free-Volume Theory by J. F. Yan, W. J. Meng, Z. Chen, H. Guo, X. G. Yan

“…Combined with the free-volume distribution during deformation process, it was proven that the intersection of two major shear bands is the cause for the strength and plasticity enhancement found in sample with two symmetric notches. …”
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Analysis of Vibroacoustic Modulations for Crack Detection: A Time-Frequency Approach Based on Zhao-Atlas-Marks Distribution by A. Trochidis, L. Hadjileontiadis, K. Zacharias

“…The damage index simply based on the amplitude of the first side bands in the spectral domain often leads to controversial results about the severity of the damage. …”
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Application of Diaminium Iodides in Binary Ionic Liquid Electrolytes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Yanzhen Yang, Renjie Sun, Chengwu Shi, Yucheng Wu, Mei Xia

“…The result revealed that HEEDAI can suppress the recombination between I3- and the injected electrons in TiO2 conduction band and be used as the alternative of 4-tert-butylpyridine in the electrolyte of dye-sensitized solar cells. …”
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Stiffness Analysis of Rectangular Isolators Reinforced by Engineering Plastics by Han Liu, Ping Tan, Fulin Zhou

“…In this paper, analytical solutions for compression and bending stiffness for rectangular isolators reinforced by engineering plastics are proposed, with both the Poisson effect of the reinforcement and the effect of rubber compressibility taken into consideration. …”
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SnO2 Nanostructure as Pollutant Gas Sensors: Synthesis, Sensing Performances, and Mechanism by Brian Yuliarto, Gilang Gumilar, Ni Luh Wulan Septiani

“…In addition, the functionalization of SnO2 as a gas sensor is extensively discussed with respect to the theory of gas adsorption, the surface features of SnO2, the band gap theory, and electron transfer.…”
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Investigation of the Performance of Ceramic Fiber Modified Asphalt Mixture by Xiushan Wang, Hengyu Zhou, Xingxing Hu, Senjie Shen, Bowen Dong

“…The Marshall test, wheel tracking test, Marshall immersion test, freeze-thaw splitting test, and low-temperature bending test were conducted to evaluate the performance of the CF-modified asphalt mixture. …”
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