A Study on Excavation Characteristics of Tunnel with Upper-Soft Lower-Hard Stratum by Jun Feng, Hui-juan Yang, Yu Zhang

“…Therefore, the positive benching and retaining core soil method is adoptable for this kind of tunnel. (4) The measured stress and deformation at the rail surface line exhibited a change law of first increase, and subsequently, this tended to be stable. …”
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Integrated Analysis of Water Ice Detection in Erlanger Crater, Lunar North Pole: Insights from Chandrayaan-1 Mini-SAR and Chandrayaan-2 DFSAR Data by Chandani Sahu, Shashi Kumar, Himanshu Govil, Shovan Lal Chattoraj

“…This study focuses exclusively on the L-band DFSAR data due to the unavailability of S-band data for the Erlanger Crater. …”
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An atmospheric correction method for Himawari-8 imagery based on a multi-layer stacking algorithm by Menghui Wang, Donglin Fan, Hongchang He, You Zeng, Bolin Fu, Tianlong Liang, Xinyue Zhang, Wenhan Hu

“…To address the lack of training data, 10,000 Rayleigh-corrected reflectance samples were synthesized for six Himawari-8 bands, using simulated water-leaving, which cover different optically complex water properties through a radiative transfer, and aerosol reflectance data under different geometrical conditions. …”
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Consuming a modified Mediterranean ketogenic diet reverses the peripheral lipid signature of Alzheimer’s disease in humans by Bryan J. Neth, Kevin Huynh, Corey Giles, Tingting Wang, Natalie A. Mellett, Thy Duong, Colette Blach, Leyla Schimmel, Thomas C. Register, Kaj Blennow, Henrik Zetterberg, Richa Batra, Annalise Schweickart, Amanda Hazel Dilmore, Cameron Martino, Matthias Arnold, Jan Krumsiek, Xianlin Han, Pieter C. Dorrestein, Rob Knight, Peter J. Meikle, Suzanne Craft, Rima Kaddurah-Daouk

“…We further validated our findings by leveraging our prior clinical studies into lipid related changeswith AD (n = 1912), and found that the lipidomic signature with MMKD was inversely associated with the lipidomic signature of prevalent and incident AD. …”
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Predictive modelling and identification of critical variables of mortality risk in COVID-19 patients by Olawande Daramola, Tatenda Duncan Kavu, Maritha J. Kotze, Jeanine L. Marnewick, Oluwafemi A. Sarumi, Boniface Kabaso, Thomas Moser, Karl Stroetmann, Isaac Fwemba, Fisayo Daramola, Martha Nyirenda, Susan J. van Rensburg, Peter S. Nyasulu

“…Abstract South Africa was the most affected country in Africa by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, where over 4 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and over 102,000 deaths have been recorded since 2019. Aside from clinical methods, artificial intelligence (AI)-based solutions such as machine learning (ML) models have been employed in treating COVID-19 cases. …”
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East Asian Welfare Regimes 東アジア福祉制度 by Joseph Wong, Andrew DeWit, Ito Peng

“…A closer look at these countries is especially important since East Asia is now the locus of global growth (Japan aside).Peng and Wong show that there are two very distinct lines of social policy development evident in the region. …”
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on violent extremism and organized crime in the Republic of Serbia by Đorić Marija, Životić Ilija

“…All the fundamental issues on which the extreme right-wingers built their ideology (such as Kosovo and Metohija, the friend-enemy dichotomy) were pushed aside during the pandemic, in order to actualize the problems concerning the "infestation of migrants", conspiracy theories, vaccinations, 5G networks and of panic fear for the survival of the nation. …”
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Changing patterns of cardiovascular diseases and subtypes induced by kidney dysfunction among 25–64 years in China from 1992 to 2021 by Guoqiang Zeng, Hongliang Wang, Pinghui Cao, Jinyang Zhao, Lingyun Liu, Hui Guo

“…Our study highlights the need for China’s public health authorities to develop tailored guidelines targeting specific CVD subtypes, genders, and age groups to prevent the further escalation of the KD-induced CVD burden.…”
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Towards a cervical cancer-free future: women’s healthcare decision making and cervical cancer screening uptake in sub-Saharan Africa by Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Richard Gyan Aboagye, Bernard Yeboah-Asiamah Asare, Joshua Okyere, Bupe Mwamba

“…Therefore, policy interventions should focus on empowering women to be able to take autonomous healthcare decisions or shared decision making while targeting subpopulations (ie, multiparous and rural-dwelling women, as well as those in other religious affiliations aside from Christianity) that are less likely to uptake cervical cancer screening. …”
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Striped Cucumber Beetle Acalymma vittatum F. (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) by Braden Evans, Justin Renkema

“…The spotted cucumber beetle, Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi Barber, and banded cucumber beetle, Diabrotica balteata LeConte, are more common in Florida, causing damage symptoms that are similar to striped cucumber feeding damage (Webb 2010). …”
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The Application Research of Inverse Finite Element Method for Frame Deformation Estimation by Yong Zhao, Hong Bao, Xuechao Duan, Hongmei Fang

“…The methodology uses a least squares principle involving section strains of Timoshenko theory for stretching, torsion, bending, and transverse shearing. The proposed methodology is based on stain-displacement relations only, without invoking force equilibrium. …”
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Designing model for adaptive variable withdrawal rate strategies to control misaligned grains during directional solidification of large-sized complex-shaped turbine blades by Yang Liu, Fu Wang, Jing Wang, Qiang Yang, Dichen Li, Jiantao Wu

“…These defects are closely associated with the bending of the solid/liquid (S/L) interface isotherm, a phenomenon heavily influenced by its relative position to the insulation baffle during solidification. …”
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Construction Materials Used in the Historical Roman Era Bath in Myra by Cem Oguz, Fikret Turker, Niyazi Ugur Kockal

“…Also, microstructural analyses (SEM/EDX, XRD), physical analyses (unit volume, water absorption by mass, water absorption by volume, specific mass, compacity, and porosity), chemical analyses (acid loss and sieve analysis, salt analyses, pH, protein, fat, pozzolanic activity, and conductivity analyses), and mechanical experiments (compressive strength, point loading test, and tensile strength at bending) were applied and the obtained results were evaluated. …”
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Fluorescence, Decay Time, and Structural Change of Laser Dye Cresyl Violet in Solution due to Microwave Irradiation at GSM 900/1800 Mobile Phone Frequencies by Fuat Bayrakceken, Korkut Yegin

“…They usually consist of an extended system of conjugated double or aromatic π-bonds with attached auxochromic (electron donating) groups shifting the absorption band further towards longer wavelength. …”
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Reaction Spectrum Comparative Analysis of Seismic Performance of 62 m CFST Bridge with Curved-String Truss before and after Reinforcement by Daihai Chen, Yinxin Li, Zheng Li, Yilin Fang, Laijing Ma, Fengrui Ma

“…Before and after reinforcement, the maximum axial force in the upper chord of the bridge is the largest, and the shear force and bending moment are small. The maximum internal force appears at the two ends of the upper chord. …”
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Dual-Polarized Cross Bowtie Dipole for 3G and LTE Applications by Zhi-Ya Zhang, Jia-Yue Zhao, Qiongqiong Liu, Guang Fu

“…Moreover, the stable peak gain, unidirectional radiation patterns, high isolation between the two orthogonal polarizations, and low cross-polarization over the whole operating band are also achieved. The proposed antenna is very suitable for potential base station applications in mobile communication such as TD-SCDMA, WCDMA, and CDMA2000 and LTE applications.…”
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A Cable Defect Assessment Method Based on a Mixed-Domain Multi-Feature Set of Overall Harmonic Signals by Ruidong Wang, Ruzheng Pan

“…Four typical defect types—thermal ageing, cable moisture, excessive bending, and insulation damage—were simulated under laboratory conditions. …”
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Study on the Adaptability of Shield Tunnel Segments Orthogonal Crossing Grade III Loess Ground Fissure Section by Tao Yin, Zhen Cao, Sanqing Su

“…The results show that shield tunnel structure is mainly shear deformation, with local bending deformation. Secondly, the principal tensile stress and principal tensile strain at the arch waist and arch foot of segment ring intersecting with ground fissure section are the largest. …”
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Elastic and nonlinear crack tip solutions comparison with respect to failure probability by Valery Shlyannikov, Andrey Tumanov, Nataliya Boychenko

“… This study represents a methodology to assess the probability of failure based on three the driving force formulations defined by the corresponding brittle and ductile fracture criteria for compact and bending specimens made of 34XH3MA and S55C steels. …”
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Detecting the Activation of a Self-Healing Mechanism in Concrete by Acoustic Emission and Digital Image Correlation by E. Tsangouri, D. G. Aggelis, K. Van Tittelboom, N. De Belie, D. Van Hemelrijck

“…In this research, an experimental approach implementing an advanced optical and acoustic method sets up scopes to monitor and justify the crack formation and capsule breakage of concrete samples tested under three-point bending. Digital Image Correlation was used to visualize the crack opening. …”
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