Recycling of plastic waste polyethylene terephthalate (PET) as a modifier in asphalt mixture: study of Creep-Recovery at Low, Medium, and Hot Temperatures by Amine Bekhedda, Mohammed Merbouh

“…., These plastics become a problem because of their non-biodegradability, toxicity, etc. The recovery of plastic waste in pavements has become an ecological technique that contributes to the preservation of natural resources. …”
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Donor Impurity Related Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Symmetric and Asymmetric Double Triangular Quantum Dots by Emre Bahadir Al, Norshamsuri Ali, Syed Alwee Aljunid Syed Junid, Rosdisham Bin Endut, Nor Roshidah Yusof

“…In addition, the estimated findings clearly reveal that the resonant frequency and the nonlinear contribution to the optical characteristics are different in symmetric and asymmetric systems. …”
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Experimental Testing of Nonredundant Near-Field to Far-Field Transformations with Spherical Scanning Using Flexible Modellings for Nonvolumetric Antennas by Francesco D'Agostino, Flaminio Ferrara, Claudio Gennarelli, Rocco Guerriero, Massimo Migliozzi

“…In particular, a cylinder ended in two half-spheres is adopted for modelling long antennas, whereas the quasi-planar ones are considered as enclosed in a rotational surface formed by two circular “bowls” having the same aperture diameter, but eventually different bending radii. …”
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Innovative Radiating Systems for Train Localization in Interference Conditions by C. Vegni, M. Tosti, A. M. Vegni

“…., user location accuracy and service availability) are computed taking into account the adaptive array radiation pattern in two different modes (i.e., FRPA or CRPA) and band-limited white noise interference.…”
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Leptin Deficiency and Its Effects on Tibial and Vertebral Bone Mechanical Properties in Mature Genetically Lean and Obese JCR:LA-Corpulent Rats by Raylene A. Reimer, Jeremy M. LaMothe, Ronald F. Zernicke

“…Tibiae and the sixth lumbar vertebrae (L6) were scanned with micro-CT and were broken in three point-bending (tibiae) or axial loading (L6). Supporting the hypothesis, vertebrae and tibiae were differentially affected by leptin signaling deficiency. …”
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Deep-Learning-Based Method for the Identification of Typical Crops Using Dual-Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar and High-Resolution Optical Images by Xiaoshuang Ma, Le Li, Yinglei Wu

“…The proposal can effectively address the limitations of using a single data source, alleviating the misclassification problem brought by the spectral similarity of crops in certain bands. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed crop identification DeepLabV3+ (CI-DeepLabV3+) method outperforms traditional classification methods and the original DeepLabV3+ network, with an overall accuracy and F1 score of 94.54% and 94.55%, respectively. …”
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Direct Midline Diastema Closure with Composite Layering Technique: A One-Year Follow-Up by Bora Korkut, Funda Yanikoglu, Dilek Tagtekin

“…One bottle total etch adhesive was used and translucent/opaque composite resin shades were layered on mesial surfaces of the teeth that were isolated with rubber dam and Teflon bands. Finishing and polishing procedures were achieved by using polishing discs. …”
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Structural, Electronic, Lattice Dynamic, and Elastic Properties of SnTiO3 and PbTiO3 Using Density Functional Theory by Shiferaw Kuma, Menberu Mengesha Woldemariam

“…The structural, electronic, and elastic properties of tetragonal phase of SnTiO3 and PbTiO3 are investigated using first principle calculations. …”
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RESEARCH ON SHUTDOWN STRESS AND FATIGUE LIFE OF AIR CONDITIONING PIPING by WANG Xuan, ZHANG JieXi, HUANG JianNan

“…The results show that: The piping will be subjected to 2 ～ 3 stress shocks at the shutdown moment,the average number of shocks is 2. 6 times; The first impact stress is the largest,and the subsequent impact stress attenuates slightly;Vibration table and counterweight block can be used to generate stable stress impact,which can reach millions of times in a short time,and the component fatigue can be verified quickly; Piping bending will reduce the piping fatigue life,the operating pressure and temperature have little influence on pipe fatigue life,welding has little influence on piping,since there is a distance between the welded part and the bent part; In order to ensure the piping reliability under the limit state,the piping shutdown stress should be below 62 MPa.…”
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Working Load Characteristics of the PDC-Cone Composite Bit under Impact and Scraping by Kuilin Huang, Chunxiao Zhou, Yingxin Yang, Haitao Ren, Qingzhi Niu

“…Second, cutting load models of the cone teeth and PDC teeth were established through unit experiments and through the calculation methods of the axial force, lateral force and torque, and lateral bending moment of the composite bit. Third, the digital simulation and analysis system was improved to include the function of calculating the working load of the composite bit. …”
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Structural, elastic, electronic, magnetic and thermal properties of X3FeO4 (X = mg, ca and Sr) materials by Mohammed El Amine Monir, Abdelkarim Bendoukha Reguig, M. A. Ghebouli, K. Bouferrache, Faisal Katib Alanazi, M. Fatmi, H. Bouandas

“…The electronic characteristics calculated using the GGA and GGA + U approaches prove that all these compounds are semi-metallic with a wide band gap (EHM) and a high Curie temperature (TC). …”
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Evidence of the Complexity of Gene Expression Analysis in Fish Wild Populations by Mbaye Tine

“…The present work examines the induction of the band 3 anion transport protein, mitogen-activated protein kinase, and lactate dehydrogenase, respectively related to osmolyte transport, cell volume regulation, and energy production in the gills of two tilapia strains exposed to either freshwater or hypersaline water. …”
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Experimental investigation of mechanical behavior of horseshoe-shaped segmental tunnel linings by Xufeng Ai, Wenge Qiu, Jihui Chen, Partab Rai, Yuchao Zheng, Hui Hu

“…Significantly, the specific characteristics of the ring convergence deformation and bending moment distribution were significantly affected by the distribution positions of segment joints. …”
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Forgery face detection method based on multi-domain temporal features mining by Chuntao ZHU, Chengxi YIN, Bolin ZHANG, Qilin YIN, Wei LU

“…Financial technology has greatly facilitated people’s daily life with the continuous development of computer technology in the financial services industry.However, digital finance is accompanied by security problems that can be extremely harmful.Face biometrics, as an important part of identity information, is widely used in payment systems, account registration, and many other aspects of the financial industry.The emergence of face forgery technology constantly impacts the digital financial security system, posing a threat to national asset security and social stability.To address the security problems caused by fake faces, a forgery face detection method based on multi-domain temporal features mining was proposed.The tampering features were distinguished and enhanced based on the consistency of statistical feature data distribution and temporal action trend in the temporal features of videos existing in the spatial domain and frequency domain.Temporal information was mined in the spatial domain using an improved LSTM, while in the frequency domain, temporal information existing in different frequency bands of the spectrum was mined using 3D convolution layers.The information was then fused with the tampering features extracted from the backbone network, thus effectively distinguishing forged faces from real ones.The effectiveness of the proposed method was demonstrated on mainstream datasets.…”
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Propagation Model in Indoor and Outdoor for the LTE Communications by Sun-Kuk Noh, DongYou Choi

“…Rapidly rising demand for radio communication and the explosion in the number of mobile communications service subscribers have led to the need for optimization in the development of fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication systems. …”
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Shock Response Spectra Reconstruction of Pointwise Explosive-Induced Pyroshock Based on Signal Processing of Laser Shocks by S. Y. Chong, J. R. Lee, C. W. Kong

“…The signal processing algorithm for the laser shock-based pyroshock reconstruction is developed in a LabVIEW platform and consists of subbands decomposition, SRS matching in decomposed bands, and wave synthesizing. Then, two experimental setups are configured to obtain pyroshock signals and laser shock signals at four points in an aluminum plate. …”
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Enhanced Transformation of Atrazine by High Efficient Visible Light-Driven N, S-Codoped TiO2 Nanowires Photocatalysts by Yanlin Zhang, Honghai Wu, Peihong Liu

“…These results were mainly attributed to the synergistic effect of N and S doping in narrowing the band gap, remarkable increase in electron-hole separation, extending the anatase-to-rutile transformation temperature above 600°C, and preferentially exposing high reactive {001} crystal facets of anatase.…”
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Spectrum access control for cognitive internet of things users based on enhanced weighted centroid localization by Bin SHEN, Yinbo LI, Xiaowei LIANG

“…In the cognitive internet of things (CIoT), due to the non-cooperative characteristics between the primary user (PU) and the secondary user (SU), it is unreliable to seek the spectrum access opportunity by merely relying on traditional spectrum sensing technology.As an important type of auxiliary information, the mutual location information between PU and SU can assist in determining the possibility of secondary access to the licensed frequency band (LFB).A low-complexity neighbor-based weighted centroid localization (NB-WCL) algorithm was proposed to solve the localization problem of SUs in CIoT, so as to complete the decision of whether spectrum access can be performed at each geographical location in CIoT.The root mean square root error (RMSE) performance of two-dimensional position estimation was analyzed and the impacts of factors were verified such as communication radius, node density, shadowing influence, path loss exponent, connectivity metric, and the number of data transmitted on the algorithm performance in simulations.The theoretical derivation and experimental results show that the proposed scheme provides more robust and better localization error performance for the SU localization algorithm in CIoT than the traditional localization algorithms, which can effectively enhance the reliability of CIoT for spectrum access.The proposed scheme can serve as a practically effective candidate solution in the CIoT.…”
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Sensitive dependence of pairing symmetry on Ni-e g crystal field splitting in the nickelate superconductor La3Ni2O7 by Chengliang Xia, Hongquan Liu, Shengjie Zhou, Hanghui Chen

“…By combining density-functional-theory (DFT), maximally-localized-Wannier-function, and linearized gap equation with random-phase-approximation, we find that the pairing symmetry of La3Ni2O7 is d x y , if its DFT band structure is accurately reproduced by a downfolded bilayer two-orbital model. …”
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On SU(3) Effective Models and Chiral Phase Transition by Abdel Nasser Tawfik, Niseem Magdy

“…We analyze the chiral order parameter, normalized net-strange condensate, and chiral phase-diagram and compare the results with recent lattice calculations. We find that PLSM chiral boundary is located in upper band of the lattice QCD calculations and agree well with the freeze-out results deduced from various high-energy experiments and thermal models. …”
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