Establishing native wildflower habitats in urban settings on a low budget by Shelton J. S., Florkowski W. J., Pennisi S. V.

“…Direct expenses included the initial establishment of the transplants under two differing soil treatments and were calculated separately. Expense differences between the two methods result from the prices of the two herbicides, type of equipment used in soil preparation and the type of tasks requiring labour. …”
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Computational Treatments of Cavitation Effects in Near-Free-Surface Underwater Shock Analysis by Michael A. Sprague, Thomas L. Geers

“…Fluid cavitation constitutes an expensive computational nuisance in underwater-shock response calculations for structures at or just below the free surface. …”
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Single and Competitive Sorption of Heavy Metal Ions (Cd2+ & Cu2+) on a Clayey Soil by Vibhawari, N. D. Pandey

“…Maximum adsorption capacities of Cd2+ ion in both the solutions were calculated. It was observed that sorption of Cd2+ ion was decreased in the presence of Cu2+ ion. …”
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Thermo- mechanical Coupling Analysis of Friction Plate of Wet Friction Clutch by Yang Yongqiang, Li Xiaoying, Cao Botao, Zhang Chunxia, Zhang Man

“…Based on the dynamics research of wet friction clutch,the engagement heat flux of friction clutch is calculated by friction power method,and the heat convection of wet friction clutch is discussed. …”
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Research on simulation of 5G indoor distribution system based on ray tracing propagation model by Xin TAO, Junqing WAN, Yifeng LI, Xisheng XU, Nanting QIAO, Bin XU

“…The construction of indoor distribution system has become an effective means to solve the problem of deep coverage.At present, 5G network construction is developing rapidly, indoor distribution system construction is exploding, and the network planning and design of indoor distribution system needs to be more refined.How to effectively evaluate the indoor signal coverage effect becomes one of the important tasks of current indoor distribution system planning and design.A building was taken as the research object, the coverage performance index was calculated by ray-tracing propagation model simulation, and the results were compared with the road test data of the existing network.After correcting the relevant model parameters, the simulation is consistent with the actual measurement, and the demonstration simulation provides a reference basis for network deployment.…”
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Evaluation of Excess Free Volume and Internal Pressure in Binary Mixtures of Methyl Methacrylate(MMA) with Alcohols by R. Vadamalar, P. Mani, R. Balakrishnan, V. Arumugam

“…Ultrasonic and viscometric parameters offer simple, easy and accurate ways for calculating several physical parameters which throw light on molecular interactions in solutions. …”
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Economic Instruments for Reducing CO2 Emmissions and their Consequences by Renata Slabe Erker, Klemen Koman, Boris Majcen

“…EU OP (project ENG2-CT- 1999-00002). We are calculating the effects of varying environmental policies for Slovenia based on variations in key macroeconomical markers. …”
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Tensile Behavior of Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene at Different Temperatures by Jiquan Li, Yadong Jia, Taidong Li, Zhou Zhu, Hangchao Zhou, Xiang Peng, Shaofei Jiang

“…The model was also divided into two parts that rely on the boundary of glass transition temperature, in which the parameters of the model were calculated by the fitting method. The model predictions showed a good agreement with the results of the experimental tensile test. …”
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Research of Vibration and Noise Analysis Method of High-speed Gear for Electric Vehicle by Ruixin Wang, Chao Yang, Jinfeng Li, Yu Gong, Hongqi Liu, Jingcai Zhang

“…Based on the calculation optimization and spectral characteristics of the transmission error， the gear MDOF vibration model is dexterously simplified to a dual-mass vibration model by utilizing the frequency spectrum characteristics of the system transmission error and the frequency characteristics of the forced vibration under excitation. …”
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Using Chebyshev’s polynomials for solving Fredholm integral equations of the second kind by José Antonio Ezquerro, Miguel Ángel Hernández-Verón

“…This allows us to explicitly calculate the inverse of the first derivative operator in each step of the Newton method and then approximate a solution of the approximate integral equation. …”
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Machine learning configuration-dependent friction tensors in Langevin heatbaths by Matthias Sachs, Wojciech G Stark, Reinhard J Maurer, Christoph Ortner

“…We demonstrate the capabilities of the model approach by fitting a model of configuration-dependent tensorial electronic friction calculated from first principles that arises during reactive molecular dynamics at metal surfaces.…”
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DYNAMIC SIMULATION STUDY ON WEAR FAILURE OF RECIPROCATING COMPRESSOR SMALL END BUSHING by SHI QuanJu, MA Bo, ZHANG Hai, QI LiangCai

“…By changing the clearance between small end bushing and crosshead pin,the contact-impact parameters under different wear states were simulated and calculated,and features of the contact impact force between small head bushing and crosshead pin were analyzed,also between crosshead and middle body. …”
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Amperometric acetylcholinesterase biosensor for physostigmine determination by R.R. Davletshina, A.N. Ivanov, G.A. Evtugyn

“…The kinetic parameters of enzymatic hydrolysis of the substrate and those of competitive inhibition of the enzyme have been calculated. The developed biosensor can find application for the monitoring of anticholinesterase drugs.…”
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Nonlinear Analysis of Flexible Pile near Undrained Clay Slope under Lateral Loading by Chong Jiang, Yu Li, Lin Liu, Hang Lin

“…The ideal elastic-plastic p-y curve model is used as the basic calculation model to study the pile-soil interaction system. …”
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Multipurpose assessment of the financial competitiveness of a publishing company by A. A. Aliev, M. S. Gordienko, A. V. Petelina

“…The methodology of the study is the application of the ranking system, the Fishburne method, the definition of the specific weights of indicators, allowing you to assess financial competitiveness of companies, the tools of graphic analysis to calculate the overall integrated indicators that characterize the level of competitiveness of the publishing company. …”
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Design and Dynamics Analysis of Synchronous Mobile Steering Mechanism of Dodge Robot by Meng Zheng, Heng Li, Hangfei Ren, Hongyong Zhang, Junqiang Xue, Yongle Zhang, Wanying Yan

“…Through theoretical calculations， simulations， and experimental tests， the mutual verification between the three has further verified the accuracy of the establishment of the dodge robot mobile mechanism model.…”
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Impact of the Carbonization Atmosphere on the Properties of Phosphoric Acid-Activated Carbons from Fruit Stones by A.M. Puziy, O.I. Poddubnaya, A. Martínez-Alonso, F. Suárez-García, A. Castro-Muñiz, J.M.D. Tascón

“…The above parameters were re-calculated on a volume basis (practical effectiveness) and a volume-yield basis (economic efficiency). …”
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Kinematics Analysis of 3-PRS+2P Hybrid Mechanism by Si Huang, Wanqiang Zhu, Jianzhong Yang, Yu Chen

“…The analytic expression of the inverse solution is calculated based on Maple. The structure of the solution is simple and easy to be programmed. …”
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Image Denoising Using Nonlocal Means with Shape-Adaptive Patches and New Weights by Chenglin Zuo, Jun Ma, Hao Xiong, Lin Ran

“…By incorporating the role of both the initial estimate and the residual image, spatially adaptive patch shapes are defined, and new weights are calculated, which thus results in better denoising performance for NLM. …”
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Creeping Ray Tracing Algorithm for Arbitrary NURBS Surfaces Based on Adaptive Variable Step Euler Method by Song Fu, Yun-Hua Zhang, Si-Yuan He, Xi Chen, Guo-Qiang Zhu

“…Although the uniform theory of diffraction (UTD) could be theoretically applied to arbitrarilyshaped convex objects modeled by nonuniform rational B-splines (NURBS), one of the great challenges in calculation of the UTD surface diffracted fields is the difficulty in determining the geodesic paths along which the creeping waves propagate on arbitrarilyshaped NURBS surfaces. …”
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