Microstructural and Electrochemical Analysis of the Physically Simulated Heat-Affected Zone of Super-Duplex Stainless Steel UNS S32750 by Francisco Magalhães dos Santos, Leonardo Oliveira Passos da Silva, Ygor Tadeu Bispo dos Santos, Bruna Callegari, Tiago Nunes Lima, Rodrigo Santiago Coelho

“…The pitting resistance was investigated by electrochemical techniques in sodium chloride solution, and the critical pitting temperature (CPT) was calculated for each evaluated microstructure. The material as received presents 46.19 vol% ferrite and a high corrosion resistance, with a CPT of 71.54 °C. …”
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Ultrasonographic assessment of optic nerve: does it help in lupus-induced optic neuropathy? by Amira Elsonbaty, Abdallah El-Sayed Allam, Doaa M Mahmoud, Sara Alattar, Ahmed Hosny Shaaban

“…We measured the optic nerve diameter (OND) and optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) and calculated the OND/ONSD ratio and side-to-side difference. …”
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Distribution and Health Risk Assessment on Dietary Exposure of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Vegetables in Nanjing, China by Minmin Wu, Zhonghuan Xia, Qianqian Zhang, Jing Yin, Yanchi Zhou, Hao Yang

“…The margin of exposure (MOE) approach with age/gender group-specific daily dietary exposure level was used to estimate the carcinogenic risk. The calculated total mean MOE in the case of BaP and PAH4 (sum of BaA, CHR, BbF, and BaP) was 14960 and 7723, respectively, for local residents. …”
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Experimental Study on the Influence on Vibration Characteristics of Thin Cylindrical Shell with Hard Coating under Cantilever Boundary Condition by Hui Li, Wei Sun, Mingwei Zhu, Pengcheng Xue

“…Firstly, the theoretical model of TCS with hard coating is established to calculate its natural frequencies and modal shapes so as to roughly understand vibration characteristic of TCS when it is coated with hard coating material. …”
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A Simple Polarization-Based Fringe Projection Profilometry Method for Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of High-Dynamic-Range Surfaces by Xiang Sun, Zhenjun Luo, Shizhao Wang, Jianhua Wang, Yunpeng Zhang, Dandan Zou

“…It can effectively mitigate the negative impact of overexposed regions on absolute phase calculation and 3D reconstruction when reconstructing objects with strongly reflective surfaces.…”
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On the Investigation of State Space Reconstruction of Nonlinear Aeroelastic Response Time Series by Flávio D. Marques, Eduardo M. Belo, Vilma A. Oliveira, José R. Rosolen, Andréia R. Simoni

“…To obtain an estimate of the time delay used in the state space reconstruction from time series, the autocorrelation function analyis is used. For the calculation of the embedding dimension the correlation integral approach is considered. …”
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Power allocation optimization strategy for multiple virtual power plants with diversified distributed flexibility resources by Zejian Qiu, Xin Zhang, Zhanyuan Han, Fengchao Chen, Yuxin Luo, Kuan Zhang

“…Moreover, a power allocation strategy based on the flexibility weight factor is proposed to handle the calculated minimum deviation between the total active output of PV and the dispatching power command, realizing the self‐consistency of distributed EHVPPs. …”
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Research on the Evolution Characteristics of Floor Stress and Reasonable Layout of Roadways in Deep Coal Mining by Yang Yu, Lianying Zhang, Jianfei Lu, Dingchao Chen, Xiangqian Zhao, Limin Liu

“…Taking a deep mine in China as the research background, a mechanical model of the front supporting stress with the working face was constructed through theoretical calculations. Based on the limit equilibrium theory, the stress distribution in the plastic zone and the elastic zone of the lateral working face was derived; based on semi-infinite plane mechanics model, the floor vertical and horizontal stress distribution was deduced. …”
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Passenger Volume Prediction by a Combined Input-Output and Distributed Lag Model and Data Analytics of Industrial Investment by Fan Yang, Zhao-guo Huang, Hua-zhi Yuan, Jian-jun Wang, Wei-jia Li, Sai Wang

“…Specifically, the relationships between the passenger volume, GDP (gross domestic product), gross output, and transportation consumption are analyzed, and then the industrial development speed analysis and classification are used to calculate the average development speeds and the GDP contributions of 42 industries. …”
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Orientation-selective spin-polarized edge states in monolayer NiI2 by Yu Wang, Xinlei Zhao, Li Yao, Huiru Liu, Peng Cheng, Yiqi Zhang, Baojie Feng, Fengjie Ma, Jin Zhao, Jiatao Sun, Kehui Wu, Lan Chen

“…By performing first-principles calculations, we further confirm that spin-polarized edge states are selectively aligning along the Ni-terminated edges rather than the I-terminated edges. …”
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CFD analysis of the main operating parameters for a complete braking friction system under transient working conditions by F. Orlandi, C. De Marco, S. Meleti, A. Manian, M. Milani, L. Montorsi

“…The comprehensive numerical model allows to deeply analyse the thermal dissipation of the solid elements and the oil of the systems and thus the cooling efficiency of the lubricant oil can be calculated. Furthermore, a sensitivity analysis with respect of the main braking system operating parameters is carried out to investigate the influence of heat dissipation rate of the oil and the cooling efficiency of the full braking system. …”
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Effects of Re on Vacancy Mobility in a Ni-Re System: An Atomistic Study by Nuttapong La-ongtup, Suttipong Wannapaiboon, Piyanut Pinyou, Worawat Wattanathana, Yuranan Hanlumyuang

“…Here, we use atomistic calculations to study the diffusion of vacancy in the low-concentration limit, using the crystalline fcc-framework nickel as a model. …”
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Internal electric field steering S-scheme charge transfer in ZnIn2S4/COF boosts H2O2 photosynthesis from water and air for sustainable disinfection by Linlin Zhuo, Shaofeng Dong, Yik Tung Sham, Jinpeng Zhang, Xiaoying Xu, Kenrick Chun Kiu Ho, Min Pan, Qiaoshan Chen, Guocheng Huang, Jinhong Bi

“…Mechanistic insights, supported by physicochemical characterizations and theoretical calculations, highlighted the role of the internal electric field (IEF) in enhancing carrier separation and transfer, thereby boosting photosynthesis efficiency. …”
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Characterization of a thermally stable red-light-emitting phosphor: synthesis, photoluminescence, and thermoluminescence studies of CsCaF3 compound doped with Eu3+ for solid-state... by N. Hema, B. Chandrasekaran, R. Kameshwaran, M. Ammal Dhanalakshmi, V. Rathina Mala, G. Annadurai, K. Ganesh Kumar, M. Vimalan, Mohammed F. Albeshr

“…Furthermore, thermoluminescence study, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), and effective atomic number (Zeff) calculations were conducted to provide valuable information for potential radiation dosimetry applications.…”
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IRMAOC: an interpretable role mining algorithm based on overlapping clustering by Yaqi Yang, Jun’e Li, Tao Zhang, Lu Chen, Guirong Huang, Zhuo Lv

“…It evaluates the interpretability of a role based on user similarity calculated on the permission and attribute of the role, and employs policy interpretability as the metric of a role set. …”
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A Novel Real-Time Threshold Algorithm for Closed-Loop Epilepsy Detection and Stimulation System by Liang-Hung Wang, Zhen-Nan Zhang, Chao-Xin Xie, Hao Jiang, Tao Yang, Qi-Peng Ran, Ming-Hui Fan, I-Chun Kuo, Zne-Jung Lee, Jian-Bo Chen, Tsung-Yi Chen, Shih-Lun Chen, Patricia Angela R. Abu

“…A time-domain detection algorithm based on amplitude, slope, line length, and signal energy characteristics is introduced. A new threshold calculation method is proposed; that is, the threshold is updated by means of the mean and standard deviation of four consecutive eigenvalues through parameter combination. …”
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Physicochemical Characterization and Thermodynamic Studies of Nanoemulsion-Based Transdermal Delivery System for Fullerene by Cheng Loong Ngan, Mahiran Basri, Minaketan Tripathy, Roghayeh Abedi Karjiban, Emilia Abdul-Malek

“…From the energetic parameters calculated for the viscous flow, a moderate energy barrier for transport process was observed. …”
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A Sensitive and Selective Method for Determination of Aesculin in Cortex Fraxini by Liquid Chromatography Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Tandem Mass Spectrometry and Application in Phar... by Yi Li, Hui Guo, Yinying Wu, Qianqian Geng, Danfeng Dong, Huili Wu, Enxiao Li

“…The linear range was calculated to be 10.0–1500.0 ng/mL with a detection limit of 2.0 ng/mL. …”
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Adaptive Semi-Supervised Fuzzy C-Means Method With Local Spatial Information and Pre-Clustering for Image Segmentation by Hao-Ran Chen, Xiao-Peng Wang, Jia-Xin Wu, Hai-Zhou Wang

“…Then, an objective function with adaptive weights is designed to calculate the weights of the local spatial information and supervision weights based on the local spatial information and label spatial information respectively, enhancing the flexibility of algorithm. …”
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EDA, PPG and Skin Temperature as Predictive Signals for Mental Failure by a Statistical Analysis on Stress and Mental Workload by G. Luzzani, I. Buraioli, G. Guglieri, D. Demarchi

“…<italic>Results:</italic> 43 features were calculated from these signals during the execution of two cognitive tests and processed through a statistical analysis based on Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney U tests. …”
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