Pore-Size Distribution Evolution of Intact, Compacted, and Saturated Loess from China during Consolidation and Shearing by Ping Li, Shengjun Shao, Tao Xiao, Dandan Zhu

“…This difference arises from different cementations that dominate particle associating in three soils. In intact loess, carbonate cementations that can be damaged by remolding and loading contribute greatly to particle associating. …”
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Study on the Influence of Seepage Conditions with Different Rainfall Intensities on the Structural Evolution of Soil-Rock Mixture Filler by Yueyue Wang, Xuesong Mao, Qian Wu, Zeyu Dai

“…The particle loss test device was applied to conduct the seepage test of SRM filler, monitor the change process of permeable quality, fine particle loss and sedimentation of filler under different rainfall conditions, and analyze the evolution process of soil structure and sedimentation characteristics. …”
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Process-Parameter-Dependent Structural, Electrical, and Optical Properties of Reactive Magnetron Sputtered Ag-Cu-O Films by P. Narayana Reddy, A. Sreedhar, M. Hari Prasad Reddy, S. Uthanna, J. F. Pierson

“…Silver-copper-oxide thin films were formed by RF magnetron sputtering technique using Ag80Cu20 target at various oxygen partial pressures in the range 5 × 10−3–8 ×10−2 Pa and substrate temperatures in the range 303–523 K. …”
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An Algorithm for Optimal Allocation of Water Resources in Receiving Areas Based on Adaptive Decreasing Inertia Weights by Fei Li, Guang Zhang, Shaohua Hu

“…This paper firstly selects the minimum loss of water resources allocation as the objective function for mathematical modelling, chooses the particle swarm algorithm as the objective algorithm, and proposes a particle swarm algorithm based on the standard particle swarm algorithm with improved adaptive decreasing inertia weights. …”
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Effects of Whey Protein Concentrate on the Bioaccessibility and Microstructure of 5-Methyltetrahydrocalcium Folate in Simulated Digestive Environment in Vitro by Yusong ZHANG, Weiran CUI, Zhenyue TANG, Hongyu BAI, Meili SHAO

“…Through in vitro simulated digestion, the effects of whey protein concentrate (WPC) on the bioaccessibility of 5-MTHF under various circumstances (concentration, processing technique, gastrointestinal pH, and digesting duration) were examined. The changes of particle microstructure before and after digestion were observed by colloid particle size potentiometer and laser confocal. …”
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Isoacid supplementation influences feed sorting, chewing behaviors, and enteric methane emissions differentially in mid-lactation dairy cows depending on dietary forage level by M.R.A. Redoy, S. Ahmed, M. Bulnes, D.H. Kleinschmit, M.E. Uddin

“…Enteric CH4 and chewing activity (rumination and eating time) were measured using the GreenFeed system and sensor-based ear tag system, respectively. The particle size of each diet and ort from individual cows was measured using the Penn State Particle Separator, and a sorting index was calculated. …”
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Complete convergence for arrays of minimal order statistics by André Adler

“…For arrays of independent Pareto random variables, this paper establishes complete convergence for weighted partial sums for the smaller order statistics within each row. …”
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A Hybrid Oral Rehabilitation of Hypohidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia: A Conservative Approach with Three-Year Follow-Up by Aryen Kaushik, HarshVardhan Sinha, M. N. Hombesh, Pooja Rani, Taranjeet Kaur

“…The upper arch was finally restored using a long-span fixed partial denture and lower arch using bilateral attachment (Rhein 83) retained cast removable partial denture as a definitive prosthesis. …”
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Reconfigurable Network Stream Processing on Virtualized FPGA Resources by Qianqiao Chen, Vaibhawa Mishra, Jose Nunez-Yanez, Georgios Zervas

“…With the help of partial reconfiguration technology, network functions on our platform can be configured without affecting other functions on the same FPGA device. …”
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Improved Population Intelligence Algorithm and BP Neural Network for Network Security Posture Prediction by Yueying Li, Feng Wu

“…Secondly, to address the problem that PSO is prone to fall into a local optimum, the genetic operator is embedded into the operation process of the particle swarm algorithm, and the excellent global optimization performance of the genetic algorithm is used to open up the spatial vision of the particle population, revive the stagnant particles, accelerate the update amplitude of the algorithm, and achieve the purpose of improving the premature problem. …”
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A Case of Metastatic Adamantinoma That Responded Well to Sunitinib by Andrew D. Liman, Agnes K. Liman, Jenna Shields, Becky Englert, Rashmikant Shah

“…He received carboplatin and etoposide for 7 months and achieved a partial response. Four months later, PET scan showed disease progression. …”
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Improved Sparse Channel Estimation for Cooperative Communication Systems by Guan Gui, Wei Peng, Ling Wang

“…However, LS-based linear method neglects the inherent sparse structure information while LASSO-based sparse channel method cannot take full advantage of the prior information. Based on the partial sparse assumption of the cooperative channel model, we propose an improved channel estimation method with partial sparse constraint. …”
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A Numerical Study of Railway Ballast Subjected to Direct Shearing Using the Discrete Element Method by Hongyi Zhao, Jing Chen

“…Four regions in the aggregates were identified according to the translational pattern of ballast particles. The results of this research provide an in-depth analysis of microscopic characteristics from a particulate scale.…”
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An Improved Finite Difference Type Numerical Method for Structural Dynamic Analysis by Sung-Hoon Kim, Youn-sik Park

“…An improved finite difference type numerical method to solve partial differential equations for one-dimensional (1-D) structure is proposed. …”
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Exact Solution for Long-Term Size Exclusion Suspension-Colloidal Transport in Porous Media by Z. You, P. Bedrikovetsky, L. Kuzmina

“…Furthermore, the exact solution demonstrates earlier breakthrough and lower breakthrough concentration for larger particles. Among all the pores with different sizes, the ones with intermediate sizes (between the minimum pore size and the particle size) vanish first. …”
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Beam Purity for Light Dark Matter Search in Beam Dump Experiments by D. Banerjee, P. Crivelli, A. Rubbia

“…This paper presents the simulation results for rejection of background due to beam impurity, by tracking the incoming particles with Micromegas detectors at a level <10-10.…”
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Research on the Effect of DPSO in Team Selection Optimization under the Background of Big Data by Qian Zhao, Lian-ying Zhang

“…The simulation experiment method is used to qualitatively analyze the main parameters of the particle swarm optimization in this paper. By comparing the iterative results of genetic algorithm, ordinary particle swarm algorithm, and discrete particle swarm algorithm, it is found that the DPSO algorithm is effective and preferred in the study of team selection with the background of big data.…”
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Carbon-Filled E-Glass Fibre-Reinforced Epoxy Composite: Erosive Wear Properties at an Angle of Impingement by K. Sravanthi, V. Mahesh, B.N. Rao, George Fernandez, Lenin A. Haiter

“…In the current study, multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and carbon particles (micron size) were employed to create carbon particle dispersions. …”
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An Unusual Long-Term Survey of a Patient with Widespread Malignant Urachal Tumor, Not Given Chemotherapy or Radiotherapy by Tugrul Ormeci, Murat Can Kiremit, Bulent Erkurt, Aslı Örmeci

“…A 61-year-old male patient diagnosed with urachal carcinoma had undergone partial cystectomy 25 years previously. Twenty years later, local recurrence was treated with another partial cystectomy without umbilical remnant excision. …”
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