Internal and external influences on role stereotype adherence and gender dynamics on engineering design teams by Anastasia M. Schauer, Jessie Liu, Christopher Saldaña, Katherine Fu

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Model Experimental Study of Carbon Fiber Heating Wire for Deicing and Snow Melting on a Bridge Deck by Yan Tan, Yuntao Zhu, Henglin Xiao

“…The model experiments of the temperature rise and ice melting are carried out in a room with low temperature cold storage environment, and the temperature variation of the specimens under different ambient temperatures, namely, −2, −4, and −8°C, was measured. …”
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Effect of Crushed Glass Cullet Sizes on Physical and Mechanical Properties of Red Clay Bricks by Patricia Ponce Peña, María Azucena González Lozano, Alicia Rodríguez Pulido, René Homero Lara Castro, Zoe V. Quiñones Jurado, Juan Carlos Pérez Medina, Martha Emilia Poisot Vázquez, Axel Villavicencio Torres

“…The bricks were manufactured with mixtures of clay, crushed glass, and water in different proportions, homogenized, casted in wooden molds, air-dried at room temperature for 72 h, and sintered at 1000°C for 12 h. …”
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Improving P-Doped DBRs Operation at Cryogenic Temperatures: Investigating Different Mirror Geometry by Behzad Namvar, Topi Uusitalo, Heikki Virtanen, Mircea Guina, Jukka Viheriala

“…The use of vertical-cavity-surface-emitting lasers with ability to operate at cryogenic temperatures (Cryo-VCSELs) is a promising path to implement optical data links between superconducting processors maintained in cryogenic environments (4 K range) and room temperature (RT) computing hardware. In order to achieve energy-efficient operation of a cryo-VCSEL, whether by passing current through the mirrors or utilizing intra-cavity contacts, a critical bottleneck for improving the operation is related to the p-doped distribute Bragg Reflectors (DBRs). …”
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Influence of Two Cooling Methods on Dynamic Mechanical Properties of High Temperature Sandstone by Qi Ping, Qi Diao, Dezhi Qi, Chen Wang, Chuanliang Zhang

“…To study the influence of different cooling methods on dynamic mechanical properties of high temperature rock, both natural cooling and water cooling were used to cool high temperature (100°C∼1000°C) coal mine sandstone to room temperature (20°C). Basic physical parameters of sandstone were measured, and impact compression tests were carried out by using the SHPB test device. …”
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Introducing an integrated approach for fire safety assessment in healthcare facilities by interval valued neutrosophic-AHP and Fuzzy Inference System by Samaneh Salari, Ali Karimi

“…Furthermore, the operating room, laundry, post-NICU 1 and 2, and waste disposal were classified as critical, with more than 50 % falling within the major risk class. …”
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Composites of Heavy Rain Producing Elevated Thunderstorms in the Central United States by Laurel P. McCoy, Patrick S. Market, Chad M. Gravelle, Charles E. Graves, Neil I. Fox, Scott M. Rochette, Joshua Kastman, Bohumil Svoma

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Research and Development of Civil Engineering Intelligent Structure System by Junkai Xie, Bo Gao, Huamin Cheng

“…Studies have shown that when considering the room temperature insulation performance of insulation materials, the time required for the side of the concrete slab with glass fiber felt and aerogel insulation materials is about 2022 and 3363 s, respectively, indicating the fire resistance of aerogel insulation materials significantly better than fiberglass.…”
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A Readout Scheme for PCM-Based Analog In-Memory Computing With Drift Compensation Through Reference Conductance Tracking by Alessio Antolini, Andrea Lico, Francesco Zavalloni, Eleonora Franchi Scarselli, Antonio Gnudi, Mattia Luigi Torres, Roberto Canegallo, Marco Pasotti

“…Experimental characterizations are performed under different operating conditions and show that the mean MAC decrease in time is approximately null at room temperature and reduced by a factor of 3 after 64-h bake at <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$85~{^{\circ }}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>C. …”
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State-dependent inter-network functional connectivity development in neonatal brain from the developing human connectome project by Zhiyong Zhao, Ruolin Li, Yihan Wu, Mingyang Li, Dan Wu

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Effects of thermal aging on the performance of ordinary and novel superhydrophobic and oleophobic ultra-fine dry powder extinguishing agent by Yurong Liu, Ruiyu Chen, Wang Zhixuan, Rui Zhang, Hongling Jing, Daheng Yu, Renming Pan

“…Abstract Powder-based fire extinguishing agents have become a kind of promising substitutes for halon extinguishing agents in civil aircrafts. …”
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A 250 °C Low-Power, Low-Temperature-Drift Offset Chopper-Stabilized Operational Amplifier with an SC Notch Filter for High-Temperature Applications by Zhong Yang, Jiaqi Li, Jiangduo Fu, Jiayin Song, Qingsong Cai, Shushan Qiao

“…The amplifier demonstrates stable performance across a wide temperature range from −40 °C to 250 °C, and exhibits an excellent input offset of approximately 20 µV at room temperature and an offset voltage temperature coefficient of 0.7 μV/°C in the full temperature range.…”
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Effects of Maternal Hypoxia during Pregnancy on Bone Development in Offspring: A Guinea Pig Model by Alice M. C. Lee, Janna L. Morrison, Kimberley J. Botting, Tetyana Shandala, Cory J. Xian

“…During 35–62-day gestation (term, 69d), guinea pigs were housed in room air (21% O2; control) or 12% O2 (MH). Offspring femur and tibia were collected at 62d gestation and 120d after birth. …”
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Experimental and Computational Analysis of Surgical Mask Effectiveness Against COVID-19 in Indoor Environment by Chin Yan Suen, Helen Hoi Ling Kwok, Yuk Hang Tsui, Ka Hei Lui, Hong Hang Leung, Ka Wo Lam, Karen Pik Shuen Hung, Joseph Kai Cho Kwan, Kin Fai Ho

“…The simulation is consistent with the experimental results as the concentration of sodium chloride (NaCl) droplets is < 4% on average in the room. The ultraviolet-C (UVC) irradiation and dry heating samples are shown to retain the highest filtration efficiencies (> 97%) after 3 disinfection treatment cycles. …”
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Corrosion and wear study of medium entropy Pb-Sn-Cu alloy for coating application by Gokul M. Pillai, Kuldeep Singh, Shanmugasundaram Thangaraju, Shashinath Jha, Vinod Kumar

“…The wear rate was noted to be 5.623 × 10−5 mm3/Nm at room temperature and decreased to 2.811 x 10−5 mm3/Nm at 80 ℃, exhibiting comparable wear resistance with that of Babbitt alloys. …”
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Brillouin–Mandelstam scattering in telecommunications optical fiber at millikelvin temperatures by E. A. Cryer-Jenkins, A. C. Leung, H. Rathee, A. K. C. Tan, K. D. Major, M. R. Vanner

“…While most of these avenues focus on room temperature operation, there is now increasing interest in cryogenic operation owing to the scattering mechanism’s significant potential for applications and fundamental physics at low temperatures. …”
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Comparison of two point-of-care lung ultrasound techniques and their associated outcomes for bronchiolitis in the pediatric emergency department by Jaron A. Smith, Michael C. Cooper, Kenneth Yen, Joan Reisch, Bethsabee S. Stone

“…Respiratory support (RS) was categorized into three levels: no RS (room air), low RS (wall O2 or heated high flow nasal cannula < 1L/kg), and high RS (heated high flow nasal cannula ≥ 1L/kg or positive pressure). …”
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One-year outcomes of traumatic injuries among survivors in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study on the employment outcomes and functioning state by Ayalew Zewdie, Adamu Addissie, Marcia Finlayson, Ansha Nega Ahmed, Rosemary Lysaght

“…This study characterizes injury survivors by their preinjury status, injury characteristics, postinjury employment outcomes and disability status 1 year post injury.Methods An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted on injury survivors who received services from a large public hospital in Addis Ababa. Medical records of all emergency room patients who visited the hospital within a 3-month period were reviewed to identify those who were eligible. …”
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Foamy Melamine Resin–Silica Aerogel Composite-Derived Thermal Insulation Coating by Dongfang Wang, Yabin Ma, Yingjie Ma, Baolei Liu, Dewen Sun, Qianping Ran

“…A novel class of SiO₂ aerogel-based resin composite with a self-formed foamy structure and an extremely low thermal conductivity, as well as excellent fire resistance, was fabricated via a room temperature and atmospheric pressure route. …”
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Feasibility Study of an Alcohol-Based Liquid Scintillation Detector and Its Application by Byoung Chan Kim, Ji Young Choi, Kyung Kwang Joo, Seon Yeong Park, Ye Sung Song, Hee Jin Woo

“…To date, there have been no previous R&D studies elsewhere for the use of alcohol in particle detectors, and no market products are available of this type. Thus, there is a room for improvement. This paper describes the brief synthesizing process of the alcohol-based liquid scintillator by varying the mixing ratio of each component that makes up the liquid scintillator. …”
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