The use of thermally expandable microcapsules for increasing the toughness and heal structural adhesives by Guillaume Pesquet, Lucas F. M. da Silva, Chiaki Sato

“…The experimental results were successfully cross-checked through a numerical analysis using the virtual crack closure technique (VCCT) based on linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM). The major conclusion is that fracture toughness of the modified adhesives increased as the mass fraction of the TEMs increased.…”
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Network slicing deployment method based on isolation level by Qirun PAN, Kaizhi HUANG, Wei YOU

“…In order to balance the performance isolation requirements and security isolation requirements of network slicing,a network slice deployment method based on isolation level was proposed.The method first determined the isolation level of the network slice instance from the aspects of performance isolation and security isolation.When deploying the virtual nodes in the appropriate location,not only ensured that all network slice instances could reach their respective performance levels and security levels,but also isolated them.The gradation difference started to limit the coexistence condition of the virtual node.Then the integer linear programming method was used to model the problem,and the deployment cost was minimized as the objective function.Finally,the particle swarm optimization algorithm based on genetic algorithm was used to find the final deployment result.The simulation results show that the method has lower deployment cost and higher benefit-to-cost ratio,and can guarantee both performance and security.…”
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The use of thermally expandable microcapsules for increasing the toughness and heal structural adhesives by Guillaume Pesquet, Lucas F. M. da Silva, Chiaki Sato

“…The experimental results were successfully cross-checked through a numerical analysis using the virtual crack closure technique (VCCT) based on linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM). The major conclusion is that fracture toughness of the modified adhesives increased as the mass fraction of the TEMs increased.…”
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A Wearable System for Experimental Knee Pain During Real-World Locomotion: Habituation and Motor Adaptation by Jesse M. Charlton, Liam H. Foulger, Calvin Kuo, Jean-Sebastien Blouin

“…We used the method of constants to quantify the pain intensity-stimulation magnitude relationship over 400 stimuli. A linear model fit the data well for intensities &#x003E;1/10, though a piecewise linear (Adj R<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^{{2}} =0.874$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) or exponential model (Adj R<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^{{2}} =0.869$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) was required to fit the perception data across the stimulus intensity range (0-5/10). …”
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Unsteady Unidirectional MHD Flow of Voigt Fluids Moving between Two Parallel Surfaces for Variable Volume Flow Rates by Wei-Fan Chen, Hsin-Yi Lai, Cha'o-Kuang Chen

“…Four cases of different inlet volume flow rates are considered in this study including (1) constant acceleration piston motion, (2) suddenly started flow, (3) linear acceleration piston motion, and (4) oscillatory piston motion. …”
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Optimal and suboptimal protocols for a mathematical model for tumor anti-angiogenesis in combination with chemotherapy by Urszula Ledzewicz, Helmut Maurer, Heinz Schättler

“…This gives credence toa modeling approach that starts with the analysis of simplifiedmodels and then adds increasingly more complex and medicallyrelevant features. …”
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Reliability analysis of wireless communication equipment based on model selection by SUN Jin, HU Jicheng, JIAO Yaqi, WANG Kun

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DOES VENTURE CAPITAL AFFECT CROWDFUNDING PERFORMANCE? by Chia-Ling Chang, Yen-Sheng Lee, Han-Kun Tien

“…The results of linear regression models reveal that the venture capital-funded entrepreneurial firms perform better in the crowdfunding market than their non-funded peers. …”
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DOES VENTURE CAPITAL AFFECT CROWDFUNDING PERFORMANCE? by Chia-Ling Chang, Yen-Sheng Lee, Han-Kun Tien

“…The results of linear regression models reveal that the venture capital-funded entrepreneurial firms perform better in the crowdfunding market than their non-funded peers. …”
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'Des Yeux Qui Ne Voient Pas...': The smartphones by Luca Di Lorenzo

“…Three of the most influential chapters of Le Corbusier’s Vers une Architecture are collected under the common title ‘Des yeux qui ne voient pas…’ (Eyes which do not see…). Liners, airplanes, and automobiles are shown as the expression of the powerful beauty of practical form: honest, simple, functional and technological. …”
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Aspectos geológicos-geomorfológicos e os parâmetros morfométricos da rede de drenagem: uma análise e discussão sobre um sistema cárstico by Rafael Brugnolli Medeiros, Charlei Aparecido da Silva

“…To this end, we used references linking the morphometric analysis to the areal and linear issues of the drainages, in addition to the evaluation of the main components of the landscape, in the role of rocks and relief. …”
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Design of Reduced-Order Multiple Observers for Uncertain Systems with Unknown Inputs by Mihai Lungu

“…The new multiple observer is a combination of a typical reduced-order observer for linear-time invariant multivariable systems and a full-order multiple observer for Takagi-Sugeno systems. …”
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SRESS AND FATIGUE LIFE OF PITTING DEFECTS ON PUMPING UNIT GEAR by BAI YunSong, MUTELLIP AhMat, BAI HaoYu, CHEN Zhi

“…In order to analyze the pitting damage and fatigue life of gear in rack-and-pinion pumping unit, Firstly, the model of rack-and-pinion was established, the elements of tooth surface and root were extracted for static strength analysis, and then compared with contact theory; Secondly, Pitting defects of different sizes were established by elements editing, and the influence of pitting growth on contact stress was analyzed; Finally, fatigue life under different pitting effects was calculated based on linear fatigue damage theory. The results show that with the growth of pitting defects, the contact stress increases and the fatigue life decreases; The pinion interference occurs in the transition section, the stress concentration is worst, and the fatigue life is low, the overall fatigue damage starts from the tooth top; The pitting extend along the tooth profile direction mainly affects the duration of stress concentration, and along the tooth width mainly affects the amplitude of stress change.…”
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Network quality and user perception improvement of high-speed rail scene by Songbai LIANG, Yingwu GUO, Xinwei LI

“…In view of the difficulty in improving the quality of mobile network in high-speed railway scenes and the poor efficiency of conventional methods, a methodology system for improving the perception of mobile communication users was explored in traffic trunk lines, especially in high-speed railway scenes.The methodology system was based on handover chain optimization with the core idea of “primary covering, reasonable reselection and orderly switching”.It adopted a three-layer theoretical structure include covering control firstly, then parameter optimization, and feature loading last.It used idle state and service state data pull graph correlation to determine problem road sections and cells, match the delay parameters of high-speed mobile scenes, load service quality and perception characteristics, and greatly improved the high-speed railway network quality and user perception.This method started from the principle analysis, with practical application, it could effectively solve the network problems, which could be fully extended to other linear scenes.…”
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A Normalized Transfer Matrix Method for the Free Vibration of Stepped Beams: Comparison with Experimental and FE(3D) Methods by Tamer Ahmed El-Sayed, Said Hamed Farghaly

“…This set of solutions is derived to normalize the solution at the origin of the coordinates. The start, end, and intermediate boundary conditions involve concentrated masses and linear and rotational elastic supports. …”
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Macrodamage Accumulation Model for a Human Femur by Farah Hamandi, Tarun Goswami

“…We found that the damage accumulates sooner in the multiaxial than in the uniaxial loading condition for the same number of cycles, and the failure starts in the cortical bone. The damage accumulation behavior seems to follow a three-stage growth: a primary phase, a secondary phase of damage growth marked by linear damage growth, and a tertiary phase that leads to failure. …”
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Performance optimization of the CLIC positron source by Yongke Zhao, Steffen Doebert, Andrea Latina

“…The baseline configuration of the Compact Linear Collider positron source is optimized at three different collision energy stages for both drive beam-based and klystron-based acceleration modes. …”
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Optimation of Production Input in White Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) Culture: A Case Study in UD. Jasa Hasil Diri at Desa Lamaran Tarung, Kecamatan Cantigi, Kabupaten Indramayu by I. Diatin, S. Arifianty, N. Farmayanti

“… UD Jasa Hasil Diri (UD JHD) is a company in Indramayu which culture the white shrimp. UD JHD started this culture in 2003, and now UD JHD's dam out area has reach 26 ha. …”
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Impact of Ligand Structures on Precipitation Kinetics of Uranyl Nitrate Coordination Polymers with Diamide Linkers by Nojima Makito, Tsushima Satoru, Takao Koichiro

“…The structure of uranyl nitrate complexes with four different diamide ligands with trans-1,4-cyclohexyl bridging moieties (two cyclic diamides (L1: γ-lactam, L2: δ-lactam) and two acyclic diamides with different linear chains (L3: Me, L4: Et)) and the effect of different ligand structures on the rate of precipitation formation were examined. …”
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Preface to Special Issue in Honor of Carlos Castillo-Chavez by Simon A. Levin

“…Though he was well situated in a faculty job, he was not satisfied: He was interested in mathematical biology, having written an excellent thesis in population biology with Fred Brauer at Wisconsin entitled Linear and Nonlinear Deterministic Character-Dependent Models with Time Delay in Population Dynamics. …”
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