Carbody sway behaviour of railway vehicles due to track irregularity from rail alternate side wear by Lai Wei, Jing Zeng, Ren Luo, Feng Gan, Jijun Gong, Jun Jiang

“…The creep forces acting on the wheel and rail are preliminarily discussed to study the influence of the carbody sway on the wear of the wheel flange and the rail corner. Finally, some potential solutions, e.g. improving the damping ratio of carbody rigid mode and rail grinding, are proposed to relieve this issue. …”
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Macro Modeling of Column Removal in RC Frames with Consideration of Importance Factor and Infill Walls by Seyed Ali Hassanzadeh, Hamid Reza Ashrafi, Mehdi Komasi

“…Also, in this study, it was found that the role of importance factors depends on the place of the removed column, which the effect of middle column removal is relatively twice than the corner column removal due to more redundancy. Other results about infill walls effects and opening in infill walls are presented in the paper. …”
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Rotor Speed Control of a Direct-Driven Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator-Based Wind Turbine Using Phase-Lag Compensators to Optimize Wind Power Extraction by Ester Hamatwi, Innocent E. Davidson, Michael N. Gitau

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CFD Analysis of the Passive Decay Heat Removal System of an LBE-Cooled Fast Reactor by Jiarun Mao, Lei Song, Yuhao Liu, Jiming Lin, Shanfang Huang, Yaolei Zou

“…A swirl occurs at the corner of the lateral core surface and some improvements should be considered. …”
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Response of Sorghum to Cold Stress at Early Developmental Stage by Amandin Rutayisire, Geoffrey Lubadde, Alice Mukayiranga, Richard Edema

“…The highland regions of Africa possess important sources of germplasm with adaptation to cold stress, since they tend to be cooler than the low land regions. The goals of the study were to evaluate and identify sorghum lines with tolerance to cold temperature stress and make recommendations on varieties that may be planted in the East African highland regions or used in plant breeding programs for cold tolerance. …”
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Assessing Urban Landscape Variables’ Contributions to Microclimates by Tammy E. Parece, Jie Li, James B. Campbell, David Carroll

“…For all days, similar spatial patterns appeared for cooler and warmer areas in mornings, with distinctive patterns as landscapes warmed during the day and over successive days. …”
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The EU Methodology of Security and Defense Planning by M. V. Alexandrov

“…Instead the EU makes the principle of “strategic uncertainty” the corner stone of its policies. At the same time the EU widely uses elements of “dynamic forecasting” in its planning process, especially for short term forecasting periods. …”
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Study on Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Overlying Strata in the Deep Coal Mining Process by Bang’an Zhang, Yushun Yang, Dongming Zhang

“…As the working face goes on, the maximum value of the supporting stress formed in front of, behind, and on both sides of the working face shifts to the corner, presenting a “hump-like” distribution. The stress concentration coefficient of front, back, and both sides of stope increases linearly with the increase of the mining size. …”
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Design of 10T SRAM cell with improved read performance and expanded write margin by Ashish Sachdeva, V. K. Tomar

“…Furthermore, the read and write delay of projected topology improve by 1.78× and 2.326× in comparison with conventional 6T bit SRAM cell. In FF process corner, the proposed topology shows lowest data retention voltage (DRV) and minimum variation in DRV with temperature. …”
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Simulation Study on the Effect of Forced Ventilation in Tunnel under Single-Head Drilling and Blasting by Qingsong Pu, Yi Luo, Junhong Huang, Yingwei Zhu, Shaohua Hu, Chenhao Pei, Guang Zhang, Xinping Li

“…The results show that, compared with corner layout, haunch layout, and central layout, the ventilation effect is the best when the air pipes are arranged near the wall at the tunnel vault, and the CO concentration can be reduced to the concentration limit after 588 s of ventilation; compared with the full-face tunneling method and the lower pilot heading method, the benching tunneling method can effectively reduce the retention time of CO near the tunnel face, and the CO concentration on the tunnel face can be reduced to the standard limit after 326 s of ventilation near the wall of tunnel vault.…”
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Crystal plasticity modeling for grain size and texture effects on laser shock clinching of ultra-thin foils by Yaxuan Hou, Zhong Ji, Haiming Zhang

“…Notably, joints with fully random crystal orientations exhibit greater thinning rates near the bottom corner and greater neck thicknesses for grain sizes of 75 μm and 30 μm. …”
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Marine species and assemblage change foreshadowed by their thermal bias over Early Jurassic warming by Carl J. Reddin, Jan P. Landwehrs, Gregor H. Mathes, Clemens V. Ullmann, Georg Feulner, Martin Aberhan

“…Species that become extirpated or extinct tend to have cooler temperature preferences than immigrating species, while regionally persisting species fell midway. …”
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THE PRINCIPLES OF PHONOLOGICAL WORD STRUCTURE COMPARISON OF RUSSIAN AND CHINESE LANGUAGES by A. N. Aleksakhin

“…The opposition of weak vowels with a derivative phonological zero is also an effective method of making words: guai «obedient» - gai «must» - gua « blow» - ga «a dark corner». Both Russian and Chinese Synharmonia variety of sound words is supported by five derivative phonological zeros that are phonetically in Russian and Chinese are implemented by weak vowels. …”
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Uterine Rupture in Pregnancy following Two Abdominal Myomectomies and IVF by Marco D’Asta, Ferdinando Antonio Gulino, Carla Ettore, Valentina Dilisi, Elisa Pappalardo, Giuseppe Ettore

“…The right arm and shoulder of the fetus were extending out of the uterus across a breach of 5 cm near the right tubal corner. A corporal incision was performed, and a healthy baby was born and moved to neonatal intensive unit care. …”
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Corrosion Behavior in Different Media of Dissimilar Super Duplex Stainless Steel 2507 and Austenitic Stainless Steel 316 Welding by Using GTAW Process with Filler Type 316L by Abdulrahman H. Abbood, Mohammed Helan Sir, Nasri S. M. Namer

“…Due to the welding technique and using a cooper back strip, the microstructure shows minor grain growth in the heat-affected zones (HAZ) on both weld sides. …”
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Who is Responsible for Instability in the Democratic Republic of Congo? by G. M. Sidorova

“…In exchange for so-calleddevelopment programmes, expensive strategic raw material (such as coltan, wolfram, casseterit, cooper, gold, niobium, and other) is being extracted and exported from the country, in addition, often on the inequivalent basis. …”
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Study on the Influence of Excavation of Superlarge and Ultra-Deep Foundation Pits on the Pile Foundation of Existing Viaducts by Wancai Zhong, Nianyong Huang, Nan Nie, Haibin Ding, Feng Gao

“…Among them, the pile foundation located at the corner of the foundation pit was negligibly affected by these influencing factors. …”
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Experimental determination of phase equilibria at 900°C and liquidus surface in the Cu-Ni-Ti system by Jin B., Lu X., Liu S., Huang D., Du Y.

“…Phase equilibria at 900°C and the liquidus projection in the Ni-rich corner of the Cu-Ni-Ti ternary system were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) on the annealed and as-cast alloys. …”
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Examining air pollution dynamics in Ploiesti: a focus on vehicular emissions by Georgeta-Olguta Gavrila, Oana Cristina Parvulescu, Cristian Constantin, Valeriu Danciulescu, Simona Mariana Calinescu, Gheorghita Tanase, Valentin Stancu

“…The PCA indicate that the higher concentrations of pollutants seemed to be associated with cooler temperatures and reduced solar radiation, suggesting a significant impact of meteorological conditions on the distribution of pollutants.…”
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Moving Target Localization in Sports Image Sequence Based on Optimized Particle Filter Hybrid Tracking Algorithm by Yan Guo

“…First, we iterate the adjacent image frames in reverse Mean Shift to determine the center position of the target and then use the corner matching method to perform template matching on the target to adjust the size of the tracking window. …”
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