Energy absorption capacity of NiTi lattice structure (1st report: Evaluation of stiffness and strength of the structure by considering the effective length of the strand) by Yuji ATAGO, Kuniharu USHIJIMA, Koichi TSUCHIYA

“…In this study, a method for evaluating the mechanical properties, specifically the initial stiffness and martensitic transformation onset stress, of NiTi lattice structures, Body Centered Cubic (BCC) and Rhombic Dodecahedral (RD) structures, under compressive loading was proposed. …”
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Engineering transverse cell deformation of bamboo by controlling localized moisture content by Tian Bai, Jie Yan, Jiqing Lu, Jie Zhou, Hang Yao, Xiuwen He, Shaohua Gu, Zhihan Tong, Sheldon Q. Shi, Jian Li, Wanli Cheng, Dong Wang, Guangping Han, Chaoji Chen

“…Here we show an innovative method that controls localized moisture content to shape natural bamboo into a versatile three-dimensional (3D) structural product. …”
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Thermal characteristics of hybrid Nanofluid (Cu-Al2O3) flow through Darcy porous medium with chemical effects via numerical successive over relaxation technique by Assmaa Abd-Elmonem, Qammar Rubbab, Hakim AL. Garalleh, Fazeelat Rehman, Muhammad Amjad, Fayza Abdel Aziz ElSeabee, Nesreen Sirelkhtam Elmki Abdalla, Wasim Jamshed, Syed M. Hussain, Hijaz Ahmad

“…To discretize these ODEs, the central finite difference method is used first. Then the successive over relaxation technique is utilized to numerically solve the nonlinear equations. …”
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Social and humanitarian aspects of the innovation policy of European countries (Case of the UK and Finland) by I. V. Kirichenko, N. V. Shelyubskaya

“…Purpose: to study the approaches and priorities for innovation policy oriented to solve developed countries' social and humanitarian problems (case of the UK and Finland).Methods: due to the descriptive method the array of documents forming the innovation policy of the UK and Finland was determined and analysis singled out its social and humanitarian aspects. …”
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Microstructure and texture evolution of 2A12 aluminum alloy semi-solid billet prepared by SIMA process by Ming Chang, Boyang Liu, ShuQin Fan, YongFei Wang, ShuangJiang Li, Kun Li, Shengdun Zhao

“…When the isothermal time is the same, the AGS is larger at low isothermal temperature, the SF is higher at high isothermal temperature, and the grain spheroidization is more obvious; The influence of the uneven strain distribution of the compression sample on the microstructure evolution during the subsequent semi-solid isothermal treatment (SSIT) process was studied by finite element method; At an isothermal temperature of 590 °C and an isothermal time of 15 min, the recrystallization is basically completed, and the elongated grains are completely transformed into spherical isaemic crystals. …”
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Reader Knowledge Construction in Public Library Information Literacy Education based on the MOA Model by Huimin HE

“…The path of reader knowledge construction in IL education can be divided into individual knowledge, team knowledge, organizational level knowledge. According to the different levels of knowledge construction, four knowledge transformation modes constitute the spiral process of knowledge innovation. …”
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Experiences in the reconciliation process: Period 1996-2004 by Golubović Nada

“…That is why we have been conducting our activities in the community reconciliation process in rural and urban areas, applying different methods of work. Our activities were aimed at all national and social groups. …”
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EVALUATION OF THE RELIABILITY AND CONCORDANCE OF VISUAL WEIGHT ASSESSMENT IN WATER BUFFALO FEMALES by Jesús Ignacio Vázquez-Bolaina, Rosario E. Salazar-Cuytun, Alvar Alonzo Cruz-Tamayo, Roberto C. Barrientos-Medina, José Carlos Escobar-España, Ricardo A. Garcia-Herrera, Alfonso Juventino Chay-Canul

“…The measurements obtained by each of the different estimation methods were also compared with the observed weights by inspecting the paired Bland-Altman plots prior to logarithmic transformation. …”
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Fine-Grained Style Alignment and Class Balance for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation in Remote Sensing Image Segmentation by Yousheng Xu, Weiji Wang, Wei Yao, Shengzhou Xu

“…For instance, the widely used adaptive instance normalization (AdaIN) method reduces the distribution difference by transforming the style of source domain images to match that of the target domain. …”
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Time series classification through visual pattern recognition by Agnieszka Jastrzebska

“…We compare our results with several state-of-the-art approaches dedicated to time series classification. The new method is robust and stable. It works for time series of differing lengths and is easy to extend and alter. …”
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Changes of Narrative: Osvald Sirén’s Photographic Modeling of Modern Research on Chinese Garden by Jiuwen GU, Yuanfeng SHI, Shan JIA

“…ObjectivePhotography, as an innovative method of recording Chinese gardens in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, has a significant impact on the research on gardens both then and in later generations. …”
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Spatial Pattern and Evolutionary Characteristics of Settlements in Dianchi River Basin from the Perspective of Toponymy by Ying’ao WANG, Weijian HU, Wen PENG, Yuliang YANG

“…Through integrating the spatio-temporal analysis of topography and geospatial analysis, this research reveals the formation mechanism of settlement pattern driven by human – water relationship, explores the evolution characteristics of settlement pattern in the Dianchi Lake Basin, and provides methodological innovation for interdisciplinary research of human settlement environment science.Methods1,332 toponyms of historical settlements are selected as the research objects, and the nature – human binary semantic analysis framework is constructed by using the method of geographical language analysis. …”
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Machine learning-based investigation of the cancer protein secretory pathway. by Rasool Saghaleyni, Azam Sheikh Muhammad, Pramod Bangalore, Jens Nielsen, Jonathan L Robinson

“…The machine learning approach was validated by identifying PSP genes known to be regulated by p53, and even outperformed the differential expression analysis approach. Among the different analysis methods and cancer types, the kinesin family members KIF20A and KIF23 were consistently among the top genes associated with malignant transformation or tumor stage. …”
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PALEOZOIC AND CENOSIOIC FAULTING ENSEMBLES IN THE WESTERN PART OF THE ALTAI-SAYAN FOLDED AREA by I. S. Novikov, I. D. Zolnikov, N. V. Glushkova, D. A. Danilson, K. K. Kolesov

“…The geological structure of the Altai-Sayan folded area was mainly formed during the Paleozoic and transformed during the Cenozoic activation. Geoinformation methods and technologies were used to compare between the Paleozoic and Cenozoic fault networks. …”
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Equating conversion norms for the Mini-Mental State Examination and Montreal Cognitive Assessment in healthy subjects and patients with neurodegenerative disorders by Sara Bernini, Elena Ballante, Marta Picascia, Marica Barbieri, Alfredo Costa, Elena Cavallini, Cristina Tassorelli, Tomaso Vecchi, Sara Bottiroli

“…Methods: A total of 1423 Italian participants, including healthy adults (n = 1203), individuals with AD (n = 93), and with PD (n = 127) were assessed using the MMSE and MoCA. …”
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Quantitative and qualitative tremor evaluation after MR-guided focused ultrasound thalamotomy by Veronika Purrer, Veronika Purrer, Tara Chand, Tara Chand, Tara Chand, Emily Pohl, Hannah Weiland, Valeri Borger, Carsten Schmeel, Henning Boecker, Henning Boecker, Ullrich Wüllner, Ullrich Wüllner

“…Fp, FWHM and TSI showed no differences between groups and conditions. Further, repeated measurements after MRgFUS treatment revealed significant changes of tremor severity in both, clinical rating and accelerometric recordings.DiscussionTremor assessment using accelerometric recordings provided a fast and investigator independent method for tremor characterization and quantitative assessment, which were sensitive to changes after therapeutic interventions.…”
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Predict potential pharmacological mechanisms of Ling-gui-Zhu-gan Decoction in treating unstable angina pectoris using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry and network pharmacolo... by Xiaopeng Li, Xiaopeng Li, Tan Xue, Tan Xue, Panpan Zhang, Panpan Zhang, Fengyu Dong, Fengyu Dong, Han Li, Han Li, Jing Yao, Haiying Huang, Lizhuang Zhang, Ruixin Liu, Ruixin Liu, Ruixin Liu, Ruixin Liu, Ruixin Liu, Ruixin Liu, Ruixin Liu, Ruixin Liu

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Materials design with target-oriented Bayesian optimization by Yuan Tian, Tongtong Li, Jianbo Pang, Yumei Zhou, Dezhen Xue, Xiangdong Ding, Turab Lookman

“…We further employ the method to discover a thermally-responsive shape memory alloy Ti0.20Ni0.36Cu0.12Hf0.24Zr0.08 with a transformation temperature difference of only 2.66 °C (0.58% of the range) from the target temperature in 3 experimental iterations. …”
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Use of tristimulus reflectance colorimetry for detection of fresh milk adulteration with reconstituted dry milk by D. S. Myagkonosov, E. V. Topnikova, D. V. Abramov, O. G. Kashnikova

“…Implementation of the method involves isolation from milk of the preparation of dry, lactose-purified casein, followed by heat treatment under strictly controlled conditions. …”
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PCA and PSO based optimized support vector machine for efficient intrusion detection in internet of things by Mutkule Prasad Raghunath, Shyam Deshmukh, Poonam Chaudhari, Sunil L. Bangare, Kishori Kasat, Mohan Awasthy, Batyrkhan Omarov, Rajesh R. Waghulde

“…The accuracy of the Intrusion Detection System (IDS) based on Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) is 98.5 percent. The PSO-based SVM method is shown superior performance compared to random forest and linear regression methods in terms of precision, recall, and specificity.…”
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