Probabilistic Analysis of Chloride Ingress Repair Costs Considering External Forces and Vulnerable Sections of RC Girders by Seung-Jun Kwon, Kwang-Mo Lim, Kyong-Chul Kim, Kyung-Taek Koh, Yong-Sik Yoon

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Introducing a new model of evolutionary rural housing design based on the principles of indigenous architecture in the Oramanat region by Sajad Mozafariyan, Ghazaleh Mohammadpour, Raha Hoseinpour, Saeed Shahriyan Varnousfaderani

“…The indigenous architecture of Iranian villages is a symbol of human evolution in interaction with nature, aiming to meet its needs and has always been manifested in its most beautiful form, created by anonymous people and architects. All this beauty, functionality, is now being destroyed with industrialization and the spread of urban life. …”
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Rapid Simulation of Floods by Considering the Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Inundation by Rukai Wang, Jijian Lian, Ximin Yuan, Fuchang Tian, Kuang Li, Zhanyou Liu

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Orbital-selective effect of spin reorientation on the Dirac fermions in a non-charge-ordered kagome ferromagnet Fe3Ge by Rui Lou, Liqin Zhou, Wenhua Song, Alexander Fedorov, Zhijun Tu, Bei Jiang, Qi Wang, Man Li, Zhonghao Liu, Xuezhi Chen, Oliver Rader, Bernd Büchner, Yujie Sun, Hongming Weng, Hechang Lei, Shancai Wang

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SQL queries over encrypted databases: a survey by Bo Sun, Sen Zhao, Guohua Tian

“…Secondly, we categorise the existing SQL query schemes into three categories: software-based construction, hardware-based construction, and hybrid-based construction, that is, a combination of software and hardware components. …”
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Strategies for Digital Economy Operation of Urban Parks Guided by Gamification Methods by Zhaochen WANG

“…ObjectiveIn the mid-to-late stages of China’s urbanization process, the high-quality development of existing urban areas has placed higher demands on the functions and benefits of park green spaces, making operations a new focus for the renewal and construction of urban parks. …”
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Diurnal nectar secretion dynamics in Roscoea cautleoides (Zingiberaceae) reveal the role of non-sugar chemicals in plant–pollinator interaction by Wen-Jing Wang, Ya-Ting Lin, Hong-Fan Chen, Mei-Yuan Huang, Zong-Xin Ren, Jian-Li Zhao

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ON THE QUESTION OF THE EVACUATION OF CHILDREN FROM CHILDREN'S PLAYROOMS OF SHOPPING MALLS by Dmitry Vjacheslavovich Tekushin, Grigory Ivanovich Rudchenko

“…The Volgograd State Architectural and Construction University (VolgSACU) actively explores the process of people's evacuation from buildings of different functionality during emergency situations. …”
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Research on in-orbit self-organizing network strategy for cellularized spacecraft based on improved AODV protocol by JI Qingfeng, GUO Chongbin, CHEN Chao

“…Based on system characteristics, the cellularized monomers of the cellularized spacecraft are divided into three levels: main brain cell, functional cell, and payload bearing cell, according to their functional characteristics. …”
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Les Madrilènes et les espaces de la ville : de Surcos (José Antonio Nieves Conde, 1951) à Barrio (Fernando León de Aranoa, 1998) by Marianne Bloch-Robin

“…Through six emblematic films produced throughout the second half of 20th century, we analyze how the representation of Madrid inhabitants evolves, what its functions and characteristics are in the construction of urban and suburban spaces and how it changes depending of the time frame and the singular views of the film directors.…”
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Long-term mulched drip irrigation enhances cotton yield by improving soil quality, microbial community structure, and N conversion by Wenhao Li, Shuanglong Gao, Wenying Qu, Junfeng Li, Tehseen Javed, Shih-Hsin Ho, Zhenhua Wang

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Operational Modes and Technical Points for Empowering Urban Park Green Spaces by Digital Technology by Yang ZHANG, Changlin LI, Ninglu ZHANG, Fei WU

“…ObjectiveAs an important urban public open space, park green spaces bear multiple social functions such as ecology, recreation, and culture. …”
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Soils of the Settlements of the Yamal Region (Russia): Morphology, Diversity, and Their Environmental Role by Evgeny Abakumov, Alexandr Pechkin, Sergey Kouzov, Anna Kravchuk

“…The specificity of bulk soils used in the construction of industrial structures in the context of the initial stage of soil formation is considered. …”
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Impacts of inter-basin water diversion projects on the feedback loops of water supply–hydropower generation–environment conservation nexus by J. Wang, D. Liu, D. Liu, D. Liu, S. Guo, L. Xiong, P. Liu, H. Chen, J. Chen, J. Yin, J. Yin, Y. Zhang

“…Feedback loops in reservoirs with a regulation function remain stable under varying inflow conditions and feedback loops for downstream reservoirs are influenced by their upstream reservoirs, especially in low-flow periods. …”
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Positive impacts of typical desert photovoltaic scenarios in China on the growth and physiology of sand-adapted plants by Ruibing Meng, Ruibing Meng, Ruibing Meng, Zhongju Meng, Zhongju Meng, Zhongju Meng, Xiaomeng Ren, Jiale Cai, Jiale Cai, Jiale Cai, Xufang Tong, Xufang Tong, Xufang Tong

“…Desert regions are characterized by complex terrain, frequent wind–sand activities, and extreme environmental conditions making vegetation recovery after disturbances difficult. The construction of large-scale photovoltaic (PV) power stations presents a significant challenge in balancing with vegetation protection. …”
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Reducing syndemics of non-communicable chronic diseases in Mayan Indigenous population through community-based participatory research: a mixed-methods study protocol by Maarten M H Lahr, Erik Buskens, Adalberto Loyola-Sanchez, Ingris Peláez-Ballestas, Alfonso Gastelum Strozzi, Emilio Motte-García, Cinthya Cadena-Trejo, María Fernanda Ramírez-Flores, María Victoria Fernandez-Garcia, Karen G Castillo-Hernandez, Kenia Nayrobi López-Herrera

“…We will follow four phases of the CBPR: (1) situational analysis, through community censuses and semistructured interviews to understand the prevalence of NCDs and the syndemics in these communities; (2) co-construction of the elements of a SCM based on the health priorities identified by researchers, community members and healthcare workers; (3) implementation of this SCM and (4) evaluation of the SCM through (1) statistical analyses involving the construction of a syndemic index through stepwise logistic regression of the normalised and standardised key clinical, social and economic variables; interval and ratio variables will be normalised by their z-score and categorical variables will be one-hot encoded; similarity and social networks analysis with clustering to identify syndemic subpopulations; and cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analyses using Markov modelling and (2) narrative and thematic qualitative analysis of the SCM’s implementation and impact on community members’ health, function and quality of life.Ethics and dissemination Research ethics boards of participant institutions approved this research protocol. …”
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LCFANet: A Novel Lightweight Cross-Level Feature Aggregation Network for Small Agricultural Pest Detection by Shijian Huang, Yunong Tian, Yong Tan, Zize Liang

“…Furthermore, we introduce the MPDINIoU loss function, combining InnerIoU and MPDIoU to optimize bounding box regression. …”
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Sistemnyy podkhod k postroeniyu ontologii dlya avtomatizatsii sostavleniya raspisaniya mnogourovnevogo vuza by Aleksey F. Rogachev, Dmitry S. Zakharov

“…The construction of a university class schedule is one of the NP-complete problems. …”
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Istanbul Residents’ Aesthetic and Architectural Concerns Regarding the Establishment of Municipalities in the City: The Opinions of Ahmed Lütfi Efendi by Aliye Öten

“…The Ottoman Empire maintained this identity by preserving the old structures, using them with different functions, and establishing new buildings, giving the city an Islamic identity in time. …”
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Reviving the Practices of Transhumance in a Forgotten Settlement in Mainland Greece by Julia Nerantzia Tzortzi, Sofia Theodoridou, Styliani Koukosoula

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