Research on Seismic Resistance of Precast Concrete Shear Walls with Bolt Splicing by XU Zhuang, ZHANG Ruigang

“…A design scheme of fully-assembled precast concrete shear walls with unit components spliced by bolts is proposed for the prefabricated unit residence system.An integral precast wall and two overlapped precast ones (consisting of two thin panels spliced horizontally by bolts) are designed,and low-cycle static loading tests of the walls under the bend-shear coupled loading mode are performed to study the seismic resistance of the structures.The research results indicate that the failure mode of the overlapped wall is the same as that of the integral one,and the crack development of the wall body is insufficient.The bearing capacity of the overlapped wall is equivalent to that of the integral one.The former is more ductile,whose displacement ductility factor is about 1.1 times that of the latter.The initial stiffness of the integral wall is larger than that of the overlapped one,but the former's stiffness degrades faster.In addition,the quantity and locations of bolts have little effect on the energy dissipation capacities of overlapped walls,and joint connection might be the only function of bolts for overlapped walls.…”
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"Energetics of the outer retina I: Estimates of nutrient exchange and ATP generation". by Stella Prins, Christina Kiel, Alexander J E Foss, Moussa A Zouache, Philip J Luthert

“…Motivated by the ambition to understand the constraints under which PRs function, in this study we have drawn together diverse physiological and anatomical data in order to generate estimates of the rates of ATP production per mm2 of retinal surface area. …”
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Chaotic Secure Communication Systems with an Adaptive State Observer by Wei-Der Chang, Shun-Peng Shih, Chih-Yung Chen

“…It is rather reasonable that if the number of signals delivered on the public channel is fewer, then the security of such communication system is more guaranteed. Therefore, in order to achieve this purpose, a state observer will be designed and its function is to estimate full system states only by using the system output signals. …”
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Environmental judicature and firm productivity: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment. by Xiaoqi Huang, Wenbo Yao, Zhi Cao

“…The impact of environmental governance on firm productivity has been widely discussed, but few studies have examined the function of environmental judicature. Using the establishment of environmental courts as a quasi-natural experiment, this paper examines the relationship between environmental judicature and firm productivity. …”
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Indocyanine green: An old drug with novel applications by Chia-Hung Lu, Jong-Kai Hsiao

“…Indocyanine green (ICG), a US Food and Drug Administration-approved fluorescent compound, has been on the medical stage for more than 60 years. Current uses include hepatic function evaluation before surgical procedure and fundus evaluation. …”
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Exploration, Storytelling and Frontier-Making in the Colombian Andes by Anneloes Hoff

“…Corporate narrative and performative practices were not only crucial to attracting and sustaining investor interest, but also served an important internal function in shaping the professional identity of exploration geologists and corporate identity more broadly. …”
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Fundamental Frequencies of Vibration of Footbridges in Portugal: From In Situ Measurements to Numerical Modelling by C. S. Oliveira

“…This database, with 79 structures organized into 5 main typologies, allows the setting of correlations of fundamental frequencies as a negative power function of span lengths L  (L-0.6 to L-1.4). For 63 footbridges of more simple geometry, it was possible to obtain these correlations by typology. …”
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Nāth Yogīs’ Encounters with Islam by Véronique Bouillier

“…It is composed of short elliptical verses, which have to be recited during the month of Ramadan and are thus intended for Muslim Yogīs. However, more familiar to the mainstream Nāth Yogīs are the many narratives that function as carriers of sectarian identity. …”
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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM OPTIMIZATION by B. Gusakov, A. Sotnikova

“…The objective function of optimization is to choose the option that provides the max-imum growth rate of assets and the minimum period of the program with limited initial invest-ment resources. …”
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Graftings, Reweavings and Interpretation: The Auchinleck Middle English Breton Lays in Manuscript and Edition by Anne Laskaya

“…Although frequently considered a response to, and encouragement of, an emerging English ‘nation,’ evidence drawn from the large repository of textual and literary evidence suggests that the manuscript and its surviving texts function more as a pivot point, looking back, looking at the present, and looking toward the future in a complex contrapuntal performance. …”
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Eau et territoire à travers l’expérience des contrats de rivière en Wallonie (Belgique) by Francis Rosillon

“…For more than 20 years, the river contracts develop successfully in Walloon Region of Belgium. …”
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Rôle de la littérature dans le développement de la compétence communicationnelle en cours d’allemand au Burkina Faso by Jean-Claude Bationo

“…The first function of every language is communication. We can support the thesis that teaching German as a foreign language in Burkina Faso pursues as a fundamental objective the development of the learners’ ability to communicate orally and in writing. …”
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Yolov4 High-Speed Train Wheelset Tread Defect Detection System Based on Multiscale Feature Fusion by Changfan Zhang, Xinliang Hu, Jing He, Na Hou

“…These fused features contain more defect semantic information and location details. …”
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An Lp−Lq version of Hardy's theorem for spherical Fourier transform on semisimple Lie groups by S. Ben Farah, K. Mokni, K. Trimèche

“…We prove an Lp−Lq version of Hardy's theorem for the spherical Fourier transform on G. More precisely, let a, b be positive real numbers, 1≤p, q≤∞, and f a K-bi-invariant measurable function on G such that ha−1f∈Lp(G) and eb‖λ‖2ℱ(f)∈Lq(𝔞+*) (ha is the heat kernel on G). …”
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Infants learn what they want to learn: responding to infant pointing leads to superior learning. by Katarina Begus, Teodora Gliga, Victoria Southgate

“…Ten minutes later, infants replicated the functions of chosen objects significantly more than those of un-chosen objects, despite having been equally visually attentive during demonstrations on both types of objects. …”
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Incoherent dictionary learning and sparse representation for single-image rain removal by Hong-zhong TANG, Xiang WANG, Xiao-gang ZHANG, Xiao LI, Li-zhen MAO

“…The incoherent dictionary learning and sparse representation algorithm was present and it was applied to single-image rain removal.The incoherence of the dictionary was introduced to design a new objective function in the dictionary learning,which addressed the problem of reducing the similarity between rain atoms and non-rain atoms.The divisibility of rain dictionary and non-rain dictionary could be ensured.Furthermore,the learned dictionary had similar properties to the tight frame and approximates the equiangular tight frame.The high frequency in the rain image could be decomposed into a rain component and a non-rain component by performing sparse coding based learned incoherent dictionary,then the non-rain component in the high frequency and the low frequency were fused to remove rain.Experimental results demonstrate that the learned incoherent dictionary has better performance of sparse representation.The recovered rain-free image has less residual rain,and preserves effectively the edges and details.So the visual effect of recovered image is more sharpness and natural.…”
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Malnutrition in Patients with Acute Stroke by Stella D. Bouziana, Konstantinos Tziomalos

“…During both the acute phase of stroke and rehabilitation, specific nutritional interventions in the context of a multidisciplinary team effort can enhance the recovery of neurocognitive function. Early identification and management of malnutrition with dietary modifications or specific therapeutic strategies to ensure adequate nutritional intake should receive more attention, since poor nutritional status appears to exacerbate brain damage and to contribute to adverse outcome. …”
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Mechanical Solving a Few Fractional Partial Differential Equations and Discussing the Effects of the Fractional Order by Kai Fan, Cunlong Zhou

“…In the “The Explanation and Discussion” section, a more generalized auxiliary equation is used to further emphasize the rules, which has certain reference value for the construction of the new auxiliary equations. …”
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Stereotypes concerning the phenomenon of violence in the contemporary Polish family by Małgorzata Herudzińska

“…What stereotypes about domestic violence function in the social consciousness? For example: One of the stereotypes functioning in our society is the conviction that domestic violence primarily affects a family with a worse financial situation or a lower educational status. …”
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Efficacy of Arytenoidectomy after Suture Lateralisation Failure in Patients with Bilateral Vocal Cord Paralysis by Shinsuke Suzuki, Takechiyo Yamada

“…In such a case, methods that are more effective in expanding the glottis, including arytenoidectomy, must be selected. …”
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