Evaluation of Initial Shear Stiffness Empirical Models for Unsaturated Soils with In-situ Down-Hole Tests by Mahdi Abedinezhad, Mahnoosh Biglari, Iman Ashayeri

“…It mainly applies to evaluating the seismic ground response analysis and the seismic design of earthen structures. Laboratory and in-situ geophysical tests are standard methods for measuring shear stiffness parameters; however, particularly for unsaturated soils, these methods are expensive because of the use of advanced equipment and professional labor. …”
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Fire Test on Insulated Steel Beams with Fire-Protection Coating and Fiber Cement Board by Weihua Wang, Tao Zhu, Xian Gao, Jingjie Yang, Xilong Chen, Weiyong Wang

“…Fire safety design for steel beams is crucial in the construction of steel structures. However, there remains a significant gap in the fire resistance testing of insulated steel beams. …”
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Behavior of double-skinned circular composite columns infilled with mortar, SCC, and SIF materials under axial and eccentric loads by Pradeep Thangavel, Warit Wipulanusat, Jeung-Hwan Doh

“…Failure of column components in structures can result in catastrophic collapse, highlighting the need for improved ductility and energy dissipation capacities. …”
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Experimental and Numerical Study of Slug-Flow Velocity Inside Microchannels Through In Situ Optical Monitoring by Samuele Moscato, Emanuela Cutuli, Massimo Camarda, Maide Bucolo

“…The high-frequency monitoring capability of the proposed method enables in situ mapping of evolving multiphase structures, offering valuable insights into slug-flow dynamics and transient phenomena that are often difficult to capture using conventional measurement techniques.…”
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MODERN CHALLENGES OF CONSTRUCTION DEVELOPMENT IN GEORGIA by Naira Virsaladze, Malvina Kiphiani

“…According to international methodology, the Construction Cost Index (CCI) represents the average level of prices for construction materials and services required to build residential, non-residential, and civil engineering structures during the reporting period, compared to a base period (3.4). …”
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Profit-seeking solar geoengineering exemplifies broader risks of market-based climate governance by Kevin Surprise, Duncan McLaren, Ina Möller, J.P. Sapinski, Doreen Stabinsky, Jennie C. Stephens

“…These proposals are not only scientifically questionable, and premature in the absence of effective governance, but they are a predictable consequence of neoliberal, market-driven climate governance. The structures and incentives of market-based climate policy - circumscribed by neoliberalism's emphasis on technological innovation, venture capital, and the marketization of environmental goods - have generated repeated efforts to profit from various forms of geoengineering. …”
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Appraising Discourse Content of EFL Classrooms Through the Lens of Bakhtin’s Dialogic Discourse Pattern by Fatemeh Niknezhad Naeijabad, MohammadReza Khodareza, Davood Mashhadi Heidar

“…This study aims at appraising the discourse exchanges of English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers and learners from a critical standpoint to explore whether the turn-taking structures are dialogical in essence. To this end, the discourse exchanges of 12 classrooms were observed and digitally audiotaped during class interactions. …”
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Inositol and PIP2/PIP3 Ratio: At the Crossroad of the Biodynamic Interface Between Cells and Their Microenvironment by Guglielmo Lentini, Alessandro Querqui, Alessandro Giuliani, Roberto Verna, Mariano Bizzarri

“…In this way, lipid structures can rapidly either dismiss or recruit specific proteins, eventually favoring their cooperation with membrane receptors and ion channels. …”
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Regulation of stem cell fate and function by using bioactive materials with nanoarchitectonics for regenerative medicine by Wei Hu, Jiaming Shi, Wenyan Lv, Xiaofang Jia, Katsuhiko Ariga

“…For hybrid nanoarchitectonics involving living cells, it is crucial to understand how biomaterials and their nanoarchitected structures regulate behaviours and fates of stem cells. …”
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Androgen Modulates Functions of Endothelial Progenitor Cells through Activated Egr1 Signaling by Yizhou Ye, Xizhe Li, You Zhang, Zhenya Shen, Junjie Yang

“…We found that DHT treatment enhanced the incorporation of EPCs into tubular structures formed by HUVECs and the migratory activity of EPCs in the transwell assay dose dependently. …”
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Adaptive Trajectory Tracking Control for Rotorcraft Using Incremental Backstepping Sliding Mode Control Strategy by Moon Gyeang Cho, Useok Jung, Jun-Young An, Yoo-Seung Choi, Chang-Joo Kim

“…To clarify the robustness enhancement using the adaptive selection of switching gains, this paper chooses three different control structures consisting of the traditional backstepping control and two backstepping sliding mode controls with the fixed or adaptively adjusted switching gains. …”
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Advanced multiphase nanocomposites for effective malachite green dye removal by Ehab A. Abdelrahman, Abdulrahman G. Alhamzani, Mortaga M. Abou-Krisha, Reem K. Shah, Huda M. Alamri

“…HR-TEM images showed that MP600 consisted of smaller, more uniform spherical particles, while MP800 exhibited larger and slightly aggregated structures. The nanocomposites were applied for malachite green dye removal from aqueous media under optimized conditions of pH 10, contact time of 50 min for MP600 and 70 min for MP800, and temperature of 298 K. …”
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DBDST-Net: Dual-Branch Decoupled Image Style Transfer Network by Na Su, Jingtao Wang, Jingjing Zhang, Ying Li, Yun Pan

“…The network consists of two branches: a Content Feature Decoupling Branch, which captures fine-grained content structures for more precise content separation, and a Style Feature Decoupling Branch, which enhances sensitivity to style-specific attributes. …”
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Effect of the Initial Air Content in Fresh Slurry on the Compressive Strength of Hardened Cemented Paste Backfill by Youzhi Zhang, Deqing Gan, Zhenlin Xue, Xun Chen, Sheng Hu

“…However, after exceeding this value, “discontinuous contact” structures, pore groups, and macropores occur in CPB. …”
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Streamlined Model Predictive Control for a Triple-Optimization of Thermal Comfort, Heating Costs, and Photovoltaic Self-Consumption by Vukasin Klepic, Magdalena Wolf, Tobias Proll

“…This paper introduces a straightforward Model Predictive Control (MPC) method for residential buildings equipped with thermally activated building structures (TABS), photovoltaics (PV), and heat pumps (HP). …”
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Enhanced Peer-to-Peer Botnet Detection Using Differential Evolution for Optimized Feature Selection by Sangita Baruah, Vaskar Deka, Dulumani Das, Utpal Barman, Manob Jyoti Saikia

“…The stealthy nature of botnets, characterized by constant alterations in network structures, attack methodologies, and data transmission patterns, poses a growing difficulty in their detection. …”
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Study on constitutive model of marine soft soil based on disturbed state concept by Heng Zhang, Yindong Sun, Yajun Liu, Ke Wu, Yang Zheng, Haijun Lu, Rong Chen

“…Abstract Marine soft soils are widely distributed in near-coastal areas and pose significant risks to the stability of structures due to their unique mechanical properties. …”
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Characterization of bovine and ovine basal-out and apical-out ileum organoids by Ambre F. Chapuis, Tanith Harte, Daniel R. G. Price, Marc N. Faber, William M. Anderson, Barbara Shih, Jayne C. Hope, Jo Moore, David Smith

“…Organoids are three-dimensional stem cell-derived structures that differentiate into multiple cell types. …”
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A systematic study and effect of PLA/Al2O3 nanoscaffolds as dental resins: mechanochemical properties by Mehdi Ranjbar, Gholamreza Dehghan Noudeh, Maryam-Alsadat Hashemipour, Iman Mohamadzadeh

“…Durability, stability and biodegradable nature of nanopolymers have created the much-applied potential for using this structures in many fields such as dental resin composites. …”
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An Integrated Approach for Earth Infrastructure Monitoring Using UAV and ERI: A Systematic Review by Udochukwu ThankGod Ikechukwu Igwenagu, Rahul Debnath, Ahmed Abdelmoamen Ahmed, Md Jobair Bin Alam

“…UAVs facilitate the detection of deformations and geomorphological dynamics, while ERI is instrumental in identifying zones of water saturation and geological structures, detecting groundwater, characterizing vadose zone hydrology, and assessing subsurface soil and rock properties and potential slip surfaces, among others. …”
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