A Mortal Visits the Other World – the Relativity of Time in Estonian Fairy Tales by Mairi Kaasik

“…Although the tales contain several features that make them close to legends (a concrete place and personal names, the topic of death, dystopic endings, characters belonging to the reality of legends, etc.), based on Estonian material they can be regarded as part of fairy tales.…”
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Seismic Response Reduction of Structures Equipped with a Voided Biaxial Slab-Based Tuned Rolling Mass Damper by Shujin Li, Liming Fu, Fan Kong

“…The hollow slabs in this context, also referred to as “voided biaxial reinforced concrete slabs,” feature a large interior space of prefabricated voided modules that are necessary in the construction of this special structural system. …”
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Poetics of Friction by Nadja Ben Khelifa, Étienne Allaix, Jörg Sternagel

“…Called by these questions, our panel attempts to collaboratively work on corresponding responses within a poetics of friction that is rehearsed, acted out, and tried out in a setting where forces come into play that resist relative motions of solid approaches and beliefs sliding against each other: Whereas the three panelists – a multimedia artist, a cultural theorist, and a philosopher – call with their spoken words, screened images and handout materials, the members of the audience respond to these calls: Like the wheel that needs the concrete surface against its rubber to spin in movement, or the piece of wood that needs the wooden stick rotating against its bark to spark a flame, members of Performance Philosophy need frictions with which both Performance artists and Philosophy scholars slide against each other to spin, to move, to carry on, to reflect, to struggle, to doubt, to aim, to spark flames of inspiration. …”
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Effects of Outlets on Cracking Risk and Integral Stability of Super-High Arch Dams by Peng Lin, Hongyuan Liu, Qingbin Li, Hang Hu

“…Throughout this study, a dam outlet cracking risk control and reinforcement principle is proposed to optimize the outlet design, select the appropriate concrete material, strengthen the temperature control during construction period, design reasonable impounding scheme, and repair the cracks according to their classification.…”
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Território e circulação na economia digital: os prazos de entrega do comércio eletrônico no Brasil by Igor Venceslau

“…On the other hand, the used territory highlights the active role of its existence, since the digital economy only takes place in concrete places, based on their conditions.…”
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Dynamics of evolutionary competition between budding and lytic viral release strategies by Xiulan Lai, Xingfu Zou

“…When antibody is established for both strains but the neutralization capacities are the same for both strains, consequence of the competition also depends only on the basic reproductive ratios of the budding and lytic viruses. Using two concrete forms of the viral production functions, we are also able to conclude that budding virus will outcompete if the rates of viral production, death rates of infected cells and neutralizing capacities of the antibodies are the same for budding and lytic viruses. …”
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Shear Strengthening of RC Deep Beams with Symmetrically or Asymmetrically Positioned Square Openings Using CFRP Composites and Steel Protective Frames by Hamid Karimizadeh, Abolfazl Arabzadeh, Mohammad Reza Eftekhar, Asghar Amani Dashlejeh

“…This study utilizes carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites and steel protective frames (SPF) as strengthening configurations in reinforced concrete (RC) deep beams to improve the strength lost due to the square openings. …”
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Influence of Pore Structure on Chloride Penetration in Cement Pastes Subject to Wetting-Drying Cycles by Honglei Chang, Zhiwu Zuo, Mingyue Qu, Fei Wang, Zhi Ge, Jian Liu

“…Copious studies have discovered a phenomenon that a chloride concentration peak appears on the surface of concrete under cyclic drying-wetting environments. …”
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Calculation of Axial Compression Capacity for Square Columns Strengthened with HPFL and BSP by Hua Huang, Kailin Xi, Yu Zhang, Jinghui Shi, Boquan Liu

“…When failure of the strengthened column occurred, the mortar and concrete were crushed and bulged outward in the middle of the columns, the angle bars and longitudinal steel bars buckled, and some stirrups were pulled out. …”
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Understanding and utilizing the inner bonds of process tensors by Moritz Cygorek, Erik M. Gauger

“…Here, we show that the inner bonds themselves, not only their dimensions, have a concrete physical meaning: They represent the subspace of the full environment Liouville space which hosts environment excitations that may influence the subsequent open quantum systems dynamics the most. …”
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Examination of Building Fires Occurred in Artvin City Center Between 2013-2017 by İlknur Bekem Kara

“…It was seen that 51% of the burning buildings were reinforced concrete and 27% were made of wood; fires in public buildings were 10.5% of all building fires; 10% of the public buildings that the firefighters intervened in all fire incidents were completely burned while 34% of private buildings were completely burned; the first place for the reasons in output of private building fires was the "electricity contact"; in the building fires, 1 person lost his/her life and the financial loss arising from building fires was 3.739.000 TL.…”
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Simplified Data-Driven Model for the Moment Curvature of T-Shaped RC Shear Walls by Bin Wang, Wenzhe Cai, Qingxuan Shi

“…Such simple expressions will be valuable for the determination of the displacement response of asymmetric flanged reinforced concrete walls.…”
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Nonstationary Random Vibration Performance of Train-Bridge Coupling System with Vertical Track Irregularity by Xiaozhen Li, Yan Zhu, Zhibin Jin

“…A comprehensive analysis of the train-bridge coupling system with vertical track irregularity is conducted focusing on the effect of the randomness of the vertical rail irregularity on the dynamic behavior of the running train and the three-span continuous concrete bridge. Moreover, stochastic characteristics of the indicator for assessing the safety and the riding quality of the railway cars running on continuous beam bridge are carried out, which may be a useful reference in the dynamic design of the bridge.…”
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A Manifest against Optimism and Self-consciousness: A Critique of the Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer Based on the Book of "Ethics, Law, and Politics” by Reza Nasiri Hamed

“…The various sections of the book encompass concrete issues that Schopenhauer has, like any other philosopher, expounded on the basis of his ontological and epistemological foundations. …”
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Modeling of CFRP strengthened RC beams using the SNSM technique, proposed as an alternative to NSM and EBR techniques by Adel Boulebd, Ferhoune Noureddine, Boukhezar Mohcene, Habib Abdelhak Mesbah

“…Which aims to study the behaviour of RC beams bending strengthened with SNSM side near surface mounted technique, proposed as a solution to avoid the failure mode by debonding of the strengthening, the disadvantage of the EBR externally bonded reinforced technique, and the failure mode by separation of the concrete cover relative to the NSM near surface mounted technique, by comparing the behaviour of the three techniques, the effect of the quantity of strengthening and confirm the results with the literature. …”
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The Seismic Design Process of RC Column Components in SDOF System considering the Earthquake Duration Effect by Yukui Wang, Dan Zhang, Jing Liu, Zhangqi Hu, Dou Zhong

“…In order to study seismic design process of RC (reinforced concrete) column components considering the effect of earthquake duration, the degradation law of capacity under random amplitude hysteresis history was conducted by the research group, and the estimation method for the energy dissipation capacity of RC column components was suggested. …”
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Novel exploration of topological degree method for noninstantaneous impulsive fractional integro-differential equation through the application of filtering system by Kanagaraj Muthuselvan, Baskar Sundaravadivoo, Shankar Rao Munjam, Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar

“…Finally, the numerical computations with graphical illustrations provide concrete examples that validate the theoretical results, showcasing how the behavior of the system is impacted by changes in fractional order and emphasizing the versatility of our proposed method.…”
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Resisting Material Binaries: Unpacking persisting dichotomies of building materials in Central Africa by Robby Fivez

“…The use of “alternative” building materials, as opposed to industrial materials like concrete or steel, is very central within this discourse. …”
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Integrating AI and statistical methods for enhancing civil structures: current trends, practical issues and future direction by Asraar Anjum, Meftah Hrairi, Abdul Aabid, Maisarah Ali

“…It emphasizes the significant roles these methods play in addressing modern challenges such as structural health monitoring, damage detection, seismic design optimization, and concrete condition assessment. The review delves into case studies and real-world applications, showcasing the potential of these methods to create more resilient, sustainable, and cost-effective infrastructures. …”
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Study on Numerical Simulation of Seismic Collapse of RC Frame Structure with Infilled Wall by Defeng Xu, Junwu Dai, Yongqiang Yang, Xuran Weng, Gang Sun

“…The infilled wall plays an important role in the formation of the survival space and life-saving passage of the seismic collapse of reinforcement concrete (RC) frame structure. Here, with the numerical modeling method of the infilled wall, the connection between infilled wall and RC frame was primarily investigated. …”
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