On the Adaptability and Effect of High Damping Rubber Bearings in the Seismic Resistance of Large Aqueducts by Duoxin Zhang, Yang Yu, Kai Sun, Yanke Shi

“…When there is substitution of HDRB for RB, the stresses in the concrete at the corresponding positions decrease from 1.87 MPa to about 0.71 MPa. …”
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Citizen science for monitoring rainfall in Vietnam by Tran Huan N., Duwal Sudeep, Prajapati Rajaram, Davids Jeffrey C., Nguyen Dung T., Miegel Konrad

“…This study examines the CS approach to monitor rainfall in the Bui River Basin in Vietnam using low-cost rain gauges constructed from soda bottles, concrete, and rulers. The rainfall data of 19 citizen scientists from January 2022 to August 2023 were used for the analysis. …”
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Nexus of crude oil and clean energy stock indices: Evidence from time-vector-auto-regression in conjunction with conditional-autoregressive-value-at-risk by Nader Trabelsi, Aviral Kumar Tiwari, Fahmi Ghallabi, Imen Khemakhem

“…The results of our study offer concrete consequences and new perspectives to various market players in order to improve the management and understanding of risks.…”
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Research on the Prediction of the Water Demand of Construction Engineering Based on the BP Neural Network by Hao Peng, Han Wu, Junwu Wang

“…According to the results of the case study, there were four main factors that affected the construction water consumption of the Taiyangchen Project, namely, the intraday amount of pouring concrete, the intraday weather, the number of workers, and the intraday amount of wood used. …”
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Dynamic Comfort Considerations in the Design of High-rise Buildings by Lia Balanchivadze, Beka Matithaishvili, Vladimer Kikadze

“…The following paper provides research analysis on the influence of wind on a building, considering the regional and local climate conditions, to improve dynamic stability and reduce wind disruption effects on high-rise reinforced concrete buildings. The main aspect of disturbance in living conditions is caused by wind loads on the building. …”
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Development of a Zero-Cement Binder Using Slag, Fly Ash, and Rice Husk Ash with Chemical Activator by M. R. Karim, M. F. M. Zain, M. Jamil, F. C. Lai

“…The increasing demand and consumption of cement have necessitated the use of slag, fly ash, rice husk ash (RHA), and so forth as a supplement of cement in concrete construction. The aim of the study is to develop a zero-cement binder (Z-Cem) using slag, fly ash, and RHA combined with chemical activator. …”
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Investigating Use of Crushed Glass as Partial Replacement of Sand to Improve Finish Mortar Strength. by Ashaba, Dennis

“…The need to value wastes and the opening towards the use of sand replacement materials, both in mortars and concretes, with the purpose of promoting increased sustainability of building materials, were the grounds for this work that aims at the formulation of mortars with crushed glass aggregate. …”
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Application of Energy Saving and Environmental Protection Materials in Architectural Design by Zixiang Yan

“…Building energy saving has become a major trend of global development, and then the optimal design of reinforcement selection for reinforced concrete beams based on a multiobjective genetic algorithm is discussed. …”
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The Effect of Backfill Gas Pressure on the Thermal Response of a Dry Cask for Spent Nuclear Fuel by Michela Angelucci, Salvatore A. Cancemi, Rosa Lo Frano, Sandro Paci

“…In particular, the analysis, carried out with the MELCOR code, investigates the thermal response of the ventilated, concrete-based HI-STORM 100S cask, currently employed for spent fuel elements of Light Water Reactors (LWRs), when imposing different initial pressures for the helium backfill gas. …”
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Effect of corrosion and sandblasting on the high cycle fatigue behavior of reinforcing B500C steel bars by Marina C. Vasco, Panagiota Polydoropoulou, Apostolos N. Chamos, Spiros G. Pantelakis

“…In a series of applications, steel reinforced concrete structures are subjected to fatigue loads during their service life, what in most cases happens in corrosive environments. …”
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Evaluation of Fatigue Life of CRM-Reinforced SMA and Its Relationship to Dynamic Stiffness by Nuha Salim Mashaan, Mohamed Rehan Karim, Mahrez Abdel Aziz, Mohd Rasdan Ibrahim, Herda Yati Katman, Suhana Koting

“…Fatigue cracking is an essential problem of asphalt concrete that contributes to pavement damage. Although stone matrix asphalt (SMA) has significantly provided resistance to rutting failure, its resistance to fatigue failure is yet to be fully addressed. …”
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钢管混凝土翼缘-波纹腹板曲梁抗剪性能分析 by 杜栖云, 邵永波, 邓利霞

“…运用有限元分析软件,建立跨中集中荷载作用下的矩形钢管混凝土翼缘-波纹腹板曲梁(curved girders with rectangular concrete-filled tubular flange and corrugated web, CG-RCFTF-CW)的有限元模型。…”
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Study on the Behaviors of a Conceptual Passive Containment Cooling System by Jianjun Wang, Xueqing Guo, Shengzhi Yu, Baowei Cai, Zhongning Sun, Changqi Yan

“…In this investigation, a passive containment cooling system (PCCS) concept is proposed for a large dry concrete containment. The system is composed of series of heat exchangers, long connecting pipes with relatively large diameter, valves, and a water tank, which is located at the top of the system and serves as the final heat sink. …”
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Foreign Policy Niche of Small States: The Problem of Choice (The Case of Baltic States) by V. A. Smirnov

“…The third level of analysis deals with investigation of concrete economic, military, political and ideological decisions of political elite within a certain external (foreign) political niche.…”
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Nonintrusive Load Identification for Industrial Users Integrated with LSQR and Sequential Leader Clustering by Shuhui Yi, Yinglong Diao, Junjie Liu, Tian Fang, Xiaodong Yin

“…Finally, to validate the effectiveness of the presented model, data of industrial loads from a concrete plant are collected, including blender, cement screw, sewage dump, and inclined belt conveyor, and simulation analysis is fulfilled. …”
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ARTISTIC CREATIONS. ORIGINALITY, INSPIRATION, IMITATION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE by Carmen-Oana MIHĂILĂ

“…Even if at this moment we cannot offer concrete solutions to protect creations made only by artificial intelligence, without the human factor taking any credit in the creative stages, we will see what the not too distant future will offer.…”
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Theoretical-methodological framework of analysis of Albanian public discourses on Serbian sacred monuments in Kosovo and Metohia by Pešić Milena

“…The used methodology provided the possibility of concrete insights into what kind of global discursive and linguistic strategies and argumentative schemes, and in which relevant contexts, public Albanian discourses about Serbian sacred monuments in Kosovo and Metohija achieve their constructive effects related to the so-called "Kosovo identity", that is, those deconstructive ones, related to the Serbian identity. …”
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Exploring contributors to FoMO (fear of missing out) among university students: The role of social comparison, social media addiction, loneliness, and perfectionism by Bettina F. Piko, Vanessa Müller, Hedvig Kiss, David Mellor

“…In addition, mindfulness-based intervention may help them become more conscious during online activities and they can better understand the role of social comparison in concrete social situations. Developing educational materials for students to inform them about the nature of FoMO and how to manage it would also be useful to improve the users' digital resilience of users.…”
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Investigation of Stochastic Seismic Response and Index Correlation of an Arch Dam Using Endurance Time Analysis Method by Qiang Xu, Shutong Xu, Jianyun Chen, Jing Li

“…Seismic response assessment of a concrete arch dam is conducted through nonlinear endurance time analysis (ETA) of a typical arch dam. …”
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基于粒子群优化BP神经网络的中空夹层钢管混凝土柱轴压承载力研究 by 赵均海, 华林炜, 王昱

“…圆中空夹层钢管混凝土（concrete filled double-skin steel tube，CFDST）柱因其独特的结构形式与优异的力学性能，已成为现代工程结构中的主要受力构件。…”
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