Study on the Influence of Collision Scene on the Energy Dissipation Process for Train Collision by Lirong Guo, Jingke Zhang, Tao Zhu, Shoune Xiao, Yanwen Liu, Benhuai Li

“…The differences in the energy dissipation process, interface energy absorption and maximum average acceleration are minor in four collision scenarios, including a moving train hitting a stationary train, rear-end train collision and head-on train collision. …”
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Long‐Term Monitoring of Energetic Protons at the Bottom of Earth’s Radiation Belt by K. Yoshioka, Y. Miyoshi, S. Kurita, M. Teramoto, F. Tsuchiya, A. Yamazaki, G. Murakami, T. Kimura, H. Kita, I. Yoshikawa, Y. Kasaba

“…It is also found that the influence of galactic cosmic ray fluctuations becomes smaller as the L‐value moves closer to 1.…”
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Health-related quality of life in patients with multiple sclerosis by Lázaro Aurelio Vázquez Gómez, Carlos Hidalgo Mesa, Benita Mabel Beltrán González, Yunier Broche Pérez, Ana María Mederos Herrera

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> regarding the modifications of the mental and physical component of the health state, it was observed that the mean score was 30.4 ± 9.7 and 39.9 ± 10.2 respectively before the strategy and 38.8 ± 9.3 and 51.5 ± 9.3 later respectively; so they moved to higher levels. On the visual impairment impact scale, the mean was 10.8 ± 2.2 before and 7.1 ± 2.8 after. …”
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Spi-VSTL: Image data collection platform using off-the shelf hardware for vertically supported crops in state-of-the-art glasshouses by Namal Jayasuriya, Malith Weerasekara, Oula Ghannoum, Yi Guo, Wen Hu

“…Horticulture crop growers are moving from conventional to protected crops, aiming for quality food production utilising fewer resources. …”
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Pochonia chlamydosporia synergistically supports systemic plant defense response in Phacelia tanacetifolia against Meloidogyne hapla by Jana Könker, Jana Könker, Sanja Zenker, Sanja Zenker, Anja Meierhenrich, Anja Meierhenrich, Anant Patel, Karl-Josef Dietz, Karl-Josef Dietz

“…The network of antagonistic, neutral, and synergistic interactions between (micro)organisms has moved into the focus of current research, since in agriculture, this knowledge can help to develop efficient biocontrol strategies. …”
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Towards a Rational Design of an Asymptomatic Clinical Herpes Vaccine: The Old, the New, and the Unknown by Aziz Alami Chentoufi, Elizabeth Kritzer, David M. Yu, Anthony B. Nesburn, Lbachir BenMohamed

“…In recent years, great strides in cellular and molecular immunology have stimulated creative efforts in controlling herpes infection and disease. However, before moving towards new vaccine strategy, it is necessary to answer two fundamental questions: (i) why past herpes vaccines have failed? …”
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A Review on Diffusion Bonding between Titanium Alloys and Stainless Steels by De-feng Mo, Ting-feng Song, Yong-jian Fang, Xiao-song Jiang, Charles Q. Luo, Machael D. Simpson, Zhi-ping Luo

“…Growth kinetics of interfacial phases needs further clarification in terms of growth velocity of the reacting layer, moving speed of the phase interface, and the order for a new phase appears. …”
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Automatic deep learning-based colorectal adenoma detection system and its similarities with pathologists by Xin Chen, Wei Xu, Yong Huang, Wei Jin, Gang Xu, Jing Yuan, Zhigang Song, Chunkai Yu, Shuangmei Zou, Wenmiao Wang, Xiaohui Ding, Jinhong Liu, Liwei Shao, Xiangnan Gou, Zhanbo Wang, Huang Chen, Cancheng Liu, Zhuo Sun, Calvin Ku, Yongqiang Zhang, Xianghui Dong, Shuhao Wang, Ning Lv, Huaiyin Shi

“…Objectives The microscopic evaluation of slides has been gradually moving towards all digital in recent years, leading to the possibility for computer-aided diagnosis. …”
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A Program for Postgraduate Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation (PGDME) by Kabale University

“…Government of Uganda designed the national monitoring and Evaluation policy of the country and it is anticipated that each Ministry, Department and Agency (MDA) will have a fully fledg ed monitoring and evaluation unit. While some MDAs have moved towards this direction, others are yet to operationalize this partially due to lack of well trained experts in the field at graduate level. …”
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Fuzzy Terminal Sliding Mode Control with Compound Reaching Law and Time Delay Estimation for HDU of Legged Robot by Kaixian Ba, Bin Yu, Yaliang Liu, Zhengguo Jin, Zhengjie Gao, Junxiao Zhang, Xiangdong Kong

“…However, there are some common problems in the HDU resulted from hydraulic systems, such as strong nonlinearity, asymmetry dynamic characteristics between positive and negative moving directions of the piston rod, and time-varying parameters. …”
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Environmental Disinfection Based on Mobile Intelligent Networking Highly Efficient Ultraviolet Light Machines by Chun-Yen Chung, Wen-Tsai Sung, Lin-Chi Wang, Lailatus Siami, John Paul Santos

“…Because of its mobile nature, the sterilizer could be moved at any time in various learning, research, and activity rooms for disinfection. …”
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Response Analysis of a Ballasted Rail Track Constructed on Soft Soil by 3D Modeling by Iram Lamiya Hoque, Shamontee Aziz, Joya Rani Mallick, Md. Arifuzzaman Nayeem, Tamanna-E-Hafiz Maisha, F. M. Zahid Hossain, A. F. M. S. Amin

“…The numerical analysis analogy is grounded in the spring model, where a beam under the unit load is modeled based on the Winkler foundation model concept. In the moving load simulation on soil, the static point load relating to the axle load is assigned in the form of a dynamic multiplier, determined using auxiliary software. …”
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From deliberation to acclamation: how did Twitter’s algorithms foster polarized communities and undermine democracy in the 2020 US presidential election by Gustavo Morales, Gustavo Morales, Augusto Salazar, Diego Puche

“…Rather than keep digging within this unsolved discussion, this study moves the focus of inquiring toward how ICT affects the very existence of subjects in democracy. …”
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Distribution features of the red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) in the south of Ukraine: a case study of Mykolaiv Oblast by Kostiantyn Redinov

“…Over the past 40 years, due to artificial and natural dispersal, this dendrophilous rodent species has significantly expanded in range into Mykolaiv Oblast, 93% of which is located within the steppe and 7% within the forest-steppe zones of Ukraine. The squirrels moved from the forest-steppe zone, from the city of Kryvyi Rih and along the Dnipro valley. …”
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Research on “Identification–Cognition–Perception” of the Pedestrian Spaces Around Subway Stations near Popular Tourist Attractions from the Tourists’ Perspective: A Case Study of T... by Weiwei Liu, Jianwei Yan, Xiang Sun, Ruiqi Song

“…This paper establishes an optimization design framework for the pedestrian spaces around subway stations near urban popular tourist attractions, moving from identification to cognition and perception. …”
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Emergency medical service interventions and experiences during pandemics: A scoping review. by Despina Laparidou, Ffion Curtis, Nimali Wijegoonewardene, Joseph Akanuwe, Dedunu Dias Weligamage, Prasanna Dinesh Koggalage, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

“…The qualitative data synthesis included five themes, detailing the EMS workers' experiences of providing care during pandemics, their needs and their suggestions for best practices moving forward.<h4>Conclusions</h4>Despite concerns for their own and their families' safety and the many challenges they are faced with, especially their knowledge, training, lack of appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and constant protocol changes, EMS personnel were willing and prepared to report for duty during pandemics. …”
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Modification of Rayleigh dissipation function for numerical simulation of internal damping in rod structures by V. N. Sidorov, E. S. Badina, D. O. Klimushkin

“…Several proven methods of energy dissipation accounting are considered, including those that make it possible to take into account the energy loss of a moving structure during friction with the external environment (external damping) and dissipation due to friction in the material of the structure deformed in motion (internal damping). …”
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Flexural behavior of high-strength reinforced concrete beam with hybrid fiber under normal and high temperature by Ahmed Ashteyat, Ala Obaidat, Tarik Kharabsheh, Ahmed Harahsheh

“…The use of BF and SF in concrete has also been proven to increase the ductility of the beams and has moved the failure mode from shear to flexural failure.…”

Numerical study on the surface evolution and flow dynamics in laser polishing of 100Cr6 steel based on the coupled capillary and thermocapillary flow by Chuqiao Fang, Wei Dai, Xiao Wu, Sijin Wang

“…This study develops a two-dimensional transient numerical model to simulate the superficial surface evolution during the LP of 100Cr6 steel. A moving laser beam with a top-hat energy density distribution was implemented, considering the microscopic flow mechanism of the molten pool through combined capillary and thermocapillary flows. …”
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Control System of Fire Rescue Robot for High-Rise Building Design by Junfang Yu

“…Robot fire detection method involves obtaining the video image of the fire detection area through a high-definition camera, performing image preprocessing on the current frame image of the video in the robot operating system to obtain the image; and performing the flame area segmentation based on the Ohta color space and the Otsu threshold segmentation algorithm on the image, to obtain the segmented image; through the interframe difference method, the preprocessed image of the previous frame is subtracted from the current frame image and the moving area of the image is segmented to obtain the segmented image; the obtained segmented image is combined with the segmented image in the robot operating system and images are intersected to obtain a segmented image with the characteristics of flame motion; based on other characteristics of the flame, flame recognition is performed on the area in the segmented image. …”
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