Model Reduction Technique Tailored to the Dynamic Analysis of a Beam Structure under a Moving Load by Yuanchang Chen, Bangji Zhang, Shengzhao Chen

“…The nature of the dedicated condensation method tailored to address the moving load case is that the master degrees of freedom are reselected, and the coefficient matrices of the condensed model are recalculated as the load travels from one element to another. …”
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Identity and agency in South Africa by Leyla Tavernaro-Haidarian

“…Hence, while theorists largely focus on the potential of identity to confront wanting social realities and to create freedom from constraint, I suggest that through ubuntu, identity can be reimagined as mutualistic and symbiotic with social organisation – enabling, as a result, more equity and justice. …”
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Collider and CMB complementarity of leptophilic dark matter with light Dirac neutrinos by Debasish Borah, Nayan Das, Sahabub Jahedi, Bhavya Thacker

“…The right chiral parts of light Dirac neutrinos get thermalised due to their interactions with the bath as well as leptophilic DM, leading to enhanced effective relativistic degrees of freedom N eff within reach of future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. …”
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Outcomes of patients after successful left ventricular assist device explantation: a EUROMACS study by Christiaan F.J. Antonides, Felix Schoenrath, Theo M.M.H. deBy, Rahatullah Muslem, Kevin Veen, Yunus C. Yalcin, Ivan Netuka, Jan Gummert, Evgenij V. Potapov, Bart Meyns, Mustafa Özbaran, David Schibilsky, Kadir Caliskan, the EUROMACS investigators

“…A Kaplan–Meier analysis for freedom of the composite endpoint of death, heart transplantation, LVAD reimplantion, or heart failure (HF) relapse was conducted. …”
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Impact of Sex-Related Differences in Infrarenal Aortic Neck Morphology on Outcomes of Endovascular Aneurysm Repair for Similar-Sized Aortic Aneurysm by Ombretta Martinelli, Antonio Marzano, Maria Irene Bellini, Roberto Gattuso, Luca Di Marzo, Valeria Gonta, Jihad Jabbour, Wassim Mansour, Simone Cuozzo

“…Secondary endpoints included freedom from aortic and neck-related reinterventions, endoleak rate, and freedom from aneurysm-related mortality during follow-up. …”
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Empathy moments by Nathalie Barbosa De La Cadena

“…To open myself up to the other Ego is a spiritual act derived from freedom. I can decide whether or not to open myself up. …”
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A Taxonomy of Reconfigurable Single-/Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip by Diana Göhringer, Thomas Perschke, Michael Hübner, Jürgen Becker

“…This classification is now used as a foundation for an extended classification scheme including runtime adaptivity as further degree of freedom for processor architecture design. The developed scheme is validated by a multiprocessor system implemented on reconfigurable hardware as well as by a classification of existing static and reconfigurable processor systems.…”
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The use of technology in civil and family oral trials as an innovative source of human rights in Mexico by Dra. Blanca Torres Espinosa, Carlos Ernesto Arcudia Hernández, Sara Berenice Orta Flores

“…This would mark the starting point of freedom of expression, which today is complemented by the use of technology and the Internet. …”
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The Right to Clothing in International Law, A Forgotten Right? by Stephen James, Amir Feizbakhsh

“…Much research has been done on freedom of dress in the context of civil and political rights. …”
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Consistent Atomic Geometries and Electronic Structure of Five Phases of Potassium Niobate from Density-Functional Theory by Falko Schmidt, Marc Landmann, Eva Rauls, Nicola Argiolas, Simone Sanna, W. G. Schmidt, Arno Schindlmayr

“…We argue that the PBEsol and AM05 generalized gradient approximations as well as the RTPSS meta-generalized gradient approximation yield consistently accurate structural data for both the external and internal degrees of freedom and are overall superior to the local-density approximation or other conventional generalized gradient approximations for the structural characterization of KNbO3. …”
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Dynamic Optimization Design of Cranes Based on Human–Crane–Rail System Dynamics and Annoyance Rate by Yunsheng Xin, Gening Xu, Nina Su

“…To improve the comfort of operators, a nine-degree-of-freedom (nine-DOF) mathematical model of a “human–crane–rail” system was constructed. …”
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Dystopia, surveillance and the spaces of social control in Jenni Fagan’s The Panopticon (2012) by Claire Wrobel

“…The dystopian space par excellence seems to be that delimited by the walls of the Panopticon, here an institution for young delinquents, which finds a counterpoint in the shape of an island utopia, a destination that becomes a symbol of harmony and freedom. However, panoptic space, contrary to what is asserted in the text, does not shelter the omnipresent and omniscient surveillance of which the Panopticon and Big Brother have become emblems. …”
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Modeling of a Multi-Storey Building Made of Reinforced Concrete, Taking into Account Damage on a Deformable Foundation by Alexander A. Treshchev, Viktor G. Telichko, Anton M. Andronov

“…A modification of a multilayer triangular hybrid finite element with five degrees of freedom in the node is formulated to describe the features of the mechanical behavior of building structures. …”
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Low fluctuation stiffness design method for vibration reduction of helical gears by YOU Zhiwei, GAO Jingtao, LI Haonan

“…A dynamic model of eight-degree-of-freedom helical gear was established. Then the RMS of vibration energy before and after optimization was compared. …”
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Basmacı İsyanı ve Sovyet-Afgan Sınır Anlaşmazlığı (1925-1926) by Mehmet Erkan KILLIOĞLU

“…For the Soviets ending this freedom movement was the primary goal. Therefore, the control of the border between the two countries has gained importance. …”
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On the Nonlinear Behavior of the Piezoelectric Coupling on Vibration-Based Energy Harvesters by Luciana L. Silva, Marcelo A. Savi, Paulo C. C. Monteiro, Theodoro A. Netto

“…This paper investigates the effect of the nonlinear behavior of the piezoelectric coupling. A one-degree of freedom mechanical system is coupled to an electrical circuit by a piezoelectric element and different coupling models are investigated. …”
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Suspended Load Path Tracking Control Strategy Using a Tilt-Rotor UAV by M. A. Santos, B. S. Rego, G. V. Raffo, A. Ferramosca

“…Initially, the equations of motion for the multibody mechanical system are derived from the load’s perspective by means of the Euler-Lagrange formulation, in which the load’s position and orientation are chosen as degrees of freedom. An unscented Kalman filter (UKF) is designed for nonlinear state estimation of all the system states, assuming that available information is provided by noisy sensors with different sampling rates that do not directly measure the load’s attitude. …”
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Probabilistic Assessment of Damage from Same Shock Response Spectra due to Variations in Damping by Arup Maji

“…The SRS capture how a single degree of freedom (SDOF) structure responds to the shock at differing frequencies and, therefore, no longer contain the duration or other temporal parameters pertaining to the shock. …”
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Design and Analysis of Thinned Array Pattern Reconfigurable Antenna to Enlarge the Scanning Range by Zhangjing Wang, Xing Fan, Haijuan Cui, Shaoqiu Xiao

“…The pattern of the proposed array can be properly adjusted by changing the weighted function and the amplitude of the weighted factor, which obviously releases new degrees of freedom in array design. It has advantages such as low side lobe level (SLL) in the visible region, no grating lobes, and low nearby side lobe level (NSL), which has good potential for wide-angle scanning. …”
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Human Self-Experience in the Garden: Horticulotherapy from an Ontological-Axiological Perspective by Marlena Kilian, Michał Paluch

“…At this level, when creating a garden, a person experiences the values of freedom, goodness and beauty, which leads to self-transformation through self-experience. …”
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