Seismic Response Analysis Method of Damping Structures Based on the Inter-history Iteration and Secondary Development of ABAQUS by JIA Chuanguo, QUAN Ziyu, CHEN Xi, LI Yutao

“…In this approach, an extra equivalent linear damper replaces all dampers on each floor, and its supplementary equivalent damping coefficient is computed and updated based on the velocity response of the structure during an earthquake. …”
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Normative Database of Spatiotemporal Gait Metrics Across Age Groups: An Observational Case–Control Study by Lianne Mobbs, Vinuja Fernando, R. Dineth Fonseka, Pragadesh Natarajan, Monish Maharaj, Ralph J. Mobbs

“…Males consistently exhibit faster gait speeds than females across all age groups. Step length and cadence do not have clear trends with ageing. …”
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Sorcha: A Solar System Survey Simulator for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time by Stephanie R. Merritt, Grigori Fedorets, Megan E. Schwamb, Samuel Cornwall, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Mario Jurić, Matthew J. Holman, Jacob A. Kurlander, Siegfried Eggl, Drew Oldag, Maxine West, Jeremy Kubica, Joseph Murtagh, R. Lynne Jones, Peter Yoachim, Ryan R. Lyttle, Michael S. P. Kelley, Joachim Moeyens, Kathleen Kiker, Shantanu P. Naidu, Colin Snodgrass, Shannon M. Matthews, Colin Orion Chandler

“…In this paper we present Sorcha , an open-source survey simulator written in Python . Designed with the scale of LSST in mind, Sorcha is a comprehensive survey simulator to cover all solar system small-body populations. …”
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Assessment of natural radioactivity (40K, 238U and 232Th) and radiological risk in building construction materials: the case of Benin hill granites by Mahougnon Zinsou, Naivo Naivo RABESIRANANA, Daton MEDENOU, Martin RASOLONIRINA, Bertin Bertin GBAGUIDI, Guy MENSAH

“…Statistical analysis of the data was performed with Python 3.11 and R 4.3.2 on the Spyder and studio interface. …”
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Fault Diagnosis Method for Transformer Winding Based on the Load Normalized Lissajous Graphical Analysis of Leakage Magnetic Field by Bowen ZHANG, Jian FENG, Bowen WANG, Feiran YANG, Yitong XING

“…The deep learning network is constructed using Pytorch, with Python as the programming language. A batch size of 10 data sets, an initial learning rate of 0.001, and 70 training epochs are utilized. …”
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Organizational Culture and Stock Price Crash Risk by Gholamreza Kordestani, Ramin Eskandari, Mahdi Shams

“…In other words, none of the quadrants of organizational culture affect the stock price crash risk based on this measure. Consequently, all research hypotheses are rejected using the first measure of stock price crash risk. …”
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How, What, and Where You Sample Environmental DNA Affects Diversity Estimates and Species Detection by Anish Kirtane, Leif Howard, Caitlin E. Beaver, Margaret E. Hunter, Gordon Luikart, Kristy Deiner

“…The two sampling methods measured different beta diversity of communities detected with the COI marker across all three regions, highlighting the impact of the sampling method on the diversity of eDNA captured. …”
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