Fault Core Thickness: Insights from Siliciclastic and Carbonate Rocks by A. Torabi, M. U. Johannessen, T. S. S. Ellingsen

“…We found that the fault type and geometry, displacement, type of fault rocks, lithology, and competency contrasts between faulted layers lead to significant variations in the fault core internal structure and thickness. …”
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A Versatile Platform for Designing and Fabricating Multi-Material Perfusable 3D Microvasculatures by Nathaniel Harris, Charles Miller, Min Zou

“…Various 2D and 3D capillary paths were test-printed using both polygonal and lattice support strategies. A double-layered capillary scaffold based on the Hilbert curve was used for comparative materials testing. …”
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Analysis of the PointNet neural network architecture by L. A. Shchenyavskaya, D. A. Gura, R. A. Dyachenko

“…A unified approach has been applied to solving various 3D recognition problems, ranging from object classification, detail segmentation to semantic scene analysis. Result. A comparative analysis of the classification of 2d and 3d objects was carried out, the layers and functions through which classification occurs were studied in detail. …”
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Modelling and Output Power Estimation of a Combined Gas Plant and a Combined Cycle Plant Using an Artificial Neural Network Approach by Vasileios Xezonakis, Olusegun David Samuel, Christopher Chintua Enweremadu

“…By using the three training techniques, namely, LM, BR, and SCG, the parameterized networks are studied, increasing the number of hidden layers from 20 to 500. The lowest root-mean-square error value for a multilayer perceptron (MLP) architecture is 3.631%, which is lower than the values of 4.17%, 4.35%, and 4.63% for comparable MLP structures (20 to 500), documented in the literature. …”
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Behavior of under-reamed piles under inclined uplift loads in sand by Mohamed Sakr, Ahmed Nasr, Mohamed Khaffaf, Ali Basha

“…Such piles are best suited to soils with significant ground movement as a result of seasonal variations, filled up ground, soft soil layers, and loose sand. These piles also improve bearing and uplift capacities, as well as anchorage at greater depths. …”
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Cycle-configuration descriptors: a novel graph-theoretic approach to enhancing molecular inference by Bowen Song, Jianshen Zhu, Naveed Ahmed Azam, Kazuya Haraguchi, Liang Zhao, Tatsuya Akutsu

“…In this study, we highlight a typical class of non-isomorphic chemical graphs with reasonably different property values that cannot be distinguished by the standard “two-layered (2L) model" of mol-infer. To address this distinguishability problem of the 2L model, we propose a novel family of descriptors, named cycle-configuration (CC), which captures the notion of ortho/meta/para patterns that appear in aromatic rings, which was impossible in the framework so far. …”
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Practice of core competence training for orthopedic nurses in Hunan Province of China by Yang Zhou, Yabin Guo, Liya Huang, Biyun Zeng

“…From December 2022 to December 2023, a total of 102 orthopedic specialist nurses from the selected training bases were trained, and we evaluated the effectiveness of the training by using the reaction, learning, behavioral, and results layers of Kirkpatrick Training Evaluation model. Before and after the training, the core competencies of the training participants were evaluated via the Core Competencies Questionnaire for Orthopedic Nurse Specialists, and paired t tests were used to compare the core competencies before and after the training. …”
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Effect of Short-Term Oral Vitamin A on Ocular Tear Film in Dry Eye by Jagruti Navalsinhji Jadeja, Vaibhavi Gulabbhai Patel, Tejal Rameshbhai Garasiya

“…The tear film is composed of three layers – lipid, aqueous, and mucin. Loss of mucin and goblet cell atrophy due to Vitamin A deficiency contributes to the instability of tear film secondary to mucin abnormality leading to dry eye. …”
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Speed up integer-arithmetic-only inference via bit-shifting by Mingjun Song, Yiming Zhou, Mengmeng Song, Sujie Liu, Shungen Xiao, Youshun Zheng

“…They suffer from significant accuracy loss and the multipliers in element-wise layers are not constrained to be power-of-2. These issues limit the utilization of hardware resources. …”
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Sustainable court surfaces using emulsion-waste rubber cushions and acrylic-rice husk top coatings by Samir M. M. Morsi, Ahmed M. Khalil, Samir Kamel

“…A comparative analysis evaluated how filler amount, WRP proportion, and binder type and content influence the physical, mechanical, thermal, and morphological properties of the cushions. …”
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Shoeprints on Shoe covers Obtained Using Special Thermal Devices as Objects of Traceological Forensic Examination by I. V. Latyshov

“…A sole surface shoeprint appears on the shoe as a result of transfer of dust, oil and other substances’ layering on the shoe sole from road surfacing. The peculiarity of the formation mechanism of these traces points to the heating of the polyvinyl chloride film of the shoe cover at the time of the shoeprint formation on the shoe cover, as well as to the fact of wearing shoes with shoe covers on. …”
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Fauna and predator-prey relationships of Ettling, an actinopterygian fish-dominated Konservat-Lagerstätte from the Late Jurassic of southern Germany. by Martin Ebert, Martina Kölbl-Ebert, Jennifer A Lane

“…Upper and lower Ettling strata differ in faunal content, with the lower dominated by the small teleost Orthogonikleithrus hoelli (absent from the upper layers, where other prey fishes, Leptolepides sp. and Tharsis sp., occur instead). …”
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Geometric Structures in Textile Design Made with 3D Printing by Cihat Okan Arikan, Samet Doğan, Deja Muck

“… 3D printing is a well-known technology for producing 3D objects by depositing successive layers of material. Among its many applications, the fashion industry has taken advantage of this technology to revolutionize its brands. …”
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A 3-D Parallel Method of PSTD-Based Reverse Time Migration of GPR Data by Lingjia Huang, Bowen Ma, Qinghua Huang

“…Testing results based on the above synthetic GPR data indicate that the new RTM method is robust and effective in imaging various anomalies including faulting and layered structure. We further validate our new method based on the field GPR data across an active fault. …”
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Damage identification based on the inner product matrix and parallel convolution neural network for frame structure by Yingying He, Ji Feng, Baogang Sun, Feixue Wang, Likai Zhang, Jidi Jiang

“…To validate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method, a five-story steel frame model is used as the research object, and five comparative methods are evaluated under the same experimental conditions. …”
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Optimal Selection Method for Sweet Spots in Low-Permeability Multilayered Reservoirs by Xiangwu Bai, Zhiping Li, Fengpeng Lai

“…Low-permeability oil reservoirs account for more than two-thirds of China’s proven reserves, and most of them are multilayered; the traditional sweet spots focus on single-layered reservoirs. The sweet spots of low-permeability reservoirs have two meanings: the geologically superior reservoir and the beneficial development of the reservoir. …”
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AVIAN SYMBOLISM AND CULTURAL MEMORY: EXPLORING BIODIVERSITY AND URBANIZATION IN TURKISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE by İbrahim Koç

“…In addition to these symbolic relationships based on the natural characteristics of the birds, these texts use different aspects of avian life to interpret multiple layers of meaning, enriched by intercultural and intracultural references provided by history and tradition. …”
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Plasmatron for Coatings by V. A. Okovity, F. I. Panteleenko, V. V. Okovity, V. M. Astashinsky

“…The paper analyzes reasons for application of plasma torches of special design for deposition of heat-resistant layers of thermal barrier coatings that contribute to minimum oxygen content in the zone of spraying. …”
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Machine learning-enabled estimation of cardiac output from peripheral waveforms is independent of blood pressure measurement location in an in silico population by Lydia Aslanidou, Georgios Rovas, Ramin Mohammadi, Sokratis Anagnostopoulos, Cemre Çelikbudak Orhon, Nikolaos Stergiopulos

“…The predictive ability of the CNN models was comparable across arterial locations (r ≥ 0.97, nRMSE  ≤ 4.4%) and only slightly compromised following pressure signal normalization from 0 to 1 (r  ≥ 0.93, nRMSE ≤ 7.8%). …”
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Minima-YOLO: A Lightweight Identification Method for Lithium Mineral Components Under a Microscope Based on YOLOv8 by Zeyang Qiu, Xueyu Huang, Xiangyu Xu

“…Finally, to mitigate the impact of deeper backbone network layers, we introduced the Slim-Neck structure in the Neck, further reducing the model size. …”
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