Form Finding of Shell Bridges Using the Pneumatic Forming of Hardened Concrete Construction Principle by Benjamin Kromoser, Thomas Pachner, Chengcheng Tang, Johann Kollegger, Helmut Pottmann

“…Concrete as a material, characterized by high compressive strength and low tensile strength, can be used with a very high degree of utilization. …”
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3D fusion modeling of multi-scale geological structures based on subdivision-NURBS surfaces and stratigraphic sequence formalization by Lyu Mingming, Liu Xiaomin, Zhou Junlong, Song Liwei

“…However, empirical interactive modeling methods based on expert knowledge are mostly applied in existing numerical researches and geological structures at different scales are modeled independently, which reduces the credibility of simulation. …”
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The Impact of Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate as Aggregate Replacement on Mechanical and Ecotoxicological Properties of Mortar by Maša Legan, Petra Štukovnik, Klementina Zupan, Andreja Žgajnar Gotvajn

“…The purpose of the study was to determine the mechanical and ecotoxicological properties of mortars with differently shaped recycled PET plastics as a partial natural aggregate replacement and assess its environmental impact. …”
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Hirayama Disease and Its Management: Experience of a Tertiary Care Center in Eastern India by Selvin Prabhakar Vijayan, Christopher Gerber, Anindya Basu, Mona Tiwari, Tosaddeque M. D. Hussain, Jacky Ganguly

“…Background: Hirayama disease (HD) is a unique, benign, and self-limiting cause of compressive myelopathy. It presents as an asymmetric weakness and atrophy of one or both distal upper extremities. …”
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Design and manufacturing of superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) for agriculture in arid areas by Maysa Muhammad, M. L. Tawfic, Mohamed Taha, Ahmed Elsabbagh

“…These composites were mixed, compressed, and shaped to design and manufacture two tiles including AT1 (AT-NaPA) and AT2 (AT-AGMA) with different dimensions according to the effect root zone of the plant type to absorb and retain rainwater dew water and reduce irrigation frequency. …”
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A Plague of Their Own: Injury Incidence Remains Elevated in the 2021 Major League Baseball Season Compared to Pre-COVID-19 Seasons by Brooks N Platt, Breanna M Sullivan, Shawn Dripchak, Timothy L Uhl, Aaron D Sciascia, William Kibler, Austin V Stone

“…The z test for proportions was used to determine significant differences between injury incidences. # Results The injury incidence rate by midseason 2021 (9.32) compared to 2020 (8.66) was not significantly different (p=0.234). …”
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Real-Time Detection of Varieties and Defects in Moving Corn Seeds Based on YOLO-SBWL by Yuhang Che, Hongyi Bai, Laijun Sun, Yanru Fang, Xinbo Guo, Shanbing Yin

“…Finally, the improved model was pruned using layer-adaptive magnitude-based pruning (LAMP) to effectively compress the model. The YOLO-SBWL model demonstrated a mean average precision of 97.21%, which was 2.59% higher than the original network. …”
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Investigation of fracture properties and microbially induced calcite precipitation (MICP) restoration in coal mining areas within the diverse Terrain of Northern Shaanxi, China by Ying Gao, Mohd Ashraf Mohamad Ismail, Tao Li, Jingwang Yan, Qiang Sun

“…Abstract The complex and diverse nature of coal mining sites, including different landforms and working conditions, presents challenges for rehabilitation efforts. …”
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Effect of cold compaction pressure and sintering temperature on the densification and microstructure of 316L stainless steel powder by Ayman Mahmoud Fahim, Tamás Mikó, Mohamed Zaky Ahmed, Zoltán Gácsi

“…This study investigates the effect of different cold compaction pressures and sintering temperatures on densification and microstructure evolution of consolidated 316 L powder. …”
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Long-term corrosion behavior of reinforced recycled aggregate concrete under acid rain condition by Omid Bamshad, Iman Hakamian, Mohamad Fallah Shirvani, Alireza Habibi, Mahdi Mahdikhani

“…NS mitigated corrosion, preserving half-cell potentials closer to neutral conditions. Additionally, compressive strength (CS) of RAC declined by 28–49 % at pH 2.5–5.5 after 730 days, with pH 2.5 causing the most severe degradation. …”
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FlowMRI-Net: A generalizable self-supervised 4D flow MRI reconstruction network by Luuk Jacobs, Marco Piccirelli, Valery Vishnevskiy, Sebastian Kozerke

“…The generalizability of the framework is evaluated using aortic and cerebrovascular 4D flow MRI acquisitions acquired on systems from two different vendors for various undersampling factors (R = 8, 16, 24) and compared to compressed sensing locally low rank (CS-LLR) reconstructions. …”
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Analysis of the influence of bitumen filling on the mechanical characteristics of collapsible wall joints by Huaqiao XU, Junfeng RONG, Haochen MA

“…The mechanical properties of the compressible wall joint model were tested under three different conditions: unfilled (Group K), filled with asphalt (Group T), and filled with asphalt with a blocked injection pipe (Group TD). …”
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Characterization of the poro-mechanical properties of synthetic coquinas using 3D imaging techniques by Francisco José Rodrigues da Silva Junior, Raquel Quadros Velloso, Sidnei Paciornik, Marcos Henrique de Pinho Maurício, Alexandr Zhemchuzhnikov

“…Each sample was prepared inside an oedometer cell, coupled with a microtomograph to apply oedometric compressive stresses. These samples were then analyzed using X-ray microtomography and pore network modeling to analyze their properties, and microstructural changes under different stress conditions. …”
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Experimental synthesis of size-controlled TiO2 nanofillers and their possible use as composites in restorative dentistry by Dipika V. Raorane, Ramesh S. Chaughule, Suhas R. Pednekar, Anushree Lokur

“…The experimental light curing nanocomposites with 5 wt% (wt%) nanohybrid surface modified filler particles with BisGMA (60 wt%), TEGDMA (20 wt%) and UDMA (20 wt%) resin composition provided increased physical strength and durability with higher compressive stress 195.56 MPa and flexural stress 83.30 MPa. …”
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A multimodal model in the prediction of the delivery mode using data from a digital twin-empowered labor monitoring system by Jieyun Bai, Xue Kang, Weishan Wang, Ziduo Yang, Weiguang Ou, Yuxin Huang, Yaosheng Lu

“…This could be highly beneficial for dynamically fusing data from different sources throughout the maternal and fetal health lifecycle, from pregnancy to delivery.…”
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Unleashing the Potential of Knowledge Distillation for IoT Traffic Classification by Mahmoud Abbasi, Amin Shahraki, Javier Prieto, Angelica Gonzalez Arrieta, Juan M. Corchado

“…Knowledge distillation is a solution to help ML by compressing complex models into smaller ones suitable for IoT devices. …”
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Mechanical Properties and Fracture Surface Morphology of Quartz Sandstone Under Triaxial Shear by Zhinan LIN, Shihong FENG, Jiaquan WANG, Qiang ZHANG, Haifeng LONG

“…To study the shear damage deformation characteristics of intact rock in rock slopes under three-dimensional compressive–shear stress conditions, 16 sets of triaxial shear tests were conducted on saturated intact fine-grained quartz sandstone with simple composition and homogeneous structure under different confining pressures by using the Rock Top–50HT full-stress multi-field coupling triaxial test system. …”
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Experimental Study on Expansive Subgrade Clay Soils Stabilized With Sugarcane Bagasse Ash and Nonwoven Geotextile by Firdous Mohammed, Jemal Jibril, Alemineh Sorsa, Chemeda Alemu, Dekebi Chakeri

“…The SCBA was thoroughly mixed with the soil, while the NWG was applied in layers at different depths in the compacted soil in the CBR mold. …”
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A comprehensive review of experimental studies on shear behavior of bolted rock joints with varying rock joint and bolt parameters and normal stress by Chang Zhou, Zhenwei Lang, Shun Huang, Qinghong Dong, Yanzhi Wang, Wenbo Zheng

“…This study presents a comprehensive review of research findings on the responses of bolted joints subjected to shearing under different conditions. As is revealed, the average shear strength of bolted rock joints increases linearly with the normal stress and increases with the compressive strength of rock until it reaches a stable value. …”
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Fully invertible hyperbolic neural networks for segmenting large-scale surface and sub-surface data by Bas Peters, Eldad Haber, Keegan Lensink

“…We address the explosion of the number of convolutional kernels by combining fully invertible networks with layers that contain the convolutional kernels in a compressed form directly. A second challenge is that invertible networks output a tensor the same size as its input. …”
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