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EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON STRENGTHENING OF RC CONNECTIONS WITH FRP SHEETS BY EMBEDDING SURFACE GROOVES...
Published 2015-03-01“…In the final stages of loading in the strengthened specimen with an ordinary surface preparation method, the maximum strain of the U-shaped sheets reached 0.49\%; close to the recommended amount by the design code for the allowed strain of FRP sheets equal to 0.4\%, although half the ultimate rupture strain of sheets. …”
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EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF RING FOOTING BASED ON REINFORCED SOIL WITH GRANULATED RUBBER AND GEOGRID U...
Published 2020-05-01“…Also the results of tests indicated that in both rubber-reinforced bed (without any geogrid layer) and geogrid-rubber reinforced bed, the optimum value of the thickness of rubber-soil mixture layer to improve the behavior of ring footing, is equal to 0.5 times the outer diameter of ring footing. …”
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Evaluation of the New City of Sahand Using the Urban Carrying Capacity Assessment System
Published 2022-09-01“…The maximum capacity of the population, carrying capacity of water, electricity, and green space indicators were equal to 105639, 129121, and 528540 people, respectively. …”
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Shifting Paradigms
Published 2024-03-01“…Without it, we would lose invaluable perspectives, strengths in attention to detail, visual perception, creative and artistic talents, mathematical and technical abilities, and expertise in ‘niche’ areas.[3] Asserting that every form of neurological development holds equal validity, deserving of respect and human rights, the neurodiversity paradigm counters the deficit mindset perpetuated by the traditional medical view. …”
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PULLOUT PERFORMANCE OF GROUTED ANCHORS IN TABRIZ MARL BY FULL-SCALE TESTS...
Published 2018-08-01“…Finally, the amount of creep over one log cycle of time for design load of anchors was estimated to be 0.46 mm on average, assuming to be constant over time, equaling 3.5 mm for 100 years. For long-term relaxation survey of anchors and estimating the load decrease over time, six anchors were locked off and their residual load was read for 6 months. …”
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Regional Design
Published 2019-07-01“…The thesis argues that regional design equals discretion and thus attempts to mediate between generally accepted and applicable spatial planning principles and spatial rationales linked to problems in particular local situations. …”
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From Feeling and Thinking to Understanding and Building
Published 2024-04-01“…The critical comprehender is equally a sentipensante (feeling-thinker). They think feelingly, feel thoughtfully, care for the other as a valid, indeed worthy, adversary; they respect the (multi)ontology (particular ways of being and doing), interests, reasons, values, and singularities of the other, of the opponent; It makes criticism an evolutionary, edifying device, where logical thinking operations are as important as feelings, attitudes and values, both knowledge and its contextualization and edifying use, projector of lights, generator of new paths, of good lives. …”
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EVALUATION OF SEISMIC DEFORMATIONS OF GOTVAND DAM DURING EARTHQUAKE...
Published 2019-11-01“…The maximum settlement of the dam core due to application of the Manjil earthquake is equal to 1.94 meters, and the maximum horizontal deformations are 1.30 and 1.19 meters in upstream and downstream shells, respectively. …”
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Virtual reality supported therapy for the negative symptoms of schizophrenia: the V-NeST feasibility RCT
Published 2023-09-01“…Randomisation used variable block size (i.e. 2, 4 and 6) with equal allocation. Participants Participants were recruited from community mental health teams, which are part of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. …”
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POST-TREATMENT OF LEACHATE BY MICROWAVE-FENTON PROCESS USING OFAT ANALYSIS METHOD...
Published 2020-05-01“…According to obtained results the maximum removal efficiency of Microwave enhanced Fenton process was obtained at pH=3, ratio of H2O2 concentration to initial COD equals to 3.75, ratio of $H_2O_2$ concentration to $Fe^{2+}$ concentration of 3, and Microwave irradiation power of 170W. …”
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EVALUATION OF RESPONSE MODIFICATION FACTOR AND DEFLECTION AMPLIFICATION FACTOR OF STEEL INTERMEDIATE M...
Published 2017-08-01“…Considering the recommended R factor of the Iranian Standard No. 2800 for the ultimate limit state design of steel intermediate moment-resisting systems equaling 5, it is obvious that the results from the FEMA-P695 approach are more compatible with the code recommendation. …”
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HYDRAULIC FRACTURE PROPAGATION IN BRITTLE ROCK: CONSIDERING INTERACTION TERM BETWEEN FLUID INERTIA AND V...
Published 2016-08-01“…It was also shown that the established method of asymptotic expansion in small parameters is equally applicable to study other small effects (e.g., fluid inertia) on the otherwise toughness-dominated solution. …”
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EVALUATION OF THE EFFECT OF ALTERNATING POLARITY EXCHANGE ON CRUDE OIL REMOVAL FROM SOIL BY BIOELECTROKIN...
Published 2019-08-01“…In this study each test was conducted in cylindrical cells made of Plexiglas with the length and diameter equal to 55 and 5 cm respectively, for 35 days. …”
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Privatisation of the Production of Public Space
Published 2018-03-01“…Public authorities themselves also adopted business-like styles of organisation in which productivity, effectivity and efficiency were regarded as the main conditions for serving the public’s financial interest, though other public values such as cultural heritage, equality and democracy were often regarded as of secondary concern. …”
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Robust Variable Selection and Regularization in Quantile Regression Based on Adaptive-LASSO and Adaptive E-NET
Published 2022-11-01“…In the unweighted scenarios, the <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>Q</mi><mi>R</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>-<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi><mi>L</mi><mi>A</mi><mi>S</mi><mi>S</mi><mi>O</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>Q</mi><mi>R</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>-<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi><mi>E</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>-<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>N</mi><mi>E</mi><mi>T</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> dominate their non-adaptive versions as follows: in prediction, in <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>63</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>75</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> of the time; with respect to correctly fitted models, in <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>100</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>38</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> (while in <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>62</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> equally); in <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>100</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> of the time with respect to correctly shrunk zero coefficients. …”
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Public space and the contemporary city. A narrative of places, time, relationships
Published 2020-05-01“…In this context, it seems logical that the square, which is designed in terms of redevelopment of the existing or new intervention, must respond to the need to identify and enhance «spaces “between things” that are significant because they are equally used by those who live there, whether they are places and provide opportunities for meeting, attendance and “aggregation”» (Secchi, 1993). …”
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The Impact of Land Property Rights Interventions on Investment and Agricultural Productivity in Developing Countries: a Systematic Review
Published 2014-01-01“…The quantitative evidence base has very little to say about consequences of such policies for social outcomes like displacement, conflict, or gender equality. Thus, while tenure recognition appears to improve land productivity and the material welfare of those who have access to registered land, we do not have a clear sense of the dynamics that follow from such policies in terms of overall access to land. …”
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Microphysical processes of super typhoon Lekima (2019) and their impacts on polarimetric radar remote sensing of precipitation
Published 2023-02-01“…(iv) The improved performance of <span class="inline-formula"><i>R</i></span>(<span class="inline-formula"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M24" display="inline" overflow="scroll" dspmath="mathml"><mrow><msubsup><mi>Z</mi><mi mathvariant="normal">H</mi><mi mathvariant="normal">C</mi></msubsup></mrow></math><span><svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="16pt" height="17pt" class="svg-formula" dspmath="mathimg" md5hash="94e1ea68748bb66172da4005f846190c"><svg:image xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="acp-23-2439-2023-ie00012.svg" width="16pt" height="17pt" src="acp-23-2439-2023-ie00012.png"/></svg:svg></span></span>, <span class="inline-formula"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M25" display="inline" overflow="scroll" dspmath="mathml"><mrow><msub><mover accent="true"><mi>Z</mi><mo stretchy="false" mathvariant="normal">^</mo></mover><mi mathvariant="normal">DR</mi></msub></mrow></math><span><svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="21pt" height="15pt" class="svg-formula" dspmath="mathimg" md5hash="d86878c0194665b8d0bdb88931077d37"><svg:image xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="acp-23-2439-2023-ie00013.svg" width="21pt" height="15pt" src="acp-23-2439-2023-ie00013.png"/></svg:svg></span></span>) is attributed to the utilization of <span class="inline-formula"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M26" display="inline" overflow="scroll" dspmath="mathml"><mrow><msub><mover accent="true"><mi>Z</mi><mo mathvariant="normal" stretchy="false">^</mo></mover><mi mathvariant="normal">DR</mi></msub></mrow></math><span><svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="21pt" height="15pt" class="svg-formula" dspmath="mathimg" md5hash="f470cb3573e70cd6e83536344738b9f0"><svg:image xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="acp-23-2439-2023-ie00014.svg" width="21pt" height="15pt" src="acp-23-2439-2023-ie00014.png"/></svg:svg></span></span>, which equals physically converting breakup-dominated measurements in radar volume gates to their coalescence-dominated counterparts, and this also benefits from the better self-consistency between <span class="inline-formula"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M27" display="inline" overflow="scroll" dspmath="mathml"><mrow><msubsup><mi>Z</mi><mi mathvariant="normal">H</mi><mi mathvariant="normal">C</mi></msubsup></mrow></math><span><svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="16pt" height="17pt" class="svg-formula" dspmath="mathimg" md5hash="1df726fc3a93a46814fa6a59a0cc79bb"><svg:image xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="acp-23-2439-2023-ie00015.svg" width="16pt" height="17pt" src="acp-23-2439-2023-ie00015.png"/></svg:svg></span></span>, <span class="inline-formula"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M28" display="inline" overflow="scroll" dspmath="mathml"><mrow><msub><mover accent="true"><mi>Z</mi><mo mathvariant="normal" stretchy="false">^</mo></mover><mi mathvariant="normal">DR</mi></msub></mrow></math><span><svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="21pt" height="15pt" class="svg-formula" dspmath="mathimg" md5hash="2b1bc92e3a9ef79158bb4d3c330c3c59"><svg:image xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="acp-23-2439-2023-ie00016.svg" width="21pt" height="15pt" src="acp-23-2439-2023-ie00016.png"/></svg:svg></span></span>, and <span class="inline-formula"><i>K</i><sub>DP</sub></span>, as well as their consistency with the surface counterparts.…”
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Deeping Our Relationships for Healing: Our Land, Our People, Our Freedom
Published 2023-01-01“…Although acknowledging this history is important, equally important is recognizing the resiliency and strength embedded in Indigenous communities. …”
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The Effectiveness of Chitosan Wound Dressing in the Form of a Film Compared to Its Hydrogel on Burn Wound Healing in the Male Wistar Rat Model
Published 2022-01-01“…In examining the results of the equality test of the average inflammation cells on different days in the hydrogel and control groups, there was no significant difference on different days (p value=0.42) and (p value=0.11). …”
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