An appraisal of existing seismic vulnerability assessment methodologies by Kathotia, Vaibhav

“…Although the growth in construction technology has helped create new buildings and structures to be more equipped to deal with the seismic activity, there is still a large requirement for data and research on probable damage levels for structures in certain zones that might be prone to strong earthquake activities. …”
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The relationship between the moderate–heavy boundary and critical speed in running by Hunter, Ben, Meyler, Samuel, Maunder, Ed, Cox, Tobias H., Muniz-Pumares, Daniel

“…Training intensity is typically separated into 3 zones, which align with the moderate-, heavy-, and severe-intensity domains. …”
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Novel receiver design for suppression of frequency-hopped multiple-access (FHMA) systems by Muhammad Faizal Razali

“…Following that we introduce multiple access interference to simulate and study the result of the bit error rate (BER) when multiple users and different number of frequency bands are included. We include five diversity combining techniques and simulate the results in order to study if they help improve the BER of the FHMA system. …”
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Experimental investigation and crystal plasticity modelling of dynamic recrystallisation in dual-phase high entropy alloy during hot deformation by Zhou, Z, Huo, Y, Wang, Z, Demir, E, Jiang, A, Yan, Z, He, T

“…In the initial stage of deformation, stress concentrates at the grain boundaries and interface boundary and then propagate to the deformation bands with temperature. The BCC phase undergoes continuous dynamic recrystallisation (CDRX), displaying significant differences from the DRX mechanism of the FCC phase, leading to asynchrony between the two phases during DRX. …”

Understanding structural variations in elastic organic crystals by in situ high-pressure Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and nanoindentation study by Ganguly, Somnath, Chinnasamy, Ragaverthini, Parikh, Shyamal, Kiran, Mangalampalli S. R. N., Ramamurty, Upadrasta, Bhatt, Himal, Deo, Mukul Narayan, Ghosh, Soumyajit, Ghalsasi, Pallavi

“…The infrared stretching wavenumber of the aromatic and aliphatic C-H, H-C=N, and C-Cl bands on compression showed blueshifts and increased widths, which reflect structure perturbation caused by changes in intermolecular interactions in the crystals. …”
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Perspective: bonding and electronic origin of Au atomic-undercoordination-derivacy and nanoscale-size-dependency by Sun, Changqing

“…Systematic analysis of the electron emission spectra of XPS and STM/S of the undercoordinated gold atoms revealed that the 4f and 5d bands undergo quantum entrapment while the 6s level is subject to localization and polarization because of the undercoordination-induced local bond contraction and bond strength gain – named bond order-length-strength correlation and nonbonding electron polarization (BOLS-NEP). …”
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Trust-aware resource allocation in a cognitive radio system by Qin, Tao, Leung, Cyril, Chen, Yiqiang, Miao, Chun Yan

“…A reliable strategy for the detection of unused spectrum bands is essential in a practical implementation of CR systems. …”
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Water surge risk mapping using GIS-based spatial multi-criteria decision analysis approach by Syarifuddin, Misbari, Siti Sarah, Abd Razak, Muhammad Fuad Fahmi, Jaafar, Nadiatul Adilah, Ahmad Abdul Ghani, Mohd Faizal, Jamlos

“…Pandan Waterfall area falls into medium-risk water surge zones due to combination of three main factors including terrain elevation, land use or rainfall pattern. …”
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3D surface analysis of coral microatolls by Gautam, Rohan

“…Studying microatolls is typically done by slabbing, an invasive process where a radial slice is obtained in order to study its annual growth bands. This is an invasive method. In this paper, we aim to lay a foundation for non-invasive analysis of coral properties by studying the 3d surface of the corals collected through LIDAR and photogrammetry techniques. …”
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Oscillations support short latency co-firing of neurons during human episodic memory formation by Roux, F, Parish, G, Chelvarajah, R, Rollings, DT, Sawlani, V, Hamer, H, Gollwitzer, S, Kreiselmeyer, G, Ter Wal, MJ, Kolibius, L, Staresina, BP, Wimber, M, Self, MW, Hanslmayr, S

“…Phase-coupling at slower oscillations in these same frequency bands, in contrast, correlates with longer co-firing latencies and occurs during memory failure. …”

An Efficient EAP-Based Pre-Authentication for Inter-WRAN Handover in TV White Space by Wang, Cong, Ma, Maode, Zhang, Lei

“…The IEEE 802.22 standard regulates wireless regional area network (WRAN) operating at the very high frequency and ultrahigh frequency television white space (TVWS) bands. WRAN supports extensible authentication protocol (EAP)-based authentication schemes. …”
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A circular ferrofluid driven microchip for rapid polymerase chain reaction by Sun, Yi, Kwok, Yien Chian, Nguyen, Nam-Trung

“…A small ferrofluid plug, containing sub-domain magnetic particles in a liquid carrier, is driven by an external magnet along the circular microchannel, which in turn propels the PCR mixture through three temperature zones. Amplification of a 500 bp lambda DNA fragment has been demonstrated on the polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) PCR microchip fabricated by CO2 laser ablation and bonded by a low pressure, high temperature technique. …”
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Compositionally graded alloys fabricated using the laser powder bed fusion technique by Wei, Siyuan

“…Two types of grain morphologies and chemical segregation bands, which are either rich in Ni or in CoCrMo alloy, were observed. …”
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Synthesis of Co-doped MoS2 monolayers with enhanced valley splitting by Zhou, Jiadong, Lin, Junhao, Sims, Hunter, Jiang, Chongyun, Cong, Chunxiao, Brehm, John A., Zhang, Zhaowei, Niu, Lin, Chen, Yu, Zhou, Yao, Wang, Yanlong, Liu, Fucai, Zhu, Chao, Yu, Ting, Suenaga, Kazu, Mishra, Rohan, Pantelides, Sokrates T., Zhu, Zhen-Gang, Gao, Weibo, Liu, Zheng, Zhou, Wu

“…Density functional theory (DFT) and model calculations reveal that the observed enhanced VZS arises from an internal magnetic field induced by the tridopant clusters, which couples to the spin, atomic orbital, and valley magnetic moment of carriers from the conduction and valence bands. The present study demonstrates a new method to control the valley pseudospin via magnetic dopants in layered semiconducting materials, paving the way toward magneto-optical and spintronic devices.…”
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Self-organized canals enable long-range directed material transport in bacterial communities by Li, Ye, Liu, Shiqi, Zhang, Yingdan, Seng, Zi Jing, Xu, Haoran, Yang, Liang, Wu, Yilin

“…Using Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonies as a model system, we discover that a large-scale and temporally evolving open-channel system spontaneously develops in the colony via shear-induced banding. Fluid flows in the open channels support high-speed (up to 450 µm/s) transport of cells and outer membrane vesicles over centimeters, and help to eradicate colonies of a competing species Staphylococcus aureus. …”
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Electroencephalogram, creatine kinase, and lactate dehydrogenase responses during preslaughter handling in goats handled by trained and untrained handlers by Kumar, P., Abubakar, A. A., Adewale, M. A., Hayat, M. N., Adamu, G., Ajat, M., Goh, Y. M., Kaka, U., Sazili, A. Q.

“…Whereas no significant (p>0.05) change was recorded in the alpha, beta, delta, theta, and gamma bands activity. The goats handled by trained handlers exhibited significantly (p<0.05) lower CK and LDH concentrations than goats handled by CT and UT handlers, thereby indicating higher preslaughter stress in goats handled by CT and UT groups. …”
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Compact Substrate Integrated Waveguide Cubical Dielectric Resonator Antenna for fifth-generation applications by Nasir, Nida, Jamaluddin, Mohd. Haizal, Shahadan, Nor Hidayu, Abbas, Syed Muzahir, Ahmad, Hamza

“…A comprehensive analysis of a wideband Cubical Dielectric Resonator Antenna is presented, specifically designed for 5G-NR wireless communication applications, focusing on the N257, and N258 frequency bands. This antenna exhibits symmetrical radiation patterns, a wider bandwidth, improved efficiency, and substantial gain characteristics. …”

Efficient multi-scale representation of visual objects using a biologically plausible spike-latency code and winner-take-all inhibition by Sanchez-Garcia, Melani, Chauhan, Tushar, Cottereau, Benoit R., Beyeler, Michael

“…We investigate how the quality of the represented objects changes under different SF bands and WTA-I schemes. We demonstrate that a network of 200 spiking neurons tuned to three SFs can efficiently represent objects with as little as 15 spikes per neuron. …”
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Magmatic Na-rich phlogopite in a suite of gabbroic crustal xenoliths from Volcán San Pedro, Chilean Andes : evidence for a solvus relation between phlogopite and aspidolite by Costa, Fidel, Dungan, Michael, Singer, Brad S.

“…This, together with the observation that phlogopites consist of alternating Na-rich and Na-poor cleavage-parallel bands, can be best interpreted by the presence of a solvus between the aspidolite (Na) and phlogopite (K) end-members. …”
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Evaluating slope stability using regional water balance analysis by Rangarajan, Saranya

“…Therefore, the primary objective of this study is to perform regional three-dimensional (3D) water balance analyses using GEOtop software to evaluate the VWC changes in the soil under extreme rainfall conditions for three zones in Singapore. The water balance results from the extreme rainfall analyses were used to perform regional slope stability analyses using Scoops3D to obtain the factor of safety (FOS) maps. …”
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