Effects of infilled wall opening on load resisting capacity of RC frames to mitigate progressive collapse risk by Qian, Kai, Lan, Dong-Qiu, Fu, Feng, Li, Bing

“…Moreover, the infilled walls with or without openings may change the position of rebar fracture of the beams. Thus, it was incorrect to simplify multi-story infilled frames into single-story substructures.…”
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Stability of laminated composites with delaminations by Yap, Chun Wee

“…In this thesis, investigation on buckling problem of composite beam is carried out. A new formula which is denoted as CLT method 3 is derived to calculate the effective flexural stiffness of the thin composite beam. …”
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Damage identification by using a self-synchronizing multipoint laser doppler vibrometer by Miao, Hong, Zhu, Changchun, Yang, Chong, Fu, Yu, Yuan, Jianmin, Guo, Min, Yan, Keyu, Liu, Huan

“…In this paper, a damage detection technique is proposed using a self-synchronizing multipoint LDV. Multiple laser beams with various frequency shifts are projected on different points of the object, reflected and interfered with a common reference beam. …”
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Target Design and Optimizations for Spent Fuel Transmutation by Tukharyan, Grigor

“…This thesis examines the feasibility of using proton beams to transmute LLFPs into shorterlived or stable isotopes. …”
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OSPC: Multimodal Harmful Content Detection using Fine-tuned Language Models by Cai, Bill

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An evaluation of the RecycleNSave initiative in Singapore by Ho, Xin Rui

“…This paper also identifies flaws in the design and implementation of RecycleNSave, and proposes recommendations to improve its effectiveness through increasing publicity efforts, change in reward options, lowering of redemption criteria, change in location of RVMs and introducing data-based scheduled checks on RVMs.…”
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Tournaments of financial analysts by Yin, Huifang, Zhang, Huai

“…This finding survives several robustness checks and is more pronounced when the interim assessment date is closer to the end of the tournament period, when analysts are inexperienced, and when the market activity is high. …”
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Can good ESG performance help companies resist external shocks? by Yang, Xin, Sheikh Hassan, Ahmad Fahmi, Karbhari, Yusuf

“…Our results remain robust even after a series of rigorous robustness checks.…”
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Analysis and design recommendations for structures strengthened by prestressed bonded Fe-SMA by Li, Lingzhen, Wang, Sizhe, Chatzi, Eleni, Motavalli, Masoud, Ghafoori, Elyas

“…In this study, a symmetric strengthening model and an asymmetric strengthening model are developed to analyze the prestress level in steel and glass beams and plates strengthened by bonded Fe-SMA strips. …”
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Coherently tunable triangular trefoil phaseonium metamaterial by Soci, Cesare, Nguyen, Duc Minh, Ooi, Raymond C. H.

“…Phaseonium is a three-level Λ quantum system, in which a coherent microwave and an optical control (pump) beams can be used to actively modulate the dielectric response. …”
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Experiment and analysis of a hybrid composite post-tension plate girder by Al Mustawfi, Sahib, Safiee, Nor Azizi, Abu Bakar, Nabilah, Abd Karim, Izian, Mohd Nasir, Noor Azline

“…They are typically made up of built-up sections in the shape of I-beams. Web and flange plates withstand shear force and bending moment, respectively. …”
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Single-Shot Decoding of Good Quantum LDPC Codes by Gu, Shouzhen, Tang, Eugene, Caha, Libor, Choe, Shin Ho, He, Zhiyang, Kubica, Aleksander

“…Quantum Tanner codes constitute a family of quantum low-density parity-check codes with good parameters, i.e., constant encoding rate and relative distance. …”
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Active Learning for Inference and Regeneration of Applications that Access Databases by Shen, Jiasi, Rinard, Martin

“…Konure also implements a regenerator that produces a translated Python implementation of the application that systematically includes relevant security and error checks.…”
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Inherently vulnerable? Ethnic geography and the intensity of violence in the Bosnian civil war by Di Salvatore, J

“…The results remain robust when accounting for the presence of the UN peacekeeping mission (UNPROFOR) and across several robustness checks.…”

Building SenticNet 7 by Perh, Zhi Hao

“…The error checking program utilizes the keyword extractor, sentiment analysis and synonyms functions. …”
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Prescriptive analytics models for vessel inspection planning in maritime transportation by Yang, Ying, Yan, Ran., Wang, Shuaian

“…The inspection process involves identifying high-risk vessels, allocating surveyors, and conducting onboard checks. This study aims to optimize the selection and assignment process through a two-stage framework, balancing the benefits of identifying deficiencies against the costs of inspection delays. …”
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Spatial aliasing effects in a steerable parametric loudspeaker for stereophonic sound reproduction by Shi, Chuang, Nomura, Hideyuki, Kamakura, Tomoo, Gan, Woon-Seng

“…We are motivated to make use of the spatial aliasing effects to create two sound beams from one unit of the steerable parametric loudspeaker. …”
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Non-Abelian adiabatic geometric transformations in a cold strontium gas by Leroux, Frederic, Miniatura, Christian, Grémaud, Benoît, Wilkowski, David, Rebhi, Riadh, Pandey, K., Chevy, F.

“…It leads to a thermometry method based on the interferometric displacement of atoms in the tripod beams.…”
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Blockchain for RegTech: streamlining know your customer (KYC) pipelines by Tan, Valerie Huiying

“…With Decentralised Finance being developed to replace traditional financial services and transactions of virtual land being conducted on the Metaverse, these ecosystems often involve large amounts of money and require regulatory compliance checks. This calls for a solution that can interoperate effectively with these emerging technologies. …”
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The midlife crisis by Giuntella, Osea, McManus, Sally, Mujcic, Redzo, Oswald, Andrew J., Powdthavee, Nattavudh, Tohamy, Ahmed

“…Instead the paper uses panel and through-time data on, in total, approximately 500,000 individuals. It checks that the key results are not due to cohort effects. …”
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