Progressive collapse of reinforced concrete building structures by Dat, Pham Xuan

“…The associated rotationally-restrained but laterally-unrestrained boundary condition of the test specimens was effected by a set of pinned-end supporting columns. Uniformly distributed loads were simulated by a twelve-point loading system. …”
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Innovative UWB phase shifters using groove gap-waveguide technology inspired by metasurfaces for beamforming networks operating at 100 GHz by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Zidour, Ali, Virdee, Bal Singh, Kouhalvandi, Lida, Shahid, Saleem, See, Chan Hwang, Limiti, Ernesto

“…The metasurface features a "bed-of-nails" structure, where metal pins are connected to a bottom layer and spaced <λ/4 from a top plate. …”
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A New Formulation for Optimising Coal Procurement in Power Generation by Ibrahim, Jafni Azhan, Hashim, Amir

“…Firstly, in determining the RoP, this paper takes into consideration the relationship between Non-delivery Probability Table (NdPT) and Supply Shortage Impact (SSI) and quantifies the RoP in monetary terms. The NdPT illustrates the probability of shortage from a particular procurement portfolio, whilst the SSI reflects the cost of shortages. …”
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Dragonfly (Sympetrum flaveolum) flight : kinematic measurement and modelling by Chen, Y. H., Martin, Skote., Zhao, Y., Huang, W. M.

“…Such arrangement also eases the difficulties in rotating the wing during pronation by bending the leading edge forward and flattening the wing. …”
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Optimization of transition maneuvers through aerodynamic vectoring by Maqsood, Adnan., Go, Tiauw Hiong.

“…Compared to the fixed-wing aircraft case, the angle of incidence of the wing provides an additional independent control variable in the optimization problem formulation. …”
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Analysis and design of curved steel beam member in elevation using Eurocode 3 by Yandarmadi, Kelvin

“…Its versatile characteristics make curved structures are utilized in various areas, from equipment up to large span structure such as airport terminal and bridge. …”
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Butterfly-like micro air vehicle by Yang, Xiaobin

“…Butterfly cannot hover, but it has unique aerodynamic characteristics such as undulating body motion and low wing loading. Development of flapping wing micro air vehicle is mainly focus on the hovering birds and inserts. …”
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Survival of mammoths (Mammuthus sp.) into the Late Pleistocene in Southwestern British Columbia (Vancouver Island), Canada by Termes, L, Keddie, G, Hebda, R, Trask, P, Arbour, V, Speller, C, Paskulin, L, Ramsey, C, Richards, MR

“…These later new dates support other lines of evidence for portions of Vancouver Island remaining unglaciated towards the end of Late Pleistocene.…”

Home automation system using Raspberry Pi by Wang, Yangyang

“…Through out this project, student will gain knowledge in areas such as understand Raspberry Pi’s background; Raspberry Pi’s command lines; how to control GPIO pins; how to use PuTTY to remotely access the Raspberry Pi; understand web server Apache and PHP; understand WinSCP and how to transfer files with it; have the knowledge of web interface design, understand HTML5, CSS, PHP and JavaScript and be able to do electrical wiring and mechanical modification for the equipment required in the project.…”
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To determine the effect of peening on residual stresses by Chan, Yiu Wing., Fok, Wing Chau.

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PAS : balancing inclusion and tradition by Afif Pasuni

“…The Islamic Party of Malaysia is reaching out to non-Muslim voters by forming a new wing of non- Muslim supporters, promoting good governance and playing down the Islamic state. …”
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Fluid to composite structure interaction by Tan, Melvyn Han Xiang.

“…Fabrication of the mount and the wing was done and initial designs were drawn out using the Solidworks program. …”
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Deciphering the Role of a Coleopteran Steering Muscle via Free Flight Stimulation by Sato, Hirotaka, Vo Doan, Tat Thang, Kolev, Svetoslav, Huynh, Ngoc Anh, Zhang, Chao, Massey, Travis L., van Kleef, Joshua, Ikeda, Kazuo, Abbeel, Pieter, Maharbiz, Michel M.

“…We investigated the role of a muscle involved in wing articulation during flight in a coleopteran. …”
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When Islamists play by the rules yet change the game by Chan, Wen Ling

“…The recent upgrading of the PAS Supporters Club to a legal entity, complete with party constitution amendments that recognize the new wing, not only makes the PAS promise of “PAS for all” selffulfilling, it provides the party an opportunity to lead the change away from race-based politicking.…”
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DEWP: deep expansion learning for wind power forecasting by Fan, W, Fu, Y, Zheng, S, Bian, J, Zhou, Y, Xiong, H

“…To this end, we propose&nbsp;<em>DEWP</em>, a novel&nbsp;<em><span data-="">D</span>eep&nbsp;<span data-="">E</span>xpansion learning for&nbsp;<span data-="">W</span>ind&nbsp;<span data-="">P</span>ower forecasting</em>&nbsp;framework to carefully model the complicated dependencies with adequate expressiveness. …”

Nonlinear modelling and control of a quadplane by Sheikh Moheed Muzaffar

“…Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) capabilities of fixed-wing UAV is currently being researched because of its ability to takeoff/land like rotor-craft, yet transition to forward flight like a fixed-wing. …”
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Effect of dopant solubility and excess doping on the superconducting properties of doped Nb3Sn prepared by field assisted sintering technique by Srivastava, N, Matthews, GAB, Liu, J, Speller, SC, Grovenor, CRM, Santra, S

“…The Y₂O₃&nbsp;particles was also considered as a possible cause of pinning down of grain boundaries in addition to NbO leading to grain refinement through Zener pinning. …”

Three-dimensional scour at submarine pipelines by Wu, Yushi.

“…Stage II deals with the study of the mechanics of scouring at the span shoulder of the pipeline. Based on the observations and data from Stage I, the hydrodynamic force and differential pressure at the span shoulder are considered the two driving forces of pipeline-scour in the transverse direction of flow. …”
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Design and test of synthetic jet actuator for small UAVS by Du, Jiaxing.

“…Besides flow visualization demonstrates actuators’ capability to suppress flow separation on LS (1)-0421 wing model. This lays the foundation for its potential application on unmanned aerial vehicle.…”
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Labour pains: mothers and motherhood on the British left in the twentieth century by Riley, CL, Jenkins, L, Baughan, E

“…British left-wing politics does not know what to think about mothers. …”