Effects of high loading rate on reinforced concrete beams by Fujikake, Kazunori, Adhikary, Satadru Das, Li, Bing

“…To supplement the limited literature in this field, 24 RC beams were tested under four different loading rates ranging from slow (4 × 10–4 m/s) to fast (2 m/s) to cover the wide range of loading scenarios (quasi-static, earthquakes, and impact regime). Comparative analyses of RC beams under these varying loading rates highlighted several key aspects of their dynamic behavior.…”
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Geometric tuning of charge and spin correlations in manganite superlattices by Rogdakis, K., Viskadourakis, Z., Petrović, A. P., Choi, E., Lee, J., Panagopoulos, C.

“…Our results demonstrate the ability to geometrically tune the electrical transport between regimes dominated by either charge or spin correlations.…”
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Variational study of the two‐impurity spin–boson model with a common Ohmic bath : ground‐state phase transitions by Zhou, Nengji, Zhang, Yuyu, Lü, Zhiguo, Zhao, Yang

“…Moreover, the ground‐state phase transition is inferred to be of first order in the presence of strong antiferromagnetic spin–spin coupling, at variance with that in the ferromagnetic regime or in the absence of spin–spin coupling where the transition belongs to the Kosterlitz–Thouless universality class.…”
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Tailored text augmentation for sentiment analysis by Feng, Zijian, Zhou, Hanzhang, Zhu, Zixiao, Mao, Kezhi

“…Extensive experiments on simulated low-data regimes demonstrate that TTA yields notable improvements over six strong baselines. …”
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Ultrastrong exciton-plasmon couplings in WS2 multilayers synthesized with a random multi-singular metasurface at room temperature by Wu, Tingting, Wang, Chongwu, Hu, Guangwei, Wang, Zhixun, Zhao, Jiaxin, Wang, Zhe, Chaykun, Ksenia, Liu, Lin, Chen, Mengxiao, Li, Dong, Zhu, Song, Xiong, Qihua, Shen, Zexiang, Gao, Huajian, Garcia-Vidal, Francisco J., Wei, Lei, Wang, Qi Jie, Luo, Yu

“…Boosting their interaction with light is vital for practical applications, especially in the quantum regime where ultrastrong coupling is highly demanded but not yet realized. …”
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Electricity sector deregulation and consumer protection: assessing the imperatives of a competition: Assessing the imperatives of a competition law and competition regulatory autho... by Usman, Dahiru Jafaru, Yaacob, Nurli, A. Rahman, Aspalella

“…Literature abounds on the high risk of the electricity sector deregulation and the susceptibility of the deregulated electricity markets to manipulations and abuse by the electricity service providers.For better and fair market operations and the protection of consumers’ interest, the paper adopts the doctrinal research approach and assesses the imperatives of competition law and competition structures in the deregulated Nigerian electricity market.The paper found that the Nigerian experiment took off without the necessary consumer protection structures such as a competition law and competition regulatory agency leaving the electricity consumers at the mercy of the electricity service providers.The paper concludes that the country urgently needs a comprehensive competition regime to guarantee consumer benefits and to prevent substituting public monopoly with a private monopoly in the new Nigerian electricity market.…”
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GPU-Oriented Algorithms for Continuous Energy Monte Carlo Neutron Transport by Ridley, Gavin

“…Through three asymptotic arguments covering different resonant behavior regimes, we show that the normal inverse Gaussian distribution is the natural choice for modeling the total neutron cross-section distribution. …”
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Dynamics of a self-interacting sheet in shear flow by Funkenbusch, William T., Silmore, Kevin S., Doyle, Patrick S.

“…We use kinetic and energetic arguments to explain why sheets adopt certain conformations within the folded regime. Finally, we calculate the stresslet and find that, even in the absence of thermal fluctuations and multiple sheet interactions, shear-thinning followed by shear-thickening behavior can appear.…”
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Learning from the Nordic Welfare Model : what and how? by Xiong, Jieru

“…Thus, the notion that there must be a trade-off between economic performance and a more aggressive welfare regime should be examined more thoroughly. The debate for policy makers should perhaps be framed with regard to where the balance should be between growth and equity rather than a trade-off. …”
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Hydrodynamic stability of flow over Kramer-type compliant surface by Tan, Shi Nguan.

“…Reynolds number was calculated to test the flow regime and was used to determine the drag coefficients. …”
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Atomic transistors beyond Moore's law by Li, Haifeng

“…Schottky barrier and carrier transport regime at the metal/semiconductor interface is modified by forming a van der Waals heterostructure, which causes the reduction of the contact resistance of the device. …”
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A computational study of spin glasses and its spin coupling interactions by Wong, Yi Ren

“…These models may be differentiated from one another by the critical temperature and critical exponents measured or calculated from experiments and simulations which give rise to different universality classes in different regimes. We will explore in this thesis the critical phenomena of two separate new SG models − The Spin Glass Cellular Automata (SGCA) model and the Heterogeneous Spin Glass (HSG) model while reviewing other known SG models studied in literature. …”
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Smart sensor-based pillbox for polypharmacy management by Kum, Brandon Zhi Wei

“…The inability to conform to regular medication regime has always been the main issue when it comes to increased hospitality and mortality rate in the world, especially to patients with long term illness such hypertension, dementia, cardiovascular disease and mental disorders. …”
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A principles-led approach to information assurance and governance in local government by Brett, Mark

“…This practice-based paper explores a principles-led approach to cyber information governance for local authorities (LAs) in England and Wales, while linking it to a corporate information governance regime to support cyber security and resilience. Over the past 15 years the author has worked with several LA regional cyber security groups known as WARPs (Warning, Advice and Reporting Points). …”

FedCBO: reaching group consensus in clustered Federated learning through Consensus-Based Optimization by Carrillo, JA, Trillos, NG, Li, S, Zhu, Y

“…Our model is motivated by rigorous mathematical reasoning, including a mean field analysis describing the large number of particles limit of our particle system, as well as convergence guarantees for the simultaneous global optimization of general non-convex objective functions (corresponding to the loss functions of each cluster of users) in the mean-field regime. Experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of our FedCBO algorithm compared to other state-of-the-art methods and help validate our methodological and theoretical work.…”

Understanding trends in social fluidity in western europe: class structural change and the OED triangle by Goldthorpe, J, Bukodi, E

“…Where downward mobility increases, the growing motivation and the capacity of more advantaged parents to protect their children against déclassement constitutes a powerful source of resistance to change in endogenous mobility regimes.…”

Laboratory realization of relativistic pair-plasma beams by Arrowsmith, CD, Simon, P, Bilbao, PJ, Bott, AFA, Burger, S, Chen, H, Cruz, FD, Davenne, T, Efthymiopoulos, I, Froula, DH, Goillot, A, Gudmundsson, JT, Haberberger, D, Halliday, JWD, Hodge, T, Huffman, BT, Iaquinta, S, Miniati, F, Reville, B, Sarkar, S, Schekochihin, AA, Silva, LO, Simpson, R, Stergiou, V, Trines, RMGM, Charitonidis, N, Bingham, R, Gregori, G

“…Our work opens up the possibility of directly probing the microphysics of pair plasmas beyond quasi-linear evolution into regimes that are challenging to simulate or measure via astronomical observations.…”

Switched neural networks for simultaneous learning of multiple functions. by Önder Efe, Mehmet, Kürkçü, Burak, Kasnakoǧlu, Coşku, Mohamed, Zaharuddin, Zhijie, Liu

“…Our studies show that a small sized neural network structure with an appropriate switching regime is able to learn multiple functions successfully. …”

Determination of Optimal Shot Peen Forming Patterns Using the Theory of Non-Euclidean Plates by Sushitskii, Vladislav, van Rees, Wim M., Levesque, Martin, Gosselin, Frederick P.

“…Both problems admit using multiple peening regimes simultaneously. The algorithm was tested numerically on 200 randomly generated test cases.…”
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Highly efficient and salt rejecting solar evaporation via a wick-free confined water layer by Zhang, Lenan, Li, Xiangyu, Zhong, Yang, Leroy, Arny, Xu, Zhenyuan, Zhao, Lin, Wang, Evelyn N

“…More notably, there exists a regime enabling simultaneous thermal localization and salt rejection, i.e., natural convection significantly accelerates salt rejection while inducing negligible additional heat loss. …”
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