Creep behavior of EPS composite soil by Gao, HongMei, Chen, Yumin, Liu, HanLong, Liu, JinYuan, Chu, Jian

“…In this paper, the results of a series of oedometer creep tests and triaxial undrained creep tests on EPS composite soil were presented. Four main influencing factors were identified and their effects on the creep behaviors of EPS composite soil were studied. …”
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Project performance framework for stakeholder of residential construction project by Abolghasemi, Maryam

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Budget allocation management model for seismic rehabilitation of infrastructure assets. by Mohammadreza Yadollahi

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"You know, what is overspending" : working with compulsive buying : a critical discursive account by Parnes, Harriette Sophie

“…The transcripts were analysed using critical discursive psychology, a branch of Discourse Analysis. Findings Four main discourses were elicited from the data: ‘it’s self medicating’, ‘how should I work with this?’…”
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State estimators in soft sensing and sensor fusion for sustainable manufacturing by McAfee, Marion, Kariminejad, Mandana, Weinert, Albert, Huq, Saif, Stigter, Johannes D., Tormey, David

“…In this paper we introduce the concepts and main methods of state estimation and review recent applications in improving the sustainability of manufacturing processes. …”
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Oral history in UK doctoral research: extent of use and researcher preparedness for emotionally demanding work by Calabria, Verusca, Harding, Jenny, Meiklejohn, Louise

“…This article presents the findings from a recent mixed-method pilot study which explored (1) the extent of use of oral history in doctoral research both as a main methodology and a supplementary method of data collection, and (2) the conceptual, ethical, and practical needs of doctoral students engaging with oral history. …”
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Effect of metabolite and temperature on artificial human sweat characteristics over a very wide frequency range (400 MHz–10.4 GHz) for wireless hydration diagnostic sensors by Lubangakene, Innocent, Virdee, Bal Singh, Jayanthi, Renu, Ganguly, Priyanka

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Circular value creation through environmental entrepreneurship initiatives: a case-based exploration by Mohapatra, Subhalaxmi, Roy, Subhadip, Upadhyay, Arvind, Kumar, Anil

“…The analysis of the case and within case patterns (three subcases) illustrates circular entrepreneurship as a process with motivation, action and value creation as three main stages. The motivation of the entrepreneur leads to several actions related to business processes that are aimed at circular value creation. …”
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Road surface analysis through machine learning techniques by Singh, Prabhat, Sharma, Shilpi, Kamal, Ahmed E., Kumar, Sunil

“…In developing countries, the main challenge is to maintain road conditions regularly. …”
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Hyperbolic volume estimates via train tracks by De Capua, A

“…The required distance is then, up to constants, the number of splits occurring in the untwisted sequence. A consequence of our main theorem together with a result of Brock is that, given a pseudo-Anosov self-diffeomorphism ψ of a surface S, the maximal splitting sequence introduced by Agol gives us an estimate for the hyperbolic volume of the mapping torus built from S and ψ. …”

Rhodium-catalysed carbon-carbon bond formation and carbon-sulfur bond functionalisation by Bouisseau, A

“…</p> <p><b>Chapter 1</b> provides an overview of the two main areas of research discussed in this thesis that include the key developments in the field of intra- and intermolecular rhodium-catalysed hydroacylation, and the major advances in cross-coupling reactions <em>via</em> the catalytic cleavage of carbon-sulfur bonds.…”

Expressions of Ionianness in the Roman period by Hallmannsecker, M

“…They also continued to hold common meetings and festivals as members of the Ionian Koinon, which can still be seen as the main focal point of Ionianness in the Roman period. …”

Certifiers make neural networks vulnerable to availability attacks by Lorenz, T, Kwiatkowska, M, Fritz, M

“…In addition to naturally occurring abstains for some inputs and perturbations, the adversary can use training-time attacks to deliberately trigger the fallback with high probability. This transfers the main system load onto the fallback, reducing the overall system's integrity and/or availability. …”

Changes in the phenomenon of icon-painting in Romania from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present day by Draghici-Vasilescu, N

“…<p>The thesis aims to prove, on the one hand that the second half of the nineteenth century was the period of maximum deviation from the traditional Romanian style of icon-painting and, on the other hand, that the process following the Romanian Orthodox Church's Synod of 1889, in spite of the proclaimed return to a pure Byzantine style, actually has involved the coexistence of at least two main styles of painting: Eastern Mannerist of Byzantine lineage and Western Mannerist of <em>Renaissance</em> persuasion. …”

Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada by Fiander, J, Walker, C, Rowlands, IH, Devine-Wright, P, Wilson, C, Soutar, I, Gupta, R

“…Through descriptive statistics and t-tests, we sought to answer three main questions: i) To what extent does the public support energy democracy via new local energy systems? …”

Simulating impacts of reducing subsidies to Kuwait’s electricity sector by Gelan, A

“…This article will shed some light on the likely impacts of the envisaged reform and summarizes some of our main conclusions from a forthcoming study, whose objective is to quantify economy-wide impacts of public utility reform that may start by targeting the reduction of electricity subsidies. …”

AXES at TRECVID 2012: KIS, INS, and MED by Aly, R, Mcguinness, K, Chen, S, O'Conner, NE, Chatfield, K, Parkhi, OM, Arandjelović, R, Zisserman, A, Fernando, B, Tuytelaars, T, Oneata, D, Douze, M, Revaud, J, Schwenninger, J, Potapov, D, Wang, H, Harchaoui, Z, Verbeek, J, Schmid, C

“…Our MED system achieved the second-best score of all submitted runs in the main track, and best score in the ad-hoc track, suggesting that a simple system based on state-of-the-art low-level descriptors can give relatively high performance. …”

Sampling from the random cluster model on random regular graphs at all temperatures via Glauber dynamics by Galanis, A, Goldberg, L, Smolarova, P

“…Nevertheless, it is widely conjectured that the bottleneck phenomena that impede mixing from worst-case starting configurations can be avoided by initialising the chain more judiciously. Our main result establishes this conjecture for all sufficiently large q (with respect to Δ). …”

'(Un)richtige Aufnahme': Renaissance sculpture and the visual historiography of art history by Johnson, GA

“…asked Heinrich Wölfflin in the titles of three ground-breaking articles on the subject published in 1896–97 and 1915 (plate 1).1 Few art historians have seriously considered the question, not just in regard to photographing Italian Renaissance sculpture, which was Wölfflin's main concern in these publications, but works of art in general.2 Examining both how and why art works have been photographed and otherwise reproduced, however, can tell us a great deal about what one might call the ‘visual historiography’ of art history as a discipline. …”

‘It's the little things that count’: healthcare professionals’ views on delivering dignified care: a qualitative study by Williams, V, Kinnear, D, Victor, C

“…<p><b>Findings</b></p> Forty-eight healthcare professionals took part in this interview based study. Two main themes that encapsulated how care and dignity in care is enacted by professionals were identified: focusing on the ‘little’ things that matter to both professionals and patients; and improving care by making poor care ‘visible’. …”