Seismic performance of RC structural squat walls with limited transverse reinforcement by Xiang, Weizheng

“…These squat walls are usually detailed according to current provisions and reinforced against the shear by either conventionally or by adding additional cross-inclined bidiagonal bars to achieve the full ductile behavior of the RC member. …”
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Evaluation of high-strength concrete interior beam-column joints under simulated seismic loading by Leong, Chee Lai

“…The congestion of reinforcement in a high strength concrete beam-column joint can be improved when the usage of larger bars are allowed.…”
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Dose verification of 3D printed male pelvic phantom for radiotherapy quality assurance by Maniam, Peraveen M

“…CT profiles at 90 kV, 120 kV, and 140 kV exhibited consistent gray values with small variation and overlapping standard error bars, indicating high uniformity in the 3D printing. …”
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Point cloud based place recognition and localization for autonomous robots using deep learning by Fang, Shu

“…Localization is of paramount importance for robots such as self-driving cars and drones to achieve full autonomy, especially when GPS signals are unavailable. …”
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Target detection and estimation using a stereo vision camera for autonomous navigation by Chow, Song Qian.

“…Such cameras have been used to aid in the navigation of autonomous vehicles like cars and kayaks. One of these functions which this project focuses on is to detect possible targets / objects in a controlled environment and to provide rough distance and direction estimation from the autonomous vehicle to the intended object. …”
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Research on electric vehicle charging safety warning model based on back propagation neural network optimized by improved gray wolf algorithm by Zhang, Liang, Gao, Tian, Cai, Guowei, Koh, Leong Hai

“…However, as the number of new energy cars grows, new energy vehicle safety concerns are becoming more evident, posing a major threat to drivers' lives and property and limiting the industry's growth. …”
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Comparison of Machine Learning-Based Methods for Narrowband Blind Adaptive Beamforming by Shonkwiler, Lara

“…Traditional blind source separation methods such as CMA, SOBI, JADE, and FastICA tend to be highly effective at beamforming datasets with moderate to large sample supports, but they do not perform well when they only have access to a limited number of data samples. They also bear the disadvantage that the appropriate algorithm must be selected based on the properties of the expected signal. …”
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Long contraction scour by Koh, Chun Wei

“…These scour holes will affect the structure stability and its lateral bearing capacity, which eventually leads to the collapse of the bridge. …”
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Easing the “second-shift” burden : grandparental childcare and the subjective wellbeing of working mothers in Singapore by Cheo, Rachel Ka Yang

“…However, it is still common for working mothers to bear the brunt of both domestic and paid work. In the present study, I explored the role of grandparents as providers of childcare for their grandchildren in contemporary Singapore. …”
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Vinyl sulfone functionalized injectable thermogels for facile peptide coupling by Oei, John Xin Jian

“…Divinyl sulfone (DVS) is a promising candidate to link the polymer and an adhesion ligand containing the thiol bearing peptide cysteine via thiol-Michael addition due its efficiency and mild reaction conditions. …”
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Creation of a sensor to measure strain of highly deformable solids by Serjouei, Ahmad

“…On most helicopters and fixed wing airplanes, there are other flight critical components that are not made of metal and composites, but made of rubber such as rubber bearings, rubber lead-lag dampers and rubber engine mounts which also require stress monitoring. …”
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The other side of the Elbe River: interventions in art, modernity, and coloniality in Poland by Michalska, DJ

“…<p>The artistic practices of Zofia Stryjeńska (1891-1976), Władysław Hasior, (1928-1999), Teresa Murak (1949-) and Roman Stańczak (1969-) all bear testimony – in their own distinct ways – to the ‘shock of the new’, the massive rupture brought by modernisation and capitalism in twentieth-century Poland. …”

Polyfluorinated crosslinker-based solid polymer electrolytes for long-cycling 4.5 V lithium metal batteries by Tang, Lingfei, Chen, Bowen, Zhang, Zhonghan, Ma, Changqi, Chen, Junchao, Huang, Yage, Zhang, Fengrui, Dong, Qingyu, Xue, Guoyong, Chen, Daiqian, Hu, Chenji, Li, Shuzhou, Liu, Zheng, Shen, Yanbin, Chen, Qi, Chen, Liwei

“…However, typical SPEs with easily oxidized oxygen-bearing polar groups exhibit narrow electrochemical stability window (ESW), making it impractical to increase specific capacity and energy density of SPE based LMBs with charging cut-off voltage of 4.5 V or higher. …”
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Safety assessment of autonomous vehicles using simulations by Ketki, Chaudhary

“…Since the past few decades, researchers from both automotive and technology industries have focussed their attention on developing vehicles that could drive themselves, so that travel would be less challenging, free from human driver errors and the roads safer for everyone. Self-driving cars are envisioned as robots capable of precise driving, never getting distracted, abiding to all the traffic rules and being able to compute the probability of an imminent collision well in advance. …”
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Behave The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst / by Sapolsky, Robert M., author 656050, Penguin Random House (Online service) 655978

“…Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy. …”
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Optimizing material selection for brushed DC motor components using the VIKOR method: A comprehensive performance evaluation by Muhammad Nor Azril, Zulkafli, Mohd Azri Hizami, Rasid, Daing Mohamad Nafiz, Daing Idris

“…Results showed that the optimal material combination, consisting of a ferrite magnet, Al 356-T6 casing, chrome steel bearing, metal graphite brush, and nylon insulation, reduced winding temperature by 20 ℃ in a 5A copper losses test. …”
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Basic geotechnical characteristic of soft clay stabilised with cockle shell ash and silica fume by Suwito, Anang Rustanto, Muzamir, Hasan, Muhammad Syamsul Imran, Zaini

“…Soft clay soils can present challenges such as expansion, high malleability, limited water flow, and reduced load-bearing capability especially in areas with periodic rainfall. …”
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Object individuation and physical reasoning in infancy : an integrative account by Baillargeon, Renée, Stavans, Maayan, Wu, Di, Gertner, Yael, Setoh, Peipei, Kittredge, Audrey K., Bernard, Amélie

“…In this article, we argue that this confusing picture can be better understood by bringing to bear insights from a related subfield of infancy research, physical reasoning. …”
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Balanced callose and cellulose biosynthesis in Arabidopsis quorum-sensing signaling and pattern-triggered immunity by Liu, Xiaolin, Ma, Zhiming, Tran, Tuan Minh, Rautengarten, Carsten, Cheng, Yingying, Yang, Liang, Ebert, Berit, Persson, Staffan, Miao, Yansong

“…Notably, callose and cellulose biosynthesis share an initial substrate, UDP-glucose, which is the main load-bearing component of the CW. However, how these 2 critical biosynthetic processes are balanced during plant-pathogen interactions remains unclear. …”
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Aluminium(I) anion-supported zero-valent palladium complexes by Yan, Chenting, Koshino, Kota, Zhu, Lizhao, Kinjo, Rei

“…Although transition-metal complexes bearing group 13 ligands are accessible via salt metathesis with these anions, zero-valent transition-metal complexes have never been reported. …”
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