Numerical investigation of mineralogical composition effect on strength and micro-cracking behavior of crystalline rocks by Wong, Louis Ngai Yuen, Peng, Jun, Teh, Cee Ing

“…Two mechanisms are identified to initiate the nearly vertical macroscopic fractures which are generated in tension. …”
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Camera domain transfer for video-based person re-identification by Ding, Bangjie

“…Compared to the baseline, the proposed method achieves a nearly 10-point improvement in the mean average precision (mAP), with Rank-5 and Rank-10 achieving 97.6% and 99.1% accuracy, respectively. …”
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Efficient FPGA realization of inner-products of variable vectors by Yan, Yi

“…From the analytical results in this report, it is shown that proposed structures for input word-lengths L = 8 and L = 16, respectively are nearly 5.4% and 36% faster than the reference design (conventional multiplier-based implementation) in average for different inner-product length (N = 8, 16, 32 and 64). …”
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Maximizing airport runway throughput via sequencing arrival schedule by Lin, Chuanwen

“…As a result of this growth, there is a substantial increase in delay at nearly all major airports. Conventional approaches to accommodate the increase in air traffic include building new airports and adding new runways at existing airports. …”
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Slip on the Superstition Hills fault and on nearby faults associated with the 24 November 1987 Elmore Ranch and Superstition Hills earthquakes, southern California by Sieh, Kerry, McGill, Sally F., Allen, Clarence R., Hudnut, Kenneth W., Johnson, David C., Miller, Wayne F.

“…Despite this initial wide distribution of slip, nearly all of the postseismic slip is occurring on the main fault trace. …”
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Essays on the market for corporate bonds by Levonmaa, A

“…This study uses a large dataset of corporate bond transactions from the TRACE database for the US corporate bond market, combined with credit rating changes from Fitch, Moody's and Standard and Poor's (S&P), to analyse over 22,000 bonds, coupled with approximately 28,400 rating events over nearly six years. The results show that the bond market responds to news on credit quality asymmetrically: credit rating downgrades, representing bad news for bond holders, produce the strongest response in returns, whilst upgrades do not generate a statistically significant increase in returns. …”

Two-dimensional transitional metal dichalcongenide heterostructures : interface optical properties by Zheng, ShouJun

“…In the hBN/TMDC/hBN heterostructure, e-beam induced e-h pairs can transfer to and be trapped in the middle TMDC layer, leading to increased recombination probability within the TMDC layer. …”
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Volumetric enhancement of Raman scattering for fast detection based on a silver-lined hollow-core fiber by Chu, Qian, Jin, Zhiqiang, Yu, Xingtao, Li, Caoxin, Zhang, Weihua, Ji, Wenbing, Lin, Bo, Shum, Perry Ping, Zhang, Xuping, Wang, Guanghui

“…With our proposed fiber inserted light coupling and light reflecting method, a Raman cell of 3.1 cm in length provides nearly 50 times of signal enhancement compared with direct detection using bare fiber tip. …”
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Genotype-specific expression and NLR repertoire contribute to phenotypic resistance diversity in Plantago lanceolata by Safdari, Pezhman, Höckerstedt, Layla, Brosche, Mikael, Salojärvi, Jarkko, Laine, Anna-Liisa

“…High levels of phenotypic variation in resistance appears to be nearly ubiquitous across natural host populations. …”
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Inherently separated syngas production from plastic waste fast pyrolysis integrated with volatile chemical looping conversion with CO₂ splitting by Liu, Guicai, Lisak, Grzegorz

“…Three conversion modes, i.e., redox, cracking and redox-cracking mixed modes, were evaluated using different catalyst, and found that cracking mode with Ni/Al2O3 or Ni/MgAl2O4 exhibited better fuel conversion and syngas separation performance than redox and mixed modes (using Ca2Fe2O5 and Ni/Ca2Fe2O5, respectively), achieving nearly full CO-H2 separation from the syngas product. …”
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All-sky, all-frequency directional search for persistent gravitational waves from Advanced LIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s first three observing runs by Sudhir, Vivishek

“…In addition, we outline a method to identify candidate pixel-frequency pairs that could be followed up by a more sensitive (and potentially computationally expensive) search, e.g., a matched-filtering-based analysis, to look for fainter nearly monochromatic coherent signals. The ASAF analysis is inherently independent of models describing any spectral or spatial distribution of power. …”
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Motivations for watching videos on mobile phones while driving in parking lots and while waiting at intersections in the United States by Gao, Jingkang, Jackson, Jason, Zhao, Jinhua

“…Moral norms are significant predictors of intention in the parking lot scenario. Nearly half (48%) of drivers don’t know their state laws regarding mobile phone use while driving. …”
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The Impact of Government Policies in Middle Eastern Countries on Digital Platform Startups by Ali Osman, Mohamed Mamdouh

“…For example, in Egypt, Fawry is the biggest payment service provider; it covers nearly 25% of Egyptian customers and has more than 3 million daily operations. …”
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The future of the timeshare industry : will the brands dominate? : A summary of the vacation ownership industry and an analysis of the advantages that the brands have over smaller... by Bornstein, Ethan S., 1973-

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Is Africa’s growing public debt really crowding out private investment? by Mulangu, Francis

“…Total external debt for sub-Saharan Africa jumped nearly 150% to $583 billion in 2018, from $236 billion 10 years earlier according to the World Bank. …”
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Synthesis of crystalline chalcogenide arsenates in surfactants via a low temperature route by Eashwer Umesh Athresh

“…Ever since Flanigen et. al. first reported the synthesis of zeolite like open framework in 1982, this field has grown exponentially. Nearly 25 elements of the periodic table have open framework structures attributed to them. …”
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Studies on electrochemical reforming of aqueous ethanol using proton exchange membrane for pure hydrogen production by Vignesh Sundararaj

“…Though the results obtained were not commendable m reference to the other conventional sources of hydrogen production, we decided to set up a scaled up electrolyzer cell with an active area of nearly 56.25cm2 , in order to understand about the achievable outputs during size transition. …”
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The contribution of color information to rapid face categorization in natural scenes by Or, Charles C.-F., Retter, Talia L., Rossion, Bruno

“…Behavioral analysis revealed longer response times when images contained color, despite nearly-all-correct performance in all conditions, suggesting that color change in the task might detract from color’s contribution to face categorization. …”
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Tissue and spatially resolved immune drivers of fibrotic pulmonary sarcoidosis by Weeratunga, P

“…<p>Sarcoidosis is an enigmatic disease that has puzzled physicians for nearly a century. However many groups of sarcoidosis researchers have progressively fitted the pieces of the disease puzzle together. …”

The aerodynamics of turbomachines for high–enthalpy gas heating by Karefyllidis, N

“…<p>Nearly 10% of the global energy demand is attributed to high-temperature industrial processes such as steel, cement, and petrochemicals production. …”