Non-destructive Testing and Repair of Pipelines / by Barkanov, Evgeny N., editor 655999, Dumitrescu, Andrei, editor 656000, Parinov, Ivan A., 1956-, editor 656002

“…Presenting results obtained in the European Commission's INNOPIPES FRAMEWORK 7 programme, it develops long-range ultrasonic and phased array technologies for pipeline diagnostics, and explores their interactions with discontinuities and directional properties of ultrasonic antenna array. …”
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Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends, and Strategies : Discover risk mitigation strategies for modern threats to your organization / by Rains, Tim, author 656361, Youngblood, Timothy, writer of foreword 656362, Packt Publishing (Online service) 656336

“…In this edition, you'll examine long-term trends in vulnerability disclosures and exploitation, regional differences in malware infections and the socio-economic factors that underpin them, and how ransomware evolved from an obscure threat to the most feared threat in cybersecurity. …”
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The Europa Imaging System (EIS) Investigation by Turtle, E. P., McEwen, A. S., Patterson, G. W., Ernst, C. M., Elder, C. M., Slack, K. A., Hawkins, S. E., McDermott, J., Meyer, H., DeMajistre, R., Espiritu, R., Seifert, H., Niewola, J.

“…The NAC will also perform observations at long range to search for potential erupting plumes, achieving 10-km pixel scale at a distance of one million kilometers. …”
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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

“…Hollow-core fiber-based Raman cell with long interaction length can achieve high detection sensitivity, but it also suffers from low flow rate, bulky high-pressure equipment and light coupling structure, which also restricts its application for fast detection. …”
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Punching shear strength analysis of corroded reinforcement concrete slab by Fu, Yibin

“…Sea levels are rising due to climate change, hence this parameter is of increasing importance for structures under long term corrosive environment. There will be a significant decline in the shear strength resistance in the long run. …”
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Manganese phosphate coated Li[Ni0.6Co0.2Mn0.2]O2 cathode material : towards superior cycling stability at elevated temperature and high voltage by Chen, Zhen, Kim, Guk-Tae, Guang, Yang, Bresser, Dominic, Diemant, Thomas, Huang, Yizhong, Copley, Mark, Behm, Rolf Jürgen, Passerini, Stefano, Shen, Zexiang

“…Nickel-rich Li[Ni0.6Co0.2Mn0.2]O2 is considered to be the next step forward towards the realization of high-energy lithium-ion batteries and has, thus, attracted intensive attention recently. However, achieving long-term cycling stability at elevated temperatures and voltages still remains a formidable challenge for practical applications. …”
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A collision risk assessment method for runway threshold management : a case study of Singapore Changi Airport by Ang, Haojie, Cai, Qing, Alam, Sameer

“…However, many runways suffer from long runway thresholds due to safety constraints in face of approach path obstacles, which leads to reduction in Landing Distance Available (LDA), thereby reducing runway capacity. …”
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Cold atoms laboratory in a hollow core fiber by Leong, Wui Seng

“…To avoid diffraction, I load cold atoms into a hollow-core fiber (HCF) and demonstrate four major experiments inside the fiber: inertia-sensitive Mach-Zehnder atom interferometer, long-lived quantum spin coherence, light storage and creation of an array of Schr\"odinger cat states. …”
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The cancellation heuristic in intertemporal choice shifts people's time preferences by Sengupta, Arjun, Savani, Krishna

“…The findings indicate that two features of human psychology-diminishing marginal utility and the cancellation heuristic-can be simultaneously utilized to nudge people to make decisions that would be better for them in the long run.…”
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Strong metal-support interaction boosts activity, selectivity, and stability in electrosynthesis of H₂O₂ by Zhang, Junming, Ma, Jun, Choksi, Tej S., Zhou, Daojin, Han, Shaobo, Liao, Yen-Fa, Yang, Hong Bin, Liu, Dong, Zeng, Zhiping, Liu, Wei, Sun, Xiaoming, Zhang, Tianyu, Liu, Bin

“…However, large overpotential and poor long-term stability still prohibit their usage in many reactions (e.g., oxygen evolution/reduction). …”
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Seismic loss dynamics in three Asian megacities using a macro-level approach based on socioeconomic exposure indicators by Sarica, Gizem Mestav, Pan, Tso-Chien

“…Our framework can be used to trigger discussions between scientific community and decision-makers for better long-term risk reduction and risk awareness strategies.…”
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Balancing waiting times in sequential servers appointment system using distributionally robust optimization by Goh, You Hui

“…To investigate the opposite effect of incentivizing long waits, we derive another DRO model that uses a piecewise linear concave waiting cost function. …”
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Construction of human digital twin model based on multimodal data and its application in locomotion mode identification by Zhong, Ruirui, Hu, Bingtao, Feng, Yixiong, Zheng, Hao, Hong, Zhaoxi, Lou, Shanhe, Tan, Jianrong

“…Data acquisition system is built to dynamically acquire and update the body state data and physiological data of the human body and realize the digital expression of multi-source heterogeneous human body information. A bidirectional long short-term memory and convolutional neural network (BiLSTM-CNN) based network is devised to fuse multimodal human data and extract the spatiotemporal features, and the human locomotion mode identification is taken as an application case. …”
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论包公形象在不同文本中的呈现方式 ：以陈州粜米故事为例 = An investigation on the representations of Magistrate Bao in different operatic texts on the story of “selling rice at Chen Zhou”... by 欧思敏 Au, Sze Mien

“…This paper investigates different representations of Magistrate Bao in different texts such as Yuan drama “Bao Dai Zhi Chen Zhou Tiao Mi”, Ming dynasty “Singing narrative on Bao Long Tu’s ‘Selling rice in Chen Zhou’” (Xin Kan Quan Xiang Shuo Chang Bao Long Tu Chen Zhou Tiao Mi Ji), Qing dynasty popular fiction “San Xia Wu Yi”, as well as folk operas “Chen Zhou Yuan” and “Bao Gong Gan Lu”.…”
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Low complexity and low power FIR filter design by Ye, Wenbin

“…First, the computational complexity to achieve the minimum number of adders is too high to be used in the design of long filters, and second, the number of adder criterion is too coarse and inaccurate for the minimization of power consumption. …”
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Pedestrian, cyclist and motorist behaviour and interactions at school zones by Wong, Zhi Hao

“…However in the long run, the traffic congestion issue shall improve with the announcement of Singapore’s future transition into a “car-lite” city. …”
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Rupture kinematics of the 2005 Mw 8.6 Nias-Simeulue earthquake from the joint inversion of seismic and geodetic data by Konca, A. Ozgun, Hjorleifsdottir, Vala, Song, Alex Teh-Ru, Avouac, Jean-Philippe, Ji, Chen, Sieh, Kerry, Helmberger, Don V., Briggs, Richard W., Meltzner, Aron J.

“…Source models obtained from the inversion of various combinations of the teleseismic body waves and geodetic data are evaluated by comparing predicted and observed long-period seismic waveforms (100–500 sec). Our results indicate a relatively slow average rupture velocity of 1.5 to 2.5 km/sec and long average rise time of up to 20 sec. …”
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Dismantling silos: The case for an integrated approach to address childhood determinants of lifelong brain health by Raju, Ravikiran M, Tsai, Li-Huei

“…Early-life environments have an immense influence on long-term health outcomes. We have started to elucidate the mechanisms underlying this association but have made little progress in reducing the disease burden of environmentally mediated neurological and psychiatric illness. …”
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Building a Scalable Electrification Infrastructure in Logistics by Alam, Muhammad Ashhad

“…This work develops analytics-based solutions to support and assess the electrification of long-haul logistics operations, by applying the methods to PepsiCo’s operations in Texas.…”
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Meals matter by Feng, Yuxin

“…Meals Matter, therefore, aims to guide young Singaporeans toward healthier eating through three steps: learning key nutrition information, putting it into practice, and cultivating long-term habits of consuming varied, balanced meals by tracking.…”
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