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Qi Cai, Qianying Guo, Yongchang Liu, Zongqing Ma, Huijun Li, Wenbin Qiu, Dipak Patel, Hyunseock Jie, Jung Ho Kim, Mehmet Somer, Ekrem Yanmaz, Arnaud Devred, Vladimir Luzin, Amanullah Fatehmulla, Wazirzada Aslam Farooq, Daniel Gajda, Yoshio Bando, Yusuke Yamauchi, Subrata Pradhan and Md. Shahriar A. Hossain
Superconducting wires are widely used for fabricating magnetic coils in fusion reactors. Superconducting magnet system represents a key determinant of the thermal efficiency and the construction/operating costs of such a reactor. In consideration of the ...
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Simon DeDeo
What is the boundary between a vigorous argument and a breakdown of relations? What drives a group of individuals across it? Taking Wikipedia as a test case, we use a hidden Markov model to approximate the computational structure and social grammar of mo...
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Baptiste Mengual, Pierre Le Hir, Florence Cayocca and Thierry Garlan
This study describes the building of a common erosion law for fine sand and mud, mixed or not, in the case of a typical continental shelf environment, the Bay of Biscay shelf, characterized by slightly energetic conditions and a seabed mainly composed of...
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Baptiste Mengual, Pierre Le Hir, Florence Cayocca, Thierry Garlan
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This study describes the building of a common erosion law for fine sand and mud, mixed or not, in the case of a typical continental shelf environment, the Bay of Biscay shelf, characterized by slightly energetic conditions and a seabed mainly composed of...
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Dimitris Gavalas and Theodore Syriopoulos
Credit risk measurement remains a critical field of top priority in banking finance, directly implicated in the recent global financial crisis. This paper examines the dynamic linkages between credit risk migration due to rating shifts and prevailing mac...
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Evandro Alves Barbosa Filho,Ana Cristina de Souza Vieira
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Desde 1994 a África do Sul pôs fim à sua estrutura oficial de segregação, baseada na ultra exploração da força de trabalho negra e na total segregação racial: o Apartheid. Embora esse sistema tenha acabado e o país seja governado pelo antigo movimento de...
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Jonatan Zischg, Michael Mair, Wolfgang Rauch and Robert Sitzenfrei
This paper focuses on the performance of water distribution systems (WDSs) during long-term city transitions. A transition describes the pathway from an initial to a final planning stage including the structural and functional changes on the infrastructu...
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Jonatan Zischg, Michael Mair, Wolfgang Rauch, Robert Sitzenfrei
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This paper focuses on the performance of water distribution systems (WDSs) during long-term city transitions. A transition describes the pathway from an initial to a final planning stage including the structural and functional changes on the infrastructu...
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Fadi Mishriky and Paul Walsh
Over the last decade, aircraft morphing technology has drawn a lot of attention in the aerospace community, because it is likely to improve the aerodynamic performance and the versatility of aircraft at different flight regimes. With the fast paced advan...
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Guang Liang, Chaoji Zhou and Yuxiang Liu
This study established finite-element models via LS-DYNA software to predict the critical velocity of Ti spray particles under different collision velocities and preheating temperatures. Particle deformation, collision temperature, and bonding types of t...
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José Manuel Naranjo Gómez, Rui Alexandre Castanho, José Cabezas Fernández and Luís Loures
Portugal and Spain share one of the greatest European borderland areas. This fact has direct impacts on a large territory and consequently on the communities? living in it. Still, even if the border areas represent an essential fraction of the territory,...
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Yulia Ivanova and Vlad Soukhovolsky
The ecological second-order phase transition model has been used to describe height-dependent changes in the species composition of mountain forest ecosystems. Forest inventory data on the distribution of various tree species in the Sayan Mountains (sout...
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José Teixeira
Thermodynamic and transport properties of liquid water are not fully understood despite a large amount of research work both experimental and theoretical. The maximum of density and the enhanced anomalies observed at low temperatures are at the origin of...
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Grzegorz Ludwik Golewski
This work presents a discussion of the basic properties of broken mineral limestone aggregates with the specification of the properties affecting the fracture toughness of concretes made with these aggregates. To determine the influence of the grain-size...
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Long Li, Xiaolan Man, Hong Zhang, Haipeng Lan, Yurong Tang, Xiuwen Fan and Yongcheng Zhang
The conditioning of moisture content is an effective way to improve walnut-crushing performance. In this study, firstly, walnuts with different moisture contents were used to conduct the crushing experiments. The distributions of fragment sizes of shells...
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Igor O. Shamshin, Vladislav S. Ivanov, Viktor S. Aksenov, Pavel A. Gusev, Konstantin A. Avdeev and Sergey M. Frolov
Rotating detonation engines (RDEs) are considered to be promising thrusters for aerospace propulsion. Detonation initiation in RDEs can be accompanied by a destructive explosion of an excess volume of the fuel mixture in the combustor. To exclude this ph...
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Jianxiu Qin and Dehua Zhu
Two-dimensional oblique detonation waves (ODWs) induced by finite wedges in a stoichiometric hydrogen?air mixture have been investigated numerically based on reactive Euler equations with a detailed chemical reaction model. The main zone affected by the ...
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Eugene Retsinis and Panos Papanicolaou
The transition from supercritical to subcritical flow around a fully submerged abrupt negative step in a horizontal rectangular open channel has been investigated. In a laboratory experiment the one-dimensional energy and the momentum conservation equati...
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Dan Xue, Xiaojing Zhao, Jianjun Dong, Rui Ren, Yuanxian Xu and Zhilong Chen
The surging demand for logistics systems brought about by the vigorous development of e-commerce makes urban traffic more and more congested. The need for a sustainable transition in terms of urban transportation infrastructure also encourages the furthe...
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Yumin Shi, Fuping Gao, Ning Wang and Zhenyu Yin
The instability of a partially embedded pipeline under ocean currents involves complex fluid?pipe?soil interactions, which may induce two typical instability modes; i.e., the lateral instability of the pipe and the tunnel erosion of the underlying soil. ...
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