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Assunta Paola Piccolo, Giovanna Longobardi and Antonio Formisano
The paper discusses the seismic vulnerability of structures susceptible to overcrowding due to their intended use. Specifically, it addresses the analysis towards earthquake actions of a masonry school located in the Municipality of San Giorgio a Cremano...
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Oscar Álvarez, Enrique Muñoz, Nelson Maureira-Carsalade and Ángel Roco-Videla
The most used global sensitivity analysis (GSA) method is based on variance. This is performed using Monte Carlo Sampling (MCS) or Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS). It requires a large sample to obtain accurate estimates. Density-based methods, such as the...
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Harun Levent Sahin and Yavuz Yaman
In the design and analysis of morphing wings, several sciences need to be integrated. This article tries to answer the question, ?What is the most appropriate actuation mechanism to morph the wing profile?? by introducing the synthesis, analysis, and des...
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Harun Levent Sahin and Yavuz Yaman
In the design and analysis of morphing wings, several sciences need to be integrated. This article tries to answer the question, “What is the most appropriate actuation mechanism to morph the wing profile?” by introducing the synthesis, analy...
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Xiaoshun Zhao, Zhuangzhuang Hou, Jizong Zhang, Huali Yu, Jianjun Hao and Yuhua Liu
In order to improve the quality of transplanting devices and solve the problems of the poor effect on soil moisture conservation and more weeds easily growing due to the high mulching-film damage rate with an excessive number of hole openings, we develop...
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Jingfu Wang, Songtao Zhang, Jiahuan Cheng, Yunfei Li, Yan Shen and Zihao Wu
As an essential transportation equipment for personnel to access offshore wind plants, the safety and stability of the turbine access system (TAS) have gained increasing significance. However, when sea conditions deteriorate, the end of the TAS will expe...
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Chae-Won Kwon, Seong-Ho Yun, Dong-Kyun Koo and Jung-Won Kwon
Purpose: Gait termination (GT) is the transition from steady-state walking to a complete stop, occurring under planned gait termination (PGT) or unplanned gait termination (UGT) conditions. This study aimed to investigate the biomechanical differences be...
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Oriol Abellán-Aynés, Fernando Alacid and Daniel López-Plaza
Coaches and sport managers in charge of talent identification processes in sprint canoeing might take into considerations these findings not only to select potential successful paddlers but also to enhance their attributes during early stages.
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Xinyu Lang, Bifeng Song, Wenqing Yang, Xiaojun Yang and Dong Xue
The wing planform and flapping kinematics are critical for the hovering flight of flapping wing micro air vehicles (FWMAVs). The degree of influence of wing geometry and kinematic parameters on aerodynamic performance still lacks in-depth analysis. In th...
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Aftab Ur Rahman, Guangcheng Zhang, Salman A. AlQahtani, Hammad Tariq Janjuhah, Irshad Hussain, Habib Ur Rehman and Liaqat Ali Shah
The purpose of this study is to identify the leading causes of slope instability along a local highway in Anhui, People?s Republic of China. As part of the east expansion project, the mountain range will be excavated to create a two-way, nearly 30 m wide...
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Simone Ciacci, Franco Merni, Gabriele Semprini, Giacomo Drusiani, Matteo Cortesi and Sandro Bartolomei
Background: To understand the technical differences between shot putters of different ages, this study compared biomechanical parameters of the best senior and youth Italian athletes and then to world-class athletes (WC) assessed in previous investigatio...
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Xiulan Bao, Yuxin Niu, Yishu Li, Jincheng Mao, Shanjun Li, Xiaojie Ma, Qilin Yin and Biyu Chen
In Southeast Asia, many varieties of citrus are grown in hilly areas. Compared with plain orchards, it is difficult for large spraying equipment to move in hilly orchards. Small spraying equipment can enter hilly orchards, but their spraying power cannot...
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Zengyu Jia, Ruiqin Li, Yuan Wang, Juan Liu and Hailong Liang
Lower limb movement disorders caused by various reasons are an important public health problem currently facing the world. To solve this problem, a novel spatial 8R mechanism with a stable structure and motion performance for human hip joint rehabilitati...
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Marko Cetinic, Vedran Dukaric, Ivan Segedi, Tomislav Rupcic and Hrvoje Sertic
To achieve technical efficiency in a judo fight, it is necessary to know the technical details of each throw. The tempo of a judo fight is highly intense, and it is necessary for the competitor to be physically very well prepared. Considering the tempo, ...
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Tongjin Wei, Di Lu, Zheng Zeng and Lian Lian
In recent years, hybrid unmanned aerial underwater vehicles (HAUVs), which are capable of air?water trans-media motion, have been increasingly developed. For most HAUVs, air?water trans?media motion is a relatively dangerous and difficult process. Theref...
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Bin Zhang, Haolu Liu, Jicheng Huang, Kunpeng Tian, Cheng Shen, Xianwang Li and Xingsong Wang
Ramie is an important cash crop in China, and ramie fiber is an important raw material for the textile industry. As a shrub plant, the spatial distribution of the ramie plant is different from that of herbaceous crops, and its plant spacing and row spaci...
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Kim Sarah Blume, Fabian Holzgreve, Laura Fraeulin, Christina Erbe, Werner Betz, Eileen M. Wanke, Doerthe Brueggmann, Albert Nienhaus, Christian Maurer-Grubinger, David A. Groneberg and Daniela Ohlendorf
Musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) is already prevalent in dental students despite their young age and the short duration of dental practice. The current findings state that the causes of MSD are related to posture during dental work. This study aims to inve...
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Francesco Cavalieri, António A. Correia and Rui Pinho
Soil-structure interaction (SSI) effects are typically neglected for relatively lightweight buildings that are less than two-three storeys high with a limited footprint area and resting on shallow foundations (i.e., not featuring a basement). However, wh...
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Lingfeng He, John Coggan, Mirko Francioni and Matthew Eyre
This paper proposes a novel method to incorporate unfavorable orientations of discontinuities into machine learning (ML) landslide prediction by using GIS-based kinematic analysis. Discontinuities, detected from photogrammetric and aerial LiDAR surveys, ...
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Ivan Malagoli Lanzoni, Sandro Bartolomei, Rocco Di Michele, Yaodong Gu, Julien S. Baker, Silvia Fantozzi and Matteo Cortesi
The present study aims to assess the position of the racket, and racket height with respect to the floor, during the table tennis top spin stroke. A stereophotogrammetric system (Smart-D, BTS, 8 cameras, 550 Hz) was used to track the table tennis racket ...
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