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Jan-Olaf Meynecke, Johan Gustafon and David E. Cade
Cetaceans are known for their intelligence and display of complex behaviours including object use. For example, bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) are known to rub on rocks and some humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) populations undertake lateral b...
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Guoqi Han, Jon Chamberlain, Colin Webber and Charles Hannah
The world?s largest living glass sponge reefs, located in the Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound off British Columbia, are impacted by bottom contact fishing gear. The existing Adaptive Management Zones (AMZs) for the protection of these reefs were ...
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Qingteng Yuan, Ming Xiao, Ci Kong and Kaicheng Wang
The foundation of a seismic safety assessment of cross-fault hydraulic tunnels is an acceptable and accurate seismic response. A dynamic contact force algorithm that may take into consideration the interaction between the fault?surrounding rock?lining st...
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Guang Feng, Bingyan Jiang and Yiyao Jiang
The existence of joint clearances in the nose landing gear (NLG) is inevitable and significantly affects shimmy. It was found that the interaction of each joint clearance is closely related to the analysis of shimmy stability. In this study, the shimmy m...
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Kosmas Ellinas, Angeliki Tserepi and Evangelos Gogolides
Most studies on superhydrophobic fabrics focus on their realization using additive manufacturing (bottom-up) techniques. Here we present the direct modification of three different fabrics using a plasma-based method to obtain anti-adhesive and self-clean...
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Eleftheria Eliopoulou, Aimilia Alissafaki and Apostolos Papanikolaou
This paper deals with a statistical analysis of maritime accidents pertaining to passenger ships in worldwide operation and, ultimately, with the assessment of the current safety level of the particular ship type, assuming that the safety level may be de...
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Jingjing Fu, Zhichao Cui, Yongsheng Chen, Chunsong Guan, Mingjiang Chen and Biao Ma
The compression molding performance of a substrate block has a significant effect on the quality and stability of mechanical transplanting. The physical experiment and DEM simulation were combined to evaluate the compression molding behavior of substrate...
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Prabhath L. Gamage, Chinthaka M. Udamulle Gedara, Ruwan Gunawardhana, Chandima Bulumulla, Ziyuan Ma, Ashutosh Shrivastava, Michael C. Biewer and Mihaela C. Stefan
The structural alteration of semiconducting polymer backbones can improve the optoelectronic properties of organic semiconductors and enhance field-effect mobilities. In our efforts towards improving the performance of organic field-effect transistors (O...
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Qingfu Li, Hao Guo and Biao Guo
When a steel box girder is constructed using the jacking method, the contact area between the jack and the bottom of the girder is subjected to complex forces, and it is very critical to ensure the local stability of the girder. When the phenomenon of un...
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Yuan Zhong, Ye Jin, Shaoqing Xu, Xiangrui Liu and Jianli Song
Thrips have become some of the most challenging pests to control in mango production due to their short developmental time, hidden locations and resistance to pesticides, in the tropical regions of China. To improve pesticides efficacy, the tank-mix adju...
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Zhen Cui, Maochu Zhang and Qian Sheng
Traditionally, the numerical simulation work of a bridge gravity anchorage structure is performed with a continuous method, such as the finite element method (FEM). However, since the rock mass and gravity anchorage structure are assumed to be continuous...
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Bogdan Sheludchenko,Egidijus Sarauskis,Gennadii Golub,Savelii Kukharets,Oleksandr Medvedskyi,Viacheslav Chuba,Andrii Zabrodskyi
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The intensification of agricultural production under modern conditions implies the use of super-powerful mobile technical means, which leads to an increase in the levels of technogenic impact on soil and, consequently, deteriorates its fertility. Therefo...
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Mohammad Abedin and Armin B. Mehrabi
The bottom flanges of steel plate girder bridges can be considered fracture-critical elements depending on the number of girders and bridge configuration. For such cases, it is required that inspection of these bridges be carried out using costly ?arms-l...
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Cundong Xu, Junjiao Tian, Guoxia Wang, Haidong Lian, Rongrong Wang and Xiaomeng Hu
The vortices, backflow, and siltation caused by sediment-laden flow are detrimental to the safe and efficient operation of pumping stations. To explore the effects of water?sediment two-phase flow on the velocity field, vorticity field, and sediment dist...
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Mariya A. Severinenko, Vladimir P. Solodukhin, Bekmamat M. Djenbaev, Svetlana G. Lennik, Baktiyar T. Zholboldiev and Daniel D. Snow
Important for irrigation, the transboundary river basin between Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan is vulnerable to geochemical and anthropogenic sources of pollution. The use of water use indices, together with measurements of the elemental and radionuclide comp...
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Tianyi He, Huijie Hu, Ding Tang, Xu Chen, Jing Meng, Yong Cao and Xianqing Lv
Ice melting plays a crucial role in ocean circulation and global climate. Laboratory experiments were used to study the dynamic mechanisms of the influence of waves and currents on ice melting. The results showed that under near stable air temperature an...
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Luca Brucculeri, Claudia Carpanese, Mario Palone and Luca Lombardo
Aims: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of the slot height of in-house 3D-printed resin brackets, comparing them with other types of brackets on the market today, both ceramic and metallic. Methods: Seven different types of bracket s...
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Lucía Herrer, Santiago Martín and Pilar Cea
The societal impact of the electronics industry is enormous?not to mention how this industry impinges on the global economy. The foreseen limits of the current technology?technical, economic, and sustainability issues?open the door to the search for succ...
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Angela Kuriata-Potasznik, Slawomir Szymczyk, Andrzej Skwierawski, Katarzyna Glinska-Lewczuk and Ireneusz Cymes
River-lake systems most often behave as hydrographic units, which undergo complex interactions, especially in the contact zone. One such interaction pertains to the role of a river in the dispersal of trace elements carried into and out of a lake. In thi...
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Angela Kuriata-Potasznik, Slawomir Szymczyk, Andrzej Skwierawski, Katarzyna Glinska-Lewczuk, Ireneusz Cymes
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River-lake systems most often behave as hydrographic units, which undergo complex interactions, especially in the contact zone. One such interaction pertains to the role of a river in the dispersal of trace elements carried into and out of a lake. In thi...
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