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Effect of Normal Force on Fretting Wear Behavior of Zirconium Alloy Tube in Simulated Primary Water of PWR
The effect of normal force on fretting wear behavior of zirconium alloy tube mated with grid dimple in simulated primary water of pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant was investigated. Results showed ...
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Effects of cavitation on vortex-induced vibration of a flexible circular cylinder simulated by fluid-structure interaction method
To investigate the effects of the cavitation on the vortex-induced vibration, the flow and the vibration characteristics of a flexible circular cylinder in the non-cavitating and cavitating flows at Re = 200 are ...
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Astragalus polysaccharide: a review of its immunomodulatory effect
The Astragalus polysaccharide is an important bioactive component derived from the dry root of Astragalus membranaceus. This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the research progress on the immunom...
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Flow-Induced Vibration Fatigue Damage of A Pair of Flexible Cylinders in A Staggered Array
Flow-induced vibration (FIV) of a group of long, flexible cylinders involves a complex interaction between fluid and structures. Although a substantial number of studies have been devoted to assessing FIV resp...
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Analysis of Harmonically Forced Duffing Oscillator with Time Delay State Feedback by Incremental Harmonic Balance Method
Periodic solutions of a harmonically forced Duffing oscillator with time-delay state feedback are investigated using the incremental harmonic balance method.
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Theoretical investigation of fluidelastic instability of a rotated triangular tube array in two-phase flow
Fluidelastic instability of a tube array is extremely important to the security of a nuclear power plant. Lots of experimental analyses were conducted on the fluidelastic instability of a tube array subjected ...
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Emancipating Architecture: From Fixed Systems of Control to Participatory Structures
Automation revolutionized not only the processes and outputs of manufacturing, but also fundamentally changed the way in which humans participated in the act of making. The result has been a shift from human-c...
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Influences of aerodynamic loads on hunting stability of high-speed railway vehicles and parameter studies
The influences of steady aerodynamic loads on hunting stability of high-speed railway vehicles were investigated in this study. A mechanism is suggested to explain the change of hunting behavior due to actions...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Comparative Study of Delta-Sigma Modulators for the Fractional-N PLL in WBAN
A delta-sigma modulator (DSM)-based fractional-N frequency synthesizer is the key component of wireless transceiver in wireless body area network (WBAN) system. The noise suppression performance, integration, ...
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TAK1 activates AMPK-dependent cell death pathway in hydrogen peroxide-treated cardiomyocytes, inhibited by heat shock protein-70
The aim of this current study is to investigate the potential role of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) in hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)-induced cardiomyocyte death, and focused on the signaling mechanisms of AMPK a...
