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Widening the Martensitic Hysteresis in Ni47Ti44Nb9 Shape Memory Alloy by Grain Refinement
Widening the martensitic hysteresis ( \({T}_{\text{Dhys}}\) T Dhys
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Factors Determining the Maximum Recovery Stress of the Ni47Ti44Nb9 Alloy During Constrained Heating
The maximum recovery stress is an essential parameter for evaluating the reliability of shape-memory alloys. In this study, the factors that determine the maximum recovery stress of the Ni47Ti44Nb9 shape-memory a...
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Effect of thermosonication process on physicochemical properties and microbial load of goat’s milk
In this study, thermosonication was used as a combined treatment of raw goat milk (RGM) using pasteurization (72 °C for 15 s) and ultrasound treatments (20 kHz at the power variance of 150 W, 200 W, 300 W and ...
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Yield stresses in a ductile metal at a high strain rate in different stress states
The amplitudes of the elastic precursor in LY12 Al-based alloy samples under different pre-stress states are obtained. Even though the material does not undergo a brittle-to-ductile transition, the amplitude o...
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Mechanical Analysis for ITER Lower CC Feeder
ITER correction coils (CCs) feeder is the important component of ITER feeder systems to supply the cryogens and electrical power for CCs. They should withstand the huge electromagnetic (EM) force and high ther...
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Design Study of Support for ITER ELM Coils
The support is an important part of ITER ELM coils. It should withstand the alternating electromagnetic (EM) force and thermal stresses. Based on the finite element method, 2D and 3D structures of the rigid an...
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Structural and Fracture Mechanics Analysis for the Bracket of ITER Upper ELM Coil
The brackets are the important components of ITER edge localized modes (ELM) coils to connect the coils and rails. In order to assure the structural integrity and security of the bracket, the maximum tresca s...
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Structural Design Study for ITER Upper ELM Coils
ITER ELM coils are important parts of in-vessel coils and they are mounted on the vacuum vessel and behind the blanket module. They consist of three sets of coils, referred to as the upper, mid, and lower coil...
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Recognition of shelterbelt continuity using remote sensing and waveform recognition
Shelterbelt systems play an important and long-term role in ecological stability and food security. Today, shelterbelts are threatened by anthropogenic destruction, plant diseases, and insect pests. Determinin...
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Research on Worn Mechanism of Disc-Brake Pair Materials for Drilling Rig
A new build-up welding material for brake-disc and a new type of asbestos-free frictional material are developed, of which the tribological behaviours and wear mechanisms of build-up welding materials are disc...
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Open AccessHuman papillomavirus infection in Bei**g, People's Republic of China: a population-based study
No recent data exist on human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in Bei**g, People's Republic of China.
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Estimating residue evolutionary conservation by introducing von Neumann entropy and a novel gap-treating approach
Evolutionary conservation derived from a multiple sequence alignment is a powerful indicator of the functional significance of a residue, and it can help to predict active sites, ligand-binding sites, and prot...
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Using pseudo amino acid composition to predict protein subcellular location: approached with amino acid composition distribution
In the Post Genome Age, there is an urgent need to develop the reliable and effective computational methods to predict the subcellular localization for the explosion of newly found proteins. Here, a novel meth...
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Prediction of protein subcellular localization by support vector machines using multi-scale energy and pseudo amino acid composition
As more and more genomes have been discovered in recent years, there is an urgent need to develop a reliable method to predict the subcellular localization for the explosion of newly found proteins. However, m...
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Prediction of protein homo-oligomer types by pseudo amino acid composition: Approached with an improved feature extraction and Naive Bayes Feature Fusion
The interaction of non-covalently bound monomeric protein subunits forms oligomers. The oligomeric proteins are superior to the monomers within the scope of functional evolution of biomacromolecules. Such comp...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Landing Strategies in Honeybees, and Applications to UAVs
Insects, being perhaps more reliant on image motion cues than mammals or higher vertebrates, are proving to be an excellent organism in which to investigate how information on optic flow is exploited to guide ...
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Abrasive erosion of polyurethane
The surface physical and chemical effects of abrasive erosion of polyurethane in three different fluids (H2O, polyacrylamide and NaOH) containing quartz particles have been investigated respectively. The surface ...
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How honeybees make grazing landings on flat surfaces
Freely flying bees were filmed as they landed on a flat, horizontal surface, to investigate the underlying visuomotor control strategies. The results reveal that (1) landing bees approach the surface at a rel...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
From insects to robots
Recent studies of insect visual behaviour and navigation reveal a number of elegant strategies that can be profitably applied to the design of autonomous robots. Bees, for example, negotiate narrow gaps by bal...
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Honeybee navigation: linear perception of short distances travelled
Recent evidence indicates that honeybees measure distance flown to a food source by integrating, over time, the apparent visual motion of the environment that they experience en route to the goal. Is the bee'...
