159 Result(s)
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Risk Assessment and Mitigation Evaluation for Rockfall Hazards at the Diversion Tunnel Inlet Slope of **chuan Hydropower Station by Using Three-dimensional Terrestrial Scanning Technology
Rockfall is a major geological disaster that frequently occurs on rock slopes in alpine and gorge regions and poses a significant threat to life and property in areas exposed to rockfall hazards. In this study...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Research on Synergistic Development Technology of Advanced Gas Injection and Oil Accumulation Jointed Under Gas-Oil-Geothermal Storage Based on Molecular Sieve and Component Gradient Effect
The underground porous medium has a molecular sieve effect. When the flue gas rich in carbon dioxide, nitrogen and other components passes through the porous medium, the molecular sieve effect will occur. The ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Identify the Effects of Polymer/Surfactant Binary Combination Flooding on Enhancing Heavy Oil Recovery in Canada
The recovery factors under the situations of polymer flooding, surfactant flooding and their binary combination flooding is to be compared, by controlling the variables, the effects of polymer and surfactant u...
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Formation mechanism of rockburst in deep tunnel adjacent to faults: Implication from numerical simulation and microseismic monitoring
Rockbursts were frequently encountered in the construction of deeply buried tunnels at the ****-II hydropower station, Southwest China. In those cases, the existence of large structural planes, such as faul...
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Anthropomorphic hand based on twisted-string-driven da Vinci’s mechanism for approaching human dexterity and power of grasp
Designing anthropomorphic prosthetic hands that approach human-level performance remains a great challenge. Commercial prosthetics are still inferior to human hands in several important properties, such as wei...
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High-temperature oxidation behavior of a cast Ti-47.5Al-2.5V-1.0Cr-0.2Zr alloy
The oxidation behavior of the Ti-47.5Al-2.5V-1.0Cr-0.2Zr alloy at 900 °C was investigated at different oxidation times (5, 20, 60 and 100 h). The results show that the total weight gain of the alloy after 100 ...
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Chromium enrichment in different crystalline phases of Cr-containing slag under various basicities and equilibrium temperatures
The effects of basicities and equilibrium temperatures on the enrichment of chromium in different mineral phases of synthesized argon–oxygen decarburization slags were investigated to understand the Cr concent...
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CO2-diluted CH4-air premixed spherical flames with microwave-assisted spark ignition
The performance of microwave-assisted spark ignition (MAI) under exhaust gas recirculation conditions was explored with CO2-diluted CH4-air premixed spherical flames in a constant volume combustion chamber. The f...
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Effect of perceived control on human thermal comfort in heated environments
To study the effects of perceived control on human thermal sensation and thermal comfort in heated environments, a psychological experiment was conducted. In total, 24 subjects participated in an experiment. T...
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Open AccessHazard ranking of wastewater sources in a highly polluted river in northern Taiwan by using positive matrix factorization with metal elements
Improving water quality is a critical issue worldwide. However, the general parameters (i.e., temperature, pH, turbidity, total solids, fecal coliform, dissolved oxygen, biochemical oxygen demand, phosphates, ...
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A new discriminative sparse parameter classifier with iterative removal for face recognition
Face recognition has been widely used and developed rapidly in recent years. The methods based on sparse representation have made great breakthroughs, and collaborative representation-based classification (CRC...
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Influence of coiling temperature on microstructure and mechanical properties of a hot-rolled high-strength steel microalloyed with Ti, Mo and V
Influence of coiling temperature (CT) on the microstructure and mechanical properties of a hot-rolled high-strength steel microalloyed with Ti, Mo and V was elucidated. The precipitation behavior of nano-sized...
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Preserving scheme for user’s confidential information in smart grid based on digital watermark and asymmetric encryption
As an essential part of the industrial Internet of Things (IoT) in power systems, the development of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) facilitates services such as energy monitoring, load forecasting, and...
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32-Gb/s NRZ and 40-Gb/s PAM-4 Transimpedance Amplifier Paralleling with a Differentiator for Bandwidth Enhancement in 90-nm CMOS Technology
In this article, a wide-bandwidth, fully differential transimpedance amplifier (TIA) is implemented in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company 90-nm complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor technology. The r...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Mixed Integer Programming and LP Rounding for Opinion Maximization on Directed Acyclic Graphs
Gionis et al. have already proposed a greedy algorithm and some heuristics for the opinion maximization problem. Unlike their approach, we adopt mathematical programming to solve the opinion maximization probl...
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Experimental Study on Fracture Damage of Shale Reservoir Caused by High Salinity Flowback Fracturing Fluid
In shale-gas wells, the salinity of the flowback fracturing fluid generally increases with time. Fractures are the main seepage channels for shale gas, and they play an important role in improving shale gas re...
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GO-induced effective interconnection layer for all solution-processed tandem quantum dot light-emitting diodes
Compared to conventional quantum dot light-emitting diodes, tandem quantum dot light-emitting diodes (TQLEDs) possess higher device efficiency and more applications in the field of flat panel display and solid...
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Mechanical behavior of deep sandstone under high stress-seepage coupling
The mechanical behavior evolution characteristics of sandstone are important to the application and practice of rock engineering. Therefore, a new method and concept of deep rock mechanics testing are proposed...
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A novel sliding surface design for predefined-time stabilization of Euler–Lagrange systems
This paper gives a class of novel predefined-time sliding mode surfaces based on the time-regulator function, forcing the states on them to approach the origin in a predefined time, which can be employed to re...
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Hierarchical predefined-time control for time-varying formation tracking of multiple heterogeneous Euler–Lagrange agents
This paper investigates the time-varying formation tracking (TVFT) problem of multiple heterogeneous Euler–Lagrange agents (MHELAs) with predefined-time convergence ability under directed interaction topology,...