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Open AccessTranslation, cultural adaptation, and validation of Numerical Pain Rating Scale and Global Rating of Change in Tibetan musculoskeletal trauma patients
Tibetan-speaking patients seeking care in predominantly Mandarin-speaking healthcare settings frequently face communication barriers, leading to potential disparities and difficulties in accessing care. To add...
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Identifying potential debris flow hazards after the 2022 Mw 6.8 Luding earthquake in southwestern China
Earthquakes can generate large amounts of co-seismic landslide debris and unstable hillslopes, which supply abundant material sources for subsequent debris flow activities, leading to a significant increase in...
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Dynamic susceptibility assessment of debris flow hazard after a strong earthquake, Wenchuan County, Sichuan, China
Large amounts of co-seismic landslides provide abundant debris sources following a strong earthquake and are prone to initiate and generate debris flow under heavy rainfall. Assessing the susceptibility they p...
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Open AccessInfluence of Film Thickness on Nanofabrication of Graphene Oxide
Nanofabrication of two-dimensional materials through mechanical machining is normally influenced by not only process parameters such as load and velocity but also intrinsic properties such as strength and thic...
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Quantitative assessment of expected direct economic losses of buildings for debris flows in multiple rainfall intensity scenarios in Yangling Gully, Southwest China
The potential risks associated with debris flows have significantly increased due to changes in global climate, population growth, and economic development. Despite the high susceptibility of debris flows in t...
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Advancing Tribological Understanding: Insights into In-Plane Wear and Edge Friction Mechanisms of Graphene and Its Derivatives
Friction and wear play pivotal roles in dissipating mechanical energy in engineering systems, contributing significantly to global energy consumption. Two-dimensional materials, such as graphene, exhibit excep...
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Investigation of the 2019 Wenchuan County debris flow disaster suggests nonuniform spatial and temporal post-seismic debris flow evolution patterns
It is widely recognized that post-seismic mass movements amplify and decay. Previous studies have found that most post-seismic mass movement is concentrated in the first few years following an earthquake. A ma...
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Ten years of landslide development after the Wenchuan earthquake: a case study from Miansi town, China
The earthquake outbreak on 12 May 2008, in Wenchuan County caused long-term instability and frequent geological hazards on the mountain slopes in the earthquake area. Considering Miansi town in the strong eart...
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Report on Landslides Triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake
The devastating 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (Mw 7.9) was the largest seismic event in China in the past more than 50 years and is characterized by extremely high level of induced acceleration. For example, the st...
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Open AccessCharacteristics of the disastrous debris flow of Chediguan gully in Yinxing town, Sichuan Province, on August 20, 2019
On August 20, 2019, at 2 a.m., a disastrous debris flow occurred in Chediguan gully in Yinxing town, China. The debris flow destroyed the drainage groove and the bridge at the exit of the gully. In addition, t...
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Variability of rainfall time distributions and their impact on peak discharge in the Wenchuan County, China
Rainfall characteristics influence the formation of runoff and peak discharge, but there are few studies on the variability of rainfall time distributions and their influence on peak discharge in Wenchuan Coun...
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Activity evolution of landslides and debris flows after the Wenchuan earthquake in the Qipan catchment, Southwest China
The Wenchuan earthquake that occurred on 12 May 2008 induced numerous landslides. Loose landslide materials were deposited on hillslopes, and deep channels were easily remobilized and transformed into debris f...
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Activity characteristics and enlightenment of the debris flow triggered by the rainstorm on 20 August 2019 in Wenchuan County, China
Debris flow activity increased after the Wenchuan earthquake, and many debris flows continue to occur. Recently, a catastrophic debris flow event was triggered by strong rainfall on 20 August 2019 in Wenchuan ...
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Response analysis of valley settlements to the evolution of debris flow fans under different topographic conditions: a case study of the upper reaches of Min River, China
The upper reaches of Minjiang (Min) River were selected to research the relationship between debris flow fan formation and topography. Combining the historical statistical data of settlement and debris flow ev...
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Analysing post-earthquake landslide susceptibility using multi-temporal landslide inventories — a case study in Miansi Town of China
The earthquake that occurred on May 12, 2008, in Wenchuan County aroused a great deal of research on co-seismic landslide susceptibility assessment, but there is still a lack of an evaluation method that consi...
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Long-term kinematics and mechanism of a deep-seated slow-moving debris slide near Wudongde hydropower station in Southwest China
Long-term kinematic research of slowmoving debris slide is rare despite of the widespread global distribution of this kind. This paper presents a study of the kinematics and mechanism of the ****zi debris s...
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CWLP: coordinated warp scheduling and locality-protected cache allocation on GPUs
As we approach the exascale era in supercomputing, designing a balanced computer system with a powerful computing ability and low power requirements has becoming increasingly important. The graphics processing...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
QRD Architecture Using the Modified ILMGS Algorithm for MIMO Systems
QR decomposition (QRD) is one of the performance bottlenecks of transceiver processor in the multiuser multiple-input-multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems. This paper proposes a QRD algorithm based on the existin...
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Hazard assessment of debris flows in the Wenchuan earthquake-stricken area, South West China
The Longxi river basin with the city of Dujiangyan, in the Sichuan province of South West China, belongs to the seismic area of the May 12, 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. Lots of loose co-seismic materials were pre...
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Plant community composition and interspecific relationships among dominant species on a post-seismic landslide in Hongchun Gully, China
The 5.12 Earthquake in 2008 and 8.14 Debris Flow in 2010 resulted in large-scale landslides that disturbed vast areas of vegetation in the Hongchun Gully, Wenchuan County, China. To define the specific charact...
