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The Relationship Between Problem Gambling, Adult Attachment, Difficulty in Emotion Regulation, and Recovery Capital: A Study of Lottery Gamblers in Chinese Mainland
Currently, there are over 200 million lottery gamblers in Chinese mainland; however, research on gambling addiction among gamblers in Chinese mainland is still a blank in the international addiction studies. T...
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Investigation of creep performance degradation mechanism of service exposed P92 steel and microstructural characterization of FGHAZ
Creep performance evaluation of fine-grained heat affected zone (FGHAZ) of new and service exposed P92 pipes is crucial for repairing P92 pipe of ultra-super critical (USC) power plants. In this work, bulk FGH...
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A Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Approach for Autonomous Quadrotor Tracking Control
Autonomously tracking a dynamic unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is challenging due to the difficulty for the UAV to track the UGV’s real-time state and adjust its policy acc...
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Stressful Life Events and Problem Gambling Among Chinese Lottery Gamblers: The Mediating Effects of Co** Strategies and Magical Thinking
Problem gambling poses serious harm to individuals and societies worldwide. This study aims to investigate the relationship between stressful life events and problem gambling, and further explore the mediating...
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Research on Energy Transport Characteristics of an Axial Flow Circulating Pump under Unpowered Driven and Pump Operating Conditions
An axial flow circulating pump (AFCP), as a key facility of the large vessel power system, is designed for conveying cooling water of the power system. The pump will be rotated actively under the drive of moto...
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Effects of Curing Temperature and Water Glass Modulus on the Preparation of Hierarchical Zeolite Precursors
The hierarchical design of zeolite materials from alkali-activated solid waste is a controversial topic. Deactivated ZSM-5 can serve as a potential foaming material for the preparation of porous zeolite precur...
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Effect of Recovery Heat Treatment on Microstructure and Properties of IN783 Bolts in Service
Various testing techniques established the association between precipitates and the mechanical characteristics of IN783 alloy at high temperatures. The results show that the β phase is coarser at the grain bounda...
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Wrinkling modes of graphene oxide assembled on curved surfaces
Assembling two-dimensional (2D) sheets into macroscopic three-dimensional (3D) forms has created a promising material family with rich functionalities. Multiscale wrinkles are intrinsic features of 2D sheets i...
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A Novel Air-Ground Coordinated Approach for UAV Autonomous Landing on a Mobile Platform
Image-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) landing generally relies on target platform identification and position acquisition. This method, however, exhibits unsatisfying landing universality and low robustnes...
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The Aerogel Industry
Thus far, this handbook has explored the synthesis, characterization, properties, and applications of a wide range of aerogel and aerogel-like materials, along with numerous possibilities for how such material...
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Electrospinning of Neat Graphene Nanofibers
Macroscopic assembly of graphene sheets has renovated the preparation of neat carbonaceous fibers with integrating high performance and superior functionalities, beyond the pyrolysis of conventional polymeric ...
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Quantification and localization of the intensity are the key points for evaluating the impact of human activities on coastal wetland environment. A Human Activity Intensity Index (HAII) and a spatial simulatio...
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Open AccessPhrenic nerve block during nonintubated video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: a single-centre, double-blind, randomized controlled trial
There has been interest in the use of nonintubated techniques for video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) in both awake and sedated patients. The authors’ centre developed a nonintubated technique with spo...
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Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of P91 Steel during Heat Treatment: The Effect of the Cooling Speed during the Normalization Stage
The evolution of the microstructure and mechanical properties of P91 steel during heat treatments at different cooling speeds during the normalization stage was investigated. Results showed that normalized mar...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Skeletal Bone Age Assessment in Radiographs Based on Convolutional Neural Networks
Skeletal bone age assessment is a common clinical practice to investigate endocrinology, genetic and growth disorders in children. Traditional clinical testing methods are time-consuming and labor-intensive, a...
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Interaction of Microplastics and Organic Pollutants: Quantification, Environmental Fates, and Ecological Consequences
Microplastics which act as vectors for organic pollutant transport in environment have raised increasing concerns recently. This paper provides an overview on the interaction of plastic debris or microplastics...
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The bibliometric analysis and review of dioxin in waste incineration and steel sintering
Facing the common treatment problems of dioxin whose major sources come from waste incineration and steel sintering, we handled a massive literature dataset from the Web of Science database and analyzed the re...
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Study on the denitrification performance of FexLayOz/activated coke for NH3-SCR and the effect of CO escaped from activated coke at mid-high temperature on catalytic activity
Currently, activated coke is widely used in the removal of multiple pollutants from industrial flue gas. In this paper, a series of novel FexLayOz/AC catalysts was prepared by the incipient wetness impregnation f...
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Simultaneous removal of NOx and Hg0 from simulated flue gas over CuaCebZrcO3/r-Al2O3 catalysts at low temperatures: performance, characterization, and mechanism
To optimize the simultaneous removal of NOx and Hg0, a series of CuaCebZrcO3/γ-Al2O3 catalysts prepared by the impregnation method were explored and their physical and chemical properties were analyzed by X-ray d...
