Emergency exit signs are a mandatory and essential element for the prevention and planning of evacuation in all types of buildings. In recent decades, some achievements have been made in emergency exit signs research, but there is a lack of literatur...
For gravitational wave observation, an optical design of the telescope has been implemented to perfectly match the laser interferometry system, and stray light analysis is used to quantify the impact of mirror roughness noise on interferometric measu...
Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the publication of numerous primary studies and meta-analyses; however, conclusive evidence on whether HIV infection influences COVID-19 outcomes among people living with HIV (PLHIV) is still lacking. This re...
This work is devoted to the investigation of an actual scientific and applied problem in the identification of exit points for early-exit DNNs based on the analysis of neural chains, which is one of the complex tasks related to the scientific and app...
The entry and exit method is a simple and practical method to decide the critical slip surface of slope. Nevertheless, it has the drawback of sacrificing computational efficiency to improve search accuracy. To solve this problem, this paper proposes...
To study the influence of launch conditions and wave interference on the stability of submersible aerial vehicles at the water–air interface, a coupling model for water-exit motion of submersible aerial vehicles was established by using the RNG...
More collisions occur at the exit ramps of expressways due to frequent lane-changing behavior and interweaving between vehicles. Young drivers with shorter driving mileage and driving experience, radical driving styles, and worse behavior prediction...
The political discussion to reduce the carbon footprint of Germany’s electricity sector, focusing on coal, is intensifying. In this paper, we develop scenarios for phasing out lignite and hard coal power plants in Germany prior to the end of th...
Reactive Ion Etching (RIE) equipment widely employs showerhead-type structures to ensure plasma and etching uniformity; however, geometric degradation of the showerhead nozzle exit during prolonged operation may alter the internal chamber environment...
In the Forex market, trend trading, where trend traders identify trends and attempt to capture gains through the analysis of an asset’s momentum in a particular direction, is a great way to profit from market movement. When the price of currenc...
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Previous quantitative research on family homelessness has addressed a question of why some households become homeless. However, why some homeless families return the shelter to repeat their homelessness has not been explored well. This study aims at...
Exit location can influence evacuation efficiency without changing the number of exits, yet its mechanism lacks quantitative characterization. Using a complex single-floor hospital outpatient department floor plan with 186 occupants as the case study...
We analyze a time-delayed SIQR model that considers transportation-related infection and entry–exit screening. This model aims to determine the measures for preventing and controlling major emergent infectious diseases and the associated costs....
Many natural and engineered systems evolve under constraints that restrict the set of admissible states. Classical frameworks study invariant sets, viability regions, survival probabilities, and exit-time events, while the explicit treatment of thres...
The widespread development in wireless technologies and the advancements in multimedia communication have brought about a positive impact on the performance of wireless transceivers. We investigate the performance of our three-stage turbo detected sy...
As train operating speeds increase, the aerodynamic characteristics of the train within the tunnel become more pronounced, and effectively addressing the issue of micro-pressure wave (MPW) over-limits becomes especially crucial. This paper utilized t...
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) provides special education services to students with disabilities, including autistic students, until age 21. However, the ages at which autistic students exit high school—and the reasons f...
Continuous roll forming (CRF) is a new technology that combines continuous forming and multi-point forming to produce three-dimensional (3D) curved surfaces. Compared with other methods, the equipment of CRF is very simple, including only a pair of b...
This article aims to find out if pre-exit financial (FP) and internationalization (IP) performance indicators can be used for predicting full de-internationalization (ceasing all export activities; CE). To achieve that, a theoretical concept focusing...
In metal processing, exit burrs are usually inevitable, which is a huge challenge for high-precision manufacturing. This paper innovatively proposes an ice boundary constraint (IBC) method to actively suppress exit burrs to obtain better workpiece ed...
Motor vehicle entrances/exits ensure the accessibility of traffic within urban construction projects, but the improper distance between adjacent sections can lead to vehicle queues at upstream or downstream intersections, causing congestion within th...
Student organization is considered an important approach for the sustainable development of ideological and political education, and it helps construct learning style and campus culture. This research studies college students’ motivations for t...
Enterococcus faecium are commensal bacteria inhabiting the gastrointestinal tract of animals and humans and an important cause of drug-resistant nosocomial infections. This longitudinal study aimed to determine whether changes in the antimicrobial re...
In modern steam boilers, flue gas recirculation (FGR) is generally adopted as a temperature control method for reheated steam. Some research suggests that FGR does not affect the thermal performance of steam boilers, while other studies report enhanc...
Improving the efficiency of ejectors during off-design operations can be effectively achieved through the automatic adjustment of the nozzle exit position (NXP). A thermodynamic model for predicting the performance of an ejector with an adjustable no...
Highway exit ramps play a crucial role in ensuring the safe and efficient operation of road networks. As automated vehicles progressively integrate into highways, it is essential to investigate whether these exit ramps can accommodate the safe and ef...
Abrasive waterjet machining (AWJM) is widely used for cutting aerospace aluminum alloys, but exit-side defects associated with jet lag can degrade surface integrity and dimensional accuracy. This work investigates the influence of water pressure, abr...
Short reaches of pressure tunnel driven through erodible soil close to an open valley slope present a hazard that neither pressure-tunnel practice nor hydraulic-structures practice addresses in full; leakage through the cracked concrete lining emerge...
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This work presents a numerical study of the water-exit characteristics of a bioinspired unmanned aerial-underwater vehicle (UAUV) equipped with a front-mounted propeller. A robust solution framework was established on the basis of a modified Shear St...
Four new cembrane-type diterpenoids, sarcophyolides B–E (1–4), along with 11 known analogues were isolated from the soft coral Sarcophyton elegans. The structures of new compounds 1–4 were established on the basis of spectroscopic analysis and chemi...
This paper proposes a symmetrized extrinsic information transfer (S-EXIT) chart analysis for probabilistic shaped (PS) systems to optimize the joint decoding of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes and constant composition distribution matchers (CCD...
The success of efforts to promote sustainability and growth of Beginning Farmers and Ranchers (BFRs) depends on a set of diverse factors whose individual impacts on the BFR survival in or exit from farming need further clarification. This paper evalu...
By referring to the sustainable livelihood analysis and capability approach and taking Fuhong town in Qingbaijiang district, China, as an example, this paper classifies the livelihood assets of farm households before their residential land exit using...
Rapid exit taxiways enhance runway operational capacities by means of reducing the runway occupancy times of aircraft. The selection of rapid exit taxiway locations is important to achieve the optimum runway capacity. This paper presents a methodolog...
The objective of this study is to evaluate assets’ performance by considering the exit time within the risk measurement framework alongside Shannon entropy and, alternatively, excluding these factors, which can be used to create a portfolio ali...
The guide signs at expressway play an important role in conveying road information to drivers. To study the reasonable setting of guide signs at expressway with consecutive dense exits, firstly, a bidirectional eight-lane expressway segment model wer...
Detonation engines are gaining prominence as next-generation propulsion systems that can significantly enhance the efficiency of existing engines. This study focuses on developing an injector utilizing liquid fuel and a gas oxidizer for application i...
In this paper, we extend the analysis of farm structural change with respect to farm specialisation, size and exit in Norway by, first, explicitly incorporating the location information of farms generating a number of neighbouring farms within a cert...
The efficacy of Prunella extracts in the prevention and treatment of lung cancer has been attributed to different components. In this study, an "active components combination model" hypothesis was proposed to explain the anti-tumor activity of Prunel...
There are several accidents in China’s high-speed railways where passengers fall off the platform every year. In response to the risks of falling off high-speed railway platforms associated with passenger overcrowding, this study explores the p...
Classroom evacuation is constrained by relatively fixed occupant positions, dense desk-and-chair arrangements, restricted aisles, and limited exits, and is jointly influenced by occupant behavior, spatial conditions, and emergency scenarios. This rev...
The high-performance evacuation of commercial streets is the primary requirement for subway planning and construction. This study introduces a simulation and analysis framework to analyze the evacuation efficiency of a strip subway commercial street...
Background: In France, more than 20% of women require induction of labor (IOL), which can be psychologically and emotionally challenging for patients. It is important to assess how they feel about their IOL experiences. Our aim was to cross-culturall...
Kinematic analysis of leaping motions can provide meaningful insights into unraveling the efficient and agile propulsive mechanisms in dolphin swimming. However, undisturbed kinematic examination of live dolphins has been very scarce due to the restr...
Fiber-reinforced composites are extensively used in many components and structures in various industry sectors, and the need to connect and assemble such types of components may require drilling operations. Although drilling is a common machining pro...
In recent years, crowded stampede incidents have occurred frequently, resulting in more and more serious losses. The common cause of such incidents is that when large-scale populations gather in a limited area, the population is highly unstable. In e...
Static information found in current building design guidance documents is not adequate to achieve efficient safety and security in public buildings during emergencies. There is a need to consider space characteristics and dynamic information related...
The Bitcoin market exhibits characteristics of a market with pricing bubbles. The price is very volatile, and it inherits the risk of quickly increasing to a peak and decreasing from the peak even faster. In this context, it is vital for investors to...
This paper presents a simple model for slightly charged gas expanding into a vacuum from a planar exit. The number density, bulk velocity, temperature, and potential at the exit are given. The electric field force is assumed weaker than the convectio...
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