In social systems, agents often have different ability to persuade neighbors to adopt their opinions. In this paper, we aim to investigate how the location and heterogeneity of influencers in social networks can improve convergence. We propose a vote...
With the vigorous development of the mobile Internet, online social networks have greatly changed the way of life of human beings. As an important branch of online social network research, influence maximization refers to finding
Thermomechanically processed high-strength steels feature specific fracture behavior. One of the decisive criteria for their application is their stability against internal defects during impact loads, especially in connection with the welding. The w...
Identifying the key components of CNC lathe and analyzing the fault propagation behavior is a powerful guarantee for the fault diagnosis and health maintenance of CNC lathe. The traditional key component identification studies are mostly based on the...
The connection between users in social networks can be maintained for a certain period of time, and the static network structure formed provides the basic conditions for various kinds of research, especially for discovering customer groups that can g...
Dynamic soaring helps albatross achieve long-distance migration. From a bionic view, dynamic soaring has great potential to enhance unmanned aerial vehicles (“UAVs”) flight range and endurance. The previous application studies focus on fl...
In an active magnetic bearing (AMB) rotor system, the mass imbalance of the rotor is inevitable due to uneven materials, machining errors, assembly errors and other factors. When the rotor rotates, the unbalanced mass generates centrifugal force at t...
The design scheme of elastically supported submarine propulsion shafting can effectively realize the attenuation of the vibration energy and improve the stealth performance of the whole submarine. However, the elastic deformation generated by the sys...
In recent years, the price of small agricultural products has both plummeted and skyrocketed, which has a great impact on people’s lives. Studying the factors affecting the price fluctuation of small agricultural products is of great significan...
This study addressed the complexity involved in integrating the causative risk factors influencing construction profitability. Most of the existing studies cover the individual effects of profitability influencing factors. Very few focus on the syste...
Viscoelastic dampers are a kind of classical passive energy dissipation and vibration control devices which are widely utilized in engineering fields. The mechanical properties and energy dissipation capacity of the viscoelastic damper are significan...
29 September 2026
This conceptual paper develops the Surrogate Trust Paradox to explain the potential tension in influencer marketing. It posits that influencers may generate commercial value through audiences’ perceived credibility. However, when commercializat...
Revealing the characteristics of spatial–temporal dynamics and influencing factors is important for optimizing the spatial distribution of tea production. Taking prefecture-level cities as the basic spatial unit, this study uses the Herfindahl...
7 February 2025
Online reviews are crucial for identifying the factors that affect the dynamic evolution of tourist sentiment, improving tourist satisfaction. This study employs pre-trained models BERT and BERTopic and social network analysis to examine 228,062 revi...
The gas-sensing behaviour based on a dynamic measurement method of a single SnO2 gas sensor was investigated by comparison with the static measurement. The influencing factors of nonlinear response such as modulation temperature, duty ratio, heating...
Existing buildings energy-saving renovation is an important means to cope with global warming and an essential component of achieving China’s energy conservation and pollution emissions reduction strategy goals. The development of the energy-saving r...
Under the rapid advancements in information technology, the complex network characteristics of agricultural product trade relationships among global economies have exhibited increasing prominence. This study takes the soybean trade market as an empir...
Urban innovation spaces are crucial to stimulate innovative thinking and facilitate the integration of science, technology, and humanities. On the one hand, existing research on urban innovation spaces focuses on spatial patterns, associated networks...
Vegetation Net Primary Productivity (NPP) plays a crucial role in terrestrial carbon sinks and the global carbon cycle. Investigating the spatiotemporal dynamics and influencing factors in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region can furnish a solid scie...
Teacher curriculum leadership is in urgent demand to promote the sustainable advancement of curriculum reform, and an important guarantee for the sustainable development of students. It is of important theoretical and practical significance to clarif...
Dockless bike-sharing programs (DBSPs) are typical representatives of the new era of the internet economy. These schemes alleviate urban traffic congestion, reduce carbon emissions, and change people’s preferred travel modes, but they also suff...
We present in this paper a qualitative study of couple ethical purchasing behavior, based on interviews with French consumers. The analysis of joint decision making allows us to distinguish between ethical couples who favor the choice of ethical prod...
Background: Strength and conditioning experts widely recognize the dynamic strength index (DSI) as a tool for assessing an athlete’s ability to utilize strength in dynamic actions. The DSI is calculated as the ratio of peak force in dynamic act...
Quantifying landscape ecological risk (LER) using multi-period land use data and ecological indicators is essential for understanding regional ecological dynamics. However, LER assessment is sensitive to spatial delineation, introducing uncertainty....
An important force for participation in urban and rural infrastructure transformation (URIT) is private capital (PC), which helps to emphasize the importance of government departments in effectively implementing quality urban development strategies w...
The rate sensitivity of concrete material is closely related to the inertia and viscous effects. However, the effect of inertia on the dynamic strength of concrete remains unclear. In this paper, digital image correlation technology was applied to st...
The aim of this research was to explore one of the most intriguing dimensions of every firm’s business—its performance. Aside from analysing the influence of industry’s characteristics on the firm’s performance, the authors addressed the characterist...
A thermal dynamic disaster in the goaf is one of the most serious coal mine disasters formed by coal spontaneous combustion and gas interweaving. However, the influence of the high-temperature hidden fire source formed in the goaf on the evolution la...
Cylinder has become an indispensable and important pneumatic actuator in the development of green production technology. The sealing performance of the cylinder directly affects its safety and reliability. Under the service environment of the cylinde...
Conducting research on the dynamic behavior of root–soil systems is crucial for accurately assessing the seismic response of ecological slopes, thereby providing a scientific foundation for the development of appropriate seismic design measures...
Contact–impact phenomena caused by joint clearances can significantly alter the dynamic response of high-speed mechanical systems, yet fewer studies combine analytical impact-force modeling, virtual prototyping, and experimental observations fo...
Similar to the asphalt mixture, the polyurethane (PU) mixture’s performance and characteristics are dependent on many variables. In this study, six variables, including aggregate gradation (limestone and basalt), aggregate type, PU type, PU con...
Polymeric foams are widely used in engineering applications for vibration attenuation. The foams usually work preloaded and it is known that the dynamic properties and attenuation ability of these polymers depend on the preload. In this paper, experi...
In order to explore the relationship between the filling surface angle and the dynamic characteristics of the filling body under impact load, this paper uses the Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) test system to study the influence of different filling su...
The article presents an analysis of the mechanical properties of S700MC steel, which represents advanced low-alloy high-strength steels. The influence of microstructure, shaped by a controlled thermo-mechanical rolling process, on the strength, ducti...
Dynamic postural control is challenged during many actions in sport such as when landing or cutting. A decrease of dynamic postural control is one possible risk factor for non-contact injuries. Moreover, these injuries mainly occur under loading cond...
Accurate temperature and thermal dose prediction are crucial to high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) hyperthermia, which has been used successfully for the non-invasive treatment of solid tumors. For the conventional method of prediction, the tis...
To investigate the influence of the dynamic motion of a gearbox on lubricating flow field and churning power losses under splash lubrication, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method based on a combination of the fluid of volume (VOF) method and t...
Under dynamic loading, the geomechanical properties of porous clastic rocks differ from those in quasistatic loading. A small experimental rig was built to directly assess the influence of vibrations on the uniaxial compressive strength (UCS), Young...
Due to their large and increasing size and the corrosive nature of salt water and high wind speeds, offshore wind turbines are required to be more robust, more rugged and more reliable than their onshore counterparts. The dynamic characteristics of t...
Flight mechanics/dynamics models are essential for analyzing aircraft flight performance, where aerodynamic data play a critical role. This paper establishes a missile flight dynamics model and investigates the influence of aerodynamic modeling error...
This paper investigates the dynamic behaviour of a two-axle bogie under the influence of interference between the vertical vibrations of bounce and pitch—generated by the track irregularities—and the roll horizontal vibrations—excit...
Social influence analysis is a very popular research direction. This article analyzes the social network of musicians and the many influencing factors when musicians create music to rank the influence of musicians. In order to achieve the practical p...
Although the effect of high temperature on the performance of organic solar cells has been widely investigated, it is inevitably influenced by the associated annealing effect (which usually leads to film morphology change and variation in electrical...
During deepwater drilling, the subsea wellhead will be subjected to dynamic loads transmitted from the marine environment, floating drilling platform, riser, and blowout preventer (BOP). Therefore, complex dynamic responses will be induced, which wil...
Due to the limitation of machining accuracy, the transmission performance uncertainty of mass gears must be evaluated quantitatively to provide the basis for its application in the whole machine. Based on the polynomial chaotic expansion (PCE) method...
Gas-lubricated microbearings are widely applied in multiple fields due to their advantages of high-speed, low friction level and other features. The operating environment of microbearings is complex, and the difference of temperature has an important...
With the flourishing development of the urban metro system, the topology of important nodes changes as the metro network structure evolves further. The identical important node has distinct impacts on various metro networks’ resilience. At pres...
Aimed at the influence of the vibration environment on the performance degradation of AC contactors, the purpose of this study is to investigate the failure mechanism of AC contactors under vibration conditions. During the closing process of AC conta...
During discontinuous dynamic recrystallization (DDRX), new dislocation-free grains progressively replace the initially strain-hardened grains. Furthermore, the grain boundary migration associated with dislocation elimination partially opposes strain...
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