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Buckling deformation of thin layer coverings of small curvatures used in aircraft construction (2018)
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This paper presents the results of the experimental and numerical analysis in terms of the finite element method of plating components of aircraft load-bearing structures. The subject matter of the study was composite panels with stiffeners in the fo... Read More about Buckling deformation of thin layer coverings of small curvatures used in aircraft construction.

Effect of pH on the activity of platinum group metal-free catalysts in oxygen reduction reaction (2018)
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© 2018 American Chemical Society. The impact of the electrolyte's pH on the catalytic activity of platinum group metal-free (PGM-free) catalysts toward the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) was studied. The results indicate that the ORR mechanism is de... Read More about Effect of pH on the activity of platinum group metal-free catalysts in oxygen reduction reaction.

Enhancement of microbial fuel cell performance by introducing a nano-composite cathode catalyst (2018)
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© 2018 The Authors Iron aminoantipyrine (Fe-AAPyr), graphene nanosheets (GNSs) derived catalysts and their physical mixture Fe-AAPyr-GNS were synthesized and investigated as cathode catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) with the activated car... Read More about Enhancement of microbial fuel cell performance by introducing a nano-composite cathode catalyst.

Fully-deterministic execution of IEC-61499 models for Distributed Avionics Applications (2018)
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© 2018 by the authors. The development of time-critical Distributed Avionics Applications (DAAs) pushes beyond the limit of existing modeling methodologies to design dependable systems. Aerospace and industrial automation entail high-integrity applic... Read More about Fully-deterministic execution of IEC-61499 models for Distributed Avionics Applications.

Power generation in microbial fuel cells using platinum group metal-free cathode catalyst: Effect of the catalyst loading on performance and costs (2018)
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© 2017 The Authors Platinum group metal-free (PGM-free) catalyst with different loadings was investigated in air breathing electrodes microbial fuel cells (MFCs). Firstly, the electrocatalytic activity towards oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) of the c... Read More about Power generation in microbial fuel cells using platinum group metal-free cathode catalyst: Effect of the catalyst loading on performance and costs.

A two-state model for the kinetics of competitive radioligand binding (2018)
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© 2018 The Authors. British Journal of Pharmacology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Pharmacological Society. Background and Purpose: Ligand–receptor binding kinetics is receiving increasing attention in the drug research co... Read More about A two-state model for the kinetics of competitive radioligand binding.

Upfront docetaxel with androgen deprivation therapy in the elderly patient with metastatic hormone-naïve prostate cancer: Single institution experience (2018)
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Upfront docetaxel with androgen deprivation therapy in the elderly patient with metastatic hormone-naïve prostate cancer: Single institution experience

What life course theoretical models best explain the relationship between exposure to childhood adversity and psychopathology symptoms: Recency, accumulation, or sensitive periods? (2018)
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018Â. Background Although childhood adversity is a potent determinant of psychopathology, relatively little is known about how the characteristics of adversity exposure, including its developmental timing or du... Read More about What life course theoretical models best explain the relationship between exposure to childhood adversity and psychopathology symptoms: Recency, accumulation, or sensitive periods?.

Predictors of improved biochemical progression free survival for salvage prostate bed radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy (2018)
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Predictors of improved biochemical progression free survival for salvage prostate bed radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy

The Bristol Bladder trial: A single-arm phase II trial of cisplatin and cabazitaxel for muscle invasive transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder prior to radical cystectomy (2018)
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Optimization of air distribution mode coupled interior design for civil aircraft cabin (2018)
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The airflow distribution and thermal comfort of human beings in civil aircraft cabin are influenced by many factors such as the ventilation mode, ventilation air volume, and supply air temperature and so on. Among these factors, the choice of ventila... Read More about Optimization of air distribution mode coupled interior design for civil aircraft cabin.

Ceramic Microbial Fuel Cells Stack: Power generation in standard and supercapacitive mode (2018)
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© 2018 The Author(s). In this work, a microbial fuel cell (MFC) stack containing 28 ceramic MFCs was tested in both standard and supercapacitive modes. The MFCs consisted of carbon veil anodes wrapped around the ceramic separator and air-breathing ca... Read More about Ceramic Microbial Fuel Cells Stack: Power generation in standard and supercapacitive mode.

The study of buckling and post-buckling behavior of laminated composites consisting multiple delaminations using acoustic emission (2018)
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd This study introduces a comprehensive set of designed and tested glass/epoxy composites, AE monitoring and signal processing techniques; (i) to investigate the effect of multiple delaminations on buckling and post-buckling behavio... Read More about The study of buckling and post-buckling behavior of laminated composites consisting multiple delaminations using acoustic emission.

Decomposition-based recursive least squares identification methods for multivariate pseudo-linear systems using the multi-innovation (2018)
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© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper studies the parameter estimation algorithms of multivariate pseudo-linear autoregressive systems. A decomposition-based recursive generalised least squares algorithm is deduce... Read More about Decomposition-based recursive least squares identification methods for multivariate pseudo-linear systems using the multi-innovation.

Sulfur Flotation Performance Recognition Based on Hierarchical Classification of Local Dynamic and Static Froth Features (2018)
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© 2018 IEEE. This paper proposes a flotation performance recognition system based on a hierarchical classification of froth images using both local dynamic and static features, which includes a series of functions in image extraction, processing, and... Read More about Sulfur Flotation Performance Recognition Based on Hierarchical Classification of Local Dynamic and Static Froth Features.

U-model enhanced dynamic control of a heavy oil pyrolysis/cracking furnace (2018)
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This paper proposes a case study in the control of a heavy oil pyrolysis/cracking furnace with a newly extended U-Model based Pole Placement Controller (U-PPC). The major work of the paper includes: 1. establishing a control oriented nonlinear dynami... Read More about U-model enhanced dynamic control of a heavy oil pyrolysis/cracking furnace.

On vibration transmission between interactive oscillators with nonlinear coupling interface (2018)
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This paper investigates the dynamic characteristics and vibration transmission behaviour of interactive oscillators with nonlinearities at their coupling interface. Three different types of stiffness nonlinearities, i.e., hardening stiffness, softeni... Read More about On vibration transmission between interactive oscillators with nonlinear coupling interface.

Complex genetic patterns in human arise from a simple range-expansion model over continental landmasses (2018)
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© 2018 Kanitz et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are cre... Read More about Complex genetic patterns in human arise from a simple range-expansion model over continental landmasses.

Ligand binding dynamics for pre-dimerised G protein-coupled receptor homodimers: Linear models and analytical solutions (2018)
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Evidence suggests that many G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are bound together forming dimers. The implications of dimerisation for cellular signalling outcomes, and ultimately drug discovery and therapeutics, remain unclear. Consideration of lig... Read More about Ligand binding dynamics for pre-dimerised G protein-coupled receptor homodimers: Linear models and analytical solutions.

Modelling and simulation of biased agonism dynamics at a G protein-coupled receptor (2018)
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© 2018 The Authors Theoretical models of G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) concentration-response relationships often assume an agonist producing a single functional response via a single active state of the receptor. These models have largely been... Read More about Modelling and simulation of biased agonism dynamics at a G protein-coupled receptor.