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Digby D. Macdonald
This paper explores the roles of empiricism and determinism in science and concludes that the intellectual exercise that we call ?science? is best described as the transition from empiricism (i.e., observation) to determinism, which is the philosophy tha...
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Jingsha He, Yue Li and Nafei Zhu
Online social networks (OSNs) have experienced rapid growth in recent years, and an increasing number of people now use OSNs, such as Facebook and Twitter, to share and spread information on a daily basis. As a special type of information, user personal ...
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Junwei Zhang, Duanying Wan, Weiting Gao, Lei Zhou and Meng Wang
A dynamic disturbance will induce cracks around the tunnel in tunnel blasting or shield construction. To investigate the overall stability of cracks with various angles during a fixed borehole (round hole explosion) blasting, models containing an individ...
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Weijiao Ye and Ziqiang Li
To explore new strategies to improve the efficiency of land for grain production in China, this study empirically investigates the relationship between the grain imports competition effect and the efficiency of land for grain production from the perspect...
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Wenjie Li, Wen Dong, Xin Zhang and Jinzhong Zhang
Remote sensing, the Internet, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, and other technologies have become the core elements of modern agriculture and smart farming. Agricultural production and management modes guided by data and services ha...
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Baljeet Singh Saharan, Swati Tyagi, Robin Kumar, Vijay, Hari Om, Balwan Singh Mandal and Joginder Singh Duhan
Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF), utilizing natural resources, multiple cropping systems, and cow-dung- and urine-based products to improve soil biology, has been practiced by thousands of farmers in India. However, without any scientific proof, this t...
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Qin Dong, Mengyuan Rong and Geng Xu
The crack closure phenomenon significantly influences low cycle fatigue (LCF) crack growth. The crack closure theory deems that a crack can grow only when the applied load is greater than the fatigue crack opening and closing loads. The revised crack clo...
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Amal S. Hassan, Aisha Fayomi, Ali Algarni and Ehab M. Almetwally
Unit distributions are typically used in probability theory and statistics to illustrate useful quantities with values between zero and one. In this paper, we investigated an appropriate transformation to propose the unit-exponentiated half-logistic dist...
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Lei Ma, Stefan Seipel, Sven Anders Brandt and Ding Ma
Examining the complexity of urban form may help to understand human behavior in urban spaces, thereby improving the conditions for sustainable design of future cities. Metrics, such as fractal dimension, ht-index, and cumulative rate of growth (CRG) inde...
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Dandan He, Zheng Liu, Qingqing Yang and Lei Ma
The combination of non-fungible token (NFT) with paintings, music, games, videos and other forms of creative content is an innovation to protect the copyright of authors. It digitizes physical works with unique labels. At present, the NFT industry is blo...
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