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Kevin MacKenzie, Steve Auger, Sara Beitollahpour and Bahram Gharabaghi
Stream corridor erosion can majorly contribute to the overall sediment and phosphorus load in urbanizing watersheds. However, the relative contribution of stream bed and bank erosion, compared with upland watershed sources and the potential for stream re...
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Yongzhao Yan, Zhenqian Sun, Yueqi Hou, Boyang Zhang, Ziwei Yuan, Guoxin Zhang, Bo Wang and Xiaoping Ma
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms offer unique advantages for area search and environmental monitoring applications. For practical deployments, determining the optimal number of UAVs required for a given task and defining key performance metrics for t...
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Arkadiusz Bednarz, Krzysztof Bieniek, Radoslaw Kolodziejczyk, Zygmunt Szczerba, Piotr Krauz, Monika Lubas and Kamil Szczerba
This article presents an experimental approach to fatigue testing of cableway gondolas, carried out in accordance with the EN 13796-3 standard. Due to the limitations of the aforementioned regulations and the lack of clarity in their content, when design...
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Yu-Jeong Lee, Sang-Hee Kim, Ji-Hye Ryu and Kweon-Hyoung Lee
The world is emphasizing the need for building design that considers energy performance to deal with climate problems. South Korea has constantly been tightening the design standards for saving building energy but with a focus on thermal performance and ...
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Miguel Aybar-Mejía, Randy Andrés, Alam Cabral-Soto, Carlos Montás, Wilmer-Johann Núñez-García, Elvin Arnaldo Jiménez Matos, Giuseppe Sbriz-Zeitun and Deyslen Mariano-Hernández
The growing integration of tourist areas and complexes increases the demand for electrical power systems. This increased demand may represent a vulnerability to voltage and frequency stability in electrical grids, where these parameters are essential for...
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Zhigao Wang, Zhi Geng, Xia Fang, Qianqian Tian, Xinsheng Lan and Jie Feng
In the past, planning to develop an electricity generation capacity supply of consumable load, an acceptable level of reliability, and minimum cost has played significant roles. Due to technological development in energy and the support of energy policym...
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Pooyan Kazemi, Aldo Ghisi and Stefano Mariani
We study the relationship between the architectural form of tall buildings and their structural response to a conventional seismic load. A series of models are generated by varying the top and bottom plan geometries of the buildings, and a steel diagrid ...
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Xu Zhou, Fang Lu and Liyu Wang
Virtual coupling uses wireless communication instead of mechanical coupling to ensure that trains are easily reconnected or disconnected. This technology can shorten the interval time between trains, give full play to the carrying capacity of lines, and ...
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Zezheng Zhao, Chunqiu Xia, Lian Chi, Xiaomin Chang, Wei Li, Ting Yang and Albert Y. Zomaya
From the perspective of energy providers, accurate short-term load forecasting plays a significant role in the energy generation plan, efficient energy distribution process and electricity price strategy optimisation. However, it is hard to achieve a sat...
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F.J. Ramos Real, B. Tovar
This study analyses the determinants of the technical efficiency performance for Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) power utilities in the period 1998-2009, excluding South Africa?s Eskom. The study formulated an explicit model for technical inefficiency...
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