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Yalin Yang, Yanan Wu and May Yuan
In-person social events bring people to places, while people and places influence where and what social events occur. Knowing what people do and where they build social relationships gives insights into the distribution and availability of places for soc...
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Jun Dong, Qingqing Chen, Guangxiang Yuan and Kaiyan Xie
In large-scale water conservancy and hydropower projects, complex rock structures are considered to be the main factor controlling the stability of hydraulic structures. The classification of rock mass structure plays an important role in the safety of a...
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Petro Pukach, Roman Kvit, Tetyana Salo and Myroslava Vovk
A scheme for solving the problem of determining the probability of failure and probabilistic (statistical) characteristics of the failure loading magnitude of a composite material plate is considered. The plate structure is a flat homogeneous matrix with...
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Leonardo De Bona Becker, Maria do Carmo Reis Cavalcanti and Alfredo Affonso Monteiro Marques
Tailings dam accidents emphasize the importance of an adequate understanding of the strength parameters of tailings to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the design, construction, and operation of such structures. Usually, the tailings strength ...
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Mario Castaneda-Lopez, Thomas Lenoir, Jean-Pierre Sanfratello and Luc Thorel
The indirect tensile strength of two geomaterials treated with variable cement contents, degrees of compaction and water contents were tested after several curing times. A statistical review through an analysis of variance allows for identifying the sign...
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Maria Gloria Di Chiano, Mariana Marchioni, Anita Raimondi, Umberto Sanfilippo and Gianfranco Becciu
Storage tanks from rainwater harvesting systems (RWHs) are designed to provide flow equalization between rainfall and water demand. The minimum storage capacity required to take into account the maximum variations of stored water volumes, i.e., the activ...
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Aristeidis Karras, Christos Karras, Konstantinos C. Giotopoulos, Dimitrios Tsolis, Konstantinos Oikonomou and Spyros Sioutas
Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising technique for preserving user privacy and ensuring data security in distributed machine learning contexts, particularly in edge intelligence and edge caching applications. Recognizing the prevalent chall...
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Fábio Mendonça, Sheikh Shanawaz Mostafa, Fernando Morgado-Dias and Antonio G. Ravelo-García
This study presents a novel approach for kernel selection based on Kullback?Leibler divergence in variational autoencoders using features generated by the convolutional encoder. The proposed methodology focuses on identifying the most relevant subset of ...
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Emil Oynakov, Liliya Dimitrova, Lyubka Pashova and Dragomir Dragomirov
Although tsunamis in the Black Sea are rare and less destructive, recently, their study has been the subject of interest due to the increasing concentration of population and infrastructure in low-lying coastal areas. This study aims to elucidate the spa...
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Hyo-Yeon Jang and Cheol-Hong Hwang
Photoelectric smoke detectors are used for early detection of building fires, and sensitivity adjustment is generally performed using white smoke generated by the burning of filter paper. Therefore, when black smoke of the same concentration is introduce...
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