In a prefabricated composite pipe gallery with socket joints, the repeated loading and unloading effect of shield construction on the overlying soil and the existing pipe gallery may cause considerable deformations to the pipe gallery at the joint while ensuring its own bearing capacity.The shield tunnelling underneath the existing pipe gallery pro
Abstract Background Cuticular hydrocarbons (CHC) have been documented to play crucial roles as species- and sex-specific cues in the chemical communication systems of a wide variety of insects.However, whether they are sufficient by themselves as the sole cue triggering sexual behavior as well as preference of con- over heterospecific mating partne
The derailment coefficient, which is calculated based on the wheel-rail contact forces, indicates the running safety of a railway vehicle with respect to flange climb derailment.The value of the derailment coefficient changes constantly due to numerous factors associated with the vehicle and track conditions while the vehicle runs on a service line
Increased frequency and intensity of drought events consequently affect oak high forests with the process of RESCUE REMEDY KIDS further decline, compromised growth and questionable natural regeneration.To overcome such difficulties, new adaptive strategies are required.Coppicing, as the oldest way of forest management, might provide some solutions.
In this Pin and Rack Service Kit paper, we propose a full-reference (FR) image quality assessment (IQA) scheme, which evaluates image fidelity from two aspects: the inter-patch similarity and the intra-patch similarity.The scheme is performed in a patch-wise fashion so that a quality map can be obtained.On one hand, we investigate the disparity bet