Measuring Noise Emissions During Aircraft Take-Off
During the last decades, the use of air transport has dramatically increased generally due to globalization, which has caused a rising need for mobility. Consequently,…
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Thirsty Reservoirs: The Water Footprint Of Hydroelectric Dam Construction
Freshwater availability is limited. During many periods of the year and in many places around the world, the demand for freshwater for human use exceeds…
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Acoustics At The Nanoscale
Advances in nanotechnology have provided acoustic researchers with a number of new materials, with features such as nanofibers and nanopores, that can potentially be implemented…
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Lagrangian Coherent Structures: Nature’s Transport Barriers
No time to see, in broad daylight Streams full of stars, like the skies at night These lines by W.H. Davies describe our general attitude…
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Age At Natural Menopause And The Risk Of Type 2 Diabetes: A Prospective Cohort Study
Menopause is a natural process that marks the end of the reproductive period in women. This major life transition happens when the ovaries no longer…
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Finding Time For Evolution
Time is a concept that is taken for granted in most areas of human life. It is treated casually without much thought, and we only…
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Improvement Of Fatigue Prediction For Better Material Design
Fatigue represents the loss of a material’s performance (mainly mechanical properties) under constant cyclic, or periodic, loading. In general, researchers only investigate the number of…
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Celestial Mechanics, Relative Equilibria, And Many Difficult Problems
Celestial mechanics is a branch in the intersection of mathematics and physics, where the main goal is to describe the motion of any number of…
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Classifying Sesame Oil Seed Varieties And Origins Using Mass Spectrometry
The quality and authenticity of vegetable oils are of importance not only for their nutritional value but also for their miscellaneous biomedical and industrial applications….
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Finding Solutions To Contradictions In Relativity And Quantum Mechanics
The twentieth century gave birth to two of the most important Physics theories of nowadays: Special/General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. These two theories have accompanied…
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One-way Sound Propagation: Breaking Acoustic Reciprocity In 2D Materials
Phononic materials with elastic or acoustic fields that travel simultaneously in space and time have been shown to break elastodynamic reciprocity culminating in intriguing asymmetric,…
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