A NEW BUCKLING-RESTRAINED BRACE WITH A VARIABLE CROSS-SECTION CORE

A New Buckling-Restrained Brace with a Variable Cross-Section Core

In this paper, a new type of buckling-restrained brace characterized by a variable cross-section core (BRB-VCC) is proposed and investigated.The practical design equations of the BRB-VCC are derived based on mechanical and mathematical theories.Six specimens are designed and tested to clarify lmtbul the mechanical behaviours of the BRB-VCC and to v

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The Reasons for the Emergence of Violent Behavior and Attempted Murder from the Perspective of Male Killers: A qualitative study

Background: Murder is a violent social behavior, which stems from various reasons.The purpose of the present research is to evaluate the reasons for murder from the perspective of killers.Methods: The present research is a qualitative study which involves 23 male killers sampled purposefully from Adel Abad prison in Shiraz.After conducting a semi-s

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Comparison of memory thresholds for planar qudit geometries

We introduce and analyze a new type of decoding algorithm called general color clustering, based on renormalization group methods, to be used in qudit color codes.The performance of this decoder is analyzed under a generalized tokidoki hello kitty blind box bit-flip error model, and is used to obtain the first memory threshold estimates for qudit 6

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