Bill Gates-backed Terrapower has decided to give a challenge to Rolls-Royce in the United Kingdom market for the deployment of nuclear reactors.
Terrapower has submitted a letter to the UK’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero…
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UK Army’s 13-cent invisible shock fries 100+ drones in wild trial
The British Army has tested an invisible radio wave weapon, known as the Radiofrequency Directed Energy Weapon (RFDEW), to knock out drone swarms for the first time.
British soldiers have successfully tracked, targeted, and defeated swarms of…
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16-million-year-old amber reveals dirt ants once ruled Caribbean
Paleontologists have unearthed an ancient dirt ant trapped in 16-million-year-old amber from the Dominican Republic.
Interestingly, this is the first fossilized Basiceros dirt ant ever found in the Caribbean.
“Dirt ants are rare finds…
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TikTok unveils Footnotes feature as ByteDance weighs US future
TikTok has announced that it is testing a new feature called “Footnotes” in the U.S., aiming to add extra context and information to the platform’s videos.
This move is part of TikTok’s broader effort to combat misinformation and…
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Optimizing the eco-friendly dyeing of wool and nylon fabrics with Prangos ferulacea (L.) Lindl using artificial intelligence
Modeling and optimization results
Figure 5 presents the performance of models developed using RSM and ANN to predict the K/S value of wool and nylon fabrics as a function of dye concentration, time, pH, and temperature. Figure 5a,b illustrate…
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Research on CNC machining technology of straight bevel gears based on hypocycloids
Fig. 3 machining coordinate system of general cradle-style bevel gear machine tool6.
Motion analysis of traditional cradle-style Bevel gear machine tools
The generative motion of traditional cradle-style bevel gear machine tools is achieved through…
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VMKLA-UNet: vision Mamba with KAN linear attention U-Net
Overall framework
The model VMKLA-UNet proposed in our paper is shown in Fig. 2.a.
Fig. 2 Overall framework of the model. (a) VMKLA-UNet. Both the encoder and decoder consist of 4 stages, where each stage of the encoder contains a down-sampling…
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Innovative BWM–TOPSIS-based approach to determine the optimum delivery method for offshore projects
Project delivery methods
Selecting an appropriate project delivery method (PDM) is a complex decision-making process that should occur during the project-scoping phase and certainly before the commencement of the final design process. However,…
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Failure control of large-scale exposed tunnels under the combined effects of excavation damage and dynamic disturbance at a depth of 1240 m
The quality of deep underground tunnels is impacted by various factors such as the overlapping of primary joint fissures, damage from blasting, high stress conditions, and dynamic disturbances 1,2,3. Blasting damage can worsen the expansion of…
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Numerical analysis of mechanical response in bridge and pile foundations due to shield cutting of residual piles
Ground surface settlement
Figure 8 shows the numerical simulation results of surface settlement directly beneath the bridge and the monitoring data. By comparison, the peak value in the numerical simulation is smaller, indicating that the results…
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