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European Arctic --- Atlantic water inflow --- primary productivity enhancement --- climate change --- Arctic carbon cycling --- Arctic food webs --- advective processes --- carbon sink area

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In his legendary novel The Jungle (1905 and 1906), Upton Sinclair included a conspicuous number of Lithuanian words, phrases and surnames. This volume is the first attempt to analyze aspects of Lithuanian linguistic and historical data from The Jungle. Sinclair discovered the Lithuanian language in Chicago and explored it with pleasure. He even confessed to having sang in Lithuanian. If you look for "a Lithuanian linguist" working in field-research conditions in Chicago's Back of the Yards-there is Upton Sinclair! The book targets Sinclair's motives for choosing Lithuanian characters, his sources and his work methods in "field-research" conditions in Chicago. Some real-life individuals-Lithuanian name-donors for the protagonists of The Jungle -are presented in this volume. Certain details of the turn-of-the-century Chicago depicted in The Jungle are also revealed-for example, the saloon where the actual Lithuanian wedding feast took place and its owner. This volume is of interest to American literary historians, sociolinguists, language historians, and those interested in the history of Lithuanian immigration to America and the immigrant experience in Chicago.

Lithuanian language --- Baltic languages --- History and criticism. --- Sinclair, Upton, --- Stirling, Arthur, --- Sinkler, Ėpton, --- Fitch, Clarke, --- Garrison, Frederick, --- Sinclair, Upton Beall, --- Sinḳler, Eypṭon, --- סינקליר, אייפטאן --- סינקליר, אייפטאן, --- סינקלער, אופטאן, --- סינקלער, אייפטאן --- סינקלער, אייפטאן, --- סינקלער, אפטאן --- סינקלער, אפטאן, --- סינקלער, אפטון --- סינקלער, אײפטאן --- סינקלער, א. --- סינקלער, עפטאן --- סינקלער, ע. --- סינקלר, אופטון --- סינקלר, אפטון --- סינקלר, אפטון, --- 辛克萊, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Lithuanian language. --- TheJungle (Sinclair)

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The broad use of composite materials and shell structural members with complex geometries in technologies related to various branches of engineering has gained increased attention from scientists and engineers for the development of even more refined approaches and investigation of their mechanical behavior. It is well known that composite materials are able to provide higher values of strength stiffness, and thermal properties, together with conferring reduced weight, which can affect the mechanical behavior of beams, plates, and shells, in terms of static response, vibrations, and buckling loads. At the same time, enhanced structures made of composite materials can feature internal length scales and non-local behaviors, with great sensitivity to different staking sequences, ply orientations, agglomeration of nanoparticles, volume fractions of constituents, and porosity levels, among others. In addition to fiber-reinforced composites and laminates, increased attention has been paid in literature to the study of innovative components such as functionally graded materials (FGMs), carbon nanotubes (CNTs), graphene nanoplatelets, and smart constituents. Some examples of smart applications involve large stroke smart actuators, piezoelectric sensors, shape memory alloys, magnetostrictive and electrostrictive materials, as well as auxetic components and angle-tow laminates. These constituents can be included in the lamination schemes of smart structures to control and monitor the vibrational behavior or the static deflection of several composites. The development of advanced theoretical and computational models for composite materials and structures is a subject of active research and this is explored here for different complex systems, including their static, dynamic, and buckling responses; fracture mechanics at different scales; the adhesion, cohesion, and delamination of materials and interfaces.

dynamic stability --- elastomeric foundation --- Eringen’s differential constitutive model --- graphene sheet --- temperature-dependent properties --- basement bottom reinforcement --- reinforcement depth --- Young’s modulus of reinforced soil --- tunnel heave --- numerical analysis --- epistemic uncertainty --- evidence theory --- robust optimization --- sensor design --- near-field earthquake --- fling-step --- far-field --- simultaneous excitation --- special moment frame (SMF) --- advanced model --- precise prediction --- circular foundation pit --- tunnel deformation --- composite --- stochastic --- natural frequency --- uncertainty --- metro constructions --- shield tunnel --- ground settlement --- soil displacement --- analytical --- Mindlin solution --- EELS --- plasmons vibrational modes --- nanoparticles --- nonlocal and size-dependent dielectric --- nanoparticle suspension --- Brownian motion --- spectral thermal pulsing --- DEM simulations --- Nano-device applications --- stratum movements --- mirror source–sink method --- centrifuge modelling test --- transport --- palletized goods --- damage --- bottle --- buckling --- Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) --- n/a --- Eringen's differential constitutive model --- Young's modulus of reinforced soil --- mirror source-sink method

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"Sinkholes and Subsidence" provides a twenty-first century account of how the various subsidence features in carbonate and evaporite rocks cause problems in development and construction in our living environment. The authors explain the processes by which different types of sinkholes develop and mature in karst terrains. They consider the various methods used in site investigations, both direct and indirect, to locate the features associated with these hazards and risks, highlighting the value of hazard mapping. Various ground improvement techniques and the special types of foundation structures which deal with these problems are covered in the second half of the text. This book is supplemented with a wealth of actual case studies and solutions, written by invited experts.

Physical geography. --- Hydraulic engineering. --- Geology. --- Geophysics/Geodesy. --- Hydrogeology. --- Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Engineering --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- Geography --- Earth movements and building. --- Engineering geology. --- Sinkholes. --- Subsidences (Earth movements) --- Cenotes --- Sink holes --- Sinks (Geology) --- Holes --- Karst --- Civil engineering --- Geology, Economic --- Building and earth movements --- Building and subsidences --- Subsidences and building --- Building --- Buildings --- Land subsidences --- Earth movements --- Geology --- Protection --- Geophysics. --- Geotechnical engineering. --- Engineering, Geotechnical --- Geotechnics --- Geotechnology --- Engineering geology --- Geohydrology --- Hydrology --- Groundwater --- Geological physics --- Terrestrial physics --- Physics

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Computing and communication capabilities are increasingly embedded in diverse objects and structures in the physical environment. They will link the ‘cyberworld’ of computing and communications with the physical world. These applications are called cyber physical systems (CPS). Obviously, the increased involvement of real-world entities leads to a greater demand for trustworthy systems. Hence, we use "system trustworthiness" here, which can guarantee continuous service in the presence of internal errors or external attacks. Mobile CPS (MCPS) is a prominent subcategory of CPS in which the physical component has no permanent location. Mobile Internet devices already provide ubiquitous platforms for building novel MCPS applications. The objective of this Special Issue is to contribute to research in modern/future trustworthy MCPS, including design, modeling, simulation, dependability, and so on. It is imperative to address the issues which are critical to their mobility, report significant advances in the underlying science, and discuss the challenges of development and implementation in various applications of MCPS.

AUTOSAR --- DAG --- runnable scheduling --- control-scheduling codesign --- lagrange multiplier --- Mobile Cyber-Physical Systems (MCPS) --- industry --- Mobile Sink Groups (MSG) --- group mobility --- real-time data delivery --- Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) --- deep neural network --- Red Light Runner (RLR) --- dynamic signal control --- intersection safety --- mixed-criticality --- power-aware --- real-time scheduling --- DVFS --- security taxonomies --- event-based systems --- mobile cyber physical systems --- security flaws --- searchable encryption --- PEKS --- forward privacy --- trusted execution environment --- SGX --- data quality --- large-scale --- high-dimensionality --- linear discriminant analysis --- random projection --- bootstrapping --- controller area network bus --- authentication --- authenticity --- resiliency --- sustainability --- formal verification --- model checking --- in-vehicle network --- model compression --- adversarial robustness --- weight pruning --- adversarial training --- distillation --- embedded system --- secure AI --- n/a