Structural robustness—the ability of a structure to withstand unforeseen or extreme events without suffering disproportionate ...

Standard RAG pipelines treat documents as flat strings of text. They use "fixed-size chunking" (cutting a document every 500 ...

Abstract: This paper examines the structural and reliability aspects of multilayer transportation networks. Using Space L, we construct these networks and develop a topology index system including ...

1 Institute of Structural Material Failure and Strengthening Technology, Ningbo Polytechnic University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China 2 School of Civil Engineering, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou, ...

Unlike optical microscopy, SEM does not rely on light waves but instead uses a beam of electrons to interact with materials, enabling magnifications up to 300,000× and resolutions approaching 1 nm. 1 ...

If you’d like an LLM to act more like a partner than a tool, Databot is an experimental alternative to querychat that also works in both R and Python. Databot is designed to analyze data you’ve ...

Officials estimate that pythons have killed 95% of small mammals as well as thousands of birds in Everglades National Park South Florida Water Management District via AP; AP Photo/Lynne Sladky ...

Erik Vanmarcke, an emeritus professor of civil and environmental engineering and a pioneer in structural safety, died on July 7 at 83. Through a better understanding of how forces like earthquakes and ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing or ending the collection of data that is used to calculate the Consumer Price Index. By Ben Casselman Federal Reserve policymakers have stressed that their ...