Engineering procurement and construction (EPC) is a normative practice globally approved since China has been engaging in international cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) infrastructure development. EPC has been adopted in the delivery of BRI infrastructure projects in other...

In order to study the seismic response of the embankment slopes with different reinforcing measures, shaking table tests were performed on three embankment slope models (i.e., unreinforced embankment slope, 2-layer reinforced embankment slope and 4-layer reinforced embankment slope). Wenchuan...

With the integration of electronic health records (EHRs), health data has become easily accessible and abounded. The EHR has the potential to provide important healthcare information to researchers by creating study cohorts. However, accessing this information comes with three major issues: 1)...