Also, the beams were partially strengthened with two CFRP layers laid along 75% and 100% of their lengths, and that fully strengthened along 100% of its length, all achieved almost the same load improvements (+26% to +28%) in comparison with their control beam, which means that about 50% of the amount of CFRP sheets or even more can be saved and the same improvement can be achieved.
Compared with the existing approaches, the proposed method can achieve almost the same performance, but with significant improvement in computational complexity.
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Those considering themselves "better" then rate improvement as: 1) Almost the same, hardly any better at all, 2) A little better, 3) Somewhat better, 4) Moderately better, 5) A good deal better, 6) A great deal better, or 7) A very great deal better.
The compression efficiency keeps almost the same in the low bitrate range, and it has a little improvement in the high bitrate range compared with HM13.0.
If participants indicated that their symptoms have improved, they were asked to rate the degree of improvement on a 7-point scale from "almost the same, hardly better at all" (1) to "a very great deal better" (7).
The certification strategy for NMIJ CRM 7306-a was almost the same as that for NMIJ CRM7301-a [ 3] but with two improvements to ensure the reliability of the CRM.
With respect to BP, when is small, the improvement is larger and when increases, the CS performance is almost the same for all the optimization methods.
