Facial micro-expressions can reveal a person’s actual mental state and emotions.Therefore, it has crucial applications in many fields, such as lie detection, clinical medicine, and defense security.However, conventional methods have extracted features on designed facial regions to recognize micro-expressions, failing to effectively hit the m
Buckling restrained braces (BRBs) which are generally composed of a steel core and a encasing(buckling restrainers) are utilized to resist lateral forces in high seismic regions since BRBs exhibit high energy dissipation capacity, ductility and stiffness.The steel core carries both compressive and tensile forces.During the compression, the core sta
The mineral sector, especially its small-scale subsector, has become significant in the emerging economies of the Global South.Tanzania is the focus of this policy exposition paper because, aside from Ghana and South Africa, Tanzania is ranked 4th in Africa in terms of its mineral deposits and small-scale mining activities.The focus is also on arti