Physical and mechanical properties of wood of plantation grown Albizia lebbeck in the savannah ecological zone, Ghana by Enoch Gbapenuo Tampori, Francis Kofi Bih, Kwaku Antwi, Issah Chakurah

“…The heartwood and sapwood proportions were evaluated and the samples were examined for hardness, bending strength (MOE and MOR), compression strength parallel to grain, shear strength parallel to grain, and air-dry density. All trees had a significantly higher heartwood than sapwood percentage. …”
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Analysis of freezing and thawing processes in clay with freeze-induced compression (FIC) model by Satoshi Nishimura, Mingxuan Liang, Chuangxin Lyu

“…The elasto-plastic model for frozen/unfrozen states was reappraised and re-formulated such that all parameter values could be determined from conventional frozen/unfrozen tests. …”
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Intragastric Endoscopic Assisted Single Incision Surgery for Gastric Leiomyoma of the Esophagogastric Junction by Salvador Morales-Conde, Isaias Alarcón, Carlos Ortiz-Moyano, Antonio Barranco, Francisco J. Padillo, María Socas

“…Single port laparoscopic surgery is becoming an alternative to conventional laparoscopic surgery as a new approach where all the conventional ports are gathered in just one multichannel port through only one incision. …”
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Effect of Chemical Corrosion on the Mechanical Characteristics of Parent Rocks for Nuclear Waste Storage by Tielin Han, Junping Shi, Yunsheng Chen, Zhihui Li

“…The fracture toughness KIC, splitting tensile strength, and compressive strength all demonstrate the same deteriorating trend with chemical corrosion time. …”
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Planning and Scheduling Process for a Grid-Connected Microgrid Based on Renewable Energy Sources by a Novel Fuzzy Method by Zhao Lijun, Li Qingsheng, Ding Guanhua

“…Additionally, a sensitivity analysis is performed to study the effects of oscillations of all components in the MG and their associated uncertainties over the obtained results.…”
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Enhancing Postgraduate Learning and Teaching: Postgraduate Summer School in Dairy Science by Pietro Celi, Gianfranco Gabai, Massimo Morgante, Luigi Gallo

“…Ph.D. students often have vast spectra of research interests, and it is quite challenging to satisfy the expectation of all of them. The aim of this study was to establish an international Ph.D. training program based on research collaboration between the University of Sydney and the University of Padova. …”
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A Decade of FGF Receptor Research in Bladder Cancer: Past, Present, and Future Challenges by Erica di Martino, Darren C. Tomlinson, Margaret A. Knowles

“…FGFR1 is not mutated in UC, but overexpression is frequent in all grades and stages and recent data indicate a role in urothelial epithelial-mesenchymal transition. …”
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Digital Representation of Patients as Medical Digital Twins: Data-Centric Viewpoint by Stanislas Demuth, Jérôme De Sèze, Gilles Edan, Tjalf Ziemssen, Françoise Simon, Pierre-Antoine Gourraud

“…We argue that a single digital representation of patients cannot support all the data uses of digital twins for technical and regulatory reasons. …”
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Combined Effects of Thermal Radiation and Nanoparticles on Free Convection Flow and Heat Transfer of Casson Fluid over a Vertical Plate by M. G. Sobamowo

“…Using a common base fluid to all the nanoparticle types, it is established that the decrease in velocity and increase in temperature are highest in TiO2 and followed by CuO, Al2O3, and SWCNT nanoparticles, in that order. …”
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Quantitative description of low-cycle fatigue damage accumulation in contact interaction zone by local strain evolution by Sviatoslav Eleonsky, Yury Matvienko, Vladimir Pisarev, Igor Odintsev

“…Required strain values follow from distributions of all three displacement components along the filled hole edge measured by reflection hologram interferometry. …”
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The Takeda Three Colors Combination Test: A Screening Test for Detection of Very Mild Alzheimer’s Disease by Shinya Takeda, Kayo Tajime, Toshiatsu Taniguchi

“…Conducting TTCC (including instruction and evaluation) was accomplished within 2 minutes for all subjects. Conclusion. The TTCC is useful screening test for early detection of AD. …”
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Epidemiology and pathology of intestinal helminthiasis in fowls by Dipti Rani Paul, Anita Rani Dey, Farhana Bilkis, Nurjahan Begum, Md. Motahar Hussain Mondal

“…<p> <b>Results:</b> Over all 79 (72.47%) fowls were infected with one or more species of helminths. …”
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Spatiotemporal Evolution Law of Precipitation in Zhengzhou City Based on Multi-Source Data by JIANG Xi

“…The results show that four types of satellite precipitation products have achieved good application effects in Zhengzhou City, with CMFD performing the best overall. All four sets of precipitation data show an overestimation of light rain and an underestimation of moderate and heavy rain. …”
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A delve into the exploration of potential bacterial extremophiles used for metal recovery by A.S. Deshpande, R. Kumari, A. Prem Rajan

“…Bioleaching is the mobilization of metal cations from insoluble ores by microorganisms. All chemolithotropic bacteria are extremophiles since they have the ability to survive in extreme conditions. …”
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Bioinformatic Analysis of PTTG Family and Prognosis and Immune Cell Infiltration in Gastric Cancer by Xiao Li, Yanghao Tai, Shuying Liu, Yating Gao, Kaining Zhang, Jierong Yin, Huijuan Zhang, Xia Wang, Xiaofei Li, Dongfeng Zhang

“…Adaptive cell therapy, cancer vaccines, gene therapy, and monoclonal antibody therapy have all been used in gastric cancer with some initial success. …”
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A guidance to intelligent metamaterials and metamaterials intelligence by Chao Qian, Ido Kaminer, Hongsheng Chen

“…., wave-based neural network, mathematical operation, and logic operation, all of which directly execute computation, detection, and inference task in physical space. …”
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In silico drug repurposing at the cytoplasmic surface of human aquaporin 1. by Aled R Lloyd, Karl Austin-Muttitt, Jonathan G L Mullins

“…Docking studies were conducted for the cytoplasmic domain of the AQP1 monomer against a library of all compounds listed in the British National Formulary (BNF), using the PLANTS software with the ChemPLP scoring function. …”
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Issues of arms control in transatlantic relations (1963–1975) by V. A. Veselov

“…The study shows that though the United States had the final say in developing solutions to arms control problems in all three cases, the positions of its NATO allies significantly affected both the course of the negotiation and the content of the agreements. …”
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Association between Dental Caries and Obesity in Children and Young People: A Narrative Review by Abdulmonem A. Alshihri, Helen J. Rogers, Mohammed A. Alqahtani, Mohammed S. Aldossary

“…A review and critical appraisal of all included studies was performed. Results. Twenty-six studies were included in this review from different populations worldwide. …”
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Seasonality, Interannual Variability, and Linear Tendency of Wind Speeds in the Northeast Brazil from 1986 to 2011 by Alexandre Torres Silva dos Santos, Cláudio Moisés Santos e Silva

“…Trend analysis showed more significant negative values for the G3, G4, and G5 groups for all seasons of the year and in the annual average for the period under study.…”
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