Experimental Study on Compressive and Flexural Performances of Polypropylene Fiber-Reinforced Concrete by Yimeng Wei, Yuan Qin, Junrui Chai, Chengyong Xu, Yue Zhang, Xianwei Zhang

“…PPFRC with the PPF of 0.9 kg/m3 is best of all at 60 days, which is 19.68% higher than PC. …”
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M694V gene polymorphism may not contribute to the pathogenesis of reactive arthritis in the North Indian population by Anamika Kumari Anuja, Koshy Nitin Thomas, Mantabya Kumar Singh, Ashish Jacob Mathew, Vikas Agarwal, Latika Gupta

“…Ten healthy controls of age 27 (male:female – 7:3, interquartile range ± 1.5) were included for comparison. All 49 patients of adult and juvenile ReA were negative for the M694V mutation. …”
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Access to Healthcare in Rural Communities: A Bibliometric Analysis by Ariya Natarajan, Murdoc Gould, Anjali Daniel, Rohan Mangal, Latha Ganti

“…Plus One exhibited prominence by contributing 5.025381 percent of all publications pertaining to access to rural medicine during the years 2015 to 2019 thereby establishing itself as the leading publisher in this domain. …”
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La politique nationale de réconciliation et de relocalisation des populations déplacées dans le Liban d’après-guerre by Dima de Clerck

“…A ministry and a fund for the displaced were created in 1992 to ensure the return of all displaced people in Lebanon. The state returnee policy in southern Mount Lebanon, where several massacres had taken place in 1983, claimed to prioritize reconciliation between Christians and Druze to prevent resorting to, or being victim of reprisal. …”
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Educational data mining in medical education: A five-level approach by Zohreh Khoshgoftar, Maryam Babaee, Arian K. Rouzbahani, Masomeh Kalantarion

“…Data generated by the interaction of managers, patients, instructors, students, employees, and all those who are involved with educational systems can revolutionize medical education through analysis and prediction of the hidden patterns of knowledge, skills, and attitude that have been neglected in this massive amount of data. …”
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Bisphenol and Phthalate Migration Test from Mexican Meat Packaging Using HPLC-DAD Technique by Valeria Ceballos-Luna, David Chávez-Flores, Ibiza Martínez-Serrano, Beatriz A. Rocha-Gutierrez, Myrna C. Nevárez-Rodríguez, Blanca G. Beltrán

“…Calibration curves exhibited an adequate determination coefficient for all compounds (R2 >0.999). Excellent accuracy and precision in measurements (% RSD) were achieved. …”
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Clinical studies with drugs and biologics aimed at slowing or reversing normal aging processes—emerging results and future perspectives by Ricardo P. Garay

“…The longevity candidates, vitamin D and metformin, appear to significantly reduce all-cause mortality and prolong life expectancy. …”
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Wearable Fabric Reconfigurable Beam-Steering Antenna for On/Off-Body Communication System by Seonghun Kang, Chang Won Jung

“…When the input power was 0.04 W (16 dBm), the simulated specific absorption rate (SAR) values of the reconfigurable beam steering antenna on the body were less than 0.979 W/kg (1 g tissue) in all states, satisfying the SAR criteria of the US.…”
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Evidence-based policy-making in sports funding using a data-driven optimization approach. by Jan Hurt, Liuhuaying Yang, Johannes Sorger, Thomas J Lampoltshammer, Nike Pulda, Ursula Rosenbichler, Stefan Thurner, Peter Klimek

“…We compile a dataset for all 1,854 football clubs in Austria, including estimates for their budgets, geolocations, tallies, and the age profiles of their members. …”
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Iron Chelation Therapy with Deferasirox Results in Improvement of Liver Enzyme Level in Patients with Iron Overload-Associated Liver Dysfunction by Yasuo Miura, Yusuke Matsui, Hitomi Kaneko, Mitsumasa Watanabe, Mitsuru Tsudo

“…We show three cases of transfusion-mediated iron-overloaded patients with an elevated serum alanine aminotransaminase (ALT). All three patients who received the ICT with DSX showed a decrease in ALT level in association with a decrease in SF level. …”
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Analytical Solution for Consolidation of Vertical Drains-Impervious Piles with Multiple Composite Foundations under Nonuniform Initial Pore Pressure and Time-Dependent Well Resista... by Yuguo Zhang, Yamin Zhao

“…The results show that the initial pore pressure is faster to consolidate with trapezoidal distribution than with rectangular distribution, the slowest to consolidate with positive triangular distribution, and the fastest to consolidate with inverted triangular distribution, and the larger the initial pore pressure value at the base of the soil layer, the slower the consolidation; the consolidation rate of the foundation all decreases with the increase of the well resistance factor, and the change of the well resistance mainly has an important influence on the later consolidation of the foundation; the vertical permeability coefficient of the soil has a greater influence on the consolidation of the foundation at the initial stage when the foundation thickness is small, and the vertical permeability coefficient of the soil has greater influence on the consolidation of the foundation at the later stage when the foundation thickness is large; the consolidation rate of foundation increases with the increase of replacement rate of impervious pile, compression modulus, and vertical permeability coefficient of soil. …”
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Understanding the mechanisms of a combined physical and psychological intervention for people with neurogenic claudication: protocol for a causal mediation analysis of the BOOST tr... by Sarah Lamb, Hopin Lee, Esther Williamson, Christine Comer

“…The primary mechanism of interest is walking capacity, and secondary mediators include fear-avoidance behaviour, walking self-efficacy, physical function, physical activity and/or symptom severity. All mediators will be measured at 6 months and the outcome will be measured at 12 months from randomisation. …”
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Social Media Public Opinion Detection Using Multimodal Natural Language Processing and Attention Mechanisms by Yanxia Dui, Hongchun Hu

“…Compared to other mainstream multimodal emotion recognition methods, the proposed model shows significant improvements in all metrics. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method based on the Transformer and interactive attention mechanism can more fully understand the information of discourse emotion features in the network model. …”
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DOMINANT FACTORS CAUSES OF DRUG ABUSE IN ADOLESCENTS AT THE LAMONGAN DISTRICT PENITENTIARY by Khotibul Umam, Agung Prasetyo

“…The population in this study were all adolescent drug users in the Lamongan District Correctional Institution in May 2012 as many as 63 people. …”
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Determinants of self-care behaviors in patients with knee osteoarthritis based on the theory of planned behavior in Iran by Mohammad Ali Morowatisharifabad, Sakineh Gerayllo, Zohreh Karimiankakolaki, Ali Dehghan, Hossein Soleymani Salehabadi, Hossein Fallahzadeh

“…Based on the results of Pearson correlation test, the self-care behaviors of knee OA had a statistically significant positive correlation with all constructs of the TPB (P < 0.05). Following data analysis, the constructs of the TPB predicted 8% of the variance of intention and 16.2% of the variance of OA self-care behaviors. …”
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Viability and Alkaline Phosphatase Activity of Human Dental Pulp Cells after Exposure to Yellowfin Tuna Bone-Derived Hydroxyapatite In Vitro by Tetiana Haniastuti, Heni Susilowati, Margareta Rinastiti

“…Results showed that the viability of the cells was more than 91% after exposure to various concentrations of THA and the cells demonstrated normal cell morphology in all observation periods. The ALP activity test revealed that groups exposed to THA for 7, 11, and 15 days showed higher ALP activity than the control groups (p<0.05). …”
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Research Outlines of the Sustainable Profile of Believers in Croatia by Ivana Brstilo Lovrić, Miriam Mary Brgles, Damir Mravunac

“…In that perspective, we conclude that it is important for the Church to speak more often about the socio-environmental crisis and encourage strong responses to the crisis at all social levels, from households and families to the macro level. …”
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Incorporation of opacifier to Type III alpha gypsum and its effect on scannability and linear setting expansion – An in vitro study by Sai Akhil Khadkekar, Mahendranadh Reddy Kareti, Mahadev Shastry Yelishetty, S. Venkata Aditya, Srilekha Daripalli

“…Conclusion: Type III alpha gypsum reinforced with 20% TiO2 as an opacifier has exhibited superior scanning properties and there was a statistically significant decrease in the LSE between all three groups with increase in the concentrations of TiO2.…”
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Choosing the Right Visual for Social Media: Comparing the Engagement of Stock Photos Versus Natural Photos by Anissa Zagonel, Lauri M. Baker, Jarred Shellhouse, Cheryl Boyer, Hikaru Peterson, Aly Morrison

“…However, because the difference between mean engagement rates for stock and natural photos was low, in times of need, a stock photo can produce better engagement than no photo at all. …”
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Evolutionary Game Analysis of BIM Adoption among Stakeholders in PPP Projects by Chong Jia, Ruixue Zhang, Dan Wang

“…The results demonstrate that first, the degree of the cost to all stakeholders involved in the adoption of BIM, as well as the punishment for governments’ passive promotion of BIM, the punishment for social capitals’ passive adoption of BIM and the reward for contractors’ active application of BIM are the key factors affecting evolutionary stability. …”
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