Free Vibration of Composite Cylindrical Shells Based on Third-Order Shear Deformation Theory by Muneerah Saad AL Nuwairan, Saira Javed

“…Spline approximation is used to approximate the displacements and transverse rotations. The resulting generalized eigenvalue problem is solved for the frequency parameter to get as many eigenfrequencies as required starting from the least. …”
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Organ-preserving treatment of early rectal cancer by S. V. Chernyshov, O. A. Maynovskaya, Yu. A. Shelygin, Ye. G. Rybakov

“…Aim of review. To generalize scientific data and to develop modern concept on the issue of diagnosis, staging and treatment of early rectal cancer. …”
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Melonworm, Diaphania hyalinata Linnaeus (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) by John L. Capinera

“…The United States is the northern limit of its permanent range, and wintertime occurrence generally is limited to south Florida and perhaps south Texas. …”
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Analysis of the public entrepreneurship phenomenon in a Brazilian state by Magnus Emmendoerfer, Josiel Lopes Valadares

“…It should be emphasised that competition with private companies is unequal because wages in the private sector are generally much higher than that of the public sector. …”
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SIMULATION OF OPEN MECHANISMS FOR THE ADDITIVE PROCESS WELD PLASTICS by N. N. Hurski, V. A. Skachek, A. V. Skachek, Y. A. Skudnyakov

“…This article discusses: model of the two-link mechanism; generalized scheme of mechatronic simulation model of 3D-printer with the positioning units of electric DC; mathematical model of the actuator of the printer unit in the form of a system of differential equations; 3D-printer programming model implemented in the Matlab-Simulink environment using the c standard library blocks and SimMechanics library; virtual (animated) 3D printer model on the basis of the library Simulink 3D Animation, supports the visualization of the movements of the designed mechanism of the basic units. …”
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On the Alpha Power Transformed Power Lindley Distribution by Amal S. Hassan, M. Elgarhy, Rokaya E. Mohamd, Sharifah Alrajhi

“…In this paper, we introduce a new generalization of the power Lindley distribution referred to as the alpha power transformed power Lindley (APTPL). …”
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Ocean Acidification: An Introduction by Joshua T. Patterson, Lisa S. Krimsky

“… Ocean acidification (OA) generally refers to the ongoing decrease in ocean pH. …”
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L’écriture à l’université : un outil pour conceptualiser by Philippe Clauzard

“…The object of our study is to demonstrate how these writings favor some raisings in abstraction, generalization and transfers into a transitional area of conceptualization, by allowing a conceptual elaboration, but also a secondarization of objects (Bautier, 2005). …”
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Surgical Procedures for External Auditory Canal Carcinoma and the Preservation of Postoperative Hearing by Hiroshi Hoshikawa, Takenori Miyashita, Nozomu Mori

“…Early-stage carcinoma of the EAC can be generally cured by surgical treatment, and reconstruction of the EAC with a tympanoplasty can help to retain hearing, thus improving the patients’ quality of life. …”
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Degradation Assessment and Fault Diagnosis for Roller Bearing Based on AR Model and Fuzzy Cluster Analysis by Lingli Jiang, Yilun Liu, Xuejun Li, Anhua Chen

“…AR model is an effective approach to extract the fault feature, and is generally applied to stationary signals. However, the fault vibration signals of a roller bearing are non-stationary and non-Gaussian. …”
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 Le temps du travail by Luca Rimoldi

“…In this article I will be presenting fragments of some of the conversations had with trade union activists and militants of the Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (CGIL) Italian Trade Union, who were working at Pirelli-Bicocca in ’68 and ’69. …”
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Integral mean estimates for polynomials whose zeros are within a circle by K. K. Dewan, Abdullah Mir, R. S. Yadav

“…In this paper, we extend the above inequality to the class of polynomials p(z)=anzn+∑v=μnan−vzn−v;1≤μ≤n having all its zeros in |z|≤k;  k≤1 and obtain a generalization as well as a refinement of the above result.…”
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Dogfennel (Eupatorium capillifolium): Biology and Control by Jason A. Ferrell, Gregory E. MacDonald

“…Dogfennel is particularly troublesome in unimproved or overgrazed pastures where it adds to the decline of forage yield and quality. Although generally considered to be only unsightly, the leaves contain low levels of the toxin tremitol, which causes dehydration when ingested by cattle. …”
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Reflections on dipolar quantum fluids by Zwerger, Wilhelm

“…It has to vanish in self-bound droplets, a condition which determines the observed dependence of the aspect ratio on particle number. A tensorial generalization of the virial theorem and a number of further exact thermodynamic relations are derived. …”
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Mixed-type duality approach for interval-valued programming problems with vanishing constraints by Vivek Singh, Neelima Shekhawat

“…The relationship between the original interval-valued programming problem with vanishing constraints and its mixed-type dual are discussed by weak, strong and strict converse duality theorems using the assumption of generalized convexity. We also present a non-trivial example to illustrate the theoretical aspects. …”
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A Heuristic Algorithm for Solving Triangle Packing Problem by Ruimin Wang, Yuqiang Luo, Jianqiang Dong, Shuai Liu, Xiaozhuo Qi

“…The research on the triangle packing problem has important theoretic significance, which has broad application prospects in material processing, network resource optimization, and so forth. Generally speaking, the orientation of the triangle should be limited in advance, since the triangle packing problem is NP-hard and has continuous properties. …”
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The Primary Alteration of Ventricular Myocardium Conduction: The Significant Determinant of Left Bundle Branch Block Pattern by Ljuba Bacharova, Bayes de Luna

“…Intraventricular conduction disturbances (IVCD) are currently generally accepted as ECG diagnostic categories. They are characterized by defined QRS complex patterns that reflect the abnormalities in the intraventricular sequence of activation that can be caused by pathology in the His-Purkinje conduction system (HP) or ventricular myocardium. …”
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Ranking Fuzzy Numbers with a Distance Method using Circumcenter of Centroids and an Index of Modality by P. Phani Bushan Rao, N. Ravi Shankar

“…This method ranks various types of fuzzy numbers which include normal, generalized trapezoidal, and triangular fuzzy numbers along with crisp numbers with the particularity that crisp numbers are to be considered particular cases of fuzzy numbers.…”
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A Fast Implicit Finite Difference Method for Fractional Advection-Dispersion Equations with Fractional Derivative Boundary Conditions by Taohua Liu, Muzhou Hou

“…Fractional advection-dispersion equations, as generalizations of classical integer-order advection-dispersion equations, are used to model the transport of passive tracers carried by fluid flow in a porous medium. …”
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Non-intrusive implementation of a wide variety of Multiscale Finite Element Methods by Biezemans, Rutger A., Le Bris, Claude, Legoll, Frédéric, Lozinski, Alexei

“…Non-intrusive MsFEM approaches are developed within the full generality of this framework, which may moreover be beneficial to steering software development and improving the theoretical understanding and analysis of MsFEMs.…”
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