Evaluation of Sustainability of Brazilian Ethanol Production: A model in System Dynamics by Arnoldo Jose de Hoyos Guevara, Orlando Roque da Silva, Haroldo Lhou Hasegawa, Délvio Venanzi

“…We analyzed the external environment and the scenarios needed for a deeper understanding of relation of cause and effect, causal loops and diagrams of flows and stocks because of the awareness stage, with regard to understanding the problems involved, according to methodology known as design science.…”
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The Expression and Action of Decay-Accelerating Factor (CD55) in Human Malignancies and Cancer Therapy by Jan-Henrik Mikesch, Kathrin Schier, Antje Roetger, Ronald Simon, Horst Buerger, Burkhard Brandt

“…Here DAF seems to exert different functions beyond its immunological role such as e.g. promotion of tumorigenesis, decrease of complement mediated tumor cell lysis, autocrine loops for cell rescue and evasion of apoptosis, neoangiogenesis, invasiveness, cell motility, and metastasis via oncogenic tyrosine kinase pathways and specific seven-span transmembrane receptors (CD97) binding. …”
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Neurilemoma of the small intestine (<i>Clinical case presentation</i>) by I. D. Kalganov, A. P. Zhuchenko, I. V. Zarodnyuk, Ye. V. Markova

“…Abdominal ultrasound investigation (US) was diagnostic (it demonstrated the volume lesion located at the loops of ileum with thickened vascularized walls) and helical computer tomography – CT (tumor with irregular outlines ileum, with the lobular heterogeneous structure was revealed, contrast agent accumulation was uneven). …”
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The Fabrication and Characterization of Piezoelectric PZT/PVDF Electrospun Nanofiber Composites by Ji Sun Yun, Chun Kil Park, Young Hun Jeong, Jeong Ho Cho, Jong-Hoo Paik, Sun Hong Yoon, Kyung-Ran Hwang

“…The tensile properties (stress- strain curves) and electrical properties (P-E hysteresis loops) of the PZT/PVDF electrospun nanofiber composites were investigated as a function of PZT content from 0 wt% to 30 wt%. …”
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Design of Low Power and Low Noise Instrumentation Amplifier for Biopotential Acquisition: A Review by Nahmil Koo

“…The sources of half-cell potential are investigated, along with DC servo loops (DSL) and methods for improving their settling time and noise performance. …”
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Primary sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis by Swati Mishra, Kuldeep Chaudhary, Swati Tyagi, Pratibha Mishra, Vatsala Misra

“…Sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis also known as cocoon abdomen is a rare chronic inflammatory condition of the peritoneum in which the bowel loops are encircled by a membrane (cocoon formation) within the peritoneal cavity leading to intestinal obstruction. …”
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Surgical management of a strangulated inguinal hernia in a Cynomolgus Monkey (Macaca fascicularis): a case report with discussion of diagnosis, and review of literature by Baptiste Sadoughi, Manon Dirheimer, Pierrick Regnard, Fanélie Wanert

“…Strangulation and necrosis of intestinal loops in strangulated hernia are life-threatening conditions with a negative impact on both per-operative management and post-operative recovery. …”
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Modeling of Random Delays in Networked Control Systems by Yuan Ge, Qigong Chen, Ming Jiang, Yiqing Huang

“…In networked control systems (NCSs), the presence of communication networks in control loops causes many imperfections such as random delays, packet losses, multipacket transmission, and packet disordering. …”
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CATHARE Assessment of Natural Circulation in the PKL Test Facility during Asymmetric Cooldown Transients by Anis Bousbia Salah, Jacques Vlassenbroeck

“…The main goal of the current study is to assess the impact of a chosen cooldown strategy upon the occurrence of a Natural Circulation Interruption (NCI) in the inactive (i.e., noncooling) loops. For this purpose, three G2.1 test runs were investigated. …”
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Spherical branes and the BMN matrix quantum mechanics by Nikolay Bobev, Pieter Bomans, Friðrik Freyr Gautason

“…This system can be analysed at large N using supersymmetric localisation and leads to explicit results for the free energy on S d and the expectation value of supersymmetric Wilson loops. We show how these results can be reproduced at strong gauge coupling using holography by employing spherical D-brane solutions. …”
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Small neutrino masses from a decoupled singlet scalar field by Jongkuk Kim, Seong-Sik Kim, Hyun Min Lee, Rojalin Padhan

“…After the Z4 symmetry is broken to Z2 by the VEV of the spurion, much below the mass scale of the dark singlet scalar, a small lepton number violating coupling for the inert doublet is generated at tree level, so small neutrino masses are obtained at one-loops for relatively light new fields. We discuss the important roles of the Z4 symmetry for neutrino masses, dark matter physics and thermal leptogenesis.…”
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Coal Reservoir Characterization in a Tectonic Setting and the Effects of Tectonism on the Coalbed Methane (CBM) Content by Zhenni Ye, Enke Hou, Zhonghui Duan, Zengjiang Li

“…Additionally, the CBM content varies according to the characteristic parameters of hysteresis loops and the pore diameter. The correlation dimension is an effective indicator of the nonlinear relationship between reservoir micropore-microfracture characteristics and the gas content.…”
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Secure Event-Triggered Mechanism for Networked Control Systems under Injection Cyber-Attacks by Xiao Cai, Jian Kang, Kaibo Shi

“…Secondly, a novel boundary looped function (BLF) is developed depending on the sampling period, fully considering delay and sampling information, and the initial constraints of the criteria on the matrices are effectively relaxed. …”
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Economic-Oriented Stochastic Optimization in Advanced Process Control of Chemical Processes by László Dobos, András Király, János Abonyi

“…A multilevel stochastic optimization framework is proposed to determine the optimal setpoint values of control loops with respect to predetermined risk levels, uncertainties, and costs of violation of process constraints. …”
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Modelling Hysteresis in Shape Memory Alloys Using LSTM Recurrent Neural Network by Mohammad Reza Zakerzadeh, Seyedkeivan Naseri, Payam Naseri

“…Traditional NNs, characterized by a one-to-one mapping, struggle to capture hysteresis loops wherein system behavior varies during loading and unloading cycles. …”
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CONSEQUENCES OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN THE EUROPEAN UNION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF GENERAL GOVERNMENT FINANCES – AN ANALYSIS BASED ON THE SOCIAL ACCOUNTING MATRI by Joanna Trębska

“…This is evidenced by the growing involvement of this sector in consumption, accumulation and income redistribution between institutional sectors.Simulation analyses based on the SAM model determine to what extent the contribution of the government sector to GDP results directly through feedback loops from final demand and to what extent from current and capital transfers.…”
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Pulmonary Artery Catheter Seemingly Entrapped in the Skull by S. M. Friedman, G. R. Rajan

“…It was initially suspected that the catheter had become looped, knotted, or otherwise entangled within the vasculature of the skull and surgical removal would be necessary. …”
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Small Bowel Perforation due to Gossypiboma Caused Acute Abdomen by Tahsin Colak, Tolga Olmez, Ozgur Turkmenoglu, Ahmet Dag

“…In explorative laparotomy, small bowel loops were seen to be perforated due to inflammation of long standing gossypiboma. …”
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On the involvement of the second heart field in congenital heart defects by Guijarro, Clara, Kelly, Robert G.

“…SHF deployment creates the template for subsequent cardiac septation and has been implicated in cardiac looping and in orchestrating outflow tract development with neural crest cells. …”
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A simplified damage evolution relationship and deformation characteristics of a pozzolanic lime mortar when subjected to unloading-reloading cycles in the pre-peak region by Kostas Kaklis, Zach Agioutantis, Stelios Mavrigiannakis, Pagona Maravelaki-Kalaitzaki

“…Each test included a cyclic loading sequence using five loops in the pre-peak region. The experi¬ment¬al results showed that the specimens exhibit a strain-softening behavior for uniaxial and low pressure triaxial tests and a strain-hardening behavior for higher triaxial compression tests. …”
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