The heat energy dissipated in a control volume to correlate the crack propagation rate in stainless steel specimens by G. Meneghetti, M. Ricotta

“…The heat energy dissipated in a unit volume of material per cycle (the Q parameter) has proven to be effective as a fatigue damage index in case of AISI 304L plain and notched specimens. …”
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Time in Care for Older People Living in Nursing Homes by K. B. E. Thorsell, B. M. Nordström, L. Fagerström, B. V. Sivberg

“…Work time was measured according to actual schedule (462 hours per nursing home during two weeks). Given that the need for care was high, one must further investigate if the quality of care the recipients received was sufficiently addressed.…”
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Investigating the Changes in the Nature of Tropical Cyclones Due to Climate Change by Mehriar Ali Mohammadi, Mohammad Pakhireh Zan, Saeedeh Kharazmi

“…On the other hand, the proportion of very intense tropical cyclones (Category 4 and 5) is projected to increase, even though most climate model studies predict that the total number of tropical cyclones per year will decrease or remain nearly constant. …”
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Mugabe's victory spells doom for the media in Zimbabwe by George Nyabuga

“…I opine that even though Mugabe won 56 per cent of the country's vote, his leadership lacks legitimacy because a sizeable number of people, especially in the opposition areas, were denied the right to exercise their democratic right to cast their vote. …”
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Parthenium hysterophorus: Novel adsorbent for the removal of heavy metals and dyes by S.A. Bapat, D.K. Jaspal

“…The potential of the weed has been tested for several heavy metals and dyes as described in this paper. As per literature the weed is capable of showing adsorption tendency up to 90% in certain cases for some heavy metals and dyes. …”
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Syringoid eccrine carcinoma of the nipple in a male patient with lymph node metastasis: A case report by Mukund Sable, Nibedita Sahoo, Chinamyee Panigrahi, Pritinanda Mishra, Pradeep Kumar

“…Here we present a rare case of SEC/ syringomatous carcinoma of nipple in a 51-year-old male breast with associated axillary lymph node metastasis. As per English literature, this is the second case of SEC in nipple of male patient.…”
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The Effect of Paclobutrazol Application Time and Variety on Growth, Yield, and Quality of Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) by Ottilia Mabvongwe, Brenda T. Manenji, Munyaradzi Gwazane, Misheck Chandiposha

“…Early application of paclobutrazol reduced stem length, number of tubers per plant, and sugar content of potato; furthermore, it increased starch content and yield compared to late application and no paclobutrazol treatments. …”
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Critical-Point Analysis For Three-Variable Cancer Angiogenesis Models by Urszula Foryś, Yuri Kheifetz, Yuri Kogan

“…We suggest that angiogenesis per se does notsuffice for explaining the observed stabilization of vascular tumor size.…”
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Dose-dependent esomeprasole antisecretory effect: results of long-term intragastric pH monitoring by S. A. Kurilovich, Ye. A. Chekalina, A. V. Belkovets, L. V. Scherbakova

“…Median pH, both time with various pH values and area under pH distribution curve, percent of this time with values from 1,0 to 10,0 per day before and after esomeprazole administration were estimated. …”
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Sorry it took me so long: Latin America and rapid governments’ response to COVID-19 by Ian Rebouças Batista, Amanda Domingos, Rodrigo Lins

“…Among the institutional variables considered, we find that our variable of interest (delay) correlates strongly and positively with democracy, negatively with concentration of power, and positively with GDP per capita. These might suggest that autocrats faced less institutional and moral constraints to act, while democratic leaders dealing with pluralism and accountability faced higher costs to implement such measures. …”
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SIMULATION ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION DESIGN OF THE FLEXIBLE DYNAMICS OF A NEW TYPE OF WHEELCHAIR CLIMBING MECHANISM by ZHU Hua, YANG Hui

“…Based on the design of a new type of automatic stair wheelchair,under the joint action of the drive motor torque and self-weight of users and wheelchair; we can obtain the stairs’ climbing time is 4. 3 second per level by calculation. Then with the help of the Transient Dynamic Module of ANSYS Workbench. …”
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Removal of Cu(II) Ions by Leucaena Leucocephala (Subabul) Seed Pods from Aqueous Solutions by A. K. Patil, V. S. Shrivastava

“…The amount of metal adsorbed per unit weight of adsorbent increases with time and reach equilibrium after 30 minutes of shaking time for the different initial metal concentrations. …”
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Antibiotic cycling versus mixing: The difficulty of using mathematicalmodels to definitively quantify their relative merits by Robert E. Beardmore, Rafael Peña-Miller

“…However, nor should we conclude that a random, per-patient drug-assignment protocol is the de facto optimal method for allocating antibiotics to patients in any general sense.…”
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Inhibitory effects of Spirulina in zymosan-induced arthritis in mice by Diadelis Remirez, Ricardo González, Nelson Merino, Sandra Rodriguez, Odelsa Ancheta

“…Four days after the intra-articular injection of zymosan (15 mg/ml), Spirulina (100 and 400 mg/kg per-orally) was administered to animals for 8 days. …”
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Current capabilities of endoscopic diagnosis of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer by I. N. Zaborskii, K. N. Safiullin, O. B. Karyakin, S. A. Ivanov, V. S. Chaikov, I. O. Dementev, A. V. Sidorin, G. N. Grishin, A. N. Yurchenko

“…So, over the past ten years there has been an increase in the number of cases of primary diagnosis of RMP by more than 1.5 times, which corresponds to 77.1 cases per 100,000 population. At the same time, mortality in the first year for the same time period decreased from 22.4% in 2008 to 14.4% in 2019. …”
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Mathematical model of milk secretion in a cow’s udder by A. G. Senkov, I. I. Girutski, A. B. Grischenko

“…The intensity of this process, and, consequently, the cow’s milk production level, depends, among other things, on the optimal choice of the multiplicity of milkings per day with certain time intervals between milkings. …”
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Offset Optimization Based on Queue Length Constraint for Saturated Arterial Intersections by Xianmin Song, Pengfei Tao, Ligang Chen, Dianhai Wang

“…Then through establishing and analyzing a function relationship between offset and the maximum queue length per cycle, a mapping model of offset and maximum queue length was established in the saturated condition. …”
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Dairy Business Analysis Project: Financial Summary for 1995-2001 by Albert de Vries, Russell Giesy, Lane Ely, A. de Araujo, Andy Andreasen, Brent Broaddus, Shepard Eubanks, Doug Mayo, P. Miller, T. Seawright, Christopher Vann

“…Each dairy then received a report detailing its financial results compared to the average results for the other participants and the dairies with the highest net farm income from operations per cwt. This publication is a summary of the data collected for the years 1995 through 2001. …”
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Congenital Absence of a Teat in a Japanese Black Heifer by Mohamed Elshabrawy Ghanem, Toshihiko Nakao, Chikako Yoshida

“…On physical examination of the heifer at 21 months after birth, the teat at fore left was absent and the remaining three teats were normal in shape without any physical abnormalities. Per rectal palpation of the genital organs revealed the normal cervix and uterine horns. …”
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Les trames vertes et bleues habitantes : un cheminement entre pratiques et représentations. L’exemple de la ville de Paris (France) by Étienne Grésillon, Marianne Cohen, Julien Lefour, Lydie Goeldner, Laurent Simon

“…In this densely populated (20 807 inhabitants per km2), densely built-up (41 %), and only little extended (105 km2) matrix the Parisians conceive these areas as places for respiration and liberty. …”
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