Physicochemical Properties of Handere Clays and Their Use as a Building Material by Yasin Erdoğan

“…The physicochemical properties of these clays have been investigated by different techniques including Scanning Electron and Elemental Analysis (SEM and EDS), mineralogical analyses, chemical and physical analyses, X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermogravimetric differential thermal analysis (TG-DTA), and Atterberg (Consistency) Limits Test. …”
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An Accurate Electrical and Thermal Co-Simulation Framework for Modeling High-Temperature DC and Pulsed I - V Characteristics of GaN HEMTs by Yicong Dong, Eiji Yagyu, Takashi Matsuda, Koon Hoo Teo, Chungwei Lin, Shaloo Rakheja

“…Overall, our work provides a physical insight into the thermal response of GaN HEMTs and can facilitate suitable thermal management strategies of the device over a broad range of DC and transient operating conditions.…”
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Popularizing Electoral Politics: Change in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Race by Benita Heiskanen, Albion M. Butters

“…The articles draw from transdisciplinary American Studies approaches to tackle a range of issues which arose during the election, from contestations of “American-ness” and competing narratives of truth—or “post-truth”—to questions of campaign finance and displays of violence, verbal and physical. The issue also takes a closer look at specific expressions of popular culture as reflected in the media, specifically in relation to the rise of nativism and the alt-right movement, the political impact of comedy on the election, and the significance of memes in the battle over image and meaning-making. …”
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Analysis of Hydrodynamics of Fluid Flow on Corrugated Sheets of Packing by Kumar Subramanian, Günter Wozny

“…The flow of three different liquids with different physical properties is modelled. A domain of corrugated sheets of packing resembling the real structured packing with little modifications in the elementary geometry is constructed using ICEM CFD 12.0. …”
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Study of Heat Transfer under the Impact of Thermal Radiation, Ramped Velocity, and Ramped Temperature on the MHD Oldroyd-B Fluid Subject to Noninteger Differentiable Operators by Syed Tauseef Saeed, Ilyas Khan, Muhammad Bilal Riaz, Syed Muhammad Husnine

“…The obtained solutions are plotted graphically for different values of physical parameters. Our results suggest that the velocity profile decreases by increasing the effective Prandtl number. …”
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Optimal Vibration Control for Half-Car Suspension on In-Vehicle Networks in Delta Domain by Jing Lei, Shun-Fang Hu, Zuo Jiang, Guo-Xing Shi

“…Moreover, an observer is constructed to implement the physical realizability of the feedforward term and solve the immeasurability problem of some state variables. …”
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Australia’s marine fishes DNA barcode reference library for integrated taxonomy, metabarcoding & eDNA research by Sharon A. Appleyard, Robert D. Ward, John J. Pogonoski, Alastair Graham, Peter R. Last, Bruce E. Deagle, Bronwyn Holmes, Martin F. Gomon, Dianne J. Bray, Jeffrey W. Johnson, Amanda C. Hay, Glenn I. Moore, Michael P. Hammer, Barry Russell, Ken J. Graham

“…Tissues targeted for sequencing with their matching physical specimens (and extracted DNA), obtained via a multi-agency sampling effort, are mostly maintained and curated by the CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) in Hobart, Australia. …”
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Recurrence of Pelvic Chondrosarcoma through Fascial Defect into Abdominal Cavity by Kemal Gökkuş, Tolgay Akin, Ergin Sagtas, Murat Saylik, Ahmet Turan Aydın

“…The patient came to our clinic with a large mass in left iliac region which extended into the paravertebral area. Physical examination and preoperative imagining studies revealed a mass at the left iliac area that infiltrated sciatic notch and extended from posterior iliac region towards the anterior side of iliac bone through the sciatic notch and an incisional hernia including descending colon. …”
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Alban Pellegris, Le découplage entre la consommation d’énergie et le PIB. Questionnements théoriques et évaluations empiriques du rôle de l’énergie dans le processus de croissance... by Alban Pellegris

“…It assesses the ability of their respective theories of value (energy-value and labor-value) to correctly articulate the physical and monetary dimensions of production. On this basis, it compares the way in which these two models of growth reveal energy constraints. …”
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Kinematics Analysis of Multi-dimensional Vibration Reduction Construction Vehicle Seat with 2-SPS + SR Suspension by Bijuan Yan, Jie Zhang, Huijun Liang, Zekun Liu

“…Construction vehicles have high requirements for load carrying capacity， with suspension stiffness large， vibration damping performance poor， and working environment harsh， severe vibration in the three directions of vertical， pitch and roll， which seriously affects the physical and mental health of the driver and the vehicle operational stability. …”
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Prediction of Mg Alloy Corrosion Based on Machine Learning Models by Zhenxin Lu, Shujing Si, Keying He, Yang Ren, Shuo Li, Shuman Zhang, Yi Fu, Qi Jia, Heng Bo Jiang, Haiying Song, Mailing Hao

“…Moreover, we used feature creation (transforming chemical component characteristics into atomic and physical characteristics) so that the input characteristics were not limited to specific chemical compositions. …”
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A Case of Neglected Posterior Fracture Dislocation of the Shoulder Treated With Greater Tuberosity Osteotomy by Masashi Koide, Satoshi Tateda, Sayaka Miyasaka, Akihiro Yasuyama, Yoichi Sasaki, Mika Abe

“…He was referred to our hospital following 3 months of conservative treatment at a nearby clinic, without reduction of the posterior dislocation. Physical examination revealed a prominent reduction in shoulder joint range of motion and shoulder pain. …”
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A Modified Cellular Automaton Approach for Mixed Bicycle Traffic Flow Modeling by Xiaonian Shan, Zhibin Li, Xiaohong Chen, Jianhong Ye

“…Field data were collected on physically separated bicycle path in Shanghai, China, and were used to calibrate the CA model using the genetic algorithm. …”
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DEGENERATIVE SCOLIOSIS: A CASE REPORT by I Ketut Martiana, M Mukaddam Alaydrus

“…Data is taken from medical records, patient clinical records, home visits, and physical examination of patients. Discussion: From the results of the post op clinical examination, it was found that pain complaints improved compared to pre-op complaints. …”
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A Comparative Study on Sensitivity-Based Damage Detection Methods in Bridges by Akbar Mirzaee, Reza Abbasnia, Mohsenali Shayanfar

“…These sensitivity-based methods utilize finite element model updating procedure and allow a wide choice of physically meaningful parameters leading to vast range of applications in damage detection. …”
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Investigation of the incidence and causes elite tennis players’ injuries in Turkey by Orhan Ahmet Sener, Serife Cınar, Taner Zıylan

“…Several factors are involved in sports injuries including age, quality of the material used, weather, lighting, court, hall, component, physical condition of the athlete etc. In addition, psychological factor have also been stated to play a role in sports injuries. …”
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Tensile Behavior of Polyetheretherketone over a Wide Range of Strain Rates by Zakaria El-Qoubaa, Ramzi Othman

“…However, only three material constants are to be identified and are physically interpreted.…”
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Bulk Viscous Bianchi Type VI0 Cosmological Model in the Self-creation Theory of Gravitation and in the General Theory of Relativity by E. A. Hegazy

“…We obtained a formula for calculation the entropy of the universe in term of the viscosity and used it to study and compare the Entropy, Enthalpy, Gibbs energy and Helmholtz energy of the universe in the presence of viscosity term in the self-creation theory of gravitation and in the general theory of relativity. The physical and geometrical properties of the obtained models are discussed.…”
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Women's influence on the private life of society in Late Antiquity according to Saint Augustine by E.V. Anokhina

“…The gender-marked expressions used by Saint Augustine were studied, and the conclusion was made that he appears to more stick to the ancient ideas about femininity/masculinity, including the belief that women, who were perceived as physically and emotionally imperfect, must be placed under the control of men, i.e., they should obey stronger persons. …”
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A Signal Decomposition Method for Ultrasonic Guided Wave Generated from Debonding Combining Smoothed Pseudo Wigner-Ville Distribution and Vold–Kalman Filter Order Tracking by Junhua Wu, Xinglin Chen, Zheshu Ma

“…Carbon fibre composites have a promising application future of the vehicle, due to its excellent physical properties. Debonding is a major defect of the material. …”
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