Past Times and Our Times: Reading Our Mutual Friend by David Paroissien

“…Stories ‘kept him, many times, from what did him real harm,’ she reveals to Louisa Gradgrind, defying the ruling ethic of Stone Lodge never to wonder. Consolation, amusement, entrance into the past, the present or the future, characters reading either history or fiction in Our Mutual Friend read for a variety of motives, generally with improving results. …”
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Finite Element Modeling of Compressive and Splitting Tensile Behavior of Plain Concrete and Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete Cylinder Specimens by Md. Arman Chowdhury, Md. Mashfiqul Islam, Zubayer Ibna Zahid

“…Experimental investigations are conducted to study the increase in compressive and tensile capacity of cylindrical specimens made of stone and brick concrete and SFRC. Satisfactory compressive and tensile capacity improvement is observed by adding steel fibers of 1.5% volumetric ratio. …”
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Vajravārāhī in Khara Khoto and Prajñāpāramitā in East Java: Connected by Pearl Ornaments by Lesley S Pullen

“…This form of pearl-chain jewellery, which appears on Vajravārāhī and other Sino-Tibetan-style bodhisattvas, also appears on three stone statues of the goddess Prajñāpāramitā in East Java, all of which depict a near identical use of this pearl-chain ornamentation, as well as on a statue of Prajñāpāramitā at the Muara Jambi Buddhist site in Sumatra. …”
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Primary sclerosing cholangitis by Marina G Silveira, Keith D Lindor

“…The multiple complications of PSC include pruritus, fatigue, vitamin deficiencies, metabolic bone disease, peristomal varices, bacterial cholangitis, dominant biliary strictures, gallbladder stones and polyps, and malignancy, particularly cholangiocarcinoma, which is the most lethal complication of PSC.…”
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Florida Peaches: A Perfect Snack by Joy N. Rumble, Kara Harders, Kathryn Stofer

“… For many years peach orchards were limited to geographic areas with an adequate number of hours below 45 degrees Fahrenheit, during the colder months, also known as “Chill hours” (University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, 2017). In 1952, a stone fruit breeding program started at the University of Florida with a goal of breeding trees which would produce peaches and nectarines to grow in Florida (Olmstead, Chaparro, Anderson, Williamson, & Ferguson, 2016). …”
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Spatial Analysis of Physical Quality of Rural Housing in Iran by mohammad hajipour, Vahid riahi, hadi gharagozloo

“…Such that a significant percentage of the houses are made out of bricks, iron and stone that somehow confirms the durability and normal quality. …”
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Two Cases of Acute Cholecystitis and Symptomatic Choledocholithiasis in Two Women Less than 40-Years-of-Age with Hormonal Intrauterine Devices by Helen M. Shields, Hasrat Sidhu

“…Our experiences with these two patients led us to believe that patients with risk factors for gallstone disease, such as a positive family history, ethnic predisposition, or obesity, should be warned of possible problems, not only with gallbladder disease, but also of common duct stones.…”
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Unusual Site for a White Nodule on the Palatine Tonsil: Presentation, Differential Diagnosis, and Discussion by Ashwag Yagoub Aloyouny

“…The differential diagnosis of a white lesion on the palatine tonsil is caused by several factors, such as bacterial, viral, and fungal infections; trauma; stones; cysts; abscess; or cancer. In this case, both the clinical presentation and extra- and intraoral examinations were highly associated with LEC. …”
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La convergence des destins chez Thomas Hardy by Annie Ramel

“…That may be said of all Hardy’s tragic novels: in Tess of the d’Urbervilles for instance, where Tess, lying on an altar stone at Stonehenge, soon to be surrounded by the police looking for her, is the very last picture that we have of her. …”
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Autarky and Material Contingencies in Italian Architectural Debate (1936-1954) by Pep Avilés

“…National and autochthonous values came to the fore, promoting local materials like wood or stone for construction as well as artificial and newly created ones. …”
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Un aménagement de berge antique sur l’Auron, pour la villa de Lazenay à Bourges (Cher) by Alain Ferdière, Emmanuel Marot

“…The port development consists of a “quay” with a wooden frame and a rubble stone structure, forming the corner of a small basin set back from the left bank of the Auron river. …”
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Quantitative Investigation of Aggregate Skeleton Force Chains of Asphalt Mixtures Based on Computational Granular Mechanics by Guoqiang Liu, Dongdong Han, Yongli Zhao

“…The SCF bears the main loading for mixtures. Mixtures stone matrix asphalt (SMA) has a stronger bearing capacity than that of mixtures AC under the same NMAS. …”
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Modelling seasonal influenza in Israel by Oren Barnea, Rami Yaari, Guy Katriel, Lewi Stone

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Enhancing the performance of iron-based binders with seawater and CO2 sequestration by V Chandralega, M Shanmugasundaram, David Stone

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Les quais romains d’Aizier (Eure) by Jimmy Mouchard

“…The site has revealed the remains of an ensemble of monumental Roman stone harbor terraces, made of powerful limestone reinforcements. …”
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Laboratory Investigation of Fiber Bragg Grating Strain Sensors for Semirigid Base Asphalt Pavements by Jiancun Fu, Aiqin Shen, Huaizhi Zhang, Tuanwei Sun

“…Aiming to evaluate the applicability of Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) strain sensors for semirigid pavement monitoring, beam and cylinder specimens with three types of FBG strain sensors embedded in two kinds of classic semirigid pavement materials, asphalt mixture (AC-25) and cement-stabilized crushed stones (CSCS), were prepared in the laboratory. Four-point bending tests and uniaxial-compression tests were carried out under different loading frequencies and temperatures to evaluate the working properties of these sensors and then obtain the corresponding real sensitivity coefficients (SCs). …”
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Comparative analysis of positive thinking and stress levels in physicians and medical staff by V. V. Kozyreva, A. A. Cherniavskii

“…Shcherbatykh (2008), questionnaire of successes and failures reaction ways for adults (STONE-V, T.O. Gordeeva, V.Y. Shevyakhova (2008), optimism and activity scale in N.E. …”
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Florida Peaches: A Perfect Snack by Joy N. Rumble, Kara Harders, Kathryn Stofer

“… For many years peach orchards were limited to geographic areas with an adequate number of hours below 45 degrees Fahrenheit, during the colder months, also known as “Chill hours” (University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, 2017). In 1952, a stone fruit breeding program started at the University of Florida with a goal of breeding trees which would produce peaches and nectarines to grow in Florida (Olmstead, Chaparro, Anderson, Williamson, & Ferguson, 2016). …”
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Clean Eco-Friendly Cooking Energy as Sustainable Approach and Mitigation to Climate Change: A Case Study of Ankole, Western Uganda. by Kayamba, William Kariiti

“…Traditional methods of cooking still dominate in Ankole, where three stones are still used. Charcoal has become a major fuel for cooking in many homes as an alternative to firewood, in addition to briquettes, biogas, LPG and volcanic rocks. …”
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Risk Factors for Migration, Fracture, and Dislocation of Pancreatic Stents by Yoshiaki Kawaguchi, Jung-Chun Lin, Yohei Kawashima, Atsuko Maruno, Hiroyuki Ito, Masami Ogawa, Tetsuya Mine

“…No significant differences in the rates of migration, dislocation, or fracture were noted on the patient factors (etiology, cases undergoing endoscopic pancreatic sphincterotomy, location of pancreatic duct stenosis, existence of pancreatic stone, and approach from the main or minor papilla) and stent factors (duration of stent placement, numbers of stent placements, stent shape, diameter, and length). …”
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