Tribological properties of friction composites modified by the suspended particles of exhaust flue gases by T. A. Akhmetov, V. K. Merinov, N. V. Kargapolova

“…This is due to the difference in the chemical composition of the deposited particles.It was found that the use of deposited particles in composite materials allows to vary the value of the dynamic friction coefficient in a wider range, in particular to obtain higher and stable values, while the wear resistance of modified friction composites is more than 500 times higher than the same index of the matrix polymer – polytetrafluoroethylene.…”
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Dynamic Modeling and Response of a Rotating Cantilever Beam with a Concentrated Mass by Yang Yong-feng, Wang Yan-lin, Chen Hu, Wu Min-juan

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Generalized H-fold sumset and Subsequence sum by Mohan, Pandey, Ram Krishna

“…The generalized $H$-fold sumset, denoted by $H^{(r)}A$, is the union of the sumsets $h^{(r)}A$ for $h\in H$ where, the sumset $h^{(r)}A$ is the set of all integers that can be represented as a sum of $h$ elements from $A$ with no summand in the representation appearing more than $r$ times. In this paper, we find the optimal lower bound for the cardinality of $H^{(r)}A$, i.e., for $|H^{(r)}A|$ and the structure of the underlying sets $A$ and $H$ when $|H^{(r)}A|$ is equal to the optimal lower bound in the cases $A$ contains only positive integers and $A$ contains only nonnegative integers. …”
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Spatiotemporal squeeze-and-excitation residual multiplier network for video action recognition by Huilan LUO, Kang TONG

“…Aiming at the shortcomings of shallow networks and general deep models in two-stream network structure,which could not effectively learn spatial and temporal information,a squeeze-and-excitation residual network was proposed for action recognition with a spatial stream and a temporal stream.Meanwhile,the long-term temporal dependence was captured by injecting the identity mapping kernel into the network as a temporal filter.Spatiotemporal feature multiplication fusion was used to further enhance the interaction between spatial information and temporal information of squeeze-and-excitation residual networks.Simultaneously,the influence of spatial-temporal stream multiplication fusion methods,times and locations on the performance of action recognition was studied.Given the limitations of performance achieved by a single model,three different strategies were proposed to generate multiple models,and the final recognition result was obtained by integrating these models through averaging and weighted averaging.The experimental results on the HMDB51 and UCF101 datasets show that the proposed spatiotemporal squeeze-and-excitation residual multiplier networks can effectively improve the performance of action recognition.…”
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Inverted Yoga and Near Syncope: An Unusual Diagnosis of Right Ventricular Myxoma by Wadie David, Narmeen Rehman, Robby Singh, Shukri David

“…Although usually benign in nature, myxomas require surgical resection due to their increased risk of embolic and cardiac complications, with the timing of resection dependent on the presentation and size of the tumor. …”
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A Pregnancy Case of Primary Mediastinal Large B Cell Lymphoma with Superior Vena Cava Syndrome by Lauren Brownhalls, Ann Gillett, Yasmin Whately, Keisuke Tanaka

“…It is an aggressive tumour that is associated with symptoms of superior vena cava (SVC) compression and airway compromise such as dyspnoea, facial and arm swelling, cough, or chest pain. Timely diagnosis is imperative to optimising patient outcomes and reducing both maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. …”
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Exergaming-based exercise program for people aged 50 years or older by Alexsander Guimarães, Vandrize Meneghini, Aline Barbosa

“…Participants engage in a 60-minute session two or three times a week and on alternating days. Participants are evaluated at the beginning and end of each semester for functional fitness and cognition and the findings are presented to them. …”
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En lisière des espaces : Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell et le paysage urbain de Hong Kong by Wong Kin Yuen

“…Cet article propose au lecteur la visite guidée d’un centre commercial unique en son genre au cœur du paysage urbain de Hong Kong, Times Square, illustration d’une lecture possible du « secret urbain situé à l’intersection » de la SF et du postmoderne.…”
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The Same Old New South: Pride or Prejudice? by John Ford

“…It also posits reasons for the way in which Old South heritage was intentionally changed to make it acceptable when changing times made it questionable.…”
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Colistin: The phoenix Arises by JM Conly, BL Johnston

“…It was thus considered timely to review colistin and its emerging role in managing infections due to MDR gram-negative bacteria.…”
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Higher Education as a Means of Achieving Economic Growth and Development – A Comparative Analysis of Selected EU and former Soviet Union Countries by Maja Grdinić

“…All this is especially evident in times of rapid technological changes. The interest of this paper is to show the relationship between GDP and public spending on education by applying the method of panel data analysis on the selected EU Member States and former Soviet Union Countries for the period 2000 – 2011. …”
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How civilian casualty information shapes support for US involvement in an ally country’s war effort by Alon P. Kraitzman, Tom W. Etienne, Dolores Albarracin

“…The theoretical and applied implications of these important and timely findings are discussed.…”
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Internal Audit Aspects of Companies' Sustainability Reporting by Antonella Maria TIMIS, Aurelia STEFANESCU

“…In the current context, dominated by the increasing importance of credible, relevant and timely sustainability information for stakeholders, internal audit is expanding its scope as a key corporate governance actor. …”
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Fertilizer Experimentation, Data Analyses, and Interpretation for Developing Fertilization Recommendations — Examples with Vegetable Crop Research by George Hochmuth, Ed Hanlon, Allen Overman

“…Fertilizer recommendations contain several important factors, including fertilizer form, source, application timing, placement, and irrigation management. Another important part of a fertilizer recommendation is the amount of a particular nutrient to apply. …”
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De la science‑fiction à la science‑fictionnalisation : la prise de la SF sur le monde réel by Simon O’Sullivan

“…It begins with a commentary on Fredric Jameson and Raymond Williams, and their writings on utopia and sf, and then proceeds to Quentin Meillassoux’s concept of an ‘extro‑science fiction’ – or fictions about worlds in which science is impossible – before proposing that formal experimentation (and especially the illogical sequencing of sentences and use of atypical syntax) serves to present these other space‑times. Experimental sf does not so much describe future worlds as fiction them within this one, offering a concrete ‘non‑literary’ counterpart to the utopian hopes of Jameson and Williams. …”
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Style and Influence: Computing Hebrews and the Early Christian Stylistic Fingerprint by Erich Benjamin Pracht, Thomas McCauley

“…We find that the author of Hebrews shares stylistic micro-patterns particularly with his co-religionists, which indicates that, already in New Testament times, the literature of emerging Christianity was developing a distinctive stylistic fingerprint, the features of which were transferred from one author to another.…”
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Discursive Construction of Immigration Through the Lens of News Values in the Brexit Referendum by Arash Javadinejad

“…To do so, a corpus of four major British broadsheets (The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, and Daily Telegraph) was collected and analysed with a combination of qualitative (Discursive News Values Analysis) and quantitative (Corpus Linguistics) methods. …”
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The truth about man and for man. Practical implications of John Paul II’s encyclical “Fides et ratio” by Ryszard Hajduk

“…The task of the Church is to transmit to people the truth revealed by Jesus Christ, which discloses the mystery of God and man, is accessible in faith, and appeals to the intellect to accept it. In these times, dominated by a pragmatic approach to reality, a question arises about the practical, existential meaning of the truth proclaimed by the Church. …”
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“Signing off on the right side of History?” Relating in Louise Welsh’s apocalyptic trilogy by Marie-Odile PITTIN-HEDON

“…This article examines the way the Scottish writer Louise Welsh contributes to the trend of postapocalyptic fiction in the 21st century, with her plague times trilogy. Relying on the critical and theoretical writing of Michael Foessel, Jean-Paul Engélibert, Bertrand Gervais, Denis Mellier, Hélène Machinal and François Hartog, it shows that Welsh’s trilogy, which spans the whole catastrophe from the outbreak of the virus to the aftermath of the apocalypse, borrows from the essential tropes of the genre to reflect upon the necessity for humans to relate to their past and their future, but also to relate to themselves and to each other. …”
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Heroines of Health: Examining the Other Side of the “Splendid Little War” by Ingrid Gessner

“…During the war death from infectious diseases caused seven times the number of fatalities as battle wounds. …”
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