Monolithic electrostatic actuators with independent stiffness modulation by Yuejun Xu, Jian Wen, Etienne Burdet, Majid Taghavi

“…This seamless integration enables contractile force modulation, extending its capability as a lightweight variable resistance passive spring by over 2.5 times, and improves its dynamic responses, with faster contractions and rapid attenuation of oscillations by more than 50%. …”
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„Sprache macht den Freigang der Gedanken möglich“. Zu den sprichwörtlichen Aphorismen von Franz Hodjak by Wolfgang Mieder

“…He employs formulaic linguistic structures and deals with such themes as truth, lie, love, religion, morality, politics, and much more. At all times he is concerned about human behavior in modern existence. …”
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Self-rerouting sensor network for electronic skin resilient to severe damage by T. Ozaki, N. Ohta, M. Fujiyoshi

“…Testing confirms rapid reading times of only a few microseconds and power consumption of 1.88 μW/node at a 1 kHz sampling rate. …”
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Effectiveness of clean intermittent self catheterization in patients with recurrent urethral stricture post visual internal urethrotomy by Naqib Ullah, Jamshid Nawaz, Muhammad Shoaib, Asif Khan, Nizam ud Din, Tauheed Fareed

“…Patients were counseled  for CISC after removal of catheter 2 times a day for 8 weeks  and  at 8th  week cystourethroscopy performed along with detail  evaluation of symptoms of urethral stricture to know  recurrence of stricture.  …”
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Kewaspadaan Terhadap Kanker pada Perempuan Keturunan Pasien Kanker Payudara by Boby Febri Krisdianto, Fitri Mailani

“…Such children possess a two times greater chance of suffering breast cancer. …”
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A Static Fracturing Technology to Enhance the Permeability of Coalbed: Mechanical Study by Long Wang, Baohua Guo, Zhaofeng Wang

“…According to underground monitoring, a significant improvement of coalbed permeability up to 5 times has been achieved in 16031 tailgate, in Guhanshan coalmine, China.…”
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Mechanism of joint physical layer and MAC layer for handling multi-TRP UL overlapping transmissions by JING Xiaorong, XIONG Jie, SUN Jian, CHEN Qianbin

“…To address the severe uplink (UL) overlapping transmission problem caused by multi-timing advance (multi-TA) in multiple transmission reception point (multi-TRP) scenario with non-ideal feedback, where existing protocols were difficult to handle effectively, a novel UL overlapping transmission handling mechanism was proposed by jointly improving physical layer multiplexing technology and medium access control (MAC) layer token bucket technology. …”
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The Graying of Central America: A Brief Examination of Institutional Rhetoric, Policy, and Practice by Roberth Steven Gutiérrez-Murillo, Gustavo Cezar Wagner Leandro, Eliana Mourges Codoy, Patricia Krieger Grossi

“… The population of Central America is aging at an accelerated pace, yet the response of governments has been inconsistent and, at times, misguided. To gain a deeper understanding of this issue, we propose a socio-historical overview on the public institutionalization of aging and old age. …”
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Pengaruh Suplementasi Saccharomyces boulardii terhadap Kejadian Diare pada Balita by Winda Wahyu Pratiwi, Dwi Sarbini

“…Signs of diarrhea are the stool becomes liquid and the frequency of bowel movements is more than three times a day and is accompanied by blood and mucus or only mucus. …”
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Changing patterns of social services for the elderly as innovative technologies for preserving social capital by R. M. Sadykov, N. L. Bolshakova

“…The article notes that senior citizens need timely and long-term care to preserve their social capital, which is best provided at home and with the support of their loved ones. …”
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Cumulative damage characteristics of tunnel initial support concrete under blasting load by Yan Zhao, Zhuang Zhang, Lijie Ge, Lingling Xu, Huadong Zhao, Mingzan Yu

“…The results of the sonic test show that with the increase of blasting times, the cumulative damage increases gradually, but the blasting damage increment shows a downward trend. …”
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Model of Strategic Disinformation Reconstruction Based on Analysis of Intentions by Bohdan Yuskiv, Nataliia Karpchuk, Serhii Fedoniuk

“…  Disinformation is a powerful means of manipulation in times of conflicts and war and fake news is a disinformation tool. …”
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Lane-Changing Behavior Prediction Based on Game Theory and Deep Learning by Shuo Jia, Fei Hui, Cheng Wei, Xiangmo Zhao, Jianbei Liu

“…By using an open-source traffic dataset to train and verify the proposed model, the verification results show that the prediction accuracy can reach 94.56% within 0.4 s of lane-changing operation and that the model can achieve timely and accurate prediction of the lane-changing behavior of vehicles.…”
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Cookware as source of toxic metals: An overview by Okunola Alabi, Amos Tomiwa Afolabi

“…Acidic foods, such as tomatoes or citrus fruits, can facilitate the release of metals into the food during the cooking process. Extended cooking times and high temperatures also increase the probability of metals migrating from the cookware into the food. …”
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Enhanced characterization of wheat straw-PLA composites with silane coupling agent and alkali pretreatment by Zhonghua Yang, Kangjie Sun

“…Furthermore, the mechanical properties of composites synthesized by hot pressing 60 % pretreated straw, 33 % PLA and 7 % compatibilizer were evaluated, and the results demonstrated that the silane coupling agent-modified composites exhibited superior mechanical properties, with tensile, flexural and impact strengths of 15.07 MPa, 30.83 MPa and 9.95 kJ/m², respectively—approximately 1.2 times higher than those of the NaOH-treated composites. …”
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Clustering of X-Ray-Selected AGN by N. Cappelluti, V. Allevato, A. Finoguenov

“…The study of the angular and spatial structure of the X-ray sky has been under investigation since the times of the Einstein X-ray Observatory. This topic has fascinated more than two generations of scientists and slowly unveiled an unexpected scenario regarding the consequences of the angular and spatial distribution of X-ray sources. …”
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Dynamic and Static Properties of Aqueous NaCl Solutions at 25°C as a Function of NaCl Concentration: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study by Song Hi Lee

“…The static and dynamic properties of NaCl (aq) solutions are analyzed in terms of radial distribution functions, hydration numbers, coordination numbers around Na+ and Cl−, residence times of water around Na+ and Cl−, water diffusion, and ion-ion electrostatic energies to explain the behavior of the molar conductivity Λm of NaCl obtained from our MD simulations.…”
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SHORT-TERM EQUITY TRADING PRACTICES OF INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS: EVIDENCE FROM PROPERTY-CASUALTY INSURERS IN THE UNITED STATES by Jin Park, Tim Query

“…However, in terms of the mean size of transactions, the average investment in preferred stock ranges from four to five times larger than that of common stocks during the period of interest in this study. …”
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Impact of Dual Placement and Routing on WDDL Netlist Security in FPGA by Emna Amouri, Habib Mehrez, Zied Marrakchi

“…Then, we introduce a timing-balance-driven routing algorithm which is architecture independent. …”
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Assessing English writing of South Indian native Tamil students: The mediocre level requires strategic implications by Bharath M

“…Further, it discussed the strategic implications for improvement as - a) repetitive incremental practice – teaching structures, tenses, and grammar rules of native and target language, b) conversational instruction – sharing differences in native and target languages, sharing of mistakes and errors, and c) timely feedback – a part of follow up mechanism for assessment.…”
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