The Dynamical Casimir Effect in quasi-one-dimensional Bose condensates: the breathing ring by Tettamanti, Manuele, Parola, Alberto

“…The analytical solution of the time dependent Gross–Pitaevskii equation allows to follow the time evolution of the phonon spectrum and shows that periodic oscillations of the ring radius do not induce modulations in the density profile but give rise to the mixing of clockwise and anticlockwise modes, leading to the creation of pairs of entangled phonons in a squeezed vacuum state, if the drive frequency equals twice the frequency of the phonon mode. The Dynamical Casimir Effect is predicted to occur in the weakly interacting regime, where the Gross–Pitaevskii equation provides a faithful description of the many body dynamics. …”
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Modeling and simulation of carbon-nanocomposite-based gas sensors by Roopa Hegde, Punya Prabha V, Shipra Upadhyay, Krishna S B

“…., 0.1 wt % of single-walled carbon nanotubes along with PEDOT:PSS (poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate)) in an equal volume ratio of 1:1. Given the high cost associated with the development of these sensors, it becomes imperative to establish a mathematical model for economically predicting their behavior. …”
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A Reconstruction Approach for Imaging in 3D Cone Beam Vector Field Tomography by T. Schuster, D. Theis, A. K. Louis

“…Since the vectorial cone beam transform of any gradient vector field with compact support is identically equal to zero, we can only hope to reconstruct the solenoidal part of an arbitrary vector field. …”
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On the Location of Multiple Failure Slip Surfaces in Slope Stability Problems Using the Meshless SPH Algorithm by Liang Li, Ming Zhai, Xianzhang Ling, Xuesong Chu, Bin Hu, Yungming Cheng

“…The occurrence of multiple critical slip surfaces with equal importance in rehabilitating and reinforcing slopes has been frequently observed in geotechnical engineering practices. …”
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Revisiting the History and Biogeography of <i>Bactrocera oleae</i> and Other Olive-Feeding Fruit Flies in Africa and Asia by Luis Teixeira da Costa, Marie-Claude Bon, Barbara van Asch

“…Our data suggest that (1) the transition from stenophagy on Oleaceae to oligophagy on <i>Olea</i> most likely occurred in Africa more than 6 million years ago (MYA), and (2) the subsequent transition to monophagy on <i>Olea europaea</i> took place in Asia or in Africa in the Early Pleistocene. Our results support equally the hypotheses that the ancestors of modern <i>B. oleae</i> underwent two waves of migration from Asia to Africa or that they zigzagged between Asia and Africa.…”
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Impact of Heterogeneity on Opinion Dynamics: Heterogeneous Interaction Model by Xi Chen, Zhan Wu, Hongwei Wang, Wei Li

“…Unlike the KH model, which leads to the polarization phenomenon; most agents reach a consensus in HI model when the confidence radius equals 0.2, and the interactive radius remains within regulatory limits (150<σ<520). …”
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Perspectives of nurses and patients on the misplacement of supportive care information for type 2 diabetes mellitus: a qualitative study in China by Ying Li, Chao Li, Na Zhou, Runli Fan, Ling Nie, Fangfang Wu, Huili Zhou, Liqun Yao, Huiyue Zhou

“…In addition to improving the information support capabilities of nurses, it was equally important to enhance patients’ ability to provide feedback on the information they receive.…”
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Racial/Ethnic Patterns in Prostate Cancer Outcomes in an Active Surveillance Cohort by Jennifer Cullen, Stephen A. Brassell, Yongmei Chen, Christopher Porter, James L'Esperance, Timothy Brand, David G. McLeod

“…Racial disparity in overall survival was not observed in this military health care beneficiary cohort with an equal access to health care.…”
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Possible Mechanisms of Relations between the Thermal Neutrons Field and Biosphere by Anton V. Syroeshkin, Irina V. Tarabrina, Mariya A. Morozova, Alla V. Marukhlenko, Igor A. Zlatskiy, Mariya P. Makarova

“…It has been demonstrated that the concentrations of some metals in samples of alive and dead cysts irradiated with an artificial flow of thermal neutrons are not equal. The content of Mn in alive A. salina samples has increased more than ten-fold after their interaction with neutron flux, while the amount of As decreased by a factor of two after exposure. …”
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Nonlinear Radial Consolidation Analysis of Soft Soil with Vertical Drains under Cyclic Loadings by Pyol Kim, Hyong-Sik Kim, Yong-Gun Kim, Chung-Hyok Paek, Song-Nam Oh, Sung-Ryol So, Chang-Son Ok

“…By considering the nonlinear variations of compressibility and permeability expressed by the logarithm relations (e−log σ′ and e−log kh), the governing equation for nonlinear radial consolidation of the soil under equal strain and time-dependent loading is established. …”
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Optimizing cluster head selection in wireless sensor networks using firefly and genetics algorithm by Navid Moshtaghi Yazdani, Mohammad Hasan Olyaei Torqabeh

“…The results of comparing LEACH and EAMMH protocols and the proposed method in terms of the number of dead nodes compared to the number of execution times based on 50, 100, and 200 nodes indicates that the number of dead nodes for the simulation of LEACH protocol is almost equal to the number of dead nodes for the EAMMH protocol, but the proposed algorithm has approximately 10 percent less dead nodes, but by an increase in the number of nodes (200 nodes) the number of dead nodes have decreased 35 percent and 22 percent compared to LEACH and EAMMH algorithms respectively.…”
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Different Views about the Nature of Gender-Related Asymmetries in Tasks Based on Biological or Artefact Categories by Guido Gainotti, Francesca Ciaraffa, Maria Caterina Silveri, Camillo Marra

“…Drawing in part on this second line of thought, some authors have suggested that gender-related asymmetries might be due to differences in stimulus processing between men and women, namely, to the tendency of females to focus mainly on perceptual features and of males to focus equally on both perceptual and functional features. …”
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A Novel Model Using Virtual State Variables and Bayesian Discriminant Analysis to Classify Surrounding Rock Stability by Jinglai Sun, Darui Ren, Yu Song, Mingyuan Yu, Zhaofei Chu, Baoguo Liu, Shaogang Li, Xinyang Guo

“…The factors influencing stability are mapped by an artificial neural network (ANN) capable of recognizing the model of rock mass classification, and the obtained output vector is treated as VSVs, which are verified as obeying a multinormal distribution with equal covariance matrixes by normal distribution testing and constructed statistics. …”
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Effects of Glycerol and Sodium Pentaborate Formulation on Prevention of Postoperative Peritoneal Adhesion Formation by Erhan Aysan, Fikrettin Sahin, Ruzgar Catal, Mirkhaliq Javadov, Alev Cumbul

“…Female Wistar albino rats were randomly assigned into four equal groups. The adhesion model was created on the caecum anterior wall and covered with 2 ml 0.9% NaCl, 3% glycerol, 3% sodium pentaborate, and 3% glycerol plus 3% sodium pentaborate solutions in the groups, respectively. …”
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Differential Antimicrobial Potential of Ajuga integrifolia Buch. Ham. Ex D.Don Based on Extraction Solvents by Wajid Khan, Nisar Ali, Muhammad Nazir Uddin, Dawood Ghafoor, Muhammad Ishaq, Haji Khan, Muhammad Rizwan, Shahab Khan

“…Methanol root and stem extracts produced an equal zone of inhibition (97%) at 1000 µg/ml concentration against A. alternata and A. solani. …”
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Estimating the Evaporation from Irrigation Canals in Northwestern China Using the Double-Deck Surface Air Layer Model by Suhua Liu, Weizhen Wang, Makito Mori, Tetsuo Kobayashi

“…Results showed that cumulative evaporation instances estimated by the DSAL model were equal in order of magnitude to those by the heat balance method on observed days during the daytime (0700~1900 BST). …”
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Surficial Failure of Expansive Soil Cutting Slope and Its Flexible Support Treatment Technology by Jie Xiao, He-ping Yang, Jun-hui Zhang, Xian-yuan Tang

“…The findings indicate that the envelope of shear strength, which significantly drops close or equal to zero, can be well fitted by the generalized power function. …”
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Speakers’ choice of apology strategies in a discourse completion task: A study of Turkish speakers in Tabriz by Javid Fereidoni, Kosar Kheiri, Nafiseh Tadayyon Chahartagh

“…., in interaction with relatives that are in an equal status with the participant and in an adult-child interaction where the participant has a superior status.…”
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Analysis of Dynamic Characteristics for a Rotor System with Pedestal Looseness by Hui Ma, Xueyan Zhao, Yunnan Teng, Bangchun Wen

“…When the displacement of the pedestal is less than or equal to the looseness clearance, the motion of the rotor varies from period-one through period-two and period-three to period-five with the decreasing of stiffness of the non-loosened bolts. …”
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A New Flow Line Function for Modeling Material Trajectory and Textures in Nonequal-Channel Angular Pressing by A. Hasani, L. S. Toth, Sh. Mardokh Rouhani

“…One of the most applied severe plastic deformation processes is ECAP (equal-channel angular pressing) which is suitable to produce ultrafine-grained metallic materials with high mechanical performance. …”
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