Mechanical properties of pressure-frozen ice under triaxial compressive stress by Peixin Sun, Weihao Yang, Jukka Tuhkuri

“…A power law relationship between the time to failure and the strain rate was also observed. …”
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THE IMPACT OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ON BANK PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIA by Ibrahim Yinka Agbeyinka

“…The study therefore recommended that firms should strategically integrate corporate social responsibility initiatives with their core business objectives to maximize the positive impact on profitability. firms should carefully evaluate the timing and scale of their corporate social responsibility investments. …”
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Corrosion behavior of TC18 titanium alloy with different initial microstructures in salt spray by Hui Li, Baogang Wang, Junsheng Yang, Xiaopeng Liu, Jianyi Zhang, Ruiqi Ye

“…Through SEM and Sensofar Neox 3D morphology observation, it was found that alloys with different microstructural morphologies exhibited different levels of corrosion resistance during the salt spray corrosion process, and that the pitting pit of TC18 titanium alloy with different initial microstructure tended to remain stable with increasing salt spray treatment time. The local dissolution of the passivation film was identified as the primary corrosion mechanism during the salt spray process of TC18 titanium alloy with different initial microstructures, as determined by XPS and EDS compositional analysis. …”
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Development and In Vitro Characterization of Hyaluronic Acid-Based Coatings for Implant-Associated Local Drug Delivery Systems by Svea Petersen, Sebastian Kaule, Michael Teske, Ingo Minrath, Klaus-Peter Schmitz, Katrin Sternberg

“…While crosslinking with N-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)-N′-ethylcarbodiimide hydrochloride provided HA coatings on DCB, which allowed for an efficient paclitaxel transfer upon expansion in a vessel model, crosslinking with glutardialdehyde resulted in a slower drug release being more appropriate for implants with longer residence time in the body. The developed HA coating is hence well suited for spontaneous and sustained LDD.…”
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Longterm temporal analysis of vegetation cover and soil use on Ilha de Mosqueiro, Belém, Pará, Amazonian Brazil by Larissa de Carvalho Lima, Alberto Bentes Brasil Neto, Cassio Rafael Costa dos Santos, Aline Nascimento Braga, Suany Couto Teixeira Nunes

“…There was a continuous reduction of the dense vegetation class between 1984 and 2008; this accounted for 67.8% of the total area the Ilha de Mosqueiro in 1984, and 31% in 2008. At the same time the class open soil showed continuous growth across all evaluated periods, representing 2.25% of land cover in 1984, increasing to 2.33% and 4.20%, in 1996 and 2014, respectively. …”
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Thermocatalytic pyrolysis of low-value waste biomass: Thermal decomposition, kinetics behaviour, and biochar characterization by Ranjeet Kumar Mishra, Sampath Chinnam, Abhishek Sharma

“…The pyrolysis test of PNS was carried out in a fixed-bed vertical reactor at 600 °C, with a heating rate of 5 °C min⁻¹ and a holding time of 30 min. Catalytic pyrolysis experiments were conducted using CaO at 5 and 10 wt.%, respectively. …”
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Mixed Redundancy Strategy for Modular Multilevel Converters in High-Power Applications by Miad Ahmadi, Aditya Shekhar, Pavol Bauer

“…It is shown that more than 50% higher B10 lifetime (the point in time when the system has a 90% probability of survival) is achievable as compared to reliability improvement using fixed-level active redundancy strategy, load-sharing active redundancy strategy, and standby redundancy strategy with the same number of redundant submodules. …”
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The Status of Assessments and Treatments for Osteoporosis in Patients 5 Years after Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Cross-Sectional Survey of 194 Post-THA Patients by Keiji Kamo, Hiroaki Kijima, Koichiro Okuyama, Shin Yamada, Natsuo Konishi, Hitoshi Kubota, Hiroshi Tazawa, Naohisa Miyakoshi, Yoichi Shimada

“…Forty-five (90%) of these 50 patients were actually taking medication for osteoporosis at the time of the investigation. Overall, a total of 58 (29.9%) patients were receiving treatment for osteoporosis. …”
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Economic diplomacy of Russia towards Venezuela: From H. Chaves to N. Maduro by K. A. Isaev

“…However, Russia continued to provide significant support to Venezuela, both through already proven mechanisms of economic diplomacy and a number of new ones, including sovereign debt restructuring and advance delivery of goods. At the same time, the author notes that this assistance remains rather isolated and limited, it affects only specific areas, mainly oil and gas and military-technical cooperation, and its volume is insufficient to effectively address the economic crisis in Venezuela. …”
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Multiplex-PCR technique to predict polymorphic antigens – M, N, S and s – and associations between their alleles and Mia-associated hybrid glycophorins by Thanaporn Kerdthip, Oytip Nathalang, Sarisa Chidtrakoon, Tanaporn Choychimplee, Dollapak Apipongrat, Kamphon Intharanut

“…In addition, this work strongly demonstrates, for the first time, a moderate correlation between the GYPA*M/M and GYPB*s/s genotypes and Mia-associated hybrid GPs among Thai donors. …”
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Is Nuclear Anarchy Sustainable? A Temporal Approach by Ye. I. Uchaev, A. A. Kvartalnov

“…In particular, both nuclear weapons and interstate anarchy are embedded in specific temporalities.Taking this fact into account, we identify and compare perceptions of time that are interrelated with nuclear weapons, on one hand, and international anarchy, on the other. …”
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Massless limit and conformal soft limit for celestial massive amplitudes by Wei Fan

“…Abstract In celestial holography, the massive and massless scalars in 4d space-time are represented by the Fourier transform of the bulk-to-boundary propagators and the Mellin transform of plane waves respectively. …”
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Humanitarian Contexts of Technical Education in Russia by A. L. Andreev

“…The possibility of managing the current technological progress on the basis of a dialogue with civil society, which is popular in the European Union, is also not considered in Russian intellectual environments. At the same time, the leading technical universities in Russia are gradually developing a network of enthusiasts who are studying the European practice of social assessment of technology and its adaptation to Russian conditions. …”
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Absorption Efficiency Assessment and Uncertainty Measurement of the Sodium Arsenite Method for Ambient NO2 Determination by Rishu Agarwal, Shankar G. Aggarwal

“…Variations observed in the absorption efficiency and the data from inter-comparison study between manual and real-time method warranted this study to be taken up to provide solutions for improvement of the method. …”
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Evaluation of a transverse perineal approach to the canine vagina and vestibule by Sarah E. Saylor, Kyle G. Mathews

“…The described approach is shorter than the standard episiotomy, which may result in diminished discomfort and decreased surgical/anesthetic time. This approach also eliminates the need to reconstruct the vulva. …”
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Reconstructing the Dynamics of the Outer Electron Radiation Belt by Means of the Standard and Ensemble Kalman Filter With the VERB‐3D Code by Angelica M. Castillo Tibocha, Jana deWiljes, Yuri Y. Shprits, Nikita A. Aseev

“…We show how the use of the split‐operator technique allows us to include more physical processes in our simulations and is a computationally efficient data assimilation tool that delivers an accurate approximation of the optimal KF solution, and is suitable for real‐time forecasting. Future applications of the EnKF to direct assimilation of fluxes and nonlinear estimation of electron lifetimes are discussed.…”
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Comparison 2 methods of resistance training (conventional and bodypump) on the agility and vertical jump in male basketball players 16-18 years by Amir Baratı, Hamid Salımı, Nahid Adıbpour

“…Coaches should be based on intensity, duration, discipline, control and supervise the performance, since bodypump method does not require expensive and complex devices, and can be performed with a number of dumbbell and barbell and control and supervise the performance due to the implementation of harmonic and simultaneous movements easier and the effectiveness of the conventional method was similar, for this reason can be suggested used in a large number of the club's athletes and the cost and time is important to them to be used.…”
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Simultaneous determination of warfarin and 7-hydroxywarfarin in rat plasma by HPLC-FLD by Zayed Aref, Babaresh Wahby M., Darweesh Ruba S., El-Elimat Tamam

“…In this study, high-performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection (HPLC-FLD) has been used for the first time, for direct determination of warfarin and its major metabolite, 7-hydroxywarfarin, in rat plasma. …”
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Eilat virus isolated from Culex univittatus mosquitoes from the Namibian Zambezi Region influences in vitro superinfection with alpha- and flaviviruses in a virus-species-dependent... by Heiko D Guggemos, Anne Kopp, Katrin Voigt, Matthias Fendt, Selina L Graff, John K E Mfune, Christian Borgemeister, Sandra Junglen

“…We further showed that infection of cells with EILV MP458-NA-2018 reduced production of infectious particles of Sindbis virus by 2000-fold over the entire course of infection, whereas reduction rates of Bagaza and Middleburg virus were approximately 3-10-fold and dependent on time after infection. While production of infectious particles of cells superinfected with the Chikungunya virus were approximately 30-fold reduced and more pronounced at a lower multiplicity of infection of 0.01, EILV seemed to enhance production of West Nile virus infectious particles by >5-fold when superinfected at a multiplicitiy of infection of 0.1. …”
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Studies on effective solar photovoltaic integration in distribution network with a blend of Monte Carlo simulation and artificial hummingbird algorithm by Ibrahim Cagri Barutcu, Gulshan Sharma, Emre Çelik, Pitshou N. Bokoro

“…The simulation results show that the AHA technique outperforms the FA method in terms of effectively minimising power losses with less simulation time.…”
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