Evaluating the Impact of Blast-Induced Damage on the Rock Load Supported by Liner in Construction of a Deep Shaft: A Case Study of Ventilation Shaft of Micangshan Road Tunnel Proje... by Yong Fang, Zhigang Yao, Gabriel Walton, Jian Zhou, Wanghao Xu, Yuchao Zheng

“…The rock load acting on the lining of an underground excavation is influenced by multiple factors, including rock type, rock mass condition, depth, and construction method. …”
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Potential Biomarkers and Signaling Pathways Associated with the Pathogenesis of Primary Ameloblastoma: A Systems Biology Approach by Zeynab Bayat, Azin Mirzaeian, Amir Taherkhani

“…E2F4 was the most significant TF acting on the hub genes. BTK was the protein kinase significantly enriched by the TFs. …”
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Rare variant associations with birth weight identify genes involved in adipose tissue regulation, placental function and insulin-like growth factor signalling by Katherine A. Kentistou, Brandon E. M. Lim, Lena R. Kaisinger, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Luke N. Sharp, Kashyap A. Patel, Vinicius Tragante, Gareth Hawkes, Eugene J. Gardner, Thorhildur Olafsdottir, Andrew R. Wood, Yajie Zhao, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Felix R. Day, Susan E. Ozanne, Andrew T. Hattersley, Stephen O’Rahilly, Kari Stefansson, Ken K. Ong, Robin N. Beaumont, John R. B. Perry, Rachel M. Freathy

“…NOS3 (fetal and maternal-acting), NRK (fetal), and ADAMTS8 (maternal-acting) have been implicated in placental function and hypertension. …”
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Biodiversité, responsabilité, réceptivité. Comment passer de la prise de conscience individuelle à la mobilisation collective ? by Pierre-Olivier Monteil 

“…Preservation of biodiversity requieres not only acting on nature, but also on human environment. This action calls for an ethics of our common membership, to rekindle the conscienceness of our responsability toward the future of the planet, by reviving the feeling of its fragility. …”
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Evaluation of the material’s damage in gas turbine rotors by instrumented spherical indentation by D. Nappini, G. Zonfrillo, F. Mastromatteo, I. Giovannetti

“…The analysis of the results has allowed to identify an energy parameter which shows a linear evolution with the mean temperature acting on the components.…”
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Ritual, teatro y performance en un culto al niño dios y al diablo. Las pastorelas de la región purépecha, Michoacán (México) by Elizabeth Araiza

“…In the P’urhépecha region we attended an event that interweaves various modalities of acting, each one of which brings to life distinct sensorial universes and multiple referents. …”
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What Is the Role of Beta-Agonist Bronchodilators in the Day-to-Day Treatment of Chronic Asthma? by Pierre Ernst

“…New longer acting inhaled beta-agonists designed for regular use are being introduced and their exact role remains to be defined. …”
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On the existence of equilibrium states of an elastic beam on a nonlinear foundation by M. B. M. Elgindi, D. H. Y. Yen

“…This paper concerns the existence and uniqueness of equilibrium states of a beam-column with hinged ends which is acted upon by axial compression and lateral forces and is in contact with a semi-infinite medium acting as a foundation. …”
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Numerical analysis of a caprock integrity during oil production by steam-assisted gravity drainage method by Anastasiia Kostina, Maxim Zhelnin, Oleg Plekhov

“…Reservoirs characterized by the volumetric strain mechanism of the porosity evolution produce slightly higher values of the mechanical loadings acting on the over-burden.…”
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Aberrant Regulation of Messenger RNA 3′-Untranslated Region in Human Cancer by Isabel López de Silanes, María Paz Quesada, Manel Esteller

“…The 3′UTR governs gene expression via orchestrated interactions between mRNA structural components (cis-elements) and specific trans-acting factors (RNA-binding proteins and non-coding RNAs). …”
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Systemically modeling the dynamics of plasma insulin insubcutaneous injection of insulin analogues for type 1 diabetes by Jiaxu Li, Yang Kuang

“…We propose two systemic and simplified ordinarydifferential equation models to model the subcutaneous injectionof rapid-acting insulin analogues and long-acting insulinanalogues, respectively. …”
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A Novel Robotic Exoskeleton for Finger Rehabilitation: Kinematics Analysis by Yong Dai, Junhong Ji, Guocai Yang, Yu Yang

“…For each finger, in addition to three links acting as phalanxes, two more links acting as knuckles are also implemented. …”
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Fatigue life estimation in welded joints under multiaxial loadings by Andrea Carpinteri, Andrea Spagnoli, Sabrina Vantadori

“…In more detail, fatigue life of welded joints under multiaxial stress states can be evaluated by considering a nonlinear combination of the shear stress amplitude (acting on the critical plane) and the amplitude and the mean value of the normal stress (acting on the critical plane). …”
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What do we mean by academic integrity? by Andrés Mejía, Maria Fernanda Garcés-Flórez

“…Drawing on Calhoun’s social perspective of integrity and on MacIntyre’s goods-based view of practice, we propose to understand acting with academic integrity as standing before others and with others, firmly but non-dogmatically, to protect the integrity of academic practice and, therefore, its internal goods –which are not readily specifiable but nevertheless related to growth, learning, and knowledge production and sharing. …”
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STRESSES IN COMPOSITE PLATES WITH RIVETED BARS USED FOR AIRCRAFT CONSTRUCTION by Marta MAKSYMOVYCH, Maciej DUTKIEWICZ, Olesia MAKSYMOVYCH

“…Examples of calculating stresses near circular and elliptical rivets, magnitudes of forces acting on rivets depending on the rigidity of the rods are given. …”
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Fatigue life estimation in welded joints under multiaxial loadings by Sabrina Vantadori, Andrea Spagnoli, Andrea Carpinteri

“…In more detail, fatigue life of welded joints under multiaxial stress states can be evaluated by considering a nonlinear combination of the shear stress amplitude (acting on the critical plane) and the amplitude and the mean value of the normal stress (acting on the critical plane). …”
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Coordinated UAV-UGV trajectory planning based on load balancing in IoT data collection by Yuchao ZHU, Shaowei WANG

“…To improve the efficiency of large-scale Internet of things (IoT) data collection, a coordinated trajectory planning algorithm for multiple aerial and ground vehicles based on load balancing region partitioning was proposed, where unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) acting as aerial base stations were dispatched to gather data from IoT devices and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) acting as mobile battery swap stations were used to compensate for the shortage of UAV’s energy.Aiming at shortening the mission completion time, the optimization task was to minimize the longest mission time among a fleet of UAV-UGVs, which was formulated as a variant of min-max multi-depot vehicle routing problem and solved from the load-balancing perspective.Specifically, the IoT devices were assigned to the UAV-UGVs’ service zones by a load-balancing region partition algorithm, based on which the trajectory planning problem of multiple UAV and UGV was reduced to several independent route planning problems for each UAV-UGV pair.Then, a cooperative trajectory planning strategy was developed to optimize the route in each service zone.Numerical results validate that the proposed algorithm outperforms the compared algorithms in terms of mission completion time and balancing degree.…”
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Damage accumulation near the cold-expanded hole due to high-cycle fatigue by crack compliance method by Yu. G. Matvienko, S. I. Eleonsky, V.S. Pisarev, M.D Zajtsev

“…Normalized values of the notch mouth open displacement (NMOD), in-plane displacement component at the initial point of the notch acting in the notch direction (U0), in-plane displacement component at the final point of the notch acting in the notch direction (U1) and the stress intensity factor (SIF) are used as current damage indicators. …”
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Infrared Spectroscopic Study of the Acidic Character of Modified Alumina Surfaces by Aline Auroux, Antonella Gervasini

“…It was found that, following treatment with lithium acetate or ammonium sulphate, the same –OH groups were involved in both modifications, acting in turn as acidic –OH groups capable of exchanging their protons with lithium ions or as basic groups capable of exchanging with acid sulphate anions or acting as strong nucleophiles to form hydrogen carbonates with carbon dioxide. …”
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