Improving the thermal and hydrophobic properties of bamboo biocomposite as sustainable acoustic absorbers by Hassan Irvani, Hassan Asilian Mahabadi, Ali Khavanin, Ali Safari Variani

“…The results showed that the modification of fibers with stearic acid (STA) can improve the contact angle and hydrophobicity of bamboo fibers, so that for modified fibers with a concentration of 0.3 M, the contact angle was 143.8 degrees, placing the fibers in the superhydrophobic range.Additionally, the thermogravimetric results showed that aluminum hydroxide (ATH) loading increased the coal residue at 600 °C by 12%, indicating an improvement in hydrophobic properties and thermal stability. …”
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La résilience : facteurs de risque et facteurs de protection dans l’environnement social et scolaire du jeune enfant by Bernard Terrisse, François Larose, Marie-Louise Lefebvre

“…Dans cet article, les auteurs présentent tout d’abord l’évolution du construit de résilience, à la fois selon ses fondements épistémologiques et sous l’angle du rapport contextuel existant entre le concept de risque et celui de protection. …”
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Nonharmonic Control of the Blade-Vortex Interaction Noise of Electrically Controlled Rotor by Kewei Li, Taoyong Su, Yang Lu, Qijun Zhao

“…The results show that flap nonharmonic control has little effect on miss distance and that it controls BVI noise mainly by reducing the wake vortex strength on the advancing and retreating sides, which may lead to an increase in rotor noise in other regions; the noise reduction effect of flap nonharmonic control for different blade preindex angles indicates that suitable preindex angles coupled with flap nonharmonic control help optimally reduce noise.…”
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Effect of application of the thoracoabdominal rebalancing (TAR) method in moderate premature children: randomized and controlled clinical trial by Jaqueline Lomônaco Lemos, Denise Iunes, Aline Roberta Danaga, Carmélia Rocha, Juliana Bassalobre Carvalho Borges

“…Regarding biomechanics, there was a significant difference in the TAR group in the Charpy angle (between assessments 1 and 2), in the axillary cirtometry (between assessments 1 and 3), and in the xiphoid process (between assessments 2 and 3). …”
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Shear strength characteristics of mixing slag-stone ballast reinforcement with tire geo-scrap using large-scale direct shear tests by Morteza Esmaeili, Hamidreza Heydari, Maziar Mokhtari, Sara Darvishi

“…In this case, the shear strength‌, internal friction angle, vertical displacement, and dilatancy angle of stone–slag ballast reinforced with geo-scraps exhibited average changes of + 28%, + 9%, − 28%, and − 15%, respectively.…”
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Improving the Mechanical Properties of Red Clay Using Xanthan Gum Biopolymer by Lina Wang, Zhiyu Weng, Qiang Liu, Tianliang Wang, Xuemin Pan, Guoyu Li, Zhiliang Wang

“…After curing for 28 days, the cohesion and internal friction angle of 2.0% xanthan gum-treated soil were effectively improved to 170.44 kPa and 20.56°, which were increased by 69.79% and 9.36°, respectively, compared with untreated red clay. …”
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A Building‐Integrated Hybrid Photovoltaic‐Thermal (PV‐T) Window for Synergistic Light Management, Electricity and Heat Generation by Francesco Polito, Gan Huang, Christos N. Markides

“…The water temperature decreases by ≈7 °C, whilst thermal efficiency improves to 17.6% as the inclination angle increases to 90° (vertical); the electrical efficiency reduces marginally (3.3%). …”
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History of Illicit Stimulant Use Is Not Associated with Long-Lasting Changes in Learning of Fine Motor Skills in Humans by Gabrielle Todd, Verity Pearson-Dennett, Stanley C. Flavel, Miranda Haberfield, Hannah Edwards, Jason M. White

“…Metacarpophalangeal joint angle and first dorsal interosseous electromyographic activity were recorded. …”
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Investigation on Seismic Performance of Bidirectional Self-Centering Reinforced Concrete Frame Structures by Shaking Table Tests by Zhenying Wang, Chenxi Mao, Lili Xie

“…In the structure, the column-base joints, which were installed with external mild steel (MS) dampers, could uplift freely and the beam-column joints could open effectively under earthquake excitations. Angle steels and MS dampers were installed at the beam-column joints in the structural X and Y directions, respectively. …”
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Highly Tunable Moiré Superlattice Potentials in Twisted Hexagonal Boron Nitrides by Kwanghee Han, Minhyun Cho, Taehyung Kim, Seung Tae Kim, Suk Hyun Kim, Sang Hwa Park, Sang Mo Yang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Vinod Menon, Young Duck Kim

“…Therefore, the new strategies for engineering moiré length, angle, and potential strength are essential for developing programmable quantum materials. …”
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Application of Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography in Pediatric Ophthalmology by Ricardo Salles Cauduro, Caroline do Amaral Ferraz, Maira Saad Ávila Morales, Patricia Novita Garcia, Yara Cristina Lopes, Paulo Henrique Souza, Norma Allemann

“…Clinical diagnosis of anterior segment abnormalities included cornea disease (n=7), congenital anterior segment conditions (n=10), ocular trauma (n=1), anterior segment surgeries (n=2), iridocorneal angle abnormalities (n=4), intermediate uveitis (n=2). …”
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Spinal Cord Injury and Pressure Ulcer Prevention: Using Functional Activity in Pressure Relief by May Stinson, Rachel Schofield, Cathy Gillan, Julie Morton, Evie Gardner, Stephen Sprigle, Alison Porter-Armstrong

“…Reaching forward by 150% of arm length during an adapted computer activity significantly reduced DI (P<0.05), angle of trunk tilt (p<0.05), and PPI for both ischial tuberosity regions (P<0.001) compared to normal sitting. …”
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Relative anterior spinal overgrowth in mild and moderate adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a retrospective study by Haoyang Zhang, Xin Ye, Hongjiao Wu, Yi Shen, Yingsen Pan, Xiaoming Ying, Jiaying He

“…No correlation was found between the apex vertebra’s ratio and the Cobb angle. In conclusion, RASO is common in mild to moderate AIS and may help maintain spinal function.…”
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Stability Analysis and Monitoring Method for the Key Block Structure of the Basic Roof of Noncoal Pillar Mining with Automatically Formed Gob-Side Entry by Jianning Liu, Manchao He, Yajun Wang, Ruifeng Huang, Jun Yang, Xichun Tian, Can Ming, Shan Guo

“…Based on this range of rotation angles, the range of safe bulking coefficients of gangue was calculated. …”
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Comparison of outcomes of Salter and Varus osteotomies in the treatment of Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease: a retrospective cohort study by Peyman Mirghaderi, Mohammad-Taha Pahlevan-Fallahy, Saeed kargar-soleimanabad, Danial Sharifi Razavi, Alireza Moharrami, Taghi Baghdadi, Seyed Mohammad Javad Mortazavi

“…Patients’ claudication, pain, leg circumference, range of motion, lever arm ratio (LAR), neck shaft angle (NSA), migration index, vertical distance, and the presence of teardrop sign, sagging rope sign, and Trendelenburg sign were evaluated five years after surgery. …”
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20 kHz X-ray diffraction on Cu thin films explores thermomechanical fatigue at high strain-rates by T. Ziegelwanger, M. Reisinger, B. Vedad, K. Hlushko, S. Van Petegem, J. Todt, M. Meindlhumer, J. Keckes

“…On the intergranular scale, voids and cracks formed along high-angle grain boundaries. Whereas on the intragranular scale, Cu exhibited ductile dynamic recovery, where accumulated dislocations formed cell structures and low-angle grain boundaries, helping to relieve part of the tensile stress. …”
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Detector development for spin-echo SANS techniques using ZnS:Ag/6LiF and 6Li glass scintillators by Giacomo Mauri, G. Jeff Sykora, Gregory N. Smith, Steven R. Parnell, Robert M. Dalgliesh, Dirk Honecker, Sarah E. Mann, Erik M. Schooneveld, Nigel J. Rhodes

“…Abstract Neutron spin-echo techniques exploit Larmor precession of the neutron spin to encode either the scattering angle or energy. These are powerful means to extend the measurable momentum transfer (Q) and energy (E) range in neutron scattering measurements. …”
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Solution of Turbine Blade Cascade Flow Using an Improved Panel Method by Zong-qi Lei, Guo-zhu Liang

“…The method is a combination of the panel method for infinite cascade, a deviation angle model, and a compressibility correction. The resulting solution provides a fast flexible mesh-free calculation for cascade flow. …”
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The Effects of the Treatment of the Periodic Boundary Condition in TRIAINA Codes with a Pressure Tube Creep Problem by E. H. Ryu, S. Y. Yoo, B. Y. Chung, J. Y. Jung

“…To verify the periodic boundary condition (PBC) treatment which was implemented in a TRI-angle elements induced numerical analyzer (TRIAINA), the pressure tube creep problem is chosen and examined with three cases of normal, 2.5% creep, and 5.0% creep on the aspects of the multiplication factor and relative pin power. …”
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Compliant Mechanism Soft Robot Design and Peristaltic Movement Optimization Using Random Search by L. A. Páramo-Carranza, A. Lopez-González, Juan C. Tejada

“…To guarantee maximum displacement, a time and angle optimization procedure using photogrammetry and random search was carried out, allowing the advance distance of the soft robot to be maximized.…”
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