Shock Reduction Technique in Thin-Plate Structure Using Elastic Patches with Gradual Thickness Variations by Hyun-Su Park, Dae-Hyun Hwang, Jae-Hung Han

“…All results from ray tracing, finite element analysis, and experiments consistently demonstrated the effective reduction of passing waves in areas behind the attached patches. Moreover, the influence of gradual thickness variation was thoroughly discussed. …”
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Machinery Fault Diagnosis Using Two-Channel Analysis Method Based on Fictitious System Frequency Response Function by Kihong Shin, Sang-Heon Lee

“…However, a measurement sensor is often not attached to the ideal point due to geometric or environmental restrictions. …”
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The Causes and Consequences of Flood-induced Temporary Displacement in Southwest Coastal Bangladesh by Khairtun Hisan Tonni, Mst. Hosne Ara Begum, Rawnaq Ara Parvin

“…The findings show that the dominant causes of temporary displacement in that area include economic challenges, the fear of losing their social connections, and a deep attachment to their cultural heritage. This temporary displacement had long-term negative consequences for their livelihoods in terms of poverty, rehabilitation problems, food insecurity, income diversification, hygiene and sanitation troubles, scarcity of edible water, etc. …”
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The Use of Oxygen/Air Blender during Transoral Laser Microsurgery with Supraglottic Manual Jet Ventilation: A Safe Approach by Sara Abu-Ghanem, James Cochran

“…We hereby present our experience utilizing an air/oxygen gas mixing device (blender) attached to a supraglottic manual jet ventilator during transoral laser microlaryngeal surgery in three cases to control oxygen levels. …”
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Palmitoylation as a Functional Regulator of Neurotransmitter Receptors by Vladimir S. Naumenko, Evgeni Ponimaskin

“…One of these modifications is a covalent attachment of a 16-C palmitic acid to one or more cysteine residues (S-palmitoylation) within the target protein. …”
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In Sheep’s Clothing? by Fredrik Fahlander

“…Moreover, the latter category is here interpreted as the remains of skinned animals with head, toe and ankle bones still attached. As such, depending on how they were arranged on the pyre, they may have worked to deflect malevolent forces during the transformative part of the cremation. …”
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Container Security Device Chain Network for Safe Railway Transportation by Sungryul Kim, Jeonghyun Kim, Younghwan Yoo

“…The proposed protocol, CSD Chain Network Protocol (CCNP), was designed for a chain-form network of CSDs, each of which is attached to a container. In CCNP, unauthorized access to freight is reliably reported to the reader deployed at the locomotive. …”
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Poetry as Pagan Pilgrimage: the ‘Animative Impulse’ of Thomas Hardy’s Verse by Laurence Estanove

“…The fetishism to be observed in his verse is also neither a direct application of Positivistic thought nor a revival of Pagan rites, but one element of a more general ‛animative impulse’ that attaches to the celebration and preservation of human individual affect. …”
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Ground Pearls, Earth Pearls, Pearl Scale, Margarodes spp. (Insecta: Hemiptera: Margarodidae) by Anthony Camerino

“…The exposed mouthparts are used to feed and attach to the roots of plants. This document is EENY-277, one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Multidisciplinary Management of a Fractured Premolar: A Case Report with Followup by Madhavi R. Kondapuram Seshu, Christopher Leslie Gash

“…The forced orthodontic eruption is achieved by an endodontic attachment and sectional fixed appliance with an offset placed in the wire. …”
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Horrible British Histories: Young people in museums interrogating national identity through principles and practices of critical pedagogy by Sadia Habib

“…Museums can become crucial cultural sites where young people can lead a critical interrogation of the idea of nation, through an exploration of the discourses attached to British identities that play out at local, national and global levels.  …”
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Orkut e Facebook: as teias da memória em meio às redes sociais by Marcia Elisa Rendeiro

“…We remind that, concerning the group of experiences in which the action of collecting generates, the satisfaction granted by the possession of objects and the value attached to them (either as an element of trade or just as something to be seen and admired) deserve to be on the spot. …”
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The crystal structure of 3-nitrobenzene-1,2-dicarboxylic acid–2-ethoxybenzamide (1/1), C17H16N2O8 by Lin Shu-Ting, Huang Shen-Yang, Zou Jing, Jiang Cheng-Jun

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Rehabilitation of Maxillary Defect Using Zygomatic Implant Retained Obturator by Mounika Ayinala, Gautam Shetty

“…Mechanical retention for the definitive obturator was obtained through the ball attachment suspended from the multiunit abutment of the zygomatic implant. …”
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Environmental Ethics and the Need for Theory by Robin Attfield

“…Its findings include the conclusions that our moral obligations (or responsibilities) extend to people and non-human creatures of the foreseeable future, as far as the impacts of present actions and policies can themselves be foreseen, that, that moral standing attaches to the possible people and other living creatures of the future, and (with Derek Parfit) that ethics is to some degree impersonal, being concerned with future quality of life for whoever lives in future centuries, whether they are currently identifiable or not. …”
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Early Mobility and Rehabilitation Protocol after Internal Brace Ankle Stabilization by Bryanna Vesely, Shanthan Challa, Benjamin Moyer, Blake Gereb, Troy Watson

“…The IB procedure has been described elsewhere and the fixation involves placing bone anchors with attached suture tape at each end of the Brostrom repair augmenting the fixation. …”
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EFFECT OF VIEWING ANGLE OF IR THERMOGRAPHY CAMERA FOR THE DETECTION OF LANDMINE by Moustafa M. Kurdi

“…The article considers the possibility of using an IR thermal imaging camera attached to a multifunctional quadrocopter in order to improve the reliability of detection of ground and buried explosive objects.…”
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Regulation of Sulfotransferase and UDP-Glucuronosyltransferase Gene Expression by the PPARs by Melissa Runge-Morris, Thomas A. Kocarek

“…During phase II metabolism, a substrate is rendered more hydrophilic through the covalent attachment of an endogenous molecule. The cytosolic sulfotransferase (SULT) and UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) families of enzymes account for the majority of phase II metabolism in humans and animals. …”
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Dry Needling with Fascial Winding in Nontraumatic Medial Tibial Shin Pain by Manoj Kumar Sharma, Sarika Chaudhary

“…Contraction of the deep leg flexors during running leads to stress transfer to the tibial fascial attachment, i.e. deep crural fascia at the medial tibial crest which results in fascial dysfunction resulting in shin pain and discomfort. …”
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Pour une définition de la notion de minorité linguistique : les difficultés du vague by Christian Bassac, Joan Busquets, Victor Guset, Antoine Pascaud, Alain Viaut

“…The main conceptual difficulty attached to this notion arises from the vagueness of the noun minority. …”
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