The Impact of Reservoir Fluctuations on Reactivated Large Landslides: A Case Study by Javed Iqbal, Xinbin Tu, Wei Gao

“…Bedrock in the landslide area is composed of Suining Formation of the Jurassic age. …”
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GLI1-altered mesenchymal tumor involving the parietal pleura: case report and literature review by Yuanli Zhong, Baizhou Li, Gangping Wang, Yuqing Liu, Zhenwei Chen

“…Microscopic examination revealed that the tumor was composed of ovoid-to-round and vaguely epithelioid cells, as well as a few spindle cells, all exhibiting a uniform morphology and organized in a nested and reticular arrangement, accompanied by a rich capillary network in the stroma. …”
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Key Bearing Structure Instability Mechanism: A Case Study in Mining Under Close-Distance Coal Pillar by Jieyang Ma, Shihao Tu, Hongsheng Tu, Kaijun Miao, Hongbin Zhao, Long Tang

“…Research shows that the instability of the key bearing structure composed of the coal pillar, interlayer rock, and lower coal body is the important reason behind the roof falling. …”
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Hierarchically Structured Stimuli-Responsive Liquid Crystalline Terpolymer–Rhodamine Dye Conjugates by Samiksha Vaidya, Meenakshi Sharma, Christian Brückner, Rajeswari M. Kasi

“…The three monomers were composed of (i) rhodamine dye through one or two norbornene end groups utilizing flexible C₁₀-alkane spacers, (ii) a cholesteryl liquid crystal (LC) using C₉-alkane spacers, and (iii) PEG side chains. …”
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Foresight of urban management of Marand through the Oregan Model by Hamid Pir Alilou, Bashir Beg Babaei, Parviz Norouzi sani

“…The Oregan model is a process composed of four steps, each of which is built on the basis of a simple question: Where are we now? …”
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Predicting individuals’ behaviors during a pandemic: why we might have acted as we did during the COVID-19 pandemic by Shaikha S. Aldousari, William Ickes

“…Participants were directed via an online link to a Qualtrics survey. This survey was composed of several demographic questions and self-report personality and belief scales, followed by a set of outcome measures designed to measure specific behaviors relating to avoidant behavior, protective behavior, and impulsive buying which the participants might, or might not, have engaged in during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Simultaneous Determination of Nine Neonicotinoid Insecticides and Five Metabolites in Meat by QuEChERS Coupled with Ultra-high Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectro... by LIN Binbin, YANG Zhijin, HUANG Xuliang, LIN Xiaolian

“…The separation of the analytes was carried out on a XSelect HSS T3 (150 mm × 3.0 mm, 2.5 μm) column by gradient elution with a mobile phase composed of 0.1% formic acid and acetonitrile. The analytes were detected by multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) in the positive ion mode and quantified by the matrix-matched external standard method. …”
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Lay views in Southern France of the acceptability of refusing to provide treatment because of alleged futility by María Teresa Muñoz Sastre, Paul Clay Sorum, Etienne Mullet

“…Considering that this treatment is futile in the patient’s case, the doctor refuses to prescribe it. The vignettes were composed by systematically varying the level of four factors: likelihood of a positive effect, painfulness to the patient of the treatment, cost of the treatment, and attitude of the family. …”
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Blueprint for a high-performance biomaterial: full-length spider dragline silk genes. by Nadia A Ayoub, Jessica E Garb, Robin M Tinghitella, Matthew A Collin, Cheryl Y Hayashi

“…These genes encode the MaSp1 and MaSp2 proteins that compose the black widow's high-performance dragline silk. …”
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Point of Common Coupling Voltage Modulated Direct Power Control of Grid-Tied Photovoltaic Inverter for AC Microgrid Application by Shameem Ahmad, Hamza Mubarak, Umme Kulsum Jhuma, Tofael Ahmed, Saad Mekhilef, Hazlie Mokhlis

“…The proposed PCC voltage modulated (PVM) theory-based DPC method (PVMT-DPC) is composed of nonlinear PVM, nonlinear damping, conventional feedforward, and feedback PI controllers. …”
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Evaluating Bicycling Environments with Trajectory Data on Shared Bikes: A Case Study of Beijing by Ying Hu, Chunfu Shao, Shuling Wang, Hairui Sun, Pengfei Sun, Zhongfu Chu

“…An evaluation framework, which is composed of node-, link-, and block-level evaluation indicators, was constructed, using an evaluation model combining TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) and KNN (K-Nearest Neighbors). …”
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A New Metaheuristic-Based Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm for Software Modularization by Masoud Aghdasifam, Habib Izadkhah, Ayaz Isazadeh

“…The output of the algorithm is a tree in which each node is an artifact composed of all artifacts in its subtrees and is a candidate to be a software module (i.e., cluster). …”
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Single Step Formation of C-TiO2 Nanotubes: Influence of Applied Voltage and Their Photocatalytic Activity under Solar Illumination by Chin Wei Lai, Srimala Sreekantan

“…Self-aligned and high-uniformity carbon (C)- titania (TiO2) nanotube arrays were successfully formed via single step anodization of titanium (Ti) foil at 30 V for 1 h in a bath composed of ethylene glycol (EG), ammonium fluoride (NH4F), and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). …”
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Expressional Subpopulation of Cancers Determined by G64, a Co-regulated Module by Jae-Woong Min, Sun Shim Choi

“…Previously, we have reported G64, a co-regulated gene module composed of 64 different genes, can differentiate tumor intra- or inter-subpopulations in lung adenocarcinomas (LADCs). …”
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Effect of a compound starter cultures inoculation on bacterial profile and biogenic amine accumulation in Chinese Sichuan sausages by Hongyang Ren, Yuanpeng Deng, Xinhui Wang

“…Effects of a starter culture composed of Lactobacillus sakei, Pediococcus pentosaceus, Staphylococcus xylosus and S. carnosus at the ratios (m/m) of 1:1:1:1 on bacterial profile and biogenic amine accumulation in Chinese Sichuan sausages were demonstrated. …”
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Seismic Sequence Effects on Buried Pipelines Crossing Nonuniform Sites with Ground Settlement by Dynamic Centrifuge Test by Hongtao Zhang, Yufei Zhao, Mingxu Gao

“…The mechanical model of the pipeline by earthquake indicated that the total strain of the pipeline was composed of bending deformation by PGD and axial deformation by TGD. …”
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Motivations, activités et expériences du tourisme oléicole : Perspectives d’un panel Delphi portugais by Francisco Dias, Fernanda Oliveira

“…Le patrimoine oléicole est un élément central dans de nombreux territoires ruraux méditerranéens et constitue la base du développement d’une série d’infrastructures, d’activités et d’expériences qui composent l’oléotourisme. La tendance à une consommation plus saine et plus authentique contribue à une demande croissante pour des propositions qui valorisent de plus en plus les valeurs et les ressources du monde rural, y compris celles liées à l’oléiculture. …”
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Perfomer "La Valise" : enjeux méthodologiques by Vinicius Pereira Coelho

“… Par définition, l’album se compose d’un discours hybride, dont l’expression graphique et verbale est indissociable. …”
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Towards Sensor-Based Health Monitoring Systems for Bridge Decks: A Full-Depth Precast Deck Panels Case Study by Osama Y. Abudayyeh, Joseph Barbera, Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Hubo Cai, Eyad Almaita

“…This paper presents the design and implementation of a health monitoring system for condition assessment of full-depth precast concrete bridge deck, which was developed for the Parkview Bridge in Kalamazoo, Michigan. This system is composed of a remotely accessible on-site data acquisition system and a sensor network of vibrating wire strain gauges to monitor strain and temperature over given time increments. …”
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Design of Low-Cost Full W-Band 8th Harmonic Mixers for Frequency Extension of Spectrum Analyzer by Jian Guo, Kaiyi Zang, Zihan Zhang, Liang Zhao, Jie Xu, Zhengbin Xu

“…As for 3-port mixer, only an extra diplexer is needed to separate the IF signal and LO signal. The diplexer is composed of a planar semi-lumped lowpass and a highpass filter. …”
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