Mechanical Damage Test and Model Study of Layered Composite Rock Based on Acoustic Emission and DIC Characteristics by Xianyin Qi, Zhen Yang, Shengwei Wang, Peng Fu

“…Based on the internal damage evolution characteristics of AE and the surface damage evolution characteristics of DIC, a damage constitutive model of layered composite rocks based on the dual damage factor characterization was established, which reasonably revealed the damage evolution mechanism of internal structure development and external crack germination, extension and penetration of layered composite rocks under uniaxial compression.…”
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DELINEATION OF WOMEN IDENTITY IN THE DISNEY ANIMATED FILM ECANTO (2019) by Agustin Diana Wardaniningsih, E. Ngestirosa Endang Woro Kasih

“…The element of persuasion that includes every message will be one of children's character-building in real life, including how the film constitutes gender identity in children, which will affect the development of their lives. …”
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The prevalence of nutritional status and obesity in adolescents in Babylon Province, Iraq by Nihad Abdallah Selman, Ashraf M. A. Hussain, Nassar Abdalaema Abdalhadi Mera

“…Objectives: However, identifying the prevalence of nutritional status and obesity in adolescents in Babylon governorate and searching for the relationship with different factors constitute the main objectives of this study. Materials and Methods: This study was cross-sectional study curried on 500 high school students aged between 16 and 19 years. …”
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SD‐SHO: Security‐dominated finite state machine state assignment technique with a satisfactory level of hardware optimization by Nitish Das, Aruna Priya Panchanathan

“…A fuzzy bi‐level programming logic is introduced in the proposed approach for regulating the constituting algorithms optimally. Experiments are conducted to evaluate the FSM security and optimality using the MCNC FSM benchmarks. …”
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Study on the Deformation and Stability of Proppant Column in High-Conductivity Channel Fracturing by Ming Wang, Feng Zhang, Hanxiang Wang

“…The nonlinear constitutive model of the proppant column was established through laboratory experiments on the stability of the proppant column. …”
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Beyond Anything Realism Can Represent? Monstrous Crime in Marx’s Victorian Novel by Jayson Althofer

“…The article argues that, because actuality under the rule of Capital is structurally and monstrously criminal, Marx’s Gothic constitutes a realistic medium to represent criminal monsters and structures.…”
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In Vivo Optical Imaging of Neurogenesis: Watching New Neurons in the Intact Brain by Sebastien Couillard-Despres, Rudolf Finkl, Beate Winner, Sonja Ploetz, Dirk Wiedermann, Robert Aigner, Ulrich Bogdahn, Juergen Winkler, Mathias Hoehn, Ludwig Aigner

“…Hence, our DCX-promo-luciferase transgenic model constitutes an effective tool that answers the pressing need for rapid investigation of the impact on neurogenesis of a large number of candidate compounds waiting to be tested.…”
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Assessment of awareness about contraception among a sample of Iraqi women using hormonal contraceptives: a cross-sectional study by Fatima Mahdi Salh, Manal Khalid Abdulridha

“…Women had moderate levels of knowledge about hormonal contraceptives (46.25%), a neutral attitude level constituted the majority of women’s responses (52.5%), and a good practice level (53.75%). …”
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The Home and the World: Analysing Socio-Spatial Dynamics and Identity-Formation in Indian Picturebooks by Aditi Bhardwaj, Devjani Ray

“…Place identity constitutes a crucial component of children’s sense of self as they learn to locate themselves and others around them in relational social networks. …”
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Paleontological Heritage and its Conservation in the UNESCO European Geoparks. by Dan Grigorescu

“…Through their sheer variety of forms, beauty, and sometimes rarity, as well as by the facts of geobiological history to which they attest, fossils – these vestiges of past life – constitute the most attractive facet of ancient geodiversity. …”
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Prediction of mental strength from the satisfaction of basic needs in CABA and GBA esports players by Pablo Christian González Caino

“…Methods: For this, a sample of 426 participants (85% male) was constituted, with a mean age of 22 years (SD = 3.67), who answered the Basic Needs Satisfaction in Sport Scale (BNSSS) and the Mental Toughness Index (MTI) questionnaire, as well as a sociodemographic questionnaire. …”
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A qualitative study of support for young people who self-harm in residential care in Glasgow by Judith Piggot, Charlotte Williams, Stephen McLeod, Joanne Barton

“…These studies suggest that despite the belief that young people's needs can be better met in residential care settings, young people in residential care actually constitute a high-risk population for self harm (Robinson, Auckland, Crawford & Nevison, 1999). …”

Motion - Colonoscopic Surveillance is more Cost Effective than Colectomy in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis: Arguments Against the Motion by Anders Ekbom

“…Case series, analyses of intermediate results and extrapolations from other patient groups do not constitute reliable evidence. Available studies are susceptible to several biases: the ’healthy worker’ effect, surveillance bias and selection bias. …”
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Numerical analysis of repaired wall loss defect pipelines for optimum composite wrap thickness by M. Khaisem, S. Budhe, S. de Barros, M.D. Banea, N. R. F. Rohem

“…A nonlinear explicit FE code with constitutive models for metallic steel and composite material to failure modelling was used. …”
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Cartes et mémoire, droits et relations by Sian Sullivan

“…Second, I foreground a nexus of conceptual, constitutive and affective relationships with lands now bounded as CBNRM administrative units or ‘conservancies’ that have tended to be disrupted through both past events and as economising neoliberal governance approaches have taken hold in this context. …”
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Freedom of Expression: what lessons should we learn from US experience? by Ronaldo Porto Macedo Junior

“…Court decisions based on balancing rhetoric is becoming dominant in Brazilian Constitutional court and usually try to avoid some epistemological issues concerning objectivity and moral justification. …”
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Appraising the Effects of Social Media Information during the Electioneering Period in Nigeria by Chieme Azubuike, Nnennaya Grace Nwaubeta

“…The residents of Owerri metropolis constitute the population of this study. The multistage sampling technique was used. …”
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Effect of Earth Ground and Environment on Body-Centric Communications in the MHz Band by Katsuyuki Fujii, Yasuyuki Okumura

“…In the pictures, the electrodes of the wearable devices constitute a closed circuit with the human body and the earth ground. …”
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The Enormity of Chronic Kidney Disease in Nigeria: The Situation in a Teaching Hospital in South-East Nigeria by Ifeoma I. Ulasi, Chinwuba K. Ijoma

“…Death from renal causes constituted 22.03% of medical deaths. Conclusion. The prognosis for CKD patients in Nigeria is abysmal. …”
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Identification of a guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Arf3, the yeast orthologue of mammalian Arf6. by Alison K Gillingham, Sean Munro

“…We find that Yel1 is constitutively targeted to regions of polarised growth in yeast, where it co-localises with Arf3. …”
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