Research on Creep Characteristics and the Model of Artificial Frozen Soil by Chaochao Zhang, Dongwei Li, Changtai Luo, Zecheng Wang, Guanren Chen

“…Based on the creep test results, a fractional-order constitutive model of frozen silt with sand was proposed. …”
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An Efficient Hierarchical Video Coding Scheme Combining Visual Perception Characteristics by Pengyu Liu, Kebin Jia

“…Different visual perception characteristic saliencies are the key to constitute the low-complexity video coding framework. …”
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Experimental and numerical assessment of the location-based impact of grouting defects on the tensile performance of the fully grouted sleeve connection by Kulondwa Kahama Espoir, Xie Fuzhe, Chunhua Lu, Isaac Offei

“…The presence of grouting defects emanating from construction operations constitutes a major threat to the structural integrity of the grouted sleeve connection of precast concrete members. …”
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Métaphores temporelles et offrandes alimentaires : pratiques d’élaboration du sens rituel by Aline Hémond

“…The first one consists in displaying on the ground all of the food items which constitute the ritual deposit and the second is conformed by a ritual container made of a agave filled with food which is thrown in the abyss and has to reach the bottom without overturning. …”
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NF-κB Inhibitory Activity of the Di-Hydroxy Derivative of Piperlongumine (PL-18) by Yael Schlichter Kadosh, Subramani Muthuraman, Ariel Kushmaro, Rajendran Saravana Kumar, Jacob Gopas

“…Furthermore, PL-18 inhibited the production of proinflammatory cytokines expressed by L428, a cell line with a constitutive active NF-kB. Altogether, our results suggest that PL-18 is a molecule of interest to be further developed to treat persistent infections with severe inflammation.…”
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Emergent online discourses and the (re)framing of women’s identity by Sibongile Mpofu

“… The advent of social media communication platforms, specifically blogs as sites of political engagement, means that they now constitute the key carriers of democratic public discourse. …”
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Race and Materiality in African Religious Contexts by Federico G. Settler

“…Finally, itraisessome questions onhow local debates about religion and materiality –with respect to the embodied and things –represent not just disruptions over what constitute religion, but also about how contests over the use of everyday objects signal the emergence of indigenous ways of knowing and being in African religious contexts. …”
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Understanding Gender Expertise in the Post-Truth Era: Media Representations of Gender-Based Analysis Plus in Canada by Stephanie Paterson, Francesca Scala

“…In this paper, we explore the post-truth era as a contextual factor in how gender expertise is constituted, challenged, and defended in policy discourse in Canadian context. …”
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Protection Mechanism in Reliability Evaluation Approach to Multistate System with Common Cause Failure by Jinlei Qin, Zheng Li, Youchan Zhu

“…Under the impact of one type of CCF, those components can constitute a specific group that can overlap with certain components. …”
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Juvenile Cosmology; Or Richard Powers’ Post-Global Doughnut by Judith Roof

“…Such accrual is a multi-perspectival echoing instigated by and instigating the act of reading, where reading itself constitutes the physics of the forgotten.…”
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Gender differences in the recognition of emotional faces: are men less efficient? by Ana Ruiz-Ibáñez, José T. Boyano

“…The first group is constituted by men and the second one by women. The results showed statistically significant differences in face corrected recognition (hit rate - false alarm rate): the women demonstrated a better recognition than the men. …”
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Shortcuts in multiple dimensions: the multiaxial racetrack filter by M.A. Meggiolaro, J.T.P. Castro, H. Wu

“…Filtering techniques have been proposed for multiaxial load histories, usually aiming to filter out non-reversals, i.e. sampling points that do not constitute a reversal in any of its stress or strain components. …”
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Facial Emotion Recognition in Parkinson's Disease: An fMRI Investigation. by Albert Wabnegger, Rottraut Ille, Petra Schwingenschuh, Petra Katschnig-Winter, Mariella Kögl-Wallner, Karoline Wenzel, Anne Schienle

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>Since somatosensory cortices are involved in the simulation of an observed emotion, which constitutes an important mechanism for emotion recognition, future studies should focus on activation changes within this region during the course of disease.…”
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Seismic Behavior Analysis of Damaged Steel Fiber-Reinforced High-Strength Concrete Frame Joints Strengthened by FRP by Wang Tingyan, Zhou Yun, Zhang Junwei

“…The results showed that the 45° bonding direction of carbon fiber cloth is better than the 0° bonding direction, and the digital simulation results are in good agreement with the test results. Therefore, the constitutive model, element, end constraint, and loading method used in the finite element numerical simulation of this paper were reasonable, which can provide reference for the similar research in the future.…”
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Mocking Andromeda in Julia Constance Fletcher’s The Fantasticks (1900) by Rebecca Nesvet

“…This characterization perfectly describes the writer Julia Constance Fletcher (1853-1938). Her writing constitutes such production, consistently arguing that social custom inhibits women’s choices or makes it more difficult for them to lead fulfilling and meaningful lives. …”
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The EU Soft Power in the Global Equilibrium by A. Baykov

“…The presence of trust in international relations constitutes a prerequisite to solve any problems for foreign policy. …”
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The Expression of the North/South Conflict in Great Day in the Morning (Jacques Tourneur, 1956): Western Conventions and Southern Motifs, Subversion and Satire by Gilles Menegaldo

“…The rivalry between Ann Alaine and Boston Grant constitutes an important narrative thread in a context of war between two factions. …”
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De l’Esthétisation à l’anti-symbolisme : les évolutions du corps chez William Carlos Williams by Samantha Lemeunier

“…This paper describes this poetic undressing and analyzes the passage from a canonical body inspired from Romantic ideals to the fragile and vulnerable body that Williams depicts at the end of his career. If the 1910s constitute a period of stylistic experimentation for Williams as he draws inspiration from Whitmanian or Keatsian poems, his bodily representations emancipate from such aesthetic norms after the 1920s while the human anatomy is less associated with nature than with artificiality. …”
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Luttes pour l’environnement et droit à la ville dans la capitale du Minas Gerais (Brésil) by Pauline Bosredon, Frédéric Dumont, Valentina Bonafine , Alexandre Magno Alves Diniz

“…In this postcard-like environment, between the wealthy neighborhoods, a small slum called "Acaba mundo" developed, contrary to the social conditions of these neighborhoods, which constitutes one of the poorest areas of Belo Horizonte and that takes part of its resources from its proximity to nature. …”
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Factors Affecting the Adoption of Blockchain Technology in the Complex Industrial Systems: Data Modeling by Yu Chengyue, M. Prabhu, Mahendar Goli, Anoop Kumar Sahu

“…To fulfill the research objective, a theoretical research model is constituted by multiple hypotheses (H1–H6), i.e., perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived innovativeness, knowledge, risk, and trust after conducting the relevant literature survey in the context of BCT. …”
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