Cerebrovascular illness in the province of Cienfuegos. Tendency lines. A six years study by Rubén Bembibre Taboada, Pedro Orduñez García, Bárbaro Jova Roque, Idaylí Pérez Rodríguez, Dianarelys Villafuerte Delgado, Juan E. Domínguez Suárez

“…<strong>Background:</strong> The cerebrovascular diseases constitute the third cause of death and first of handicap in Cuba. …”
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Influence of Deformation Conditions on the Critical Damage Factor of AZ31 Magnesium Alloy by Li-juan Pang, Xin Shang, Xuefeng Zhang

“…Based on experimental data, an Arrhenius constitutive model was constructed. Material performance parameters and constitutive model were inputted into the finite element program DEFORM. …”
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On tenses as speech-act-level functions by Patrick Caudal

“…It is argued that they should be endowed with a speech act event argument, and constitute an abstract type of event predicate which the viewpoint meaning of the NIMPF takes as its input. …”
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Reading the Background: The Textual and the Visual in Steve Tomasula’s The Book of Portraiture by Pawel Frelik

“…While the images (for example motifs from the sketches by Velasquez, who is the protagonist of one of the chapters, or pixelated nudes culled from Internet websites) are used throughout, they seem to constitute an underexposed background to the central verbal story of image and imaging. …”
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Static and Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Recycled Concrete under Microwave Irradiation by Dandan Shi, Qingxuan Shi, Lei Yang

“…The research content can provide guidance and basis for the study of mechanical properties and constitutive relationship of RC.…”
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Family strengthening, for all? by Silvia Eugenia Fernandez, Mariela González de Vicel

“…They challenge the prevailing mandate of hegemonic motherhood, which does not conceive of other designs for the exercise of the constitutional and conventional right to family life. …”
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John Locke, Abolitionism, and the Reactionary Enlightenment by Brian Smith

“…As a result, not only did prominent slavocrats begin to ridicule the Carolina constitution, but they also came to see Lockean natural law thinking as much more fundamentally incompatible with their worldview. …”
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The Discourse of Non-Citizens Expulsion Reinvigorated: Examination of Racial Undertones in Asians Expulsion from Uganda in 1972 by Francis Akena, Adyanga, Eton, Marus, Ayiga, Natal

“…In the critical antiracist study, forceful expulsion of citizens of another country may constitute racism. However, our position in this paper is that expulsion of non-citizens for the interest of the host country is not necessarily a racial act. …”
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Determination of Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Uncertainty of Measurement Using Replicate Analysis and a Graphical User Interface with Fieller’s Theorem by James Ian Stuart, Johan Delport, Robert Lannigan, George Zahariadis

“…BACKGROUND: Disease monitoring of viruses using real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) requires knowledge of the precision of the test to determine what constitutes a significant change. Calculation of quantitative PCR confidence limits requires bivariate statistical methods.…”
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The mechanism of the social state and the place of the pension system in it: theoretical and legal aspects by S. S. Polesov

“…The importance of the State’s guarantee of the right to pension as a component of the constitutional right to social protection is substantiated. …”
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A microstructure-based numerical approach for uniaxial fatigue life-based non-uniaxial fatigue life prediction of hypo-eutectoid steels by Jonghoon Shin, Hyunki Kim, Minwoo Kang, Chungan Lee, Seunghyun Hong, Yoon Suk Choi

“…The proposed prediction procedure involves the generation of a statistically representative synthetic microstructure, the development of slip system-based fatigue constitutive models for the primary ferrite and pearlite phases constituting the hypo-eutectoid steel, the synthetic microstructure-based finite element simulations for uniaxial, torsional, and in-phase and out-of-phase axial plus torsional fatigue loading conditions using the developed constitutive models, the extraction of the cyclic increment of the fatigue indicator parameters (ΔFIP) from fatigue-simulated microstructures for the local fatigue damage quantification, the calibration of the uniaxial fatigue life prediction model by linking simulated uniaxial ΔFIPs to the uniaxial fatigue life data, and finally the prediction of the non-uniaxial fatigue life (through simulated non-uniaxial ΔFIPs) using the uniaxial fatigue-calibrated life prediction model. …”
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Larvul Ngabal Law as A Regulation in Marine Resources Management In Kei Islands, Southeast Maluku Regency by La Ode Angga, Barzah Latupono, Ahmad Yani Renuat, Rini Atbar

“…This is also in line with the protection of indigenous communities which has been recognized in Article 18B paragraph (2) and Article 28I paragraph (3) in the Indonesian Constitution The Constitution of the Republic Indonesia in 1945 (1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia). …”
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Molecular Tools for Diagnosis of Pediatric Infectious Diseases by Nivedhana Subburaju

“…Molecular techniques constitute valuable tools to improve the diagnosis of bacterial infections in children when cultures remain negative, etiologies of which would otherwise go nondocumented. …”
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The employment of optic coherence tomography in the diagnosis of papilledema by Yaney González Yglesias, Carlos E. Mendoza Santiesteban, Lillian G. León Veitía, Yosbelkys Martín Páez

“…<strong>Background:</strong> The optic coherence tomography constitute one of the most revolucionary tool in the ophtalmic diagnosis in the latest years, and is very useful in the papilledema studies. …”
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Effect of Seismic Frequency Spectra on Surrounding Rock Damage Evolution of Large Underground Caverns by Yumin Zhang, Zeqi Zhu, Rongchao Xu, Zhiquan Huang

“…To explore the distribution and evolution of the surrounding rock of underground caverns of hydropower stations, the dynamic compression tests for granite sample were carried out and the dynamic constitutive relation suitable to computer programming was established in terms of strain-based static elastic-plastic damage constitutive relation. …”
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Dynamic Characteristic and Fatigue Accumulative Damage of a Cross Shield Tunnel Structure under Vibration Load by Qixiang Yan, Hang Chen, Wenyu Chen, Junchen Zhang, Shuqi Ma, Xi Huang

“…According to the constitutive model, the dynamic response and cumulative damage of the tunnel cross structure under various train operation years were analyzed. …”
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Dynamic Compressive and Tensile Characteristics of a New Type of Ultra-High-Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE) and Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) Fibers Reinforced Concrete by Bashir H. Osman, Xiao Sun, Zhenghong Tian, Hao Lu, Guilin Jiang

“…Based on the macrodamage factor, the traditional nonlinear viscoelastic constitutive model was simplified and improved. The four-parameter constitutive model was obtained, and the influence of these parameters on the performance of fiber concrete was analyzed. …”
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EBV-Infection in Cardiac and Non-Cardiac Gastric Adenocarcinomas is Associated with Promoter Methylation of p16, p14 and APC, but not hMLH1 by Helene Geddert, Axel zur Hausen, Helmut E. Gabbert, Mario Sarbia

“…Background: Epstein–Barr virus (EBV)-associated gastric carcinomas (GC) constitute a distinct clinicopathological entity of gastric cancer. …”
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Dipeptidyl Peptidase 4 Activity Is Related to Body Composition, Measures of Adiposity, and Insulin Resistance in Subjects with Excessive Adiposity and Different Degrees of Glucose... by Wellington S. Silva Júnior, Maria das Graças C. Souza, José Firmino Nogueira Neto, Eliete Bouskela, Luiz Guilherme Kraemer-Aguiar

“…However, studies that associate its constitutive activity with body composition, anthropometry, and insulin resistance (IR) are very scarce and included only healthy people. …”
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The fabrication of synthetic data promises: Tracing emerging arenas of expectations and boundary work by Louis Ravn

“…Second, it demonstrates that promissory organizations’ reports on synthetic data are generically performative as they circulate widely and constitute a source of authority for various stakeholders. …”
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