Apical transportation of nickel titianium reciprocating instruments. An in vitro study by Dario Di Nardo, Massimo Galli, Morgana Foghetti, Almira Isufi, Ivana Vidovic, Tugba Turk, Gabriele Miccoli

“…This alloy allows for easy navigation of the canal curvatures, enabling more conservative root canal preparations in a significantly reduced time. …”
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Acute Reciprocal Changes Distant from the Site of Spinal Osteotomies Affect Global Postoperative Alignment by Eric Klineberg, Frank Schwab, Christopher Ames, Richard Hostin, Shay Bess, Justin S. Smith, Munish C. Gupta, Oheneba Boachie, Robert A. Hart, Behrooz A. Akbarnia, Douglas C. Burton, Virginie Lafage

“…Radiographic analysis included pre- and postoperative regional curvatures and pelvic parameters, with paired independent t-tests to evaluate changes. …”
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Localization of Transversal Cracks in Sandwich Beams and Evaluation of Their Severity by G. R. Gillich, Z. I. Praisach, M. Abdel Wahab, O. Vasile

“…In fact, the process consists of comparing vectors representing the measured frequency shifts with patterns constructed using the mode shape curvatures of the undamaged beam. Once the damage is localized, the evaluation of its severity is made taking into account the global rigidity reduction. …”
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Flexible Microwave Tag System Based on DGS Multiple Resonators by Seok-Jae Lee, Jongsik Lim, Dal Ahn, Sang-Min Han

“…The flexibility of the thin substrate has been evaluated in terms of cognitive capability for various radiuses of curvatures. From the experimental results in an anechoic chamber, the excellent recognition of various multibits identification codes in a wireless transmission environment has been verified.…”
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Coplanar Waveguide-Fed Broadband Microwave Devices with (or without) a Thin Dielectric Substrate for Use in Flexible Electronic Systems by Rafal Lech, Wojciech Marynowski, Adam Kusiek, Jerzy Mazur

“…Two examples of microwave devices, fed by a coplanar waveguide and realized on a thin substrate (or without such a substrate), are employed to investigate the influence of devices’ curvatures and the proximity of different materials on their parameters. …”
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Investigating Supercritical Bended Flow Using Physical Model and CFD by Hamza Souli, Jihane Ahattab, Ali Agoumi

“…Our aim in this paper is to investigate the distribution of water surface in five curved channels with five relative curvatures ρ, different bottom slopes (1%, 2%, 10%, and 18%) and three different cross-sections. …”
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Thermal Aging of Asahi SB-1000 Polymer Optical Fibers: Study on the Light Transmission Loss by Laura Helena González Trueba, Varlen Grabski, Larissa Alexandrova, Carla Aguilar Lugo

“…Different samples of Asahi model SB-1000 polymer optical fibers arranged at different curvatures were aged to predict the loss of light transmission over 10 years. …”
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A System Identification-Based Damage-Detection Method for Gravity Dams by Masoud Mirtaheri, Mojtaba Salkhordeh, Masoud Mohammadgholiha

“…Finally, Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) is applied to the residual values of mode shape curvatures between intact and damaged structures to estimate the damage location. …”
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Transverse Strains in Muscle Fascicles during Voluntary Contraction: A 2D Frequency Decomposition of B-Mode Ultrasound Images by James M. Wakeling, Avleen Randhawa

“…Current methodologies allow the fascicle lengths, orientations, and curvatures to be quantified, but not the transverse expansion. …”
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The Results of Hemivertebra Resection by the Posterior Approach in Children with a Mean Follow-Up of Five Years by Ramazan Erden Erturer, Bekir Eray Kilinc, Bahadir Gokcen, Sinan Erdogan, Kursat Kara, Cagatay Ozturk

“…The ability to obtain a sufficient and balanced correction in the cases accompanied by long compensator curvatures that have a structural character in hemivertebra may require longer fusion levels.…”
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Higher-dimensional Willmore energy as holographic entanglement entropy by Giorgos Anastasiou, Ignacio J. Araya, Pablo Bueno, Javier Moreno, Rodrigo Olea, Alejandro Vilar Lopez

“…The new functional involves an integral over the doubled RT surface of a linear combination of three quartic terms in extrinsic curvatures and is free from ultraviolet divergences by construction. …”
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On the Work of Cartan and Münzner on Isoparametric Hypersurfaces by Thomas E. Cecil, Patrick J. Ryan

“…A hypersurface <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mi>M</mi><mi>n</mi></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula> in a real space form <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mrow><mi mathvariant="bold">R</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>+</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mi>S</mi><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>+</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula>, or <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mi>H</mi><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>+</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula> is isoparametric if it has constant principal curvatures. This paper is a survey of the fundamental work of Cartan and Münzner on the theory of isoparametric hypersurfaces in real space forms, in particular, spheres. …”
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Vibration-Based Damage Prediction in Composite Concrete–Steel Structures Using Finite Elements by Mario D. Cedeño-Rodríguez, Sergio J. Yanez, Erick I. Saavedra-Flores, Carlos Felipe Guzmán, Juan Carlos Pina

“…The difference between initial and damaged modal shape curvatures served as the foundation for predicting a damage index. …”
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Improvement of Propeller Hydrodynamic Prediction Model Based on Multitask ANN and Its Application in Optimization Design by Liang Li, Yihong Chen, Lu Huang, Qing Hai, Denghai Tang, Chao Wang

“…Non-physical fluctuations in the performance curves were effectively mitigated by the multitask model, yielding predicted curvatures which closely matched the experimental data. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Accuracy of Different Apex Locators: Propex IQ, Raypex 6, Root ZX, and Apex ID with CBCT and Periapical Radiograph—In Vitro Study by Okba Mahmoud, Mawada Hassan Awad Abdelmagied, Ahmad Hisham Dandashi, Bakr Nssaief Jasim, Hussam Alddin Tawfik Kayali, Saaid Al Shehadat

“…Thirty-five extracted single-rooted human mandibular first premolars with curvatures from 10° to 20° were selected according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria and cut at the cementoenamel junction to achieve a standard reference point for WL determination. …”
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Clinicopathological Characteristics and Prognosis of Upper Gastric Cancer Patients in China: A 32-Year Single-Center Retrospective Clinical Study by Yingbo Gong, Pengliang Wang, Zhi Zhu, Junyan Zhang, Jinyu Huang, Huimian Xu

“…Upper or proximal gastric cancer occurs in the upper third of the stomach between the cardia and a line connecting the greater and lesser curvatures. As it differs from other gastric cancers in pathology and prognosis, we evaluated patient and disease characteristics that might guide improved treatment and survival of upper gastric cancer. …”
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