A Study on the Effects of Plastic Waste Strips and Lime on Strength Characteristics of Expansive Soil by Shelema Amena, Dekebi Chakeri

“…Finally, significant improvements in CBR, unconfined compressive strength, and free swell are observed at 5% lime and 0.75% plastic waste strips. …”
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Optimal control of a Tuberculosis model with state and control delays by Cristiana J. Silva, Helmut Maurer, Delfim F. M. Torres

“…The stability of the disease free and endemic equilibriums is investigated for any time delay. …”
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Response of a Two-Degree-of-Freedom Vibration System with Rough Contact Interfaces by Zhiqiang Huang, Xun Peng, Gang Li, Lei Hao

“…By analyzing the undamped free vibration, it was found that the variation of the second-order natural frequency with amplitude increases with rougher contact interfaces; however, the amplitude has little influence on the first-order natural frequency of the system. …”
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Feminist spiritualities, gender equality and sustainable development: The possibilities of a countermovement by N. Swanepoel, T. van Wyk

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Analysis of Turberculosis-COVID-19 Coinfection Using Fractional Derivatives by Samuel Okyere, Joseph Ackora-Prah, Saleem Abdullah, Samuel Akwasi Adarkwa, Frank Kofi Owusu, Kwame Bonsu, Mary Osei Fokuo, Mary Ann Yeboah

“…We also looked into the model’s disease-free equilibrium point’s regional stability. Numerical scheme for simulating the fractional-order system with Mittag–Leffler Kernels are presented. …”
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Multiple, Pan-Enteric Perforation Secondary to Intestinal Tuberculosis by Irfan Masood, Zain Majid, Ali Rafiq, Waqas Rind, Aisha Zia, Sajjad Raza

“…Free perforation is one of the most feared complications of the intestinal tuberculosis. …”
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Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors of the Head and Neck: A Case Series and Literature Review by Brandon T. Mullins, Trevor Hackman

“…No patients recurred during the series. Recurrence-free survival time for the patients was 45, 37, and 3 months, respectively. …”
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MELANOMAS, SARCOMAS, AND RENAL METASTASES IN THE LIVER: HOW TO TREAT? by Angelica Maria LUCCHESE, Antonio Nocchi KALIL, Alessandro L. DINIZ, Karl J. OLDHAFER, Timothy M. PAWLIK, René ADAM, Olivier SOUBRANE, Maria Ignez BRAGHIROLI, Ricardo Lemos COTTA-PEREIRA

“…Recently, a high number of oncological therapies including monotherapy or in combination, neoadjuvants or adjuvants, and immuno-oncological treatments have been developed and tested, increasing disease-free time and survival.…”
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Finite Element and Multibody Dynamics Analysis of a Ball Mill Glass Crusher by Jihad Rishmany, Rodrigue Imad

“…This was achieved via different types of simulations using SolidWorks: static stress analysis, free vibration analysis, and motion study. Finally, a market study shows that a breakeven period is reached after a period of 5 months.…”
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Synthesis and Characterization of Graphene Oxide-Modified Bi2WO6 and Its Use as Photocatalyst by Xiaoyue Hu, Xiangchao Meng, Zisheng Zhang

“…A Bi2WO6 photocatalyst modified with graphene was synthesized in a two-step template-free hydrothermal process. The prepared samples were characterized to explore their properties. …”
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Hole Transfer and the Resulting DNA Damage by Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu, Andrea Peluso

“…We will discuss the oxidation free energies of the four nucleobases and the electron detachment from DNA, influenced by specific interactions like hydrogen bonding and stacking interactions with neighboring sites in the double strand. …”
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On the Characterization of Hankel and Toeplitz Operators Describing Switched Linear Dynamic Systems with Point Delays by M. De la Sen

“…It is proved that if the system is causal and uniformly controllable and observable, then it is globally asymptotically Lyapunov stable independent of the delays, that is, for any possibly values of such delays, provided that a minimum residence time in-between consecutive switches is kept or if all the set of matrices describing the auxiliary unforced delay—free system parameterizations commute pairwise.…”
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Environmental Aspects of Domestic Cat Care and Management: Implications for Cat Welfare by Judith L. Stella, Candace C. Croney

“…Domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus) are the most commonly kept companion animals in the US with large populations of owned (86 million), free-roaming (70 million), research (13,000), and shelter (2-3 million) cats. …”
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Gemeentebou in Suid-Afrikaans-Nederlandse perspektief: Praktiese teologie, diakoniologie of ekklesiologie? by L M Erasmus

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Histological Features and Biocompatibility of Bone and Soft Tissue Substitutes in the Atrophic Alveolar Ridge Reconstruction by Carlo Maiorana, Mario Beretta, Davide Rancitelli, Giovanni Battista Grossi, Marco Cicciù, Alan Scott Herford

“…In the past, tissue regeneration has been performed with autogenous bone and free gingival or connective tissue grafts. Nowadays, bone substitutes and specific collagen matrix allow for a complete restoration of the atrophic ridge without invasive harvesting procedures. …”
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What is a compound? The main criteria for compoundhood by Altakhaineh Abdel Rahman Mitib

“…Other criteria have been found to be partially applicable, e.g. free pluralisation of the non-head, compositionality, stress, possibilities for modification and coordination, ellipsis, orthography and the replacement of the second element by a pro-form. …”
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Evolutionary Game Mechanism on Complex Networks of Green Agricultural Production under Intensive Management Pattern by Jianguo Du, Zhuoyun Zhou, Lingyan Xu

“…Based on the theory of evolutionary game and complex networks, we construct evolutionary game models on the scale-free networks to simulate the evolution process of green agricultural production under the market mechanism and the government guidance mechanism, respectively. …”
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Increase of the Photocatalytic Activity of TiO𝟐 by Carbon and Iron Modifications by Beata Tryba

“…Iron adsorbed on the surface of TiO2 can be an electron or hole scavenger and results in the improvement of the separation of free carriers. The presence of carbon can increase the concentration of organic pollutants on the surface of TiO2 facilitating the contact of the reactive species with the organic molecules. …”
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l0 Sparsity for Image Denoising with Local and Global Priors by Xiaoni Gao, Mei Yu, Jianrong Wang, Jianguo Wei

“…To achieve this goal, we combine the local prior and global prior together to recover the noise-free values of pixels. The local prior depends on the neighborhood relationships of a search window to help maintain edges and smoothness. …”
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Protocol for automated tracking and quantification of adult zebrafish anxiety behavior using ZebraTrack by Atanu Pramanik, Shubham Nema, Yogesh Bhargava, Anamika Bhargava

“…Here, we present a protocol using ZebraTrack, an open-source ImageJ-based approach for distraction-free swimming video acquisition and automated tracking of adult zebrafish. …”
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