MD Voldemar Sumberg and the Folk Medicine Collection of the Estonian Museum of Hygiene from the 1920s and 1930s by Ave Tupits

“…Based on the documents preserved in several museums and archives in Tartu and Tallinn (the Estonian Health Care Museum, the Estonian State Archives, the Estonian Historical Archives, the Estonian Folklore Archives and the Estonian National Museum), the article will give an overview of the views of the director of the Estonian Museum of Hygiene, Voldemar Sumberg, on the relationship between folk medicine and modern medicine; the data on folk medicine collecting campaigns with Sumberg's involvement in the 1920s; and the fate of the folk medicine records and items collected by the Museum of Hygiene during the 1920s and 1930s, according to the documentation and archival material found so far.…”
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Deformation of the Cooling Vessel's Shell by Katarina Pisačić, Mario Pintarić

“…A nonlinear finite element analysis was conducted using the Ansys software. The material behavior when it transitions into the plastic deformation region was defined, and the deformed shape resulting from the plastic deformation of the outer shell of the cooling vessel was obtained. …”
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Akustische Analyse von Vokaldehnungen im sportlichen Kontext by Marta Rogozińska

“…It is not about long vowels that are in time relation to the other segments in the lexeme, but about those that, regardless of the quantity, have an additional duration (over 0.2 seconds) in a particular communication situation. The research material consists of two sports commentaries. The first concerns Germany's victory in the quarter-finals of the 2017 IIHF World Hockey Championship; the second - the gold medal won by Gesa Krause during the women's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2018 European Athletics Championships. …”
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Luffa—an Asian Vegetable Emerging in Florida by Yucong Xie, Guodong Liu, Yuncong Li, Katie Migliaccio

“…Alternatively spelled “Loofa” or “Loofah,” the name is derived from the plant’s use as a material for sponges and dish cloths for bathing and cleaning dishes. …”
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Influence of Root Rotation on Delamination Fracture Toughness of Composites by V. Alfred Franklin, T. Christopher, B. Nageswara Rao

“…The critical load estimates of DCB specimens from GIC are found to be in good agreement with in-house and existing test results of different composite material systems.…”
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Tra Scilla e Cariddi: diventare adulti in un reparto di medicina by Eugenio Zito

“… In the article I present some anthropological reflections, with reference to ethnographic material collected on the field, the pediatric ward for the treatment of type 1 diabetes in a Neapolitan university hospital, about the transition rite of diabetic patients who had reached legal age from pediatric services to clinical units for adults. …”
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Do-It-Yourself Insect Pest Traps by Steven Arthurs, Adrian Hunsberger

“…This 12-page fact sheet describes several traps for common pests in the home, garden, and landscape that can be made using common household materials or that are readily available in stores. …”
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POTATO VARIETIES PROMISING FOR BREEDING TARGETED AT COMMERCIAL TRAITS by L. I. Kostina, O. S. Kosareva

“…Following such study, the best cultivars of potato are recommended as source material for breeding programs targeted at basic commercial traits, such as high yield, starch content, resistance to late blight (Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary) and Ro1 pathotype of golden potato cyst nematode (Globodera rostochiensis (Woll.) …”
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Remarkable Phytochemical Characteristics of Chi-Nan Agarwood Induced from New-Found Chi-Nan Germplasm of Aquilaria sinensis Compared with Ordinary Agarwood by Meng Yu, Yangyang Liu, Jian Feng, Deli Chen, Yun Yang, Peiwei Liu, Zhangxin Yu, Jianhe Wei

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Compositional Design, Microstructure, and Thermal Processing of Aluminum-Based Complex Concentrated Alloys by Spyridon Chaskis, Constantinos Tiktopoulos, Evangelos Gavalas, Marianthi Bouzouni, Fotis Tsiolis, Spyros Papaefthymiou

“…The alloys were produced using an induction furnace and pour mold casting process, while industrial-grade raw materials were utilized. Heat treatments with different soaking times were performed in order to evaluate the possibility of improving the mechanical properties of the alloys. …”
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Narrow-Gap Semiconductors and Low-Dimensional Structures for Optoelectronic Applications by Fangyu Yue, Satyabrata Jit, Weida Hu

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Improving Stem and Progenitor Cell Therapeutics by Kenichi Tamama, Kathryn McFadden, Jianjun Guan

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Chemical EOR by Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Yujun Feng, Baojun Bai

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Magnetic Chitosan Nanocomposites Derived from Industrial Solid Waste: A Promising Approach for Arsenic(III) Remediation by Le Minh Tri, Pham Thi Mai Huong, Nguyen Thi Huong

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Editorial: Inorganic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and solid state chemistry editor’s pick 2024 by Luís D. Carlos, Pellegrino Musto

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Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi (Eds). Encyclopedia of the Yoruba. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. 371pp. by Ibrahim A. Odugbemi

“…Such concentrations of the entry include persons/personalities, demographics, worldviews and cosmological values and elements, and several material and non-material aspects of the Yorùbá culture and folklore, and their corresponding affiliates. …”
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Le développement expérimental en situation de projet by Stéphane Berthier

“…Each of these projects explore different means of innovative construction, all of which use wood as their primary building material and experiment with its technical, physical and ecological qualities. …”
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Experimental and Theoretical Studies on the Structure and Photoluminescent Properties of New Mononuclear and Homodinuclear Europium(III) β-Diketonate Complexes by João P. Martins, Pablo Martín-Ramos, Pedro Chamorro-Posada, Pedro S. Pereira Silva, Jesús Martín-Gil, Salvador Hernández-Navarro, Manuela Ramos Silva

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Coseismic Deformation Responses due to Geometrical Structure and Heterogeneity of the Accretionary Wedge: Study Case 2010 Mentawai Earthquake, West Sumatra, Indonesia by Alvina K. Kuncoro, Wahyu Srigutomo, Umar Fauzi

“…We examined the impact of the accretionary wedge geometry and material properties by considering the wedge as a single different property separated from the continental plate. …”
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