Clinical Outcomes of Colonic Stent in a Tertiary Care Center by Mahesh Gajendran, Chandraprakash Umapathy, John Nasr, Andres Gelrud

“…Colonic obstruction is one of the manifestations of colon cancer for which self-expanding metal stents (SEMS) have been effectively used, to restore the luminal patency either for palliative care or as a bridge to resective surgery. …”
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Assessment of Functionals for First-Principle Studies of the Structural and Electronic Properties of δ-Bi2O3 by D. H. Galván, R. Núñez-González, R. Rangel, P. Alemany, A. Posada-Amarillas

“…For this modification the three functionals reveal the characteristics of a metal and the existence of minigaps at high symmetry points of the band structure when spin-orbit coupling is taken into account. …”
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Hybrid Hamiltonian Simulation Approach for the Analysis of Quantum Error Correction Protocol Robustness by Benjamin Gys, Lander Burgelman, Kristiaan De Greve, Georges Gielen, Francky Catthoor

“…The development of future full-scale quantum computers (QCs) not only comprises the design of good quality qubits, but also entails the design of classical complementary metal–oxide semiconductor (CMOS) control circuitry and optimized operation protocols. …”
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Properties and application of carbon composite brick for blast furnace hearth by Jiao K.X., Zhang J.L., Liu Z.J., Zhao Y.G., Hou X.M.

“…The high temperature properties of thermal conductivity, oxidization and corrosion by molten slag and hot metal of the composite were analyzed. Based on these, the type of carbon composite brick worked in a blast furnace hearth for six years was further sampled at different positions. …”
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The quasi-continuous exhaust regime in JET by M. Faitsch, M. Dunne, E. Lerche, P. Lomas, I. Balboa, P. Bilkova, P. Bohm, A. Kappatou, D. Kos, B. Labit, S. Menmuir, O. Sauter, S. Silburn, E.R. Solano, H.J. Sun, A. Tookey, E. Viezzer, U. Stroth, JET Contributors, the EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation Team

“…This contribution reports that for the first time the QCE regime was successfully achieved in JET with a metal wall. Moreover, it was demonstrated in the recent JET deuterium-tritium campaign DTE3 that the regime is compatible with D–T operation. …”
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Reduction in thermal conductivity of monolayer MoS2 by large mechanical strains for efficient thermal management by Jun Liu, Mengqi Fang, Eui-Hyeok Yang, Xian Zhang

“…Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) have received extensive research interests and investigations in the past decade. …”
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Severe Bioprosthetic Mitral Valve Stenosis and Heart Failure in a Young Woman with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Siddharth Wartak, Isaac Akkad, Adnan Sadiq, Gregory Crooke, Manfred Moskovits, Robert Frankel, Gerald Hollander, Jacob Shani

“…Based on this finding, she underwent a metallic mitral valve and tricuspid valve replacement. …”
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Investigation on Inorganic Salts K2TiF6 and KBF4 to Develop Nanoparticles Based TiB2 Reinforcement Aluminium Composites by Vinayagam Mohanavel, K. Ravi Kumar, T. Sathish, Palanivel Velmurugan, Alagar Karthick, M. Ravichandran, Saleh Alfarraj, Hesham S. Almoallim, Shanmugam Sureshkumar, J. Isaac JoshuaRamesh Lalvani

“…The exothermic reaction between inorganic powders like dipotassium hexafluorotitanate (K2TiF6) and potassium tetrafluoroborate (KBF4) in molten Al metal contributes to the development of titanium diboride content. …”
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The use of phase voltage modules to select the damaged phase in case of single-phase earth faults by V. A. Shabanov, A. V. Sorokin

“…Describe algorithms in which the voter will act selectively both with metal damages and with damages through fault resistance.…”
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Investigation of antioxidant, antidiabetic, and antiglycation properties of Sonchus oleraceus and Lobularia maritima (L.) Desv. extracts from Taza, Morocco by Abdelmounaim Laabar, Imad Kabach, Sara El Asri, Amr Kchikich, Soufiane Drioua, Ayoub El Hamri, Moulay El Abbes Faouzi

“…Antioxidant activity was evaluated through DPPH, FRAP, ABTS, and metal-chelating assays, while flavonoid and polyphenol content was quantified spectrophotometrically.Antidiabetic potential was assessed via inhibition of α-glucosidase and α-amylase, and antiglycation activity was analyzed by measuring protein thiol preservation and fructosamine levels. …”
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Optimization of Coating Process Parameters by Analysis of Target Powder Thickness and Regression Modeling by Tomislav Šolić, Dejan Marić, Ivan Peko, Ivan Samardžić

“…The development of corrosion mechanisms is a major issue that industrial experts are faced with while dealing with all phases of metal exploitation. Damage caused by corrosion affects the increase in both direct and indirect costs of manufacture. …”
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Mechanical properties and deformation mechanisms of the C14 Laves and µ-phase in the ternary Ta-Fe(-Al) system by C. Gasper, E.M. Soysal, N. Ulumuddin, T. Stollenwerk, T. Reclik, P.L. Sun, S. Korte-Kerzel

“…As structural and functional materials, topologically close-packed (TCP) phases of transition metal compounds offer a wide range of attractive properties. …”
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A Power-Efficient Soft-Output Detector for Spatial-Multiplexing MIMO Communications by Hsiao-Chi Wang, Tung-Lin Liu, Yuan-Wei Wu, Hsi-Pin Ma

“…The proposed detector, using TSMC 0.18 μm single-poly six-metal CMOS process with a core area of 1.17×1.17 mm2, provides fixed throughput of 45 Mbps in 64-QAM configuration, 120 Mbps in 16-QAM configuration, and 60 Mbps in QPSK configuration. …”
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Spindle-shaped efficient adsorbent NiCo2O4/MIL-53(Fe) for the removal of Congo red: Design, synthesis and performance studies by Bai Sun, Taoyou Zhou, Angang Hu, Yuxian Guo, Yun Wang, Lining Bao, Hao Huang, Mingjian Yi, Shuguang Zhu, Lingtao Kong

“…It provides an extensive research on the adsorption mechanism of CR, emphasizing the importance of electrostatic interactions, hydrogen bonding, metal coordination and ion exchange processes. In summary, NiCo2O4/MIL-53 (Fe) adsorbent has potential application prospects.…”
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Electrochemical insights into the direct dissolution of impure sphalerites and their partial oxidation in an acidic environment by Gholamreza Khodadadmahmoudi, Saeid Karimi, Hadi Abdollahi, Milad Karimi, Ali Rezaei, Lana Alagha

“…Analyses using XRD, SEM, Raman spectroscopy, and electrochemical techniques suggested presence of elemental sulfur and a metal-deficient layer on the surface of the POS samples. …”
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Fracture of the Femoral Component Caused by Insufficient Crimping after Modern Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty by Yoichi Ishibashi, Tasuku Mashiba, Masaki Mori, Tetsuji Yamamoto

“…Although this is not the first case on this subject, no study has reported insufficient crimping as the cause of femoral component loosening that led to breakage of a metallic component. A 69-year-old man underwent medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty for right medial knee osteoarthritis. …”
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Effect of Mean Stress on the Fatigue Life Prediction of Notched Fiber-Reinforced 2060 Al-Li Alloy Laminates under Spectrum Loading by Weiying Meng, Liyang Xie, Yu Zhang, Yawen Wang, Xiaofang Sun, Shijian Zhang

“…The results show that the simple Goodman model and piecewise linear model have certain advantages compared to other complex models for the life prediction of notched fiber metal laminates with different structures under Mini-Twist loading. …”
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Large-scale database analysis of anomalous thermal conductivity of quasicrystals and its application to thermal diodes by Takashi Kurono, Jinjia Zhang, Yasushi Kamimura, Keiichi Edagawa

“…In fact, several quasicrystals ranked nearly first among more than 10,000 samples of various materials (metallic alloys, semiconductors, ceramics, etc.) in terms of the magnitude of the positive temperature coefficient of thermal conductivity. …”
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Vertical Profiles and Chemical Properties of Aerosol Particles upon Ny-Ålesund (Svalbard Islands) by B. Moroni, S. Becagli, E. Bolzacchini, M. Busetto, D. Cappelletti, S. Crocchianti, L. Ferrero, D. Frosini, C. Lanconelli, A. Lupi, M. Maturilli, M. Mazzola, M. G. Perrone, G. Sangiorgi, R. Traversi, R. Udisti, A. Viola, V. Vitale

“…Differences in the particle size and shape are put into relationship with the mechanism of particle formation, that is, primary (well sorted, small) or secondary (idiomorphic, fine to coarse grained) origin for chloride and sulfate crystals and transport/settling for soil (silicate, carbonate and metal oxide) particles. The influence of size, shape, and mixing state of particles on ice nucleation and radiative properties is also discussed.…”
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Chemical Separation on Silver Nanorods Surface Monitored by TOF-SIMS by Ondrej Petruš, Andrej Oriňak, Renáta Oriňaková, Christian Muhmann, Ján Macko, Radim Hrdý, Jaromír Hubálek, Branislav Erdelyi, Heinrich F. Arlinghaus

“…The article introduces a possible chemical separation of a mixture of two compounds on the metal nanorods surface. A silver nanorods surface has been prepared by controlled electrochemical deposition in anodic alumina oxide (AAO) template. …”
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