A Normalized Transfer Matrix Method for the Free Vibration of Stepped Beams: Comparison with Experimental and FE(3D) Methods by Tamer Ahmed El-Sayed, Said Hamed Farghaly

“…This set of solutions is derived to normalize the solution at the origin of the coordinates. The start, end, and intermediate boundary conditions involve concentrated masses and linear and rotational elastic supports. …”
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Introduction: Urban-Rural Differences in Historical Demography by Christa Matthys, Jan Kok, Richard Paping

“…For many migrants, their migration was not a definitive break with the place of origin, and they did not assimilate completely to the dominant behavior in their destination. …”
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Analysis of a Cementless Femoral Stem Neck Fracture Using Scanning Electron Microscopy and the Finite Element Method by Hirokazu Takai, Daisuke Nakayama, Masatoshi Murayama, Tomoki Takahashi

“…The anterolateral corner of the stem’s neck was found to be the origin point of the fracture. Finite element method analysis revealed that the stress concentration was highest in the corner of the hollow for apparatus attachment. …”
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Synthesis and photophysics of 6-dimethylaminopurine-capped Q-CdS nanoparticles—a study of its photocatalytic behavior by Anil Kumar, Shipra Mital

“…Relaxation kinetics reveals the surface to contain a large number of surface states and the emission is originated by the presence of sulfur vacancies on the particle. …”
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Prurigo Pigmentosa: A Clinicopathological Report of Three Middle Eastern Patients by N. Almaani, A. H. Al-Tarawneh, H. Msallam

“…The majority of reported cases originate from Japan with much fewer cases described worldwide without predominant ethnicity. …”
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The 2020 IDS Release of the Antwerp COR*-Database. Evaluation, Development and Transformation of a Pre-Existing Database by Sam Jenkinson, Francisco Anguita, Diogo Paiva, Hideko Matsuo, Koen Matthijs

“…This includes the systematic evaluation of the original samples, methodologies for address based reconstructing of households, and the geocoding of a historical database which took place during the current development of this new version of the database. …”
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Effect of Aggregate Roughness on Strength and Permeation Characteristics of Lightweight Aggregate Concrete by Ameer A. Hilal

“…In addition, using rough lightweight aggregate led to reduce the water absorption and cumulative volume of water absorbed by about 9% and 12%, respectively, compared to values of mix with original (smooth) LWA.…”
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Banana Fiber-Reinforced Epoxy Composites: Mechanical Properties and Fire Retardancy by Tuan Anh Nguyen, Thi Huong Nguyen

“…Currently, the growing field of technology has paved the way for using environmental friendly resources; in particular, plant origin holds ecological concern and renewable aspects. …”
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Decolonizing Literary Studies: Unveiling Postcolonial Narratives in Post-Yugoslav Academic Curricula* by Sara Vukotić, Darko Ilin

“…This research is based on the close interconnection of literature and postcolonial theory, whose origins lie within the literary representation of colonization relations. …”
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Metabolism Is a Key Regulator of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Reprogramming by James Spyrou, David K. Gardner, Alexandra J. Harvey

“…However, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) retain transcriptional memory, epigenetic memory, and metabolic memory from their somatic cells of origin and acquire aberrant characteristics distinct from either other pluripotent cells or parental cells, reflecting incomplete reprogramming. …”
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Sustainability consciousness of pre-service English teachers by Hui Li

“…Furthermore, studies have shown that knowledge and attitude correlate significantly and positively with behavior. Originality/value This research contributes to a broader debate on measuring the sustainability consciousness of pre-service English teachers. …”
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Secularisation and Church-State Relations: Towards a Typology by Adam Liwak

“…In the beginning, the author, tak-ing into account previous research, compiles various concepts of origin and the meaning of the term „secularisation”, including authors such as Berger, Casanova, Taylor and Mazurkiewicz.The second part presents different attitudes towards secularisation and secularism. …”
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Plasmacytoid Urothelial Carcinoma of the Urinary Bladder Metastatic to the Duodenum: A Case Report—Diagnostic Relevance of GATA3 Immunohistochemistry by Hermann Brustmann

“…The patient died eleven months after the primary diagnosis of his PUC of tumor cachexia losing about 50% of his original body weight, furthermore, with ascites and intraperitoneal tumor spread.…”
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Extremal jumps of circuit complexity of unitary evolutions generated by random Hamiltonians by Marcin Kotowski, Michał Oszmaniec, Michał Horodecki

“…We furthermore observe similar behaviour for quantum states originating from time evolutions generated by above ensembles and for diagonal unitaries generated from the ensemble of diagonal Gaussian Hamiltonians. …”
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High Capacity Reversible Watermarking for Audio by Histogram Shifting and Predicted Error Expansion by Fei Wang, Zhaoxin Xie, Zuo Chen

“…Being reversible, the watermarking information embedded in audio signals can be extracted while the original audio data can achieve lossless recovery. …”
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The micro(nano)plastics perspective: exploring cancer development and therapy by Xiangying Deng, Yajun Gui, Lin Zhao

“…Primary microplastics usually originate directly from industrial production, while secondary microplastics are formed by the degradation of larger plastic items. …”
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Biodegradable Polymers for Microencapsulation Systems by Joana Filipa Parente, Vânia Isabel Sousa, Juliana Filipa Marques, Marta Adriana Forte, Carlos José Tavares

“…For each polymer, this review presents its origin, relevant properties, applications, and examples found in the literature regarding its use in biodegradable microencapsulation systems.…”
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The Neurometabolic Function of the Dopamine–Aminotransferase System by Sergey A. Apryatin

“…Conclusions: This review presents an original study describing the discovery of a new regulatory mechanism for neurometabolic physiological function in humans and animals. …”
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الکتب التى صادرتها محاکم التفتیش فى اوربا 1834 – 385 میلادیة : دراسة تاریخیة ببلیومتریة by د. محمد خمیس الحباطى

“…A study aimed at dealing with books confiscated by the Inquisition inEurope, This is by drawing on the historical method, to determine the impact ofthe intellectual renaissance on the Church in Europe, In addition, the Inquisitionwas dealt with in terms of its concept, origin, composition, and Places of itsspread, As well as using the method of bibliographic research to determine thegeneral features of books confiscated by the Inquisition in Europe, In addition todefining the role of the Inquisition in controlling intellectual production, As well aslearn about lists of prohibited books, The fate of the Inquisition, The resultsindicated that the Inquisition paralyzed the scientific movement of the entirenation, Also, the books confiscated by the Inquisition amounted to 209 books for(137) authors during the period from the twelfth century until the twentieth centuryA.D. in various subjects, including: Religious writings and books that offend publicmodesty, and political writings focused on freedoms, Philosophical writings,literary and artistic writings in poetry, music, novels and plays, In addition to theproliferation of the Inquisition in various places in Europe, such as: Spain 1478,France 1329, Portugal 1547, and in Italy in the late sixteenth century CE inAquileia, Naples and Venice, Also in Andalusia, beginning in 1501 CE, when thedecree issued to burn all Islamic books was issued.…”
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Cactus Bug, Chelinidea vittiger aequoris McAtee (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coreidae) by Frank W. Mead, J. R. Herring

“…This document is EENY-208 (originally published as DPI Entomology Circular 149), one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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