Speed Control Using an Integral Sliding Mode Controller for a Three-Phase Induction Motor by Samar Abdulkareem AL-Hashemi, Ayad AL-Dujaili, Ahmed R. Ajel

“… Induction motors are widely used in commercial and industrial applications due to their robustness, high efficiency, low maintenance requirements and durability among other reasons. Consequently, their speed should be controlled for better performance. …”
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Primary Clear Cell Chondrosarcoma of the Spine: A Case Report of a Rare Entity and a Review of the Literature by Nikolaos A. Paidakakos, Aristides Rovlias, Evaggelos Rokas, Spyridon Theodoropoulos, Patroklos Katafygiotis

“…We report the case of a woman with clear cell chondrosarcoma of the thoracic spine, which has been surgically excised, and review the pertinent literature (PubMed). Although it has a reasonably benign biological behavior, clear cell chondrosarcoma needs to be treated as a malignancy. …”
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Excel as an electronic method for determining thermal diffusivity from experimental data by Camila Rodrigues Carneiro, Mateus Tomaz Neves, Adamu Muhammad Alhaji, Rita de Cássia Superbi de Sousa

“… It is undoubted that, with industrial development, the thermophysical characterization of materials and substances, among other reasons, maximizes the performance of equipment and the efficiency of the most diverse unit operations. …”
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Identification of pathogenic bacteria by biosensors in water and wastewater by Sakineh Hargolzadeh, Soheila Kashanian, Maryam Nazari

“…The irresponsible use of these antibiotics is one of the most important reasons for the emergence of microbial resistance, which has become a global issue. …”
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Investigating two Possibilities in the Family Situation in Iran A Critique on the book The Decline of Patriarchy The Collapse of the Family or the Emergence of the Civil Family by Maryam Esakafi Noghani

“…The content also has conceptual and theoretical contradictions, and the author's allegations do not have reason to believe persuasive arguments and evidence. …”
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Mathematical Modeling of Properties and Structures of Crystals: From Quantum Approach to Machine Learning by Grzegorz Matyszczak, Christopher Jasiak, Gabriela Rusinkiewicz, Kinga Domian, Michał Brzozowski, Krzysztof Krawczyk

“…This is due to the fact that prepared crystalline solids of practically useful materials (inorganic or organic) may be utilized for the thorough characterization of important properties such as (among others) energy bandgap, light absorption, thermal and electric conductivity, and magnetic properties. For that reason it is important to develop mathematical descriptions (models) of properties and structures of crystals. …”
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Assessment of the Economic Structure of Brazilian Agribusiness by Vilmar Rodrigues Moreira, Ricardo Kureski, Claudimar Pereira da Veiga

“…It was possible to conclude that agribusiness forms a strong link between agriculture and livestock, industry, and services in other economic sectors. For this reason, it can be said that the development of agribusiness is highly relevant to the process of Brazilian economic development and is therefore important to the progress of economic policies.…”
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Analysis of Slope Stability and Disaster Law under Heavy Rainfall by Pengfei Guo, Yadi Yuan, Yanyan Peng, Haijiag Zhang, Yongxu Zhao

“…The physical model experiment and the numerical simulation results are in good agreement, which can provide the basis for slope reinforcement under heavy rainfall conditions and have important scientific significance and social value for the reasonable site selection of housing construction, transportation network, and disaster prevention and mitigation in coastal areas.…”
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Effect of deformation temperature on microstructure and corrosion properties of hot-compressed 347H stainless steel by Qiushuang Wang, Ruidong Li, Junchen Li

“…The changes of grain boundary density and Σ3 boundaries caused by deformation at different temperatures are the fundamental reasons for the fluctuation of corrosion properties. …”
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Critical Appraisal of Pharmaceutical Therapy in Diabetic Cardiomyopathy—Challenges and Prospectives by Elina Khattab, Michaelia Kyriakou, Elena Leonidou, Stefanos Sokratous, Angeliki Mouzarou, Michael M. Myrianthefs, Nikolaos P. E. Kadoglou

“…Diabetic cardiomyopathy (DBCM) has been increasingly recognized as the development of cardiac dysfunction, which is accompanied by heart failure (HF) symptoms in the absence of obvious reasons like ischemic heart disease, hypertension, or valvulopathies. …”
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Brain injury biomarkers and applications in neurological diseases by Han Zhang, Jing Wang, Yang Qu, Yi Yang, Zhen-Ni Guo, Yanjie Yin

“…We aimed to summarize the applications of these biomarkers and their related interests and limits in the diagnosis and prognosis for neurological diseases, including traumatic brain injury, status epilepticus, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and infection. In addition, a reasonable outlook for brain injury biomarkers as ideal detection tools for neurological diseases is presented.…”
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Preeclampsia in 2018: Revisiting Concepts, Physiopathology, and Prediction by J. Mayrink, M. L. Costa, J. G. Cecatti

“…Although its prevalence is still underestimated in some places due to underreporting, preeclampsia is a disease that health professionals need to know how to deal with and take action. For this reason, the studies about the theme remain along with the advances in their understanding that often implies improvement and change of concepts and conducts. …”
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Application of Compound Control Method Based on WOA in Micropositioning Stage of SICM by Huiting Wen, Xiaolong Lu, Shiping Zhao, Xiaoyu Liu, Yang Yang, Song Leng

“…Most piezoelectric ceramic micromotion platforms are used for that, and hysteresis characteristics are the main reason for the nonlinear characteristics of piezoelectric ceramics and the influence on the control accuracy. …”
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Structural Behavior of Reinforced Self-Compacted Engineered Cementitious Composite Beams by Bashar S. Mohammed, M. F. Nuruddin, Muhammad Aswin, Nursyuhada Mahamood, Hashem Al-Mattarneh

“…Nevertheless, contrary to VecTor2, models of EC2 and RILEM are not suitable for predicting reasonable ultimate moments for the beams, while results using VecTor2 model have successfully predicted the failure modes and load-deflection curves for all R-SC-ECC beams. …”
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Nanoparticle-bands enabled strength-ductility synergy in wrought Al-Cu alloys by Yunfeng Hu, Mojia Li, Jiaheng Li, Yingbo Zhang, Dongdi Yin, Ying Zeng, Hui Chen

“…The combined effects of dual nanoparticle (i.e. broken nanoparticles and precipitated nanoparticles) strengthening and grain boundary strengthening are identified as the direct reasons for the enhanced strength. The uniformly alternated coarse and fine grain regions in the bimodal grain structure can coordinate deformation, and the dispersed spherical phase can weaken stress concentration, which are important factors for high plasticity. …”
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Concentration of Cd, Pb, Hg, and Se in Different Parts of Human Breast Cancer Tissues by Mehrnoosh Mohammadi, Alireza Riyahi Bakhtiari, Saber Khodabandeh

“…Thus, we could conclude that a high level of these heavy metals is accumulated in Iranian cancerous breasts and their presence can be one of the reasons of cancer appearance.…”
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Analyzing Bid and Indicative Prices in Historic Building Reconstructions in the Czech Republic by Hromada Eduard, Brozova Lucie, Heralova Renata Schneiderova, Macek Daniel, Vitasek Stanislav, Strelcova Iveta

“…The analysis compared tender prices with standardised indicative prices to identify significant discrepancies and the reasons for them. The proposed methodology integrated market-based price analysis and traditional pricing tools, providing a robust framework for accurate cost estimation. …”
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Design Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Novel N-Nitro Acid Amide Derivatives as Lead Compounds of Herbicide by Xiaojuan Qi, Wenjie Tang, Shan Gao, Min Gao, Changshui Chen, Qingye Zhang

“…Meanwhile, the possible reasons for the lower activity of compounds were analyzed by molecular docking prediction.…”
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An Improved Multicell MMSE Channel Estimation in a Massive MIMO System by Ke Li, Xiaoqin Song, M. Omair Ahmad, M. N. S. Swamy

“…Highly interfering users in neighboring cells are identified based on the estimation of large-scale fading and then included in the joint channel processing; this achieves a compromise between the effectiveness and efficiency of the channel estimation at a reasonable computational cost, and leads to an improvement in the overall system performance. …”
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Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Does Not Improve the Sequence Effect in Freezing of Gait by Jinghong Ma, Linlin Gao, Taomian Mi, Junyan Sun, Piu Chan, Tao Wu

“…The sequence effect (SE) is a reason contributing to freezing of gait (FOG) in Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients. …”
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