Seismic Behavior Experimental Study on the Joint of Circular Tubed Steel-Reinforced Concrete Columns by Yan Dai, Shaofeng Nie, Tianhua Zhou, Chengfeng Xue, Jingrong Peng

“…The results show that the new joint has reasonable failure characteristics, high bearing capacity, good ductility, excellent seismic energy dissipation performance, and strong resistance to strength and stiffness degradation, which meets the seismic design principle of “strong joint and weak component” and is suitable for the results with special requirements for seismic performance. …”
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Research Progress on Nutritional Characteristics, Taste Quality Improvement and Functional Evaluation of Germinated Brown Rice by REN Chuanying, HONG Bin, ZHANG Shan, YUAN Di, FENG Junran, SHAN Shan, ZHANG Jingyi, GUAN Lijun, LI Bo, HUANG Wengong, LU Shuwen

“…Therefore, compared with white rice, GBR has poorer cooking and eating quality, and they cannot be cooked at the same time. For this reason, GBR is not widely accepted by consumers. This article reviews the physiological metabolic reactions of GBR and the changes in nutritional components, bioactive substances, and taste quality during germination. …”
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Dynamic Tracking of Lung Deformation during Breathing by Using Particle Method by Subas Chhatkuli, Seiichi Koshizuka, Mitsuru Uesaka

“…Comparing with the experimental data, the lung surface displacement during inspiration process was predicted reasonably well. Comparison of numerical prediction with experimental observations showed that the root mean squared error was about 2 mm at lower lobe and less than 1 mm at upper lobe at lung surface.…”
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Modelling and Simulation of Distributed UAV Swarm Cooperative Planning and Perception by Haifeng Ling, Hongchuan Luo, Haisong Chen, Linyuan Bai, Tao Zhu, Yanjun Wang

“…However, the existing simulation platforms cannot satisfy this demand due to a few reasons. First, they are designed for a specific purpose, and their functionalities are difficult to extend. …”
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Etiologies and Outcomes of Acute Liver Failure in a Spanish Community by Emilio Fábrega, Miguel Ángel Mieses, Alvaro Terán, Irene Moraleja, Fernando Casafont, Javier Crespo, Fernando Pons-Romero

“…In the last decade, there is no information about ALF in our country. For these reasons we analyze retrospectively, in a ten-year period (2000 to 2010), the presumed causes, clinical characteristics, course, and outcome of ALF in a Spanish community. …”
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A Case of Carbon Monoxide-Induced Delayed Neurological Sequelae Successfully Treated with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, N-Acetylcysteine, and Glucocorticoids: Clinical and Neuroimagin... by Vincenzo Spina, Francesco Tomaiuolo, Lorenzo Celli, Luca Bonfiglio, Luca Cecchetti, Maria Chiara Carboncini

“…Concurrent use of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory drugs may prevent the side effects of oxygen therapy at supraphysiological pressure due to oxidative stress. For this reason, the patient was also treated with high-dose N-Acetylcysteine and glucocorticoids. …”
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Thermodynamics and solar radiative analysis in Jeffery-Hamel flow through non-parallel channel by novel improved residual power series method by Mohamed Bouzidi, Mohsin Ul Haq, Ikram Ullah, Saira Shukat, Hijaz Ahmad, Mohammad Mahtab Alam, Hamid Khan, Marouan Kouki

“…Validation of current method is made with other techniques and shows a reasonable correspondence. Velocity and temperature are graphically visualized for different relevant parameters. …”
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Master S-N curve method to fatigue damage assessment of the high-ply cutter body by Wenfei Liu, Bo Chen, Chao Zhou, Wei Li, Hengji Yu

“…Meanwhile, the fatigue damage of the three measuring points calculated by the three methods is all below 0.5, and it indicates that the design of the cutter body is reasonable. In addition, the master S-N curve method and equivalent structural stress method were first applied to the fatigue damage assessment of high-ply cutter body, which provides an efficient and high-precision approach for the anti-fatigue design of cutter body.…”
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Numerical Simulation of Impingement Heat Transfer for a Laminar Premixed Bunsen Flame by Darya A. Slastnaya, Roman V. Tolstoguzov, Leonid M. Chikishev, Vladimir M. Dulin

“…All three tested chemical kinetic mechanisms (GRI-Mech 3.0, SanDiego, RMech1) provide reasonable predictions of the observed phenomenon, which explain previous experimental observations on the reduced heat transfer at the central axis of impinging flames. …”
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Initial bystander response to a simulated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by Fran Wyffels, Geert Brône, Nathalie Charlier, Peter Iserbyt, Stijn De Beugher, Tessy Boedt, Toon Goedemé

“…The second outcome was the participants’ reflection on their response to the simulated emergency. The main reasons for delayed helping behavior were a lack of cardiac arrest recognition, misinterpretation of the emergency, bystander effect, and distraction by the deceptive task. …”
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Three-Dimensionally Printed Mini Air Scrubbing Cartridges Based on Nano-Graphite for Air Pollution Monitoring by Emiliano Zampetti, Mattia Ammiraglia, Marco Conti, Cassandra Montiroli, Paolo Papa, Daniele Bianconi, Antonella Macagnano

“…Ecosystems and environments are impacted by atmospheric pollution, which has significant effects on human health and climate. For these reasons, devices for developing portable and low-cost monitoring systems are required to assess human exposure during daily life. …”
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Illustration with the Emotion of Grief and Regret in Poems of Siavash Kasraei by mohammadamin ehsani estahbanati, Manijeh Abdollahi

“…The results of this research show that the emotion of regret and grief in the chess poetic manifestation is significant and can be considered as the reasons for the survival of his poem, kasraei’s regret can be divided into two categories of personal grief and social regret in the decoration of the word and its aesthetic elements, including poetry, ava, weight, vocabulary and division.…”
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Novel Use of Household Items in Open and Robotic Surgical Skills Resident Education by Keri Rowley, Deepak Pruthi, Osamah Al-Bayati, Joseph Basler, Michael A. Liss

“…Low-fidelity training models can be used to improve surgical skills at a reasonable cost. The models will require further evaluation to determine construct validity and to determine how the improvements translate to OR performance. …”
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Thromboembolic Events Secondary to Endoscopic Cyanoacrylate Injection: Can We Foresee Any Red Flags? by Yujen Tseng, Lili Ma, Tiancheng Luo, Xiaoqing Zeng, Yichao Wei, Ling Li, Pengju Xu, Shiyao Chen

“…This study aims to explore the reason behind related adverse events and better prevent its occurrence. …”
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The Influence of the Instantaneous Collapse of Tailings Pond on Downstream Facilities by Sha Wang, Guodong Mei, Xuyang Xie, Lijie Guo

“…To evaluate the evolutionary processes guiding the formation of the tailings-water mixtures produced by the instantaneous collapse of tailings ponds and the influence of these on downstream facilities, a 2D simulation model with reasonable boundary and working conditions derived from actual engineering practice was built in this study, and the relationship between dam-break elevation and impact on downstream facilities was also analyzed to determine the relevant mechanism of influence. …”
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Assessment of RELAP/SCDAPSIM/MOD3.4 Prediction Capability with Severe Fuel Damage Scoping Test by Noppawan Rattanadecho, Somboon Rassame, Kampanart Silva, Chris Allison, Judith Hohorst

“…The calculated cladding temperatures and hydrogen production results from the RELAP/SCDAPSIM/MOD3.4 code are in a good agreement with the experimental data and are generally more reasonable than the calculated results from the SCDAP/RELAP5/MOD3.2 and SCDAP/RELAP5/MOD3.3 codes. …”
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Early detection of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD) in preterm infants using doppler ultrasound technology by Pin Wang, Lihong Duan, Congxin Sun, Yu Chen, Yanyan Peng, Guihong Chen, Lixia Wu, Yan Li

“…With an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.76, PAAT in particular demonstrated a reasonable capacity for prediction. A considerably greater cumulative incidence was found by Kaplan-Meier survival analysis. …”
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Modeling some properties of circadian rhythms by Miguel Lara-Aparicio, Carolina Barriga-Montoya, Pablo Padilla-Longoria, Beatriz Fuentes-Pardo

“…Indeed, from anevolutionary perspective, it seems reasonable to assume that either theyhave a common origin or that they emerge from similar selectioncircumstances. …”
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Analysis of regional differences, spatial-temporal characteristics, and influencing factors of the coupling and coordination development of science and technology innovation betwee... by Xiao Liu, Qingjin Wang, Hao Gao, Qian Cui, Qian Cui

“…Various research methods were employed to quantify the spatiotemporal characteristics and elucidate the patterns of evolution, with the grey relational analysis model being utilized to examine the mutual influence at the micro-index level.Results and discussionThe study found a significant transformation in the collaboration between universities and enterprises in China, shifting from extreme incoherence to highly coordinated cooperation. Secondly, the reason for the differences is the uneven development in the four regions. …”
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Factors Determining Parental Attitudes Towards Termination of Pregnancy in Prenatally Detected Down Syndrome by Ömer Talip Turhan, Mehmet Serdar Kütük, Ruksan Büyükoğlan, Mehmet Dolanbay, Mahmut Tuncay Özgün, Özlem Turhan, Mürşide Şahin

“…Our findings indicate that if parents have reasonable understanding of raising a child, they are most likely to terminate their pregnancy in the case of Down syndrome. …”
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