Energy Dissipation and Damage Evolution Characteristics of Shale under Triaxial Cyclic Loading and Unloading by Ziyun Li, Song Xie, Qianghui Song, Peiyong Wang, Dongyan Liu, Baoyun Zhao, Wei Huang

“…The energy dissipation ratio-strain curve presents a spoon-shaped evolution feature, and can be divided into three stages: a linear decline stage, a steady development stage, and a rapid increase stage, respectively. …”
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Can invasive interventions be avoided with a holistic swallowing therapy program in older patients in intensive care units: percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tubes or oral intake... by Çağla Eliküçük, Fatma Esen Aydinli, Nazan Has Selmi, Cansu Uzunoğlu, Murathan Köksal, Volkan Öter, Belgin Akan, Erdal Birol Bostanci, Güldeniz Argun

“…Before therapy, all patients exhibited high rates of oropharyngeal residue with thin liquids and spoon-thick pudding viscosities (MNA ≤ 17). The results reported in the present study show that malnutrition risk is linked to a poorer QoL in older patients on admission to ICUs. …”
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Assessment of the Availability and Accuracy of Dosing Devices Packaged with Oral Liquid Medications in the Ho Municipality of Ghana by Yussif Saaka, David M. Nyamadi, Hilda Amekyeh, Adelaide Mensah

“…Conclusion. Dosing cups and spoons are associated with significant inaccuracy. …”
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Evaluating food contact surface and its influence on restaurant health ratings by Saeid Fallahizadeh, Majid Majlesi, Mohammad Reza Ghalehgolab, Mohammad Hassan Sadeghi, Mohammad Reza Zarei, Alireza R. Raygan Shirazi

“…The surfaces evaluated in this research included workers’ hands, tools and equipment, worktops, chopping boards, meat grinders, spoons and forks, plates, and kebab skewers. Each sample was collected using a swab on a designated 10 cm × 10 cm square area of the surface. …”
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Nourrir les morts – les poteries associées aux défunts dans le cimetière néolithique KDK23 (ve millénaire av. J.-C., Soudan) by Philippe Chambon, Pascal Sellier, Aline Emery-Barbier, Olivier Langlois

“…Taken from the household, they are mainly containers; the inclusion of additional items such as spoons, small bowls or feeding bottles, inside pots associated with infants indicates that they indeed contained food for the dead; supplies for the last journey.…”
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Une cachette d’objets de valeur des années 260 apr. J.-C. dans une villa de la cité des Nerviens (Merbes-le-Château, Belgique) by Nicolas Paridaens, Nicolas Authom, Sébastien Clerbois, Marie-Paule Delplancke, Johan van Heesch

“…It consists of two copper-allied caldrons and of a small casket containing two silver spoons, a purse with 122 silver antoniniani, a glass flask and four worn sestertii deposited on a plaque dedicated to the Danubian Riders. …”
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Un service de table en bronze et argent soigneusement rangé dans une cave à Reims/Durocortorum by Michaël Brunet, Fabienne Médard, Magalie Cavé, Stéphane Sindonino

“…With the exception of the four solid silver spoons, the rest are bronze dishes, either completely or partially coated with silver leaf, sometimes only the upper portion of the vessel. …”
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