Epidemic dropsy: A mimic of scleroderma? by Anupam Wakhlu, Rasmi Ranjan Sahoo

“…Cutaneous manifestations include erythematous and tender bilaterally symmetrical pitting edema usually involving lower limbs, skin thickening and tethering, pigmentation, and presence of telangiectasias. …”
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Seismic Strength and Stiffness for Recycled Aggregate Concrete-Filled Steel Tube Frame by Xianggang Zhang, Jianhui Yang, Yaozong Zhang, Xiang Gao

“…The hysteresis curves are symmetric and the strength attenuation and rigidity degeneration change significantly, then change a little, and then significantly again under the same displacement. …”
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Role of Formal Artistic Education in the Relationship between Golden Proportion and Perceived Beauty of Artistic Stimuli by A. Félix Vico-Prieto, Ángel Cagigas, Juan M. Rosas, José E. Callejas-Aguilera

“…When the comparison was conducted between golden ratio and symmetrical stimuli (1/2 proportion stimuli) in Experiment 2, Fine Arts students clearly chose the golden ratio stimuli as the most beautiful one, while no differences were found in university students without formal art education. …”
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Study of Millimeter-Wave Rotational Spectra ofTrioxane in Ground, v(A), v1(E) = 1 and v2(E) = 1 States by Masoud Motamedi, Najmehalsadat Khademi

“…The millimeter-wave rotational spectra of the ground and excited vibrational states v(A), v1 (E) =1 and v2 (E ) =1 of the oblate symmetric top molecule, (CH2O)3, have been analyzed again. …”
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Experimental Investigations on the Dynamic Behaviour of O-Type Wire-Cable Vibration Isolators by Hong-Xia Wang, Xian-Sheng Gong, Fei Pan, Xue-Jiang Dang

“…When subjected to shear and roll loads, the restoring force-deformation curves generated by the isolators formed symmetric hysteresis loops. However, when the isolators were loaded with tension-compression loads, the isolator produced asymmetric hysteresis loops. …”
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Fault Diagnosis and Detection in Industrial Motor Network Environment Using Knowledge-Level Modelling Technique by Saud Altaf, Muhammad Waseem Soomro, Mirza Sajid Mehmood

“…In industrial environment, induction motor is very symmetrical, and it may have obvious electrical signal components at different fault frequencies due to their manufacturing errors, inappropriate motor installation, and other influencing factors. …”
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New Photometric Investigation of the Solar-Type Shallow-Contact Binary HH Bootis by Jia-jia He, Jing-jing Wang

“…It is found that the CCD light curves in the B, V, R, and I bands obtained in 2010 are symmetric, while the multicolor light curves observed in 2011 and 2012 by several investigators showed a positive O’Connell effect where the maxima following the primary minima are higher than the other ones. …”
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Single-ion gel-polymer electrolyte for improving the performances of Li-ion batteries by Radu Dorin Andrei, Giorgian Cosmin Ungureanu, Luisa Roxana Mandoc, Soha Aldroubi, Nicolas Louvain, Julian Richard Tolchard, Mihaela Buga

“…Following electrochemical tests, the symmetric lithium cells demonstrated long-term cycling stability of approximately 650 h at 25 °C and 1000 h at 60 °C. …”
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Hemodynamic Effect of Unequal Anterior Cerebral Artery Flow Rates on the Anterior Communicating Artery Bifurcation: A Computational... by Thomas Rau, Xing He, Prem Venugopal, Fernando Viñuela, Gary Duckwiler, Daniel J. Valentino

“…Using an idealized 2D symmetric model of the ACA-ACOM geometry, the flow field and wall shear stress (WSS) at the bifurcation regions are assessed for pulsatile inflows with left to right flow ratios of 1:1, 2:1, 3:1, and 4:1. …”
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Magnetic Source Detection Using an Array of Planar Hall Effect Sensors and Machine Learning Algorithms by Miki Vizel, Roger Alimi, Daniel Lahav, Moty Schultz, Asaf Grosz, Lior Klein

“…The sensors are positioned at the vertices of a symmetrical and evenly spaced 3 × 3 grid. The main electronic card orchestrates their measurement by supplying the required driving current and amplifying and sampling their output in a synchronized manner. …”
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Axial-Symmetry Numerical Approaches for Noise Predicting and Attenuating of Rifle Shooting with Suppressors by Shi-Wei Lo, Chang-Hsien Tai, Jyh-Tong Teng

“…In this study, axially symmetric, unsteady, Large Eddy Simulation (LES), and Ffowcs Williams and Hawkins (FWH) equations were solved by the implicit-time formulation. …”
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Mixed Ligand Complexes of N-Methyl-N-phenyl Dithiocarbamate: Synthesis, Characterisation, Antifungal Activity, and Solvent Extraction Studies of the Ligand by Anthony C. Ekennia, Damian C. Onwudiwe, Cyril Ume, Eno E. Ebenso

“…The infrared spectra showed that symmetrical bidentate coordination occurred with the dithiocarbamate moiety through the sulfur atoms, while neutral monodentate coordination occurred through the nitrogen atom for the pyridine molecule in the complexes. …”
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Unveiling an in-plane Hall effect in rutile RuO2 films by Meng Wang, Jianbing Zhang, Di Tian, Pu Yu, Fumitaka Kagawa

“…Abstract The in-plane-magnetic-field-induced Hall effect (IPHE) observed in Weyl semimetals and PT-symmetric antiferromagnets has attracted increasing attention, as it breaks the stereotype that the Hall effect is induced by an out-of-plane magnetic field or magnetization. …”
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Dynamic Characteristics of Metro Tunnel Closely Parallel to a Ground Fissure by Nina Liu, Quanzhong Lu, Xiaoyang Feng, Wen Fan, Jianbing Peng, Weiliang Liu, Xin Kang

“…Average incremental percentage of acceleration amplifying coefficient was 8.33% from the wall close to fissure than the symmetrical one. The short distance to fissure led to serious circumferential dynamic strain, while the distance to fissure influenced the axial dynamic strain less. …”
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Improved Switching Strategy for Selective Harmonic Elimination in DC-AC Signal Generation via Pulse-Width Modulation by Francisco Palacios-Quiñonero, Jesus Vicente-Rodrigo, Maria A. Molina-Hernández, Hamid Reza Karimi

“…In the new methodology, pulses are chosen to be symmetric with respect to the partition points, and the switching times are specified by means of switching ratios with respect to the endpoint subintervals. …”
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Modeling of low-frequency acoustic NDE to detect delaminations in multilayer polymer-composite structures by Shun Hsyung Chang, Sergey Shevtsov, Valeriy Chebanenko, Natalie Snezhina

“…The dispersion analysis of antisymmetric (A0) and symmetric (S0) Lamb waves and horizontally polarized shear waves (SH0) for such a panel, with given engineering constants, and subsequent finite element (FE) study showed that only A0 waves generated at sound frequencies can be used for delamination diagnostics by registering of out-of-plane velocities at surface points of the tested structure using a simple laser vibrometer. …”
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Formulation of Microwave-Assisted Natural-Synthetic Polymer Composite Film and Its Physicochemical Characterization by Aman Ullah, Nauman Rahim Khan, Muaz Habib Khan, Saima Mehmood, Jahangir Khan, Tayyaba Iftikhar, Inam Ullah Gul, Hafiz Muhammad Basit, Mughal Qayum, Shefaat Ullah Shah

“…The vibrational analysis revealed rigidification of hydrophilic domains at OH/NH moiety and fluidization of hydrophobic domains at asymmetric and symmetric CH moieties, which is envisaged to be due to the formation of new linkages between the two polymers. …”
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Classical eikonal from Magnus expansion by Joon-Hwi Kim, Jung-Wook Kim, Sungsoo Kim, Sangmin Lee

“…Importantly, the Magnus expansion yields a finite eikonal, while the naïve eikonal based on the time-symmetric propagator is infrared-divergent from 3PM on.…”
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Unveiling inverted D genes and D-D fusions in human antibody repertoires unlocks novel antibody diversity by Ponraj Prabakaran, Abhinav Gupta, Sambasiva P. Rao, Deepak Rajpal, Maria Wendt, Yu Qiu, Partha S. Chowdhury

“…This observation led us to question whether these symmetrical sequences might enable bidirectional recombination. …”
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Multiposition Rotation Interference Absolute Measurement Method for High-Precision Optical Component Surfaces by Xueliang Zhu, Fengming Nie, Bingcai Liu, Ruikun Liu, Ailing Tian

“…These functions provide the rotational symmetric components of the wavefront, which then enables the absolute surface to be reconstructed based on the N-position rotation measurements. …”
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