Measurement of Holistic Road Damage and Analysis of Its Corresponding Traffic Characteristics by Shun Guo, Zhengfeng Huang, Pengjun Zheng, Ting Lu, Lili Lu, Xuan Li

“…At last, the relationship among HRDD, flow speed, and flow volume is analyzed through the simulated experiments. …”
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The Role of NT-proBNP Levels in the Diagnosis of Hypertensive Heart Disease by Angeliki Mouzarou, Nikoleta Hadjigeorgiou, Despo Melanarkiti, Theodora Eleni Plakomyti

“…The natriuretic peptides, including the brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and its inactive N-terminal fragment, are secreted by the myocardium in response to increased wall stress and volume overload. In patients with hypertensive heart disease, increased NT-proBNP levels may reflect the structural and functional changes occurring in the myocardium as a result of chronic pressure overload. …”
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The bristle pattern development in Drosophila melanogaster: the prepattern and achaete-scute genes by D. P. Furman, T. V. Bukharina

“…., the achaete and scute genes. A considerable volume of miscellaneous experimental data related to various aspects in development of the bristle pattern has been so far accumulated; however, any formalized and detailed representation of the molecular genetic interaction of the prepattern factors with both each other and the achaete-scute genes is yet absent. …”
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Study on Stress-Dependent Permeability of Fracture Networks in Fractured Porous Media by Yueli Feng, Yuetian Liu, Gang Lei

“…In order to investigate the stress-sensitive characteristics of fracture networks under reservoir actual stress condition and its influence on the seepage in fractured porous media, we carried out permeability tests on experimental models with fracture networks under constant-volume boundary condition. In addition, a novel analytical stress-dependent permeability model of fracture networks in different directions was derived. …”
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Magnetic Flux Emergence and Solar Eruptions in Partially Ionized Plasmas by Georgios Chouliaras, V. Archontis

“…The plasma inside the emerging volume is less dense, and it is moving faster compared to the fully ionized (FI) simulation. …”
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Influence of Axle Load on the Wear of Railway Wheel Material by Hewan Getachew Yenealem, Daniel T. Redda, Awel Mohammedseid

“…Excessive wear of wheel/rail materials and reduced service life of the wheel/rail system might be caused by the increase in axle load and traffic volume. Two kinds of rail and wheel steels have been studied against different axle load steps, simulating them for wear performance analysis using multibody simulation software (SIMPACK) and MATLAB programming. …”
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Environmental and economic assessment of the application of an optimised chemical decontamination method on the internal surface of a nuclear steam generator by Rachael Clayton, Anthony Banford, Laurence Stamford

“…Deep geological disposal facilities for radioactive waste are built with finite capacity and high cost. Therefore, waste volume minimisation via pre-treatment is paramount. …”
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A complementary approach to quantify the basic GSI chart considering scale effect on rock structure by Harun Sonmez, Gulseren Dagdelenler, Yilmaz Ozcelik, Murat Ercanoglu

“…The engineering dimensions (EDs) such as the slope height, tunnel width, and foundation width were used together with representative elementary volume (REV) in jointed rock mass to define scale factor (sf) from 0.2 to 1 in evaluating the rock mass structure including joint pattern. …”
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PERSPECTIVES OF NANOPOWDERS APPLICATION FOR MANUFACTURING OF MODIFYING ALLOYING COMPOSITIONS by A. Kalinichenko, A. Slutsky, V. Sheinert, N. Zyk, V. Borodulya, О. Rabinovich

“…Chemical composition of specimens synthesized is uniform and contains 98.0 – 99.5% of main compound.Results of metal-protector and nanoparticles mixing have revealed that the increase of mixing duration from 2 to 6 hours assist to more uniform elements distribution through the pellet volume. Applying extrusion method specimens of alloying alloys have been produced and elements distribution in cross-section and longitudinal directions were determined.Analysis of research implemented has shown that distribution of active nanopowders in matrix is more uniform in extruded alloying alloys specimens compared to ones produced by methods of sintering or pressing of powder mixtures.…”
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Fuzzy-Swarm Intelligence-Based Short-Term Load Forecasting Model as a Solution to Power Quality Issues Existing in Microgrid System by Demsew Mitiku Teferra, Livingstone M. H. Ngoo, George N. Nyakoe

“…The fuzzy load prediction model can effectively handle these nonlinearity and uncertainty characteristics to have an accurate load forecast, but the main challenge with this model is its inability to accommodate a large volume of historical load and weather information when the membership function of the input and output fuzzy variables and the number of the fuzzy rules are tremendous. …”
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Analyzing the Relationship Between Regeneration of Historic Centers and Urban Development Catalysts Case Study: Old Texture of Kermanshah by hamed baniamerian, alireza andalib, laala jahanshahloo

“…The results show that the central core of the historical context of Kermanshah, due to the high volume of physical destruction, requires the formation of new construction while developing infrastructure, and the main existing functions require the reproduction of historical identity.  …”
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Simulation and Test Study of Blast Crater in Deep Ore Body of Metal Mine Based on Lsdyna by Erhu Dong, Long An, Yuanhui Li, Jiahua Zhang

“…Second, by modulating the strength and damage parameters and defining the unit failure criterion, the damage volume and blast action index obtained from the dynamic calculation are consistent with the 3D scanning results of the on-site blast crater test. …”
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Clinical profile of adults and children with reactive arthritis in India – A cohort study by Koshy Nithin Thomas, Anamika Kumari Anuja, Latika Gupta

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Comparisons of Tensile Fracturing Behaviors of Hydraulic Fully Graded and Wet-Screened Concretes: A Mesoscale Study by Lei Xu, Yongmiao Jin, Shuaizhao Jing, Jie Liu, Yefei Huang, Changqiao Zhou

“…The individual effects of specimen size variation, variation of gradation and volume fraction of coarse aggregates, and the weaker interfacial transition zones surrounding the large coarse aggregates to be removed by wet-screening are detailed followed by the discussion on the combined effect of these three main factors. …”
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Funding for China’s Top Universities: Does Size Matter? by S. S. Donetskaya, Liang Bin

“…At the same time, the volume of the university budget only 50 % determines advancement in rankings. …”
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On the Use of Galaxy Catalogs in Gravitational-wave Parameter Estimation by Geoffrey Mo, Carl-Johan Haster, Erik Katsavounidis

“…For GW170817, we recover the true host galaxy as the most probable galaxy after a straightforward mass reweighting, with significantly decreased localization area and volume. On the simulated sample, however, we do not find improvement compared to performing a simple galaxy catalog crossmatch with a regular GW localization. …”
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The Impact of Reservoir Fluctuations on Reactivated Large Landslides: A Case Study by Javed Iqbal, Xinbin Tu, Wei Gao

“…The topography of Dasha landslide is relatively flat, while the back scarp and local terrain is relatively steep. The total volume of landslides is about 580×104 m3 with an average thickness of 20 m. …”
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Obstacles to Early Diagnosis of Gaucher Disease by Nishimura S, Ma C, Sidransky E, Ryan E

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Successful Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery for Recurrent Uterine Fibroid Previously Treated with Uterine Artery Embolization by Sang-Wook Yoon, Kyoung Ah Kim, Sang Heum Kim, Jong Tae Lee

“…MR images at 3 months showed a 49% decrease in fibroid volume. There were no adverse events during the treatment or the follow-up period. …”
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Effect of Alternating Magnetic Field Treatment on the Friction/Wear Resistance of 20Cr2Ni4A Under Lubricated Conditions by Sufyan Akram, Mose Bevilacqua, Anatolii Babutskyi, Andreas Chrysanthou

“…The observed changes were not induced thermally. The volume expansion by the formation of martensite was achieved at near room temperature and led to a further increase in compressive residual stresses. …”
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