Steel Bubbles: Death, Inexhaustibility, and Dickens’s Idea of the Book in Sketches by Boz, First Series (1836) by Jeffrey Jackson

“…Critics have shown little interest, however, in the originary volume of Sketches’s debut as a ‘whole book’, the two-volume edition of 1836, otherwise known as the First Series: most scholarly treatments take for their copy-text the 1839 edition. …”
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Large Multinodular Toxic Goiter: Is Surgery Always Necessary? by Roberto Negro, Gabriele Greco

“…Thyroidectomy may be preferable especially when the volume of hyperfunctioning tissue is so large that a single administration of 131I is unlikely to cure the patient in terms of nodule’s volume reduction and thyroid function. …”
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Static and Dynamic Compression Performances of Hybrid Fiber-Reinforced Lightweight Aggregate Concrete by Yan Zhou, Ming-Gao Chen

“…In this study, basalt fiber and polypropylene fiber with different volume ratios were mixed into lightweight aggregate concrete (LAC), and the static compressive strength and dynamic compressive performance of LAC mixed with fiber were tested. …”
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Dp-brane Dynamics and Thermalization in Type IIB Ben Ami-Kuperstein-Sonnenschein Models by Dariush Kaviani

“…We show that when the minimal extension is positive definite, the induced world volume metrics of type IIB rotating probe branes admit thermal horizons and Hawking temperatures despite the absence of black holes in the bulk subject to the world volume and topology of the nontrivial internal cycle wrapped by the probe. …”
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A Fractal Model to Interpret Porosity-Dependent Hydraulic Properties for Unsaturated Soils by Annan Zhou, Yang Fan, Wen-Chieh Cheng, Junran Zhang

“…In the proposed conceptual model, the change of maximum pore radius, which largely determines the change of the air-entry value, is directly related to the fractal dimension of pore volume (D) and porosity change. The hydraulic properties of unsaturated soils are then governed by the maximum pore radius, the fractal dimension of pore volume (D), and the fractal dimension of drainable pore volume (Dd ≤ D). …”
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The effect of using polypropylene fibers on the durability and fire resistance of concrete by Hassan Suiffi, Anas El Maliki, Fatima Majid, Omar Cherkaoui

“…The composite was tested with different volume fractions of polypropylene fibers (0.05%, 0.10%, 0.30% and 0.50%). …”
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RESEARCH OF STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF THE MARKET OF AIR TRANSPORTATION IN RUSSIA by A. Zinchenko

“…By results of the carried-out analysis distribution of the market of aircrafts on regions, a share of the Russian aircraft companies in the world volume of air transportation, the loudspeaker and growth rates of a passenger turnover and goods turnover and also distribution of volume of air transportation on types of aircrafts is shown. …”
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Brazilian urban geography: from a diachronic analysis to the most cited works in the last decade by Eustogio Wanderley Correia Dantas, José Borzacchiello da Silva

“…In addition to the indication of the work, it deals with the volume of quotations relating to it. The use of studies based on the H index will allow the updating of the studies with the presentation of the persons responsible for the production of important works on the urban geography in Brazil, thus making it possible to spatialize the production in the country (volume of citations…”
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Figuring Out the Figurines of the Ancient Near East by Stephanie Langin-Hooper

“…We are pleased to announce the publication of Figuring Out the Figurines of the Ancient Near East, edited by Stephanie Langin-Hooper. This is the first volume in the series Occasional Papers in Coroplastic Studies that is designed to provide a forum for the publication of peer-reviewed papers dedicated to coroplastic research. …”
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Characteristics and quality of biofloc in vannamei shrimp culture with different carbon sources by Muhammad Faris Allam, Julie Ekasari, Ichsan Achmad Fauzi, Wiyoto Wiyoto

“…Kata kunci: kompleksitas karbohidrat, komposisi nutrisi, ukuran partikel, volume bioflok  …”
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Simulation and experimental study on olive drop injury by Weike Lan, Haotian Mu, Di Xin, Shijia Pan, Yuncai Yan, Wen Gao, Zijie Niu, Dongyan Zhang, Jun Zhang, Yongjie Cui

“…The optimum fall height was below 1.05 m, the contact material was a foam board, and the collision angle was 49.05 °. When the damage volume was less than 2.75 mm3, the finite element simulation results showed that the damage volume under this optimal parameter was less than 2.59 mm3, with an error of 6.2%. …”
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Factors influencing the kinetics of MSU crystal depletion measured with dual-energy CT in patients with gout by Tristan Pascart, Victor Laurent, Charlotte Jauffret, Aurore Pacaud, Vincent Ducoulombier, Julie Legrand, Stéphane Verdun, Laurène Norberciak, Jean-François Budzik

“…Spearman’s correlation coefficient was used to search for association between change from baseline MSU crystal volume at 6, 12, 18 and 24 months and serum urate (SU) level. …”
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Copula-Based Probabilistic Hazard Assessment Model for Debris Flow Considering the Uncertainties of Multiple Influencing Factors by Mi Tian, Yuan Shen, Long Fan, Xiao-Tao Sheng

“…The developed model is then used to make probabilistic prediction of debris-flow volume for a specific hazard level, and compared with the empirical approaches. …”
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Numerical Investigation of Heat Transfer Enhancement in a Rectangular Heated Pipe for Turbulent Nanofluid by Hooman Yarmand, Samira Gharehkhani, Salim Newaz Kazi, Emad Sadeghinezhad, Mohammad Reza Safaei

“…Four different types of nanoparticles Al2O3, ZnO, CuO, and SiO2 at different volume fractions of nanofluids in the range of 1% to 5% are considered in the present investigation. …”
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Motor Recovery of the Affected Hand in Subacute Stroke Correlates with Changes of Contralesional Cortical Hand Motor Representation by Jitka Veldema, Kathrin Bösl, Dennis Alexander Nowak

“…Recovery of motor function of the affected hand after stroke is accompanied by definite changes in excitability, size, volume, and location of hand motor representation over the contralesional primary motor cortex. …”
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A Critical Review of the Book Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment (Fundamental Techniques and Advanced Methods) by Rajab Esfandiari

“…The first volume entitled Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment: Fundamental Techniques was published in 2019, and the second volume by the title of Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment: Advanced methods was published in 2020. …”
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Implementation of regional protectionism in aquaculture in foreign countries by V. M. Mikhaylov, A. Yu. Yakovlev

“…Some indicators that determine the trends in the aquaculture development in the world, such as the number of employed and the volume of aquaculture production by continent have been considered as well as a forecast for the development of the industry in comparison with industrial fisheries and an analysis of the volume and growth rate of aquaculture production in some foreign countries have been given. …”
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A Wet-Stock Management and Leak Detection System for Fuel Tanks by Ayşe Nur Dalman, Murat Oluş Özbek

“…This study also shows that obtaining the precise volume measurements by introducing models that account for the deformations in the UST is possible.…”
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Damage Evolution of Steel-Polypropylene Hybrid Fiber Reinforced Concrete: Experimental and Numerical Investigation by Lihua Xu, Cuimei Wei, Biao Li

“…Moreover, the steel fiber volume fraction shows a more pronounced effect than that of other considered factors on the enhancement of cyclic mechanical parameters of HFRC. …”
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Flexural Behaviour of Chicken Mesh Ferrocement Laminates with Partial Replacement of Fine Aggregate by Steel Slag by Sridhar Jayaprakash, Jegatheeswaran Dhanapal, Vivek Deivasigamani, Elias G

“…The following variables were investigated: (a) volume fraction of chicken mesh as 0.94%, 1.88%, 2.82%, and 3.77% and (b) level of steel slag substitution from 0% to 50% by weight fine aggregate. …”
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