A Porous TiAl6V4 Implant Material for Medical Application by Axel Deing, Bérengère Luthringer, Daniel Laipple, Thomas Ebel, Regine Willumeit

“…Specimens with four different porosities were produced using gas-atomised spherical TiAl6V4 with different powder particle diameters, namely, “Small” (<45 μm), “Medium” (45–63 μm), “Mix” (90% 125–180 μm + 10% <45 μm), and “Large” (125–180 μm). …”
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Ensuring the technological independence of oil and gas companies using patent analytics on the example of companies producing liquefied natural gas by A. T. Volkov, R. E. Shepelev

“…The study object is Russian oil and gas companies, while the main attention is paid to companies producing and distributing liquefied natural gas. …”
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A Flexible Framework Integrating Digital and Social Competences in Vocational Education Across Diverse Contexts by María José Hernández-Serrano, Joe Cullen, Barbara Jones, Noelia Morales Romo

“…Competence frameworks in general education environments have emerged to define the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that contemporary educators need to acquire. …”
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Pavement Manager at Risk in Construction of Hot Mix Asphalt by Hesham Ali, Mohamadtaqi Baqersad

“…The outcome of this arrangement is that thousands of miles of roads still cost more to maintain than if effective pavement preservation techniques were used. This paper attempts to resolve this dilemma by introducing the role of Pavement Manager at Risk (PMAR), allowing a Pavement Manager to offer a long-term pavement preservation service to a client in return for a fixed per-mile premium. …”
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Simulação de carga térmica e otimização de sistema de ar-condicionado utilizando a integração EnergyPlus™ / MATLAB® by Guilherme Antonio dos Santos, Lucas Francisco Rodrigues, Maria Thereza de Moraes Gomes Rosa, Miriam Tvrzská de Gouvêa

“…A otimização da potência do compressor possibilita uma redução de até 14% do consumo de energia para os cenários de simulação estudados neste trabalho. …”
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Giant high-order nonlinear and nonreciprocal electrical transports induced by valley flipping in Bernal bilayer graphene by Yuelin Shao, Xi Dai

“…At the low carrier doping regime, the one-pocket state will be stabilized where only one of the trigonal-wrapping-induced Fermi pockets near the atomic-valley center is filled. Then we study the electrical transport of the one-pocket state by solving the Boltzmann equation. …”
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Success or Failure in the City? Social Mobility and Rural-Urban Migration in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Groningen, the Netherlands by Richard Paping, Jacek Pawlowski

“…Analysis of both databases shows distinct social differences in rural-urban migration, with children from non-agrarian rural elite families moving very frequently to a city; whereas, children from farmers and unskilled (farm) labourers were much less attracted by urban centres, despite restricted job opportunities in agriculture. …”
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Les siphons en terre cuite du monde romain : l’exemple de l’aqueduc d’Almuñécar (Andalousie, Espagne) by Elena H. Sánchez López

“…Similarly, they were one of the options for carrying water around the rest of the system, including areas where water was not flowing under pressure. In attempting to determine whether the terracotta pipes used in the siphons were given any particular technical qualities to ensure pressure resistance, the paper compares pressure pipes with those used in open-surface systems, all from Roman aqueducts in Turkey. …”
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Clinical study and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) of a Robot-Assisted Gait Training on children with neurological disorders: A quasi-experimental study by Simone GAZZELLINI, Martina ANDELLINI, Federica DE FALCO, Daniela CASASANTA, Giampietro CORDONE, Alessandra COLAZZA, Donatella LETTORI, Massimiliano RAPONI, Enrico CASTELLI, Maria Rosaria VINCI, Reparata Rosa DI PRINZIO, Maurizio PETRARCA, Matteo RITROVATO, Salvatore ZAFFINA

“…Background: Even if clinical evidence on effectiveness is still lacking, innovative technological solutions like robotic gait training technologies are gaining increasing attention in pediatric neuromotor rehabilitation. …”
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Advanced application of metal nanoparticles in the diagnosis and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis by Wenjing Zhang, Tingting Xu, Yu Chen, Guiyang Zhang, Yongbo Song

“…It is important to highlight that atomically accurate metal nanoclusters (MNCs), which are a type of MNPs characterized by their exact structure and ultrasmall size (&lt; 3 nm), have shown promise in the management of RA in recent years. …”
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A two-person collaborative repositioning approach for high peritoneal dialysis catheter migration: case reports and literature review by F. Zhuangyan Yao, S. Yanqing Li, T. Liping Zhai

“…Following unsuccessful attempts with traditional repositioning methods (such as positional adjustments, ambulation, and saline infusion), a two-person collaborative repositioning technique was employed, combining external manual pressure with rapid saline injection. …”
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Justicia en Conflicto y Conflictos sobre Justicia: el Derecho Internacional Penal en Tiempos de Altas Expectativas by Fannie Lafontaine

“…Se tratan algunos de los fundamentos sobre los que el sistema está construido, sirviendo de base para el argumento de que a pesar de un legado mixto y diversas deficiencias, no habrá marcha atrás hacia un vacío legal en el Derecho internacional en lo relativo a la rendición de cuentas por crímenes internacionales.…”
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Cross-cultural impact of (in)genuine, smiling celebrities in online advertising by Peter Broeder, Daphne Goorden

“…One strategy that can be useful is celebrity endorsement, which has – because of celebrities’ credibility and attractive characteristics – proven to be an effective way to create favourable attitudes and stronger purchase intentions. …”
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Techniques for Detection of Clinical Used Heparins by Binjie Li, Huimin Zhao, Mingjia Yu

“…Meanwhile, the adverse effect in the clinical uses and the adulteration of oversulfated chondroitin sulfate (OSCS) in heparins develop additional attention to analyze the purity of heparins. This review starts with the description of the classification, anticoagulant mechanism, clinical application of heparins and focuses on the existing methods of heparin analysis and detection including traditional detection methods, as well as new methods using fluorescence or gold nanomaterials as probes. …”
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Aprendizagem baseada em casos virtuais como suporte a módulo curricular no curso médico by Nádia Caldas, Ieda Maria Barbosa Aleluia, Marta Menezes, Mary Gomes Silva, Gilmara Ribeiro Santos, Carolina Villa Nova Aguiar

“…RESULTADOS: Este relato é construído a partir da experiência do docente-observador-participante, que atuou desde o planejamento e a implantação inicial até a reformulação atual, com a introdução de inovações tecnológicas. …”
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Effects of message framing on self-management behaviour among patients with type 2 diabetes: a randomised controlled trial protocol by Xin Zhang, Feng Li, Hui Guo, Yue Pang, Yandi Liu, Ruitong Gao, Xiaoqian Lian, Tianyue Yu, Lanyu Zhu

“…The secondary outcomes will be self-efficacy, patient activation, diabetes-related knowledge and attitude, quality of life and blood glucose level. …”
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Simultaneous Determination of Mineral Nutrients and Toxic Metals in M. stenopetala from Southern Ethiopia: A Comparative Study of Three Cultivating Areas Using MP-AES by Ashenafi Shemnsa, Wondimeneh Dubale Adane, Merid Tessema, Endale Tesfaye, Gizaw Tesfaye

“…In this study, for the first time, the levels of thirteen micro- and macromineral nutrients in the leaves, seeds, and supportive soil of Moringa stenopetala (M. stenopetala) were simultaneously determined using microwave plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (MP-AES). The samples were collected during the arid season, in 2019 from the three main M. stenopetala growing areas in southern Ethiopia (Chano Mile Kebele, Nechisar Kebele, and Konso Special Woreda). …”
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Le récit plantigrade (sur Madame Bovary) by Guy Larroux

“…On observing the variously shoed population in Madame Bovary, we can appraise the importance of the foot, the shoe, and are surprised by the constant attention paid to the connections from below. We also understand how Flaubert’s intention to “paint the below and the above” is precisely and topologically expressed in the novel.…”
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Literatura infantil e protagonismo negro: mediação na biblioteca escolar by Odilia Barbosa Ribeiro, Rovilson José da Silva, Sueli Bortolin

“…As análises mostraram que as quatro obras atendema todos os princípios elencados na Diretrizes curriculares nacionais para a educação das relações étnico-raciais e para o ensino de história cultura afro-brasileira e africana.Conclui-se que o número de obras de literatura infantil com protagonistas negros premiadas no Brasil ainda é pequeno e as existentes necessitam de divulgação para ampliar sua circulação e uso.…”
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Antenna Polarization Optimization for Target Detection in Non-Gaussian Clutter by Xu Cheng, Yong-zhen Li, Xue-song Wang

“…Adaptive polarization design of radar antenna has recently become the focus of attention in radar polarization community. A polarimetric detector against non-Gaussian clutter with transmitter polarization optimization has been proposed in this paper. …”
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