Study on Thixojoining Process Using Partial Remelting Method by M. N. Mohammed, M. Z. Omar, M. S. Salleh, K. S. Alhawari

“…From the results, metallographic analyses along the joint interface between semisolid AISI D2 and stainless steel showed a smooth transition from one to another and neither oxides nor microcracking was observed. …”
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Investigation of Rock Failure Pattern in Creep by Digital Speckle Correlation Method by Yunliang Tan, Yanchun Yin, Tongbin Zhao

“…When pushing force arrived at 27.5 kN, another new narrow shear deformation band formed in the lower layer. …”
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Effects of Initial Drivers and Land Use on WRF Modeling for Near-Surface Fields and Atmospheric Boundary Layer over the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau by Junhua Yang, Keqin Duan

“…Due to systematic bias in WRF modeling for wind speed, we design another experiment that includes the Jimenez subgrid-scale orography scheme, which reduces the frequency of low wind speed and increases the frequency of high wind speed and that is more consistent with the observation. …”
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Mechanisms Underlying the Osteo- and Adipo-Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Yu Zhang, Dilaware Khan, Julia Delling, Edda Tobiasch

“…Adipogenic differentiation is another interesting lineage, because fat tissue is considered to be a major factor triggering atherosclerosis that ultimately leads to cardiovascular diseases, the main cause of death in industrialized countries. …”
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A Semi-analytical Model for Stellar Evolution in AGN Disks by Alexander J. Dittmann, Matteo Cantiello

“…Although the model presented here is limited to stars burning hydrogen in their cores, it is sufficient to determine the evolutionary fate of disk-embedded stars: whether they proceed to later stages of nuclear burning and leave behind a compact remnant, reach a quasi-steady state where mass loss and accretion balance one another, or whether accretion proceeds faster than stellar structure can adjust, causing a runaway. …”
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Glycopatterns of Urinary Protein as New Potential Diagnosis Indicators for Diabetic Nephropathy by Hanyu Zhu, Moyan Liu, Hanjie Yu, Xiawei Liu, Yaogang Zhong, Jian Shu, Xinle Fu, Guangyan Cai, Xiangmei Chen, Wenjia Geng, Xiaoli Yang, Minghui Wu, Zheng Li, Dong Zhang

“…The results of urinary protein microarray fabricated by another 48 urine specimens also indicated (GlcNAc)2–4 is a potential indictor to differentiate the patients with diabetic nephropathy from nondiabetic nephropathy. …”
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Implication of diabetes mellitus in telomere length and alteration in some age related cell senescence markers of aged men in Kurdistan region-Iraq by Kaniaw Rafat Khafar, Dr. Esmail S Kakey

“… Indications of cell maturing including telomere length and mitochondrial work, just as oxidative pressure and incendiary markers affect one another and structure a complicated organization, which all influenced in age related sicknesses, for example, diabetes mellitus. …”
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SYNERGY BETWEEN THE YOUTH AND A SECURED NATION: AN ATTEMPT TO DEVELOP NIGERIA THROUGH POLITICS AND ELECTORAL REMINISCENCE by ABDULKAREEM ONAKOYA

“… Insecurity is another factor battling the political development of Nigeria. …”
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Acoustic Analysis of PD Speech by Karen Chenausky, Joel MacAuslan, Richard Goldhor

“…National Institutes of Health, approximately 500,000 Americans have Parkinson's disease (PD), with roughly another 50,000 receiving new diagnoses each year. 70%–90% of these people also have the hypokinetic dysarthria associated with PD. …”
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Defining the Pros and Cons of Open, Conventional Laparoscopy, and Robot-Assisted Pyeloplasty in a Developing Nation by Mrinal Pahwa, Archna R. Pahwa, Mohit Girotra, Rtika Ryfka Abrahm, Sachin Kathuria, Ajay Sharma

“…The data of these patients were retrospectively compared with another cohort of 30 patients who had undergone open pyeloplasty. …”
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Exploration and Coordination of Complementary Multirobot Teams in a Hunter-and-Gatherer Scenario by Mehdi Dadvar, Saeed Moazami, Harley R. Myler, Hassan Zargarzadeh

“…This approach employs two complementary teams of agents: one agile in exploring (hunters) and another dexterous in completing (gatherers) the tasks. …”
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Image Recommendation Algorithm Combined with Deep Neural Network Designed for Social Networks by Shaohui Du, Zhenghan Chen, Haoyan Wu, Yihong Tang, YuanQing Li

“…The experiments show that proposed LSTM model together with CNN feature vectors can outperform other algorithms.…”
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Developing a Fuzzy Inference Model for Construction Project Risk Management in Iraq by Gusson H. Al-Momen, Redvan Ghasemlounia

“…There are many Risk Factors (RF) that affect construction projects, and they vary from one country to another. In this paper, a questionnaire of forty-one questions about RF was performed; its evaluation criteria are risk probability and its impact on cost, time, and quality, this questionnaire relied on several experts’ opinions to identify the most common RF affecting Iraqi construction projects. …”
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Liminal transformations: folding the surface of the photograph by Nour Dados

“…In this uncertainty, ‘inbetween’ and ‘beyond’ signal another productive intersection.  The liminality of the threshold marks this terrain as a spatial transgression that ushers in a temporal disjuncture. …”
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METAPHORICAL CONCEPTS AND THEIR IDEOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS IN ALURING VOTES FOR INDONESIAN PRESIDENCY by Arif Budiman, Khristianto Khristianto

“…In one side, the incumbents claim that the government has failed. In another, the opposants believe that it has failed, by proving their bad behaviors …”
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Science for Architecture: Designing Architectural Research in Post-War Sweden by Frida Rosenberg

“…When the new KTH architecture school was completed its architecture illustrated another image: that of the new architecture curriculum, A68, put into practice the same year as the building was designed. 
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Development of Macroscopic Cell-Based Logistic Lane Change Prediction Model by Christina Ng, Susilawati Susilawati, Md Abdus Samad Kamal, Irene Mei Leng Chew

“…Second, the binary logistic lane change is integrated into CTM by refining CTM formulations on how the vehicles in the cell are moving from one cell to another in a longitudinal manner and how cell occupancy is updated after lane change occurrences. …”
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Optimal Analysis Method for Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Diffuse Optical Tomography by Michael Ghijsen, Yuting Lin, Mitchell Hsing, Orhan Nalcioglu, Gultekin Gulsen

“…Structural a priori information from another high spatial resolution imaging modality such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has been demonstrated to significantly improve DOT accuracy. …”
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Seropositivity of Dengue Antibodies during Pregnancy by Nor Azlin Mohamed Ismail, Wan Elly Rushima Wan Abd Rahim, Sharifah Azura Salleh, Hui-Min Neoh, Rahman Jamal, Muhammad Abdul Jamil

“…Twelve patients (3.4%) had recent infections (IgM positive) and another 116 women (32.4%) were with past infections (IgG positive). …”
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Design and application of depth control methods for autonomous underwater profilers in challenging marine environments by Isabel P. Morales-Aragón, Jaime Giménez-Gallego, Javier Gilabert, Roque Torres-Sánchez, Fulgencio Soto-Valles

“…This study presents two depth control methodologies for the profiler: a system based on thrusters, and another based on a variable ballast system, along with the challenges encountered during real-world tests of each methodology. …”
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