Neglected Questions on the “Forgotten War”: South Korea and the United States on the Eve of the Korean War by Mark Caprio

“…The breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s prodded open the archival doors of once closed regimes releasing interesting information on Soviet-North Korean-Chinese relations during the Cold War. Documents released from these archives contributed new evidence to enrich our understanding of old questions.2 One such question concerns the origins of the Korean War. …”
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Fattening performance, slaughter and carcass characteristics of bafra, akkaraman and bafra × akkaraman f1 lambs at different slaughter weights by Büşra Yaranoğlu, Ceyhan Özbeyaz

“…</p> <p><strong>Materials and Methods: </strong>Datas were collected from 48 male ram lambs; which divided into 3 equal groups. At the beginning of the fattening, the lambs were approximately 20 kg of<br />live weight. …”
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Multi-Person Localization Based on a Thermopile Array Sensor with Machine Learning and a Generative Data Model by Stefan Klir, Julian Lerch, Simon Benkner, Tran Quoc Khanh

“…They also prove to be robust against disturbances of warm air streams, sun radiation, the replacement of the sensor with an equal type sensor, new persons, cold objects, movements along the image frame border and people standing still. …”
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Effect of a Vibration System on Pain Reduction during Injection of Dental Anesthesia in Children: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Muhanad AlHareky, Jehan AlHumaid, Sumit Bedi, Maha El Tantawi, Mazin AlGahtani, Yousef AlYousef

“…The ‘‘gate control’’ theory suggests pain can be reduced by simultaneous activation of larger diameter nerve fibers using appropriate coldness, warmth, rubbing, pressure, or vibration. …”
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Pain sensitivity mediates the relationship between empathy for pain and psychopathic traits by Dimana V. Atanassova, Inti A. Brazil, Christiaan E. A. Tomassen, Joukje M. Oosterman

“…Psychopathic traits (Interpersonal, Affective, Lifestyle and Antisocial) were assessed with the Self-Report Psychopathy Scale, and pain threshold (cold, electrical, pressure) and tolerance (cold, electrical) were measured. …”
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The healing of damage after the plastic deformation of metals by S.V. Smirnov

“…The general regularities of damage healing during the annealing after cold deformation of metal materials are presented in this paper. …”
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Coupled Vibration Behavior of Hot Rolling Mill Rolls under Multinonlinear Effects by Rongrong Peng, Xingzhong Zhang, Peiming Shi

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Climatic impacts on mortality in pre-industrial Sweden by T. T. Chen, T. T. Chen, R. Edvinsson, K. Modig, H. W. Linderholm, F. C. Ljungqvist, F. C. Ljungqvist, F. C. Ljungqvist

“…These findings call for further research, especially with respect to investigating specific diseases and additional factors contributing to the observed increase in mortality following cold late winter and spring seasons in Sweden during the late pre-industrial period.…”
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Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry Method for the Determination of Vardenafil and Its Application of Bioequivalence by Kok Zheng Gan, Riyanto Teguh Widodo, Zamri Chik, Lay Kek Teh, Mohd Salleh Rofiee, Mohd Izwan Mohamad Yusof

“…A simple protein precipitation method with ice-cold acetonitrile was used for plasma extraction. …”
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Effect of Moisture Content on Bursting Liability of Sandstone due to Freeze-Thaw Action by Kesheng Li, Maotong Li, Deng Zhang, Chuanxiao Liu, Depeng Ma

“…To calculate WET, WCF, ES, and BIM of sandstone samples, new empirical equations were established and put forward under different MC after 20 F-T cycles.…”
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The Interannual Relationship between the Diabatic Heating over the South Asia and the Snow Depth over the Southern Tibetan Plateau in Late Spring to Early Summer: Roles of the Air... by Chengyang Zhang, Zhihai Zheng, Yi Ou, Tuantuan Zhang, Zhixiang Xiao, Sheng Lai, Yuexing Cai, Sirong Chen, Weijian Qin, Hui He

“…The southern Tibetan Plateau (TP) is snow covered during cold season but exhibits faster snow melting in early summer. …”
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On some classes of almost periodic functions in abstract spaces by Dariusz Bugajewski, Gaston M. N'Guérékata

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Turtles and ice: winter activity in non-native turtles in Romania by Oana Iftime, Alexandru Iftime

“…Other aquatic turtle species emerged from hibernation at the end of the winter, when temperatures were considerably higher, nearing 20 °C.…”
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Enjeux textuels d’une lecture féministe de la science-fiction by Richard Saint‑Gelais

“…Wyndham’s “Consider Her Ways”, T. Godwin’s “The Cold Equations” and A. Robida’s The Twentieth Century allows us to put forward an array of questions about the role of reading in the shaping of fictional worlds, the identification of the stance tacitly assumed by narratives, and the evaluation of the respective incidence of ideology and formal devices.…”
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Taurine inhibits acute ammonia-induced oxidative stress, immune response, and apoptosis of large yellow croaker (Larimichthys crocea) during keep-live transport by Xin Zhao, Zhenkun Xu, Jun Mei, Jing Xie

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Performance and carcass characteristics of cattle with different castration practices by M. M. Anjos, V. S. Miler, B. N. Barboza, E. O. Queiroz, B. R. C. N. Pazdiora, G. A. Viana, R. D. Pazdiora

“…Data were hidden from the normality test, analysis of variance and mean comparisons were performed using the Tukey test, except for the variable degree of finishing, which was maintained at the chi-square test, at 5%. Average daily weight and total weight gains, hot and cold carcass weights and hot and cold carcass yield did not show statistical differences (P>0.05) for animals submitted to different treatments. …”
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La dimensión mítica de la peregrinación tarasca by Roberto Martínez González

“…In the corporal plan, the cold and hot components of the body vitalize a third entity who acts as a regulator center. …”
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Investigation of mechanicaland structural characteristics of some alloys in Ag-rich corner of Ag-Cu-Sn system by Marjanović S., Gusković D., Trucić M., Marjanović B.

“…Starting samples were four small billets with different contents of constituting elements - Ag90Cu5Sn5, Ag85Cu5Sn10, Ag85Cu10Sn5, Ag80Cu10Sn10 (at%), prepared from p.a. metals Sn, Ag, Cu by melting in electro-inductive furnace under air atmosphere and additional reductant and cast into bars of square shape, dimensions 1x1x10cm. Mechanical characteristics, such as hardness and microhardness, electroconductivity and microstructure, were observed before and after a series of passes through a grooved roll stand (cold rolling).…”
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Some Properties of Weighted Pseudo almost Periodic Functions by Zhe-Ming Zheng, Hui-Sheng Ding, Gaston M. N’Guérékata

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Determination of Toxic Metals in Indian Smokeless Tobacco Products by Dhanashri Dhaware, Aditi Deshpande, R. N. Khandekar, Rohini Chowgule

“…The differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry (DPASV) technique was used for estimating the metals Pb, Cd, and Cu; square wave voltammetry for As; and the cold vapor atomic absorption technique for Hg. …”
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