Biomechanical Characteristics of First Coronal Reverse Vertebrae in Lenke Type V Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Study Using Finite Element Analysis by Zhenguo Shang, Zhiyong Hou, Wei Chen, Hengrui Chang, Jiaxin Xu, Di Zhang, Hui Wang

“…Additionally, the concave side of the LD was subjected to greater stress under the LLB or RLB load compared with that of other discs. …”
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An Experimental and Numerical Study of Landslides Triggered by Agricultural Irrigation in Northwestern China by Tianfeng Gu, Pingping Sun, Jiading Wang, Herry Lin, Yuanjun Xu, Jiaxu Kong, Bin Sun

“…Heifangtai tableland, located in the CLP in Yongjing County, Gansu Province, has been selected as a case, where more than 90 slidings occurred in the past three decades. …”
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Blow-Up of Solutions for a Class of Sixth Order Nonlinear Strongly Damped Wave Equation by Huafei Di, Yadong Shang

“…We consider the blow-up phenomenon of sixth order nonlinear strongly damped wave equation. By using the concavity method, we prove a finite time blow-up result under assumptions on the nonlinear term and the initial data.…”
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Word- or root-derived? A semantic test for instrumental denominal verbs in Italian by Alice Suozzi, Anna Cardinaletti

“…By explicitly asking Italian native speakers to mention the instruments that can be used to perform the action denoted by the verb, we measured the entailment of existence through the number of instrument nouns produced and the frequency of production of the corresponding instrument noun. Our test also contained parasynthetic verbs, whose behavior was influenced by the interaction between their derivation process and their meaning. …”
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Global Fault-Tolerant Control of Underactuated Aerial Vehicles with Redundant Actuators by Yushu Yu, Yiqun Dong

“…The entire proposed fault-tolerant control algorithm contains a baseline controller, the fault detection and isolation scheme, and the controller reconstruction module. …”
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DETERMINANTS OF PREFERANCE OF HOMEOPATHICF TO ALLOPATHIC TREATMENT by Aymen Naeem

“…A pretested questionnaire containing personal information and subject related questions was used to collect the data. …”
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Communicative-visual value of environmental art festival by Antonella Violano, Julio Cesar Perez-Hernandez

“…The socio-cultural value of this kind of event is part of the cathartic and pedagogical role of art, which allows urban spaces to find ideas for enhancement and people to experience the emotion of belonging. The considerations contained in the contribution are the result of many years of scientific collaboration between the two authors on the issues of the relationship between art and architecture, and deepen two strongly representative cases: the biennial Festival of Environmental Art Seminar Sogninterra in Maranola and the Havana Art Biennale.…”
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Evaluation of the Safety of High-Salt Wastewater Treatment in Coal Chemical Industry Based on the AHP Fuzzy Method by Shijun Guo, Shubham Sharma, Alibek Issakhov, Nima Khalilpoor

“…In the multieffect evaporation process simulation with glycerin-containing brine, the amount of salt precipitated by unit steam energy is arranged in order from more to less than that of seven-effect parallel flow evaporation, is greater than five-effect parallel flow evaporation, and is larger than three-effect parallel flow evaporation, which shows that the increase of validity number is beneficial to the utilization of heat.…”
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Lead poisoning in ancient Rome by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…A grape juice concentrate (sapa) commonly used as a sweetener was prepared by preference in lead containers. Although Roman writers commented on the toxicity of lead, classic chronic lead poisoning was first described only in the 7th century AD. …”
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Impact of experimentation in thermodynamic studies of some metallic and oxidic systems by Aune R.E., Fredriksson P., Seetharaman S.

“…New data with regard to the thermodynamic activities of FeO-containing slag systems and sulphide capacities of multicomponent slags, obtained by gas equilibration method, are also presented. …”
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The Ponte Delle Chianche on the <i>Via Traiana</i> in Buonalbergo (Benevento, Italy): New Data for an Integrated Study by Ivan Ferrari

“…The study aimed to retrieve all information contained in literary sources and to cross-reference them with new data from research conducted in recent years. …”
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Theoretical Researches about u-Maximal Subgroups and Its Applications in Charactering IntuG by Li Zhang, Zheng-Qun Cai

“…A supersoluble subgroup U of G is called u-maximal in G if for any supersoluble subgroup V of G containing U, V=U. Moreover, IntuG is the intersection of all u-maximal subgroups of G. …”
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Contribution of Federal Centre for Animal Health to Rosselkhoznadzor’s international mandate delivery by V. V. Lavrovsky

“…The grounds for the re-subordination of the Federal Centre for Animal Health to the Rosselkhoznadzor, historically novel executive authority in Russia, included high international prestige of the Centre and nationally and internationally acknowledged qualification of its employees in the field of contagious animal diseases.…”
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Opening up Bodyspace: Perspectives from Posthuman and Feminist Theory by Xenia Kokoula

“…Over the last decades, architectural discourse has been invigorated by opening up container conceptions of space, by exploring a new dynamic understanding of space and focusing on its production processes. …”
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i=0 (Information has no intrinsic meaning) by F.J. Miller

“…We have progressed from the industrial age through the information age into what is being promoted as the 'golden age' of knowledge and, in the process, we've been led to believe that information contains meaning - rather than just standing for, provoking or evoking meaning in others. …”
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Characteristics of a New Plastic Explosive Named EPX-1 by Ahmed Elbeih

“…EPX-1 is a new plastic explosive (in the research stage) which has been prepared for military and civilian applications. EPX-1 explosive contains pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) with different particle size as explosive filler bonded by nonenergetic thermoplastic binder plasticized by dibutyl phthalate (DBP). …”
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