Striped Cucumber Beetle Acalymma vittatum F. (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) by Braden Evans, Justin Renkema

“…The spotted cucumber beetle, Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi Barber, and banded cucumber beetle, Diabrotica balteata LeConte, are more common in Florida, causing damage symptoms that are similar to striped cucumber feeding damage (Webb 2010). …”
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Critical plane approach to multiaxial variable amplitude fatigue loading by Yingyu Wang, Luca Susmel

“…Palmgren-Miner’s linear damage rule is applied to estimate cumulative fatigue damage. …”
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Could Proteomic Research Deliver the Next Generation of Treatments for Pneumococcal Meningitis? by U. R. Goonetilleke, S. A. Ward, S. B. Gordon

“…In developed countries, approximately half of the survivors suffer intellectual impairment, hearing loss, or other neurological damage. There is an urgent need for more information about the mechanisms of brain damage and death in pneumococcal meningitis so that new treatments can be designed. …”
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Ureteric Injury due to the Use of LigaSure by Muazzam Tahir, William Gilkison

“…Judicious and careful use of electrosurgical devices should be done to prevent inadvertent damage to the surrounding structures. …”
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Peripheral Nerve Repair with Cultured Schwann Cells: Getting Closer to the Clinics by Maria Carolina O. Rodrigues, Antonio Antunes Rodrigues, Loren E. Glover, Julio Voltarelli, Cesario V. Borlongan

“…The experimental treatment using nerve grafts to replace damaged or shortened axons is limited by technical difficulties, invasiveness, and mediocre results. …”
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Numerical Modeling of Seismic Responses and Seismic Measures of Tunnel Crossing a Fault Zone: A Case Study by Lin Li, Liping Xian, Chaofan Yao, Deping Guo, Chengliang Liu

“…The investigation shows that Longxi Tunnel, across a fault zone, was severely damaged during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, China. …”
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Pest Identification Guide: An Introduction to Thrips by Nicole Casusa, Hugh Smith

“… Tiny insects called thrips are difficult to see with the unaided eye but cause very obvious and sometimes ruinous damage to the flowers, buds, and fruit of many important crops. …”
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Pest Identification Guide: An Introduction to Thrips by Nicole Casusa, Hugh Smith

“… Tiny insects called thrips are difficult to see with the unaided eye but cause very obvious and sometimes ruinous damage to the flowers, buds, and fruit of many important crops. …”
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Comparative Dynamic Seismic Analyses of RC Minarets Strengthened with FRP and Buttresses by Erdem Türkeli

“…In recent earthquakes occurred in Turkey, an unexpected number of reinforced concrete (RC) minarets were heavily damaged or collapsed causing loss of lives and economic damages. …”
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Two-Stage Fault Diagnosis Method Based on the Extension Theory for PV Power Systems by Meng-Hui Wang, Mu-Jia Chen

“…In this paper, a two-stage diagnosis system based on the extension theory for PV power systems is proposed; the proposed method is not only be able to troubleshoot the system fault but also the damaged module can also be located. The primary strategy is to utilize the diagnosis array of daylight identification and to use light scanning of the damage array at night. …”
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Striped Cucumber Beetle Acalymma vittatum F. (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) by Braden Evans, Justin Renkema

“…The spotted cucumber beetle, Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi Barber, and banded cucumber beetle, Diabrotica balteata LeConte, are more common in Florida, causing damage symptoms that are similar to striped cucumber feeding damage (Webb 2010). …”
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HDAC6 Facilitates PRV and VSV Infection by Inhibiting Type I Interferon Production by Hu Zheng, Xiaohui Yang, Haiwen Zhong, Changxu Song, Zhenfang Wu, Huaqiang Yang

“…Mechanistic studies identified HDAC6 as a DNA damage inhibitor in PK15 cells. HDAC6 overexpression attenuated DNA damage levels, which can further reduce type I IFN production to promote viral infection. …”
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New Two-Dimensional Polynomial Failure Criteria for Composite Materials by Shi Yang Zhao, Pu Xue

“…The in-plane damage behavior and material properties of the composite material are very complex. …”
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Discrete Element Modeling of Crack Initiation Stress of Marble Based on Griffith’s Strength Theory by Suifeng Wang, Fei Tan, Minglong You, Yu-Yong Jiao, Fubin Tu

“…Investigating the crack initiation stress of rocks is vital for understanding the gradual damage process of rocks and the evolution law of internal cracks. …”
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Performance-Based Seismic Fragility and Risk Assessment of Five-Span Continuous Rigid Frame Bridges by Fangwen Wu, Jingwen Zhou, Yangyang Zhao, Guangqian Wang, Wenlong Tang, Jianfei Luo, Usama Ibrahim, Yuanying Meng

“…Earthquakes can cause serious damage to traffic infrastructures, among which the impact on bridge structure is the most important. …”
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Designing of a wide-area power system stabilizer using an exponential distribution optimizer and fuzzy controller considering time delays by Chao Zhang, Xucheng Chang, Jun Dai, Zhiqiang Chen, Manoochehr Babanezhad

“…The simulation results reveal that the proposed WAFPSS achieves significant reductions in the Integral Time Squared Error (ITSE), with improvements of 94.1%, 97.02%, and 98.18% in three distinct cases, showcasing its superior damping capability and robustness. The findings indicate that the advanced optimization techniques provided by the EDO algorithm significantly improve the stabilizer’s response, ensuring robust power system performance. …”
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Adaptive Model Predictive Vibration Control of a Cantilever Beam with Real-Time Parameter Estimation by Gergely Takács, Tomáš Polóni, Boris Rohal’-Ilkiv

“…In addition to the states, the dynamic system has been augmented by the unknown model parameters: stiffness, damping constant, and a voltage/force conversion constant, characterizing the actuating effect of the piezoceramic transducers. …”
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Modeling and experiment of slag corrosion on the lightweight alumina refractory with static magnetic field facing green metallurgy by Huang A., Lian P., Fu L., Gu H., Zou Y.

“…The results show that the combination of the slag properties change, and electromagnetic damping caused by MHD (magnetohydrodynamics) effect can enhance the slag corrosion resistance by inhibiting slag penetration and promoting formation of a directional isolation layer, and be beneficial to high-quality clean steel production.…”
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Ground validation of manipulator adaptive variable admittance control method for detumbling a space noncooperative satellite by Xinlin Bai, Xiwen Li, Zhen Zhao, Zhigang Xu

“…The proposed controller includes the fixed admittance controller in manipulator task space, the adaptive pose compensator for the grasping point on docking ring, and the damping adaptive regulator based on manipulator joint angular velocity, and the stability is proven by the Lyapunov method. …”
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Geometrical Nonlinear Aeroelastic Stability Analysis of a Composite High-Aspect-Ratio Wing by Chang Chuan Xie, Jia Zhen Leng, Chao Yang

“…The results indicate that the critical nonlinear flutter is of the flap/chordwise bending type because of the chordwise bending having quite a large torsion component, with low critical speed and slowly growing damping, which dose not appear in the linear analysis. …”
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