Outer hair cells stir cochlear fluids by Choongheon Lee, Mohammad Shokrian, Kenneth S Henry, Laurel H Carney, J Christopher Holt, Jong-Hoon Nam

“…Computational model simulations provided the physical basis for our observation, which incorporated solute diffusion, fluid advection, fluid–structure interaction, and outer-hair-cell motility. …”
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Effect of Curing Time on the Surface Permeability of Concrete with a Large Amount of Mineral Admixtures by Zhenguo Liu, Guorong Liu, Guosheng Zhang

“…The results show that inadequate curing time leads to insufficient hydration of cementitious materials in concrete with large amount of mineral admixtures and significant increase in the diffusion of chloride ions on the surface of concrete. …”
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Resolving the Relaxation of Volatile Valence Change Memory by Johannes Hellwig, Carsten Funck, Sebastian Siegel, Alexandros Sarantopoulos, Dimitrios Spithouris, Stephan Menzel, Regina Dittmann

“…A relaxation model based on drift‐diffusion dynamics is presented. The model may serve as a tool for developing guidelines and design rules for future volatile memristive technology based on Schottky barrier mediated electron transport.…”
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Evaluating the Impact of Face Anonymization Methods on Computer Vision Tasks: A Trade-Off Between Privacy and Utility by Roland Stenger, Steffen Busse, Jonas Sander, Thomas Eisenbarth, Sebastian Fudickar

“…The study findings indicate a clear trade-off between increased privacy and decreased CV performance. Latent diffusion (called L-Diff in the following) shows the best results with minimal performance decrease on all CV tasks with a low recognition rate. …”
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POLÍTICAS GLOBALES Y RESPUESTAS LOCALES: ESCALAS, VIVIENDA Y HÁBITAT EN ARICA, CHILE by Rodrigo Hidalgo Dattwyler, Carlos Vergara Constela, Miguel González Rodríguez

“…Con base en técnicas de revisión documental, estadísticas y observacionales, se plantea una discusión entre escalas, modos de vida y producción de hábitat, realizando una breve caracterización de la historia de la ciudad de Arica, el despliegue de las políticas de vivienda y la producción del espacio urbano en el tiempo reciente. …”
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Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy in Drug Discovery: Study of Alexa532-Endothelin 1 Binding to the Endothelin ETA Receptor to Describe the Pharmacological Profile of Natural Pr... by Catherina Caballero-George, Thomas Sorkalla, Daniel Jakobs, Jessica Bolaños, Huzefa Raja, Carol Shearer, Eldredge Bermingham, Hanns Häberlein

“…BQ-123 showed a strong binding affinity to the “inactive” receptor state characterized by the slow diffusion time constant. A similar effect was observed for the fungal extract, which completely displaced Alexa532-ET1 from its binding to the “inactive” receptor state. …”
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An Effective Chaos-Based Image Encryption Scheme Using Imitating Jigsaw Method by Zhen Li, Changgen Peng, Weijie Tan, Liangrong Li

“…The postprocessing further increases the diffusion characteristics. Moreover, the test experiment and security analyses are given; the results show that our proposed cryptosystem has both security and speed performance.…”
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Postpartum HELLP syndrome associated with posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome by Rita Pinto Medeiros, Maria Ruão, Pedro Vita, Raquel Monte, Aníbal Marinho

“…Various mechanisms may lead to diffuse endothelial damage associated with HELLP and possible brain involvement. …”
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A novel technique for the synthesis of Au3N and its characterization using X-ray diffraction and Raman scattering techniques by S. Giri, P. Mallick, B. Mallick

“…We report a novel technique for the synthesis of Au3N via a solid-state diffusion-reaction mechanism. X-ray diffraction indexing confirmed that the structure of Au3N is anti-ReO3 with a lattice constant aAuN̄ of 4.065 ± 0.004 Å. …”
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Extraction of Catechins from Aegle marmelos Fruit Pulp: Statistical Optimization Using Response Surface Methodology and Artificial Neural Networks by Divya Kurimilla, Meena Vangalapati, Venkata Ratnam Myneni

“…The antimicrobial activity of the methanolic extract was tested against five different pathogens, including Streptococcus, Bacillus mega, Pseudomonas putida, Bacillus cerecus, and Staphylococcus aureus, using the agar diffusion method and the tube dilution method. Streptococcus, Bacillus cereus, and pseudomonas putida showed high activity.…”
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Entre le massif de l’Aurès et les oasis : apparition, évolution et disparition des communautés ibâḍites du Zâb (viiie-xive siècle) by Allaoua Amara

“…Nomadism, a dominant way-of-life in this area, contributed to the diffusion of this doctrine and to the integration of rural communities under the authority of the Imamate of Tâhart. …”
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Síndrome del corazón roto en la nueva realidad pos-COVID-19 by José Manuel Fajardo Estudillo, Meily Castro López, Victor Manuel Fajardo Guadarrama

“…Se encontraron 69 artículos, donde se puede observar una intensa discusión acerca de si la CT se manifiesta por el miedo a contraer la enfermedad, por el estrés asociado al encierro o si es una afectación directa al miocardio. …”
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Alterations in Cortical Thickness and White Matter Integrity in Mild-to-Moderate Communicating Hydrocephalic School-Aged Children Measured by Whole-Brain Cortical Thickness Mapping... by Siyu Zhang, Xinjian Ye, Guanghui Bai, Yuchuan Fu, Chuanwan Mao, Aiqin Wu, Xiaozheng Liu, Zhihan Yan

“…Using structural MRI and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), current study compared the cortical thickness and white matter integrity between children with mild-to-moderate communicating hydrocephalus and healthy controls. …”
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Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity of Powders (P25) via Calcination Treatment by Guohong Wang, Lin Xu, Jun Zhang, Tingting Yin, Deyan Han

“…The P25 powders before and after calcination treatment were characterized with XRD FTIR, UV-visible diffuse reflectance spectra, SEM, TEM, HRTEM, and N2 adsorption-desorption measurements. …”
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Iron Contamination Mechanism and Reaction Performance Research on FCC Catalyst by Zhaoyong Liu, Zhongdong Zhang, Pusheng Liu, Jianing Zhai, Chaohe Yang

“…A dense layer could be formed on the catalysts’ surface after iron contamination and the dense layer stops reactants to diffuse to inner structures of catalyst. This causes extremely negative effects on catalyst’s heavy oil conversion ability and could greatly cut down gasoline yield while increasing yields of dry gas, coke, and slurry largely. …”
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Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Radial Gap and Impeller Blade Exit on Flow-Induced Vibration at the Blade-Passing Frequency in a Centrifugal Pump by A. Al-Qutub, A. Khalifa, Y. Khulief

“…It has been recognized that the pressure pulsation excited by rotor-stator interaction in large pumps is strongly influenced by the radial gap between impeller and volute diffusers/tongues and the geometry of impeller blade at exit. …”
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Pattern formation of a predator-prey model with the cost of anti-predator behaviors by Xiaoying Wang, Xingfu Zou

“…We propose and analyse a reaction-diffusion-advection predator-prey model in which we assume that predators move randomly but prey avoid predation by perceiving a repulsion along predator density gradient. …”
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Use of N Natural Abundance and N Species Concentrations to Assess N-Cycling in Constructed and Natural Coastal Wetlands by C. Marjorie Aelion, Melissa R. Engle, Hongbo Ma

“…In natural sites, NH4+ concentrations were greatest in deeper pore water and least in surface water, suggesting diffusion predominates. The natural sites had greater %SON, and N indicated that the natural sites also had greater NH4+ released from SON mineralization than impacted sites. …”
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Modified Grey Wolf Optimizer for Global Engineering Optimization by Nitin Mittal, Urvinder Singh, Balwinder Singh Sohi

“…The nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms are analysed in terms of their key features like their diversity and adaptation, exploration and exploitation, and attractions and diffusion mechanisms. The success and challenges concerning these algorithms are based on their parameter tuning and parameter control. …”
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Solar Modulation of AMS-02 Daily Proton and Helium Fluxes with Modified Force-field Approximation Models by Cheng-Rui Zhu, Mei-Juan Wang

“…As galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) propagate through the turbulent plasma environment within the heliosphere, they undergo a process of diffusion, drift, and energy loss, leading to a notable reduction in their flux. …”
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