V.N. TATISHCHEV’S BUSINESS LETTERS IN THE GENRE ASPECT (BASED ON THE DOCUMENTS OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVE OF THE REPUBLIC OF KALMYKIA) by Elena M. Sheptukhina

“…The results of the analysis have enabled the author to determine that business letters provide the addresser with the opportunity to carry out communication in different directions: vertical (with higher or lower addressees) and horizontal (with the addressees who have equal status with the addresser). …”
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Microstructural Characterization of Beryllium Treated Al-Si Alloys by M. F. Ibrahim, S. A. Alkahtani, Kh. A. Abuhasel, F. H. Samuel

“…Beryllium addition also results in precipitation of the β-Al5FeSi phase in nodular form, which lowers its harmful effects on the alloy mechanical properties.…”
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Inflammatory Characteristics of Stenotic Aortic Valves: A Comparison between Rheumatic and Nonrheumatic Aortic Stenosis by Lars Wallby, Thora Steffensen, Lena Jonasson, Mats Broqvist

“…The RAS valves revealed a lower degree of T lymphocyte infiltration compared with the NRAS valves. …”
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Revealing the Mechanism of Protein Degradation in Postmortem Meat: The Role of Phosphorylation and Ubiquitination by Xinran Zhao, Saisai Wu, Chi Ren, Yuqiang Bai, Chengli Hou, Xin Li, Zhenyu Wang, Dequan Zhang

“…The results demonstrated that the meat of samples in the tender group had a higher degradation of desmin and a lower phosphorylation level of desmin at 1 d compared with the tough group. …”
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2D mapping of plane stress crack-tip fields following an overload by P. J. Withers, P. Lopez-Crespo, M. Mostafavi, A. Steuwer, J. F. Kelleher, T. Buslaps

“…The DIC shows less crack opening after overload and the XRD a lower crack-tip peak stress after OL until the crack has grown past the compressive crack-tip residual stress introduced by the overload after which the behaviour returned to that for the baseline fatigue response. …”
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Alteration of Occlusal Plane in Orthognathic Surgery: Clinical Features to Help Treatment Planning on Class III Patients by Daniel Amaral Alves Marlière, Tony Eduardo Costa, Saulo de Matos Barbosa, Rodrigo Alvitos Pereira, Henrique Duque de Miranda Chaves Netto

“…We described two Class III patients with different clinical features and inclination of OP and had undergone different treatment planning based on 6 clinical features: (I) facial type; (II) upper incisor display at rest; (III) dental and gingival display on smile; (IV) soft tissue support; (V) chin projection; and (VI) lower lip projection. These patients were submitted to orthognathic surgery with different treatment plannings: a clockwise rotation and counterclockwise rotation of OP according to their facial features. …”
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LOW CYCLE FATIGUE LIFE PREDICTIONS OF 15CrMoR PARENT MATERIAL AND WELD METAL by MA Kai, WANG ChuanZhi, DONG JunHua, GAO BingJun

“…The MSRS model predicts that the fatigue life of the parent material is significantly lower than that of the weld metal and during the stable period the ratcheting strain rate of parent material is significantly higher than that of the weld metal.…”
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Modification of Human-Biometeorologically Significant Radiant Flux Densities by Shading as Local Method to Mitigate Heat Stress in Summer within Urban Street Canyons by Hyunjung Lee, Jutta Holst, Helmut Mayer

“…With respect to both shading devices, the Ta reduction did not exceed 2°C, while PET as a measure for human heat stress was lowered by two thermal sensation steps according to the ASHRAE scale. …”
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Population-Based Placental Weight Ratio Distributions by Erin M. Macdonald, John J. Koval, Renato Natale, Timothy Regnault, M. Karen Campbell

“…A higher proportion of SGA infants have extreme PWRs than AGA and LGA, especially at lower gestational ages. On average, SGA infants had higher PWRs than AGA and LGA infants. …”
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Cicatricial Organizing Pneumonia with Dendriform Pulmonary Ossification: An Unusual Cause for a Recurrent Pneumothorax by Mnahi Bin Saeedan, Carol Farver, Atul C. Mehta, Ruchi Yadav

“…The case highlights that dendriform pulmonary ossification arising from cicatricial organizing pneumonia should be considered in the differential diagnosis of recurrent pneumonias among patients with lower lobe sub-pleural reticular opacities. The case highlights that dendriform pulmonary ossification rarely can cause spontaneous pneumothorax and can be associated with cicatricial organizing pneumonia and reticular opacities on imaging.…”
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A Novel Efficiency Measure Model for Industrial Land Use Based on Subvector Data Envelope Analysis and Spatial Analysis Method by Wei Chen, Rui He, Qun Wu

“…With the rapid and unbalanced development of industry, a large amount of cultivated land is converted into industrial land with lower efficiency. The existing research is extensively concerned with industrial land use and industrial development in isolation, but little attention has been paid to the relationship between them. …”
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Possible involvement of vitamin K insufficiency in the progression of cervical ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament by Atsushi Kimura, Naoya Taki, Yukinori Hayashi, Yasuyuki Shiraishi, Tsukasa Ohmori, Katsushi Takeshita

“…Those with OPLL had significantly longer prothrombin times and lower plasma protein C concentrations, consistent with vitamin K deficiency. …”
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Influence of Androgen Receptor Gene CAG and GGC Polymorphisms on Male Sexual Function: A Cross-Sectional Study by Giacomo Tirabassi, Giovanni Corona, Sara Falzetti, Nicola delli Muti, Mario Maggi, Giancarlo Balercia

“…In eugonadal subjects, logistic regression pointed out that a higher number of CAG triplets were associated with lower values of EF, OF, SD, OS, and total IIEF independently from other confounders. …”
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Mutual Coupling Effect on Ultrawideband Linear Antenna Array Performance by Osama Ahmed, Abdel-Razik Sebak

“…From the radiation pattern results, the grating lobes appear in UWB arrays when the element spacing is greater than two wavelengths at the upper edge frequency, 10.6 GHz, or half wavelength at the lower edge frequency 3.1 GHz. Two fabricated array prototypes with corporate feed are fabricated and tested to validate the theoretical analysis. …”
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ERGONOMIC EVALUATION OF PACKAGING WORKERS’ POSTURE IN A FOOD MANUFACTURING COMPANY by SALAMI OLASUNKANMI ISMAILA, YUSUF ADEYEMI SALAMI, SIDIKATU IBIYEMI KUYE, OLAWALE USMAN DAIRO, NURUDEEN OLATUNDE ADEKUNLE

“…Computer codes for RULA were written for quick and easy evaluation of upper arm, lower arm, wrist, wrist twist, neck, trunk and leg postures. …”
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Design and Experimental Research on Sealing Structure for a Retrievable Packer by Yang Liu, Zhanghua Lian, Junwen Chen, Shengping Kuang, Yisheng Mou, Yuhai Wang

“…In order to improve the sealing performance of the packer, the height of the upper and lower packer should be preferentially selected about 60 mm, the height of the middle rubber cylinders should be about 50 mm, and the thickness of the packer should be about 21 mm. …”
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Simulation Experiment Study on Impacting the δD Value of Aromatic Compounds by Yi Duan, Yingzhong Wu, Lantian Xing, Yingqin Wu, Yang Zhao, Zhongping Li, Lanhua Ma

“…The long-chain alkylbenzene produced by pyrolysis has a higher mean δD value compared with the n-alkanes produced by pyrolysis, but it is lower than that of the PAHs in the same sample. The lowest δD value among the aromatics was found in the ring A monoaromatic steroids produced by pyrolysis. …”
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Multi-target localization algorithm based on adaptive grid in wireless sensor network by Tianjing WANG, Xiuqin LI, Guangwei BAI, Hang SHEN

“…The RSS-based multi-target localization has the natural property of the sparsity in wireless sensor networks.A multi-target localization algorithm based on adaptive grid in wireless sensor networks was proposed,which divided the multi-target localization problem into two phases:large-scale grid-based localization and adaptive grid-based localization.In the large-scale grid-based localization phase,the optimal number of measurements was determined due to the sequential compressed sensing theory,and then the locations of the initial candidate grids were reconstructed by applying l<sub>p</sub> (0＆lt; p＆lt;1) optimization.In the adaptive grid-based localization phase,the initial candidate grids were adaptively partitioned according to the compressed sensing theory,and then the locations of the targets were precisely estimated by applying l<sub>p</sub>optimization once again.Compared with the traditional multi-target localization algorithm based on compressed sensing,the simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has higher localization accuracy and lower localization delay without foreknowing the number of targets.Therefore,it is more appropriate for the multi-target localization problem in the large-scale wireless sensor networks.…”
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A clustering-metaheuristic-simulation approach to determine air taxi operating site location by Varshini Priyaa Senthilnathan, Mohanapriya Singaravelu, Suchithra Rajendran, Sharan Srinivas

“…The results indicate that the number of operating stations required for efficient air taxi services is five (Central Park, JFK International Airport, lower Manhattan, Columbia University and Bronx), with an average customer time in system being about 32 min and a waiting time of 13 min per customer.…”
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Roof Stability of Rectangle Coal Roadway: In Light of Calculation of Compressive Bar Stability by Ma Shou-Long, Gao Linsheng, Yang Yue, Peng Rui, Zhao Qifeng

“…The result turns out that some factors lead to a higher instability tendency, including higher horizontal stress, higher cohesion force, and larger internal friction angle on the coal-rock interface and lower cohesion force and smaller friction angle on the rock-rock interface. …”
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