Diagnosis of the Relationship between Dust Storms over the Sahara Desert and Dust Deposit or Coloured Rain in the South Balkans by N. G. Prezerakos, A. G. Paliatsos, K. V. Koukouletsos

“…Analysis of two such cases revealed that two days before the occurrence of the coloured rain or the dust deposits over Greece a sand storm appeared over the north-western Sahara desert. The flow in the entire troposphere is southerly/south-westerly with an upward vertical motion regime. …”
Get full text

Thomas Dallery, Le divorce rentabilité/croissance dans le capitalisme financiarisé. Changements de régimes, équilibres, instabilités et conflits by Thomas Dallery

“…The macroeconomic realisation of profits being determined by capitalists’ spendings, the slowdown of accumulation cannot come (theoretically) with a profitability recovery, others things being equal.After having recalled, in a first chapter, that financialisation is only the last avatar of a long trend for capitalism to escape from real economy, we show, in a second chapter, that financialisation leads, for the individual firm, to a reorientation towards shareholders’ profitability claims at the expense of managers and capital accumulation, financial (indebtedness) and real (capacity utilisation) security, and also of workers (real wage).After having faced, in a third chapter, two methodological, embarrassing questions for kaleckian models of growth and distribution (not very plausible and unstable for the most plausible ones), we use, in a fourth chapter, a second macroeconomic approach (stock-flow consistent model) where conflict impacts distribution (conflict inflation) and accumulation (growth/profit trade-off). …”
Get full text

A Case of Skull Base Osteomyelitis with Multiple Cerebral Infarction by Haruka Miyabe, Atsuhiko Uno, Takahiro Nakajima, Natsue Morizane, Keisuke Enomoto, Masayuki Hirose, Toshinori Hazama, Yukinori Takenaka

“…Imaging studies showed that blood flow in the carotid artery remained at the day of onset but was totally occluded 7 days later. …”
Get full text

Novel Form of Curcumin Improves Endothelial Function in Young, Healthy Individuals: A Double-Blind Placebo Controlled Study by Jonathan M. Oliver, Lee Stoner, David S. Rowlands, Aaron R. Caldwell, Elizabeth Sanders, Andreas Kreutzer, Joel B. Mitchell, Martin Purpura, Ralf Jäger

“…The higher curcumin (200 mg) supplementation produced a dose-mediated improvement in endothelial function measured by flow-mediated dilation (FMD). The outcome was a clinically substantial 3.0% increase (90% CI 0.7 to 5.3%, p=0.032; benefit : harm odds ratio 546 : 1) with the 200 mg dose, relative to placebo. …”
Get full text

Development and Validation of a Reversed-Phase HPLC Method for the Estimation of Zolpidem in Bulk Drug and Tablets by E. Konoz, A. H. Mohsen Sarrafi, R. Abdolahnejad, M. Bahrami-Zonoz

“…A mixture of acetonitrile-ammonium acetate (pH=8.0, 0.02 M) (60 : 40 v/v) was used as the mobile phase, at flow rate of 1.0 mL/min and the determination wavelength at 245 nm. …”
Get full text

Modeling Traffic Function Reliability of Signalized Intersections with Control Delay by Jiayu Hang, Xizhao Zhou, Jiawen Wang

“…Then, a model for traffic function reliability is proposed based on the quantitative relationship between the random traffic flows, signal timing, and queue lengths. Finally, the delay threshold of the intersection is determined by referring to the level of service. …”
Get full text

A Local–Transit Percolation and Clustering-Based Method for Highway Segment Importance Ranking by Huizhe Lyu, Yang Li, Chenxu Liu, Zhonghao Li, Lin Xu, Wei Wang, Jun Chen

“…Initially, the highway network is constructed by Graph theory, and the k-means clustering method is applied considering each segment’s transit and local traffic flows. Subsequently, a local–transit percolation model is constructed to generate an initial ranking of segments based on the size of the second-largest clusters during the percolation phase transition. …”
Get full text

Systemic Venous Inflow to the Liver Allograft to Overcome Diffuse Splanchnic Venous Thrombosis by Cristian Lupascu, Tom Darius, Pierre Goffette, Jan Lerut

“…Although cavoportal hemitransposition and renoportal anastomosis undoubtedly are life-saving procedures allowing for ensuring adequate allograft portal flow, careful follow-up of these patients remains necessary as both methods are unable to completely eliminate the complications of (segmental) portal hypertension.…”
Get full text

DAG-Based Swarm Learning Approach in Healthcare: A Survey by David Gana, Faisal Jamil

“…Blockchain’s innovative consensus mechanisms and secure data flow systems offer encouraging solutions to crucial issues in healthcare data management and security. …”
Get full text

Extraspinal Type I Dural Arteriovenous Fistula with a Lumbosacral Lipomyelomeningocele: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Khaled M. Krisht, Michael Karsy, Wilson Z. Ray, Andrew T. Dailey

“…At 6-month follow-up, MRI revealed decreased flow voids and new collateralized supply to the DAVF. …”
Get full text

Role of astrocytes connexins - pannexins in acute brain injury by Juan E. Tichauer, Maximiliano Rovegno

“…In astrocytes, GJs and HCs enable intercellular communication and have active participation in normal brain physiological processes, such as calcium waves, synapsis modulation, regional blood flow regulation, and homeostatic control of the extracellular environment, among others. …”
Get full text

Simultaneous Determination of Paracetamol, Chlorzoxazone and Diclofenac Sodium in Tablet Dosage Form by High Performance Liquid Chromatography by Madhukar A. Badgujar, Satish G. Pingale, Kiran V. Mangaonkar

“…Mobile phase consisted of a mixture of phosphate buffer (0.02 M KH2PO4, pH adjusted to 3.7 using orthophosphoric acid), acetonitrile and methanol in the ratio of (25: 25: 50) at a flow rate of 1.0 mL/min. The wavelength was set at 220 nm. …”
Get full text

Numerical Simulation on Heat Recovery Efficiency of Different Working Fluids in High-Temperature Rock Mass by Xu Dong, Haozhe Geng, Guan Hao, Pan Li, Yi Teng, Wen Zhang

“…The net heat extraction rate will increase with the increase of injection pressure, which indicates that the mass flow rate plays a leading role in the heat recovery process and increases the injection pressure of fluid which is more conducive to the thermal recovery of EGS. …”
Get full text

Application of Probabilistic and Nonprobabilistic Hybrid Reliability Analysis Based on Dynamic Substructural Extremum Response Surface Decoupling Method for a Blisk of the Aeroengi... by Bin Bai, Wei Zhang, Botong Li, Chao Li, Guangchen Bai

“…The extremum response surface function and its flow chart of mixed reliability analysis are given. …”
Get full text

Assessing Exercise Limitation Using Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing by Michael K. Stickland, Scott J. Butcher, Darcy D. Marciniuk, Mohit Bhutani

“…In these patients, ventilation may be insufficient for metabolic demand, as demonstrated by an inadequate breathing reserve, expiratory flow limitation, dynamic hyperinflation, and/or retention of arterial CO2. …”
Get full text

Study on Premixed Combustion in a Diesel Engine with Ultra-multihole Nozzle by Xuelong Miao, Guiyang Zhang, Yusheng Ju, Xianyong Wang, Jian-hai Hong, Jin-bao Zheng, Xinqi Qiao, Zhen Huang

“…It has two layers of injection holes and a large flow area. Two sprays of the upper and under layers meet in the space of the combustion chamber. …”
Get full text

AN ENHANCED MULTIMODAL BIOMETRIC SYSTEM BASED ON CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK by LAWRENCE OMOTOSHO, IBRAHIM OGUNDOYIN, OLAJIDE ADEBAYO, JOSHUA OYENIYI

“…The images are preprocessed to a standard normalization and then flow into couples of convolutional layers. The developed multimodal biometrics system was evaluated on a dataset of 700 iris and facial images, the training database contain 600 iris and face images, 100 iris and face images were used for testing. …”
Get full text

Piezocatalysis-combined advanced oxidation processes for organic pollutant degradation in water system by Heejin Yang, Chang-Gu Lee, Jechan Lee

“…The piezoelectric catalyst process has emerged as a promising technology for energy harvesting, effectively converting natural mechanical energies, such as wind, water flow, and waves, into usable electrical energy using piezoelectric materials. …”
Get full text

Size Effect on Acoustic Emission Characteristics of Coal-Rock Damage Evolution by Zhijie Wen, Xiao Wang, Lianjun Chen, Guan Lin, Hualei Zhang

“…In this manuscript, considering the size effect of coal-rock, the influence of different height to diameter ratio on the acoustic emission characteristics of coal-rock damage evolution was discussed by microparticle flow PFC2D software platform. The results show that coal-rock size influences the uniaxial compressive strength, peak strain, and elastic modulus of itself; the size effect has little effect on the acoustic emission law of coal-rock damage and the effects of the size of coal-rock samples on acoustic emission characteristics are mainly reflected in three aspects: the triggering time of acoustic emission, the strain range of strong acoustic emission, and the intensity of acoustic emission; the damage evolution of coal-rock specimen can be divided into 4 stages: initial damage, stable development, accelerated development, and damage.…”
Get full text

Electrokinetic in situ leaching of U from low-permeability uranium ore by Chunguang Li, Wenji Wang, Zhenzhong Liu, Yongmei Li, Qi Liu, Longcheng Liu

“…Various characterization techniques, such as Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (SEM-EDS), three-dimensional computed tomography (CT) pore scanning and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET), showed that the electrokinetic-induced action overcame the preferential flow phenomena, promoted the dissolution of the target minerals and gangue rocks, and notably improved the pore structure to ultimately enhance the uranium leaching efficiency. …”
Get full text