Experimental Study on the Distribution Trends of Fouling on a Compressor Blade by Jie Tang, Dianrong Gao, Liwen Wang, Jinjian Huo

“…Through a simulation experiment on the fouling of a blade surface, the number of particulates deposited on the pressure surface was lower than the amount of the secondary deposition mass on the suction surface. …”
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Human Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells and Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells Differentially Facilitate Leukocyte Recruitment and Utilize Chemokines for T Cell Migration by Shumei Man, Eroboghene E. Ubogu, Katherine A. Williams, Barbara Tucky, Melissa K. Callahan, Richard M. Ransohoff

“…Confluent THBMEC cultures on 24-well collagen-coated transwell inserts had significantly higher transendothelial electrical resistance (TEER) and lower solute permeability than HUVECs. Confluent THBMECs were more restrictive for mononuclear cell migration than HUVECs. …”
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Study of Structural, Dielectric, and Phase Transition of Strontium Doped BaTiO₃ by Asmaa Zouitine, Abdelhak El Ghandouri, Abdelhalim Elbasset, Farid Abdi, Taj-dine Lamcharfi, Hicham Laribou, Lamiae Mrharrab, Zouhairi Mohammed

“…An increase in Sr content appears to lower the activation energy by the factor of 0.16 meV/mol% and to decrease Curie temperature by the factor of 3.34 °C/mol%. …”
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Robust angle estimation method for noncircular targets in MIMO radar with mutual coupling by Xianpeng WANG, Yuehao GUO, Mengxing HUANG, Chong SHEN, Chunjie CAO, Wenlong FENG

“…A robust angle estimation method for noncircular targets based on unitary tensor decomposition with mutual coupling in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar was proposed.Firstly,utilizing the banded symmetric Toeplitz structure of the mutual coupling matrix to eliminate the influence of unknown mutual coupling in tensor field.Then a special augmented tensor was constructed to capture the no circularity and its inherent tensor multidimensional structure of noncircular signals.And taking advantage of the centro-Hermitian characteristic of the augmented tensor to transform the sub-tensor into real-values tensor by the unitary transformation.Finally,the signal subspace estimation based on tensor was obtained by taking advantage of the higher-order singular value decomposition (HOSVD) technology,and then the direction-of-departure (DoD) and direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation was obtained by utilizing the real-values subspace technology.Due to the consideration of both the noncircularity and multidimensional structure,the proposed algorithm has better recognition performance than the existing angle estimation methods.At the same time,the proposed algorithm only requires real-valued operations and has lower computational complexity.Simulation experiments verify the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed algorithm.…”
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Teachers’ Professional Collaboration: Current Status, Barriers and Suggestions by Kürşad Yılmaz

“…However, these positive attitudes are reflected in behaviours at a lower level. When it comes to professional collaboration, teachers immediately think of the work which is carried out with teachers in the same branch. …”
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In Vitro Evaluation of Ethanolic Extracts of Ageratum conyzoides and Artemisia absinthium against Cattle Tick, Rhipicephalus microplus by S. Parveen, R. Godara, R. Katoch, A. Yadav, P. K. Verma, M. Katoch, N. K. Singh

“…Egg mass weight of the live ticks treated with different concentrations of the extracts was significantly (P<0.05) lower than that of control ticks; consequently, the reproductive index and oviposition values of the treated ticks were reduced significantly (P<0.05). …”
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Is Valproate Depressogenic in Patients Remitting from Acute Mania? Case Series by Kamini Vasudev, Priya Sharma

“…The cases also indicate that relatively lower doses and serum levels of valproate are effective in the maintenance phase compared to those needed in the acute manic phase of bipolar disorder. …”
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Dynamic Forces of Swaying Human and Responses of Temporary Demountable Grandstand Based on Experiment and Simulation by Lin He, Jian Yuan, Feng Fan, Cong Liu

“…Crowd can able to induce excessive lateral vibration of structure due to the lower frequency of temporary grandstand and make them in panic. …”
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Social and Labor Status of University Teachers: Elite Specialists or Precariat? by I. V. Vorobyova

“…The reform and optimization of the sphere of higher education affects the nature and conditions of employment of teachers of Russian universities. There is a lowering in the status and prestige of teaching work. …”
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Effects of Metabolic Dysfunction–Associated Steatohepatitis in Alertness, Associative Learning, and Astrocyte Density by Sara G. Higarza, Marina De Antón‐Cosío, Candela Zorzo, Jorge L. Arias, Natalia Arias

“…Results Our results showed that, whereas the MASH group did not display an impaired associative learning, a lower exploration rate was found in this group. Moreover, a reduced prepulse inhibition was found in these subjects in the case of the weaker and closer‐to‐the‐stimulus prepulse, which indicates a mild alteration in this process. …”
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Preparation of PEO/Clay Nanocomposites Using Organoclay Produced via Micellar Adsorption of CTAB by Ahmet Gürses, Mehtap Ejder-Korucu, Çetin Doğar

“…By considering the aggregation number of CTAB micelles and interlayer distances of organo-clay, it could be suggested that the predominant micelle geometry at lower CTAB/clay ratios is an ellipsoidal oblate, whereas, at higher CTAB/clay ratios, sphere-ellipsoid transition occurs. …”
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Case Report: Intradural gout tophi without systemic gout symptoms by Peidong Qing, Shiming Xie, Chaoqun Feng, Hongda Xu, Shengxin Zhao, Lei Zhang, Haitao Deng, Yehui Wang, Youpeng Hu

“…BackgroundGout is a common disease; however, a gout tophus occurring within the spinal dura is exceedingly rare, with only two cases reported to date.Case presentationWe report the case of a 70-year-old female who presented with lower back pain, right radicular pain, and numbness in the perineal area. …”
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Exploring the Ancient Persian/Unani Theory of Connection between Gastrointestinal and Respiratory Tracts: Current Evidence and Future Directions by Shahin Saeidinejat, Syed Mohd Abbas Zaidi, Alireza Ranjbar, Alireza Derakhshan

“…In this regard numerous scattered studies have shown a relationship between upper and lower respiratory disorders and gastrointestinal symptoms.  …”
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Influence of base plate preheating temperature on fatigue strength of AISI 4140 manufactured by laser powder bed fusion by Philipp Schüßler, Benjamin Dollhofer, Christian Krämer, Lukas Englert, Frauke Hinrichs, Volker Schulze, Stefan Dietrich

“…The results show that a fully martensitic structure provides superior fatigue resistance, while the mixed microstructure batch displayed reduced toughness and fatigue strength due to tempered martensite embrittlement (TME), which occurred at lower hardness compared to conventionally treated steels. …”
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A Mathematical Algorithm of Locomotive Source Localization Based on Hyperbolic Technique by Homayun Kabir, Jeevan Kanesan, Ahmed Wasif Reza, Harikrishnan Ramiah

“…The proposed method achieved the theoretical lower bound for near to far field with same and different velocity and different baseline of sensors in low to moderate noise.…”
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Fatigue crack growth of composite patch repaired Al-alloy plates under variable amplitude loading by Fatima Zohra Seriari, Mustapha Benachour, Mohamed Benguediab

“…Retardation effect was neglected for lower overload ratio (ORL>1.8). Comparison in fatigue life and crack growth rates under the same overload ratio (ORL=2.4) between repaired and unrepaired plates show the supplementary beneficial effects in combination of overloading and patch repair…”
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Prediction and Analysis of Slope Stability Based on IPSO-SVM Machine Learning Model by Yu Wang, Erxia Du, Sanqiang Yang, Li Yu

“…The results show that the maximum relative error of the IPSO-SVM model is only 1.3%, and the average relative error is 1.1%, which is far lower than the prediction error of the PSO-SVM model and SVM model; therefore, the prediction result of IPSO-SVM is the closest to the real value. …”
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Un chœur d’anges pour l’Assomption de la Vierge : étude du décor de la chapelle basse de la collégiale de Saint-Bonnet-le-Château offert par Anne Dauphine by Yuko Katsutani

“…This article aims to shed light on the history of the commission for the decoration of the lower chapel of the collegiate church of Saint-Bonnet-le-Château (1416-1417), combining angels musicians with the arms of the Dukes of Bourbon and belts bearing the motto « Hope ». …”
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Continuous Spinal Anesthesia following Inadvertent Dural Puncture during Epidural Placement for an Emergency Laparotomy by Andrew Emyedu, Bernadette Kyoheirwe, Patience Atumanya

“…It could be an alternative anesthesia technique for abdominal and lower limb surgeries following an accidental dural puncture. …”
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Nickel in Soil Modifies Sensitivity to Diazinon Measured by the Activity of Acetylcholinesterase, Catalase, and Glutathione S-Transferase in Earthworm Eisenia fetida by Agnieszka Zawisza-Raszka, Bogdan Dolezych

“…Cocoons production and juveniles’ number were significantly lower only in groups exposed to Ni in the concentration of 900 mg/kg dry soil for two months. …”
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