Effect of Heat Treatment and Titanium Addition on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Cast Fe31Mn28 Ni15Al24.5Tix High-Entropy Alloys by Shimaa El-Hadad, Mervat Ibrahim, Mohamed Mourad

“…Heat treatment at 900°C for 10 h enhanced the hardness at lower Ti percentages (0.0–0.8 wt.%) by decreasing the lamellar spacing, while no change was observed at higher Ti content. …”
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The diagonal tensile strength of corner joints constructed with different connectors by Merve Fatma Akbaş, Halil Karatay, Mesut Uysal

“…The joints with minifix connectors had strength and stiffness of 2-3 times lower than others. Moreover, the end distance of 75 mm provided slightly higher joint strength and stiffness compared to those of 50 mm but was not statistically significant. …”
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An Evaluation of River Health for the Weihe River in Shaanxi Province, China by Jinxi Song, Dandong Cheng, Qi Li, Xingjun He, Yongqing Long, Bo Zhang

“…Moreover, the most sensitive factors were determined, respectively, for each reach from upper stream to lower stream in the study area.…”
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Self-attitude of young people using and not using makeup by A. S. Ivanov, I. V. Antonenko, M. V. Iontseva

“…The group applying makeup is characterized by a lower self-attitude, self-guidance and self-esteem. …”
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An Innovative Linear Wireless Sensor Network Reliability Evaluation Algorithm by Tao Ma, Huidong Guo, Xin Li

“…Compared to Multi-Valued Decision Diagram (MDD)-based evaluation algorithms, this method is suitable for large-scale LWSNs and offers lower time complexity.…”
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Mān on the Referentiality Continuum in Thai by Kaenmuang, Jinawat, Piyamahapong, Piroon, Pittayaporn, Pittayawat

“…The analysis reveals that the referentiality of the pronoun mān is not dichotomous but instead lies on a continuum in which one end expresses semantic referentiality with an explicit antecedent with a higher level of referent concreteness, and the other expresses pragmatic referentiality with an implicit antecedent with a lower level of referent concreteness. Additionally, different types of referential expressions–verb phrases, clauses, and discourse–and ambiguous cases among them strongly support the notion of gradience of referentiality.…”
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Research on the Low Frequency Broadband Piezoelectric-Magnetostrictive Hybrid Transducer by Duo Teng, Ning Zhu

“…The effective ways for underwater transducer to lower its operating frequency, to broaden its bandwidth, and to develop its miniaturization are investigated. …”
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Current Trends in Treatment for Acid-Dependent Diseases: Clinical Efficacy and Safety of Rabeprazole by O. D. Lopina, B. K. Nurgalieva, T. L. Lapina

“…Rabeprazole provides a rapid proton pump blockade in parietal cells due to its high dissociation constant (pKa). A lower rabeprazole metabolic dependence on cytochrome P-450 enzyme system renders its antisecretory effect predictable and reduces the risk of interactions with other drugs metabolised through this system. …”
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Boys and Girls in the Classroom—About Didactical Perspectives in Similarities and Differences by Ingela Stenberg, Lena Boström

“…The lower academic performance of boys in compulsory school has long been a well-known fact, but only in the last decade has it been shown in the public debate. …”
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Investigation of Early Corrosion Behavior of Canister Candidate Materials in Oxic Groundwater by the EQCM Method by Gha-Young Kim, Sung-Wook Kim, Junhyuk Jang, Seok Yoon, Jin-Seop Kim

“…In the presence of chloride ions, the Ni and Ti electrodes did not reveal demonstrate any significant changes, whereas the SS304 electrode was slightly increased compared to an absence of chloride ions. A lower mass change occurred when the Cu electrode was immersed in the chloride-containing groundwater solution compared with the absence of chlorides because the dissolution of Cu as CuCl2− was involved in Cu2O formation.…”
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Socioeconomic characteristics of drivers versus pedestrians in pedestrian crashes by Antonio Giron, Xiaohan Gu, Robert J. Schneider

“…Most prominently, adult drivers often crash into children, and drivers from higher-income tracts are more likely to crash into pedestrians from lower-income tracts than the reverse. Our results underscore the importance of efforts to create more equitable pedestrian safety outcomes, particularly for children and low-income pedestrians. …”
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Submicrosecond Q-Switching Er-Doped All-Fiber Ring Laser Based on Black Phosphorus by Yao Cai, Yanliang He, Xiaoke Zhang, Rui Jiang, Chenliang Su, Ying Li

“…With increasing the pump power, the pulse repetition rate accreted gradually almost linearly from 9.78 to 61.25 kHz, and the pulse duration declined rapidly at lower pump power regime and retained approximate stationary at higher pump power regime from 3.05 to 0.742 μs. …”
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Acoustic Model with Multiple Lexicon Types for Indonesian Speech Recognition by Taufik Fuadi Abidin, Alim Misbullah, Ridha Ferdhiana, Laina Farsiah, Muammar Zikri Aksana, Hammam Riza

“…Utilizing the four lexicon types and increasing the data through augmentation to train the acoustic models can lower the word error rate percentage in the GMM-HMM, TDNN factorization (TDNNF), and CNN-TDNNF-augmented models to 40.85%, 24.96%, and 19.03%, respectively.…”
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Extension of continental lithosphere in rifted margins: a review of thinning mechanisms by Tugend, Julie, Mohn, Geoffroy, Duretz, Thibault, Petri, Benoit, Le Pourhiet, Laetitia

“…As already known, the activation of narrow or wide modes of lithospheric thinning depends on the rheological behaviour of the lower crust and its efficiency as a decoupling layer. …”
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Coxiella Endocarditis as the Cause of Recurrent Fever and Brain Abscess in a Patient with Complex Congenital Heart Disease: A Case Report and Literature Review by Ioannis A. Ziogas, Alexandros P. Evangeliou, Olga Tsachouridou, Alexandra Arvanitaki, Afroditi Tsona, Vassilios Kamperidis, Marianthi Papagianni, Theofilos Panagiotidis, Ilias A. Tourtounis, George Giannakoulas, Symeon Metallidis

“…We present the case of an 18-year-old male with a history of complex congenital heart disease and 3-year intermittent episodes of fever of unknown origin, who was referred to our hospital for upper and lower extremity focal seizures. Laboratory blood tests were normal, blood cultures were negative, and brain imaging revealed an abscess. …”
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STRUCTURAL STRENGTH AND RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF MW SCALE WIND TURBINE’S MAIN SHAFT by ZHOU XinJian, LI GuangXing, LI ZhiQiang

“…The results show that the structural reliability of the main shaft is 0.999 224 4, which is slightly lower than the required 0.999 9. According to the results of sensitivity analysis, improvement of the structural reliability can be achieved by increasing the mean of yield strength, decreasing the standard deviation of yield strength or increasing the mean of the size parameter R₂.…”
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Greek Preschool Teachers’ Professional Features and Their Knowledge and Views of the Official Standards of Early Writing Teaching by Filippos Tentolouris

“…Results – Two of the three null hypotheses cannot be supported and two statistically significant associations emerged: (a) teachers’ education level was associated with a comprehensive knowledge and use of the official standards, and (b) teachers with lower level academic qualifications and teaching experience of more than 10 years seem to reproduce a “phonics” approach. …”
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Chemical Profiling Ethyl Acetate Extract of <i>Basilicum polystachyon</i> Leaves and Exploration of Anticancer SIRT1 Inhibitors Using <i>In Silico</i> Approach by Tukiran Tukiran, Muhammad Raihan

“…Natural products are the primary source of medicinal compounds believed to have lower toxicity and side effects than synthetic drugs. …”
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Impact response of laminated cylindrical shells by Carlos Alexandre Campos Pais Coelho, Fábio V.P. Navalho, P.N.B. Reis

“…In terms of compressive static strength, the Kevlar hybrid shells present values 53.2% higher than the 6C shells, while the glass hybrid shells present values 17.3% lower. The impact analyses shows, regardless the similarity of the maximum loads for all configurations, that Kevlar hybrid shells achieved the highest elastic recuperation and the glass hybrid shells the maximum displacement.…”
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Systemic and Local CC Chemokines Production in a Murine Model of <emph>Listeria monocytogenes</emph> Infection

“…The ratio of brain-to-serum concentration of monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) remained the same as in the control animals, while it was lower in the infected mice, both in the case MIP-1<mml:math> <mml:mi>&#x03B1;</mml:mi> </mml:math> and in the case of regulated on activation, normal T cell expressed and secreted (RANTES). …”
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