Experimental research on mechanical and impact properties of ceramsite prepared from secondary aluminum dross and municipal solid waste incineration ash by Wangze He, Yufei Yang, Xinghan Zhu, Jinzhong Yang, Yingjie Sun, Qifei Huang

“…In this research, ceramsite is prepared using SAD, MSWIFA, and municipal solid waste incineration bottom ash (MSWIBA) as raw materials. …”
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Heterogeneous association of health with patient and general practice characteristics by region, age and chronic condition: pooled cross-sectional study of patient-level data from... by Hugh Gravelle, Yan Feng, Vladimir Sergeevich Gordeev

“…Ordinary least-squares multiple regression models of patient health estimated on the full sample and on eight condition-specific, nine region-specific and six age-specific subsamples. …”
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Numerical Analysis of the Influence of Deep Foundation Pit Construction on Adjacent Subway Stations in Soft Soil Areas by Tao Yang, Shengyuan Xiong, Shuailei Liu, Yang Liu, Hao Zhao, Yanwei Li

“…The maximum positive bending moment of the common diaphragm wall changed little, while the negative bending moment increased greatly during construction. …”
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Multiplanar Semicircular New-Generation Implant System Developed for Proximal Femur Periprosthetic Fractures: A Biomechanical Study by Ahmet Burak Satılmış, Ahmet Ülker, Zafer Uzunay, Tolgahan Cengiz, Abdurrahim Temiz, Mustafa Yaşar, Tansel Mutlu, Uygar Daşar

“…All fixation methods were subjected to axial loading, lateral bending, and torsional force testing using an MTS biomechanical testing device. …”
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Measured Analysis of Noise Reduction Effect for Urban Rapid Rail Transit Viaducts by LU Sheng’an, LIN Haifeng

“…At the position 7.5 meters away from the track center line and 7.5 meters above the rail surface, the A-weighted level in the 500 Hz and 800-1 000 Hz frequency bands are respectively reduced by 6 to 11 dB(A) and 17 to 21 dB(A). …”
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Cluster Candidates with Massive Quiescent Galaxies at z ∼ 2 by Tomokazu Kiyota, Makoto Ando, Masayuki Tanaka, Alexis Finoguenov, Sadman Shariar Ali, Jean Coupon, Guillaume Desprez, Stephen Gwyn, Marcin Sawicki, Rhythm Shimakawa

“…We construct a photometric redshift catalog based on deep ( i  ∼ 26, K _s  ∼ 24) multiwavelength photometry from the u * band to the K band gathered from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program and other collaborative/public surveys. …”
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ASMENS TAPATUMAS by Alphonso Lingis

“…It thus makes it seem as if we were dealing with a certain class or type of creature, when in fact we are vaguely considering those human beings who pass some mark on a scale."1Kant sets aside the ways the term dignity is used in the fullness of conversation and discourse to narrow it down to designate something that is and end in itself. …”
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ASMENS TAPATUMAS by Alphonso Lingis

“…It thus makes it seem as if we were dealing with a certain class or type of creature, when in fact we are vaguely considering those human beings who pass some mark on a scale."1Kant sets aside the ways the term dignity is used in the fullness of conversation and discourse to narrow it down to designate something that is and end in itself. …”
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Serum NFL and neuropsychological performance over ∼8 years in women with and without HIV: a longitudinal repeated measures studyResearch in context by Deborah R. Gustafson, Xuantao Li, Alison E. Baird, Henrik Zetterberg, Kaj Blennow, Jinbing Zhang, Amanda Blair Spence, Pauline Maki, Anjali Sharma, Kathleen Weber, Recai Yucel

“…MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study (MWCCS) (Principal Investigators: Bronx CRS (Kathryn Anastos, David Hanna, and Anjali Sharma), U01-HL146204; Brooklyn CRS (Deborah Gustafson and Tracey Wilson), U01-HL146202; Data Analysis and Coordination Center (Gypsyamber D'Souza, Stephen Gange and Elizabeth Topper), U01-HL146193; Chicago–Cook County CRS (Mardge Cohen and Audrey French), U01-HL146245; Northern California CRS (Bradley Aouizerat, Jennifer Price, and Phyllis Tien), U01-HL146242; Metropolitan Washington CRS (Seble Kassaye and Daniel Merenstein), U01-HL146205. The MWCCS is funded primarily by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), with additional co-funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), and in coordination and alignment with the research priorities of the National Institutes of Health, Office of AIDS Research (OAR). …”
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Introducing the SMAP L4 Products and Investigating the Spatio-Temporal Variability of Soil Moisture in Iran by Ebrahim Asadi Oskouei, Leila Godarzy, Jalil Helali

“…Results: Based on the findings of this study, 6 -year average of surface soil moisture (depth < 5 cm) indicates that surface soil moisture in the country ranged from 0.005 to 0.538 m3m-3 and the average surface moisture of the country was 0.137 m3m-3 during the mentioned period. …”
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Properties of 3D Double-Arrow Negative Poisson’s Ratio Lattice Structure under Quasi-Static Compression and Low-Speed Impact by Fuzhen Sun, Meng Liu, Baoming Wang, Na Yang, Jianfeng Wang, Keqian Cai, Zizhi Liu

“…The performances of the lattice structures with different parameters were compared and analyzed under different test conditions, including out-of-plane compression, three-point bending, and low-speed impact. The findings reported here pave the way for the development of new 3D auxetic materials with significantly expanded design space and potential applications by reducing the difficulty of the manufacturing process.…”
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Elliptical Ring Antenna Excited by Circular Disc Monopole for UWB Communications by Krittaya Nakprasit, Arnon Sakonkanapong, Chuwong Phongcharoenpanich

“…The antenna also exhibits low pulse distortion with the correlation factors (ρ) of 0.98 and 0.93 for the fifth-order derivative Gaussian pulse and modulated Gaussian pulse with 6 GHz band rejection. The CDM-excited elliptical ring antenna possesses several attractive features, including wide bandwidth, flat gain, compactness, low cost, and low distortion.…”
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A Novel L-Shape Ultra Wideband Chipless Radio-Frequency Identification Tag by Khaled Issa, Muhammad A. Ashraf, Mohammed R. AlShareef, Hatim Behairy, Saleh Alshebeili, Habib Fathallah

“…The proposed RFID tag operates over 5 GHz to 10 GHz frequency band. As a proof of concept, three different 18-bit dual-polarized RFID tags are simulated, fabricated, and tested in an anechoic chamber environment. …”
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Time and frequency domain models for multiaxial fatigue life estimation under random loading by Andrea Carpinteri, Andrea Spagnoli, Camilla Ronchei, Sabrina Vantadori

“…Engineering structures and components are often subjected to random fatigue loading produced, for example, by wind turbulences, marine waves and vibrations. The methods available in the literature for fatigue assessment under random loading are formulated in time domain or, alternatively, in frequency domain. …”
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Broadband SiN Interleaver With a Ring Assisted MZI Using a Tapered MMI Coupler by Laaya Sabri, Ranim El Ahdab, Frederic Nabki, Michael Menard

“…Furthermore, it removes the need for thermal tuning of the coupling region, which reduces the power consumption and overall size of the device. …”
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Enhanced Performance of DSSCs Based on the Insertion Energy Level of CdS Quantum Dots by Xiaoping Zou, Zhe Sun

“…In the structure of TiO2/CdS/N719 electrode, the reorganization of energy levels between CdS and N719 forms a stepwise structure of band-edge levels which is advantageous to the electron injection and hole recovery of CdS and N719 QDs. …”
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« Pieds Noirs Rythmes : un orchestre de détenus OAS dans le “Sing-Sing” français » by Jean-Claude Vimont

“…It is thanks to photographies secretly taken by one the prisoners, Armand Belvisi, that this forgotten band has recently been brought back to our memories.…”
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Research of the Influence of Tooth Surface Wear and Bearing Clearance on Gear Dynamics by Kaida Wang, Ruiliang Zhang, Tie Wang, Yatian Zhou, Fei Wang

“…Tooth surface wear and bearing clearance are important factors affecting gear system dynamics, in order to reveal the influence of tooth wears and bearing clearance on the dynamics of gear system, a six-degree-of-freedom bending-torsion coupled model is established, which takes into account the tooth surface wear, bearing clearance, friction and backlash. …”
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Effective Antenna Modellings for NF-FF Transformations with Spherical Scanning Using the Minimum Number of Data by Francesco D'Agostino, Flaminio Ferrara, Claudio Gennarelli, Rocco Guerriero, Massimo Migliozzi

“…In particular, an antenna with a predominant dimension is no longer considered as enclosed in a sphere but in a cylinder ended in two half spheres, whereas a surface formed by two circular “bowls” with the same aperture diameter but different lateral bends is adopted to shape an antenna with two predominant dimensions. …”
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Fabrication and characterization of the flexible three-layered thin film composites based on MXene/Fe3O4/MWCNT for electromagnetic shielding applications by Mariam Mansoori, Shaohong Luo, Daniel Choi

“…The multilayer exhibits an EMI SET of 48 dB, SEA of more than 33 dB, and low SER of 15 dB in the X-band frequencies range, significantly enhanced compared to the single-layered materials for EMI applications.…”
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