Ex vivo validation of magnetically actuated intravascular untethered robots in a clinical setting by Leendert-Jan W. Ligtenberg, Nicole C. A. Rabou, Constantinos Goulas, Wytze C. Duinmeijer, Frank R. Halfwerk, Jutta Arens, Roger Lomme, Veronika Magdanz, Anke Klingner, Emily A. M. Klein Rot, Colin H. E. Nijland, Dorothee Wasserberg, H. Remco Liefers, Pascal Jonkheijm, Arturo Susarrey-Arce, Michiel Warlé, Islam S. M. Khalil

“…Existing tools often lack control during insertion due to undesirable bending, limiting vessel accessibility and risking tissue damage. …”
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Ultra-high performance concrete: A review of its material properties and usage in shield tunnel segment by Fangyuan Niu, Yuhang Liu, Fangchen Xue, Hao Sun, Tong Liu, Haijun He, Xuguang Kong, Yunteng Chen, Hongjian Liao

“…The overall structural characteristics, segment joints, positive and negative bending moments of the segment are analyzed respectively. …”
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Development and Performance Analysis of Pneumatic Soft-Bodied Bionic Actuator by Wenchuan Zhao, Yu Zhang, Ning Wang

“…According to the physical model of the pneumatic soft-bodied bionic actuator, the motion and dynamic characteristics of the actuator are tested and analyzed, the curves of motion and dynamic characteristics of the actuator are obtained, and the empirical formula of the bending angle and driving torque of the actuator is fitted out. …”
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Hofmusici a lokajové. K postavení hudebníka na šlechtickém dvoře v Čechách první poloviny 18. století by Václav Kapsa

“…The status of a musician in a nobleman’s service is exemplified by three Kapellen from Bohemia in the 1720s; attention is paid especially to the origin of the musicians, their salaries and their positions in the hierarchy of court employees. While the private band of Count Franz Anton Sporck was a typical servant ensemble, counts Wenzel Morzin and Franz Joseph Czernin employed professional musicians more extensively. …”
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Meshing Behavior and Vibration Response of a Gear Pair Involving Eccentricity Errors by Yuanyuan Yi, Liang Xuan, Xin Tan, Lijun Meng, Shuaishuai Ge

“…To explore the influence of eccentricity errors on the dynamic characteristics of gear transmissions，a six-degree-of-freedom bending-torsional coupling vibration model of a spur gear pair with eccentricity error excitations is established by using the dynamics software Adams. …”
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Wind Turbine Clutter Mitigation in Coastal UHF Radar by Jing Yang, Chao Pan, Caijun Wang, Dapeng Jiang, Biyang Wen

“…The size of a wind turbine is much larger than the wavelength of radio waves at UHF band, which results in large radar cross section. …”
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A New Method of Fault Feature Extraction Based on Hierarchical Dispersion Entropy by Peng Chen, Xiaoqiang Zhao, HongMei Jiang

“…Hierarchical dispersion entropy can realize the comprehensive feature extraction of the high- and low-frequency band information of vibration signals and overcome the problems that dispersion entropy and multiscale dispersion entropy are insufficient to extract the fault feature information of vibration signals. …”
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The Effects of Multipropped Deep Excavation-Induced Ground Movements on Adjacent High-Rise Building Founded on Piled Raft in Sand by Mukhtiar Ali Soomro, Naeem Mangi, Wen-Chieh Cheng, Dildar Ali Mangnejo

“…An advanced hypoplastic sand model (which is capable of taking small-strain stiffness into account) was adopted to capture soil behaviour. …”
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Empedobacter brevis Bacteremia in a Patient Infected with HIV: Case Report and Review of Literature by Syed Bokhari, Naeem Abbas, Manisha Singh, Richard B. Cindrich, Cosmina Zeana

“…His total leukocyte count was 32,000 cells/μL with 82% neutrophils and 9% bands. Emergent colonoscopy and endoscopic esophagogastroduodenoscopy showed esophageal candidiasis, a nonbleeding gastric ulcer, and diverticulosis. …”
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Mission Overview and Initial Observation Results of the X-Ray Pulsar Navigation-I Satellite by Xinyuan Zhang, Ping Shuai, Liangwei Huang, Shaolong Chen, Lihong Xu

“…With the grazing-incidence focusing type instrument working at the soft X-ray band (0.5–10 keV), up to 162 segments of observations of the Crab pulsar are fulfilled, and more than 5 million X-ray events are recorded. …”
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Multiaxial fatigue of in-service aluminium longerons for helicopter rotor-blades by A. Shanyavskiy, A. Toushentsov

“…Complicated case of in-service blades multiaxial cyclically bending-rotating and tension can be considered based on introduced earlier master curve constructed for aluminum alloys in the simple case of uniaxial tension with stress R-ratio near to zero. …”
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Yagi Array of Microstrip Quarter-Wave Patch Antennas with Microstrip Lines Coupling by Juhua Liu, Yue Kang, Jie Chen, Yunliang Long

“…A new kind of Yagi array of quarter-wave patch antennas is presented. …”
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A CPW-Fed Quasi-PIFA Antenna Using Quasi-Lumped Resonators for Mobile Phones by Majid Rafiee, Mohd Fadzil bin Ain, Aftanasar Md. Shahar

“…The proposed antenna is suitable for use in Long Term Evolution band 7. The operating frequency of introduced antenna depends on the number of interdigital fingers and inductor length rather than the total resonator patch only, so that the operating frequency can be altered while the total patch size remains unchanged. …”
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Meckel's diverticulum as a cause of mechanical intestinal obstruction in an adult. A case report by Indira Noa Lores, Yodanky Ochoa Rodríguez, Yolexi Laborí Columbié

“…She was hospitalized with a presumptive diagnosis of mechanical intestinal occlusion due to post-surgical bands and an exploratory laparotomy was performed, with a diagnostic finding of an inflamed Meckel's diverticulum. …”
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FATIGUE LIFE PREDICTION OF NOTCHED STRUCTURE USING COMBINED CRITICAL PLANE-CRITICAL DISTANCE APPROACH (MT) by LIAO Ding, ZHU ShunPeng, GAO JieWei, NIU XiaoPeng, HE JinChao

“…Results show that the proposed model can overcome the conservative estimation problem when performing fatigue lifing based on the stress-strain data of critical points, with all predicted fatigue lives within two-time error bands. Finally, the method was applied to the fatigue life prediction of a turbine compressor disc.…”
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Effect of Ground Motion Orientation on Seismic Responses of an Asymmetric Stress Ribbon Pedestrian Bridge by Yi Zhang, Wuchuan Pu, Qishuo Zhang, Kaiwen Liu, Hua Dong

“…A typical double-span asymmetric stress ribbon pedestrian bridge was introduced as a prototype, and nonlinear time history analysis was performed to investigate the effect of ground motion orientation on the structural responses. Non-pulse-type and pulse-type ground motions were considered, and the influence of vertical ground motions was investigated. …”
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Flexible Microwave Tag System Based on DGS Multiple Resonators by Seok-Jae Lee, Jongsik Lim, Dal Ahn, Sang-Min Han

“…The resonator implemented on the rear side of a transmission line has the advantages of excellent band notch characteristics as well as bit-error avoidance from the frequency selective reflection. …”
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Multiaxial fatigue of in-service aluminium longerons for helicopter rotor-blades by A. Shanyavskiy, A. Toushentsov

“…Complicated case of in-service blades multiaxial cyclically bending-rotating and tension can be considered based on introduced earlier master curve constructed for aluminum alloys in the simple case of uniaxial tension with stress R-ratio near to zero. …”
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Diagnosis of induction motor stator faults around rotor slot harmonics using the Matrix Pencil method by Mohamed Kouadria, Zakaria Chedjara, Chun-Lien Su, Mohamed Benbouzid, Josep M. Guerrero, Babul Salam KSM Kader Ibrahim, Hafiz Ahmed

“…Furthermore, to optimize the calculation time of this method, the article suggests focusing the analysis only on the frequency band corresponding to the first rotor slot harmonics. …”
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Novel cooperative global spectrum sensing algorithm based on variational Bayesian inference by Ming WU, Tie-cheng SONG, Jing HU, Lian-feng SHEN

“…Meanwhile, the relationship between SNR and the leakage of ag-gregate spurious power (LASP)was pointed out, and the influence of SNR and LASP on MSE performance was also discussed. …”
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