“Knotted electrical wire with a glass tube at the top as a foreign body in a male urethra: a case report” by Arian Karimi Rouzbahani, Bahar Amiri, Ahad Fazeli, Behzad Yousefi Yeganeh

“…Conclusion When the urethra is too narrow for an adult cystoscope, a pediatric cystoscope can be a considerable intervention option.…”
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Photocatalytic Properties of Tin Oxide and Antimony-Doped Tin Oxide Nanoparticles by J. C. M. Brokken-Zijp, O. L. J. van Asselen, W. E. Kleinjan, R. van de Belt, G. de With

“…By using illumination wavelengths with a very narrow band width we determined the influence of the incident wavelength of light, the Sb- and N-doping, and the methacrylate (MPS) surface grafting on the quantum efficiencies for the initiating radical formation (Φ) and on the polymer and particle network formation. …”
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«YOLO – you only live once»: by Berit Johnsen, Vidar Skogvoll, Tom Normann

“…Further analyses showed extensive use of AAS in combination with other narcotics, especially amphetamine. According to a typology developed by Christiansen et al. (2017), the uncritical use of AAS, without any consideration for its potentially serious side effects, can be understood as »YOLO – You Only Live Once«. …”
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Quantifying Uncertainty in State Estimation: The MoK-FoBS Method via Interval Analysis by Yuting Chen, Ning Zhou, Ziang Zhang

“…A comparative analysis reveals that the MoK-FoBS method can achieve narrower state boundaries than the FBP method, thereby improving estimation precision.…”
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Quantum magnetometry of transient signals with a time resolution of 1.1 nanoseconds by K. Herb, L. A. Völker, J. M. Abendroth, N. Meinhardt, L. van Schie, P. Gambardella, C. L. Degen

“…Existing protocols primarily focus on static fields or narrow-band dynamical signals, and are optimized for high sensitivity rather than fast time resolution. …”
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Photocatalytical Properties and Theoretical Analysis of N, Cd-Codoped TiO2 Synthesized by Thermal Decomposition Method by Hongtao Gao, Bing Lu, Fangfang Liu, Yuanyuan Liu, Xian Zhao

“…Due to dopants, the band gap of N, Cd-codoped TiO2 became narrow. The electronic transition from the valence band to conduction band became easy, which could account for the observed photocatalytic performance of N, Cd-codoped TiO2. …”
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Orgasm. On the flux and flow of a term through times and spaces by Christina Goestl

“…This development has also always been criticized as a normative physiological construct whose fixation on genitalia and function narrows our understanding of the pleasures and joys of sexual bodies. …”
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Multi-resource constrained elective surgical scheduling with Nash equilibrium toward smart hospitals by Jun Xue, Zhi Li, Shuangli Zhang

“…Experimental studies were carried out to test the performance of the proposed approach, and the performance of the proposed surgical scheduling scheme was validated. Finally, to narrow the gap between the optimal surgical scheduling solution and actual hospital operations, digital twin (DT) technology is adopted to build a physical-virtual hospital surgery simulation model. …”
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Deterioration of Li-doped phenanthroline-based charge generation layer for tandem organic light-emitting diodes by Ki Ju Kim, Sunwoo Kang, Taekyung Kim

“…Moreover, the exponential trap distribution model analysis informed that the Li diffusion is expedited toward narrowing depletion width in the CGL. Diffusion of Li and thermal effect to the diffusion was experimentally observed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) depth profiling. …”
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The New TLC Method for Separation and Determination of Multicomponent Mixtures of Plant Extracts by Elżbieta Matysik, Anna Woźniak, Roman Paduch, Robert Rejdak, Beata Polak, Helena Donica

“…Short distance development of sample in the first dimension leads to formation of the preconcentrated narrow zones. They are consecutively separated in the second dimension with the mobile phase gradient in several steps of development until the eluent reaches the further end of the chromatographic plate. …”
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Savolainen’s everyday information practices: concept and development by Xinyue Wang

“…This study first summarised the concept of everyday information practice from a dual perspective that distinguished between narrow and broad perspectives and then proposed its development characteristics and future trends. …”
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Retreat of the Greenland Ice Sheet leads to divergent patterns of reconfiguration at its freshwater and tidewater margins by Jonathan Ryan, Theo Ross, Sarah Cooley, Dominik Fahrner, Nicole Abib, Victoria Benson, David Sutherland

“…During our 1990–2019 study period, we find that the length of ice-sheet perimeter in contact with the ocean shrank by 12.3 ± 3.8% (196.2 ± 10.4 km), due to the retreat of marine-terminating glaciers into narrower fjords. On the other hand, we find that the length of the ice-sheet perimeter in contact with freshwater lakes exhibited more divergent trends that is better explored at regional scales. …”
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Asymptotic expansion in the zones of large deviations in terms of Lyapunov's fractions by Leonas Saulis

“… Tarkime, kad atsitiktiniai dyžiai (at.d.) ξj su vidurkiais  Eξj = 0 ir dispersijomis σj2 = E ξj2 > 0,  j =  1, 2, ... , n, tenkina sąlygą: ∃ dydžiai γ > 0 ir τn > 0 tokie, kad Liapunovo trupmenos Lk, n := ∑j =1n E|ξj|k/ Bnk ≤ (k!)…”
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Motives for economic migration: A review by Kerstin Mitterbacher

“…This paper focuses on economic migrants, a particular group of migrants whose study has primarily been confined to narrow areas of interest and characterized by inconsistent terminology, limiting cross-study comparability and the synthesis of findings. …”
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La vie scolaire comme espace d’éducation entre 1960 et 1968 : liberté, conformité, neutralité ? by Céline Chauvigné

“…How then can these two models be reconciled within the narrow confines of the school form? How can this new deal, in its opposition to certain orientations of the Ferry republican school, find its place in the educational system? …”
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Surgical Orthodontic Treatment of a Patient Affected by Type 1 Myotonic Dystrophy (Steinert Syndrome) by Laura Cacucci, Beatrice Ricci, Maria Moretti, Giulio Gasparini, Sandro Pelo, Cristina Grippaudo

“…We present a case report of a 15-year-old boy with anterior open bite, upper and lower dental crowding, bilateral crossbite, and constriction of the upper jaw with a high and narrow palate. The patient’s need was to improve his quality of life. …”
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Devenir victimes : quand des femmes témoignent pour la reconnaissance et la réparation des souffrances subies au Bon Pasteur by Hanan Sfalti

“…Most of them spent several years between the narrow walls of the religious institution, suffering institutional violence and sometimes abuse. …”
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Social Mobility in the Balkans: Border Policing Practices Are Potentially Letting Through Mostly the Members of the “Elite Club” by Tibor Bardóczy

“…Naturally, migration cannot be narrowed down to one discipline, it equally concerns economics and sociology, as well as criminology and police science. …”
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xStripeMerge: efficient wide stripe generation approach based on erasure coding storage by Meiguang ZHENG, Taofei HUA, Xinyu ZHANG, Zhigang HU

“…To address the issue of wide stripe generation in existing erasure coding storage systems, where storage scaling approaches resulted in a significant increase in wide stripe generation bandwidth and stripe merge scheme was constrained by dual-stripes, an efficient wide stripe generation approach was proposed for the wide stripe generation problem under multi stripes merging.Two key operators for the multi-stripes merging progress were defined, and the wide stripe generation problem was modeled as a combinatorial optimization problem.The efficient wide stripe generation approach xStripeMerge was proposed that prioritize the search for narrow-stripes combining schemes with small parity block transmission costs.Experimental results show that xStripeMerge can reduce the wide stripe generation bandwidth by 75% compared to the advanced storage scaling method.The time and space complexity of xStripeMerge is much better than that of the extended dual-stripes merge approach.xStripeMerge can get the wide stripe generation scheme with similar performance in a shorter period of time and it is also suitable for large-scale storage systems.…”
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Effect of additon amount of carbon black on curing characteristics, physical and mechanical properties, and dynamic mechanical properties of tetrafluoroethylene-propylene rubber by GONG Zi-qing, LI Bo, HE Lian-cheng, HUANG Xi-dai, ZHAO Hong-guo, WU Yu, HU Hai-hua, ZHOU Lei

“…With the increase in the addition amount of carbon black, the glass transition region of the vulcanizates became narrow significantly, the glass transition temperature moved to the low temperature direction, and meanwhile the loss factor at 200 ℃ increased, both the storage modulus and loss modulus first increased and then remained essentially constant. …”
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