Physical Activity, Obesity, and Hypertension among Adults in a Rapidly Urbanised City by Qianqian Dun, Wanglin Xu, Maozhen Fu, Nengjian Wu, Justin B. Moore, Ting Yu, Xin Li, Yating Du, Biao Zhang, Qiaomai Wang, Yiting Duan, Ziqi Meng, Shuangshuang Tian, Yuliang Zou

“…Few studies have explored the relationship between the level of physical activity and the occurrence or prevalence of obesity and hypertension among people residing in urbanised areas. …”
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Transgenerational Obesity and Alteration of ARHGEF11 in the Rat Liver Induced by Intrauterine Hyperglycemia by Wanyi Zhang, Rina Su, Hui Feng, Li Lin, Chen Wang, Huixia Yang

“…It is understood that intrauterine hyperglycemia increases the risk of obesity and diabetes in offspring of consecutive generations but its mechanisms remain obscure. …”
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Importance of Distribution Type on Bearing Capacity of an Embedded Foundation in Spatially Varying Soils by Jiwei Han, Xiaoming Liu, Yongxin Wu, Xuhui Zhou

“…The objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of soil variability on bearing capacity of an embedded foundation in the presence of nonstationary undrained shear strength. …”
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A Reliability-Based Design of Africa-Birch Timber-Reinforced Concrete Beams by Alhassan Aliyu Abdulrazaq, Uwemedimo Nyong Wilson, John Engbonye Sani, Ibrahim Rabiu

“… This study investigates the reliability-based design of African-Birch (AB) timber-reinforced concrete beams. This study investigated Some of the physical and engineering properties of the constituent materials for the reinforced concrete beams were tested and preparing the reinforcement in four different composition and configurations (steel-steel, Steel- AB, AB-Steel, and AB-AB) of the beams were prepared, cast and cured for varying durations (3, 7, 14, 21, and 28 days), and the concrete was tested for its flexural strength and deflection and consequently  reliability analysis (in terms of  flexural strength and deflection) of all the beam configurations using First Order Reliability Analysis-5 (FORM5) to assess the beam performance was carried out. …”
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Reliability Assessment of Steel-Concrete Composite Beams considering Metal Corrosion Effects by Trong-Ha Nguyen, Duy-Duan Nguyen

“…Steel-concrete composite (SCC) beams have been widely used in civil engineering and industrial structures. …”
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Influence of Bearing Stiffness on the Nonlinear Dynamics of a Shaft-Final Drive System by Xu Jinli, Wan Lei, Luo Wenxin

“…The bearing stiffness has a considerable influence on the nonlinear coupling vibration characteristics of the shaft-final drive system. …”
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Cone-Beam Computed Tomography and Radiographs in Dentistry: Aspects Related to Radiation Dose by Diego Coelho Lorenzoni, Ana Maria Bolognese, Daniela Gamba Garib, Fabio Ribeiro Guedes, Eduardo Franzotti Sant’Anna

“…The aim of this study was to discuss the radiation doses associated with plain radiographs, cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), and conventional computed tomography (CT) in dentistry, with a special focus on orthodontics. …”
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Natural Frequencies of a Cracked Beam Coupled with a Compressible Sloshing Fluid by Michele Di Sciuva, Cecilia Surace

“…This article describes studies into the flexural vibration of a cracked cantilevered beam in contact with a non-viscous fluid. The crack has been represented by a mass-less rotational spring, the flexibility of which has been calculated using linear fracture mechanics. …”
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Flexural Behavior of Fiber-Reinforced Self-Stressing Concrete T-Shaped Composite Beams by Boxin Wang, Ruichang Fang, Qing Wang

“…Given the excellent crack resistance performance of steel fiber-reinforced self-stressing concrete (SFRSSC), the bending performance of some composite beams with SFRSSC laminated layers was studied. The experiment conducted in this study comprised a single-span composite beam test (including 3 test beams) and a two-span continuous composite beam test (including 2 test beams). …”
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Bionic Design of the Bumper Beam Inspired by the Bending and Energy Absorption Characteristics of Bamboo by Meng Zou, Jiafeng Song, Shucai Xu, Shengfu Liu, Zhiyong Chang

“…Based on that, a series of bionic bumper beams were designed inspired by the bamboo node. …”
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An Investigation on Mechanical Behavior of Tooth-Plate-Glass-Fiber Hybrid Sandwich Beams by Honglei Xie, Li Wan, Bo Wang, Haiping Pei, Weiqing Liu, Kong Yue, Lu Wang

“…Bending properties and interlaminar properties of TFS beams with various foam densities were investigated by flexural tests and DCB (double cantilever beam) tests. …”
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Effect of Pesticides on Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (PPARs) and Their Association with Obesity and Diabetes by J. Hernández-Valdez, A. Velázquez-Zepeda, J. C. Sánchez-Meza

“…Obesity and diabetes mellitus are considered the most important diseases of the XXI century. …”
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Development of BRS-Pontal beans growing with treated domestic wastewater in protected environment by Raimundo Gomes Filho, Silvaneide Silva, Clayton Carvalho, Gregorio Faccioli, Tatiana Nunes, Simone Feitosa, Leonaria Carvalho

“…Purpose To evaluate the development of beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), variety of BRS Pontal, in protected environment, irrigated with different irrigation levels due to crop evapotranspiration (ETc) and concentrations of treated domestic wastewater. …”
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Double Charmonium Productions in Electron-Positron Annihilation Using Bethe-Salpeter Approach by Hluf Negash, Shashank Bhatnagar

“…We calculate the double charmonium production cross-section within the framework of 4×4 Bethe-Salpeter Equation in the electron-positron annihilation, at center of mass energy s=10.6GeV, that proceeds through the exchange of a single virtual photon. …”
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Finite Element Modeling of FRP-Strengthened RC Beam under Sustained Load by Shiyong Jiang, Weilai Yao, Jin Chen, Tao Cai

“…Based on concrete smeared-crack approach, this paper presents a finite-element (FE) model for predicting long-term behavior of FRP-strengthened RC beam, which considers the time-dependent properties of all components including the aging effect of concrete. …”
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Prevalence of complications and comorbidities associated with obesity: a health insurance claims analysis by Jay P. Bae, David R. Nelson, Kristina S. Boye, Kieren J. Mather

Subjects: “…Obesity…”
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Organomineral fertilizer based on wood ash in bean cultivation in acidic tropical soil by Rackel Danielly de Souza Alves, Edna Maria Bonfim-Silva, Tonny José Araújo da Silva, Jakeline Rosa de Oliveira, Jholian Maicon Ribeiro-Santos, Luana Aparecida Menegaz Meneghetti

“…Research Highlights • Eucalyptus sp. ash has positive agronomic effects for cowpeas; • The effects of ash and organominerals on soil pH are observed in the short term; • The non-granulated organomineral provides greater productivity for cowpeas; • Ash and organominerals reduce bean nodules as the dose of lime increases; • Organomineral is an alternative fertilizer for growing cowpeas …”
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Consistency between the geographic distributions of overweight and obesity among children and adults in China by Yudan Liu, Hui Fan

Subjects: “…Obesity…”
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A Dynamic Stiffness Element for Free Vibration Analysis of Delaminated Layered Beams by Nicholas H. Erdelyi, Seyed M. Hashemi

“…A dynamic stiffness element for flexural vibration analysis of delaminated multilayer beams is developed and subsequently used to investigate the natural frequencies and modes of two-layer beam configurations. …”
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Forced Vibration of Delaminated Timoshenko Beams under the Action of Moving Oscillatory Mass by M.H. Kargarnovin, M.T. Ahmadian, R.A. Jafari-Talookolaei

“…This paper presents the dynamic response of a delaminated composite beam under the action of a moving oscillating mass. …”
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