Prevalence Rates and an Evaluation of Reported Risk Factors for Osteonecrosis (Avascular Necrosis) in Crohn’s Disease by Hugh J Freeman, Katy J Freeman

“…Avascular necrosis (osteonecrosis) occurs in Crohn’s disease, but the rate of this particular complication is not known. …”
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Effects of Strain Rate and Initial Density on the Dynamic Mechanical Behaviour of Dry Calcareous Sand by Zhangyong Zhao, Yanyu Qiu, Mingyang Wang

“…Experimental results show that in the strain rate range of 335 s−1 to 1253 s−1, the dynamic mechanical behaviours of dry calcareous sands exhibited no significant strain rate effect. …”
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La honte au corps : vers le réel de la performance S/M by Jacques Brunet-Georget

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Negative interest rates, excess reserves and tiering of the ECB: How heavily are banks burdened? by Jens Klose

“…Abstract The European Central Bank (ECB) reduced its deposit rate into negative territory in June 2014. It has been reduced further in several steps to reach today’s level of −0.5%. …”
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Predicting Urinary Function Outcomes Following Low-dose-rate Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer by Gianni Rüedi, Manolis Pratsinis, Hans-Peter Schmid, Sabine Güsewell, Paul M. Putora, Ludwig Plasswilm, Christoph Schwab, Orlando Burkhardt, Armin Thoeni, Werner Hochreiter, Ladislav Prikler, Stefan Suter, Patrick Stucki, Michael Müntener, Nadja Blick, Hans Schiefer, Gautier Müllhaupt, Daniel S. Engeler

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D. Ricardo’s theory of comparative advantages as applied to interest rate swaps in the financial market by M. B. Kitinov

“…To achieve this goal, it was necessary to solve the following tasks: to give a brief overview of the comparative advantages’ theory, to designate an example of the “interest rate swap” instrument, to illustrate the application of the comparative advantages’ theory to the “interest rate swap” instrument. …”
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Low-complexity FTN receivers based on frequency domain iterative decision feedback equalization by Juan ZENG, Ying WANG, Xiao-na LI, Zhong-fang WANG, Yong-ming WANG

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Deep Learning Model for Predicting Spreading Rates of Pandemics, “COVID-19 as Case Study” by Maha A. Al-Bayati

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STRAIN-RATE EFFECT ON THE STRESS CONCENTRATION IN A 45 STEEL PLATE WITH AN ELLIPTIC HOLE by ZHANG Jin, WU Jian, WANG WeiBo, YU PeiShi, ZHAO JunHua

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Physical properties of Alaska pollock surimi gel as affected by emulsified level and heating rates by Van-Thi Nguyen, Emiko Okazaki

“…The highest breaking strength and lowest drip loss of emulsified gels were obtained by a slow heating rate (3°C/min) in comparison with the other conditions (p < 0.05). …”
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Global stability of infectious disease models with contact rate as a function of prevalence index by Cruz Vargas-De-León, Alberto d'Onofrio

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Influence of fertilizer rates, planting density and light transmittance on yield and quality of P. cyrtonema by Yuanwei Deng, Ni Guo, Yamin Liu

“…Planting P. cyrtonema under tree shade is proposed as a sustainable method, yet technological and agronomic gaps remain in optimizing growth and productivity. …”
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The incidence, mortality, and survival rate of colorectal cancer in Xiamen, China, from 2011 to 2020 by Lingxian Qiu, Wenting Luo, Youlan Chen, Zhinan Guo, Jiali Quan, Jiahuang Chi, Yingying Guan, Yue Huang, Yilan Lin

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Application Considerations for Successful Use of VIF and Metalized Mulches with Reduced Fumigant Rates in Tomato by Jim Gilreath, Bielinski Santos, John Mirusso, Joe Noling, Phyllis Gilreath

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Calculation of Radioactivity and Dose Rate of Activated Corrosion Products in Water-Cooled Fusion Reactor by Jingyu Zhang, Lu Li, Shuxiang He, Yixue Chen

“…At last a point kernel integration code ARShield was coupled with CATE, and the dose rate around ITER blanket cooling loop was calculated. …”
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Multigrid Discretization and Iterative Algorithm for Mixed Variational Formulation of the Eigenvalue Problem of Electric Field by Yidu Yang, Yu Zhang, Hai Bi

“…Combining the mixed finite element method with the Rayleigh quotient iteration method, a new multi-grid discretization scheme and an adaptive algorithm are proposed and applied to the eigenvalue problem of electric field. …”
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Higher-Order Convergent Iterative Method for Computing the Generalized Inverse over Banach Spaces by Xiaoji Liu, Fu Huang

“…A higher-order convergent iterative method is provided for calculating the generalized inverse over Banach spaces. …”
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The Rate at Which the Energy of Solutions for a Class of p-Laplacian Wave Equation Decays by Soufiane Mokeddem, Khaled Ben Walid Mansour

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Advance Sharing Procedures for the Ramp Quantum Secret Sharing Schemes With the Highest Coding Rate by Ryutaroh Matsumoto

“…However, it is unclear whether some shares can be distributed before a secret is given in the ramp quantum secret sharing schemes with the highest coding rate. This article proposes procedures to distribute some shares before a secret is given in those schemes. …”
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Effect of Thyroxine Hormone by Oral on Growth and Survival Rate of Coral Platy Xiphophorus maculates by M. Zairin Junior, R.G. Pahlawan, M. Raswin

“… Thyroxine is known as a hormone that can affect growth of fish by increasing the metabolic rate, feed efficiency and protein retention.  In this study, effect of thyroxine administration through feed on growth and survival of coral platy fish (Xiphophorus maculatus) was observed.  …”
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