Experimental Study on Mechanical Properties of Polypropylene: Steel Fiber Concrete and Loading Characteristics of Shaft Lining by Bendong Qin, Shuo Li, Jiaqi Guo, Shaofeng Liu, Xiliang Liu, Yongbiao Lai, Hailiang Li

“…Combining the failure characteristics of the two shaft lining models, the following conclusions are obtained: The ultimate bearing capacity of PHSC shaft lining is hardly affected by fibers, but the hoop displacement is significantly reduced and the circumferential stability of shaft lining has been greatly improved, the initial cracks appeared late, the speed of crack’s propagation is reduced, and no obvious concrete peeling and separation appeared during damage. …”
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Accuracy of the SWAY Mobile Cognitive Assessment Application by Heidi A. VanRavenhorst-Bell, Melissa A. Muzeau, Lindsay Luinstra, Jared Goering, Ryan Z. Amick

“…Furthermore, the SWAY CA application appears to be comparable to the ImPACT QT and serve as a valid tool for assessing reaction time measures…”
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Risk factors for difficult peripheral venous cannulation in hospitalised patients. Protocol for a multicentre case–control study in 48 units of eight public hospitals in Spain by Jose Miguel Morales-Asencio, Ian Blanco-Mavillard, Miguel Angel Rodríguez-Calero, Ismael Fernandez-Fernandez, Luis Javier Molero-Ballester, Catalina Matamalas-Massanet, Luis Moreno-Mejias, Joan Ernest de Pedro-Gomez

“…This study aims to identify risk factors with which to model the appearance of difficulty in achieving peripheral venous puncture in hospital treatment.Methods and analysis Case–control study. …”
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Effects of Thyroid Peroxidase Antibody on Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes in Pregnant Women in an Iodine-Sufficient Area in China by Xi Chen, Bai Jin, Jun Xia, Xincheng Tao, Xiaoping Huang, Lu Sun, Qingxin Yuan

“…The prevalence of PPT was significantly higher in TPOAb-positive than TPOAb-negative group (42.31% versus 7.14%, P<0.001), with 45.46% and 53.85% of PPT happening at 6 weeks postpartum in TPOAb-positive and TPOAb-negative groups. …”
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Development and Preliminary testing of a Mixing and Pelletizing Machine for Livestock Feeds Production by T.A. Ishola, R.A. Busari, O.S. Aboyeji

“…The mixing unit consists of the mixing hopper and a mixing chamber that houses the mixer shaft and the mixing paddles while the pelletizingunit consists of the pelletizer hopper, pelletizing barrel, a shaft with worm thread and die perforation as outlet for the pellets. …”
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Development and Preliminary testing of a Mixing and Pelletizing Machine for Livestock Feeds Production by T.A. Ishola, R.A. Busari, O.S. Aboyeji

“…The mixing unit consists of the mixing hopper and a mixing chamber that houses the mixer shaft and the mixing paddles while the pelletizingunit consists of the pelletizer hopper, pelletizing barrel, a shaft with worm thread and die perforation as outlet for the pellets. …”
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Failure of a Solar Filament Eruption Caused by Magnetic Reconnection with Overlying Coronal Loops by Leping Li, Hongqiang Song, Yijun Hou, Guiping Zhou, Baolin Tan, Kaifan Ji, Yongyuan Xiang, Zhenyong Hou, Yang Guo, Ye Qiu, Yingna Su, Haisheng Ji, Qingmin Zhang, Yudi Ou

“…During the eruption, the filament became bright, and the overlying loops appeared first in the high-temperature channels. They have average temperatures of ∼12.8 and ∼9.6 MK, respectively, indicating that both of them were heated. …”
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Effect of Zr on inclusions and microstructure of non-quenched and tempered steel F38MnVS by Yucheng Wang, Yang Li, Zhouhua Jiang, Meng Sun, Shuai Ma, Yunqie Mao, Yanshuo Ma, Tianci Li, Dengyunfei Nie, Rui Yang

“…The obtained results reveal that adding Zr could alter the inclusions from Al2O3 to ZrO2, and ZrN appears with the increase of Zr content. Additionally, 220 ppm Zr exhibits the best impact on the inclusion size, reducing the average diameter of the inclusions from 5.04 μm to 2.87 μm. …”
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Mid-trimester resolution of marked dextroposition of the fetal heart preceding regression of extensive left fetal lung lesion consisting of hybrid congenital pulmonary airway malfo... by David M. Sherer, MD, Ida Dhanuka, MD, Kayla Schacher, MD, Hubert Rodriguez-Tejada, MD, Aleksandra Zigalo, RDMS, Mila Kheyman, RDMS, Harry Zinn, MD, Fancisca T. Velcek, MD, Mudar Dalloul, MD

“…The right fetal lung appeared compressed with the cardiomediastinal shift angle measuring approximately 20 degrees. …”
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COVID-19 Pandemic and IBS. Results of the All-Russian Observational Non-interventional Program to Study the Effectiveness of the Drug Kolofort® in Real Clinical Practice in Patient... by V. T. Ivashkin, R. A. Abdulkhakov, I. G. Bakulin, S. V. Zaitsev, V. I. Luchina, S. N. Mekhtiyev, S. G. Peshekhonov, E. A. Poluektova, T. I. Semenova, S. N. Serikova, G. N. Tarasova, E. A. Trush, Y. P. Uspenskiy, I. B. Khlynov, V. V. Tsukanov, N. P. Chernus

“…All patients complained of increased/appearing gastrointestinal symptoms that appeared within 1–6 months after the infection (all patients had a history of COVID-19 infection). …”
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Dielectric spectroscopy and TD-NMR investigation for assessing water solid dynamics in normal and wooden breast chicken by Francesca Soglia, Eleonora Iaccheri, Luca Laghi, Luigi Ragni, Pedro José Fito Suñer, Massimiliano Petracci

“…Dielectric Spectroscopy (DS) and TimeDomain-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (TD-NMR) were exploited to investigate water and solid dynamics in chicken's Pectoralis major muscles having macroscopically normal appearance (N) and affected by Wooden Breasts (WB) abnormality. 147 PMM were collected and classified as macroscopically normal (N) (N=74) or Wooden Breast (WB) (N=73) based on their visual appearance and manual palpation. …”
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Diabetes Mellitus, Extreme Insulin Resistance, and Hypothalamic-Pituitary Langerhans Cells Histiocytosis by Mathilde Sollier, Marine Halbron, Jean Donadieu, Ahmed Idbaih, Fleur Cohen Aubart, Corinne Vigouroux, Martine Auclair, Olivier Bourron, Marie Bastin, Géraldine Béra, Philippe Touraine, Jacques Young, Héléna Mosbah, Agnès Hartemann, Fabrizio Andreelli, Chloé Amouyal

“…Each episode of hyperglycemia appeared to be correlated with tumoral activity and increase in serum anti-insulin receptor antibodies and appeared to be improved when the disease was controlled by chemotherapy. …”
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Burmese Pythons in South Florida: Scientific Support for Invasive Species Management by Rebecca G. Harvey, Matthew L. Brien, Michael S. Cherkiss, Michael Dorcas, Mike Rochford, Ray W. Snow, Frank J. Mazzotti

“…Mazzotti, describes the population of Burmese pythons in south Florida, python reproduction, size and appearance, and the work of the Python Science Support Team. …”
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Unusual Presentation of Popliteal Cyst on Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Tsuyoshi Ohishi, Masaaki Takahashi, Daisuke Suzuki, Yukihiro Matsuyama

“…Here, we describe a popliteal cyst with unusual appearance on magnetic resonance imaging, including heterogeneous intermediate signal intensity on T2-weighted images. …”
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Jardins dessinés et dessins de jardin  by Catherine Fricheau

“…Indeed, the space of the classical garden appears to depend much more on a perfectly trained « eye judgment» than on the control conferred to the « architectural project» by the metrical accuracy of the plan.…”
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Inégalités écologiques et comportement électoral : le cas des élections municipales françaises de 2001 by Etienne Farvaque, Nicolas Jean, Bertrand Zuindeau

“…This paper studies the impact of environmental conditions on the result of incumbent parties' candidates in the 2001 local election in France. …”
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Économie circulaire et écologie industrielle. Approche empirique à partir d’expériences de clusters et de territoires by Gwénaël Doré

“…These steps strengthen the local economy and the establishment of short circuits. Indeed, it appears that geographical proximity is most often necessary for the transfer of flows (energy, water, waste…). …”
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Localised Leishmaniasis of Oral Mucosa: Report of an Unusual Clinicopathological Entity by Deepak Passi, Sarang Sharma, Shubharanjan Dutta, Chandan Gupta

“…The only manifestation of leishmaniasis disease in the described case was the appearance of an oral lesion. Treatment was provided in the form of antimoniates (oral miltefosine and systemic sodium stibogluconate). …”
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Simultaneous Occurrence of Duane Retraction Syndrome with Marfan Syndrome by Mihir Kothari, Florence Manurung, Bhavesh Mithiya

“…The occurrence of these syndromes together is very rare and appears to be coincidental.…”
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RIGHTS AS TRUMPS AND BALANCING: RECONCILING THE RRECONCILABLE? by João Costa Neto

“…There appears to be a widespread assumption among those who defend balancing in constitutional rights that it is incompatible with the idea of rights as trumps, because public interests and constitutional rights are to be balanced without any type of pre-fixed priority or lexical ordering. …”
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