Experimental Study on Bond Behavior between Plain Reinforcing Bars and Concrete by Guohua Xing, Cheng Zhou, Tao Wu, Boquan Liu

“…Averagely, plain bars appeared to develop only 18.3% of the bond stress of deformed bars. …”
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From Scientific Innovation to Popularisation of Science: Theoretical Model of Science Communication by S. M. Medvedeva

“…Here we discuss a model of motion and transformation of ideas from the moment of their generation to the time of their appearance in public movies and literature. The model consists of 5 elements: phase of a scientist (generation of ideas); phase of scientific community (promotion of the ideas among scientists); phase of interested groups (communication with business and government, education of future scientists); phase of popular science (promotion of ideas into mass culture); phase of fiction (subject of communication becomes not scientific knowledge, but myth about science). …”
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Specific Influence of the Mountain Landscape on the Level of Intelligence, Worldview and National Character of the Mountain Peoples in the South Caucasus by Alizada Maleyka, Yarova Sevara

“…In this regard, the article conducts relevant analyses that reveal the essence and significance of the natural and geographical components that form the specific appearance and way of thinking of the highlanders individually and the unique mentality of the ethnocultural community as a whole. …”
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Causality and Subjectivity in Spanish Connectives: Exploring the Use of Automatic Subjectivity Analyses in Various Text Types by Andrea Santana, Dorien Nieuwenhuijsen, Wilbert Spooren, Ted Sanders

“…Also, most of the existing research on connectives has used manual analyses. This paper explores the use of automatic analyses of subjectivity in causal connectives. …”
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Food Integrity and Food Technology Concerns in Canada: Evidence from Two Public Surveys by Ellen Goddard, Violet Muringai, Albert Boaitey

“…However, trust in advocacy organizations appears to be related to higher concerns in each case. …”
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alchimia dall’inferno al paradiso nella divina commedia. l’influsso su dante dell’opera alchemica aurora consurgens, parzialmente attribuita a san tommaso d’aquino by Marino Alberto Balducci

“…The symbolic vision of a terrible epidemic, affecting the deep infernal zones, appears in the Divine Comedy associated with the wrong, fraudulent, and arrogant use of alchemical science (Inf. …”
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Letter-By-Letter Reading: Natural Recovery and Response to Treatment by Pélagie M. Beeson, Joël G. Magloire, Randall R. Robey

“…., without treatment) were documented up to the fourth month post onset, when text reading appeared to be relatively stable. Multiple oral reading (MOR) treatment was initiated at 22 weeks post-stroke, and additional improvements in reading rate and accuracy for text were documented that were greater than those expected on the basis of spontaneous recovery alone. …”
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Tooth replacement of the filter-feeding pterosaur Forfexopterus and its implications for ecological adaptation by CHANG-FU ZHOU, FENGMIN FAN

“…Based on comparisons with Balaenognathus, Ctenochasma, and Pterodaustro, the tooth replacement pattern appears to be varied in ctenochasmatids, and needs to be further studied in the future.…”
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Clinical Trials of Immunogene Therapy for Spontaneous Tumors in Companion Animals by Gerardo Claudio Glikin, Liliana María Elena Finocchiaro

“…In general terms, minor or no adverse collateral effects appeared during this kind of therapies and treated patients usually displayed a better course of the disease (longer survival, delayed or suppressed recurrence or metastatic spread, and improvement of the quality of life). …”
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Research on User Experience during Interactions with Mobile Applications for Diabetics by Przemysław Bajda, Rafał Baliński, Mariusz Dzieńkowski

“… The purpose of this study was to assess the influence of the appearance and structure of the application interface on task completion speed and user experience. …”
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Les quais romains d’Aizier (Eure) by Jimmy Mouchard

“…Part of the province of Gallia Lugdunensis, this paleo-port appears to have been well positioned, within an estuary, in the immediate vicinity of Lillebonne/Juliobona, capital of the Caleti, on the opposite bank. …”
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Childhood and adolescence physical activity and multimorbidity later in life: A systematic review by Luc Souilla, Anders C. Larsen, Carsten B. Juhl, Søren T. Skou, Alessio Bricca

“…Conclusions Childhood and adolescence physical activity appeared to be linked with a reduced risk of later-life multimorbidity but the certainty of the evidence is low. …”
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A protocol for analysis of the quantitative characteristics of leaf pubescence in potato by A. V. Doroshkov, M. A. Genaev, D. A. Afonnikov

“…In Solanaceae, to which belongs the potato Solanum tuberosum L., leaf pubescence appears as multicellular unbranched trichomes of diverse size and morphology. …”
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Destruction Law of Borehole Surrounding Rock of Granite under Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Coupling by Jinwen Wu, Zijun Feng, Shuping Chen, Wenmei Han

“…The randomly distributed thermally induced microcracks increase the complexity of the initial fracture morphology around the borehole and contribute to the appearance of multiple branch fractures. Fracture development is negligibly affected by ground stresses during the initial stages. …”
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Influence of Bicarbonates and Salt on the Physicochemical and Sensory Properties of Meatloaf by Tracy Jaico, Himanshu Prabhakar, Koushik Adhikari, Rakesh K. Singh, Anand Mohan

“…Internal cooked color data revealed that meatloaf treated with sodium bicarbonate and potassium bicarbonate had a pinkish-red appearance with a significantly higher a∗ value (p ≤0.05). …”
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Effect of Age and Diabetes on the Response of Mesenchymal Progenitor Cells to Fibrin Matrices by A. Stolzing, H. Colley, A. Scutt

“…The clot constitutes a form of stem cell niche as it appears to maintain the stem cell phenotype while supporting MSC proliferation and differentiation during healing. …”
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Recent Insights into Antibiotic Resistance in Helicobacter pylori Eradication by Wenming Wu, Yunsheng Yang, Gang Sun

“…., clarithromycin, metronidazole, tetracycline, amoxicillin, and furazolidone) resistance varies among different countries; it appears to be partly determined by geographical factors. …”
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Imported figured textiles from the Belorechensky burial ground in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum by Teplyakova A.N.

“…In this regard, the dating of the mounds from which these textiles originate was examined and clarified; issues of trade in the Northern Black Sea region were touched upon, as well as non-economic ways of the appearance of high-status imported products.…”
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Dynamic decomposition and hyper-distance based many-objective evolutionary algorithm by Xujian Wang, Fenggan Zhang, Minli Yao

“…Abstract Nowadays many algorithms have appeared to solve many-objective optimization problems (MaOPs), yet the balance between convergence and diversity is still an open issue. …”
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Graines d'histoire by Claire Newton, Jean-Frédéric Terral, Sarah Ivorra, Muriel Gros-Balthazard, Claire Tito de Morais, Sandrine Picq, Margareta Tengberg, Jean-Christophe Pintaud

“…Within Phoenix dactylifera, the agrobiodiversity appears complex in terms of geographical structure; the distribution pattern of seed shapes points to human dispersal routes that spread cultivation from one or more initial ‘domestication centres’.In addition, this work provides a powerful tool to identify ancient forms as demonstrated by the analysis of well-preserved desiccated seeds from Egyptian archaeological sites (14th c. …”
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