Local approaches for the fracture assessment of notched components: the research work developed by Professor Paolo Lazzarin by F. Berto

“…Paolo Lazzarin who suddenly passed away in September 2014.…”
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The Normal Force Characteristic of a Novel Magnetorheological Elastomer Based on Butadiene Rubber Matrix Compounded with the Self-Fabricated Silly Putty by Fei Guo, Chengbin Du, Guojun Yu

“…Furthermore, the normal force varied stably with the oscillatory shear strain (less than 9%) at different magnetic induction intensities and suddenly reduced when the applied oscillatory shear strain was more than 9%.…”
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Oral mucosal changes caused by nicotine pouches: case series by Sintija Miluna-Meldere, Sarlote Agate Vanka, Ingus Skadins, Juta Kroica, Maris Sperga, Dagnija Rostoka

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The Trend Analysis and Forecasting of Extreme Temperature Parameters in southern part of the Caspian Sea by Mostafa Karimi, Fatemeh Sotoudeh, Somayeh Rafati

“…The results showed that it was occurred both increasing trend and suddenly changes or shifts at the 95% confidence level in all stations. …”
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Dickens and the American Millennium: The Uniformitarian Argument of Martin Chuzzlewit by Nancy Aycock Metz

“…The providential plot of Martin Chuzzlewit, its deus ex machina conclusion, and continent-spanning coincidences would seem to describe a ‘catastrophist’ narrative structure, one characterized by interventions that interrupt the status quo and suddenly alter history. But Dickens also shows how catastrophic events are often contained within a more expansive uniformitarian time frame. …”
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Failure or future? Exploring alternative antibacterials: a comparative analysis of antibiotics and naturally derived biopolymers by Artemijs Sceglovs, Artemijs Sceglovs, Ingus Skadins, Marco Chitto, Juta Kroica, Kristine Salma-Ancane, Kristine Salma-Ancane

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Il profilo del partner maltrattante by Luca Cimino

“…In most cases, however, violent behavior does not arise suddenly but has been heralded by a series of overt and covert attitudes with a nonnegligible predictive value. …”
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Age-Related Changes of the Ocular Surface: A Hospital Setting-Based Retrospective Study by Laura Ottobelli, Paolo Fogagnolo, Marta Guerini, Luca Rossetti

“…Dry eye disease (DED) represented 58% of OSD; its prevalence increased with age until 80 years old and suddenly decreased thereafter. Asymptomatic DED was 37%. …”
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A New Identification Method for Bolt Looseness in Wind Turbine Towers by He Xianlong, She Tianli

“…Whether the flange bolts of a given tower require tightening can be identified based on whether the absolute value of the phase difference between the upper and lower plates of the flanges suddenly increases. This research result can provide a new method for the identification of bolt looseness in wind turbine towers.…”
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Dual-Task Walking in Challenging Environments in People with Stroke: Cognitive-Motor Interference and Task Prioritization by Celine Timmermans, Melvyn Roerdink, Thomas W. J. Janssen, Carel G. M. Meskers, Peter J. Beek

“…Using a repeated-measures design, cognitive-motor interference and task prioritization were assessed in 30 stroke survivors, while walking in a plain environment and in two challenging environments that were enriched with either stationary physical context or suddenly appearing projector-augmented context. All three walking environment conditions were performed with and without a concurrent serial-3 subtraction task. …”
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A chaotic bursting-spiking transition in a pancreatic beta-cells system: observation of an interior glucose-induced crisis by Jorge Duarte, Cristina Januário, Nuno Martins

“…A particular type of these transitions occurs when the size of a chaotic attractor suddenly changes. In this article, we present such a transition through the observation of a chaotic interior crisis in the Deng bursting-spiking model for the glucose-induced electrical activity of pancreatic $β $-cells. …”
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Assessment of physical education teachers’ use of distance teaching behavior under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic by Hsiu-Chin Huang, Ya-Tzu Kung, Ruey-Rong Huang, Wui-Chiu Mui, Yu-Chien Su

“…Background For many physical education teachers, being suddenly forced to switch from traditional face-to-face teaching to online teaching without adequate mental preparation posed numerous challenges and difficulties. …”
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Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia: A Report of Two Cases, One with Severe Retinopathy and One with Renal Failure by Naoko Kudo, Masakatsu Usui, Yukiharu Nakabo, Ken-ichi Yoshida, Kenji Miki, Takashi Osafune, Keisuke Nishimura, Shinsaku Imashuku

“…Both patients exhibited hyperviscosity-related retinopathy, but it was particularly severe in Case 1: she suddenly lost her vision after admission. However, her vision recovered completely during treatment. …”
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Effect of Cyclic Expansion-Extrusion Process on Microstructure, Deformation and Dynamic Recrystallization Mechanisms, and Texture Evolution of AZ80 Magnesium Alloy by Yong Xue, Shuaishuai Chen, Haijun Liu, Zhimin Zhang, Luying Ren, Bing Bai

“…The grain refinement changes the deformation and DRX mechanisms of CEE process, which leads the (0002) basal texture intensity first decrease and then increase suddenly. Eventually, the extremely strong basal texture is formed after three-pass CEE.…”
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Physicochemical and Vibration Analysis of Christmas Tree Four-Way Flange Failure under Fracturing Process by Zhaoming Zhou, Dawen Gong, Kelong Yang, Zhong Zeng, Zhou Xiao

“…When a wellhead gas production tree in a certain oilfield block fracturing completed 12 layers and 22 layers and then the bottom-up discharge operation was performed, the Wellhead four-way suddenly suffered erosion failure. This is the seventh failure of this operation. …”
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Acute Pulmonary Embolism Associated with Low-Dose Olanzapine in a Patient without Risk Factors for Venous Thromboembolism by Vu Hoang Vu, Nguyen Duong Khang, Mai Thanh Thao, Le Minh Khoi

“…A 66-year-old female patient suffering from insomnia had been prescribed olanzapine 2.5 mg and paroxetine 10 mg for two years. The patient suddenly developed a syncopal episode at home and was immediately brought to the hospital. …”
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Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Bereavement-Related Major Depressive Disorder in Japan: A Systematic Case Report by Yuko Toshishige, Masaki Kondo, Junya Okazaki, Hiroko Mizushima, Tatsuo Akechi

“…We present a case study describing the therapist’s adaptation of IPT to Japanese culture to treat bereavement-related MDD in a Japanese man with insufficient response to pharmacotherapy who had suddenly lost his mother to heart disease. His mother’s death and a dispute with his father both appeared to have contributed to his sustained bereavement-related MDD. …”
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An Automatic Emergency Braking Model considering Driver’s Intention Recognition of the Front Vehicle by Wei Yang, Jiajun Liu, Kaixia Zhou, Zhiwei Zhang, Xiaolei Qu

“…If the front vehicle brakes suddenly, there is potential collision risk for following vehicle. …”
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An autopsy case with tubular obstruction by impacted swollen blebs due to ischemic acute kidney injury by Yukako Akiyama, Mitsuhiro Sato, Yoshio Taguma

“…Because of the existence of hematuria with red blood cell casts and rapid deterioration of renal function and severe systemic symptoms such as loss of appetite and general fatigue, we started immunosuppressive therapy with steroids, considering a vasculitis-like condition with NS, and hemodialysis was also started for oliguria. However, he suddenly died of hemorrhagic shock due to gastric ulcer. …”
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PERCEIVING THE SACRED FEMININE: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE CYCLADIC FIGURINES AND JUNGIAN ARCHETYPES by T. V. Danylova

“…In an attempt to interpret them, we are suddenly seized and carried away into unknown depths. …”
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