Didactic potential of metaphors used in medical discourse by Katarzyna Karska, Ewelina Prażmo

“…By choosing a certain metaphor, the message may e.g. be softened in order to lessen the impact it has on the recipient. …”
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Construction and application of a physically-based constitutive model for superplastic deformation of near-α TNW700 titanium alloy by Lixia Ma, Dingyong He, Bangjian Yang, Xiuquan Han, Jichun Zhang, Weidong Li

“…Firstly, damage characterization tests deepened the understanding of flow softening behavior and superplastic mechanism. The results indicate that voids primarily nucleate at α/β phase interfaces and triple junctions, gradually growing, elongating and coalescing into microcracks with increasing true strain. …”
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Study on the Effect of Rock Strength on the Macro-Meso Shear Behaviors of Artificial Rock Joints by Yujing Jiang, Sunhao Zhang, Hengjie Luan, Qinglin Shan, Baocheng Li, Dong Wang, Chuanyang Jia

“…The results show that (i) the shear stress curve of low-strength rock joints is strain-softening type, while high-strength rock joints are strain-hardening type, and high-strength rock joints are more sensitive to the change of roughness. …”
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Effect of Opuntia ficus-indica Mucilage Edible Coating in Combination with Ascorbic Acid, on Strawberry Fruit Quality during Cold Storage by Giorgia Liguori, Raimondo Gaglio, Luca Settanni, Paolo Inglese, Fabio D’Anna, Alessandro Miceli

“…Strawberries are highly perishable fruit with a very short postharvest life due to their susceptibility to mechanical injury, rapid texture softening, physiological disorders, and infection caused by several pathogens (yeast and mold) that can rapidly reduce fruit quality. …”
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Physical, Thermal, and Morphology Characteristics of Waste Latex Rubber Glove-Modified Bitumen by Auni Diyana Fadzil, Nur Izzi Md Yusoff, Shuhaida Harun, Khairiah Haji Badri, Iswandaru Widyatmoko, Faridah Hanim Khairuddin, Abdalrhman Milad, Munder Bilema, Naeem Aziz Memon

“…The study adds varying percentages of WLRG (3%, 5%, 7%, and 9%) to the 60/70 bitumen and analyzes them to determine the optimum WLRG percentage. The penetration, softening point, ductility, and viscosity tests of the modified binders show a consistent pattern. …”
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Research on Soft Rocks for the Construction of Roadbeds for High-Speed Railroad: Effect of Water Soaking Environment by Xiangdong Zhang, Jie Geng, Yuebo Xu, Zhongchao Zhou, Shuai Pang

“…The curve change from strain-hardening to strain-softening type and the deformation modulus and extent of cohesion realized increased exponentially with an increase in the cement slurry filling rate. …”
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Mechanical Mechanism of Water Injection to Enhance the Stability of Soft Coal by Chuanqi Zhu, Hao Fan, Wanrong Liu, Shaobo Li

“…This “low water content and multiporosity” feature is the essential reason for its low strength, fragmentation, and instability and disaster. (3) In the process of water content increasing from 0.966% to 26.580%, the shear stress-displacement curve of coal body gradually changes from softening type to hardening type, and the failure type transitions from brittleness to ductility. …”
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Experimental Investigations on Charge Induction and Microseismic Characteristics of the Coal and Rock under Different Loading Rates by Yuchun Liu, Ling Ding, Yangfeng Zhao, Yi Fan, Hongfei Li

“…At the same loading rate, the softening failure stage time of coal is longer than that of sandstone. …”
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Effect of Brewery Spent Grain Level and Fermentation Time on the Quality of Bread by Tadlo Yitayew, Demewez Moges, Neela Satheesh

“…The dough water absorption (58.53-66.67 ml/100 g), development time (3.43-17.57 min), stability (6.53–12.40 min), and degree of softening (25.33-50.33 FU) were increased significantly (p<0.05) as BSG ratio increased in blending. …”
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Allelic variation in an expansin, MdEXP-A1, contributes to flesh firmness at harvest in apples by Qiufang Su, Yifeng Feng, Xianglu Li, Zidun Wang, Yuanwen Zhong, Zhengyang Zhao, Huijuan Yang

“…Functional identification revealed that MdEXP-A1 positively expedited fruit softening in both apple fruits and tomatoes that overexpressed MdEXP-A1. …”
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Duncan-Chang Constitutive Model of Vetiver Root and Soil Matrix at Different Growth Stages by WU Ruibin, JI Jinnan, YANG Yuzhe

“…Despite the inability to capture the strain softening phenomenon of individual soil, the stress-strain curve, predicted shear strength indicators, and measured values exhibit a strong correlation (R2>0.91). …”
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Experimental Study on the Influence of Hydromechanical Boundary Conditions on Shear-Flow Coupling Characteristics of Granite Joints by Yangbing Cao, Yang Wu, Xiangxiang Zhang, Zhi Liu, Weiguo Gong, Zhenping Huang

“…The peak dilation rate under the CNS boundary condition at all levels of normal stress was lower than that of CNL, and the strain softening in postpeak of the latter was more remarkable. …”
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Composition and Performance Evaluation of SBS/SBR Modified Emulsified Asphalt for Tack Coat on Airport Pavement by Kaiwei Wang, Xiangbing Xie, Guanghui Li, Jinggan Shao, Meng Bao, Mingwei Wang, Xianglei Zhu, Yahui He

“…Combined with the evaporation residue, softening point, penetration, ductility, and Engla viscosity indexes, the range analysis was carried out to determine the optimal dosage of modifier and emulsifier. …”
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Influence of Soybean Oil on Binder and Warm Mixture Asphalt Properties by Rezvan Babagoli, Alireza Ameli

“…Several binder tests are used to measure the physical and rheological behaviors of binders, such as penetration grade, softening point, temperature susceptibility, rotational viscosity (RV), Multiple Stress Creep Recovery (MSCR), and Linear Amplitude Sweep (LAS) tests. …”
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Effect of Water Content on the Impact Propensity of White Sandstone by Jiankui Bai, Chuanming Li, Ruimin Feng, Nan Liu, Xiang Gao, Zhengrong Zhang, Bochao Nie

“…The results showed that (1) the internal structure of the sandstone gets softened with the increase of the water content. The cohesive effect within the rock also begins to weaken, which in turn reduces the stiffness of the material and enhances its plasticity. …”
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Deformation and failure characteristics of soft rock tunnel surrounding rock under mining and water immersion conditions by XIE Panshi, FANG Jiarui, HU Bosheng, ZHANG Bo, ZHANG Xi, DUAN Siyu

“…This was mainly because the 12.2 m cable reached the water-bearing layer in the roof, leading to increased water seepage and further softening of the surrounding rock. The use of a combined support system, consisting of a 9.2 m anchor cable and a 4.2 m short anchor cable, led to a reduction in the surrounding rock's failure range and a significant improvement in water seepage conditions compared to the previous support schemes. …”
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MAGICS. II. Seed Black Holes Stripped of Their Surrounding Stars Do Not Sink by Yihao Zhou, Diptajyoti Mukherjee, Nianyi Chen, Tiziana Di Matteo, Peter H. Johansson, Antti Rantala, Christian Partmann, Ugo Niccolò Di Carlo, Simeon Bird, Yueying Ni

“…With the enhanced resolution (mass resolution: 500 M _⊙ ; softening length: 5 pc), improved subgrid models for the MBH dynamics and accretion, and the accurate regularized gravity integrator included in KETJU, we trace MBH seed dynamics down to 0.1 pc. …”
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Cross-Cultural Gender-Based Investigation of Filipino and Chinese Facebook Users’ Disagreement Strategies by Joan C. Ravago, John Arvin V. De Roxas, Joel M. Torres, Daisy O. Casipit, Mercedita M. Reyes

“…Finally, diverse linguistic elements indicated disagreement, as Filipinos utilized modal verbs, whereas Chinese participants employed discourse markers and softening language. Conclusion: The findings suggest that disagreement strategies are gender-based. …”
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A Fully Coupled Hydromechanical Model for CO2 Sequestration in Coal Seam: the Roles of Multiphase Flow and Gas Dynamic Diffusion on Fluid Transfer and Coal Behavior by Rui Yang, Weiqun Liu, Tianran Ma, Junhe Xie, Yang Hu, Rui Zhou, Yongjie Yang

“…Meanwhile, the CO2-induced coal softening and the CO2-water two-phase flow in coal fracture were also taken into account. …”
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Effect of Water Treatment and Immersion in Calcium Salt Solutions on the Quality of Fruits of Peumo Pink Tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum L.) Stored under Cold Conditions by Julio Correa, Asuncion Amoros, Herman Patricio Silva, José Ignacio Covarrubias, Victor Hugo Escalona

“…The use of high temperature and calcium salts for dipping would be beneficial to provide the vegetal tissues with calcium and reduce the softening of the tomato after prolonged cold storage.…”
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