Recent Studies on Nanomaterials as Additives to Lubricants Under Electrified Conditions for Tribology: Review by Khodor Nasser, María J. G. Guimarey, Neuma das Mercês Pereira

“…This paper reviews studies that use modified tribometers to analyze nanolubricant performance under mechanical and electrical conditions and explores the effects of electrical and thermal factors on lubricant properties, nanomaterials, and their mechanisms under triboelectric conditions.…”
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Abatacept in the Treatment of Juvenile Dermatomyositis-Associated Calcifications in a 16-Year-Old Girl by Sukesh Sukumaran, Vini Vijayan

“…Currently, there are no known effective treatments for calcinosis and current therapy is based on anecdotal retrospective studies and cases series. We report the case of a child with JDM-associated calcinosis with extensive intramuscular calcifications who failed conventional therapies but demonstrated improvement as evident by decrease in calcinosis and improved physical function with use of abatacept. …”
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Diaspora Engagement Strategies and Policies by Jovan Filipovic, Srečko Srečko Devjak, Bogomil Ferfila

“…Different types of remittances, as well as pessimistic and optimistic perspectives on remittances, are analyzed in the paper, and recommendations are summarized for current and future policy makers. …”
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EDUCATION IN REMOTE ACCESS: A TEACHER’S VIEW by E. E. Ivanova

“…The problems faced by teachers in the conditions of forced transition to distance learning due to the pandemic COVID-19 have been analysed, when interaction with students was carried out only with the use of information technologies. …”
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Quadratic forms in $I^n$ of dimension $2^n+2^{n-1}$ by Harvey, Curtis R., Karpenko, Nikita A.

“…For $n\ge 3$, confirming a weak version of a conjecture of Hoffmann, we show that every anisotropic quadratic form in $I^n$ of dimension $2^n+2^{n-1}$ splits over a finite extension of the base field of degree not divisible by $4$. …”
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Las formas de una guerra amorfa: drogas, democracia y derechos humanos en Ecuador by Fredy Rivera Vélez

“… El combate al narcotráfico y el incremento de los problemas de seguridad nacional asociados al manejo de la frontera norte del Ecuador se han constituido en uno de los principales dolores de cabeza con los que han tenido que bregar autoridades y sociedad en estos últimos años. Sumemos a esta situación el involucramiento indirecto del país en el Plan Colombia y las características de la fluctuante relación bilateral con Estados Unidos y obtendremos un panorama bastante denso y de resultados impredecibles para la población ecuatoriana. …”
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Memperkuat Pertahanan Laut Indonesia: Belajar dari Strategi Pertempuran Laut Rusia-Jepang, 1904-1905 by Cecep Hidayat

“…This article aims to analyze the naval combat strategies employed during the Russo-Japanese War, with the objective of providing relevant insights for the Indonesian Navy (TNI AL). …”
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AUDIT ATTRIBUTES AND FINANCIAL REPORTING QUALITY OF NIGERIAN DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS: THE MODERATING EFFECT OF GOING CONCERN by Johnson Kolawole OLOWOOKERE, Fatima Imike MBAH, Bolarinwa Rotimi FERUKE, Blessing Onyi AKINDE

“…Data used for this study was analyzed using descriptive statistics and structural equation modeling. …”
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Rapid Joule-heating synthesis of metal/carbon-based electrocatalysts for efficient carbon dioxide reduction by Weijian Guo, Xueying Cao, Ao Zhou, Wenwen Cai, Jintao Zhang

“…Simultaneously, the anchoring effect of defective carbon carriers ensures the uniform distribution of NPs on the carbon supports. …”
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Low Temperature Synthesis of Hexagonal Bi2Te3 Nanoplates Using an Open Reactor and Its Effect on Their Physicochemical Properties by Laura A. Reyes-Verdugo, Maria de J. Martinez-Carreon, C. D. Gutierrez-Lazos, Francisco J. Solis-Pomar, Jose G. Quiñones-Galvan, Eduardo Perez-Tijerina

“…The samples were drop-cast on glass and FTO substrates for subsequent structural, chemical, and thermoelectric analyses. The electron microscopy analysis demonstrated that samples precipitated in highly crystalline hexagonal nanoplates, grown along the [0 1 5] plane of the rhombohedral phase of Bi2Te3. …”
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Hypernatremia in patients with neurological conditions in critical state by David Wilfredo Suàrez Prieto, Mairen Pèrez Fuentes, Elaine Teresa Gutièrrez Pèrez

“…In the individual bivariate analysis by period, there was only a significant relationship after 24 hours. …”
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Characterisation of pregnancy-induced alterations in apolipoproteins and their associations with maternal metabolic risk factors and offspring birth outcomes: a preconception and l... by Li Chen, Karen Mei-Ling Tan, Melvin Khee-Shing Leow, Kok Hian Tan, Jerry Kok Yen Chan, Shiao-Yng Chan, Yap Seng Chong, Peter D. Gluckman, Johan G. Eriksson, Markus R. Wenk, Sartaj Ahmad Mir

“…Linear regression models and network analysis were implemented to investigate the association of apolipoproteins with maternal genetic variants, biochemical measures, metabolic risk factors, and offspring birth outcomes. …”
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DEPENDENCE OF A GAS-PHASE DNA GLOBULE SIZE ON CHAIN LENGTH by T. N. Goryachkovskaya, A. S. Kozlov, V. M. Popik, N. A. Kolchanov, S. E. Peltek

“…Modern trends in using DNA in nano- and biotechnologies generated the need for new methods of analyzing DNA molecules with up-to-date equipment. …”
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Thrombosis as the First Manifestation of Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis Disease in an Adolescent by Mohsen Jari

“…Laboratory tests showed hematuria, proteinuria, and highly positive antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (cANCA). Laboratory tests of coagulopathy were normal. …”
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Spatial Diversity Scheme to Efficiently Cancel ISI and ICI in OFDM-OQAM Systems by Nizar Zorba, Faouzi Bader

“…This paper is based on an Offset Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (OQAM) Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) transmission scheme that is operated without a Cyclic Prefix (CP), where the multiple transmitting antennas are employed to substantially reduce the inherent intersymbol and intercarrier interference. …”
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OPTIMAL DIGITAL CONTROLLER SYNTHESIS FOR A SYSTEM INCLUDING FOURTH ORDER CONTROL OBJECT by A. G. Stryzhniou, H. V. Lednik

“…The results of mathematical modeling of an optimal digital controller for this system are presented.Analytical expressions for digital controller transfer function coefficients via control object parameters and time step are obtained. …”
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Cardiac Markers in Pediatric Laboratory Medicine: Critical Review by Renata Zrinski Topic, Jasna Lenicek Krleza

“…The aim of this article was to summarize the current analytical and clinical limitations of cardiac troponins and natriuretic peptides in the pediatric population, as informed by the existing published literature.…”
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The potential role of differentially expressed tRNA-derived fragments in high glucose-induced podocytes by Zhenxing Zhang, Yunyang Qiao, Jialing Ji, Chan Huang, Huimin Shi, Weihua Gan, Aiqing Zhang

“…The 10 tRFs with the highest differential expression were detected by real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR), and these results were consistent with the sequencing results. GO analysis revealed that the biological process, cellular component, and molecular function terms in which the tRFs were the most enriched were cellular processes, cellular anatomical entities, and binding. …”
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Near‐Isotropic, Extreme‐Stiffness, Continuous 3D Mechanical Metamaterial Sequences Using Implicit Neural Representation by Yunkai Zhao, Lili Wang, Xiaoya Zhai, Jiacheng Han, Winston Wai Shing Ma, Junhao Ding, Yonggang Gu, Xiao‐Ming Fu

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A Modified Dynamic Evolving Neural-Fuzzy Approach to Modeling Customer Satisfaction for Affective Design by C. K. Kwong, K. Y. Fung, Huimin Jiang, K. Y. Chan, Kin Wai Michael Siu

“…Validation tests were conducted and the test results indicated that: (1) the conventional Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) failed to run due to a large number of inputs; (2) the proposed dynamic neural-fuzzy model outperforms the subtractive clustering-based ANFIS model and fuzzy c-means clustering-based ANFIS model in terms of their modeling accuracy and computational effort.…”
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