Estimation of Critical Safety Thickness of the Base against Confined Water Inrush for a Rectangular Foundation Pit by Qin-xing Li, Hong-tao Wang, Yan-qing Men, Xiao Yu, Chi Liu, Hua-jun Zhang

“…Affected by confined aquifer, basal inrush accidents caused by excavation are common in foundation pits, and accurate estimation of the safety thickness of the base is a big concern of engineers. …”
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Effects of common prebiotics on iron status and production of colonic short-chain fatty acids in anemic rats by Fan Zhang, Ken K.L. Yung, Chi KongYeung

“…The objectives of this study were to determine the effects of common commercially-available prebiotics including fructooligosaccharide (FOS), inulin, FOS-inulin mixture, galactooligosaccharide (GOS), and lactulose on the iron status of anemic rats, and to monitor changes in the production of colonic SCFA. …”
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A nanocarrier containing carboxylic and histamine groups with dual action: acetylcholine hydrolysis and antidote atropine delivery by Elina E. Mansurova, Andrey A. Maslennikov, Anna P. Lyubina, Alexandra D. Voloshina, Irek R. Nizameev, Marsil K. Kadirov, Anzhela A. Mikhailova, Polina V. Mikshina, Albina Y. Ziganshina, Igor S. Antipin

“…The nanocarrier was synthesized through microemulsion polycondensation of phenylboronic acid with resorcinarenes containing hydroxy, imidazole, and carboxylic groups on the upper rim. …”
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Assessment of Protein Quality and Nutritional Characteristics of Commonly Consumed Pulses in the Caribbean Diet by Different In Vitro Assays by Daniel J. Thomas, Zhanhui Lu, Yolanda Brummer, Yan Zhu, Ronghua Liu, Lili Mats, Rong Tsao, D. Dan Ramdath, Matthew G. Nosworthy

“…This study examined the effect of a traditional home-cooking method on the nutritional characteristics of pulses commonly consumed in the Caribbean: red kidney beans and cranberry beans (<i>Phaseolus vulgaris</i> L.), cowpeas (<i>Vigna unguiculata</i> L.), and pigeon peas (<i>Cajanus cajan</i> L.). …”
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Endogenous Third-Degree Price Discrimination in a Supply Chain with One Common Manufacturer and Duopoly Retailers by Hongmei Yang, Wei Wang

“…Assuming the two retailers decide whether to acquire information to segment consumers and price them differently, we investigate the problem of information acquisition and third-degree price discrimination in the supply chain composed of one common manufacturer and duopoly retailers. We explore how the supply chain members’ pricing decisions are affected by the fraction of high price-sensitivity consumers and the consumers’ difference in price sensitivity. …”
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Effects of Rainfall Intensity and Vegetation Cover on Erosion Characteristics of a Soil Containing Rock Fragments Slope by Bingqin Zhao, Lun Zhang, Zhenyao Xia, Wennian Xu, Lu Xia, Yongzhe Liang, Dong Xia

“…The experiment consists of seven vegetation treatments subjected to three rainfall intensities on a soil that contains rock fragments on a slope of 30°. The results indicate that the runoff volume and sediment load of the bare plot were greater than those of vegetation-covered plots under three different rainfall intensities. …”
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Sloshing of Liquid in Rigid Cylindrical Container with a Rigid Annular Baffle. Part I: Free Vibration by J.D. Wang, D. Zhou, W.Q. Liu

“…An analytical approach is presented to obtain the sloshing natural frequencies and modes of ideal liquid in a rigid cylindrical container with a rigid annular baffle. The free surface waves of the liquid are considered in the analysis. …”
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Evaluation of Mechanical Properties and Durability of Concrete Pavement Containing Electric Arc Furnace Slag and Carbon Nanostructures by Abolfazl Mohammadi Janaki, Gholamali Shafabakhsh, Abolfazl Hassani

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Common Fixed Point Results Using Generalized Altering Distances on Orbitally Complete Ordered Metric Spaces by Hemant Kumar Nashine, Zoran Kadelburg, Zorana Golubović

“…We prove the existence of common fixed points for three relatively asymptotically regular mappings defined on an orbitally complete ordered metric space using orbital continuity of one of the involved maps. …”
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Alligatorweed Stem Borer (suggested common name) Arcola malloi Pastrana (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae) by Bonnie Cook Wells, Carey Minteer

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Alginate Nanoparticles Containing Cuminum cyminum and Zataria multiflora Essential Oils with Promising Anticancer and Antibacterial Effects by Mahmoud Osanloo, Razieh Ranjbar, Elham Zarenezhad

“…Alginate nanoparticles containing C. cyminum and Z. multiflora EOs exhibited sizes of 160 ± 8 nm and 151 ± 10 nm, respectively. …”
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Geriatric Chest Imaging: When and How to Image the Elderly Lung, Age-Related Changes, and Common Pathologies by J. Gossner, R. Nau

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Forked Fungus Beetle (suggested common name) Bolitotherus cornutus (Panzer) 1794 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) by Ummat Somjee, Andrea Lucky

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Dissolution mechanism of Al2O3 in refining slags containing Ce2O3 by Wang L.J., Wang Q., Li J.M., Chou K.C.

“…The mechanism of dissolution of Al2O3 in the Ce2O3 containing slag were also proposed as three steps involved: 1) the formation of calcium aluminates CaO•Al2O3 at the interface 2) the formation of 3CaO5Al2O3Ce2O3 as the reaction progresses; and 3) the dissolution of 3CaO5Al2O3Ce2O3 into the slag.…”
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Prevalence and Severity of Demodex folliculorum and Demodex brevis Infestation and their Association with Common Skin Diseases in Northwest Iran by Milad Afşar, Khosrow Hazrati Tappeh, Yunus Emre Beyhan

“…This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of Demodex spp. infestation in patients with common skin diseases and explore the potential association between demodicosis and these conditions in Urmia, northwest Iran. …”
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A New Approach to the Approximation of Common Fixed Points of an Infinite Family of Relatively Quasinonexpansive Mappings with Applications by Wei-Qi Deng

“…By using a specific way of choosing the indexes, we propose an iteration algorithm generated by the monotone CQ method for approximating common fixed points of an infinite family of relatively quasinonexpansive mappings. …”
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Gregus-Type Common Fixed Point Theorems for Tangential Multivalued Mappings of Integral Type in Metric Spaces by W. Sintunavarat, P. Kumam

“…The concept of tangential for single-valued mappings is extended to multivalued mappings and used to prove the existence of a common fixed point theorem of Gregus type for four mappings satisfying a strict general contractive condition of integral type. …”
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Application of the Extended Isogeometric Analysis (X-IGA) to Evaluate a Pipeline Structure Containing an External Crack by S. El Fakkoussi, H. Moustabchir, A. Elkhalfi, C. I. Pruncu

“…The results permit detecting with accuracy the fracture toughness of a pipeline structure containing an external crack that can be submitted to critical pressures. …”
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Identifications of Common Species and Descriptions of Two New Species of <i>Siphonaria</i> (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in China by Guochen Zang, Jiahui Wang, Peizhen Ma, Cui Li, Ya Chen, Zeyu Tang, Haiyan Wang

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Cattail Mosquito (suggested common name) Coquillettidia perturbans (Walker) (Insecta: Diptera: Culicidae: Culicinae: Mansoniini) by Lethia R. Johnson, James P. Cuda, Nathan Burkett-Cadena

“…EENY-694/IN1192: Cattail Mosquito (suggested common name) Coquillettidia perturbans (Walker) (Insecta: Diptera: Culicidae: Culicinae: Mansoniini) (ufl.edu) …”
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