A Prediction Method of Tensile Young's Modulus of Concrete at Early Age by Isamu Yoshitake, Farshad Rajabipour, Yoichi Mimura, Andrew Scanlon

“…Knowledge of the tensile Young's modulus of concrete at early ages is important for estimating the risk of cracking due to restrained shrinkage and thermal contraction. However, most often, the tensile modulus is considered equal to the compressive modulus and is estimated empirically based on the measurements of compressive strength. …”
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Anomalous Right Subclavian Artery-Esophageal Fistulae by Courtney Brooke Shires, Michael J. Rohrer

“…Laryngoscopy, bronchoscopy, head and neck angiogram, and median sternotomy did not reveal what was presumed initially to be a tracheoinnominate fistula. Contrasted CT showed an anomalous subclavian artery posterior to the esophagus. …”
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Reversible Shaping of Microwells by Polarized Light Irradiation by Federica Pirani, Angelo Angelini, Francesca Frascella, Emiliano Descrovi

“…By taking advantage of the light responsivity of the azobenzene compound, we demonstrate the possibility to reversibly modulate a contraction-expansion of wells from an initial round shape to very narrow slits. …”
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Existence and Globally Asymptotic Stability of Equilibrium Solution for Fractional-Order Hybrid BAM Neural Networks with Distributed Delays and Impulses by Hai Zhang, Renyu Ye, Jinde Cao, Ahmed Alsaedi

“…The factors of such network systems including the distributed delays, impulsive effects, and two different fractional-order derivatives between the U-layer and V-layer are taken into account synchronously. Based on the contraction mapping principle, the sufficient conditions are derived to ensure the existence and uniqueness of the equilibrium solution for such network systems. …”
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Influence of sulfate-reducing bacteria on the biocorrosion of mild steel coated with hybrid polyetherimide-ZnO or CuO bilayer composites by Rahali, Emna, El-Bassi, Leila, Bousselmi, Latifa, Alves, Marta M., Montemor, Maria de Fátima, Akrout, Hanene

“…The higher PEI-CuO resistivity value of $2.17\times 10^{6}~\Omega {\cdot }\mathrm{cm}^{2}$ contrasted with the decrease to $1.5\times 10^{5}$ and $1.6\times 10^{3}~\Omega {\cdot }\mathrm{cm}^{2}$ for PEI-ZnO and PEI coatings, respectively. …”
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Diminished nitroprusside-induced relaxation of inflamed colonic smooth muscle in mice by J. D. van Bergeijk, H. van Westreenen, P. Adhien, F. J. Zijlstra

“…Smooth muscle segments of proximal, middle and distal colon were mounted in organ baths . Smooth muscle contraction was induced by carbachol, showing an aboral increase in activity, where as in the inflamed middle colonics egment a marked decr ease in activity was observed. …”
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Endometriosis Nodule Causing Spontaneous Haemoperitoneum in Pregnancy: A Case Report and Literature Review by Junaid Rafi, Geetha Mahindrakar, Debjani Mukhopadhyay

“…Abdominal palpation revealed generalised tenderness with no guarding or palpable contraction. There was no evidence of bleeding and the cervical os was closed on speculum examination. …”
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Three-dimensional non-relativistic Hietarinta supergravity by Patrick Concha, Evelyn Rodríguez, Sebastián Salgado

“…At the bosonic level, we derive the non-relativistic version of the Hietarinta model by employing a contraction process and addressing the non-degeneracy of the invariant metric. …”
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L’eau et ses représentations dans les paysages de zones humides littorales : entre visibilité et invisibilité by Céline Barthon, Xavier Michel, Mathilde de Cacqueray, Céline Chadenas, Vincent Andreu-Boussut, Arnaud de Lajartre

“…Based on a corpus of quantitative (800 questionnaires) and qualitative data (40 interviews) from surveys covering the governance and sustainable development of coastal heritage sites, this analysis presents contrasting results. Differences in the relationship to water and to the environment and its management reveal the diversity of representations of water landscapes the structuring elements of which (ecological, physical, socio-economic and sensitive) raise questions about the problems of the integrated planning and management of coastal zones.…”
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Constructions of L∞ Algebras and Their Field Theory Realizations by Olaf Hohm, Vladislav Kupriyanov, Dieter Lüst, Matthias Traube

“…We discuss special cases such as the commutator algebra of octonions, its contraction to the “R-flux algebra,” and the Courant algebroid.…”
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Protocol for differentiating cardiomyocytes and generating engineered heart tissues from human feeder-free extended pluripotent stem cells by Zhongjun Wan, Shanshan Wen, Ran Zheng, Li Li, Wei Jiang, Donghui Zhang

“…We then detail procedures for constructing and culturing three-dimensional EHTs followed by their contraction force measurement and optical mapping.For complete details on the use and execution of the protocol, please refer to Zheng et al.1 and Li et al.2 : Publisher’s note: Undertaking any experimental protocol requires adherence to local institutional guidelines for laboratory safety and ethics.…”
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Computation of separate ratio and regression estimator under Neutrosophic stratified sampling: an application to climate data by Abhishek Singh, Hemant Kulkarni, Florentin Smarandache, Gajendra Vishwakarma

“…Moreover, our research highlights the enhanced reliability of neutrosophic stratified estimators when contrasted with classical stratified estimators.…”
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The Use of an Alternative Extraoral Periapical Technique for Patients with Severe Gag Reflex by Mauro Henrique Chagas e Silva, Marcelo Santos Coelho, Mariane Floriano Lopes Santos, Carolina Oliveira de Lima, Celso Neiva Campos

“…Gag reflex is a physiologic mechanism that promotes contraction of the muscles of the tongue and pharyngeal walls. …”
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Unbiased Diffusion through a Linear Porous Media with Periodic Entropy Barriers: A Tube Formed by Contacting Ellipses by Yoshua Chávez, Marco-Vinicio Vázquez, Leonardo Dagdug

“…Mathematical expressions are presented and contrasted against computational simulations to validate them.…”
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Arbitrary Order Fractional Difference Operators with Discrete Exponential Kernels and Applications by Thabet Abdeljawad, Qasem M. Al-Mdallal, Mohamed A. Hajji

“…Then, existence and uniqueness theorems for the Caputo (CFC) and Riemann (CFR) type initial difference value problems by using Banach contraction theorem are proved. Finally, a Lyapunov type inequality for the Riemann type fractional difference boundary value problems of order 2<α≤3 is proved and the ordinary difference Lyapunov inequality then follows as α tends to 2 from right. …”
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Revisiting the Role of Neighbourhood Change in Social Exclusion and Inclusion of Older People by Victoria F. Burns, Jean-Pierre Lavoie, Damaris Rose

“…A qualitative case study was conducted in two contrasting neighbourhoods in Montréal (Québec, Canada), the analysis drawing on concepts of social exclusion and attachment. …”
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Hemorrhagic Bronchopneumonia in Adults with Chickenpox. A Case Report by Miguel Ángel Serra Valdés, Gloria Susana Fabra Aguirre, Maury Llana Rodríguez, Yovanis Iser Filtres

“…The case of an 83 years old male patient, with a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and ischemic cerebrovascular atherosclerotic disease that contracted chickenpox and whose evolution was very rapid, with acute respiratory failure and bronchopneumonia massive hemorrhagic shock, to the point of death, is presented. …”
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Different Cardiovascular Responses to a Resistance Training Session in Hypertensive Women Receiving Propanolol Compared with Normotensive Controls by Fabiano Moraes Miguel, Luis Alexandre Grings, Guilherme Borges Pereira, Richard Diego Leite, Amilton Vieira, Nuno Manuel Frade de Sousa, Roberto Simão, Jonato Prestes

“…The aim of the present study was to compare the responses of blood pressure, heart rate, and rate-pressure product of hypertensive women using beta-blockers with healthy controls during resistance exercise (by the end of the concentric phase of the contractions) and in the postexercise period (5 and 30 minutes after). …”
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Flame temperature analysis in the oxycut process using acetylene gas: a numerical study by Gustavo L. S. Silva, Júlio Cesar Costa Campos, Charles Luiz da Silva, Igor R. R. Carlos, Antonio Marcos de Oliveira Siqueira, Rogério F. Brito, Luciano José Minette

“…The results pointed a peak surrounding the stoichiometric ratio, at 3106 °C for the literature and 2650.93 °C for the numerical model, contrasting a deviation of 14.65%. The maximum temperature occurs at 52.38% of oxygen volume for the literature and 50.03% for the model, a difference of 2.35 percentage points only. …”
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State Identification of ECS Turbine Bearing Based on Fractal Dimension by Chenchen Li, Qingpeng Han, Rui Zhu, Qingyu Zhu

“…Then correlation dimension of those signals phase is calculated, contrasted, and analyzed after space reconstruction. …”
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