Microscopic investigation of the occurring process of contact erosion by Yubo Li, Guo Yu, Lei He, Ying Cui

“…Preferential seepage paths are critical paths in the development of contact erosion. The force characteristics of the particles were investigated based on three types of instability modes and fitting curves to determine the stability of the soil structure considering the flow velocity and particle size. …”
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Rancang Bangun Website Akademik dengan Penyimpanan Sertifikat Digital Menggunakan Teknologi Blockchain by Windra Swastika, Hermawan Wirasantosa, Oesman Hendra Kelana

“…Abstract A certificate is a form of appreciation that a person receives after completing a certain competency or learning test. …”
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Quality Assessment of Systematic Review of the Bariatric Surgery for Diabetes Mellitus by Xinye Jin, Jinjing Wang, Xueqiong Li, Ping An, Haibin Wang, Wenfeng Mao, Qi Zhou, Yaolong Chen, Jie Wang, Kang Chen, Yiming Mu

“…Data were visualized using the forest plot in RevMan 5.3 software. Results. A total of 64 SRs were included. …”
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Social Discontent and Voting Behaviour in South Africa’s 2024 General Elections: The Transition from One-party Dominance to a Multi-party Coalition by Ath`enkosi Mfusi Mbete, Collin Olebogeng Mongale, Victor Ojakorotu

“…As a result, the party fell below the threshold to govern on its own, leading to the formation of a multi-party coalition government with former opposition parties named the Government of National Unity (GNU). …”
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Félix-Archimède Pouchet, professeur de sciences naturelles de Flaubert by Maryline Coquidé

“…Gustave Flaubert always maintained his admiration and affection for his former professor. After having outlined Félix Pouchet’s origins, and situated the cultural context of his major works in Natural Sciences, I will put these in perspective in Flaubert’s writings.…”
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Visual Chronicles from the Balkans and Central Europe: Samplers Remembered by Maria-Alina Asavei

“…This paper brings into focus ‘amateur’ and regional forms of home grown cultural expression and the ways in which these forms of folk creativity and materiality are recast in contemporary urban popular culture and arts. …”
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Morphometric Factors Controlling the Old and New Debris-Laden Floods in the South-Southwest Catchment Area of the Esence Mountains with the Example of Günebakan (Erzincan) Flood by Pınar Polat, İbrahim Kopar, Fatih Yalçın

“…The stream includes the Allahmedet Stream and Çadırtepe Stream basins. In this study, the formation and development processes of two flood-overflow events that occurred in Günebakan Stream Basin, the first on 17/07/2011 and the second on 03/07/2020, in the size of a natural disaster and resulted in significant property losses, and their effects on the natural and human environment were examined. …”
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Digital migrants and digital diaspora: new problems and trends of international migration by Yu. G. Volkov, V. V. Krivopuskov, V. I. Kurbatov

“…The digital diaspora being an electronic platform is the basis for migrants’ access to online public content, serves as an information base for the migrants’ digital adaptation and their virtual identity’s formation, which is becoming more and more transnational.The article proposes an instrumental definition of “digital migrant” concept, reveals factors of digital ethnic national community’s functioning, features of migrants’ social adaptation in digital diaspora, new types of interpersonal communication in digital diaspora, new trends and problems of digital migration, and new types of migrants’ identity and of digital virtual identity…”
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A Note on the Eigenvalue Analysis of the SIMPLE Preconditioning for Incompressible Flow by Shi-Liang Wu, Feng Chen, Xiao-Qi Niu

“…The relationship between the two different formulations spectrum of the SIMPLE preconditioned matrix is established by using the theory of matrix eigenvalue, and some corresponding results in recent article by Li and Vuik (2004) are extended.…”
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Echogenic Technology Improves Cannula Visibility during Ultrasound-Guided Internal Jugular Vein Catheterization via a Transverse Approach by Konstantinos Stefanidis, Nicos Pentilas, Stavros Dimopoulos, Serafim Nanas, Richard H. Savel, Ariel L. Shiloh, John Poularas, Michel Slama, Dimitrios Karakitsos

“…We prospectively enrolled 80 mechanically ventilated patients who required central venous access in a randomized study that was conducted in two medical-surgical ICUs. Forty patients underwent EC and 40 patients were randomized to NEC. …”
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Intrinsically stretchable fully π-conjugated polymers with inter-aggregate capillary interaction for deep-blue flexible inkjet-printed light-emitting diodes by Mingjian Ni, Zhiqiang Zhuo, Bin Liu, Xu Han, Jing Yang, Lili Sun, Yuekuan Yang, Jiangli Cai, Xiang An, Lubing Bai, Man Xu, Jinyi Lin, Quanyou Feng, Guohua Xie, Yutong Wu, Wei Huang

“…More interestingly, the anisotropic shape rod-like aggregate of conjugated polymers chains also induced a strong capillary interaction and further suppressed the coffee-ring effect, which is more likely to allow for uniform deposition during printed processing and form uniform printed films.…”
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A relação do Serviço Social com as lutas sociais no Brasil nas décadas de 1970-1990: um esforço coletivo de investigação sobre a questão da natureza da dimensão ético-política prof... by Amanda Guazzelli, Ana Lívia Adriano, Maria Beatriz Costa Abramides, Maria Lúcia Duriguetto, Maria Rosângela Batistoni, Susana Maria Maia

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Loss of neuronal βPix isoforms impairs neuronal morphology in the hippocampus and causes behavioral defects by Younghee Kwon, Seung Joon Lee, Yoon Kyung Shin, June-Seek Choi, Dongeun Park, Jung Eun Shin

“…βPix is a guanine nucleotide exchange factor for the Rac1 and Cdc42 small GTPases, which play important roles in dendritic spine morphogenesis by modulating actin cytoskeleton organization. The formation and plasticity of the dendritic spines are essential for normal brain function. …”
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The Expression of IL-6, TNF-α, and MCP-1 in Respiratory Viral Infection in Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by Jingtong Zheng, Yue Shi, Lingxin Xiong, Weijie Zhang, Ying Li, Peter G. Gibson, Jodie L. Simpson, Chao Zhang, Junying Lu, Jingying Sai, Guoqiang Wang, Fang Wang

“…Induced sputum of participants was processed and tested for thirteen viruses and bacteria. Forty cytokines were assayed in serum using the Quantibody Human Inflammation Array 3 (Ray Biotech, Inc.). …”
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La construcción de legitimidad de la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP), en Colombia, a partir de discursos y narrativas organizacionales (2018-2020) by Juan David Arias-Suarez, Julián Zúñiga-Upegui, Vanessa Cano-Mejía

“…Metodológicamente, el artículo adoptó un enfoque cualitativo, realizando un análisis narrativo del discurso de la JEP a partir de sus archivos institucionales, videos, comunicados y reportes, como formas discursivas de construir legitimidad, entre 2018 y 2020. …”
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Microstructure and transport properties of lithium hexafluorophosphate solutions in binary mixture of dimethyl carbonate with ethylene carbonate from molecular dynamics simulation by Dmytro Dudariev, Yevhenii Holubenko, Rebie Jallah, Oleg Kalugin

“…The results show that Li+ cation can form contact ion pairs (CIPs) and solvent shared ion pairs (SSIPs) in the solutions. …”
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MSC-Derived Extracellular Vesicle-Delivered L-PGDS Inhibit Gastric Cancer Progression by Suppressing Cancer Cell Stemness and STAT3 Phosphorylation by Benshuai You, Can Jin, Jiaxin Zhang, Min Xu, Wenrong Xu, Zixuan Sun, Hui Qian

“…In vitro, EVs-L-PGDS could be internalized and inhibit the colony-forming, migration, and invasion ability of gastric cancer cell SGC-7901 and promote cell apoptosis. …”
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Study on the Color Genesis of South Red Agate and the Geological Characteristics of the Siliceous Gravel Layer by Kongliang Li, Ye Yuan

“…In addition, the study shows that the formation of south red agate is multistage and the formation of hematite inclusions is also multistage.…”
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The complete chloroplast genome sequences of monotypic genus Pseudogalium, and comparative analyses with its relative genera by Wei Yu, Xiao-Juan Li, Zhen Lv, Li-E Yang, De-Li Peng

“…Phylogenetic analyses strongly supported the following proposals: (1) P. paradoxum can be isolated as a genus closely related to Galium; (2) P. paradoxum subsp. paradoxum and P. paradoxum subsp. duthiei form distinct clades, both of which can be considered as subspecies of P. paradoxum.…”
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Pannus Is the New Prepuce? Penile Cancer in a Buried Phallus by Jared Manwaring, Srinivas Vourganti, Dmitriy Nikolavsky, Alfredo L. Valente, Timothy Byler

“…Although both men had neonatal circumcisions, advanced penile carcinoma was found in both men. Formal penectomies showed high grade, poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma invading the corporal bodies and urethra. …”
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