Fatigue properties and fracture mechanism of load carrying type fillet joints with one-sided welding by Takamasa Abe, Hiroyuki Akebono, Masahiko Kato, Atsushi Sugeta

“…In this study, the fatigue properties and the fracture mechanism of the load carrying type fillet joints with one-sided welding were investigated experimentally to evaluate its fatigue damage with high accuracy based on the experimental results. …”
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Up from the Depths: The Cultural Appropriation of Godzilla in 1970s American Animation and Comics by C. Scott Maravilla

“…Cultural appropriation involves removing the subject from its cultural context. In this case, Marvel and Hanna-Barbera removed the character from its origin, where it emerged as a consequence of the atomic bomb. …”
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Association Between Four Non-Insulin-Based Insulin Resistance Indices and the Risk of Post-Stroke Depression by Wang P, Wang M, Xie Z, Zhi Z, Wang Y, Liu F, Liu Y, Zhao L

“…One month post-stroke, neuropsychological assessments were conducted using the 17-item Hamilton Depression Scale. Binary logistic regression analysis was performed to explore the relationship between the four non-insulin-based IR indices and PSD.Results: Ultimately, 381 patients completed the 1-month follow-up, including 112 (29.4%) with PSD. …”
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An indole alkaloid from a tribal folklore inhibits immediate early event in HSV-2 infected cells with therapeutic efficacy in vaginally infected mice. by Paromita Bag, Durbadal Ojha, Hemanta Mukherjee, Umesh Chandra Halder, Supriya Mondal, Nidhi S Chandra, Suman Nandi, Ashoke Sharon, Mamta Chawla Sarkar, Sekhar Chakrabarti, Debprasad Chattopadhyay

“…The in vivo studies revealed that HM at its virucidal concentration was nontoxic and reduced virus yield in the brain of HSV-2 infected mice in a concentration dependent manner, compared to vaginal tissues. …”
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QUALITY OF SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING AND BANK STABILITY: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM VIETNAMESE COMMERCIAL BANKS by Van Ha Nguyen, Khanh Linh Vu, Khanh Hien Do

“…Content analysis of banks’ annual reports is performed to assess 11 QSR items that are used to build the QSR index. Second, we investigate whether the quality of sustainability reporting influences banks’ financial stability. …”
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Research of a trusted execution environment module for multiple platforms by Qian-ying ZHANG, Shi-jun ZHAO, Wei FENG, Yu QIN, Deng-guo FENG

“…The current TPM,MTM and other trusted computing modules don’t take into account the variety of platforms and the update of the inside algorithms,protocols and functions.A hardware trusted execution environment module (TEEM) architecture,which uses ARM TrustZone technology to build a trusted computing module running in a secure isolated environment is designed.Proposed module not only supports variety of platforms,but also has strong mobility and portability.Moreover,it allows configuring and updating functions and algorithms of the module flexibly.A prototype system is implemented and its performance is tested.By analyzing the security of the system and the measurement results,it is shown that TEEM provides users with a safe,stable,efficient trusted execution environment.…”
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Application of Rapid Impacts Assessment Matrix (RIAM) in Detecting Environmental Impacts of Chabahar Desalination Plant by Hasan Sayyad, Mohsen Shahriari Moghaddam, Malihe Erfani, Saeed Mohammadi

“…The Chabahar desalination plant, in its operational phase, has 11 positive effects and 9 negative effects. …”
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Simultaneous Determination of Catalpol, Aucubin, and Geniposidic Acid in Different Developmental Stages of Rehmannia glutinosa Leaves by High Performance Liquid Chromatography by Yanjie Wang, Dengqun Liao, Minjian Qin, Xian’en Li

“…Although R. glutinosa roots are currently the only organ source in clinics, its leaves are a potential supplement for the roots especially in extraction of some important bioactive compounds. …”
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CAMELLIA SPHAMII (THEACEAE, SECT. PIQUETIA), A NEW TAXON OF YELLOW FLOWER FROM LANGBIANG BIOSPHERE RESERVE, VIETNAM by Quang Cuong Truong, Van Huong Le, Van Son Le, Quang Minh Le, Gia Hoang, Hong Truong Luu

“…., 2021) but differs from it in several morphological features: mature leaves cordate at base, young leaves purple; pericarp 7–8 mm thick with dense hair on the outer surface, flower buds ovate, ferruginous; sepals 5, hemisphere, concave, finely hairy on the outer surface, sparsely hairy on the inside, petals 7, finely hairy on the outer surface, with translucent margin, concave; style 5, ½ basally united; capsule 5 locular. Information on its phenology, distribution, ecology, and conservation status is also provided.…”
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Dual functional hydrogel of osteoclastic-inhibition and osteogenic-stimulation for osteoporotic bone defect regeneration by Lei Yu, Wentao Wang, Chang Lv, Qian Chen, Peng Yang, Zhenrong Qi, Haomiao Yu, Ruiqi Cao, Wenhao Li, Yi Qin, Gaoran Ge, Peilai Liu, Lixin Zhu, Houyi Sun, Dechun Geng, Liang Zhang

“…This complicates the treatment of osteoporosis and its related bone injuries in clinical practice. …”
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On the path to extinction: Helix godetiana Kobelt, 1878, the only threatened Helix species in Greece by Leonidas Maroulis, Nikos Poulakakis, Konstantinos Proios, Danae Karakasi, Kostas A. Triantis, Moisis Mylonas, Katerina Vardinoyannis

“…We identify potential drivers of its extinction, as Helix godetiana faces several threats across its current range, including competitive exclusion by Cornu aspersum, a species with continuing expansion in the Aegean and climate change disrupting its unusual breeding cycle, which occurs in late spring. …”
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De la police coloniale française à la police nationale marocaine : décolonisation et héritages policiers (1953-1960) by Benjamin Badier

“…Established in 1913, the Cherifian Police was conceived as a state police force with jurisdiction across the entire territory of the French zone of the protectorate. While by the 1930s its mission was to combat nationalism, surveillance and repression of Moroccan political parties became its main focus after the war. …”
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The theory of reputation economy as a new paradigm for the study of the region economic potential by M. R. Safiullin, A. S. Grunichev, A. A. Abdukaeva

“…The modern economy with all the variety of its structural elements, which every year is increasingly immersed in a hyper-connected digital space, new conditions of institutional functioning caused by both a change in technological patterns and innovative forms of thinking, needs to adjust the basic, established principles and models of economic growth. …”
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Severe Neurotoxicity due to Atropa belladonna Poisoning: A Case Report and Literature Review by Seyed Javad Boskabadi, Sima Ramezaninejad, Zakaria Zakariaei

“…The toxic effects of A. belladonna are attributable to its alkaloid content, which possesses potent anticholinergic properties. …”
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Putative and pretreatment drug resistance mutations in reverse transcriptase gene among untreated chronic hepatitis B patients at Arifin Achmad Regional District Hospital, Riau, In... by Arfianti Arfianti, Fauzia Andrini Djojosugito, Maisaroh Maisaroh, Hendra Asputra, Dita Kartika Sari, Tubagus Odih Rhomdani Wahid

“…Objective: This study aimed to identify mutations in the RT gene among patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) before receiving antiviral therapy and its relationship with the HBV genotypes. Methods: A total of 26 HBV DNA was extracted from the blood plasma of CHB patients. …”
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Prediction of Preterm Birth by Maternal Characteristics and Medical History in the Brazilian Population by Enio Luis Damaso, Daniel Lober Rolnik, Ricardo de Carvalho Cavalli, Silvana Maria Quintana, Geraldo Duarte, Fabricio da Silva Costa, Alessandra Marcolin

“…Although the predictive algorithm performed similarly to previously published data, the detection rates are poor and research on new biomarkers to improve its performance is needed.…”
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A New Approach to Supplier Selection: Interval Ranking of DEA with Double Frontiers by Feloora Valizadeh Palang Sarae

“…The criticality of supplier selection is due to its effects on elements related to the end products of organizations. …”
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The Public Signs of Vilnius: Languages and Genres by Inga Daraškienė

“…Research shows that the first foreign language used in a sign does not always play a stronger communicative function, as it may be used because of its symbolic power. The analysis of monolingual signs in foreign languages shows that the most significant proportion of such signs are stickers, shop signs, and graffiti, and the most common languages are English, Russian, Italian, German, French, Latin, and Latin. …”
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Privatized Futures, Climate Control, and Resistance in Recent Scottish Dystopian Fiction by Peter Clandfield

“…This article addresses Scottish dystopian novels that move past ideas of the British state as Big Brother to envision future Scotlands encountering global problems of climate change and its exploitation by neoliberal regimes. After discussing Alasdair Gray’s 1982, Janine (1984) as an influential confrontation with the increasingly toxic military-industrial state of 1980s Britain, the essay interprets Matthew Fitt’s But n Ben A-Go-Go (2000), John Aberdein’s Strip the Willow (2009), and the multiple-author graphic novel IDP: 2043 (2014), edited by Denise Mina, as what Umberto Eco calls “novels of anticipation,” or warnings of the undesirable eventualities that present tendencies may bring about. …”
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Transporte, modernización urbana y negociación: el Ferrocarril Urbano de Santiago 1873-1897 by Elisabet Prudant Soto

“…This analyses the expansion's phases of its trace and the gradual ramification of the routes to the urban and suburban periphery; as well as the main conflicts faced by the Company that was administered the service, maintained with the Municipality and with the users. …”
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