A Coupled Smoothed Finite Element-Boundary Element Method for Structural-Acoustic Analysis of Shell by Wanyi TIAN, Lingyun YAO, Li LI

“…In order to improve the accuracy of structural-acoustic problem, a smoothed finite-element/boundary-element coupling procedure (SFEM/BEM) is extended to analyze the structural-acoustic problem consisting of a shell structure interacting with the cavity in this paper, in which the SFEM and boundary element method (BEM) models are used to simulate the structure and the fluid, respectively. …”
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What Makes a Hospital Gown Functional? A Comparative Case Study of Effective Patient-Centered Design Practices in Four (<i>n =</i> 4) Hospital Gowns by Robmarie Lopez

“…Yet, the typical ``tie in the back'' hospital gown, standard garb for routine medical procedure, can have great influence over key intervention factors like receptiveness to treatment and patient self-esteem. …”
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Estimation of Blood Loss in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery by Measurements of Low Haemoglobin Levels in Mixtures of Blood, Saliva and Saline: a Laboratory Study by Krister Johansson, Martin Lindström, Manaf Alhabshi, Marianne Ahmad, Peter J. Svensson, Jonas P. Becktor

“…Objectives: Estimating blood loss is an important factor in several surgical procedures. The accuracy of blood loss measurements in situations where blood is mixed with saliva and saline is however uncertain. …”
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Failure Assessment for the High-Strength Pipelines with Constant-Depth Circumferential Surface Cracks by X. Liu, Z. X. Lu, Y. Chen, Y. L. Sui, L. H. Dai

“…This work provides an engineering estimation procedure based upon the GE/EPRI method to determine the J-integral for the thin-walled pipelines with small constant-depth circumferential surface cracks subject to tension and bending loads. …”
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Research Progress on the Posterior Midline Lumbar Spinous Process‐Splitting Approach by Yizhong Ma, Lu Mao, Guanyi Liu, Lihua Hu, Kaixuan Chen

“…However, the bilateral dissection of paraspinal muscles during this procedure often leads to postoperative muscle atrophy, chronic low back pain, and other complications. …”
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Molecular identification and genetic variations of forensically significant blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) from Eastern India using DNA barcoding. by Oishik Kar, Arka Mukherjee, Koustav Mukherjee, Debdeep Pramanik, Atanu Naskar, Dhriti Banerjee

“…In all phases of blow fly development, molecular identification offers a quick and accurate procedure. It is widely known that mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I has the capacity for molecular identification but is ineffective in certain species. …”
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Anatomical Characteristics of the Nasopalatine Canal in Adults: A Cone-beam Computed Tomography Study in a Peruvian Sample by Gerardo Raffael Lévano-Miranda, Kilder Maynor Carranza-Samanez, Julissa Amparo Dulanto-Vargas

“…Introduction: Knowledge of the anatomical structures related to the anterior maxilla is essential to anticipate complications in oral and maxillofacial surgery procedures. The aim of this study was to determine the anatomical characteristics of the nasopalatine canal (NPC) in adults using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). …”
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Dynamics of cognitive functions in patients with hemoblastosis treated with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation by T. A. Kuznetsova, I. V. Grandilevskaya, I. Yu. Obidin

“…However, the issue of cognitive impairments following this procedure in hematologic malignancies remains poorly investigated.Aim. …”
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OiSAM-FGO: an efficient factor graph optimization algorithm for GNSS/INS integrated navigation system by Zhichao Yang, Xiangjie Ding, Ying Yang, Qi Wang

“…The experiments on real-world datasets demonstrated that the OiSAM-FGO can reduce the time consumption of the optimization procedure by up to 52.24%, while achieving a performance equivalent to that of the State-of-the-Art (SOTA) FGO method and superior to the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) method.…”
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A moléstia da cana-de-açúcar na década de 1860: a lavoura The sugar cane blight of the 1860s: science applied to agriculture by Begonha Bediaga

“…The debate at the Imperial Instituto about the sugar cane blight was analyzed, together with the ideas espoused there and the characters involved in the issue. The procedures and solutions presented are studied, as well as the formation of knowledge networks around the agricultural sciences, which was in the process of institutionalization at the time.…”
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Investigating the Stationarity Properties of Oil Consumption: an Empirical Analysis for OECD Countries by Fatma Kızılkaya

“…The analyses are carried out using a panel stationarity test with sharp and smooth breaks for 1965-2019. In this test procedure, dummy variables, in which the break dates are determined endogenously, are used for sharp breaks, while the Fourier approach captures smooth breaks. …”
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Analysis of High-Power Radar Propagation Environments Around the Test Site by Jongho Keun, Taekyeong Jin, Jeonghee Jin, Hosung Choo

“…In addition, the theoretical and average measured received powers of −61.9 dBm and −62.03 dBm, respectively, show good agreement with the simulated result of −64.64 dBm. This measurement procedure exhibits high accuracy when compared with theoretical and simulation results. …”
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Artificial Neural Network-based Model for Predicting Cardiologists’ Over-apron Dose in CATHLABs by Reza Fardid, Fatemeh Farah, Hossein Parsaei, Hadi Rezaei, Mohammad Vahid Jorat

“…Materials and Methods: This study developed an artificial neural network (ANN) model to predict the over-apron radiation dose received by cardiologists during catheterization procedures, using dose area product (DAP) values. Leveraging a validated Monte Carlo simulation program, we generated data from simulations with varying spectra (70, 81, and 90 kVp) and tube orientations, resulting in 125 unique scenarios. …”
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The Application of PSO in Structural Damage Detection: An Analysis of the Previously Released Publications (2005–2020) by Parsa Ghannadi, Seyed Sina Kourehli, Seyedali Mirjalili

“…Using these methods, an objective function is minimized by an optimization algorithm during an iterative procedure. The performance of optimization algorithms has a significant impact on the accuracy of damage identification methodology. …”
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The possibility of full-arch rehabilitation for edentulous patients supported by 4 dental implants by V. S. Chudanov, A. M. Panin, A. M. Tsitsiashvili, A. M. Khorguani

“…The “All-on-4” technique was proposed to accelerate the rehabilitation of elderly edentulous patients, which allows making fixed prosthesis supported by 4 dental implants without bone grafting procedures. This treatment method involves the installation of distal implants at an angle to the frontal plane in order to position the prosthetic platforms in the premolar area, which reduces the length of the distal console elements and distributes the occlusal load more evenly.CONCLUSIONS. …”
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Technologies Géo-Spatiales pour renforcer les dispositifs de gestion des terres agricoles : Appui à la gestion des surfaces agrumicoles par télédétection dans la Plaine de Triffa-... by Loubna El Mansouri, Rachid Hadria, Imane Lahmer, Omar Moutaib, Abdessadek Oujemaa, Amine ElGorch

“… L’objectif de ce papier est de proposer et implémenter une procédure de classification d’images satellitaires optique et radar pour la cartographie des cultures, notamment la production d’une carte d’agrumes. 7 classes de cultures ont été considérées (les jeunes agrumes, les agrumes adultes, les vieux agrumes, les autres plantations, les céréales, les maraichages et le sol nu au printemps) et 18 images ont été traitées pour extraire les profils temporels des pixels qui seront la base des traitements. 13 schémas de classifications ont été testés où on a comparé les performances et les contributions de l’analyse d’image orientée objet versus l’analyse basée pixel, le classificateur avancé Séparateurs à Vastes Marges (SVM) versus le classificateur classique du Maximum de Vraisemblance (MV) et en fin les bandes de polarisation radar versus le NDVI. …”
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Courting constitutional crises: crisis mitigation by constitutional courts as democratic institutions by Max Steuer, Sascha Kneip, Cornell W. Clayton

“…Constitutional courts can signal when the vague concept of ‘constitutional crisis’ is invoked merely as a pretext for power concentration and when constitutional crisis discourse does not justify departing from democratic procedures, thus helping depolarization and encouraging deliberation over political decisions. …”
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Ukrainian cereals and oilseeds trade by Б. В. Духницький, Т. В. Сіліфонов

“…Analysis and synthesis, comparative evaluation, graphic procedure. Results. The role and place of Ukraine in a total grain supply to the world market was determined. …”
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PROGRESSIVE COARTICULATION AND EMPHATIC STRESS IN RUSSIAN VCV STRUCTURES by Sergey V. Batalin

“…However, the ANOVA procedures did not make it possible to establish any clearly defined regularities in the carryover coarticulation impact either of the unstressed V1 vowel front/back row or the place of obstruction of the intervocalic consonant on the F2 value of the V2 vowel. …”
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GLOBAL GROWTH OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THE JUDICIARY IN THE WORLD: ON THE QUES- TION OF THE ROLE OF THE “RULE OF JURISTOCRACY” by Mykhaylo O. Baymuratov, Natalia V. Bocharova

“…Judicial legality creates new rules and procedures, which is seen as evidence of the transition of power from representative democracy to the “rule of judges.”…”
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