Alantolactone mitigates the elevation of blood pressure in mice induced by angiotensin II by inhibiting calcium channel activation by Ruqiang Yuan, Mingjing Gao, Hu Xu, Qing Liang, Lei Qian, Yali Wang, Houli Zhang, Erjiao Qiang, Weijing Yun

“…Vascular ring experiments indicated that ATL could inhibit the vascular contractions induced by Ang II, Phenylephrine, and Ca2⁺. …”
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A Constitutive Model for Saturated Gravelly Sand Based on Higher-Order Dilatancy Equation by Dongjie Zhang, Fei Luo, Zhanyuan Zhu, Bin Luo, Jing Li, Zihan Xu, Jiaming Liu

“…The test results show that all the samples of gravelly sand present strain hardening and shear contraction during the process of shearing test. Additionally, gravelly sands are significantly affected by the initial relative density. …”
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An Assessment of Wound Healing Potential of Argyreia speciosa Leaves by Kuldeep Singh Yadav, Narayan Prasad Yadav, Bindu Rawat, Vineet Kumar Rai, Karuna Shanker, Chandana Venkateswara Rao

“…To evaluate the effect of each extract, wound contraction, epithelization period, wound breaking strength, and hydroxyproline content were determined. …”
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Volar Dislocation of the Fourth and Fifth Carpometacarpal Joint Associated with Hamate Hook Fracture: A Case Report and Literature Review by Natsumi Saka, Hirotada Matsui, Hideki Tsuji

“…We suggest that this rare injury was caused by the over contraction of the flexor carpi ulnaris and avulsion force from the ligamentous structure around the pisiform, hamate, and metacarpal bones.…”
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Some Qualitative Analyses of Neutral Functional Delay Differential Equation with Generalized Caputo Operator by Abdellatif Boutiara, Mohammed M. Matar, Mohammed K. A. Kaabar, Francisco Martínez, Sina Etemad, Shahram Rezapour

“…The existence and uniqueness results to the given boundary value problem are established with the help of the Dhage’s technique and Banach contraction principle. Also, we prove other existence criteria by means of the topological degree method. …”
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An Illusion: “A Suzuki Type Coupled Fixed Point Theorem” by Hamed H. Alsulami, Erdal Karapınar, Marwan A. Kutbi, Antonio-Francisco Roldán-López-de-Hierro

“…Finally, we present a fixed point theorem for Suzuki type (α, r)-admissible contractions.…”
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Almost Automorphic Solutions to Nonautonomous Stochastic Functional Integrodifferential Equations by Li Xi-liang, Han Yu-liang

“…Using the so-called “Acquistapace-Terreni” conditions and Banach contraction principle, the existence, uniqueness, and asymptotical stability results of square-mean almost automorphic mild solutions to such stochastic equations are established. …”
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Advances in neuromodulation for treatment of dystonia by LIANG Nan, MA Ling⁃yan, MENG Fan⁃gang, ZHANG Jian⁃guo

“…Dystonia is a group of movement disorders characterized by continuous or intermittent muscle contraction, causing abnormal movements and/or repetitive postures. …”
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Blow-up of solutions for a time fractional biharmonic equation with exponentional nonlinear memory by Yuchen Zhu

“…Then, based on the contraction mapping principle, we establish the local existence of mild solutions. …”
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La relation d’emploi à l’aune du multi-sociétariat by Jean Cartellier, Cyrille Ferraton, Nathalie Magne, Delphine Vallade

“…However, tensions remain over employment contracts, the number of hours worked and/or paid, particularly when employees, volunteers, and consumers are brought together at work and as members.…”
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Parameter Dependence of Stable Invariant Manifolds for Delay Differential Equations under (μ,ν)-Dichotomies by Lijun Pan

“…In addition, we also show that nonuniform (μ,ν)-contraction persists under sufficiently small nonlinear perturbations.…”
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A Best Proximity Point Theorem for Generalized Non-Self-Kannan-Type and Chatterjea-Type Mappings and Lipschitzian Mappings in Complete Metric Spaces by Kasamsuk Ungchittrakool

“…The significant mapping in a unified form which related to contractive mappings, Kannan-type mappings, and Chatterjea-type mappings is established. …”
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Some New Fixed Point Theorems in Partial Metric Spaces with Applications by Rajendra Pant, Rahul Shukla, H. K. Nashine, R. Panicker

“…Recently, a number of fixed point theorems for contraction type mappings in partial metric spaces have been obtained by various authors. …”
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The Association of SGLT-2 inhibitors (Empagliflozin) with the development of hypernatremic dehydration: a case report by Diana Alegre-González, Sandra García-Guerreros, Sara Martínez-Hernández, Ana Yasmina Brito-Díaz, Marta Casañas-Martínez, Ramón Baeza-Trinidad

“…Sodium-Glucose-Cotransporter -2 inhibitors (SGLT2 inhibitors) are a new class of drugs that reduce blood glucose levels by increasing glucose excretion and lowering blood pressure through natriuresis and plasma volumen contraction. Due to their beneficial effects, they are currently used in treatment of both diabetes mellitus and heart failure, leading to widespread use in recent years. …”
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Some Fixed Point Results in Premodular Special Space of Sequences and Their Associated Pre-Quasi-Operator Ideal by Awad A. Bakery, Elsayed A. E. Mohamed, O. M. Kalthum S. K. Mohamed

“…We show that both Kannan contraction and nonexpansive mappings acting on these spaces have a fixed point. …”
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BLOCKCHAIN: PHILOSOPHY, TECHNOLOGY, APPLICATIONS AND RISKS by V. V. Godin, A. E. Terekhova

“…The areas of blockchain implementation have been presented, such as government, business, financial organizations, cryptocurrency and ICO, smart contracts and current trends of using blockchain technology.…”
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Strong Convergence of New Two-Step Viscosity Iterative Approximation Methods for Set-Valued Nonexpansive Mappings in CAT(0) Spaces by Ting-jian Xiong, Heng-you Lan

“…By means of some properties and characteristic to CAT(0) space and using Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and Xu’s inequality, strong convergence theorems of the new two-step viscosity iterative process for set-valued nonexpansive and contraction operators in complete CAT(0) spaces are provided. …”
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Intermittent Short Atrioventricular Delay in a Dual Chamber Pacemaker During Acute Pulmonary Edema by Ravi Vazirani, Miriam García Cocera, David Calvo

“…ABSTRACT We present the case of an 80‐year‐old female with acute pulmonary edema and a dual chamber pacemaker with intermittent short AV delays in the surface ECG after blocked premature atrial contractions (PACs). The behavior was consistent with the programmed Window of Atrial Rate Acceleration Detection (WARAD) and did not require further parameter modifications. …”
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Fixed Point Results in Fuzzy Strong Controlled Metric Spaces with an Application to the Domain Words by Aftab Hussain, Umar Ishtiaq, Hamed Al Sulami

“…In this manuscript, we introduce the notions of fuzzy strong controlled metric spaces, fuzzy strong controlled quasi-metric spaces, and non-Archimedean fuzzy strong controlled quasi-metric spaces and generalize the famous Banach contraction principle. We prove several fixed point results in the context of non-Archimedean fuzzy strong controlled quasi-metric space. …”
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Generalized Synchronization of Stochastic Discrete Chaotic System with Poisson Distribution Coefficient by Shao-juan Ma, Duan Dong, Jie Zheng

“…Secondly, a general method for the generalized synchronization of discrete chaotic system with random parameter is presented by Lyapunov stability theory and contraction theorem. Finally, two synchronization examples numerically illustrated that the proposed control scheme is effective for any stochastic discrete system.…”
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