A Mathematical Model for Peristaltic Transport of Micro-Polar Fluids by S. K. Pandey, Dharmendra Tripathi

“…A mathematical model has been constructed for peristaltic transport of micro-polar fluid in a circular cylindrical tube of finite length by letting sinusoidal waves propagate along the wall that induce contraction and relaxation but not expansion beyond the natural boundary. …”
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Using the Ethereum Blockchain in the Internet of Things Network for IT Diagnostics by U. A. Vishniakou, YiWei Xia, Chuyue Yu

“…During the experiments, the process of creating and testing the system was implemented, including setting up the environment, connecting an IPFS node, programming Ethereum smart contracts, sampling voice data and storing their hashes.…”
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A Novel and Efficient Iterative Approach to Approximating Solutions of Fractional Differential Equations by Doaa Filali, Nidal H. E. Eljaneid, Adel Alatawi, Esmail Alshaban, Montaser Saudi Ali, Faizan Ahmad Khan

“…This study presents a novel and efficient iterative approach to approximating the fixed points of contraction mappings in Banach spaces, specifically approximating the solutions of nonlinear fractional differential equations of the Caputo type. …”
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Phytoestrogens Enhance the Vascular Actions of the Endocannabinoid Anandamide in Mesenteric Beds of Female Rats by Roxana N. Peroni, Tamara Abramoff, Isabel Neuman, Ernesto J. Podestá, Edda Adler-Graschinsky

“…In rat isolated mesenteric beds that were contracted with NA as an in vitro model of the vascular adrenergic hyperactivity that usually precedes the onset of primary hypertension, the oral administration (3 daily doses) of either 10 mg/kg genistein or 20 mg/kg daidzein potentiated the anandamide-induced reduction of contractility to NA in female but not in male rats. …”
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Dirichlet Forms Constructed from Annihilation Operators on Bernoulli Functionals by Caishi Wang, Beiping Wang

“…And then we prove that Ew is closed and has the contraction property; hence, it is a Dirichlet form. …”
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Besoins de recherche en santé au travail pour les salariés d’entreprises de sous-traitance interne by Michel Hery

“…Several studies of the subject have shown that contracting firm employees are more frequent victims of occupational accidents than their colleagues working for the companies in control of the premises. …”
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Variation in Macro and Trace Elements in Progression of Type 2 Diabetes by Khalid Siddiqui, Nahla Bawazeer, Salini Scaria Joy

“…Trace elements participate in tissue and cellular and subcellular functions; these include immune regulation by humoral and cellular mechanisms, nerve conduction, muscle contractions, membrane potential regulations, and mitochondrial activity and enzyme reactions. …”
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Bulge Oscillation Driven by Outflows of Active Galactic Nuclei. I. Fast Outflow Case by Yue-Chang Peng, Jian-Min Wang, Yu Zhao, Luis C. Ho

“…For some typical values of bulges and AGNs, we find that the expansion and contraction velocities are a few × 10 km s ^−1 for 10 ^10 M _⊙ bulges and mass outflowing rate 500 M _⊙ yr ^−1 , which would give observational signatures.…”
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A Critique on the Book “From Arabia to the Pacific: How Our Species Colonised Asia” by Seyyed Milad Hashemi

“…The focus of this book is on the dispersal of Middle and Upper Paleolithic hominins and the dynamism of their range expansion/ contraction in Asia. In the book, our species, modern human, is introduced as an invasive species from an ecological point of view; because such groups quickly settled across the whole ancient continent and in doing so, others, such as Neanderthals became extinct. …”
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Dry Needling with Fascial Winding in Nontraumatic Medial Tibial Shin Pain by Manoj Kumar Sharma, Sarika Chaudhary

“…A significant association has been discovered between shin pain with distance runners and proving the impact of the physical demands inherent in these physical activities. Contraction of the deep leg flexors during running leads to stress transfer to the tibial fascial attachment, i.e. deep crural fascia at the medial tibial crest which results in fascial dysfunction resulting in shin pain and discomfort. …”
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Experimental Study on Hygrothermal Deformation of External Thermal Insulation Cladding Systems with Glazed Hollow Bead by Houren Xiong, Jinming Xu, Yuanzhen Liu, Shimeng Wang

“…Deformation of substrate expanded with heat and contracted with cold due to the small temperature variation. …”
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Relational Premises in the Cooperation Between Farms with Conservative Breeds and Industry Organisations by Marta Domagalska-Grędys

“…Breeders contribute to the growth of biodiversity, while industry organisations are an important partner in their relationships as they support farms (they mediate in the contracting process, organise trainings, represent the interests of producers in Poland and abroad). …”
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Carp Edema Virus Disease (CEVD) / Koi Sleepy Disease (KSD) by Shohreh Hesami, Pedro Viadanna, Natalie K. Steckler, Staci Spears, Patrick M. Thompson, Karen L. Kelley, Roy P. E. Yanong, Ruth Francis-Floyd, Johnny Shelley, Joseph M. Groff, Andy Goodwin, Olga L. M. Haenen, Thomas B. Waltzek

“…This 6-page fact sheet describes symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, and what fish producers, wholesalers, or retailers can do if they suspect carp may have contracted the disease. Written by Shohreh Hesami, Pedro Viadanna, Natalie Steckler, Staci Spears, Patrick Thompson, Karen Kelley, Roy Yanong, Ruth Francis-Floyd, Johnny Shelley, Joseph Groff, Andy Goodwin, Olga Haenen, and Thomas Waltzek, and published by the School of Forest Resources and Conservation Program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, October 2015. …”
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Avaliando impactos econômicos do programa “Reflorestar” de pagamentos por serviços ambientais by Renato Nunes de Lima Seixas, Pablo Medeiros Jabor

“…These results suggest a substi-tution of temporary crops for preservation areas, which can be quickly reconverted at the end of the payments for environmental services contracts.…”
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Predicting Welding Deformation of Exposed Forged-and-welded Gear by the Integrated Computational Approach by Qu Tie, Xin Wen, Luo Wenze, Wang Chongyang, Hu Long, Huang Zhiquan, Deng Dean

“…The numerical simulation results show that the radial shrinkage of the large forged-and-welded gear is about 11 mm after welding, and the amount of contraction in the circumference direction is about 3 mm.…”
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An Architecture-Based Adaptation Framework for Soft Real-Time Applications by Xiaoan Bao, Na Zhang, Ning Gui, Jinyu Song

“…A real-time component runtime service is proposed here to maintain the global view, control the whole lifecycle of the components and keep existing real-time componentsˊ promised contracts in the face of run-time changes. This framework is designed to be easily extended with other constraint resolving policies as well as dependence descriptions languages and can be used to provide real-time computing services for cloud computing. …”
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Design and Analysis of Closed-Linked Eight-Link Foot Robot with Composite Hinges by Hao Zhang, Jianjun Qin, Xingjie Liu, Lei Jiang

“…Maintaining the characteristics of the closed-loop kinematic chain，the simplest eight-bar kinematic chain is obtained by local contraction of the general eight-bar kinematic chain，and the robot leg mechanism is designed based on one of the simplest eight-bar linkage mechanisms. …”
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What the Seasons Tell Us. The Monthly Movement of Marriages, Economic Modernization, and Secularization in the Netherlands, 1810-1940 by Theo Engelen

“…The analysis is based on the LINKS dataset which currently includes almost 2 million marriages that were contracted in seven Dutch provinces: Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, Gelderland, Noord-Holland, Zeeland and Limburg. …”
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Weight of the Default Component of CDS Spreads: Avoiding Procyclicality in Credit Loss Provisioning Framework by Mariya Gubareva

“…A new CDS-based approach to estimate current expected credit loss is proposed for low default portfolios, containing credit exposures to corporate issuers covered by publicly traded CDS contracts. First, a fraction of CDS spread related to a pure default compensation for different CDS maturities is assessed. …”
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Cloud-Based Service for Fingerprint Image Matching by Ethar Abdul Wahhab Hachim

“… Fingerprint matching is one of the most important services that related to the issue of identifying individuals, as it can be used to verify the validity of contracts, documents or in other security fields such as criminal investigations. …”
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