The ambiguity of technology in ASMR experiences: Four types of intimacies and struggles in the user comments on YouTube by Klausen Helle Breth

“…Within recent years, ASMR has mostly been associated with videos on YouTube (technologically mediated ASMR) dedicated to make the users “tingle”, relax, and feel at ease. In this article, I explore the ambiguity of technology in relation to the ASMR experience and theoretically investigate how viewer-listeners might struggle to obtain an intimate and parasocial interaction in a technologically mediated ASMR context. …”
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A geography of virtual universities in Korea by Woo-Kung Huh

“…Information and communication technologies have relaxed time-honored practices of space-time synchronization in higher education, allowing even a new type of open universities, namely virtual universities. …”
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Alliances bénies en Algérie : nouveaux liens maritaux en Islam by Abderrahmane Moussaoui

“…In Algeria, as in many Sunni countries, this form of marriage, which can be translated as “passerby’s marriage” is seen as a way to relax marital rules and adapt them to the reality of everyday life. …”
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The Effect of Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide (CGRP) on the Cytosolic Calcium Concentration and Force in Rat Intramural Coronary Arteries by M. Sheykhzade, N.C.B. Nyborg

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the mechanism of CGRP-induced relaxation in intramural rat coronary arteries. By using FURA-2 technique, cytosolic Ca2+-concentration ([Ca2+]i) was measured during contraction of the vascular smooth muscle with receptor-dependent agonist (tromboxane A2 analogue U46619) and with high concentration of extracellular potassium. …”
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Comparative magnetic resonance imaging-based study of pelvic floor morphology and function before pregnancy and after primigravida vaginal delivery by Xiaonan Lin, Jinming Chen, Haijing Pan, Yaye Xu, Qun Zhong, Xueying Lin, Chengbin Ye

“…During the straining maneuver, B-PCL, muscular pelvic floor relaxation line, and bladder neck descent showed statistically significant differences (P < 0.05). …”
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Heavy gravity combined with light gravity local anesthetic in subarachnoid anesthesia for cesarean section did not reduce the incidence of intraoperative hypotension in maternal wo... by Wei Qiao, Linlin Liu, Xiaoxiao Zhang, Kairui Liu, Lingzhi Wang

“…The secondary outcomes were the plane of anesthesia, abdominal wall muscle relaxation degree and the incidence of adverse events. …”
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In Vivo MRI Tracking of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Labeled with Ultrasmall Paramagnetic Iron Oxide Particles after Intramyocardial Transplantation in Patients with Chronic Ischemic... by Anders Bruun Mathiasen, Abbas Ali Qayyum, Erik Jørgensen, Steffen Helqvist, Annette Ekblond, Michael Ng, Kishore Bhakoo, Jens Kastrup

“…Serial MRI scans were performed to track labeled cells both visually and using semiautomated T2∗ relaxation time analysis. For safety, we followed symptoms, quality of life, and myocardial function for 6 months. …”
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Mixed quasi invex equilibrium problems by Muhammad Aslam Noor

“…It is shown that the convergence of these iterative schemes requires either pseudomonotonicity or partially relaxed strong monotonicity, which are weaker conditions than the previous ones. …”
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An Inertial Accelerated Algorithm for Solving Split Feasibility Problem with Multiple Output Sets by Huijuan Jia, Shufen Liu, Yazheng Dang

“…To improve the feasibility, the algorithm involves computing of projections onto relaxed sets (half spaces) instead of computing onto the closed convex sets, and it does not require calculating matrix inverse. …”
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Factors of heterogeneity of mortgage refinancing in the Russian regions by E. A. Gafarova

“…When mortgage-lending conditions are relaxed, regions with low average per capita incomes benefit least from mortgage refinancing.…”
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Cooperative transmission design combining network coding and superposition coding by Hai-rong WANG, Yong-ming HUANG, Lv-xi YANG

“…A joint network coding (NC) and superposition coding scheme was proposed to realize a cooperative transmission.The use of NC was able to improve spectral efficiency over classical decode and forward relaying strategy by relaxing the orthogonality constraint between different data streams and mitigating the resultant interference through precoding.In contrast to using the CSI based beamforming scheme which could achieve near optimal performance but involves huge computational complexity,designing the beamforming vector using the form of superposition coding was proposed,such that CSI at the transmitters were not required and the involved computation was greatly reduced.The theoretical analysis and simulation results reveal that the proposed scheme shows performances close to the near-optimal CSIT based scheme.…”
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On the Convergence Analysis of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers with Three Blocks by Caihua Chen, Yuan Shen, Yanfei You

“…Moreover, in order to accelerate the ADMM with three blocks, we also propose a relaxed ADMM involving an additional computation of optimal step size and establish its global convergence under mild conditions.…”
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Linear and Nonlinear Stability Analysis of Double Diffusive Convection in a Maxwell Fluid Saturated Porous Layer with Internal Heat Source by Moli Zhao, Qiangyong Zhang, Shaowei Wang

“…The effects of internal Rayleigh number, stress relaxation parameter, normalized porosity, Lewis number, Vadasz number and solute Rayleigh number on the stationary, and oscillatory and weak nonlinear convection of the system are shown numerically and graphically. …”
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Enhanced Reflected Group Delay with Optical Tamm State via Graphene-Dielectric Bragg Mirror Configuration by Jiao Tang, Jiao Xu, Hui Zhou, Zhiwei Zheng, Yuxiang Zhou, Rui Weng, Yueying Wei, Yue Liu, Qiwei Liu, Leyong Jiang, Shengyou Qian

“…Furthermore, the influences of the relaxation time of graphene, the incident angel, and the dispersion characteristics of top layer on group delay are clarified.…”
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A New Numerical Approach for the Laminar Boundary Layer Flow and Heat Transfer along a Stretching Cylinder Embedded in a Porous Medium with Variable Thermal Conductivity by S. Shateyi, G. T. Marewo

“…The resultant ordinary differential equations are then solved using a successive relaxation method (SRM). The effects of significant parameters on the velocity and temperature profiles have been analyzed graphically. …”
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Conditionally Compatible Mappings, Non-Compatible Mappings, Faintly Compatible Mappings and Some Results on Common Fixed Point in $C^*$-Algebra Valued Metric Space by Rishi Dhariwal, Deepak Kumar

“…Also, non-compatibility is relaxed by using the $E.A.$ property and faintly compatible continuous property or reciprocal continuous property for pairs of self-mappings. …”
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Masques de Chine, visages du nuo : du patrimoine à l’art premier by Sylvie Beaud

“…After their use had been prohibited for nearly two decades, Chinese masks, used mainly in rituals, made their reappearance in the public domain thanks to a relaxation of religious policy the 1980s. Cultural researchers and administrators then had the task of indexing and restoring them, necessitating the creation of a new administrative category. …”
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Conductivity of the PGT Synthesized by the High Energy Ball Milling (HEBM) by S. K. S. Parashar, M. Ghoranneviss, A. Salar Elahi

“…Complex impedance analysis suggested the dielectric relaxation to be of non-Debye type. The activation energy was found to be 1.04 ev. …”
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The symplectic potential for leaky boundaries by Robert McNees, Céline Zwikel

“…This leads to a finite symplectic potential for unconstrained boundary data and reveals two new corner symplectic pairs associated with the relaxation of the gauge.…”
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Remarks on a Class of Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations with Potential Vanishing at Infinity by Hongbo Zhu

“…Particularly, if f(u)=up, then the growth restriction σ≤p≤N+2/N-2 in Ambrosetti et al. (2005) can be relaxed to σ~≤p≤N+2/N-2, where σ~<σ if 0<β<α<2.…”
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