A Comprehensive Review on the Effects of Laser Photobiomodulation on Skeletal Muscle Fatigue in Spastic Patients by Sadi F. Stamborowski, Fernanda Púpio Silva Lima, Patrícia Sardinha Leonardo, Mário Oliveira Lima

“…Every individual at some point in their life has realized the inability to maintain muscle contraction, a phenomenon known as fatigue. Interestingly, neurological patients with peripheral sequelae such as spastic muscle contraction are able to remain in a pattern of muscle contraction for prolonged periods. …”
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Peut-on trouver trace de la Loi islamique dans les documents arabes chrétiens de Tolède des XIIe et XIIIe siècles? by Jean-Pierre Molénat

“…Also, the clauses of the matrimonial contracts or family shares, are more as per the Fuero Juzgo than the Islamic law. …”
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The Incentive Model in Supply Chain with Trade Credit and Default Risk by Hong Cheng, Yingsheng Su, Jinjiang Yan, Xianyu Wang, Mingyang Li

“…The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of moral hazard in trade credit and explore incentive contract under uncertain demand and asymmetric information. …”
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Simulating the Effects of Structural Parameters on the Hydraulic Performances of Venturi Tube by Yanqi Sun, Wenquan Niu

“…For designing Venturi injector, contraction ratio should be reasonably selected according to the coefficient of local head loss and fertilizer absorption ratio.…”
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Monolithic electrostatic actuators with independent stiffness modulation by Yuejun Xu, Jian Wen, Etienne Burdet, Majid Taghavi

“…Here we replicate this function in the electro-stiffened ribbon actuator, a monolithic strong actuator capable of high contraction and stiffness modulation. electro-stiffened ribbon actuator employs dielectric-liquid-amplified electrostatic forces for contraction, and electrorheological fluid for rapid (<10 ms) stiffness and damping adjustments. …”
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European public procurement directives and their implementation in Slovenia by Stanka Setnikar Cankar, Veronika Petkovšek

“…The objectives of the research work were: a comparison of public procurement legislation in selected EU countries; determination of the current situation in the field of public procurement in local government in years 2008 and 2009; determination of similarities and differences in the implementation of contracts; determination of the most common open questions in the implementation of contracts; determination of good practices in public procurement and making the recommendations for changes. …”
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Calcium Handling in Airway Smooth Muscle: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications by Luke J Janssen

“…Calcium plays a central role in the activation of many cellular processes, including the most relevant end-point in airway smooth muscle physiology: contraction. For this reason, the cytosolic concentration of calcium is tightly controlled by an elaborate array of mechanisms. …”
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Ultrasonographic Examination of the Rumen in Healthy Cows by Sheikh Imran, Adarsh Kumar, S. P. Tyagi, Amit Kumar, Shivali Sharma

“…The motility pattern of rumen was characterized by approximately 1 contraction every minute. The mean amplitude of the ruminal contraction was 3.2 cm. …”
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Common Fixed Points of Generalized Rational Type Cocyclic Mappings in Multiplicative Metric Spaces by Mujahid Abbas, Manuel De la Sen, Talat Nazir

“…The aim of this paper is to present fixed point result of mappings satisfying a generalized rational contractive condition in the setup of multiplicative metric spaces. …”
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Empirical Evidence of the Market Price of Risk for Delivery Periods by Annika Kemper, Maren Diane Schmeck

“…In this paper, we provide empirical evidence of the market price of risk for delivery periods (MPDP) of electricity swap contracts. The MPDP enables an accurate pricing of such contracts in the presence of the delivery period such that the typical approximations can be avoided. …”
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Fixed point theorems for a sum of two mappings in locally convex spaces by P. Vijayaraju

“…Cain and Nashed generalized to locally convex spaces a well known fixed point theorem of Krasnoselskii for a sum of contraction and compact mappings in Banach spaces. The class of asymptotically nonexpansive mappings includes properly the class of nonexpansive mappings as well as the class of contraction mappings. …”
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Coupled and Tripled Coincidence Point Results with Application to Fredholm Integral Equations by Marwan Amin Kutbi, Nawab Hussain, Jamal Rezaei Roshan, Vahid Parvaneh

“…As an application, we derive new coupled and tripled coincidence point results for weak ψ-φ-contractive mappings in partially ordered Gb-metric spaces. …”
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Hβ-Hausdorff Functions and Common Fixed Points of Multivalued Operators in a b-Metric Space and Their Applications by Fahad Sameer Alshammari, Naif R. Alrashedi, Reny George

“…Hβ-Hausdorff functions for β∈0,1 are introduced, and common fixed-point theorems for a pair of multivalued operators satisfying generalized contraction conditions are proven in a b-metric space. …”
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Modeling of short-term financial transmission rights in a secondary auction market using game theory by Mohammad Tabrizian, Hosein Seifi, Mohamad Kazem Sheikh-al-Eslami, Hamidreza Shahmirzad

“…In the other scientific articles published so far, mainly the modeling and analysis of the primary auction markets of transission congestion financial rights have been discussed, and the secondary auction markets of these contracts, which have a different pattern, have not been scientifically analyzed. …”
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Sistem Berbasis Private Blockchain sebagai Penyedia Layanan Autentikasi Publisher-Broker-Subscriber Pada Protokol Message Queue Telemetry Transport by Muhammad Naufal Dzakie, Adhitya Bhawiyuga, Achmad Basuki

“…Because of this the writer propose to make a smart contract that functions as an authentication server. …”
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CONTRACTORS’ PERCEPTIONS OF LATE PAYMENTS by R CUMBERLEGE, B BOTHA, M BENTLEY

“…The article also highlights the importance of understanding the mechanisms and the workings of various contract agreements, in order for the contractor to be aware of their rights and responsibilities in terms of the contract, as well as what legal steps could be taken should a client be in default regarding payment. …”
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Drawings and Scale Models Used in Building the Spanish Royal Sites by Pilar Chías, Tomás Abad

“…The latter should also define the building contracts and build the models to be used by craftsmen. …”
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The Development Strategy of Dual-Channel Supply Chain of Smart Elderly Care Service from the Perspective of Time Perception by Tong Zhao, Qiaoming Hou

“…This paper analyzes the coordination effect of suppliers’ efforts to meet the needs of the elderly under the two conditions of no contract and benefit-sharing contract on the dual-channel supply chain of smart elderly care services. …”
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Customer Knowledge Enabled Innovation: Analyzing Pricing-Promotion Coordination Mechanism by Guanbing Zhao, Yangyang Qiu, Muhammad Imran, Fazal Manan

“…We prove that the repurchase penalty joint contract can coordinate the supply chain under the assumptions of a single-period game and a multiperiod repeated game. …”
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Healthcare Futures: Opportunities, Challenges and Risks in a Blockchain-Driven Environment by Robert Goldberg, Peter J. Pitts, Jennifer Hinkel

“…The integration of blockchain technology and smart contracts presents a transformative opportunity in healthcare financing by enabling the creation and trading of futures contracts based on the value of medical innovations. …”
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