The Prevalence and Underreporting of Needlestick Injuries among Dental Healthcare Workers in Pakistan: A Systematic Review by Mehak Pervaiz, Ruth Gilbert, Nasreen Ali

“…The rate of reporting of NSIs was between 15% and 76%, and the most common reason was found to be the lack of awareness regarding the reporting system, or of the need to report NSIs. …”
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Dyeing cotton fabrics with natural mordant dyes plant origin by Sutlović Ana, Peček Vedrana, Brlek Iva

“…All selected plants belong to the group of acid-mordant dyes due to their dyeing properties and bind to the fabric by forming a complex with metal salts (mordants). For this reason, the cotton material was treated with potassium aluminium sulphate dodecahydrate KAl(SO4)2 ·12H2O and iron(II) sulphate heptahydrate FeSO4·7H2O. …”
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Evolution of uncontrolled proliferation and the angiogenic switch in cancer by John D. Nagy, Dieter Armbruster

“…One such hallmark---the angiogenic switch---is difficult to explain for the same reason altruism is difficult to explain. An angiogenic clone is vulnerable to 'cheater' lineages that shunt energy from angiogenesis to proliferation, allowing the cheater to outcompete cooperative phenotypes in the environment built by the cooperators. …”
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Center of Rigidity and Center of Shear in Wall-Frame Systems by Kanat Burak Bozdoğan, Süleyman Aydın

“…In case of torsion in buildings, additional earthquake forces affect the structure and internal forces and displacements increases. For this reason, it is important to place the bearing systems in the plan as much as possible to reduce the torsion effect. …”
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A Study on the Influence of the Conglomerate Mesostructure on Fracture Failure Behavior Based on Discrete Element Method by Yu Yan, Shiyuan Li

“…The numerical simulation of the fracture toughness undertaken via the PFC method revealed the reason for the peak load fluctuation during the fracture propagation to be the constant penetration of the cracks into or out of gravel particles. ③ The fracture toughness simulation tests ascertain the existence of certain fracture characteristic units during the fracture propagation process, wherein the evolution of the internal mesostructure considerably influences the macroscopic failure mode of the conglomerate.…”
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Influence of TiO2 Nanocrystals Fabricating Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell on the Absorption Spectra of N719 Sensitizer by Puhong Wen, Yinfeng Han, Weixing Zhao

“…Accordingly, the utilization rate to visible light is increased. This is a reason why the DSC prepared by using such film as a photoelectrode has better performance than before mixing.…”
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Realization of Professional Ethics among Employees of Scientific and Educational Centers (Case Study of Razi University of Kermanshah) by Mohammad Ebrahim Malmir, Ali Malmir

“…Introduction: Ethics in the work environment plays a fundamental role in the growth and development of an organization. For this reason, managers and employees should pay special attention to this issue. …”
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Surgical Treatment for Occipital Condyle Fracture, C1 Dislocation, and Cerebellar Contusion with Hemorrhage after Blunt Head Trauma by Shigeo Ueda, Nobuhiro Sasaki, Miyuki Fukuda, Minoru Hoshimaru

“…When the patient was transferred to our hospital, the occipital bone remained defective extensively due to surgical treatment of cerebellar hemorrhage. For this reason, concurrent cranioplasty was performed with resin in order to fix the occipital bone plate strongly. …”
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Effects of Absorber Emissivity on Thermal Performance of a Solar Cavity Receiver by Jiabin Fang, Nan Tu, Jinjia Wei

“…Therefore, the change of absorber emissivity has slight effect on the thermal performance of the receiver. The reason for variation tendency of performance curves was also carefully analyzed. …”
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Analysis of spectral efficiency of multiuser MISO downlink based on large-scale antennas by Ju-fang LI, Rui ZHAO, Bin JIANG, Yong-ming HUANG, Lv-xi YANG, Hai ZHANG

“…Although the multicell system is affected by the pilot contamination, which is the reason why the inter-cell interferences cannot be eliminated, the reduced transmit power makes the system changed from interference-limited to noise-limited. …”
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Prevalence of Keratoconus in a Refractive Surgery Population by Abdulrahman Mohammed Al-Amri

“…Keratoconus was the most common reason for not performing refractive surgery and accounted for 24.0% of cases in which surgery was not performed.…”
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Research on the Radial Accuracy of Ultrasonic Vibration-Assisted Single Point Incremental Forming Parts by Yang Mingshun, Bai Lang, Lin Yunbo, Li Yan, Yuan Qilong, Zhao Renfeng

“…With the more and more complexity demands of the market, the geometric accuracy of the part has become the main factor restricting the development of single point incremental forming technology (SPIF). For this reason, with the truncated cone as the target part, the radial accuracy error generation mechanism was analyzed from the aspects of sheet springback and residual stress distribution. …”
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High-Resolution Image and Video CubeSat (HiREV): Development of Space Technology Test Platform Using a Low-Cost CubeSat Platform by Dong-Hyun Cho, Won-Sub Choi, Min-Ki Kim, Jin-Hyung Kim, Eunsup Sim, Hae-Dong Kim

“…Despite the emergence of the CubeSat technology worldwide, the CubeSat market in Korea is still in the beginning stages, and a standard testing platform is also in demand. For this reason, KARI is starting to develop a 6 U CubeSat platform, which includes a less than 3 U bus system and greater than 3 U payload space. …”
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Ippolit Bogdanovich and Voltaire’s 'Épître à l’impératrice de Russie': Adapting Praise by Andrew Kahn

“…Within its conventional duty to praise, Bogdanovich’s rewriting of Voltaire shifts the emphasis away from the theme of Orientalism and Catherine’s Turkish Wars to the benefits of reason and civilisation. The effect is to present a different perspective on the value of the empress’s achievements, offering praise but also implicitly a challenge to her to be better than Voltaire’s more militaristic portrait would have her be.…”
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Unifying Rigid and Soft Bodies Representation: The Sulfur Physics Engine by Dario Maggiorini, Laura Anna Ripamonti, Federico Sauro

“…This issue may limit game designers when imagining innovative and compelling video games and game mechanics. For this reason, we dug into the problem of appropriately representing soft bodies. …”
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Random Target Localization for an Upper Limb Prosthesis by Xinglei Zhang, Binghui Fan, Chuanjiang Wang, Xiaolin Cheng, Hongguang Feng, Zhaohui Tian

“…To achieve the purpose of accurately grasping a random target with the upper limb prosthesis, the acquisition of target localization information is especially important. For this reason, a novel type of random target localization algorithm is proposed. …”
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The Criticism of The Routledge Companion to Semiotics Translation: From Hard Semiotics to Anthroposemiotics by Hamid Reza Shairi, Fatemeh Seyedebrahimi

“…The authors of this book share one point: immanent structures cannot meet the needs of the domain of semiotics studies, and it is necessary that the world’s practical realities be translated or transmitted to the sign system. For this reason, the cultural, social, biological and ethical elements have been introduced in interaction with the world of signs in this book. …”
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Resonant Tunneling Nanostructures: Eliminating Current Saturation on Negative Differential Conductivity Region in Compact Dissipative Simulations by Natalia Vetrova, Evgeny Kuimov, Sergey Meshkov, Vladimir Sinyakin, Mstislav Makeev, Vasiliy Shashurin

“…This problem does not allow, within the traditional compact models, a correct qualitative and quantitative analysis to be carried out of the volt-ampere characteristics of double-barrier heterostructures. The reason for this problem is the asymptotic behavior of the function describing the structure transparency, so a non-saturating compact model was proposed to solve the problem of current transfer analysis in the region of negative differential conductivity. …”
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Improving the Strength Properties of Kaolinite Type Clays Using Melamine Formaldehyde Liquid Polymer by Altuğ Saygılı

“…Soil remediation methods have become one of the preferred methods due to the need for more space for construction activities in cities and industrial areas. Another reason for choosing the remediation techniques is to obtain economical and faster solutions compared to the conventional methods. …”
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Extortions and fines of the Nogai family aristocracy, reflected in Ottoman documents by Paşaoğlu D.D., Mirgaleev I.M.

“…The problems faced by the Nogais upon resettlement to Ottoman lands in the 19th century became a topic for official correspondence between provincial structures of the Ottoman state and the center, and some of the mentioned Nogai laws were recorded as the main reason for the problems that arose. The archival document, registered under number BOA.A.MKT.UM.414-24 in the Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister’s Office, in the State Archives of the Republic of Turkey, is a document written by the mutasarrif of Adana to the center, who had problems with the Nogai settlers they wanted to resettle in Adana.…”
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