Reliability Evaluation and Preventive Maintenance Strategy Selection of Traction Substation Equipment Considering Its Wear Degree by E. E. Bakeev, A. I. Sharapova

“…Existing testing and preventive maintenance pattern is meant for the equipment which actual term of service does not exceed the maximum allowable one. …”
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Revealing the effect of layer-varying deposition strategy on laser-directed energy deposition bionic gradient NiTi alloy by Zhongxiong Kang, Chaorui Jiang, Mengqi Liu, Zhihui Zhang, Jie Zhao

“…The strategy includes different process parameters (the laser power and scanning speed), the scanning paths (alternative optimised spiral pattern, x-axis rotation pattern, and arc alternative pattern) and interlayer interval time. …”
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Analysis of Economic Vitality and Development Equilibrium of China’s Three Major Urban Agglomerations Based on Nighttime Light Data by Saimiao Liu, Wenliang Liu, Yi Zhou, Shixin Wang, Zhenqing Wang, Zhuochen Wang, Yanchao Wang, Xinran Wang, Luoyao Hao, Futao Wang

“…The results show the following: (1) From 2000 to 2020, the average growth rate of EDI in China’s three major urban agglomerations reached 36.32%, while the average decrease rate of NLDI reached 38.75%; both economic vitality and the development equilibrium have been continuously enhanced. …”
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Climate, soil and management factors drive the quantitative relationships between soil fertility and spring maize water productivity in northern China by Jiao Shi, Minggang Xu, Xinhua He, Huaiping Zhou, Jianhua Li

“…To improve spring maize WP through enhanced soil fertility, the NW region, dry years, and NPK were parallelly optimal, while such WP increases were increased with N rate in NE and NW or planting pattern change in NC, each of them could efficiently benefit for using scarce water resources in dryland northern China and other dryland areas.…”
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Response surface optimization reveals monthly total flavonoid peaks in Ginkgo biloba leaves with corresponding DPPH scavenging activity by Xiaoyu Shen, Yangjie Lu, Qi Zhu, Yangbo Zhang, Li Zeng

“…Following RS optimization, the optimal extraction conditions for GB flavonoids were identified as follows: extraction rate of 1.175% at 61 °C for 30 min using 77% ethanol. …”
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A Single RF MIMO Loading Network for High-Order Modulation Schemes by Bo Han, Vlasis I. Barousis, Antonis Kalis, Constantinos B. Papadias, Athanasios G. Kanatas, Ramjee Prasad

“…MIMO transmission in this case is achieved by shaping directly the radiation pattern with the aid of analog tunable loads attached to the parasitics. …”
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Study on erosion resistance experimental and mathematical modeling of nano-silica concrete in gravelly Gobi windy area by Kai Zhang, Bo Yang, Benli Liu, Yanhua Zhao, Aojun Guo, Li Chen, Yongshuai Liu, Guangyu Yan

“…This study systematically reveals the damage evolution pattern of NS-modified concrete under such WGF conditions. …”
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Evaluation of the Diagnosis and Antibiotic Therapy of Sepsis in the Emergency Department: A Retrospective Observational Study by Eszter Varga, Sándor Somodi, Máté Molnár, Dóra Ujvárosy, Krisztina Gaál, Attila Vaskó, Zoltán Szabó, Ildikó Bácskay, István Lekli, Adina Fésüs

“…Guideline-adherent antibiotics may lead to significantly higher survival rate in sepsis.…”
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Rapid Decrease in Dextrose Concentration After Intra-Articular Knee Injection: Implications for Mechanism of Action of Dextrose Prolotherapy by Kenneth Dean Reeves, Jordan R. Atkins, Clare R. Solso, Chin-I Cheng, Ian M. Thornell, King Hei Stanley Lam, Yung-Tsan Wu, Thomas Motyka, David Rabago

“…We therefore determined the rate of dextrose concentration diminution in one human participant’s knees after intra-articular dextrose knee injection. …”
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Regularities of crustal faulting and tectonophysical indicators of fault metastability by Yu. L. Rebetsky

“…The differences in the types of shearing in the sources of weak and strong earthquakes are related to the relationships between three dynamic parameters of the medium: velocity of seismic wave propagation, rate of rupture propagation, and displacement rate of the sides of the fracture. …”
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Study on the effect of high energy ultrasonic wave on MIG welding deformation and welding joint performance of LC52 aluminum alloy plate by Cong Jin, Chunguang Xu, Peilu Li, Peng Yin, Yunxi Gao, Yongqiang Wang

“…The average welding residual stress reduction rate and the stress homogenization rate of the plate under each detection depth reached more than 70.0% and 50.0%, respectively. …”
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Development of wireless electronic nose and using of remote monitoring by HU Ying, WANG Jun

“…At the same time, selecting the appropriate pattern recognition algorithm can make the system more accurate.…”
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Smartwatch-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment for High-Temporal-Density, Longitudinal Measurement of Alcohol Use (AlcoWatch): Feasibility Evaluation by Chris Stone, Sally Adams, Robyn E Wootton, Andy Skinner

“…ResultsThe compliance rate for all participants who started the study for the smartwatch μEMA method decreased from around 70% in week 1 to 45% in week 12, compared with the online TLFB method which was flatter at around 50% over the 12 weeks. …”
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Optimizing in vitro slow-growth conservation media for garlic under ambient conditions: further implications for core set accessions by Ashwini Prashant Benke, DalasanuruChandregowda ManjunathaGowda, Vijay Mahajan, Digambar N. Mokat

“…In the first month of conservation, treatments with sucrose alone (1% sucrose, 2% sucrose, 3% sucrose, and 4% sucrose) recorded healthier and quicker growth, whereas those with sorbitol and mannitol alone resulted in slower growth. The same growth pattern was recorded in the third month of conservation, except that the survival rate of the plantlets decreased. …”
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Shape of You: Eye-Tracking and Social Perceptions of the Human Body by Edward Morrison, Marianne Lanigan

“…Dependent variables were the number and duration of fixations, and Likert ratings. Most visual attention was paid to the chest and midriff, but this pattern differed slightly depending on the judgement being made, and on the BMI of the body. …”
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Unveiling gender imbalances among PhD students: early inequalities in productivity and impact influenced by supervisor-student gender combinations by Maria Antfolk

“…Even though women earn the same rate of PhD degrees, the gender imbalance becomes increasingly prominent at higher academic levels. …”
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TIME SERIES MODELING OF NATURAL GAS FUTURE PRICE WITH FUZZY TIME SERIES CHEN, LEE AND TSAUR by Dodi Devianto, Aulia Zuardin, Maiyastri Maiyastri

“…The data in the time series model is believed to have particular pattern to model the data in the future. The natural gas futures price is modeled into a time series method by using fuzzy time series (FTS) approach of the FTS Chen, Lee and Tsaur. …”
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Factors of Fetal Origin in the Regulation of Labor Initiation and Preterm Birth by Yang Pan, Longkun Ding, Lu Gao

“…A disturbance in the pattern of maternal-fetal communication can induce physiological or pathological labor. …”
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Cancer incidence over the last decade in Omsk and Orenburg regions: a descriptive study by N. G. Shirlina, A. S. Vyaltsin, V. L. Stasenko, A. V. Klimushkin

“…Average long-term standardized incidence rate of malignancies in Omsk and Orenburg regions was 276,5 0/0000 and 273,0 0/0000, respectively. …”
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Theoretical Regulations and Institutional Features of Financing Arts by N. A. Burakov, O. A. Slavinskaya

“…The empirical research has been based on the economic pattern of “cost disease”. A unique statistical database has been compiled on the basis of the information database of the Federal State Statistics Service and the Ministry of culture of the Russian Federation. …”
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