Analytical Model of Structural Damping in Friction Module of Shell Shock Absorber Connected to Spring by Ivan Shatskyi, Andrii Velychkovych

“…Using them, according to the known loading history, it is possible to predict the behavior of the considered nonconservative system at any time after the start of the loading process. …”
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Psychosocial risks and mental health of preschool care providers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: a cross-sectional study by Sin Wan Tham, Min Fui Wong, Maslinor Binti Ismail, Noriklil Bukhary Binti Ismail Bukhary

“…Abstract Background Child maltreatment in daycare is a public health issue. As childcare is stressful, high care provider negativity independently predicts more internalizing behaviour problems, affecting children’s psycho-neurological development. …”
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Locus of Control and Non-Adaptive Coping in Postpartum Depression: A Prospective Study with Maternal Competence as a Buffer by Lorena Gutiérrez-Hermoso, Patricia Catalá-Mesón, Carmen Écija-Gallardo, Cecilia Peñacoba-Puente

“…Background: Pregnancy can be a stressful time that affects a woman’s health, potentially leading to postpartum depression (PPD). …”
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Botryosphaeria Stem Blight on Southern Highbush Blueberry in Florida by Norma C. Flor, Douglas A. Phillips, Philip F. Harmon

“… Botryosphaeria stem blight is the most common and damaging fungal vascular disease on southern highbush blueberry in the southern United States, causing stem and cane dieback and reductions in yield. Advanced stages of this disease may cause premature plant death, which results in significant replanting costs for growers. …”
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NF-κB RelA regulates temporal oligodendrocyte differentiation in the postnatal brains by Kamonrapat Sompub, Norihisa Bizen, Albert S. Baldwin, Albert S. Baldwin, Hirohide Takebayashi, Hirohide Takebayashi, Hirohide Takebayashi

“…The NF-κB signaling pathway responds to a diverse range of cytokines and extracellular stresses, regulating immune responses, inflammation, cell proliferation, and cell death. …”
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Analysis of Olive Detachment Force to Improve Olive Shaker Efficiency Through Branch Modeling by Giuseppe Macoretta, Sofia Matilde Luglio, Federico Conforti, Michele Abruzzo, Lorenzo Gagliardi, Marco Fontanelli, Michele Raffaelli

“…Multibody and a Finite Element (FE) models were developed to investigate the branch response and the olive detachment condition. The stresses predicted by the FE harmonic analysis (about 8 MPa), based on the excitation force and shaking frequency measured during the tests, was in line with the measured olive detachment forces (3 to 8 MPa). …”
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Idiosyncratic gesture use in a mother-infant dyad in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the wild by Bas van Boekholt, Isabelle Clark, Nicole J. Lahiff, Kevin C. Lee, Katie E. Slocombe, Claudia Wilke, Simone Pika

“…These differ in their predictions regarding idiosyncratic gestures, making such occurrences a crucial area of investigation. …”
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A Non-Isolated Extendable Boost Topology With Continuous Input and Output Currents by Hossein Gholizadeh, Alireza Poursalan, Reza Sharifi Shahrivar, Saeed Amini, Mohammadreza Salehi, Lazhar Ben-Brahim

“…The voltage gain and voltage-current stresses on the semiconductors are the same as those in the conventional boost converter. …”
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Computational framework for bioinspired, mechanically programmable soft robots actuated by negative pressure by Dominik Gau, Lukas Freitag, Petra Mela

“…The actuation of vacuum channels embedded in elastomeric matrices presents potential for creating biomimetic controlled complex motion, but so far, analytical tools that efficiently predict their deformation upon vacuum are lacking. …”
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Altering the redox status of Chlamydia trachomatis directly impacts its developmental cycle progression by Vandana Singh, Scot P Ouellette

“…Based on our hypothesis, we predicted that altering the expression of ahpC would modulate chlamydial redox status and trigger earlier or delayed secondary differentiation. …”
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A Resource Allocation Trade-Off between Virulence and Proliferation Drives Metabolic Versatility in the Plant Pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum. by Rémi Peyraud, Ludovic Cottret, Lucas Marmiesse, Jérôme Gouzy, Stéphane Genin

“…Moreover, a phcA mutant has an expanded metabolic versatility, being able to metabolize 17 substrates more than the wild-type. Model predictions indicate that metabolic pathways are optimally oriented towards proliferation in a phcA mutant and we show that this enhanced metabolic versatility in phcA mutants is to a large extent a consequence of not paying the cost for virulence. …”
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Irrational Foundations of Suicide by Roman G. Ardashev

“…It is indicated that the quality of life is based on the ability to predict the future, the prevention of suicidal behavior and suicide can become the basis for social stability and social reproduction…”
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Fracture of porcelain-veneered gold-alloy and zirconia molar crowns using a modified test set-up by Christel Larsson, Marko Drazic, Eddie Nilsson, Per Vult von Steyern

“…MC crowns withstood significantly (p > 0.001) higher loads (mean 2155 N) than Y-TZP (mean 1505 N) crowns, yet both endure loads sufficient for predictable clinical use. Fracture mode differed between MC and Y-TZP. …”
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Standardized Loads Acting in Hip Implants. by Georg Bergmann, Alwina Bender, Jörn Dymke, Georg Duda, Philipp Damm

“…These data can also be used to analyse bone remodelling at the implant-bone interface, evaluate tissue straining in finite element studies or validate analytical loading predictions, among other uses. The current ISO standards for endurance tests of implant stems and necks are based on historic analytical data from the 1970s. …”
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Elevated Mutation Burdens in Canadian Oat and Wheat Cultivars Released over the Past Century by Yong-Bi Fu, Carolee Horbach

“…More highly deleterious variants were predicted in oat, than in wheat, cultivars, and different gene expression profiles at the early seedling stage were observed between oat and wheat cultivars, illustrating different genetic impacts of the oat and wheat breeding programs. …”
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Commercial bioinoculants improve colonization but do not alter the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community of greenhouse-grown grapevine roots by Mariam P. Berdeja, Nicole K. Reynolds, Teresa Pawlowska, Justine E. Vanden Heuvel

“…Results Contrary to our predictions, no differences in the microbiome of plants exposed to native AMF communities versus commercial AMF bioinoculants + native AMF communities were detected in roots. …”
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The effect of cryogenic thermal cycling on impact performance of graphene-enhanced recyclable liquid thermoplastic/carbon fiber composites for hydrogen storage applications by J Jefferson Andrew, Jabir Ubaid, WJ Cantwell, KA Khan, R Umer

“…In contrast, the 1.5 wt.% GNP samples displayed better resilience, with reductions of only 6.5 % in the peak contact force and 4 % in absorbed energy.…”
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Impact of Farm Equipment Loading on Low-Volume Concrete Road Structural Response and Performance by Halil Ceylan, Shiyun Wang, Sunghwan Kim, Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan, Lev Khazanovich, Shongtao Dai

“…The Finite Element Model was able to predict rigid pavement responses under complicated heavy agricultural farm equipment loading. …”
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A note on judgments and behavior: Distancing and Corona virus exposure by Ola Svenson, Inés Duce Gimeno, Mats Nilsson, Ilkka Salo, Torun Lindholm

“…The primary purpose was to investigate to what extent questionnaire judgments about hypothetical situations can predict judgments and actual behavior in real physical space. …”
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Mechanical feedback mechanisms in a multiscale sliding filament model of lymphatic muscle pumping by Peter Y. Xie, Christopher J. Morris, Christopher D. Bertram, Michael J. Davis, Samira Jamalian, Mohammad Jafarnejad, David C. Zawieja, James E. Moore, Jr

“…Inter-lymphangion signaling was necessary to reproduce downstream pressure ramp experiments, but otherwise the model predicted behaviors under these more complex conditions. …”
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