Behaviour of a speargun with a novel muzzle by V. Nigrelli, M. Mucera, T. Ingrassia

“…The paper presents the results of a numerical and experimental investigation performed on a barrel of a speargun equipped with two kinds of muzzle. …”
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Impacted Maxillary Canine Prevalence and Its Association with Other Dental Anomalies in a Mexican Population by José Rubén Herrera-Atoche, María del Rosario Agüayo-de-Pau, Mauricio Escoffié-Ramírez, Fernando Javier Aguilar-Ayala, Bertha Arelly Carrillo-Ávila, Marina Eduviges Rejón-Peraza

“…These other anomalies should be used as risk indicators for early diagnosis.…”
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Improved Riccati Transfer Matrix Method for Free Vibration of Non-Cylindrical Helical Springs Including Warping by A.M. Yu, Y. Hao

“…Free vibration equations for non-cylindrical (conical, barrel, and hyperboloidal types) helical springs with noncircular cross-sections, which consist of 14 first-order ordinary differential equations with variable coefficients, are theoretically derived using spatially curved beam theory. …”
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Preliminary assessment of structural masonry damage in Malbork Castle by Krzysztof Grzyb, Łukasz Drobiec, Jakub Zając, Kacper Drobiec

“…Damage was observed in the Palace of the Grand Masters, particularly on the eastern wall and the barrel and palm vaults. The paper presents a preliminary analysis of palace damage and observed cracks. …”
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Investigation of the effect of extrusion process parameters and filler loading on the performance of LDPE composites reinforced with eggshell powder by Yasith S. Perera, Mohammad Naaib, Nisal Ariyasinghe, Chamil Abeykoon

“…It was found that, to obtain high tensile properties while retaining good rheological properties, composites with high filler contents of 8–12 wt.% should be processed at a high screw speed of 200 rpm at low set temperature conditions. …”
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Iconic Celebration of Charms and Friendship in Poetry: Fálétí’s “Adébímpé Ọ̀jẹ́dòkun” by Michael Oladejo Afoláyan

“…The nervous hunter was the first to attempt the shoot, emptying the loaded barrel into the leopard, himself falling headlong at the sound of his own gun. …”
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Non-equal-width histogram publishing method based on differential privacy by Lei YANG, Xiao ZHENG, Wei ZHAO

“…Existing histogram publishing technology based on differential privacy may show phenomenon of＆quot;retracting＆quot; and ＆quot;zero bucket＆quot; when histogram is used to reflect the real distribution characteristics of data,and ＆quot;too gentle＆quot; in the case of large data volume.In addition,the existing technology of the original histogram difference of privacy protection when not considering the amount of information of each group is different.In view of the above problems,a kind of non-equal-width histogram publishing method based on differential privacy was proposed.First of all,a non-isometric histogram based on the sparseness of the data should bereasonably constructed by empirical distribution function.Secondly,differential privacy protection technology should be applied to non-equal-width histogram to protect the privacy of the original non-equal-width histogram.Finally,the privacy budget should be set for each group according to the class widths of the non-equal-width histogram to improve the privacy of each group of data.The experimental results show that the sparseness of the data distribution is fully taken into account when using the proposed method to perform histogram publishing under differential privacy,effectively avoid the phenomenon of histogram with “retracting” and “zero barrels”,and the accuracy of the published histogram for reflecting the characteristics of the data distribution is guaranteed.Also,when adding noise in line with Laplace mechanism to each group,setting a reasonable privacy budget for each group according to the class widths to some extent increases the privacy of different data segments.…”
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Harnessing the energy transition from total dependence on fossil to renewable energy in the Arabian Gulf region, considering population, climate change impacts, ecological and carb... by Hilmi S. Salem, Musa Yahaya Pudza, Yohannes Yihdego

“…Moreover, daily per capita consumption of oil in the GCC countries is about 0.09 barrels, while it is about 0.06 barrels in the USA. …”
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ANALYSIS OF POROSITE-NEUTRON (NPHI) LOGGING DATA FROM THE KINKASI FIELD: THE CASE OF THE G UP, F AND E HORIZONS OF THE CENOMANIAN RESERVOIR (D.R. CONGO COASTAL BASIN) by Munene Asidi Djonive, Kanika Mayena Thomas, Manteko Matondo Emmanuel, Nsitu Nsitu Djeskin, Biduaya Ngalamulume Jeff, Bangama Kabongo Augustin

“…Despite the large number of wells drilled in this onshore area of the Coastal Basin and a multitude of development studies, it should be noted that production is stagnating at around 10,000 barrels per day. …”
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Hydrological-hydraulic modelling to assess Nature-Based Solutions for flood risk mitigation in an urban area of Catania (Sicily, Italy) by L. Sciuto, F. Licciardello, E.R. Giuffrida, S. Barresi, V. Scavera, D. Verde, S. Barbagallo, G.L. Cirelli

“…An appropriate combination of NBS with traditional grey infrastructures should be implemented to retain, decelerate, infiltrate, and gradually release rainwater. …”
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The state of paediatric deceased-organ donation at a South African tertiary public- sector hospital: A 14-year analysis by T Siyotula, J Barrell, K Manning, D Thomson, M McCulloch, T du Toit

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