Mechanical response characteristics and damage mechanism of water-containing mudstone under low strain rate dynamic loading by Guichen LI, Sen YANG, Yuantian SUN, Jinghua LI, Haoran HAO, Zeyu SHAO

“…Higher dynamic loading rates and strength tests show a high correlation between loading strain and plastic strain during disturbance, and the plastic strain is always greater than the elastic strain. ④ The percentage of shear damage in the whole loading process of mudstone increases with the increase of water content, in which the dynamic loading stage increases significantly from 6.94% in dry to 33.95% in saturated, and the macroscopic shear damage characteristics are gradually obvious. ⑤ Dissolution and subduction of water in saturated mudstone, fracture of cementation under higher-rate dynamic loading, and wide-scale displacement of particle cementation under higher-intensity dynamic loading are the fundamental causes of the deterioration of mudstone mechanical properties. ⑥ A mudstone damage model considering lateral stress and cyclic dynamic loading was constructed and verified using the stress-strain relationship between loading and unloading during the cyclic dynamic loading stage of specimens with different water contents, and the model parameter F0 has a more significant effect on the strength of mudstone specimens compared with the parameter m. …”
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Burden, clinical outcomes, and characteristics of tuberculosis in migrant populations in the middle East and North African region: A systematic review and meta-analyses by Taha Maatoug, Farah Seedat, Eman Elafef, Anissa Ouahchi, Ali Mtiraoui, Stella Evangelidou, Wejdene Mansour, Ana Requena-Méndez, Dominik Zenner

“…Drug-resistant TB was more common among migrants, though this was not always statistically significant (multi-drug-resistant TB: pooled OR 1.2; 95 % CI 0.9–1.6; I2 = 40.2 %), while extrapulmonary TB was more prevalent among non-migrants (33.4–83.4 % vs. 16.6–72.9 %). …”
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High glucose levels promote glycolysis and cholesterol synthesis via ERRα and suppress the autophagy–lysosomal pathway in endometrial cancer by Xiaodan Mao, Lixiang Huang, Xianhua Liu, Xite Lin, Qibin Wu, Xinrui Wang, Yuan Ren, Jincheng Ma, Maotong Zhang, Yao Lin, Damian J. Ralser, Alexander Mustea, Gang Chen, Pengming Sun

“…Abstract Endometrial cancer (EC) patients with Diabetes Mellitus (DM) always have a poor prognosis. Estrogen-related receptor α (ERRα) is known as the metabolic-related prognostic factor for EC. …”
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Influencia de las variables situacionales en los cambios de dirección de la posesión de balón en fútbol (Influence of situational variables on changes in direction of ball possessi... by Henrique Sanfiz Arias, Virginia López Alonso

“…In addition, players interpretation is not always related to the external observation or previous intention of the coach. …”
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Launching TESOL Today: A New Hub for English Language Education Research by Karwan Mustafa Saeed

“…As an academician, I have always believed that I have to allocate time for editorial services to profession in the field of my work. …”
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Principles, barriers and enablers to agroecological animal production systems: a qualitative approach based on five case studies by B. Dumont, C. Barlagne, P. Cassart, J.E. Duval, A. Fanchone, J-L. Gourdine, O. Huguenin-Elie, Y. Kazakova, J. Klötzli, A. Lüscher, E. Oteros-Rozas, D. Pomies, M.G. Rivera Ferre, W.A.H. Rossing, V. Stefanova, A. Swartebroeckx, C. Zagaria

“…All case studies were very advanced in the social dimensions of agroecology, and cooperation networks were always reported among the enablers for scaling out. …”
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Assessing Farmers’ Prefrences in using Water Resources in Varamin Plain, Iran A Discrete Choice Experiment Technique by Hojatolah Shayeganfard, Mohsen Mehrara

“…While the average rainfall in this area has always been declining in recent years, agricultural practice in this area is facing a difficult situation due to digging unauthorized wells, lack of clear water rights for the upstream dams, as well as transfering part of the wastewater from Tehran metropolis. …”
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The Norm Function for Commutative <inline-formula><math display="inline"><semantics><msub><mi mathvariant="double-struck">Z</mi><mn>2</mn></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula... by Azzh Saad Alshehry, Rashid Abu-Dawwas

“…Additionally, we show that the <i>N</i> radical differs from the usual radical ideal and is not always an ideal. Furthermore, we establish that an <i>N</i>-integral domain (<i>N</i> field) is not necessarily an integral domain (field).…”
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Differential aridity-induced variations in ecosystem multifunctionality between Iberian Pinus and Quercus Mediterranean forests by Cristina C. Bastias, Ginés Rodríguez Castilla, Pablo Salazar Zarzosa, Aurelio Díaz Herraiz, Nuria González Herranz, Paloma Ruiz-Benito, Vidal Barrón, José Luis Quero Pérez, Rafael Villar

“…However, the effect of primary productivity was not always synergistic with other ecosystem functions as it has been often assumed and its exclusion from the multifunctionality index calculation did not change the overall pattern of a decrease of ecosystem multifunctionality with aridity. …”
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Sequential biases on subjective judgments: Evidence from face attractiveness and ringtone agreeableness judgment. by Jianrui Huang, Xianyou He, Xiaojin Ma, Yian Ren, Tingting Zhao, Xin Zeng, Han Li, Yiheng Chen

“…When people make decisions about sequentially presented items in psychophysical experiments, their decisions are always biased by their preceding decisions and the preceding items, either by assimilation (shift towards the decision or item) or contrast (shift away from the decision or item). …”
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Association between body dissatisfaction, physical activity and mental health indicators in Brazilian adolescents by Cleidison Machado Santana, Jean de Souza dos Santos, Eurides Lima de Paula, Barbara Liana Oliveira e Oliveira, Gabriel Santos da Costa, Elijane dos Anjos Santana, Viviane de Andrade de Simões, Bruna Karam de Mattos, Luiz Guilherme Antonacci Guglielmo, Roberto Jerônimo dos Santos Silva

“…An association was found between body dissatisfaction and insufficient physical activity (OR = 1.17; 95%CI = 1.44; 1.21) and in all the indicators of the variables related to mental health that adolescents answered "most of the time, always": miscellaneous worries (OR = 1.43; 95%CI = 1.39; 1.48), feelings of sadness (OR = 1.97; 95%CI = 1.89; 2.04), perceived indifference (OR = 1.42; 95%CI = 1.37; 1.47), feelings of irritation (OR = 1.39; 95%CI = 1.35; 1.44), suicidal ideation (OR = 1.49; 95%CI = 1.43; 1.56), and adolescents who reported having "no close friends" (OR = 1.38; 95%CI = 1.27; 1.50). …”
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Seasonal alternation of soil phosphorus saturation in rice-wheat rotation systems under multiple fertilization strategies by Gang Wu, Lulu Wei, Wenjing Shang, Jiabao Wang, Manman Yuan, Qing Chen, Yixiang Sun, Shuai Zhang

“…A higher degree of P saturation is always found in the rice season soils rather than in the wheat season soils, which should be attributed to the lower P retention capacity and the higher presence of P in forms with greater mobility potential in the rice season soils. …”
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Immunobiological status of the organism of young pigs during their triphasic period cultivation and actions of corrective factors by N. Yu. Krempa, O. V. Kozenko, B. V. Gutyj, I. V. Dvylyuk, N. V. Magrelo, H. V. Sus, U. M. Vus, T. V. Martyshuk, V. V. Voroniak, A. O. Vysotskyi, O. O. Dashkovskyi

“…The problem of the impact and consequences of technological stress is accompanied by several reactions that do not always have a positive effect on the animal's body. …”
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El materialismo de Marx. Reflexiones metodológicas acerca de la ontología marxista en El Capital by César Lorenzano

“… Marx has always been considered a pure materialist; there has never been any doubt about this point. …”
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An experimental study on the yield strength of cement grout for grouting in the limestone area of a coal seam floor by Jun ZOU, Yan GUO, Herong GUI, Weimin WANG, Zhenlin CHEN, Faming LIU, Yanan DAI, Yang HU, Zengbao CHEN, Jun LI, Chuan GAO, Heng LI

“…In grouting engineering, the diffusion radius of cement grout, which has always received wide attention, is constrained by multiple factors including the shear yield strength (yield strength for short) and specific gravity of cement grout, along with grouting pressure. …”
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Understanding and Overcoming Negative Attitudes That Hinder Adoption of Reablement in Dementia Care: An Explorative Qualitative Study by Tuntland H, Ashfaq K, Zingmark M, Metzelthin SF

“…:The experts told us about five main reasons why reablement is not used enough:People often do not understand what someone with dementia can still do.Family members may worry that changing routines will make things worse.Health and care systems do not always support this way of working.People misunderstand what reablement really is.The care system is complicated and hard to navigate.The experts also shared helpful ideas to tackle these problems. …”
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THE PREHISTORY OF THE MAGIC OF SCREENS. MOTIVES FROM THE “ILLIAD” AND THE “ODYSSEY” / ПРЕДЫСТОРИЯ ВОЛШЕБСТВА ЭКРАНОВ. МОТИВЫ «ИЛИАДЫ» И «ОДИССЕИ»... by SALNIKOVA EKATERINA V. / САЛЬНИКОВА ЕКАТЕРИНА ВИКТОРОВНА

“…The author considers it useful in the context of Homer’s epos, always to keep in mind the possibility of the screen as an external layer for a certain core, a certain content, independent of the screen and concealed behind it. …”
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THE ROLE OF GENES AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROGENIC FORMS OF BITE (REVIEW) by K.V. Storozhenko

“….), environmental and external influences. Almost always there are several factors that determine each other and thus connected into a single pathogenetic chain. …”
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Impact of wildfire smoke on Arctic cirrus formation – Part 1: Analysis of MOSAiC 2019–2020 observations by A. Ansmann, C. Jimenez, J. Roschke, J. Bühl, J. Bühl, K. Ohneiser, R. Engelmann, M. Radenz, H. Griesche, J. Hofer, D. Althausen, D. A. Knopf, S. Dahlke, T. Gaudek, P. Seifert, U. Wandinger

“…Three observational facts corroborate our hypothesis that smoke significantly influenced Arctic cirrus formation: (1) the occurrence of a long-lasting, persistent smoke pollution layer in the upper troposphere so that favorable conditions for heterogeneous ice nucleation on smoke particles were always given and, at the same time, homogeneous freezing of background aerosol was probably widely suppressed; (2) the high smoke particle surface area concentrations, which were high enough to significantly trigger ice nucleation on smoke particles (as shown in Part 2, the companion paper to this article; <span class="cit" id="xref_altparen.1"><a href="#bib1.bibx9">Ansmann et al.…”
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Impact of Urban-Rural Integrated Development on Carbon Emission Intensity of Land Use: A Case Study of the Changsha–Zhuzhou–Xiangtan Urban Agglomeration by Li Xiaoqing, Zhou Guohua, Cui Shuqiang, Wang Hua, Liu Hui, Yu Xuexia

“…At the time series level, during the study period, the intensity of the land-use carbon emission intensity of Changsha was always higher than that of Zhuzhou and Xiangtan, but the gap between the three cities continued to narrow. …”
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