Alterations in whole muscle quality and physiological cross-sectional area measured with quantitative MRI following ACL injury by Meredith K. Owen, Lauren Richardson, Darren L. Johnson, Moriel H. Vandsburger, Thorsten Feiweier, Katherine L. Thompson, Christopher S. Fry, Peter A. Hardy, Brian Noehren

“…Outcomes were compared between limbs for each muscle of interest with paired t-tests or Wilcoxon signed-rank tests with the alpha level set to 0.05. Results T1ρ relaxation times were significantly longer for the vastus lateralis (7.0%), rectus femoris (15.4%), and vastus intermedius (9.4%) of ACL-deficient limb; whereas, relaxation times were similar between limbs for all hamstring muscles. …”
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Processing and Performance of Polymeric Transparent Conductive Composites by Parul Jain, Ranjani Muralidharan, Jennifer Sedloff, Xiao Li, Norma A. Alcantar, Julie P. Harmon

“…Two secondary relaxations appeared in PC films, whereas the transitions merged in the BEDO-TTF/PC film. …”
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La publicisation du débat sur l’avortement au Maroc. L’État marocain en action by Marc-Éric Gruénais

“…The debate on a relaxation of the penalization of the abortion in Morocco accelerated in 2014-2015 at the instigation of the president of an association, gynecologist-obstetrician, and the diffusion of a report on a French television channel. …”
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Behavior of Elastic Therapeutic Tapes under Dynamic and Static Conditions by Hermela Ejegu, Bipin Kumar, Priyanka Gupta

“…The aim of this paper is to determine the relaxation behavior of the therapeutic tape under different thermomechanical conditions over different time spans and to analyze the physical and mechanical properties of selected kinesiology tapes. …”
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A Framework for a European Economic Recovery After COVID-19 by Julia Anderson, Simone Tagliapietra, Guntram B. Wolff

“…Abstract The success of support measures as COVID-19 lockdowns are relaxed depends on the type of recovery the EU wants to achieve.…”
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Influence of density of a polyurethane microcellular elastomer foam on its compressive energy absorption and time-dependent behavior by Julen Cortazar-Noguerol, Fernando Cortés, María Jesús Elejabarrieta

“…On the other hand, the time dependent properties are characterized through the relaxation modulus of each of the densities. To obtain it, creep experimental data is gathered and converted to relaxation through the convolution relationship between these two properties by means of Maxwell and Kelvin generalized models. …”
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Coordinated allocation of distributed generation, soft open points and energy storage systems in unbalanced distribution networks considering flexibility deficiency risk by Jie Wang, Xiaochao Fan, Lijun Xu, Ruijing Shi, Weiqing Wang

“…The adaptive linear relaxation technique is constructed based on the properties of quadratic functions and the mean value theorem, and the non-convex quadratic programming problem is converted to a series of parametric linear relaxation programming problems by the technique. …”
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Modified Electroconvulsive Therapy in a Patient with Gastric Adenocarcinoma and Metastases to Bone and Liver by Gennie Wang, Brian Milne, Rachel Rooney, Tarit Saha

“…In addition to general anesthesia, muscle relaxants are given prior to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in order to prevent musculoskeletal injury. …”
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Origin of the MRI Contrast in Natural and Hydrogel Formulation of Pineapple Juice by Domenico Rizzo, Enrico Ravera, Marco Fragai, Giacomo Parigi, Claudio Luchinat

“…We have characterized the relaxometry profiles of pineapple juice in order to understand the origin of the increase in relaxation rates (and thus of the MRI contrast) in reference to its content of manganese ions. …”
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Our Experience of Managing Central Airway Tumors: Anesthesia Perspectives by Thushara Madathil, Devika Poduval, Tony Jose, Nagarjuna Panidapu, Don Jose, Tinku Joseph, Praveen Kumar Neema

“…We found that in these patients, maintaining spontaneous ventilation, avoidance of general anesthesia, and muscle relaxation are the keys to management. General anesthesia and muscle relaxants decreases / abolishes negative intrapleural pressure, which may result in dynamic hyperinflation and pneumothorax in presence of airway obstruction. …”
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The numerical models of the estimation of the electrooptical parameters of GaAs by Albertas Pincevičius, Rimantas-Jonas Rakauskas, Svajonė Vošterienė

“… In this paper we offer method for estimation of the relaxation of a photoconductivity of high resistivity crystal, stimulate by laser impulse. …”
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Improved Multiple Lyapunov Functions of input-to-output Stability and input-to-state Stability for Switched Systems by Shizhang Chen, Chongyang Ning

“…The restriction on the negativity of derivatives of Lyapunov functions is relaxed; additionally, subsystems are not restricted to be ISS/IOS throughout the state space. …”
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A New Linearizing Method for Sum of Linear Ratios Problem with Coefficients by Hongwei Jiao, Yongqiang Chen

“…By using the linearizing method, linear relaxation programming (LRP) of the sum of linear ratios problem with coefficients is established, which can provide the reliable lower bound of the optimal value of the initial problem. …”
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Smart Driving Hardware Augmentation by Flexible Piezoresistive Sensor Matrices with Grafted‐on Anticreep Composites by Kaifeng Chen, Hua Yang, Ang Wang, Linsen Tang, Xin Zha, Ndeutala Selma Iita, Hong Zhang, Zhuoxuan Li, Xinyu Wang, Wei Yang, Shaoxing Qu, Zongrong Wang

“…The PAI with large rigid fluorenylidene groups exhibits a high glass transition temperature of 372 °C (PAI 5‐5), which results in an extremely long relaxation time at room temperature and consequently offers outstanding anti‐creep/relaxation performances. …”
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Mental toughness and performance strategies of martial artists in practice and competition by Atefeh Beheshti, Hassan Gharayagh Zandi, Zahra Fathirezaie, Fatemeh Heidari

“…Furthermore, there is a positive and significant relationship between mental toughness and activation, relaxation, self-talk, imagery, goal-setting, and emotional control in the competition. …”
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Convergence Analysis of the Preconditioned Group Splitting Methods in Boundary Value Problems by Norhashidah Hj. Mohd Ali, Abdulkafi Mohammed Saeed

“…The construction of a specific splitting-type preconditioner in block formulation applied to a class of group relaxation iterative methods derived from the centred and rotated (skewed) finite difference approximations has been shown to improve the convergence rates of these methods. …”
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Numerical experiments in 2D variational fracture by M. Lippiello, E. Babilio, A. Fortunato, M. Angelillo, L. Cardamone

“…We use a sort of mesh dependent relaxation of the interface energy to get out of small energy wells. …”
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Ultra‐Thin Strain‐Relieving Si1−xGex Layers Enabling III‐V Epitaxy on Si by Trevor R. Smith, Spencer McDermott, Vatsalkumar Patel, Ross Anthony, Manu Hedge, Sophie E. Bierer, Sunzhuoran Wang, Andrew P. Knights, Ryan B. Lewis

“…In this work, it is shown that a sub‐10‐nm ultra‐thin Si1−xGex buffer layer fabricated by an oxidative solid‐phase epitaxy process can facilitate extraordinarily efficient strain relaxation. The Si1−xGex layer is formed by ion implanting Ge into Si(111) and selectively oxidizing Si atoms in the resulting ion‐damaged layer, precipitating a fully strain‐relaxed Ge‐rich layer between the Si substrate and surface oxide. …”
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Numerical experiments in 2D variational fracture by M. Angelillo, A. Fortunato, E. Babilio, M. Lippiello, L. Cardamone

“…We use a sort of mesh dependent relaxation of the interface energy to get out of small energy wells. …”
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A simple model of the rheological curve of HPAM solutions at different temperatures by Eduar Pérez, Dario Alviso, Mauricio Carmona, Eduardo Manrique, Guillermo Artana

“…The method relies on the intrinsic viscosity’s slight or null dependence on temperature and on a master surface, which is specified in the space spanned by the following three parameters: the power-law index, relative viscosity, and nondimensional shear relaxation time. The solvent viscosity and relaxation time-employed as references to define these parameters-are functions of temperature. …”
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