Strength Comparison of Unreinforced Masonry Wall Made of Different Types of Brick by Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, Abul Hasnat, Raquib Ahsan, Ahmed Tohameem Alam

“…The prism specimens were tested under axial compression load normal to the bed joints and the wall specimens were tested under horizontal incremental cyclic loading along with the constant axial compressive load. …”
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The Genesis of Higher Education Internationalisation by D. А. Smaliakou

“…New international agenda, based on neighborhood strategy and integration, has required not only the development of accustomed horizontal communication, but also the development of vertical communication. …”
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Engineering Design of a Mechanical Decladder for Spent Nuclear Rod-Cuts by Young-Hwan Kim, Yung-Zun Cho, Young-Soon Lee, Jin-Mok Hur

“…The mechanical decladder is an apparatus for separating and recovering fuel material and cladding tubes by horizontally slitting the cladding tube of a fuel rod and a defective irradiated fuel rod. …”
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Long-term variability and trends in the Agulhas Leakage and its impacts on the global overturning by H. Großelindemann, H. Großelindemann, F. S. Castruccio, G. Danabasoglu, A. Biastoch, A. Biastoch

“…This study uses a set of high-resolution preindustrial control, historical and transient simulations with the Community Earth System Model (CESM) with a nominal horizontal resolution of 0.1° for the ocean and sea ice and 0.25° for the atmosphere and land. …”
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The Life Mission Theory III. Theory of Talent by Soren Ventegodt, Niels Jorgen Andersen, Joav Merrick

“…These three dimensions can be drawn as three axes, one saggital axis called purpose or love or me-you, one vertical axis called power or consciousness (light) or heaven-earth, and one horizontal axis called gender or joy or male-female. …”
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Hop Distance Symmetry Moderately Reflects Knee Biomechanics Symmetry During Landing But Not For Controlled Propulsions by Stefano Di Paolo, Naoaki Ito, Kayla D. Seymore, Haraldur B. Sigurðsson, Laura Bragonzoni, Stefano Zaffagnini, Lynn Snyder-Mackler, Karin Gravare Silbernagel

“…However, it is unclear if the horizontal hop test battery reflects knee function and biomechanics…”
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The Effect of Interlayer on Water Cut Rise in a Bottom Water Reservoir by Yunpeng Hu, Xiaoling Zhang, Wei Ding, Ziyun Cheng, Liangchao Qu, Penghui Su, Chunliu Sun, Wenqi Zhang

“…Finally, through the case analysis, it is proposed that the new horizontal wells should be arranged in the position where the interlayer develops. …”
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Causal links between obesity, lipids, adipokines, and cognition: a bidirectional Mendelian-randomization analysis by Meng Gong, Haichao Liu, Zhixiang Liu, Yongshen Wang, Shiyi Qi, Hong Guo, Song Jin

“…Sensitivity analyses were conducted to explore heterogeneity and potential horizontal pleiotropy.ResultsGenetically predicted adiposity showed robust associations with markers of cognitive ability. …”
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Study on the Mechanism and Control of Rock Burst of Coal Pillar under Complex Conditions by Xingping Lai, Huicong Xu, Jingdao Fan, Zeyang Wang, Zhenguo Yan, Pengfei Shan, Jie Ren, Shuai Zhang, Yanbin Yang

“…At the same time, in order to accurately reflect the true stress environment of coal pillars, the author conducted a physical similarity simulation experiment in the laboratory to study the local mining process of the W1123 working face, and it is found that under the condition of extremely thick and hard roof, the roof will be formed in the gob, the mechanical model of roof hinged structurer is constructed and analyzed, and the results show that the horizontal thrust of roof structure increases with the increase of rotation angle. …”
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From Natural Hosts to Agricultural Threats: The Evolutionary Journey of Phytopathogenic Fungi by Asanka Madhushan, Dulan Bhanuka Weerasingha, Evgeny Ilyukhin, Paul W. J. Taylor, Amila Sandaruwan Ratnayake, Jian-Kui Liu, Sajeewa S. N. Maharachchikumbura

“…While sexual recombination is rare and mainly occurs at the center of origin of the pathogen, asexual mechanisms such as mutations, parasexual recombination, horizontal gene or chromosome transfer, and chromosomal structural variations are predominant. …”
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Ice speed of a Greenlandic tidewater glacier modulated by tide, melt, and rain by S. Sugiyama, S. Sugiyama, S. Tsutaki, S. Tsutaki, D. Sakakibara, D. Sakakibara, I. Asaji, K. Kondo, Y. Wang, E. Podolskiy, G. Jouvet, G. Jouvet, M. Funk

“…Three global positioning system (GPS) receivers were operated for several weeks in July of 2013–2017 and 2019. Horizontal ice speed varied over timescales of hours to days, including short-term speed-up events as well as diurnal and semidiurnal variations. …”
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Exploring the dynamics of seasonal surface features using coastal and regional ocean community model by D. Jaishree, P.T. Ravichandran, D.V. Thattai

“…Simulations were conducted over 8 years using a grid comprising 256 x 249 horizontal surface points to model a range of ocean-atmospheric parameters. …”
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Extraction of tree branch skeletons from terrestrial LiDAR point clouds by Jimiao Gao, Liyu Tang, Honglin Su, Jiwei Chen, Yuehui Yuan

“…In the first step, the point clouds of the trees are sliced horizontally. The density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) algorithm is then employed to cluster each layer of the point clouds and detect the main trunk. …”
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Evidence of Major Structural Features over the Pan-African Domain in the Bertoua-Mbangue Area (East Cameroon) from a Multiscale Approach of Modeling and Interpretation of Aeromagne... by Owono Amougou Olivier Ulrich Igor, Ndougsa Mbarga Theophile, Meying Arsène, Assembe Stephane Patrick, Ngoh Jean Daniel, Ngoumou Paul Claude, Yandjimain Justine

“…The total magnetic intensity map reduced to the equator (RTE-TMI) shows important anomalies features, namely, the Northern East magnetic anomalies of high amplitude, the Southwest where very low values of the magnetic intensity were observed, and a corridor with negative values relatively high, separating the anomalies. The horizontal gradient map shows on the one hand brittle and folded structures carried out in the area of study and on the other hand various rectilinear, narrow, and short-wave anomalies that can be classified as a family of little faults. …”
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Dissecting Causal Relationships Between Antihypertensive Drug, Gut Microbiota, and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Its Complications: A Mendelian Randomization Study by He Zheng, Shiping Wu, Wenbin Wang, Weida Qiu, Yingqing Feng

“…Sensitivity analysis, including reverse causality detection, horizontal pleiotropy, phenotype scanning, and Bayesian colocalization, was used to validate our findings. …”
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Hepatitis B Birth Dose among Children in District 2 Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Prevalence and Associated Factors by Giao Huynh, Thanh Binh Nguyen, Ngoc Nga Cao, Minh Hoang Phan, Thi Bich Hop Dang, Thi Ngoc Han Nguyen

“…A birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine will prevent most perinatally acquired infections and offers early protection from horizontal transmission. This article assessed the prevalence of the hepatitis B birth dose and associated factors among children in the District 2 Hospital. …”
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Progress and insights from worldwide deep coalbed methane exploration and development by Jiaqi ZHANG, Zengqin LIU, Baojian SHEN, Shihu ZHAO, Xinjun CHEN, Jincheng YE

“…The Ordos Basin has become the largest deep CBM production base. Multiple horizontal wells in the Daning-Jixian and Daniudi gas fields produce more than 100 000 m3 of gas per day. …”
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Análisis experimental de la cinemática en la colisión elástica entre dos cuerpos durante el tiempo de contacto by Suyana Arcos Villagómez, Santiago Álvaro Pillalaza, Xavier Rivera Gálvez, César Michelena Rosero, Emilse Camacho Cañar

“…El escenario de la colisión fue horizontal y frontal, sin que los cuerpos sufrieran deformaciones permanentes. …”
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Causal relationship of familial hypercholesterolemia with risk of intestinal vascular disorders: A mendelian randomization study by Gang Wei, Cheng Zhang, Feng-Jie Shen, Hua-Qi Guo, Lin Liu

“…Results: The IVW method demonstrated that FH was significantly associated with higher odds of intestinal vascular diseases [OR (95%CI): 1.22 (1.03, 1.45)] (P = 0.02) without significant heterogeneity (P = 0.54) and horizontal pleiotropy (P = 0.43). Rs7575840 in 6.5kda upstream of ApoB gene, rs11591147 in PCSK9 gene and rs9644862 in the CDKN2B-AS1 (or named ANRIL; p15AS; PCAT12; CDKN2BAS; CDKN2B-AS; NCRNA00089) gene were illustrated to mostly influence the risk of intestinal vascular diseases. …”
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Lesion Topography and Clinical Features Associated With Respiratory Failure in Patients With Medullary Infarction by Na Zhao, Ran Liu, Yajing Zhang, Ling Ling, Chao Zhang, Ting Zhang, Wei Yue

“…Lesions were categorized both rostral‐caudally and horizontally, and clinical characteristics were collected to evaluate the correlation between them and RF that occurred within 10 days of stroke onset. …”
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