Design Analysis and Implementation of Parallel Working Arm of Heavy Duty Pouring Robot by Chengke Xu, Chengjun Wang, Yongcun Guo, Long Li, Lüzhong Ma

“…For a ladle of 300 kg， a set of structural parameters with better comprehensive properties is selected out. …”
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A Numerical Investigation on Scaling Rolling Friction Effects in Shaking Table Model Tests by Shanshan Li, Biao Wei, Chengjun Zuo, Xuhui He

“…Friction action is a damping mechanism used in civil structures. It often works together with traditional viscous damping. …”
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Lumbar puncture for the generalist by J.M. Boon, P.H. Abrahams, J.H. Meiring, T. Welch

“…The procedure is by no means innocuous and some anatomical pitfalls include inability to find the correct entry site for placement of the lumbar puncture needle and lack of awareness of structures in relation to the advancing needle. Headache is the most common complication and it is important to avoid traumatic and dry taps, herniation syndromes and injury to the terminal end of the spinal cord. …”
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Receptive passive competence of secondary students in Germany by Lena Heine

“…This study therefore investigated secondary school students’ ability to comprehend German passive structures in a picture selection listening task. The task consisted of 30 items which comprised transitive, progressive and resultative passive sentences as well as active sentences and was issued to 143 German secondary school students (Grade 6 and Grade 9). …”
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Long-Term Deformation Monitoring of Metro-Tunnel Airshaft Excavation during Construction Stage by L. Ran, T. H. Yi, X. W. Ye, X. B. Dong

“…To ensure the safety of the adjacent building structures, it is a vital necessity to monitor deep excavations of metro tunnels at their in-construction stage. …”
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Regulating cryptocurrencies in a post-pandemic global economy: A comparative legal analysis of the EU, the US, and Russia by Lana Stern

“…Using primary sources, including pilot program data, legislative texts, and policy consultations, alongside secondary academic literature, the Study explores how design elements such as ledger visibility, programmable transaction limits, sanctions screening, and tiered privacy structures can be embedded into CBDC infrastructure. …”
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Mechanical Property of Biomodified Geogrid and Reinforced Calcareous Sand by Qiang Ou, Yifu Li, Yang Yang, Zhaogang Luo, Shaokang Han, Tan Zou

“…The strength and deformation properties of maritime geotechnical structures made primarily of calcareous sand are critical for project safety. …”
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Assessment of the Effects of Fiscal Policy on Economic Growth in Saudi Arabia by Ahlam Abdelhadi Hassan Elamin

“…Therefore, this study clearly suggests raising government expenditure must be a key part of any strategy to increase growth and trade reform has been strongly growth enhancing in S Saudi Arabian economy. while avoiding tax structures targeted explicitly at the country's low real GDP. …”
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Carcinoplax mistio Ng & Mitra, 2019 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Goneplacidae): additional records and genetic differentiation of allied taxa by Mani Prema, Chien-Hui Yang, Samuthirapandian Ravichandran, Peter K. L. Ng

“…Additional material of C. mistio from off Tamil Nadu in the southeast of India revealed a high degree of size-associated variation in the structures of the anterolateral tooth of the carapace, chelipeds, and male and female pleons. …”
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Multirate Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography by Prabhav Gaur, Andrew Grieco, Yeshaiahu Fainman

“…Optical coherence tomography is state-of-the-art in non-invasive imaging of biological structures. Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography is the popularly used variation of this technique, but its performance is limited by the bandwidth and resolution of the system. …”
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Age-invariant benefits of spatiotemporal predictions amidst distraction during dynamic visual search by Nir Shalev, Sage Boettcher, Anna C. Nobre

“…However, traditional search tasks are static and fail to capture the challenges and opportunities in natural environments, which include predictive structures within extended contexts. We designed a search variation where targets and distractors compete over time and embedded spatiotemporal regularities afford prediction-led guidance of attention. …”
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Clinical usefulness of image‐enhanced endoscopy for the diagnosis of ulcerative colitis‐associated neoplasia by Kaoru Takabayashi, Motohiko Kato, Takanori Kanai

“…Magnifying narrow‐band imaging facilitates the visualization of mucosal vascular structures. Texture and color enhancement imaging processes structure, color tone, and brightness aspects more appropriately, whereas linked color imaging optimizes the emphasis on mucosal and vascular redness. …”
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An Improved Method for Estimating the Strength of Jointed Rock Mass Using Drilling Technology by Yong Zhang, Peng Li, Fengyin Liu

“…During underground excavations for civil and mining engineering purposes, the variations in mechanical properties of jointed rock mass are important, especially for the design of underground structures. …”
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Dressed for the Weather: Tawny Owl Feather Adaptations Across a Climatic Gradient by Charlotte Perrault, Miguel Baltazar‐Soares, Chiara Morosinotto, Patrik Karell, Karel Poprach, Lars‐Ove Nilsson, Daniel Eriksson, Peter Ericsson, Gintarė Grašytė, Saulius Rumbutis, Daniele Baroni, Katy Anderson, Ingar Øien, Maria Casero, Jon E. Brommer

“…The FST was low (0.022; 95% CI 0.005–0.039), and most feather structures' phenotypic divergence (PST) exceeded the FST. …”
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Statistical modeling of the equine third metacarpal bone incorporating morphology and bone mineral density. by Helen Liley, Ju Zhang, Elwyn C Firth, Justin W Fernandez, Thor F Besier

“…The association between form and function builds upon previous two-dimensional observations of MC3 epiphyseal structure. It was expected that the main source of variation would be an increase in overall MC3 bone size, correlated to an increase in subchondral BMD. …”
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Multielement Imaging Reveals the Diagenetic Features and Varied Water Redox Conditions of a Lacustrine Dolomite Nodule by Yuke Liu, Wenyuan He, Jinyou Zhang, Zhenwu Liu, Fazi Chen, Huajian Wang, Yuntao Ye, Yitong Lyu, Zhiyong Gao, Zhichao Yu, Lina Bi, Shuichang Zhang

“…The well-preserved laminated structures inside the nodule and the features with a magnesium-rich core wrapped with an iron-concentric outer layer and a manganese-concentric shell together indicated its primary form as dolomite and a gradual transformation into ankerite as well as manganese-ankerite. …”
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Magnetic Induction Spectroscopy-Based Non-Contact Assessment of Avocado Fruit Condition by Tianyang Lu, Adam D. Fletcher, Richard John Colgan, Michael D. O’Toole

“…Through this approach, the sample set was classified into three categories, each corresponding to distinct conductivity variation patterns.…”
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High-throughput genotyping of Plasmodium vivax in the Peruvian Amazon via molecular inversion probes by Zachary R. Popkin-Hall, Karamoko Niaré, Rebecca Crudale, Alfred Simkin, Abebe A. Fola, Juan F. Sanchez, Danielle L. Pannebaker, David J. Giesbrecht, Isaac E. Kim, Özkan Aydemir, Jeffrey A. Bailey, Hugo O. Valdivia, Jonathan J. Juliano

“…Targeted sequencing for P. falciparum has been widely deployed to detect population structure and the geographic spread of antimalarial and diagnostic resistance. …”
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Electric Propulsion System of Ocean Single-trawling Vessel and Its Control by ZHENG Hui, PAN Gaofeng, JI Yong, PU Hongbin

“…The proposed system solves the problem of low efficiency and high emission operation of ocean-going fishing vessel under long-term low load and high power fluctuation. Based on the structural design of fishing vessel electric propulsion system, a dual armature and single propeller propulsion system topology was designed, and an optimal control strategy under single armature and double armature operation was adopted according to the load variation law to improve the comprehensive energy efficiency of fishing vessel. …”
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Double-gate metal–oxide TFT pixel circuit for improved luminance uniformity of mobile OLED display by YiKyoung You, Kook Chul Moon, HyeongMin Kim, JungSuk Oh, SangWoon Lee, Jun Hyung Lim, Kyoung Seok Son, JaeHyung Cho, KeeChan Park

“…Therefore, we propose a new pixel circuit adopting a double-gate TFT structure for the driving TFT, which is mainly driven by the bottom gate with a thicker gate insulator to provide a wide VDAT range. …”
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