A Tangled Ball: Russian Nuclear Policy, Relations and Risks in Northeast Asia by Daniil Zhukov

“…This paper argues that the growing prominence of Russia’s Far Eastern nuclear assets creates additional risks in the tangled ball of relationship threads connecting the key players in Northeast Asia. …”
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Redesigning TBM-1.7 Combustion Unit to Expand the Temperature Range by A. S. Kliuchnikov, E. N. Lapin

“…They differed in the number of holes, their length, diameter, the availability of threads. (Results and discussion) It is determined that the nozzle smooth operation is provided only by jets with threaded holes, whose optimal length is 4 millimeters. …”
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Application of headless cannulated compression screws for treatment of Delbet-Colonna II and III femoral neck fractures in children by Yikun Jiang, Yanbing Wang, Chuangang Peng, Baoming Yuan, Dankai Wu

“…Traditional internal fixation implants such as Kirschner wires and partial-thread cannulated screws (PTCS) have complications such as screw withdrawal and internal fixation failure. …”
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Association between clean delivery kit use, clean delivery practices, and neonatal survival: pooled analysis of data from three sites in South Asia. by Nadine Seward, David Osrin, Leah Li, Anthony Costello, Anni-Maria Pulkki-Brännström, Tanja A J Houweling, Joanna Morrison, Nirmala Nair, Prasanta Tripathy, Kishwar Azad, Dharma Manandhar, Audrey Prost

“…Finally, we examined the combined association between mortality and four specific clean delivery practices (boiled blade and thread, hand washing, and plastic sheet). Using the pooled dataset, we found that kit use was associated with a relative reduction in neonatal mortality (adjusted odds ratio 0.52, 95% CI 0.39-0.68). …”
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Simulation of Dynamic Processes of Gas Flow in Collector Systems by Leonid Lesovoy, Volodymyr Kuzyk

“…During simulation, velocity of medium in the thread of the collector system in which local input resistance was plugged tee, which changes the flow direction, was measured. …”
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Numerical simulation and parallel implementation of freight train air brake system. by Zongze Yu, Yuguang Wei, Chuxuan Hu

“…The proposed approach assigns dedicated threads to each vehicle, with additional threads managing the interface fluxes of brake pipe connections, and is implemented in C# using the ThreadPool and Parallel libraries. …”
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Breast reconstruction with TRAM: abdominal tomographic evaluation by Igor Moura Soares, Armando dos Santos Cunha, Saulo Francisco de Assis Gomes, Vírginia Gutmacher Galvão Bueno Wadhy Rebehy, Marcela Santos Vilela, Eduardo Natal Batista

“…The complications presented were umbilical hernia, late seroma, perithellal fibrosis, and thread granuloma. Conclusion: In this study, tomography after surgery demonstrated a reduction in the volume of the abdominal cavity and thickness of the abdominal wall, which did not statistically influence the appearance of abdominal hernia, bulging, mesh extrusion, or other deformities.…”
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Loosening phenomenon on thin plates bolted joint due to offset load by Naoki Yamamoto, Takehiro Ohno, Shinji Hashimura

“…The results of the FE analysis showed that the main factor causing the reduction in clamp force was slippage between the thin plates to be joined, which was caused by offset load, and that the slippage didn't return to the original position resulting in the reduction in clamp force.…”
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The fall of a guaranteed culture in the production of law by Iñaki Rivera

“…This contribution intends to follow the "red thread" of a gradual and constant "devaluation" (in Spain) of the alleged guarantor paradigm of prison criminality. …”
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Some New ‘Short Games’ Within a Set of Tennis by Pollard G., Barnett T.

“…We identify 3 or 4 different game structures that could be useful for tournaments. A common thread in the approach taken is the elimination of unimportant and unexciting points within the game structure. …”
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Modeling of Preload Bolted Flange Connection Structure for Loosening Analysis and Detection by Weicheng Sun, Zhenqun Guan, Yan Chen, Jiacheng Pan, Yan Zeng

“…After the vibration analysis and stress analysis of the bolted flange connection structure under impact load, it is found that the change of contact state of the flange surface results in a larger sticking contact area. And the reduction of the contact area at the thread causes slippage when the bolt is loose. …”
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Finite Element Analysis on Stress Development in Alveolar Bone During Insertion of a Novel Dental Implant Design by Ning Zhang, Matthias Karl, Frank Wendler

“…A novel macrodesign for a dental implant characterized by a non-monotonic variation in core diameter and thread shape has been described to produce lower stress levels during insertion as compared to conventional tapered implants. …”
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Improved Visual SLAM Algorithm Based on Dynamic Scenes by Jinxing Niu, Ziqi Chen, Tao Zhang, Shiyu Zheng

“…Subsequently, the semantic segmentation thread was utilized in a target detection network combined with geometric methods to identify potential dynamic areas in the image and generate masks for dynamic objects. …”
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LVID-SLAM: A Lightweight Visual-Inertial SLAM for Dynamic Scenes Based on Semantic Information by Shuwen Wang, Qiming Hu, Xu Zhang, Wei Li, Ying Wang, Enhui Zheng

“…The system is based on the classic ORB-SLAM3 framework, which starts a new thread for object detection and tightly couples the semantic information of object detection with geometric information to remove feature points from dynamic objects. …”
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The Role of Latvian Catholic Church Textiles in Perfecting People’s Aesthetic Values by Aija Jansone

“…Phenomenally, that worldwide straight thread cut and traditional crosscutting technology of the cut of alb and surplice has survived until now. …”
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Small Bowel Obstructions Caused by Barbed Sutures in Robotic Surgery: A Systematic Review by Renata Pajtak, Krinal Mori

“…Minimisation of complications through learnt surgical techniques including shortening thread tails and prompt recognition of the complication on re-presentation are key to optimising future patient care. …”
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Surgical treatment of severe aortic stenosis using a sutureless biological valve by Kaitović Marko, Mićović Slobodan

“…Sutured valves are implanted to the aortic annulus using a surgical thread, while sutureless valves are implanted using a pressurized balloon. …”
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Experimental study on tensile performance of horizontal joint bolted connections in fully assembled modular construction reinforced concrete by RAN Mingming, KOU Guangyun, XIONG Feng, ZHANG Dongdong, LI Wei

“…Larger bolt-hole diameters and smaller steel washer dimensions led to a reduction in the contact area between the washer and concrete, thereby decreasing the peak load-carrying capacity and initial stiffness. …”
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Real-Time Dolphin Whistle Detection on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with a TFLite Convolutional Neural Network by Rocco De Marco, Francesco Di Nardo, Alessandro Rongoni, Laura Screpanti, David Scaradozzi

“…Throughput and latency were evaluated by varying the thread allocation (1–8 threads), revealing the best performance at 4 threads (quad-core alignment), achieving an inference latency of 120 ms and sustained throughput of 8 spectrograms/second. …”
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Investigating the Friction Coefficient of Titanium Bolts with Vegetable Oils as Lubricants by Dario Croccolo, Massimiliano De Agostinis, Stefano Fini, Muhammad Yasir Khan, Mattia Mele, Giorgio Olmi, Chiara Scapecchi, Muhammad Hassaan Bin Tariq

“…Threaded fasteners are one of the most important joining techniques, especially due to their ease of mounting and dismounting. …”
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