Scratch resistance of a polycarbonate + organoclay nanohybrid

“…Effects of the number of scratches, normal load and scratch velocity have been evaluated as a function of nanoclay orientation. In sliding wear (multiple scratching along the same groove), our nanohybrid reaches residual depth values that remain constant after a certain number of scratches, a manifestation of strain hardening. …”
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Strategic Communications and Corporate Branding: a Study of Jebsen & Jessen Indonesia Group by Heny Wahyu Tamara Dwi Lestari, Dindin Dimyati, Mohammad Shihab

“…Corporate communications hold a vital function to maintain the company’s positive image and reputation in front of stakeholders. …”
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Distributed Control Design for Uncertain Multiagent Systems with Heterogenous High Powers by Hanqiao Huang, Hantong Mei, Di Zhang, Yunhe Guo, Ge Zhou

“…Then, based on the two-order filters, prescribed performance method and barrier functions are utilized to establish the distributed tracking protocol to handle the power-chained deadzone input nonlinearities, such that the MAS can reach the global consensus while guaranteeing the prescribed tracking error performance. …”
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Design of Bionic Bird Jumping Mechanism for Autonomous Take-off and Landing Based on the Micro-platform by Zhang Chunpeng, Shao Weiping, Hao Yongping

“…Aiming at the function of the lower limb of bionic flapping birds, the lower limb bounding mechanism is studied. …”
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Surâsul Giocondei by Ștefan Gaie

“…To understand the “birth” of art, it is necessary to understand that images and artifacts created in pre-modern eras are mistakenly assumed by art history to be art, having for those who created them a completely different function and meaning than the aesthetic one. Considering the conclusions reached more recently by art history and anthropology, attention is drawn to the fact that these images and artifacts had a fundamental sacral-religious purpose and that only with the entry into the modern era does a new category of images and artifacts appear, whose purpose will be a strictly aesthetic one. …”
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Innovative Design and Application of Pitching Movement Transmission Mechanism in Large-scale Wind Tunnel by Guangfei You, Dewei Zhang, Zhihui Lu, Guoliang Zheng, Yongqiang Qiao, Yanbo Lai

“…This mode realizes the linear actuation function with a limited range of rotation， and overcomes the problems of high manufacturing cost and difficulty in installation and commissioning of large-size and high-precision worm gear pair in the past. …”
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Strategies for Enhancing Spin-Shuttling Fidelities in Si/SiGe Quantum Wells with Random-Alloy Disorder by Merritt P. Losert, Max Oberländer, Julian D. Teske, Mats Volmer, Lars R. Schreiber, Hendrik Bluhm, S.N. Coppersmith, Mark Friesen

“…At such locations, intervalley tunneling leads to dephasing of the spin wave function, substantially reducing the shuttling fidelity. …”
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Research on International Law Data Integrity Guarantee Based on Antiterrorism Prediction Algorithm by Huang Ru Qing

“…On the basis of introducing random function and deep learning technology, the prediction model set is split through the trusted seed model, the model selection is completed through iterative optimization, and then new terrorism-related factors are added to obtain the new prediction model set, so as to complete the antiterrorism data prediction. …”
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Learning from Surprising Observations in Management – Longitudinal Accounts by Jönsson Sten, Jönsson Richard

“…The primary function of these accounts is to generate meaning. …”
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Baroque et maniérisme : pertinence d’une approche par les arts visuels ? L’itinéraire de Jean Rousset by Jean-Pierre Maquerlot

“…Though the category of literary baroque can now function autonomously, returning to the visual arts, whenever necessary, is still, willy-nilly, the surest key to a correct assessment of the crucial differences existing between the baroque and the mannerist styles in literature and the theatre.…”
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Dynamic Performance and Fault Diagnosis of Gear-pair with Reference Circles’ Cracks by FAN Jiafeng, DENG Tiesong, SU Zhaoyi, LI Fuzhong

“…Without the gear-pair force element, the gear-pair SIMPACK model was built through moved Markers, function expressions and input functions, to realize the meshing behavior, with techniques of generalized resonance and demodulated resonance, the faults could be diagnosed. …”
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Novel Modified High Step-Up DC/DC Converters with Reduced Switch Voltage Stress by Lingling Liu, Donghui Li

“…The proposed switching-inductor unit is composed of 1 switch, 2 diodes, and 2 inductors, which can realize the step-up function. Through comparison, the better topology is selected from the proposed converters, which is named the double-switch high step-up (DS-HS) converter. …”
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A Nonlinear Strength Criterion of Frozen Saline Sandy Soil at High Pressures by Dan Chang, Lizhen Feng, Jiankun Liu, Beibing Dai

“…The pressure corresponding to ice melting is higher for frozen samples at a lower temperature. A strength function, which consists of cohesion and friction components, is developed in p‐q plane. …”
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Fruit shape classification based on wavelet descriptor by LIU Yang-long, WANG Cong-qing, GAO Jue, XU Rong-hua

“…The seven main features were selected as the radial basis function (RBF) neural network input from the thirty-six coefficients using kernel principal component analysis (KPCA). …”
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Anti-lipid-oxidation effects and edible safety evaluation of the oil extracted by a supercritical CO2 process from coix seed fermented by Monascus purpureus by Haiying Zeng, Anran Zhu, Shengling He, Mingjun Wu, Muhammad Mazhar, Anyan Wen, Na Liu, Likang Qin, Song Miao

“…The results show that the extraction oil from fermented coix seed (FCS-O) had good physicochemical quality and abundant active components with physiological function. In particular, γ-tocotrienol, γ-oryzanol, coixenolide and oleic acid concentrations reached 72.83 µg/g, 745.96 µg/g, 9.65mg/g and 316.58 mg/100 g DW, respectively. …”
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En-bloc kidney transplants from very small pediatric donors: a propensity score matched analysis by Silvia Oberparleiter, Felix J. Krendl, Thomas Resch, Rupert Oberhuber, Hannah Esser, Florian Ponholzer, Annemarie Weissenbacher, Robert Breitkopf, Hannes Neuwirt, Stefan Schneeberger, Manuel Maglione, Benno Cardini

“…Following SKTs, the five-year patient survival rate was 94.7%, likewise death-censored graft survival reached 94.7%. Two EBKT cases experienced unilateral arterial graft thrombosis requiring unilateral nephrectomy, with full recovery and good kidney function. …”
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Impact of thyroid immune-related adverse events on clinical outcomes in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients treated with checkpoint inhibitor therapy: A single center study by Šejla Cerić, Timur Cerić, Emir Sokolović, Jasmina Dalač, Dragana Miletić, Inga Marijanović, Layan Mattar, Amina Aljić, Selma Agić-Bilalagić, Amera Šadija, Miran Hadžiahmetović, Semir Bešlija

“…Regular monitoring of thyroid function is recommended to promptly identify and manage thyroid abnormalities during ICI therapy, potentially improving patient outcomes. …”
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Identification of the Physical Fabric Potential to Infill Development Applying Decision Making and GIS Models (case study: Ahvaz) by Ahmad Pourahmad, Saeid Zanganeh Shahraki, Mahmoud Arvin

“…The fuzzy function, incremental linear function and other layers are standardized in a way that two different functions are standardized by positive and negative layers. …”
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Increased Density of the Liver and Amiodarone-Associated Phospholipidosis by Sunao Kojima, Shinobu Kojima, Hirofumi Ueno, Motohiro Takeya, Hisao Ogawa

“…An abnormal high density of liver tissue may be observed in an unenhanced CT in patients treated with amiodarone and we suggest that periodic monitoring of liver function and/or liver biopsy is warranted before an irreversible stage is reached.…”
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Assessment of Platelet Aggregation and Thrombin Generation in Patients with Familial Chylomicronemia Syndrome Treated with Volanesorsen: A Cross-Sectional Study by Ilenia Lorenza Calcaterra, Renata Santoro, Nicoletta Vitelli, Ferdinando Cirillo, Guido D’Errico, Cornelia Guerrino, Giovanna Cardiero, Maria Donata Di Taranto, Giuliana Fortunato, Gabriella Iannuzzo, Matteo Nicola Dario Di Minno

“…The aim of the study was to evaluate platelet function and thrombin generation (TG) assessment in FCS patients receiving volanesorsen. …”
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