Heat of hydration, bleeding, viscosity, setting of Ca(OH)<inf>2</inf>-GGBS and MgO-GGBS grouts by Yu, Hua, Yi, Yaolin, Unluer, Cise

“…The peak heat rate in MgO-GGBS grouts was significantly lower than MgO grout and the heat rate was limited after 8 h. …”
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Debonding of bonded composite joints with TEP modified epoxy adhesives by Caglar, Hasan, Sridhar, Idapalapati, Sharma, Mohit, Chian, Kerm Sin

“…Plasma surface treatment provided higher bond strength at room temperature than sandblasting surface treatment and prevented fiber-tearing. …”
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Equilibrium queueing analysis in a ride-hailing service with sharing option by Wang, Jianfu, Chua, Geoffrey A., Sainathan, Arvind, Vijayendiran, Akshay

“…Second, when hassle cost is higher than the tipping point, the hybrid model may generate higher social welfare than the other two models. …”
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Bio-aerosol dynamics in buildings by Lee, Benedict

“…Fungal bioaerosols have a diameter of 1 to 100 μm, which is larger than bacteria which has a diameter of 0.5 to 10 μm. …”
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An advanced firewall rules matching algorithm by Elvira, Febiani

“…The experiment in this project started with around two hundred and fifty rules, until more than six hundred forty-five thousand rules. The results proved at least four times faster than standard binary search obtained. …”
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Improving access to pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with COPD treated for substance misuse in the London Borough of Islington by Narasimhan, Divya, Simpson, Jane, Stewart, Duncan

“…The risk of developing COPD is higher for substance misusers than the general population. Substance misusers with COPD have more severe symptoms and poorer health outcomes than other COPD patients, and experience inequalities in accessing PR services. …”
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‘Maturing out’ as dilemmatic: transitions towards relatively light drinking practices among UK University students by Conroy, Dom, Morton, Charlotte, Griffin, Christine

“…Conclusions: This study reinforces the view that ‘maturing out’ involves more than simply having gained new responsibilities during young adulthood. …”
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Targeting c-Met for endoscopic detection of dysplastic lesions within Barrett’s esophagus using EMI-137 fluorescence imaging by Huang, Y-J, Rieder, J, Tan, KV, Tenditnaya, A, Vojnovic, B, Gorpas, D, Quante, M, Vallis, KA

“…<p>Purpose: Esophageal cancer (EC) carries a poor prognosis with 5-year overall survival of less than 20%. Barrett&rsquo;s esophagus (BE) increases the risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC). …”

Development of Attention-based Prediction Models for All-cause Mortality, Home Care Need, and Nursing Home Admission in Ageing Adults in Spain Using Longitudinal Electronic Health... by Carrasco-Ribelles, LA, Cabrera-Bean, M, Khalid, S, Roso-Llorach, A, Violán, C

“…Considering longitudinal rather than cross-sectional information from primary care electronic health records (EHRs) can contribute to more informed predictions. …”

Episcopacy and parochialism in early South African Anglicanism: Bishop Robert Gray and the antecedent churches of the Cape Colony, 1806-72 by Bester, M

“…Unlike England, opposition to such churchmanship was parochial rather than episcopal in character. Parochial dissent from Gray’s policies was also founded primarily on questions of ecclesiastical authority rather than churchmanship. …”

Foreign language learning in the age of the internet: A comparison of informal acquirers and traditional classroom learners in central Brazil by Cole, J

“…</p> <p>The key research question asked whether there existed, in more than rare circumstances, FASILs who attained levels of proficiency at least as high as highly-motivated, well-trained CTLs? …”

Efficacy of intranasal administration of formalin-killed Pasteurella haemolytica A2 against intratracheal challenge in goats by Effendy, A.W.M., Zamri-Saad, M., Puspa, R., Rosiah, S.

“…The lung lesions in group 1 were significantly (P < 0.05) less severe than in groups 3 and 4. Similarly, the lesions in group 2 were markedly less severe than in groups 3 and 4, although the differences were not significant. …”

Effect of 660-nm LED photobiomodulation on the proliferation and chondrogenesis of meniscus-derived stem cells (MeSCs) by Tong, Jiabei, Subbiah, Suresh Kumar, Rampal, Sanjiv, Ramasamy, Rajesh, Wu, Xiaoyun, You, Yanyan, Wang, Jiaojiao, Mok, Pooi Ling

“…The proliferation ability, chondrogenic capacity and mitochondrial activity of the 18 J/cm2 group were greater than those of the 4 J/cm2 and control groups. The mRNA expression levels of Akt, PI3K, TGF-β3, Ki67 and Notch-1 in the 18 J/cm2 group were greater than those in the other groups in most samples. …”
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Anatomically realistic aortic dissection simulator as a potential training tool for point-of-care ultrasound by Rahmah, Mutiah, Al-Ashwal, Rania Hussien, Mohamad Salim, Maheza Irna, Lam, Yan Tung, Hau, Yuan Wen

“…The ultrasound assessment of diameter aortic dissection showed higher than the healthy ascending aorta in polyvinyl alcohol (dAD = 28.2 mm > dAAo = 20.2 mm) and Si (dAD = 31.0 mm > dAAo = 22.4 mm), while the wall thickness of aortic dissection showed thinner than the healthy aorta in polyvinyl alcohol, which is comparable with the actual aorta measurement. …”
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TOWARDS A HISTORY OF LAW IN MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE / by Ahmad Ibrahim, Tan Sri Datuk, 1916-1999, author 440731

“…Native customary law plays a much more important part in East Malaysia than it does in West Malaysia or Singa-pore and one must go beyond 1786 to trace the history of law in Malaysia. …”

COVID-19 regulations, political Institutions, and the environment by Fredriksson, Per G., Mohanty, Aatishya

“…A given stringency of COVID-19 containment and closure policies had a stronger effect on air quality in more democratic countries, and in countries with majoritarian rather than proportional electoral rules. Our estimates suggest that the improvement in air quality was around 57% greater in majoritarian systems than in proportional systems. …”
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Design and comparison of 14 GHz flip-flop-based frequency dividers in sub-micron CMOS technology by Leong, Zhen Hong

“…The Windmill and Liempd dividers are promising circuits that generate desirable quadrature outputs with good phase noise of less than −145 dBc/Hz while consuming current of less than 800 μA.…”
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Pricing Nikkei index put warrants under fixed and floating exchange rate. by Solihin, Norman., Ryanto, Rudy.

“…While the result shows that pricing errors for warrant under floating exchange rate is higher than those under fixed exchange rate, these errors are very small overall. …”
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Curved oligonucleotide constructs as human topoisomerase I inhibitors : a mechanistic study of the enzyme’s recognizing passway. by Zhao, Guanjia.

“…It is discovered that there are more than normal amount of Topo I enzymes in the tumour cells, making it a potential drug target for cancer therapy. …”
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Settlement of soft clay improved by vertical drains by Choi, Lok Ching.

“…The coefficient of horizontal consolidation is also significantly larger than that of the coefficient of vertical consolidation. …”
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