Geographic Variation and Factors Associated with Female Genital Mutilation among Reproductive Age Women in Ethiopia: A National Population Based Survey. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 BACKGROUND:Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a common traditional practice in developing nations including Ethiopia. It poses complex and serious long-term health risks for women and girls and can lead to death.
Tesfaye Setegn +2 more
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Flexural performance of textile fine grained mortar containing risk husk ash as a partial cement replacement in reinforced concrete beams [PDF]
, 2018 External strengthening of RC beam become a popular method to reduce deterioration. Due to highest demanding on external strengthening, a new innovation was introduced called as textile fine grained mortar (TFGM).
Mohammad, Noor Shuhada
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Adaptive Restart of the Optimized Gradient Method for Convex Optimization
, 2017 First-order methods with momentum such as Nesterov's fast gradient method are very useful for convex optimization problems, but can exhibit undesirable oscillations yielding slow convergence rates for some applications.
Fessler, Jeffrey A., Kim, Donghwan
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High Voltage, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Periodic lattice material (PLM) is an innovative material system capable of rapidly and efficiently constructing functionally graded materials (FGMs). Among various PLM structures, triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) exhibit numerous advantages, making TPMS‐based lattice materials a potential candidate to electrical FGMs.
Zihao Liu +7 more
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Synthetic and characterization of Al-PTFE functionally graded material using powder metallurgy technique [PDF]
FME TransactionsThe current work involves producing the functionally graded material (Al-PTFE) utilizing the powder metallurgy technique. The proposed graded materials include three, four, and five layers.
Omran Ghufran Hamza +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Studies regarding the impact of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) on sexual function are scarce. This study is the first to explore the rate of female sexual dysfunction (FSD) among Somalian women who underwent FGM and its association with ...
Abdikarim Hussein Mohamed +6 more
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PLoS ONE, 2023 BackgroundFemale genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) is a social norm driven practice associated with numerous adverse health complications. Existing assessment tools for health workers are limited by lack of a clear framework for what constitutes the ...
Christina X Marea +4 more
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Free vibrations and static analysis of functionally graded sandwich plates with three-dimensional finite elements [PDF]
, 2020 A three-dimensional modelling of free vibrations and static response of functionally graded material (FGM) sandwich plates is presented. Natural frequencies and associated mode shapes as well as displacements and stresses are determined by using the ...
Burlayenko, V. N., Sadowski, Tomasz
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Effect of Endodontic Sealers on the Bond Strength of Glass Fibre Posts: A Systematic Review
Australian Endodontic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This systematic review evaluated the influence of resin‐based, eugenol‐based and bioceramic endodontic sealers on the bond strength of glass fibre posts cemented with resin cements. Searches were conducted in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, Google Scholar and Embase, including in vitro studies using human or bovine teeth ...
Thiago Bessa Marconato Antunes +7 more
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Meshfree Approach for the Torsional Analysis of Orthotropic and FGM Thin-Walled Open Sections [PDF]
Mechanics of Advanced Composite StructuresThe torsional study of different engineering sections made up of orthotropic and functionally graded material is presented in this paper. Prandtl’s stress function approach is used for the formulation of governing differential equations.
Ram Bilas Prasad +2 more
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