1. Introduction The Qixi Festival, also known as Double Seventh Festival, or Qiqiao Festival, was one of the most important traditional Chinese festivals for women in Singapore, especially amongst the Cantonese who affectionately refer to it as the Seven Sisters Festival. Despite its significance, ...
Menopausal women with HF experience sleep disturbance which, in turn, leads to depression and mood changes [6]. To date, it is well-known that normal levels of estrogen hormone (17β-estradiol) regulates central monoaminergic neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine [7] via enhancing the ...
These approaches are based on the combination of necking criteria with constitutive models for the prediction of necking in sheet metals. Among the theoretical necking criteria that have been developed in the literature for the prediction of necking, Swift [3] proposed an extension to biaxial ...
According to the results, the electrofusion sockets can be used for joining PE gas pipes even in hot climate areas. The maximum values of these stresses happen to be in the pipe. Also, the PE100 socket is more sensitive to a temperature drop. Additionally, all four studied patch ...