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Full-Scale Test and Bearing Capacity Evaluation of Large Diameter Prestressed Concrete Cylinder Pipe under Internal Water Pressure

In practical applications, the safe operation of large-diameter prestressed concrete cylinder pipes (PCCPs) depends on the loading performance under internal water pressure.However, there is lack of damage tests for the full-scale large-diameter PCCPs due to economic cost and experimental difficulty.In this paper, a full-scale PCCP with diameter of

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A look back at the first wave of COVID-19 in China: A systematic review and meta-analysis of mortality and health care resource use among severe or critical patients.

BackgroundTo investigate the mortality and health care resource use among patients with severe or critical coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) in the first wave of pandemic in China.MethodsWe performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate the mortality, discharge rate, length of hospital stay, and use of invasive ventilation in s

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The new Adoption Law: legal and psychological aspects

From a legal and psychological standpoint, this article examines some aspects involved in adoption, including the effects of the alterations made to the Statute of Children and Adolescents by the National Adoption Law.It verifies whether or not the Law accelerated the performance of adoption processes.This paper is based on bibliographic searches a

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