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Using a breast pump may help start labor contractions for some full-term pregnant women or for those past their due dates. The theory is that nipple stimulation from the breast pump increases the ...

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Abstract: To grasp the hydraulic performance and abrasion characteristics of a particular model pump before manufacture, this paper firstly numerically calculates the three-dimensional viscous steady ...

The first recognizable event in bacterial cell division is the assembly of FtsZ into a ring-like structure at mid-cell. This Z ring serves as a scaffold for the assembly of the division machinery and ...

Abstract: In magnetic levitation centrifugal blood pumps, most magnetic bearings have flat rotors, so this kind of magnetic bearings is not suitable for the rotor structure of centrifugal kidney pumps ...

China has broken its own record in hypergravity research after completing construction of its multi-tonne centrifuge that can compress space and time. CHIEF1900, built by Shanghai Electric Nuclear ...