The Kaiser Meyer Olkin test and Bartlett's sphericity test were firstly carried out to determine if the data was suitable for performing the EFA [24].
For each NiTi polycrystalline strip in this study, a strain-controlled isothermal test was firstly conducted to check the pseudoelastic properties and then a stress-controlled fatigue test was performed with synchronized optical observation on the evolution (cyclic nucleation/annihilation) of Lüders bands in the strip.
The raw acceleration data corresponding to a series of walking tests is firstly captured by ActiGraph accelerometers, and then used as input to theoretically estimate the peak ground reaction force (PGRF) and peak loading rate (PLR).
The objective of the mechanical tests is firstly to check the effect of the presence of the pinholes on the global strength of the device, and secondly to compare the load level supported by the device with physiological loads achievable on human bones.
Cyclic voltammetry tests were firstly used to investigate the electrodeposition mechanism.
Lap shear tensile and shear fatigue tests were firstly carried out in order to determine mechanical properties and to establish a damage model.
The objectives of these tests were, firstly to investigate the combustion characteristics of the waste fuels listed above, and secondly to grasp the formation and decomposition behavior of dioxins in the combustor, the cyclone, the convection part and the dust collector, in terms of the isomers of dioxins, respectively, in which the number of chlorine is different from one another.
Numerical tests are firstly performed to validate the strict satisfaction of the nonslip velocity condition, and then melting problems in a square cavity with different Prandtl numbers and Rayleigh numbers are simulated, which demonstrate that the present method can handle solid-liquid phase change problem with high efficiency and accuracy.
Genetic testing was firstly focused on the MEN-1 gene; for this purpose, exons 2 10 were PCR amplified and subsequently submitted to direct sequencing according to standard protocols [ 11], but no mutation was identified.
In order to explore the factors associated with health seeking behavior among migrants, Chi-square tests were firstly conducted to compare the differences between migrant workers with different socio-demographic characteristics.
