Wear Investigation of Aluminum Alloy Surface Layers Fabricated through Friction Stir Welding Method by S. Vijayakumar, S. Anitha, R. Arivazhagan, Ashebir Dingeto Hailu, T. V. Janardhana Rao, Hari Prasadarao Pydi

“…The results revealed that maximum wear rate is found as 0.01215 mm3/Nm at LD of 50 N, SE of 600 m, and SS of 4 m/s, whereas minimum 0.00414 mm3/Nm at the grouping process parameters which are LD of 30 N, SE of 400 m, and SS of 6 m/s. From the observation of ANOVA, the most significant factor is identified as load, followed by sliding distance, sliding speed, and combination of each parameter. …”
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Population Structure and Regeneration Status of Woody Plant Species in Tulu Korma Dry Afromontane Forest, West Shewa Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia by Diriba Deressa, Meseret C. Egigu, J. M. Sasikumar

“…Data were collected from 52 main quadrats of 400 m2 for mature woody species and 260 subplots of 25 m2 for seedlings and saplings. …”
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Effects of Environmental and Disturbance Factors on Plant Community Distribution in Tropical Moist Afromontane Forests, South-West Ethiopia by Semegnew Tadese, Teshome Soromessa, Getaneh Gebeyehu

“…In a nested plot design, the vegetation data were collected from 140 main plots, i.e., 400 m2 (trees), 25 m2 subplots (shrubs, lianas, seedlings, and saplings), and 1 m2 (herbs), respectively. …”
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Geothermal heat advected by the recharge of underground conduit. Case study of the karstic spring of Lez (Hérault, France) by Vasseur, Guy

“…The thermal features of the model are expressed as a function of a few parameters: from comparison with the actual data, the depth of the conduit appears to lie around 400 m and the number Pe characterizing the recharge is about 6. …”
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Numerical Investigation of Multistage Fractured Horizontal Wells considering Multiphase Flow and Geomechanical Effects by Jun Li, Yuetian Liu, Kecong Ma

“…The length of the fracture increased from 200 to 400 m, and the cumulative gas production increased from 26.44 to 38.34 million m3, showing an increase of 11.9 million m3, or 45%. …”
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Diversity, Structural, and Regeneration Analysis of Woody Species in the Afromontane Dry Forest of Harego, Northeastern Ethiopia by Belachew Bogale Worku, Emiru Birhane Hizkias, Seid Muhie Dawud

“…To collect the vegetation data, a total of 67 sample plots measuring 400m220m×20m were laid systematically. Species identity, abundance, height, and diameter at breast height (DBH) were recorded for each sample plot. …”
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Ground Deformation Characteristics Induced by Mechanized Shield Twin Tunnelling along Curved Alignments by Dangzhong Wu, Kaiping Xu, Panpan Guo, Gang Lei, Kang Cheng, Xiaonan Gong

“…It has been found that the tunnelling-induced transverse ground surface settlement troughs and the distributions of the subsurface horizontal and vertical ground displacements are mostly similar in both form and magnitude for the considered various radii of curvature of tunnel alignment including 50 m, 100 m, 150 m, 200 m, 250 m, 300 m, 400 m, and infinity (i.e., straight-line tunnel). …”
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Growth and Flowering Responses of Cut Chrysanthemum Grown under Restricted Root Volume to Irrigation Frequency by Viyachai Taweesak, Thohirah Lee Abdullah, Siti Aishah Hassan, Nitty Hirawaty Kamarulzaman, Wan Abdullah Wan Yusoff

“…Plants were irrigated with drip irrigation at irrigation frequencies of 4 (266 mL), 6 (400 mL), and 8 (533 mL) times/day to observe their growth and flowering performances. …”
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Effect of Forest Management on Carbon Stock of Tropical Moist Afromontane Forest by Damena Edae Daba, Bikila Workineh Dullo, Teshome Soromessa

“…A total of 100 main plots of 400 m2 were laid to record trees and shrubs with a diameter at breast height (DBH) ≥ 5 cm. …”
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Study on the 2D Optimization Simulation of Complex Five-Hole Cutting Blasting under Different Lateral Pressure Coefficients by Jing Gao, Shizhen Xie, Xiantang Zhang, Hongli Wang, Wenle Gao, Hongmin Zhou

“…The authors proposed a study on the 2D optimization simulation of complex five-hole cutting blasting under different lateral pressure coefficients of 400 m and 800 m with software ANSYS/LS-DYNA and analyzed the evolution rules of blasting cracks and lateral pressure coefficients. …”
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Changes in Plant Nutrient Concentration of Olive (Olea europaea L.) Leaves after Different Rates of Humic Acid Application by Sertaç Uyanık, Ali Sümer

“…Different concentrations of humic acid [0 (control), 50, 100, 200, 400 mL tree-1] were applied directly to soil of 20-30 cm depth under canopy projection of trees after dissolving in 10 L of water in April. …”
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Macro- and micro-galvanic corrosion of friction stir welding 6061-T6 Al and C1100 Cu dissimilar joints by Yi-Ting Wu, I-Chung Cheng, Chao-Sung Lin

“…The Volta potential measurement revealed that Cu had a Volta potential of +200–400 mV relative to Al. An immersion test of the entire dissimilar joint revealed that the macro-galvanic coupling between 6061-T6 Al and C1100 Cu accelerated the corrosion of the stir zone. …”
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Demographic Characteristics of World Class Jamaican Sprinters by Rachael Irving, Vilma Charlton, Errol Morrison, Aldeam Facey, Oral Buchanan

“…Athletes were divided into three groups based on athletic disciplines: sprint (s: 100–400 m; n=80), jump and throw (j/t: jump and throw; n=25) and, middle distance (md: 800–3000 m; n=15). …”
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Biodiversity and Structural Analysis of Woody Plant Species of Home Gardens in Basona Worana District, North Shoa Zone of Central Ethiopia by Almaz Woldeyohannes, Admasu Moges

“…The plot size used per HG was 400 m2. Diversity and important value indices (IVIs) were computed. …”
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Speed Distribution Prediction of Freight Vehicles on Mountainous Freeway Using Deep Learning Methods by Yuren Chen, Yu Chen, Bo Yu

“…The result proved the applicability of the model in speed distribution prediction of freight vehicles, while LSTM holds the best performance with the length of input sequence being 400 m. The result can be related to the threshold of drivers’ information processing on mountainous freeway. …”
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Growth, Root Formation, and Nutrient Value of Triticale Plants Fertilized with Biosolids by Wendy Mercedes Rauw, Michael Bela Teglas, Sudeep Chandra, Matthew Lewis Forister

“…Fertilization with biosolids increased triticale production (P<0.001); production was similar for the 100 to 400 mL treatments. Root length, nitrogen, and phosphorus concentration increased, and potassium concentration decreased linearly with application rate. …”
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Chyle Leak following Open Donor Nephrectomy: A Rare Complication—A Case Report by Sandeep Harkar, Dharam Vir Singh, Sanjay Kumar Gupta, Raghav Talwar, Yajvender Pratap Singh Rana

“…The first case was a 33-year-old female who underwent an otherwise uneventful left donor nephrectomy but continued to have high drain output (upto 300–400 mL/24 hrs) in the postoperative period. The drain fluid was milky, raising the suspicion of chyle which was confirmed on biochemical analysis. …”
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In-situ electrochemical activation accelerates the magnesium-ion storage by Xuelian Qu, Guodong Li, Fengmei Wang, Ying Zhang, Tianyi Gao, Yutong Luo, Yun Song, Fang Fang, Dalin Sun, Fei Wang, Yang Liu

“…Cooperating with lattice modifications, the CuSe | |Mg batteries exhibit a specific capacity around 160 mAh/g after 400 cycles with a capacity retention of over 91% at the specific current of 400 mA/g. Of significant note is the slight decay in specific capacity from 205 to 141 mAh/g has been observed with an increase in specific current from 20 to 1000 mA/g. …”
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Roof-Breaking Characteristics and Ground Pressure Behavior in Deep Jurassic Coal Seams: A Thick-Plate Model and Field Measurements by Wei Zhang, Yandong Zhang, Weisheng Zhang, Liang Chen, Fanjia Li, Kaidi Xie

“…The field measurement of roof weighting was also performed for the coalface advance from zero to 400 m. The measurement results showed that the first weighting average interval was 41.4 m, and the average interval of periodic weighting was 22.0 m, which agreed with the theoretical calculation and proved the proposed model’s feasibility. …”
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Integrating Apparent Conductance in Resistivity Sounding to Constrain 2D Gravity Modeling for Subsurface Structure Associated with Uranium Mineralization across South Purulia Shear... by Arkoprovo Biswas, Animesh Mandal, Shashi Prakash Sharma, William Kumar Mohanty

“…The gravity model also depicts the depth of the zone of density low within this shear zone at ~400 m near Raghunathpur village and this zone truncates with a steep slope. …”
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