Building Coastal Dunes with Sea Oats and Surrogate Wrack by Natalie Hooton, Debbie L. Miller, Mack Thetford, Sean Claypool

“… Perennial coastal grasses such as sea oats have long been recognized as the biological engineers of our increasingly stressed beaches and coastal dunes. …”
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Hemoglobin Variants as Targets for Stabilizing Drugs by Miroslava Žoldáková, Michal Novotný, Krishna P. Khakurel, Gabriel Žoldák

“…Beyond small-molecule drugs/binders, novel protein-based strategies—such as engineered hemoglobin-binding proteins (including falcilysin, llama-derived nanobodies, and α-hemoglobin-stabilizing proteins)—offer promising new options. …”
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Probing spectral features of quantum many-body systems with quantum simulators by Jinzhao Sun, Lucia Vilchez-Estevez, Vlatko Vedral, Andrew T. Boothroyd, M. S. Kim

“…The critical element of our method is the engineered emergence of frequency resonance such that the excitation spectrum can be probed. …”
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A Visual Review and Bibliometric Analysis of Cloud Computing Traffic Flow Forecasting for a Digital Africa by Sello Prince Sekwatlakwatla, Vusumuzi Malele

“…This paper conducted a bibliographic study based on the Scopus database and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) to evaluate the adoption rate of resource management and traffic flow forecasting in cloud computing in Africa. …”
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Stochastic Modeling and Availability Optimization of Nuts Manufacturing Plant Using Markov Process and Particle Swarm Optimization by Naveen Kumar, Ashish Kumar, Deepak Sinwar, Monika Saini

“…These findings are beneficial for system designers and maintenance engineers to propose the maintenance strategies. The proposed methodology can be utilized to predict the availability of other process industries. …”
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Blasting of Unstable Rock Elements on Steep Slopes by Marco Casale, Giovanna Antonella Dino, Claudio Oggeri

“…Considering the significant number of influencing factors for both the rock mass features and for the topography, the present research has been necessarily validated through the analysis of several case histories, thus on an experiential basis focusing on some simple control parameters to help engineers and practitioners regarding the first design and control of blasting schemes.…”
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A global dataset of freshwater fish trophic interactions by Jacob Ridgway, Jeff Wesner

“…Nonetheless, FishBase excludes a large portion of the ecological literature because it was developed before the creation of most modern scientific search engines. Our project, TroPhish, builds upon FishBase by digitizing over 100 years of data from the fish predation literature. …”
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The Bibliography of Articles of the Republican Era 1923-1999: A Critical Review by Yaşar Tonta, Umut Al

“…Used through the web site of the Turkish National Library, the Bibliography and its interface should be redesigned and improved, and the functions of the search engine should be increased.…”
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Persepsi, Sikap, dan Awareness Orang Tua Terkait Kekerasan Seksual Pada Anak: Scoping Review by Tetti Solehati, Rifani Okti Putri Tanjung, Regina Yasmine Herman, Aulia Putri Regita, Dinyatul Arba Ramdhona, Yanti Hermayanti, Cecep Eli Kosasih

“…Pencarian artikel menggunakan database Pubmed, CINAHL, SAGE, dan search engine Google Scholar Direct dengan memperhatikan kriteria inklusi, seperti: fokus pada penelitian persepsi sikap, awareness orang tua terkait KSA, artikel primer, dan fullteks, rentang tahun 2011-2021, berpedoman pada Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA ScR). …”
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Roles for Exosomes in the Pathogenesis, Drug Delivery and Therapy of Psoriasis by Yuchao Chen, Huazhen Liu, Yuming He, Bin Yang, Weihui Lu, Zhenhua Dai

“…On the other hand, exosomes can be utilized as drug delivery platforms for psoriasis treatment. Especially, engineered exosomes may serve as drug delivery systems for effective delivery of proteins, nucleic acids or other drugs due to their low immunogenicity, good stability and ability to fuse with target cells. …”
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TerraDactyl: A tool for connecting environmental data to when and where by Ariel Levi Simons, Hector Baez, Neha Acharya-Patel, Caren C. Helbing, Jim Jeffers, Julie Stanford, Rachel S. Meyer

“…TerraDactyl intakes user-provided geospatial coordinates and dates to extract environmental values from a series of datasets hosted on the Google Earth Engine (GEE). We demonstrate the utility of TerraDactyl with two case studies. …”
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Effect of contact geometry on the contact stresses in a flat with rounded edge contact by Pankaj Dhaka, Raghu V. Prakash

“…The blade-disc dovetail interface in an aero-engine compressor is characterized by a non-uniform pressure distribution which can be obtained by an equivalent flat with rounded edge-on-plate configuration. …”
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(No) me importa un comino y sus variantes diatópicas. Estudio de corpus desde la gramática de construcciones by Carmen Mellado Blanco

“…Así, después de definir y defender el concepto de “construcción fraseológica” frente a “esquema fraseológico” en el marco de la Gramática de Construcciones (GxC), los principales objetivos son, a partir del estudio de corpus de la construcción [(no) PRONpers importar [SN[DETNUMERAL + N{objeto tabuizado o de escaso valor}]]: ‘no importar absolutamente nada’: (1) comprobar si la construcción tiene similar productividad en el subcorpus del español de España y en el subcorpus del español americano de Sketch Engine; (2) determinar cuáles son las actualizaciones preferentes del slot sustantivo de la construcción en ambos subcorpus, mostrando las pertinentes convergencias y divergencias al respecto.…”
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Trade, Violence and Diplomacy on the Coast of Ikorodu: The Resistance of Balogun Mabadeje Jaiyesimi by Adebowale Adeyemi-Suenu

“…Unlike Philips, who suggests that the Egba defeat was primarily engineered by John Glover, this article emphasises the importance of Balogun Jaiyesimi’s strategic and negotiating skills, which led to the formation of a local coalition between Ikorodu and its neighbouring towns, especially Igbogbo, to ensure Ikorodu’s military victory. …”
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Evaluation Method for Vibration Measurement on Casing in Aeroengine: Theoretical Analysis and Experimental Study by Lanlan Hou, Shuqian Cao

“…The best measured vibration section is consistent with the actual on-board vibration section of the engine, which further demonstrates the effectiveness of the evaluation method. …”
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Vibration Reliability Analysis of Aeroengine Rotor Based on Intelligent Neural Network Modeling Framework by Jia-Qi Liu, Yun-Wen Feng, Cheng Lu, Wei-Huang Pan, Da Teng

“…The proposed method is based on DEA, with QAR information as the analysis data, and four factors including engine working state, fuel/oil working state, aircraft flight state, and external conditions are considered to analyse the rotor vibration reliability. …”
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A Religious Response to Environmental Flippancies in Akan Communities in Ghana by Emmanuel Twumasi-Ankrah, Yaw Adu-Gyamfi

“…This paper argues that the ecological narrative in Akan communities has changed chiefly because of social conflicts, engineered by factors such as the basic needs of humans, politicization, desacralization, materialism, economics, “development,” culture, chieftaincy, international relations, tenancy, religion, civil action and many more. …”
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Geological Heritage Site for the Rajmahal Flora at Mandro, Sahibganj, India: An Opportunity for an Integrated–Sustainable Tourism Circuit by Shreya Shrey, Ravi Shankar Chaubey, Pankaj Jaiswal

“…The circuit is an exclusively local tourism engine that could address socioeconomic disparities while developing as a hub for research and innovation across different disciplines. …”
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An investigation of cracks caused by concrete shrinkage and temperature differences in common reinforced concrete bridge structures by Van-Hau Nguyen

“…By understanding the impact of these factors, as well as the role of reinforcement diameter and steel ratio, engineers can develop more effective strategies for managing and mitigating cracking.…”
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Building Coastal Dunes with Sea Oats and Surrogate Wrack by Natalie Hooton, Debbie L. Miller, Mack Thetford, Sean Claypool

“… Perennial coastal grasses such as sea oats have long been recognized as the biological engineers of our increasingly stressed beaches and coastal dunes. …”
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