Experimental Research on Mix Ratio of Construction Waste Cemented Filling Material Based on Response Surface Methodology by Weixin Chen, Guohua Zhang, Qin Tao, Liangliang Yu, Tao Li, Xianhua Guan

“…Finally, based on filling material cost optimization model, an optimal mix ratio is given, in which the wet fly ash/aggregate ratio, Talbol gradation index of recycled aggregate, and dosage of water reducing agent to cement are 0.507, 0.5, and 0.678%, respectively. …”
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Plants as Useful Vectors to Reduce Environmental Toxic Arsenic Content by Nosheen Mirza, Qaisar Mahmood, Mohammad Maroof Shah, Arshid Pervez, Sikander Sultan

“…Anthropogenic As contamination of soil may result from mining, milling, and smelting of copper, lead, zinc sulfide ores, hide tanning waste, dyes, chemical weapons, electroplating, gas exhaust, application of municipal sludge on land, combustion of fossil fuels, As additives to livestock feed, coal fly ash, and use of arsenical pesticides in agricultural sector. …”
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Compact Workspace Decomposition Based on a Bottom-Up Approach by Georgy Skorobogatov, Toni Calvo, Cristina Barrado, Esther Salami

“…The workspace can be any convex or non-convex polygon and may contain holes of various shapes that represent no-fly zones. The UAVs can be heterogeneous, with different levels of autonomy, speed, and range. …”
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A Study on Optimum Mixture Ratio of Reactive Powder Concrete by Mingyang Chen, Wenzhong Zheng

“…The results indicate that owing to the increase of the cement strength, the RPC fluidity decreases and the cement strength is not proportional to the compressive strength. The addition of the fly ash and the nano-microbead is an effective way to improve the fluidity, and it is required at the low W/B ratio. …”
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Influence of Steam Curing Method on the Performance of Concrete Containing a Large Portion of Mineral Admixtures by Mengyuan Li, Qiang Wang, Jun Yang

“…A comparison was made between the impact of raising the thermostatic temperature and the impact of prolonging the thermostatic time on the performance of steam-cured concrete containing a large portion of fly ash (FA) or ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) by analysing the form removal strength, chemically combined water content, reaction degree, strength development, chloride permeability, and volume stability. …”
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Enhancing the performance of iron-based binders with seawater and CO2 sequestration by V Chandralega, M Shanmugasundaram, David Stone

“…This study explores CO₂ mineralization and sequestration in a sustainable iron-based binder formulated with industrial wastes such as iron dust, fly ash, calcium carbonate, and metakaolin, along with oxalic acid variations of 0 %, 2 %, and 4 % to form complex iron carbonates. …”
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Sustainable material as a column filler in soft clay bed reinforced with encased column: numerical analysis by Srijan, A. K. Gupta

“…These include the utilisation of portland cement, lime, fly ash, ground freezing, jet grouting, prefabricated vertical drains, and thermal approaches. …”
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Strengthening of Damaged Masonry Walls Using Engineered Cementitious Composites: Experimental and Numerical Analysis by S. M. Renuka, I. P. Mervin Sanjith

“…This study presents an experimental and numerical analysis of brick masonry wall strengthened by traditional mortar, ECC, and ECC with 40% fly ash (FAECC) subjected to uniaxial compression. …”
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Performance Evaluation of the Fiber-Reinforced Cement Composites Blended with Wheat Straw Ash by Abdul Qudoos, Zahid Ullah, Atta-ur-Rehman, Zafar Baloch

“…This necessitates the utilization of supplementary cementitious materials such as silica fume, fly ash, rice husk ash, and wheat straw ash as a cement replacement material. …”
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Mechanism and Kinematics for Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles Maneuvering Based on Bilateral Wings by Rui Zhang, Haiyang Zhang, Lichao Xu, Peng Xie, Jing Wu, Chao Wang

“…Flight tests are conducted to show that the rack and pinion mechanism can accomplish the movement of hinges neatly, and the proposed flapping mechanism makes left turns and right turns effectively while continuing to fly forward. The prototype is good in terms of crashworthiness and the replacement of components, and it offers an easy and reliable technique for the maneuvering flight of FMAVs.…”
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Computerised adaptive method for assessing university undergraduates’ mental well-being within an African context: An open-source set-up with Concerto by Jumoke I. Oladele

“…Each candidate was given 100 items utilising the linear on-the-fly test administration. Four hundred and seven responses were received which was subjected to psychometric analysis using the Samejima's Graded IRT model to calibrate the items. …”
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Enhancing Meat Quality and Nutritional Value in Monogastric Livestock Using Sustainable Novel Feed Ingredients by José A. M. Prates

“…Innovative feed options like black soldier fly larvae, <i>Schizochytrium</i> microalga, <i>Laminaria</i> seaweed, fermented soybean hulls, fortified flaxseed and grape pomace have significantly improved meat quality and nutritional traits. …”
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Development of UHPC Mixtures Utilizing Natural and Industrial Waste Materials as Partial Replacements of Silica Fume and Sand by Shamsad Ahmad, Ibrahim Hakeem, Mohammed Maslehuddin

“…Materials such as natural pozzolana (NP), fly ash (FA), limestone powder (LSP), cement kiln dust (CKD), and pulverized steel slag (PSS), all of which are abundantly available in Saudi Arabia at little or no cost, were employed in the development of the UHPC mixtures. …”
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Divergent effects of entomopathogenic fungi and medicinal mushroom species on Drosophila melanogaster lifespan by Md M. H. Nafis, Amran A. Q. A. Al-Shaarani, Mohammed H. M. Muafa, Yiwen Wang, Chunying Deng, Yusufjon Gafforov, Lorenzo Pecoraro

“…All the four analyzed strains of entomogenous fungi showed pathogenicity to D. melanogaster by causing 100% mortality of fruit flies within 20 culture days. The shortest lifespan was recorded in flies treated with Fusarium verticillioides (15 days). …”
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External Ophthalmomyiasis Caused by a Rare Infesting Larva, Sarcophaga argyrostoma by Shmuel Graffi, Avi Peretz, Amos Wilamowski, Heather Schnur, Fouad Akad, Modi Naftali

“…External ophthalmomyiasis (EO) is caused by infesting larvae belonging to various species of flies. Most documented cases result from sheep (Oestrus ovis) and Russian (Rhinoestrus purpureus) botfly larvae, but we recently discovered a rare case of EO caused by flesh fly (Sarcophaga argyrostoma) larvae. …”
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Simplified Analysis of Thermal Cracks in Low-Heat Portland Cement Concrete by Longlong Liu, Shangchuan Zhao, Jianda Xin, Zhenhong Wang

“…This article introduces some experimental data from the compression test, the tension test, and the temperature stress test machine (TSTM) test for low-heat Portland (LHP) cement concrete with different fly ash (FA) content. With the proposed equations, the thermal cracks can be predicted with the TSTM test along with the mechanical properties. …”
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Influence of Nano-SiO2 on the Consistency, Setting Time, Early-Age Strength, and Shrinkage of Composite Cement Pastes by Yu Chen, Yi-fan Deng, Meng-qiang Li

“…The addition of nano-SiO2 is more helpful to the improvement of early-age strengths of the paste with or without fly ash admixed than silica fume additive for the same mass proportion. …”
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Particle size distributions and shape identification of pozzolanic materials via various dimensional representations by David Sinkhonde, Tajebe Bezabih, Derrick Mirindi

“…In this research, we explore the geometrical features of clay brick powder (CBP), fly ash (FA), and teff straw ash (TSA) and predict how these features can influence ordinary Portland cement (OPC) replacement in cement-based composites. …”
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The hidden drivers: Unraveling the impact of density, moisture, and scale on Hermetia illucens rearing. by Anjani Nayak, Patrick Klüber

“…The black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) is a saprophagous insect known for bioconverting organic waste, potentially offering environmental benefits, such as contributing to waste reduction and nutrient cycling. …”
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Comparisons between Arabidopsis thaliana and Drosophila melanogaster in relation to Coding and Noncoding Sequence Length and Gene Expression by Rachel Caldwell, Yan-Xia Lin, Ren Zhang

“…The research aims to apply quantile regression techniques for statistical analysis of coding and noncoding sequence length and gene expression data in the plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, and fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, to determine if a relationship exists and if there is any variation or similarities between these species. …”
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