Enhancing Cementitious Materials: A Detailed Review of Bentonite’s Role in Optimizing Concrete Performance by Zakaria Mekhnache, Tewfik Ali-Dahmane, Zine-El-Abidine Kameche, Ivan Alhama-Manteca, Ahmed Sofiane Benosman, Sidi-Mohammed Aissa-Mamoune

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Research on Damage Assessment of Buried Standard and Carbon-Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Petroleum Pipeline Subjected to Shallow Buried Blast Loading in Soil by Ying Cui, Jun Fang, Zhan Qu, Meimei Song, Junhai Zhao

“…The results showed that, for a scaled distance of 0.19 m/kg1/3, plastic deformation occurred on the surfaces of the two pipelines facing the explosive. …”
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Excellent Silicon Surface Passivation Achieved by Industrial Inductively Coupled Plasma Deposited Hydrogenated Intrinsic Amorphous Silicon Suboxide by Jia Ge, Muzhi Tang, Johnson Wong, Zhenhao Zhang, Torsten Dippell, Manfred Doerr, Oliver Hohn, Marco Huber, Peter Wohlfart, Armin G. Aberle, Thomas Mueller

“…The effective lifetime of symmetrically passivated samples under the optimal condition exceeds 4.7 ms on planar n-type Czochralski silicon wafers with a resistivity of 1 Ωcm, which is equivalent to an effective surface recombination velocity of less than 1.7 cms−1 and an implied open-circuit voltage (Voc) of 741 mV. A comparison with several high quality passivation schemes for solar cells reveals that the developed inductively coupled plasma deposited films show excellent passivation quality. …”
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Effects of Biogas Slurry Drip Irrigation on Growth Performance of Brassica chinensis L. and Soil Nutrient Dynamics by DongXue Yin, Jiajun Qin, Dongdong Chen, Baozhong Wang, Wei Liu, Yingxian Wang, Weijuan Lan, Zhihao Wang, Jiachen Wang

“…The radius of drip irrigation was 1.2 m, and the dripping speed was 2 L/h. The highest plant height, fresh weight, dry weight, soluble sugar content, and protein content of 25.2 cm, 16.7 g, 1.10 g, 0.61 g/100 g, and 1.90 mg/g, respectively, were obtained under the BS-5 treatment. …”
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The Possible Role of TLR2 in Chronic Hepatitis B Patients with Precore Mutation by Malihe Moradzadeh, Sirous Tayebi, Hossein Poustchi, Kourosh Sayehmiri, Parisa Shahnazari, Elnaz Naderi, Ghodratollah Montazeri, Ashraf Mohamadkhani

“…The G1896A pre-core mutation were detected in 29 (57%) which was significantly associated with higher concentration of serum TLR2 in comparison with patients without this mutation (4.8 ± 2.9 versus 3.4 ± 2.2 ng/mL, P=0.03). There was also a significant correlation between serum ALT and TLR-2 (r=0.46; P=0.01). …”
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Insights into corrosion behavior of AlCrFeTi and AlCrFeTiY coating for fuel cladding in static and flowing liquid lead bismuth at 550°C by Jingyi Liang, Wei Zhang, Qingyu Li, Ke Zhao, Jun Xiao, Jijun Yang, Shaoyu Qiu, Sheng Huang

“…Besides, structural integrity of AlCrFeTi was well preserved after erosion test in flowing lead bismuth (∼2 m/s) for 1000 h, localized bulges existed in eroded AlCrFeTiY coating. …”
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Changes in the transcriptome of the prefrontal cortex of OXYS rats as the signs of Alzheimer’s disease development by N. A. Stefanova, E. E. Korbolina, N. I. Ershov, E. I. Rogaev, N. G. Kolosova

“…At the age of 5 months, there were significant differences between OXYS and Wistar rats (p < 0.01) in the mRNA expression of more than 900 genes (> 2000 genes at the age of 18 months) in the prefrontal cortex. …”
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A 250 °C Low-Power, Low-Temperature-Drift Offset Chopper-Stabilized Operational Amplifier with an SC Notch Filter for High-Temperature Applications by Zhong Yang, Jiaqi Li, Jiangduo Fu, Jiayin Song, Qingsong Cai, Shushan Qiao

“…The prototype op amp is fabricated in a 0.15 µm SOI process and draws 0.3 mA from a 5 V supply. The circuit occupies a chip area of 0.76 mm². …”
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Estudio de calidad del aire en canteras a cielo abierto en General Roca, Argentina. by Paula Andrea Paez, Marisa Gloria Cogliati, Raúl Alberto Giacosa

“…La metodología se aplicó a las emisiones de material particulado con tamaño menor a 10 μm (PM 10 ) generadas a partir de la explotación en canteras de yeso, cercanas a General Roca (Argentina); para luego evaluar su dispersión y su posible afectación a la salud humana y/o al ambiente. …”
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Integrating Study on Qualitative and Quantitative Characterization of the Major Constituents in Shuanghuanglian Injection with UHPLC/Q-Orbitrap-MS and UPLC-PDA by Gen Xue, Meijuan Zhu, Ning Meng, Jianli Guan, Jide Zhang, Jing Yang, Yuefei Wang, Ying Cui, Xin Chai

“…Based on the successfully established method, the total content of 22 components in 20 batches of SHLIs was efficiently determined with a slight variation between 10.25 and 11.28 mg/mL, which accounted for 38.7% in total solid of SHLI. …”
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Differences in Nanoplastic Formation Behavior Between High-Density Polyethylene and Low-Density Polyethylene by Hisayuki Nakatani, Teruyuki Yamaguchi, Mika Asano, Suguru Motokucho, Anh Thi Ngoc Dao, Hee-Jin Kim, Mitsuharu Yagi, Yusaku Kyozuka

“…The zeta potential reached a minimum value of approximately −20 mV at the degradation time of 21 days, and then increased. …”
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Costoclavicular block as a diaphragm-sparing nerve block for shoulder surgery: a randomized controlled trial by Youngin Lee, Seunguk Bang, Jihyun Chung, Min Suk Chae, Jungwon Shin

“…The primary outcome was the incidence of HDP, as measured using M-mode ultrasound. Diaphragmatic excursion, pulmonary function test results, opioid consumption, and pain scores were evaluated. …”
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Developing AI Smart Sprayer for Punch-Hole Herbicide Application in Plasticulture Production System by Renato Herrig Furlanetto, Ana Claudia Buzanini, Arnold Walter Schumann, Nathan Shawn Boyd

“…The model demonstrated excellent performance, achieving <i>precision</i>, <i>recall</i>, <i>mean average precision</i> (mAP), and F1<i>score</i> exceeding 0.90. Field tests showed that the smart sprayer reduced herbicide use by up to 69% compared to conventional broadcast methods. …”
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Combination of Two‐Stage Continuous Feeding and Optimized Synthetic Medium Increases Lipid Production in Lipomyces starkeyi by Chih‐Chan Wu, Kenji Okano, Pijar Religia, Yuki Soma, Masatomo Takahashi, Yoshihiro Izumi, Takeshi Bamba, Kohsuke Honda

“…In the first stage, the specific growth rate was maintained at a designated level by maximizing the cell density through optimizing the feeding rate, molar carbon‐to‐nitrogen (C/N) ratio, and phosphate concentration in feeding media, achieving a high cell density of 213 ± 10 × 107 cells mL−1. In the second stage, we optimized the molar C/N ratio in the feeding medium for lipid production and achieved high biomass (130 ± 5 g L−1), lipid titer (88 ± 6 g L−1), and lipid content (67% ± 2% of dry cellular weight). …”
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GROWTH, LEAF WATER POTENTIAL, PHOTOSYNTHETIC PIGMENTS, COMPATIBLE SOLUTES AND YIELD COMPONENTS IN COWPEA LANDRACES UNDER SALINITY by Nabi Fahima, Şadji-Ait Kaci Hamida, Chebaani Meriem, Chaker Haddadj Assia, Ounane Sidi Mohamed

“…The soil used was irrigated with NaCl and the rates of 1.93, 3.8, 4.7 and 6.0. dS m-1 NaCl. Salt stress was started 20 days after the start of the experiment and during 2 months. …”
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Particle motion and QPOs around Euler-Heisenberg black hole immersed in cold dark matter halo by G. Mustafa, S.K. Maurya, Tayyab Naseer, Arzu Cilli, Ertan Güdekli, Assmaa Abd-Elmonem, Neissrien Alhubieshi

“…This black hole solution is characterized by five parameters, namely, the black hole mass M, the feature radius R, the parameter ρ describing the density of the cold dark matter halo, the quantum electrodynamics parameter α, and the black hole charge Q. …”
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Urinary Uromodulin Levels and UMOD Variants in Black South Africans with Hypertension-Attributed Chronic Kidney Disease by Nolubabalo Unati Nqebelele, Caroline Dickens, Therese Dix-Peek, Raquel Duarte, Saraladevi Naicker

“…The study included 71 black South Africans with hypertension-attributed CKD with an eGFR ≤ 60ml/min/1.73m2, 52 first-degree relatives, and 58 unrelated controls. …”
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Analysis of Overburden Structure and Pressure-Relief Effect of Hard Roof Blasting and Cutting by Hao Liu, Jin Dai, Jinquan Jiang, Pu Wang, Jiqiang Yang

“…Moreover, the optimal roof-cutting position (5 m) and angle (15°) are obtained with the specific mining conditions. …”
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Ensemble machine learning-based extrapolation of Penman-Monteith-Leuning evapotranspiration data by Vahid Nourani, Ramin Ahmadi, Yongqiang Zhang, Dominika Dąbrowska

“…The Penman-Monteith-Leuning version 2 (PML-V2) evapotranspiration (ET) model, an advanced iteration of the classic Penman-Monteith (PM) model, is available globally via Google Earth Engine with a spatio-temporal resolution of 500 m and 8 days. PML-V2 improves canopy conductance estimation and incorporates carbon dioxide effects on transpiration via gross primary production. …”
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Vertical Shear Instability in Thermally Stratified Protoplanetary Disks. II. Hydrodynamic Simulations and Observability by Han-Gyeol Yun, Woong-Tae Kim, Jaehan Bae, Cheongho Han

“…The amplitudes of these residual velocities range from ∼50 to ∼100 m s ^−1 at a 20° inclination, with larger values corresponding to greater thermal stratification. …”
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