Interaction of Cationic Polymer-Treated Geosynthetic Clay Liners with Various Saline Solutions by Hakkı O. Özhan

“…As a result, %0.5 cationic polymer in 0.1 M KCl solution and %1 cationic polymer in 0.5 M KCl and 0.1 M MgCl2 solutions improved the hydraulic performance of the GCL by causing almost 0.13, 0.18 and 0.08 times decrease in hydraulic conductivity respectively. …”
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The Effect of Midnight Temperature Maximum Winds on Post‐Midnight Equatorial Spread F by J. Krall, D. Hickey, J. D. Huba, P. B. Dandenault

“…The circumstance where the MTM winds are symmetric across the equator is considered; here the meridional wind component in the southern hemisphere is the reverse of the northern meridional wind. The timing of the wind pattern relative to the imposition of a seed for the ESF instability is explored. …”
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Domestic Preparedness for Trade in Services Liberalization: Are East African Countries prepared for Further Trade Liberalization? by BAGUMHE, Elias Peter

“…The total services export of EAC countries increased from USD 1868 mills in 1995 to USD 5681 mills in 2008 (WDI 2010) which is approximately three times increase compared to 1995. Along with this growth, liberalization of services trade is becoming a critical economic agenda of these economies. …”
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Experimental and FEM Investigation of Cob Walls under Compression by Enrico Quagliarini, Gianluca Maracchini

“…Earth has been used as construction material since prehistoric times, and it is still utilized nowadays in both developed and developing countries. …”
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Mechanisms on the Injection Conformance Reversion during Polymer Flooding of Offshore Heterogeneous Heavy-Oil Reservoirs by Zhijie Wei, Xiaodong Kang, Yuyang Liu, Hanxu Yang

“…The peak value and scope of conformance reversion decrease and reversion timing is advanced as oil viscosity or permeability contrast increases, or polymer concentration or relative thickness of low permeable layer decreases, which compromises the ability of polymer flooding to improve the volumetric sweep and lower suction of the low permeable layer. …”
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A Two-Zone Multigrid Model for SI Engine Combustion Simulation Using Detailed Chemistry by Hai-Wen Ge, Harmit Juneja, Yu Shi, Shiyou Yang, Rolf D. Reitz

“…Without loss in accuracy, an order of magnitude speedup was achieved in terms of CPU and wall times. To reproduce the results of the original GAMUT combustion model, either a low searching level or a procedure to exclude high-temperature computational cells from the grouping should be applied to the unburned region, which was found to be more sensitive to the combustion model details.…”
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Food Safety Training Is Associated with Improved Knowledge and Behaviours among Foodservice Establishments’ Workers by Hezekiah Kehinde Adesokan, Victor Oluwatoyin Akinseye, Grace Abiodun Adesokan

“…Furthermore, foodservice employees with refresher training demonstrated significantly higher knowledge (P=0.000) and practice (P=0.003) levels than those without, being about 45 and 14 times more likely to, respectively, improve their knowledge (OR = 45; 95% CI: 3.47–584.34) and practice (OR = 13.5; 95% CI: 2.01–90.69). …”
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RETHINKING CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATIONAL SECURITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA by AUSTEEN NDUBUISI ADIGWE

“…The implications of this in the long run remains unpredictable but the effect of this in contemporary times is orchestrating outcomes that offers no heritage of good to all and sundry. …”
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Elemental and Proximate Compositions of Sesame Seeds and the Underlying Soil from Tsegede, Ethiopia by Fuad Seid, Bewketu Mehari

“…The amounts of the trace elements, Fe, Cu, and Zn found in the soils were about 2 to 6 times higher than that found in the sesame seeds. …”
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System Dynamics Modeling Can be Leveraged to Predict Critical Care Pathways and Costs for End Stage Renal Disease: US Population to 2020 by Luca Fernandez, Christopher Koliba, Asim Zia, Katharine Cheung, Richard Solomon, Christopher Jones

“…**Background:** End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) accounts for 9% of Medicare spending, with the beneficiaries suffering from ESRD costing 7-9 times more than the average. This population is expected to continue to grow as a portion of Medicare beneficiaries. …”
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Shuffle-PG: Lightweight feature extraction model for retrieving images of plant diseases and pests with deep metric learning by Dong Jin, Helin Yin, Yeong Hyeon Gu

“…The results show that the proposed Shuffle-PG model uses approximately 20 times fewer parameters and reduces computational costs by an order of magnitude compared to existing benchmark models, while achieving higher mean average precision scores of 97.7 % and 98.8 % for the disease and pest datasets, respectively.…”
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Variable size sampling to support high uniformity confidence in sensor data streams by Hajin Kim, Myeong-Seon Gil, Yang-Sae Moon, Mi-Jung Choi

“…Experimental results show that UC-KSample improves the uniformity confidence over KSample by 2.2 times on average, and it always keeps the uniformity confidence higher than the user-specified threshold. …”
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Corrosion Behaviors’ Investigation of Carbide Coatings Developed for Sulphuric Acid Recovery Systems by Erhan Özkan

“…As a result of the article, the corrosion resistance of 316L stainless steels in sulfuric acid systems was improved by 5.02 and 3.15 times, respectively.…”
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Pantoea agglomerans Infections in Children: Report of Two Cases by Shraddha Siwakoti, Rinku Sah, Rupa Singh Rajbhandari, Basudha Khanal

“…The clinical course of infection was mild and timely administration of proper antibiotic resulted in a favorable outcome.…”
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Comparing the trend of changes in oxygen pulse (RH/VO2) during maximal exercise after severe and moderate warming in women basketball players by Maryam Hosseını, Mansoureh Karımı, Hamid Agha-alınezhad

“…The research results showed that oxygen pulse during maximum exercise after intense warming has higher significant average than mean warming in times 0, 3 and 6. Accordingly, coaches should note that athletes should choose one of warm-up levels based on their physical fitness.…”
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The Effectiveness of Implementing Academic Information System (SIAKAD) in Student Grades Management at the Sekolah Tinggi Agama Islam Terpadu by Herwinsyah

“…The system also supports more objective and accurate assessments, making it easier for lecturers to provide timely feedback to students. Although there were some challenges, such as adapting to new technology, overall, SIAKAD is considered a highly valuable tool in improving the quality of academic management at STAIT. …”
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Delayed Chylothorax during Treatment of Follicular Lymphoma with a Malignant Pleural Effusion by Chigozirim N. Ekeke, Ernest G. Chan, James D. Luketich, Rajeev Dhupar

“…Initially, most chyle leaks are managed with nonoperative strategies, such as gut rest, hyperalimentation, and pleural drainage, and, at times, medium-chained fatty acid diet or octreotide, with hopes to decrease chyle production (Zabeck et al. (2011)). …”
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Thrombosed Fetal Dural Sinus Malformation: A Case Report by Tayseer Al Muteri, Muna Al Rawahi, Felipe Moretti

“…When dural sinus malformation (DSM) is detected in prenatal imaging, timely fetal MRI is recommended to help diagnose dural sinus abnormalities, identify intracranial complications, and determine perinatal plan and management options.…”
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A tandem approach for the synthesis of 1-phenyl-pyrazolo-quinolinones by Fe3O4@MWCNT nanocomposite as heterogeneous catalyst by Adapaka Venkateswara Rao, Suresh Maddila, Nagaraju Kerru, Sreekantha B. Jonnalagadda

“…The present work unveils a promising and environmentally friendly approach for synthesizing phenyl-pyrazolo-quinolinone scaffolds with higher yields (93–97%), selectivity, efficiency, using mild reaction conditions, no need for chromatographic separation, short reaction times, catalyst recovery and reuse for a minimum of seven cycles is possible without causing a notable reduction in product yields. …”
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Integrated energy trading algorithm for source-grid-load-storage energy system based on distributed machine learning by Zhiwei Cui, Changming Mo, Qideng Luo, Chunli Zhou

“…The proposed method uses a dynamic network to balance communication load among servers while solving the hidden state vector errors that cannot be corrected timely due to static network isomorphism. Compared with other methods with a sensitivity of 25%, the sensitivity level of the improved algorithm was above 75%. …”
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