Folk Medicine, Folk Healing by Mustafa SEVER

“…In such an environment of belief, the visible diseases caused by material reasons were generally cured with products obtained from plants, mines and animals in the region or drugs that were made out of their combinations. …”
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Compressive Strength of Fly-Ash-Based Geopolymer Concrete by Gene Expression Programming and Random Forest by Mohsin Ali Khan, Shazim Ali Memon, Furqan Farooq, Muhammad Faisal Javed, Fahid Aslam, Rayed Alyousef

“…The influential parameters that are considered as input variables for modelling are curing temperature T, curing time t, age of the specimen A, the molarity of NaOH solution M, percent SiO2 solids to water ratio % S/W in sodium silicate (Na2SiO3) solution, percent volume of total aggregate ( % AG), fine aggregate to the total aggregate ratio F/AG, sodium oxide (Na2O) to water ratio N/W in Na2SiO3 solution, alkali or activator to the FA ratio AL/FA, Na2SiO3 to NaOH ratio Ns/No, percent plasticizer (% P), and extra water added as percent FA EW%. …”
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Frost resistance and micro mechanism of metakaolin and polypropylene fiber modified coastal cement soil by Xukun Ma, Pengfei Wei, Ping Jiang, Haoqing Xu, Na Li, Sijia Qian, Wei Wang, Guoxiong Mei

“…In addition, the incorporation of PP fiber considerably enhanced both UCS and STS in metakaolin-modified cementitious soil (FMCS). At curing ages of 7 and 28 days, the UCS and STS of FMCS achieved their highest values with 0.5% fiber content, indicating that the optimal PP fiber dosage was 0.5%. …”
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Chemical structure–property relationships of photocurable monomers/macromers: Potential binder candidates for ceramic/metal vat photopolymerization by Setareh Zakeri, Antonia Ressler, Piie Konnunaho, Teemu Sandblom, Joshua Cunningham, Milla Rinne, Matti Järveläinen, Anastasia Elias, Erkka J. Frankberg, Erkki Levänen

“…The compression tests showed that an excess of ethylene oxide groups in the chemical structure of used monomers introduces a higher degree of flexibility and softness to the cured structure, leading to a reduction in mechanical properties. …”
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From the Cytoplasm into the Nucleus—Hepatitis B Virus Travel and Genome Repair by Johan Ringlander, Gustaf E. Rydell, Michael Kann

“…Understanding the intracellular transport and genome repair mechanisms of HBV is crucial for developing new drugs, which—in combination with immune modulators—may contribute to potential cures. This review will explore the current knowledge of HBV intracytoplasmic and nuclear transport, as well as genome repair processes, while drawing comparisons to other viruses with nuclear replication.…”
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The Effects of Freezing on the Processing Characteristics and Palatability Attributes of Fresh Pork Legs by B. G. Sapp, Dwain D. Johnson, Larry E. Eubanks, Joel H. Brendemuhl

“…Brendemuhl, presents the results of a study to ascertain if de-boning and vacuum packaging of fresh hams for frozen storage had any effect on the processing qualities and oxidative rancidity of the cured ham as compared to the traditional method of freezing and storing of fresh bone-in hams. …”
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Technical studies about the prestressed insulation cylinder of HL-3 tokamak's center-post by Yin Qiu, Ming Li, Xiaolong Liu, Qinghua Ren, Tao Lin, Jian Liu

“…This paper describes the results of the technical studies carried out during the development of the insulation cylinder, including material selection, parameter calculation, enlacing tests and curing tests.…”
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The Mechanical Behavior of Fiber Reinforced PP ECC Beams under Reverse Cyclic Loading by Yaw ChiaHwan, Han JianBo

“…The mechanical properties of FRP reinforced PP ECC beams and coupon RC beam under reverse cyclic load controlled by displacement are investigated. Curing ages, reinforcement ratio, and volume fraction of PP fiber are parameters under survey. …”
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The Effects of Freezing on the Processing Characteristics and Palatability Attributes of Fresh Pork Legs by B. G. Sapp, Dwain D. Johnson, Larry E. Eubanks, Joel H. Brendemuhl

“…Brendemuhl, presents the results of a study to ascertain if de-boning and vacuum packaging of fresh hams for frozen storage had any effect on the processing qualities and oxidative rancidity of the cured ham as compared to the traditional method of freezing and storing of fresh bone-in hams. …”
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Global Practice Patterns and Variations in the Medical and Surgical Management of Non- Obstructive Azoospermia: Results of a World-Wide Survey, Guidelines and Expert Recommendation... by Amarnath Rambhatla, Rupin Shah, Imad Ziouziou, Priyank Kothari, Gianmaria Salvio, Murat Gul, Taha Hamoda, Parviz Kavoussi, Widi Atmoko, Tuncay Toprak, Ponco Birowo, Edmund Ko, Mohamed Arafa, Ramy Abou Ghayda, Vilvapathy Senguttuvan Karthikeyan, Giorgio Ivan Russo, Germar-Michael Pinggera, Eric Chung, Ahmed M. Harraz, Marlon Martinez, Nguyen Ho Vinh Phuoc, Nicholas Tadros, Ramadan Saleh, Missy Savira, Giovanni M. Colpi, Wael Zohdy, Edoardo Pescatori, Hyun Jun Park, Shinichiro Fukuhara, Akira Tsujimura, Cesar Rojas-Cruz, Angelo Marino, Siu King Mak, Edouard Amar, Wael Ibrahim, Puneet Sindhwani, Naif Alhathal, Gian Maria Busetto, Manaf Al Hashimi, Ahmed El-Sakka, Asci Ramazan, Fotios Dimitriadis, Massimiliano Timpano, Davor Jezek, Baris Altay, Daniel Suslik Zylbersztejn, Michael YC Wong, Du Geon Moon, Christine Wyns, Safar Gamidov, Hamed Akhavizadegan, Alessandro Franceschelli, Kaan Aydos, Nguyen Quang, Shedeed Ashour, Adel Al Dayel, Mohammed S. Al-Marhoon, Sava Micic, Saleh Binsaleh, Alayman Hussein, Haitham Elbardisi, Taymour Mostafa, Jonathan Ramsay, Athanasios Zachariou, Islam Fathy Soliman Abdelrahman, Osvaldo Rajmil, Arif Kalkanli, Juan Manuel Corral Molina, Kadir Bocu, Gede Wirya Kusuma Duarsa, Gökhan Çeker, Ege Can Serefoglu, Fahmi Bahar, Nazim Gherabi, Shinnosuke Kuroda, Abderrazak Bouzouita, Ahmet Gudeloglu, Erman Ceyhan, Mohamed Saeed Mohamed Hasan, Muhammad Ujudud Musa, Ahmad Motawi, Chak-Lam Cho, Hisanori Taniguchi, Christopher Chee Kong Ho, Jesus Fernando Solorzano Vazquez, Shingai Mutambirwa, Nur Dokuzeylul Gungor, Marion Bendayan, Carlo Giulioni, Aykut Baser, Marco Falcone, Luca Boeri, Gideon Blecher, Alireza Kheradmand, Tamilselvi Sethupathy, Ricky Adriansjah, Nima Narimani, Charalampos Konstantinidis, Tuan Thanh Nguyen, Andrian Japari, Parisa Dolati, Keerti Singh, Cevahir Ozer, Selcuk Sarikaya, Nadia Sheibak, Ndagijimana Jean Bosco, Mehmet Serkan Özkent, Sang Thanh Le, Ioannis Sokolakis, Darren Katz, Ryan Smith, Manh Nguyen Truong, Tan V. Le, Zhongwei Huang, Muslim Dogan Deger, Umut Arslan, Gokhan Calik, Giorgio Franco, Ayman Rashed, Oguzhan Kahraman, Sotiris Andreadakis, Rosadi Putra, Giancarlo Balercia, Kareim Khalafalla, Rossella Cannarella, Anh Đặng Tuấn, Amr El Meliegy, Birute Zilaitiene, Marlene Lizbeth Zamora Ramirez, Filippo Giacone, Aldo E. Calogero, Konstantinos Makarounis, Sunil Jindal, Bac Nguyen Hoai, Ravi Banthia, Marcelo Rodriguez Peña, Dharani Moorthy, Aram Adamyan, Deniz Kulaksiz, Hussein Kandil, Nikolaos Sofikitis, Ciro Salzano, Andreas Jungwirth, Surendra Reddy Banka, Tiago Cesar Mierzwa, Tahsin Turunç, Divyanu Jain, Armen Avoyan, Pietro Salacone, Ateş Kadıoğlu, Chirag Gupta, Haocheng Lin, Iman Shamohammadi, Nasser Mogharabian, Trenton Barrett, Yavuz Onur Danacıoğlu, Andrea Crafa, Salima Daoud, Vineet Malhotra, Abdulmalik Almardawi, Osama Mohamed Selim, Mohamad Moussa, Saeid Haghdani, Mesut Berkan Duran, Yannic Kunz, Mirko Preto, Elena Eugeni, Thang Nguyen, Ahmed Rashad Elshahid, Seso Sulijaya Suyono, Dyandra Parikesit, Essam Nada, Eduardo Gutiérrez Orozco, Florence Boitrelle, Nguyen Thi Minh Trang, Mounir Jamali, Raju Nair, Mikhail Ruzaev, Franco Gadda, Charalampos Thomas, Raphael Henrique Ferreira, Umit Gul, Serena Maruccia, Ajay Kanbur, Ella Kinzikeeva, Saad Mohammed Abumelha, Raghavender Kosgi, Fatih Gokalp, Mohammad Ayodhia Soebadi, Gustavo Marquesine Paul, Hesamoddin Sajadi, Deepak Gupte, Rafael F. Ambar, Emrullah Sogutdelen, Karun Singla, Ari Basukarno, Shannon Hee Kyung Kim, Mohammad Ali Sadighi Gilani, Koichi Nagao, Sakti Ronggowardhana Brodjonegoro, Andri Rezano, Mohamed Elkhouly, Rossella Mazzilli, Hasan M. A. Farsi, Hung Nguyen Ba, Hamed Alali, Dimitrios Kafetzis, Tran Quang Tien Long, Sami Alsaid, Hoang Bao Ngoc Cuong, Knigavko Oleksandr, Akhmad Mustafa, Herik Acosta, Hrishikesh Pai, Bahadır Şahin, Eko Arianto, Colin Teo, Sanjay Prakash Jayaprakash, Rinaldo Indra Rachman, Mustafa Gurkan Yenice, Omar Sefrioui, Shivam Priyadarshi, Marko Tanic, Noor Kareem Alfatlaw, Fikri Rizaldi, Ranjit B. Vishwakarma, George Kanakis, Dinesh Thomas Cherian, Joe Lee, Raisa Galstyan, Hakan Keskin, Janan Wurzacher, Doddy Hami Seno, Bambang S Noegroho, Ria Margiana, Qaisar Javed, Fabrizio Castiglioni, Raman Tanwar, Ana Puigvert, Coşkun Kaya, Medianto Purnomo, Chadi Yazbeck, Azwar Amir, Edson Borges, Marina Bellavia, Isaac Ardianson Deswanto, Vinod KV, Giovanni Liguori, Dang Hoang Minh, Kashif Siddiqi, Fulvio Colombo, Armand Zini, Niket Patel, Selahittin Çayan, Ula Al-kawaz, Maged Ragab, Guadalupe Hernández Hebrard, Jean de la Rosette, Ozan Efesoy, Ivan Hoffmann, Thiago Afonso Teixeira, Barış Saylam, Daniela Delgadillo, Ashok Agarwal

Effect of Initial Backfill Temperature on the Deformation Behavior of Early Age Cemented Paste Backfill That Contains Sodium Silicate by Aixiang Wu, Yong Wang, Bo Zhou, Jiahua Shen

“…Results show that the stress-strain relationship and the modulus of elasticity behavior of CPB are significantly affected by the curing time and initial temperature of CPB. Additionally, the relationship between the modulus of elasticity and unconfined compressive strength (UCS) and the degree of hydration was evaluated and discussed. …”
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Over Accumulation or Investment Gap? by Kersten Kellermann, Carsten-Henning Schlag

“…Abstract The fact that long-term interest rates are below the GDP growth rates in economies like Switzerland, Germany and the USA is often diagnosed as over-accumulation, which can be cured by an increase in debt-financed government consumption. …”
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New Therapeutic Approaches for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis may Rise from the Cholinergic Anti-Inflammatory Pathway and Antinociceptive Pathway by Xiao Hua Pan, Jianxin Zhang, Xiaowei Yu, Ling Qin, Ligeng Kang, Peng Zhang

“…Due to the complex etiology of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), it is difficult to be completely cured at the current stage although many approaches have been applied in clinics, especially the wide application of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs). …”
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HIGH STRENGTH-GEOPOLYMER BUILDING MATERIAL by LUCIAN PAUNESCU, ENIKÖ VOLCEANOV, BOGDAN-VALENTIN PAUNESCU

“… New geopolymer concrete with high mechanical strength - 58.9 MPa after 28 days of curing - was experimentally made under environmental friendly and economic conditions. …”
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Hypopigmented Mycosis Fungoides in Type V Skin: A Report of 5 Cases by Ranthilaka R. Ranawaka, Priyanka H. Abeygunasekara, M. V. Chandu de Silva

“…In tropical climate, exposure to natural sunlight possibly cured the lesions on sun-exposed areas at early stage of onset. …”
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Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Shale Ceramsite Concrete: Experimental Study on the Influence Law due to Microencapsulated Phase-Change Material Content and Phase-Change Cycle... by Weihua Ding, Lin Zhu, Hu Li, Bin Hou, Fan Yang

“…When the MPCM content reaches 10%, the compressive and tensile strengths of MPCM-LWAC decreased, respectively, by 45.49% and 52.63% than the LWAC without MPCM. (2) Under heating and curing condition, the corresponding maximum specific heat capacity of LWAC with 10% MPCM is 328.35% and 249.50% higher than the LWAC without MPCM, respectively, and the average specific heat capacities increase 71.21% and 44.94%, respectively. (3) The melting enthalpy of MPCM-LWAC is slightly larger than the curing enthalpy, and the difference is more noticeable with the increase of MPCM content. …”
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Fracture toughness and failure mechanism of high performance concrete incorporating carbon nanotubes by Anwar Khitab, Sajjad Ahmad, Rao Arsalan Khushnood, Syed Ali Rizwan, Giuseppe Andrea Ferro, Luciana Restuccia, Mustajab Ali, Imran Mehmood

“…., flexure, splitting tensile and compressive strengths after 3, 7, 28 and 56 days of curing. After having comparison with the control mix cured for 28 days, it was observed that the addition of 0.05 wt% MWCNTs increased the splitting tensile strength by 20.58%, flexural strength by 26.29% and compressive strength by 15.60%. …”
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Cost-Effective Treatment of Hemihydrate Phosphogypsum and Phosphorous Slag as Cemented Paste Backfill Material for Underground Mine by Xilong Xue, Yuxian Ke, Qian Kang, Qinli Zhang, Chongchun Xiao, Fengjian He, Qing Yu

“…The results show that (1) the UCS of CPB increases with the increase of the HPG content and mass fraction, and the addition of 3% quicklime can eliminate CO2, H2S, and SO2 generated from the slurry of CPB-based HPG-PS; (2) the addition of 3% quicklime and 5% cement to the HPG-PS mixtures can offset the strength loss of CPB in the late curing stage; (3) the UCS of the recommended specimen reaches 1.15–3.32 MPa after curing from 7 to 28 days, with their slump values varying from 15 mm to 26 mm, and the bleeding rates between 0.87% and 1.15%, which can meet the technical requirements of mining methods; (4) the UCS of CPB is the result of the cohydration reaction of hemihydrate gypsum (HG) in HPG and active Al2O3 and SiO2 in PS; and (5) the leaching indexes meet Category IV of the Chinese Groundwater Quality Standard (DZ/T 0290-2015). …”
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Influences of superabsorbent polymer (SAP) on the compressive strength and crack-healing ability of self-compacting concrete containing high-volume ground bottom ash by Siwakorn Chitthawornmanee, Harsimranpreet Kaur, Trinh Nhat Ho Tran, Pattharaphon Chindasiriphan, Pitcha Jongvivatsakul, Weerachart Tangchirapat

“…This study investigated the use of superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) as an internal curing and crack-healing material in self-compacting concrete (SCC) made with high-volume ground bottom ash (GBA). …”
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The Influence of Polymerization Type and Reinforcement Method on Flexural Strength of Acrylic Resin by Rodrigo Borges Fonseca, Amanda Vessoni Barbosa Kasuya, Isabella Negro Favarão, Lucas Zago Naves, Márcio Grama Hoeppner

“…Fourteen groups (N=10) were created by the interaction of factors in study: type of resin (self-cured (SC) or heat-cured (HC)) and reinforcement method (industrialized glass fiber (Ind), unidirectional glass fiber (Uni), short glass fiber (Short), unidirectional and short glass fiber (Uni-Short), thermoplastic resin fiber (Tpl), and steel wire (SW)). …”
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