Analysis of Leaching Rate of Heavy Metals from Fly Ash at Varying Leachant pH & Cumulative Liquid to Solid Ratios by Tobby, Micheal Agwe, Sharma, S. N., Pandey, Govind

“…In this study, 5 sets of leaching test columns were packed with an equal quantity of air dried fly ash samples and each of them leached with leachant of pH 5.87, 6.08, 6.41, 6.46 and 7.01 and eluate from each column collected at cumulative liquid to solid (L/S) ratios in l/kg of 0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0. …”
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Modeling the effect of climate change to the potential invasion range of Piper aduncum Linnaeus by J.C. Paquit, R.I.P. Rama

“…The resulting model was highly accurate based on its mean test Area Under Curve that is equal to 0.917. Current prediction shows that suitable areas for Piper are concentrated along the southern portion of Bukidnon. …”
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Development of Gus Dur's perspective religious moderation education module at Ma'had Al-Jami'ah UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang by Shuhadak Shuhadak, Nurul Hikmah, Makhi Ulil Kirom, M Rofik Fitrotulloh

“…This idea is known as the nine main values of Gus Dur including monotheism, humanity, justice, equality, brotherhood, liberation, simplicity, chivalry and local wisdom. …”
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Using Flow 3D Simulation, Multiple Nonlinear Regression Approach, and Artificial Neural Network Approach Approaches to Study the Behavior of Vertical Drop Structures by Shaikhli Hasan Al, Mohammed Sarah Hashim, Al-Khafaji Zainab

“…The “Vertical Drop” is a hydraulic structure widely utilized in irrigation and wastewater collection systems to equalize height differences between channel slopes and the natural terrain. …”
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Global-Mapping-Consistency-Constrained Visual-Semantic Embedding for Interpreting Autonomous Perception Models by Chi Zhang, Meng Yuan, Xiaoning Ma, Ping Wei, Yuanqi Su, Li Li, Yuehu Liu

“…From the perspective of artificial intelligence evaluation, the need to discover and explain the potential shortness of the evaluated intelligent algorithms/systems as well as the need to evaluate the intelligence level of such testees are of equal importance. In this paper, we propose a possible solution to these challenges: Explainable Evaluation for visual intelligence. …”
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Detecting Silent Data Corruptions in Aerospace-Based Computing Using Program Invariants by Junchi Ma, Dengyun Yu, Yun Wang, Zhenbo Cai, Qingxiang Zhang, Cheng Hu

“…Invariants describe certain properties of a program; for example, the value of a variable equals a constant. Radish first extracts invariants at key program points and converts invariants into assertions. …”
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A step forward in enhancing the health-promoting properties of whole tomato as a functional food to lower the impact of non-communicable diseases by Pier Giorgio Natali, Pier Giorgio Natali, Mauro Piantelli, Alessandra Sottini, Margherita Eufemi, Cristina Banfi, Luisa Imberti

“…In this context, a whole tomato food supplement (WTFS), enriched by 2% olive wastewater containing a complex of healthy nutrients with converging biologic activities, has recently been developed, which is superior to those present in tomato commodities or obtained with whole tomato conventional processing methods. WTFS equals the antioxidant activity of N-acetyl-cysteine and interferes with multiple inflammation and cellular transformation-sustaining metabolic pathways. …”
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Simulation Study on Dynamics of Hydraulic Turbines Used in Drilling Engineering by Yijin Zeng, Jin Wang, Shidong Ding, Haobo Zhou, Yanbin Zang, Fangtao Li

“…The simulation results show that, under the action of fluid, when the starting torque of turbine is larger than the external load, the turbine starts to move, the angular velocity increases until it remains constant, the absolute value of impact force decreases, and the impact torque decreases until it is equal to the external load; while the starting torque of turbine is smaller than the external load, the turbine stays still. …”
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Forecasting the Number of the Wounded after an Earthquake Disaster Based on the Continuous Interval Grey Discrete Verhulst Model by Jun Zhang, Tongyuan Wang, Jianpeng Chang, Yan Gou

“…That is, the continuous interval sequence is converted into the kernel and measure sequences with equal information quantity by the interval whitening method, and it is combined with the classical grey discrete Verhulst model, and then the grey discrete Verhulst models of the kernel and measure sequences are presented, respectively. …”
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Influence of the cleaning method employed prior to the use of ionomeric materials in micro filtration of cavities at the cervical level by María Muñoz Estrella, Alexander Cruz Gallegos, Ana del Carmen Armas Vega

“…Results: The analysis performed revealed normality in the data, finding through the Tukey test that all groups are equal, with no difference in treatment and material used. …”
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Walking the line of the double bind: A cross-country comparison on women and men politicians’ self-presentations on social media by Magin Melanie, Haßler Jörg, Larsson Anders Olof, Skogerbø Eli

“…Our study calls for more comparative research into this field, including studies of lower profile politicians and politicians in countries with lower degrees of gender equality.…”
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Development of a Relationship between Pavement Condition Index and International Roughness Index in Rural Road Network by Sasan Adeli, Vahid Najafi moghaddam Gilani, Mohammad Kashani Novin, Ehsan Motesharei, Reza Salehfard

“…In these models, R2 values were found to be acceptable, equal to 0.75, 0.76, and 0.59 for roads with good, fair, and very poor qualities, respectively, indicating a good relationship between IRI and PCI. …”
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Defense against Malicious Users in Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Using Genetic Algorithm by Noor Gul, Ijaz Mansoor Qureshi, Atif Elahi, Imtiaz Rasool

“…Simulation results show that the proposed hard fusion scheme has surpassed the existing hard fusion scheme, equal gain combination (EGC), and maximum gain combination (MGC) schemes by employing GA.…”
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Reducing Inequality through Parental Support: Building Social Resilience in Indonesia’s Indigenous Religious Communities by Novianti Wiwik, Noegroho Agoeng, Saputra Diki, Bunga Maharani Annisa, Lotulung Leviane J.H., Pinky Syalomita Kimberly, Desmiwati Desmiwati

“…It contributes to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 10, advocating for structural changes that promote diversity and social equality.…”
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Quarkonium production in pp and heavy-ion collisions by Song Taesoo, Aichelin Joerg, Zhao Jiaxing, Gossiaux Pol B., Bratkovskaya Elena

“…In heavy-ion collisions quarkonium wavefunction changes with temperature assuming heavy quark potential equals the free energy of heavy quark pair in heat bath. …”
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Clinicomycological Characterization of Superficial Mycoses from a Tertiary Care Hospital in Nepal by Sundar Khadka, Jeevan Bahadur Sherchand, Dinesh Binod Pokharel, Bharat Mani Pokhrel, Shyam Kumar Mishra, Subhash Dhital, Basista Rijal

“…Thus both the methods added with clinical findings are equally important to establish superficial mycosis.…”
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Identification of Prior Factors Influencing the Mode Choice of Short Distance Travel by Ming Li, Guohua Song, Ying Cheng, Lei Yu

“…Short distance trips are defined as any trips shorter than or equal to 5 kilometers, which have been found to be a big contributor to the traffic congestion problem. …”
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Computational and Biological Comparisons of Plant Steroids as Modulators of Inflammation through Interacting with Glucocorticoid Receptor by Mohamed A. Morsy, Snehal S. Patel, Azza A. K. El-Sheikh, Jignasa K. Savjani, Anroop B. Nair, Jigar N. Shah, Katharigatta N. Venugopala

“…Searching for compounds that are as equally efficient as glucocorticoids, but with less side effects, the current study compared plant steroids, namely, glycyrrhetinic acid, guggulsterone, boswellic acid, withaferin A, and diosgenin with the classical glucocorticoid, fluticasone. …”
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Efficient Iris Recognition Based on Optimal Subfeature Selection and Weighted Subregion Fusion by Ying Chen, Yuanning Liu, Xiaodong Zhu, Fei He, Hongye Wang, Ning Deng

“…The experimental results, on three public and renowned iris databases (CASIA-V3 Interval, Lamp, andMMU-V1), demonstrate that our proposed methods outperform some of the existing methods in terms of correct recognition rate, equal error rate, and computation complexity.…”
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How to publish a new fungal species, or name, version 3.0 by M. Catherine Aime, Andrew N. Miller, Takayuki Aoki, Konstanze Bensch, Lei Cai, Pedro W. Crous, David L. Hawksworth, Kevin D. Hyde, Paul M. Kirk, Robert Lücking, Tom W. May, Elaine Malosso, Scott A. Redhead, Amy Y. Rossman, Marc Stadler, Marco Thines, Andrey M. Yurkov, Ning Zhang, Conrad L. Schoch

“…In the meantime the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICNafp) has changed from its former name (the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature) and introduced new formal requirements for valid publication of species scientific names, including the separation of provisions specific to Fungi and organisms treated as fungi in a new Chapter F. Equally transformative have been changes in the data collection, data dissemination, and analytical tools available to mycologists. …”
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