Chemical Composition and Microbial Contaminants of Poha Beer: A Local Nonalcoholic Beverage in the Bolgatanga Municipality, Ghana by Julius T. Dongdem, James Abugri, Clement A. Asakedola

“…A refractometer, a flame photometer and an atomic absorption spectrometer were used for the elemental analysis. …”
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Enhanced Visible Light Photocatalytic Activity of Mesoporous Anatase TiO2 Codoped with Nitrogen and Chlorine by Xiuwen Cheng, Xiujuan Yu, Zipeng Xing, Lisha Yang

“…XPS revealed that nitrogen and chlorine elements were incorporated into the lattice of TiO2 through substituting the lattice oxygen atoms. DRS exhibited that the light absorption of N-Cl-TiO2 in visible region was greatly improved. …”
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Hydrogenated Nanocrystalline Silicon Thin Films Prepared by Hot-Wire Method with Varied Process Pressure by V. S. Waman, A. M. Funde, M. M. Kamble, M. R. Pramod, R. R. Hawaldar, D. P. Amalnerkar, V. G. Sathe, S. W. Gosavi, S. R. Jadkar

“…A variety of techniques, including Raman spectroscopy, low angle X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM), and UV-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy, were used to characterize these films for structural and optical properties. …”
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New Method of Depositing the Nanostructured Amorphous Carbon for Carbon Based Solar Cell Applications by A. N. Fadzilah, K. Dayana, M. Rusop

“…The nanostructured a-C thin film deposited at higher temperature possesses lower transmittance due to higher absorption as a result of the higher content of sp2-bonded carbon atoms. From Tauc’s plot, optical band gap () was determined, and decreased as deposition temperature increased (1.2 eV, 1.0 eV, 0.7 eV). …”
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Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Prepared with Mexican Pre-Hispanic Dyes by Mario Alberto Sánchez-García, Xim Bokhimi, Sergio Velázquez Martínez, Antonio Esteban Jiménez-González

“…Carmine is an organometallic dye with two molecules of carminic acid and one atom of aluminum in its structure; it is obtained by the interaction of the carminic acid from Nocheztli with aluminum salts. …”
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Electronic Structure and Magnetic Coupling of Pure and Mg-Doped KCuF3 by Fausto Cargnoni, Simone Cenedese, Paolo Ghigna, Mario Italo Trioni, Marco Scavini

“…Residual spin polarization is found also on fluorine atoms, in agreement with literature results. We found a complete orbital ordering at Cu sites: in the copper reference frame dxy, dyz, dxz, and dz2 orbitals contain about 2 electrons each, while the dx2-y2 orbital is only partially filled. …”
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Morphology and properties of hollow fiber membrane prepared under different air gap lengths by AIDA ISMA MOHAMAD IDRIS, Syeda Hina Iqbal, Rozita Omar, Hazmin Mansor

“…The dope extrusion rate, coagulation bath temperature, bore fluid ratio, and take-up velocity were set at 4 rpm, 30°C, 1.5 ml/hr, and 2 m/min, respectively. Atomic force microscopy determined the pore size distribution, roughness, and membrane thickness. …”
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Performance of Rejuvenated Asphalt and Mixtures with Waste Engine Oil Bottom and Liquid Styrene-Butadiene Rubber by Gang Zhou, Yi Tian, Liang Gong, Zhansheng Pang, Tianquan Chen

“…By testing the basic physical properties of asphalt and using the high- and low-temperature rheology, differential scanning calorimetry, Fourier infrared spectroscopy, and atomic force microscopy (AFM) tests, the index and microstructure changes of asphalt before and after aging and regeneration, from macrolevels and microlevels, were studied, along with the high- and low-temperature performance and water stability of the rejuvenated asphalt mixture. …”
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Chitin Hydrogels Prepared at Various Lithium Chloride/N,N-Dimethylacetamide Solutions by Water Vapor-Induced Phase Inversion by Khoa Dang Nguyen, Takaomi Kobayashi

“…As for viscoelasticity, the complex modulus of the chitin hydrogels indicated that the increment of the LiCl concentration up to 7% formed the tight hydrogels. Atomic force microscopic (AFM) image revealed the formation of the entanglement network and larger domains of the aggregated chitin segments. …”
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Leiomodin creates a leaky cap at the pointed end of actin-thin filaments. by Dmitri Tolkatchev, Garry E Smith, Lauren E Schultz, Mert Colpan, Gregory L Helms, John R Cort, Carol C Gregorio, Alla S Kostyukova

“…Using nuclear magnetic resonance data and molecular dynamics simulations, we generated the first atomic structural model of the binding interface between the tropomyosin-binding site of cardiac leiomodin and the N-terminus of striated muscle tropomyosin. …”
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A new -means singular value decomposition method based on self-adaptive matching pursuit and its application in fault diagnosis of rolling bearing weak fault by Hongchao Wang, Wenliao Du

“…To overcome the above-mentioned shortcomings of K -means singular value decomposition, a new K -means singular value decomposition sparse representation method based on traditional K -means singular value decomposition method was proposed in this article, which uses the sparse adaptive matching pursuit algorithm and an iterative method based on the minimum similarity of atomic structure. The effectiveness and advantage of the proposed method were verified through simulation and experiment.…”
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Bireysellik ve Toplumsallık Bağlamında Modern Bireyin Anlam Arayışı by Hüseyin Adem Tülüce

“…Bireysellik ise insanın anlam arayışında önemli bir yere sahip olan diğer insanlarla olan ilişkisini yok sayarak onu atomize eder. İnsanın anlam arayışı, bireyin kendine gelmesi ve kendinden geçmesi çerçevesinde gerçekleşir. …”
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Comprehension of Postmetallization Annealed MOCVD-TiO2 on (NH4)2S Treated III-V Semiconductors by Ming-Kwei Lee, Chih-Feng Yen

“…The electrical characteristics can be further improved by the postmetallization annealing, which causes hydrogen atomic ion to passivate defects and the grain boundary of polycrystalline TiO2 films. …”
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Tritium Breeding Performance Analysis of HCLL Blanket Fusion Reactor Employing Vanadium Alloy (V-5Cr-5Ti) as First Wall Material by Indah Rosidah Maemunah, Zaki Su’ud, Abdul Waris, Dwi Irwanto

“…Meanwhile, the amount of atomic displacement, hydrogen, and helium production are around 22.31 appm, 765.55 appm, and 281.57 appm, respectively. …”
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Calculation of the molecular properties of five cephalosporins: cephradine, cephalexin, cefadroxil, cefprozil and ceftobiprole by Elso Manuel Cruz Cruz, Eslhey María Sánchez Domínguez

“…The molecular properties were calculated following the density functional theory. The densities of atomic charges and the frontier orbitals were analyzed. …”
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Impact of ionomers on porous Fe-N-C catalysts for alkaline oxygen reduction in gas diffusion electrodes by Jinjie Zhu, Angus Pedersen, Simon Kellner, Robert D. Hunter, Jesús Barrio

“…Iron coordinated in nitrogen-doped carbon (Fe-N-C) single atom electrocatalysts offer the best Pt-free ORR activities. …”
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Spectral characterization and quality assessment of organic compost for agricultural purposes by Anchal Sharma, Rajiv Ganguly, Ashok Kumar Gupta

“…The heavy metal analysis of compost material was analyzed through atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS). The study also focused on the determination of the qualitative nature of compost by utilizing an indexing method based on Fertilizer Control Order (FCO) Standards. …”
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Rheological and Morphological Characterization of Styrene-Isoprene-Styrene (SIS) Modified Asphalt Binder by Mithil Mazumder, Anwar Siddique, Raju Ahmed, Soon-Jae Lee, Moon-Sup Lee

“…In order to have a depth understanding on the SIS binder at micro level, micro-morphological observations were conducted using optical microscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM), environmental scanning electron microscopy (ESEM), and ellipsometry. …”
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Development of Wood Apple Shell (Feronia acidissima) Powder Biosorbent and Its Application for the Removal of Cd(II) from Aqueous Solution by Ch. Suresh, D. Harikisore Kumar Reddy, Yapati Harinath, B. Ramesh Naik, K. Seshaiah, Annareddy V. Ramana Reddy

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Adsorptive Applications of Montmorillonite Clay for the Removal of Ag(I) and Cu(II) from Aqueous Medium by Naser M. Alandis, Waffa Mekhamer, Omar Aldayel, Jameel A. A. Hefne, Manawwer Alam

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