Femtosecond laser polishing of pure copper surfaces with perpendicular incidence by Emmanuel Loubère, Nada Kraiem, Aofei Mao, Sébastien Preaud, Andrzej Kusiak, Amélie Veillère, Jean-François Silvain, Yong Feng Lu

“…With a two-step processing strategy, composed of coarse and fine polishing steps, surfaces with Sa < 400 nm were achieved, representing a 98% reduction from the high roughness of 15 μm on initial surfaces. …”
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Continuous Fabrication of Wide-Tip Microstructures for Bio-Inspired Dry Adhesives via Tip Inking Process by Sung Ho Lee, Cheol Woo Park, Moon Kyu Kwak

“…In this paper, we report a new method for continuous fabrication of dry adhesives composed of microstructures with mushroom-shaped ends. …”
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Basal Cell Ameloblastoma of Mandible: A Rare Case Report with Review by Hemant Shakya, Vikram Khare, Nilesh Pardhe, Ena Mathur, Mansi Chouhan

“…Basal cell ameloblastoma is believed to be the rarest histologic subtype in which the tumor is composed of more primitive cells and has even fewer features of peripheral palisading. …”
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Enabling Lambertian-Like Warm White Organic Light-Emitting Diodes with a Yellow Phosphor Embedded Flexible Film by Cheng-Chang Chen, Huang-Yu Lin, Cheng-Hung Li, Jin-Han Wu, Zong-Yi Tu, Li-Ling Lee, Ming-Shan Jeng, Chien-Chung Lin, Jwo-Huei Jou, Hao-Chung Kuo

“…The flexible film is composed of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and fabricated by using spin coating followed by peeling technology. …”
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Synthesis and application of modified membranes for efficient cationic and anionic dye elimination by Meriem Mansour Hafifi, Abdelkader Chougui, Mohammed Amin Chemrak, Aissa Belouatek

“… This study focuses on developing ceramic ultrafiltration membranes using locally sourced kaolin clay and feldspar. An active layer composed of graphene and alkoxide is added to enhance the performance of these clay supports. …”
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Sequence of Routes to Chaos in a Lorenz-Type System by Fangyan Yang, Yongming Cao, Lijuan Chen, Qingdu Li

“…This paper reports a new bifurcation pattern observed in a Lorenz-type system. The pattern is composed of a main bifurcation route to chaos (n=1) and a sequence of sub-bifurcation routes with n=3,4,5,…,14 isolated sub-branches to chaos. …”
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Synthesis of MnO2 Microfiber with Secondary Nanostructure by Cotton Template by Huan-qin Wang, Ming-bo Zheng, Jin-hua Chen, Guang-bin Ji, Jie-ming Cao

“…At low concentration of KMnO4, the microfiber was composed of MnO2 nanorods with single crystal structure. …”
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Effects of Treated Cow Dung Addition on the Strength of Carbon-Bearing Iron Ore Pellets by Qing-min Meng, Jia-xin Li, Tie-jun Chun, Xiao-feng He, Ru-fei Wei, Ping Wang, Hong-ming Long

“…The influence of cow dung addition on the strength of carbon-bearing iron ore pellets composed of cow dung, iron ore, anthracite, and bentonite was investigated, the quality of green and dry pellet was evaluated based on FTIR analysis, and the mechanism of strength variation of the reduced pellets was investigated by analysing the phase composition and microstructure using XRD and SEM. …”
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High-achieving adults’ opinions on their educational lives and suggestions about educating gifted students by Özlenen Özdiyar Gedik, Abdul Samet Demirkaya, Eda Gürlen

“…The study group was composed of eight high-achieving individuals from Turkey. …”
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A Case of Giant Bladder Carcinosarcoma without Submucosal Invasion by Masayoshi Zaitsu, Mariko Yamanoi, Koji Mikami, Akiko Tonooka, Toshimasa Uekusa, Takumi Takeuchi

“…Histology of the tumor was diagnosed as carcinosarcoma with no submucosal invasion composed of biphasic malignant epithelial and mesenchymal cells. …”
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Primary Small Cell Carcinoma of the Vagina by Rafael Oliveira, Mayra Coelho Bócoli, João Carlos Saldanha, Eddie Fernando Candido Murta, Rosekeila Simões Nomelini

“…A biopsy showed a small cell undifferentiated carcinoma composed of epithelial cells with round nuclei, oval or elongated, hyperchromatic nuclei, with little distinct nucleoli, and scarce cytoplasm. …”
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Forecasting Uranium Resource Price Prediction by Extreme Learning Machine with Empirical Mode Decomposition and Phase Space Reconstruction by Qisheng Yan, Shitong Wang, Bingqing Li

“…In the second stage, the IMFs are composed into three subseries based on the fine-to-coarse reconstruction rule. …”
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A ChIP-Seq Data Analysis Pipeline Based on Bioconductor Packages by Seung-Jin Park, Jong-Hwan Kim, Byung-Ha Yoon, Seon-Young Kim

“…Here, we provide an example of a streamlined workflow for ChIP-Seq data analysis composed of only four packages in Bioconductor: dada2, QuasR, mosaics, and ChIPseeker. …”
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A Mobile Detector for Muon Measurements Based on Two Different Techniques by B. Mitrica, D. Stanca, M. Petcu, I. M. Brancus, R. Margineanu, A. Apostu, C. Gomoiu, A. Saftoiu, G. Toma, H. Rebel, A. Haungs, O. Sima, A. Gherghel-Lascu, M. Niculescu-Oglinzanu

“…Its first configuration, not used in the present, has been composed of two 1 m2 scintillator plates, each viewed by wave length shifters and read out by two Photomultiplier Tubes (PMTs). …”
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PROCESSING OF GYPSUM-BEARING MATERIALS IN THE BRONZE AGE GONUR DEPE ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE (SOUTHEAST KARAKUM DESERT) by L.Ya. Kabanova, A.M. Yuminov, I.A. Blinov

“…The technology of preparation of an ancient binder mixture used in construction work at the Gonur Depe archeological site (Southeast Karakum desert) is interpreted on the basis of study of its mineral composition and textural-structural features. The material is composed of thin prismatic-angular and fibrous aggregates of reduced gypsum (60–70 %) and β-bassanite (3 %) enclosed in clay-siliceous matrix (20–30 %). …”
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Ca OXALATES IN LICHEN GENUS CLADONIA ON DUMPS OF THE SUGUR COPPER DEPOSIT (SOUTH URALS) by E.E. Artemenko, M.A. Rassomakhin, P.V. Khvorov, K.A. Filipрova

“…The lichen thalli contains inclusions of minerals, which compose the dump, and spherical particles, which are associated with the activity of the KCS and which contain significant concentrations of heavy metals.…”
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Research on an Ultrasonic Cutting Device Based on 0Cr18Ni9 by San Hongjun, Yongxia Zhang, Mingfang Chen, Hao Wu

“…For precision machining of 0Cr18Ni9, a two-dimensional ultrasonic cutting device is studied, which is composed of an elliptical ultrasonic vibration-working head and a two-dimensional high-power ultrasonic driving system. …”
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Bistable Nonlinear Energy Sink Using Magnets and Linear Springs: Application to Structural Seismic Control by Y. Y. Chen, W. Zhao, C. Y. Shen, Z. C. Qian

“…In this paper, a magnetic bistable nonlinear energy sink (BNES) that composed of a guided moving mass attached with linear springs and permanent magnets is proposed. …”
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Mechanistic and Experimental Aspects of the Structural Characterization of Some Model and Real Systems by Nitrogen Sorption and Mercury Porosimetry by Carlos Felipe, Fernando Rojas, Isaac Kornhauser, Matthias Thommes, Giorgio Zgrablich

“…The experimental pore systems examined consisted of two substrates: (a) a globular solid composed of monodisperse silica spheres in a perfect rhombohedral arrangement and (b) a controlled pore glass solid. …”
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Chemical Composition, Antioxidant Potential, and Antibacterial Activity of Essential Oil Cones of Tunisian Cupressus sempervirens by Aicha Ben Nouri, Wissal Dhifi, Sana Bellili, Hanene Ghazghazi, Chedia Aouadhi, Ameur Chérif, Mohamed Hammami, Wissem Mnif

“…Results showed that this essential oil was mainly composed of monoterpene hydrocarbons (65%) with α-pinene as the major constituent (47.51%). …”
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