Proposed Relationships Between Climate, Biological Soil Crusts, Human Health, and in Arid Ecosystems by Marieke L. Ramsey, Daniel R. Kollath, Anita J. Antoninka, Bridget M. Barker

“…These communities are composed of lichens, bryophytes, cyanobacteria, fungi, liverworts, and other microorganisms. …”
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Effect of fiber orientation on mechanical properties of JUCO fiber reinforced epoxy composites by Md Rion Islam, Md Foisal Hossain, Muhammed Sohel Rana, Md Shafiul Ferdous

“…JUCO is a relatively new, robust fabric composed of a mixture of cotton and jute fiber in an equal weight ratio, where jute yarn is used as weft and cotton thread is used as wrap. …”
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Structural Variation of Element and Human Disease by Songmi Kim, Chun-Sung Cho, Kyudong Han, Jungnam Lee

“…Among them is Alu element which is the most abundant element, composing ~10% of the human genome. The element emerged in the primate genome 65 million years ago and has since propagated successfully in the human and non-human primate genomes. …”
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Clinical Anxiety among Saudi Postgraduate Pediatric Dentistry Students in Jeddah City by Manal Almalik, Abeer Alnowaiser, Omar El Meligy, Jamal Sallam, Yusra Balkheyour

“…The questionnaire is composed of 55 questions that investigated demographic data, academic and clinical related situations including investigations, diagnosis, treatment, and complications in treatment. …”
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Evolution of CFD numerical methods and physical models towards a full discrete approach by Caltagirone, Jean-Paul

“…The Galilean frame of reference is replaced by a local frame of reference composed of an oriented segment where the acceleration of the material medium or of a particle is defined. …”
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Inelastic Parametric Analysis of Seismic Responses of Multistorey Bidirectional Eccentric Structure by Yu-ping Kuang, Xin-liang Jiang, Nan Jiang

“…Based on a simplified multistorey bidirectional eccentric model composed of bidirectional lateral load-resisting members, a general law is proposed for three-stage natural frequency variation behaviour from elastic stage to inelastic stage of eccentric frame structures with different layers. …”
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Analysis of Coupled Coordination and Driving Factors of Urbanization, Ecosystem Services, and Human Well-Being in the High and Coarse Sediment Yield in the Middle Yellow River by Hong Cao, Qiuchen Zhu, Hua Bai, Hongzhou He, Chunli Liu

“…Taking the cities with high and coarse sediment yield in the middle reaches of the Yellow River as the research objects, this study constructed a complex analytical framework composed of urbanization, ecosystem service value (ESV), and human well-being (HBW) subsystems. …”
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Development of a Voltage Compensation Type Active SFCL and Its Application for Transient Performance Enhancement of a PMSG-Based Wind Turbine System by Lei Chen, Hongkun Chen, Jun Yang, Huiwen He

“…The SFCL prototype is composed of a three-phase air-core superconducting transformer and a voltage source converter (VSC) integrated with supercapacitor energy storage. …”
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Maximum-Power Stirling-like Heat Engine with a Harmonically Confined Brownian Particle by Irene Prieto-Rodríguez, Antonio Prados, Carlos A. Plata

“…We design a Stirling-like heat engine, composed of two isothermal and two isochoric branches, by controlling both the stiffness of the harmonic trap and the temperature of the bath. …”
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Abyssal deposit feeders are secondary consumers of detritus and rely on nutrition derived from microbial communities in their guts by Sonia Romero-Romero, Lee C. Miller, Jesse A. Black, Brian N. Popp, Jeffrey C. Drazen

“…Our results suggest that detritus forms the base of the food web and gut contents of deposit feeders have a trophic position consistent with primary consumers and are largely composed of a living biomass of heterotrophic prokaryotes. …”
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Role of Rewards Management on Employee Performance in the Banking Sector. by Alex, Kanyesime

“…Simple random sampling technique and purposive sampling were used to select a sample size of 129 respondents of which it was composed of management members and employees. Data collection methods used was questionnaire and interviews. …”
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The Relationship between Records Management and Service Delivery in Research: Acase Study of Kabwohe Joint Research Centre. by Edrida, Beinomugisha

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Investigating Use of Crushed Glass as Partial Replacement of Sand to Improve Finish Mortar Strength. by Ashaba, Dennis

“…The chemical composition of mortars indicates that they are most commonly composed of Calcium oxide and silicon dioxide. The high calcium oxide content and low magnesium oxide content probably mean that lime was provided from calcareous stones rather than dolomitic.…”
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Factors Influencing Solid Waste Management in Nansana Municipal Division Council- Nansana Municipality, Wakiso District-Uganda by Evan, Nuwamanya, Topher, Byamukama

“…While 14.8% (40/272) had low knowledge on proper solid waste management. 73.5% (200/272) of the waste is generated in form of food remains while solid waste in form of plastics and raw vegetables compose 52.2% (142/272). 84.2% (229/272) store waste before disposing it off but only 40.2% (92/229) of them store it in refuse bins. …”
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Dual-Functional Additives Boost Zinc-Ion Battery Electrolyte over Wide Temperature Range by Zhiqiang Dai, Rungroj Chanajaree, Chengwu Yang, Xueqing Zhang, Manunya Okhawilai, Prasit Pattananuwat, Xinyu Zhang, Guanjie He, Jiaqian Qin

“…Herein, we introduce a pioneering approach by integrating a bifunctional additive composed of ethylene glycol (EG) and sodium gluconate (Ga) into ZnSO4 (ZSO) electrolyte to overcome these obstacles. …”
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Highly sensitive NO2 gas sensors based on heterostructured p-rGO/n-Ga2O3 nanorods by Hsin-Ying Lee, Mu-Ju Wu, Shao-Yu Chu, Ting-Chun Chang, Yi-Feng Tung, Tsung-Han Yeh, Ching-Ting Lee

“…In this study, using a sensing membrane composed of p-type reduced graphene oxide (rGO)-decorated hydrothermally synthesized n-type gallium oxide (Ga2O3) nanorods, nitrogen dioxide (NO2) gas sensors were successfully fabricated. …”
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Hydrothermal decomposition of industrial jarosite in alkaline media: The rate determining step of the process kinetics by González-Ibarra A.A., Nava-Alonso F., Fuentes-Aceituno J.C., Uribe-Salas A.

“…The industrial jarosite is mainly composed by natrojarosite and contains 150 g Ag/t, showing a narrow particle size distribution, as revealed by XRD, fire assay, SEM-EDS and laser-diffraction analysis. …”
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Natural Hybridization Between <i>Quercus crassipes</i> and <i>Q. crassifolia</i> (Fagaceae) Is a Key Process to Ensure the Biodiversity of Their Associated Lichen Community by Leticia Valencia-Cuevas, Jennie Melhado-Carboney, Efraín Tovar-Sánchez

“…The lichen community was composed of 76 species, 27 genera and 14 families. …”
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Rapid Assessment of Exercise State through Athlete’s Urine Using Temperature-Dependent NIRS Technology by Lihe Ding, Lei-ming Yuan, Yiye Sun, Xia Zhang, Jianpeng Li, Zou Yan

“…Human urine, as one of the most important body indicators, is composed of many metabolites, which can provide effective monitoring information for physical conditions. …”
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A Double Resistive–Capacitive Approach for the Analysis of a Hybrid Battery–Ultracapacitor Integration Study by Adrian Chmielewski, Piotr Piórkowski, Krzysztof Bogdziński, Paweł Krawczyk, Jakub Lorencki, Artur Kopczyński, Jakub Możaryn, Ramon Costa-Castelló, Stepan Ozana

“…This study proposes a novel approach to analysing the set of differential equations of a substitute model of HESS and validates a model-based approach to investigate the performance of an HESS composed of a Valve-Regulated Lead Acid (VRLA) Absorbent Glass Mat (AGM) battery and a Maxwell ultracapacitor in a parallel configuration. …”
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