Contaminants in the Urban Environment: Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs)—Part 2 by Yun-Ya Yang, Gurpal S. Toor

“… Pharmaceuticals and personal care products contain a variety of chemical substances that enter household wastewater from bath and shower, sinks, and washers and ultimately find their way into the environment. …”
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Synthesis and Characterization of Ti—MCM-41-Type Mesoporous Molecular Sieves with High Titanium Contents by A.S. Kovalenko, A.S. Korchev, J.V. Chernenko, V.G. Il'in, A.P. Filippov

“…By employing a sodium silicate + titanium tetrabutoxide + trimethylmyristylammonium bromide system, it has been possible to obtain mesoporous titanosilicate Ti–MCM-41-type molecular sieves containing systematically varying titanium contents. …”
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Chloride Adsorption on EDTA Intercalated MnFe-LDHs: Characterization, Performance, and Application by Xue Han

“…The adsorption mechanism involved the complexation of O-containing groups, ion exchange, and electrostatic interaction. …”
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Zymophagy: Selective Autophagy of Secretory Granules by Maria I. Vaccaro

“…This is a novel selective form of autophagy named zymophagy, a cellular process to specifically detect and degrade secretory granules containing activated enzymes before they can digest the organ. …”
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Gut microbiome diversity as adjuvant marker for immune function by Mahdaleny, Febriana Catur Iswanti

“…The lumen of the gut contains numerous entities that should never reach the bloodstream or lymphatic system. …”
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The Quality Management of Arabic Language Education Based on The Quality Management System (SMM) ISO 9001:2015 by Mochamad Iskarim

“…The discussion was focused on elaborating seven principles of SMM ISO 9001: 2015, containing customer focus, leadership, engagement of people, process approach, continuous improvement, evidence-based decision making and management relationship. …”
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Le sanctuaire de Vacuna à Montenero Sabino (localité de Léone, Rieti) à l’aube de la conquête romaine by Lucie Motta

“…Among the various structures discovered, a pit that dates from the end of the 3rd century BCE caught our attention because of the quantity of finds it contained. The pottery assemblage presents a very interesting facies, divided between local traditions, that are little known in the Inner Sabine, and both Roman and Faliscan imports that are better known and widespread. …”
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Application of Prior-knowledge for Intelligent Gear Fault Diagnosis Under Variable Speed Condition by Pan Can, Li Weihua

“…The vibration mechanism analysis of gear transmission system shows that,the vibration response signal of a gear transmission system contains interference components that vary greatly with the speed and cannot reflect the fault information,the fault characteristics in amplitude spectrum of the vibration response signal have less sensitivity to the variation of running speed. …”
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Les mystérieuses antiquités de Prosper Biardot (1805–1873) by Angélique Allaire

“…He made a not terribly flattering reputation for himself in French archaeological circles because of his inconsistent purchases in the domain of gold- and silverwork and his ideas, which found an echo abroad, particularly in Germany, and especially Switzerland in the thinking of philologist Johann Jakob Bachofen. His publications contain contrasting ideas fluctuating between very innovative positions on restorations and now outdated theories on the symbolism of the terracottas, which were part of the trends of the times. …”
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Dust Acoustic Shock Waves in Strongly Coupled Dusty Plasmas with Superthermal Electrons and Ions by Hamid Reza Pakzad

“…We use reductive perturbation method and derive the Kordeweg-de Vries-Burgers (KdV-Burgers) equation in coupled dusty plasmas containing ions and electrons obeying superthermal distribution. …”
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Detection of Dysplastic Intestinal Adenomas Using a Fluorescent Folate Imaging Probe by Wei-Tsung Chen, Khashayarsha Khazaie, Guoying Zhang, Ralph Weissleder, Ching-Hsuan Tung

“…APC Δ468 mice injected with FFP showed fluorescent adenomas (target-to-background ratio, adenoma vs. adjacent normal mucosa, of 2.46 ± 0.41), significantly higher ( p < .001) than adenomas in animals injected with a non-folate-containing control probe. Fluorescence-activated cell-sorting analysis revealed a 3-fold higher content of Mac1-positive cells in colonic adenomas compared with normal adjacent mucosa (6.8% vs. 2.2%), and confirmed the source of FFP-positive cells to be primarily an F4/80-positive macrophage subpopulation. …”
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Synthesis of arbitrary current mode filter by LI Zhi-jun1, WANG Chun-hua2, LIU Rong1

“…A new general analytical synthesis method for arbitrary current mode filter was presented.The method was based on the analytical decomposition of a complicated high-order transfer function into n lossless integrators and n cur-rent proportional blocks by a succession of innovative algebra process.The filter structure based on MCCIIs was pro-posed with the following advantages: 1) it can be used not only for arbitrary-order filters,but also for different filter types such as Butterworth,Chebyshev and Elliptic;2) the circuit structure proposed only contains（2n+1） active elements,（2n+1） resistors and n capacitors;3) all the elements are grounded,so it is convenient to be integrated;4) the different filter functions such as high-pass,low-pass,band-pass,band-reject and all-pass can be obtained when it act as a Butter-worth filter.A third-order elliptic low-pass filter and a sixth-order Butterworth universal filter were employed to demon-strate the realization scheme.The validity of the proposed structure was verified through PSPICE simulations.…”
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THE APPLICATION OF LCD AND SWT IN FAULT DIAGNOSIS OF ROLLING BEARING by LIU YiYa, LI Ke, CHEN Peng

“…Then a number of ISCs containing valid information components are selected for SWT and processing them by SWT so that we can extract the effective frequency characteristics. …”
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A critical analysis of the Mises stress criterion used in frequency domain fatigue life prediction by Adam Niesłony

“…In the present study four aspects were discussed: influence of the value of fatigue strength of tension and torsion, lack of parallelism of the SN curves, abnormal behaviour of the criterion under biaxial tensioncompression and influence of phase shift between particular stress state components. Information contained in this article will help to prevent improper use of this criterion and contributes to its better understanding…”
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Le revenant dans l’œuvre de Toni Morrison : ou le corps hanté de la mémoire by Vanessa Sylvanise

“…Unearthing afro-am ericain community’s pains, inherited from history, her work contains this famous “Inquiétante étrangeté” symptomatic of the “fantastic” literary’s genre. …”
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KAMPUNG SENI ISLAM DI MAKASSAR DENGAN PENDEKATAN ARSITEKTUR ISLAM GEOMETRI by Yaumil Maghfirah Asaf, Wasilah Wasilah

“…Makassar as a center of growth and development in Eastern Indonesia with the majority religion of Islam, need a container that can be used as a distribution of artistic talent, especially Islamic art, which aims to raise Girah (spirit) Muslims to develop art that Islam breath, preserve, introduced and educate the public with art. …”
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Factorization of k-quasihyponormal operators by S. C. Arora, J. K. Thukral

“…Let A be the class of all operators T on a Hilbert space H such that R(T*kT), the range space of T*KT, is contained in R(T*k+1), for a positive integer k. It has been shown that if T ϵ A, there exists a unique operator CT on H such that (i)         T*kT=T*k+1CT ;(ii)        ‖CT‖2=inf{μ:μ≥0  and  (T*kT)(T*kT)*≤μT*k+1T*k+1} ;(iii)       N(CT)=N(T*kT) and(iv)       R(CT)⫅R(T*k+1)¯ The main objective of this paper is to characterize k-quasihyponormal; normal, and self-adjoint operators T in A in terms of CT. …”
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Fast Computation of Singular Oscillatory Fourier Transforms by Hongchao Kang, Xinping Shao

“…Based on substituting the original interval of integration by the paths of steepest descent, if f is analytic in the complex region G containing [a, b], the computation of integrals can be transformed into the problems of integrating two integrals on [0, ∞) with the integrand that does not oscillate and decays exponentially fast, which can be efficiently computed by using the generalized Gauss Laguerre quadrature rule. …”
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Book Review: "International Law: From Theory to Practice" by Tavakol Habibzadeh

“…Such a purpose of writing a manual has influenced the scientific level of the book in such a way that it is far away from an academic textbook containing the accepted standards and criteria which aim to analyze the documented and scientific way the various fields of international law. …”
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An Improved C-V Model and Application to the Coal Rock Mesocrack Images by Yulong Chen, Hongwei Zhang

“…The improved C-V model is adopted in order to process mesoimages of coal rocks containing single and multiple cracks and obtain high-quality binary images of coal rock mesocracks and the effective characteristic parameters of coal rock mesostructures through quantitative processing, which will lay solid foundations for the follow-up research into coal rock seepage computation and damage calculation. …”
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