Microstructure and mechanical properties of S217 nickel aluminum bronze alloy fabricated by wire arc additive manufacturing by Xiaoyu Cai, Baiyu Song, Bolun Dong, Sanbao Lin, Yuxuan Zhu

“…The alloy primarily contains α phases, retained β phases, and κ intermetallic phases (κIII, κII, κIV). …”
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Compact Workspace Decomposition Based on a Bottom-Up Approach by Georgy Skorobogatov, Toni Calvo, Cristina Barrado, Esther Salami

“…The workspace can be any convex or non-convex polygon and may contain holes of various shapes that represent no-fly zones. …”
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A Rectal Cancer Surgery Dataset: Use of artificial intelligence to aid automation of error identification by Walaa Ghamrawi, Nathan Curtis, Jialang Xu, Matt Boal, Evangelos Mazomenos, Eddie Edwards, Danail Stoyanov, Nader Francis

“…We provide a detailed description of the errors and near misses of over 380 hours of video analysis, containing 1377 errors. This dataset can inform machine learning to assist progress toward a fully automated, objective assessment of surgical skills.…”
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Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles derived from algae and their larvicidal properties to control Aedes aegypti by Matheus Alves Siqueira de Assunção, Douglas Dourado, Daiane Rodrigues dos Santos, Gabriel Bezerra Faierstein, Mara Elga Medeiros Braga, Severino Alves Junior, Rosângela Maria Rodrigues Barbosa, Herminio José Cipriano de Sousa, Fábio Rocha Formiga

“…Natural seaweed extracts contain metabolites such as polyphenols, terpenoids, and alkaloids. …”
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Chloride-Binding Capacity of Portland Cement Paste Blended with Synthesized CA2 (CaO·2Al2O3) by Yunsu Lee, Mingyun Kim, Zhengxin Chen, Hanseung Lee, Seungmin Lim

“…This paper presents the chloride-binding capacity of Portland cement paste containing synthesized CA2 (CaO·2Al2O3). The CA2 was synthesized in the high-temperature furnace and characterized by X-ray diffraction for inspecting the purity. …”
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Assessment of SREBP Activation Using a Microsomal Vesicle Budding Assay by Mingfeng Xia, Tessa Edwards, Shunxing Rong

“…Microsomal membranes isolated from the liver are incubated in a reaction buffer containing the necessary components to facilitate vesicle formation. …”
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Clinical Usefulness of Haptoglobin Levels to Evaluate Hemolysis in Recently Transfused Patients by Shilpi Gupta, Kathleen Ahern, Fadi Nakhl, Frank Forte

“…Serum haptoglobin measurement is used as a laboratory marker for the diagnosis of hemolytic anemia. Since stored blood contains free hemoglobin, transfusion may affect haptoglobin levels. …”
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Oleraceins from Portulaca oleracea leaves: Quali-quantitative determination and antioxidant potential by Ciro Cannavacciuolo, Assunta Napolitano, Verena M. Dirsch, Elke H. Heiss, Milena Masullo, Sonia Piacente

“…In addition to PUFA (PolyUnsaturated Fatty Acids), it contains unusual polyphenolic alkaloids called oleraceins. …”
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Recurrent Struma Ovarii Presented with High Levels of Thyroglobulin by Christiana Oikonomou, Nikol Spathari, Stavroula Doumoulaki, Antonella Koutela, Christos Stagkoglou, Dimitris Keramidaris

“…Struma ovarii are rare ovarian tumors, of monodermal germ cell origin, containing predominantly thyroid tissue. They are typically benign unilateral pelvic masses. …”
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Sharper Focal Spot for a Radially Polarized Beam Using Ring Aperture with Phase Jump by Svetlana N. Khonina, Andrei V. Ustinov

“…We study analytically and numerically in which way the width of ring aperture containing a phase jump affects the size and intensity of the focal spot generated with a radially polarized beam. …”
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Finite-Time Asynchronous Stabilization for Nonlinear Hidden Markov Jump Systems with Parameter Varying in Continuous-Time Case by Lianjun Xiao, Xiaofeng Wang, Lingling Gao

“…Compared with the existing research results on Markov jump systems, this paper considers the HMJSs which contain both the hidden state and the observed state in continuous-time case. …”
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Numerical simulation of subsurface defect identification by pulsed thermography and improvement of this technique for noisy data by Oleg Plekhov, Anastasiya Kostina, Sergey Aizikovich

“…This work is devoted to the simulation of the pulsed thermography method in a steel plate with the ceramic coating containing artificial defects of various depths and sizes. …”
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Hidden Fossils of The Hondsrug Complex Connect Time and Space by Margaretha Roelfs, Harry Huisman

“…The land ice left behind thick layers of till, scattered with billions of erratic boulders that often contain fossils. But this is a special case because the fossils are ‘hidden’ in erratic blocks, and testify to Earth history thousands of miles north in the Baltic Sea and millions of years earlier, in the Paleozoic. …”
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In vivo human skin penetration of (–)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate from topical formulations by Scalia Santo, Trotta Valentina, Bianchi Anna

“…Model oil-in-water (o/w) emulsion and gel formulations containing 1 % (m/m) EGCG were prepared and subjected to photodegradation studies in order to select excipients that minimize the light instability of EGCG. …”
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Metal Content in Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) Leaves: Influence of Vehicular Traffic and Safety upon Consumption as Food by Agnese Giacomino, Mery Malandrino, Maria Laura Colombo, Sergio Miaglia, Pietro Maimone, Sebastiano Blancato, Eleonora Conca, Ornella Abollino

“…Taraxacum officinale leaves growing spontaneously in meadows and along the streets are traditionally picked up and eaten in Italy as salad, so it is important to know the concentrations of potentially toxic elements contained in them from the point of view of food safety. …”
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PRIMARY SLX TEST USING REAL-TIME PCR BASED ON HIGH RESOLUTION MELTING (HRM) ON MICROFILARIA EXAMINATION by Bagus Muhammad Ihsan, Cecep Dani Sucipto, Khayan Khayan

“…Background: Filariasis patients can be a source of transmission if their blood still contains microfilariae. One of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) methods used is High Resolution Melting (HRM), using primary specificity testing. …”
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Chiral-odd gluon generalized parton distributions in the proton: A light-front quantization approach by Bolang Lin, Sreeraj Nair, Chandan Mondal, Siqi Xu, Zhi Hu, Pengxiang Zhang, Xingbo Zhao, James P. Vary

“…Our investigation encompasses both the valence Fock sector with three constituent quarks and an additional sector containing three quarks and a dynamical gluon. We analyze the gluon GPDs in the momentum space as well as in the transverse position space. …”
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Subsurface Lateral Flow in Texture-Contrast (Duplex) Soils and Catchments with Shallow Bedrock by Marcus A. Hardie, Richard B. Doyle, William E. Cotching, Shaun Lisson

“…However, in catchments containing shallow bedrock, subsurface lateral flows result from a combination of preferential flow from the soil surface to the soil—bedrock interface, undulations in the bedrock topography, lateral flow through macropore networks at the soil—bedrock interface, and the influence of antecedent soil moisture on macropore connectivity. …”
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The Role of Serine Proteases and Antiproteases in the Cystic Fibrosis Lung by Matthew S. Twigg, Simon Brockbank, Philip Lowry, S. Peter FitzGerald, Clifford Taggart, Sinéad Weldon

“…Sputum from CF patients contains elevated levels of neutrophils and subsequently elevated levels of neutrophil serine proteases. …”
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Study on the Mechanism of Energy Dissipation in Hemispherical Resonator Gyroscope by Lishan Yuan, Ning Wang, Ronghao Xie, Zhennan Wei, Qingshuang Zeng, Changhong Wang

“…Firstly, based on the working principle of the gyroscope, a mechanical analysis model of the hemispherical resonator gyroscope head with a resonator spherical shell containing quality defects under second-order vibration state was established. …”
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