Heavy Metal Contamination of Groundwater in the Tea Garden Belt of Darrang District, Assam, India by K. K. Borah, B. Bhuyan, H. P. Sarma

“…A good number of samples are also found to contain manganese at an alert level. The concentrations of copper and zinc in the groundwater of the area are within the guideline values of WHO. …”
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Studies on the Effects of Interphase Heat Exchange during Thermal Explosion in a Combustible Dusty Gas with General Arrhenius Reaction-Rate Laws by K. S. Adegbie, F. I. Alao

“…A mathematical model for thermal explosion in a combustible dusty gas containing fuel droplets with general Arrhenius reaction-rate laws, convective and radiative heat losses, and interphase heat exchange between gas and inert solid particles is investigated. …”
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Infrared Dim Small Target Detection Algorithm with Large-Size Receptive Fields by Xiaozhen Wang, Chengshan Han, Jiaqi Li, Ting Nie, Mingxuan Li, Xiaofeng Wang, Liang Huang

“…For this reason, we design an infrared dim small target (IDST) detection algorithm containing Large-size Receptive Fields (LRFNet). It uses the Residual network with an Inverted Pyramid Structure (RIPS), which consists of convolutional layers that become progressively smaller, so it can have a larger effective receptive field and can improve the robustness of the model. …”
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Synthesis of Bioactive Fluorinated 10H-Phenothiazines and their Sulfone Derivatives by Yogesh Dixit, Rahul Dixit, Naveen Gautam, D. C. Gautam

“…Substituted 2-foramido-2´-nitrodiphenylsulfide were obtained by the reaction of 2-amino-3-fluorobenzenethiol with o-halonitrobenzenes followed by formylation and 1-nitro/1-halo-10H-phenothiazines have been prepared by the reaction of substituted 2-aminobenzenethiols with reactive o-halonitrobenzene containing a nitro group or halogen atom at o-position to the reactive halogen atom directly yielded 1-nitro/1-halo-10H-phenothiazines in situ. 10H-phenothiazine sulfone derivatives have been synthesized by the oxidation of 10H-phenothiazines by 30% hydrogen peroxide in glacial acetic acid. …”
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Gingival spatial analysis reveals geographic immunological variation in a microbiota-dependent and -independent manner by Yasmin Jaber, Avital Sarusi-Portuguez, Yasmin Netanely, Reem Naamneh, Shahd Yacoub, Or Saar, Nadeem Darawshi, Luba Eli-Berchoer, Hagit Shapiro, Eran Elinav, Asaf Wilensky, Avi-Hai Hovav

“…The gingiva, a unique mucosal barrier with significant health implications, exhibits intricate tissue architecture and likely contains specialized immunological regions. Through spatial transcriptomic analysis, this study reveals distinct immunological characteristics between the buccal and palate regions of the murine gingiva, impacting natural alveolar bone loss. …”
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Dataset of keywords used by European political parties on FacebookRepositorio de Datos del Consorcio Madroño by Francisco Caravaca, Ángel Cuevas, Rubén Cuevas

“…This dataset contains the frequency of thousands of terms (or keywords) used by political parties in the posts they have published in their Facebook pages. …”
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Species and Termite Attack Intensity on Pine Trees in Nagari Talang Babungo, Solok District, West Sumatra Province by Desyanti Desyanti, Fauzan Fauzan, Zulhilda Yenti

“… Termites are classified as insects that destroy trees and other organic materials containing cellulose, including pine trees. The species and attack intensity of termites on pine trees in the protected forest of Nagari Talang Babungo, Solok District, West Sumatra Province, is unknown. …”
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Properties and Storage Stability of O/W Emulsion Replaced with Medium-Chain Fatty Acid Oil by Kupongsak Sasikan, Sathitvorapojjana Saruda

“…The droplet size of the mayonnaise containing only RBO increased, possibly due to droplet coalescence. …”
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A comparison of high temperature corrosion behaviour between uncoated, Ni-Cr-Mo and Ni-Cr-Al-Y coated 316 stainless steel in ZnCl2-KCl environment by Pooja Mangaladevi, V. Vijeesh, K.S. Ravishankar, Vasudeva Madav

“…The findings provide insights into optimizing material protection strategies in harsh chloride containing molten salt environments.…”
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Investment of Self-Confidence in Cingkrik Rawa Belong Pencak Silat for Elementary School Students by Sa'odah Sa'odah, Mamat Supriatna

“…The result of this research is that the value of self-confidence in Pencak Silat activities is the value obtained by children from training or Pencak silat activities and then retrained through the experience of the championships that have been followed The use-value contained in the Cingkrik Pencak Silat activity can be used as learning to instill confidence in elementary school students.…”
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A comparative study of LQU and LQFI in general qubit-qutrit axially symmetric states by M. A. Yurischev, Saeed Haddadi, Mehrdad Ghominejad

“…This allows us to study the quantum correlations in detail and present some essentially novel results for spin-(1/2, 1) systems, the Hamiltonian of which contains ten independent types of physically important parameters. …”
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Influence of Heat Treatment on Biocorrosion and Hemocompatibility of Biodegradable Mg-35Zn-3Ca Alloy by Jeong-Hui Ji, Il-Song Park, Yu-Kyoung Kim, Sook-Jeong Lee, Tae-Sung Bae, Min-Ho Lee

“…Mg-35Zn-3Ca (wt.%) alloy containing nontoxic and biocompatible Zn and Ca as alloying elements was prepared and subjected to heat treatment and artificial aging for different duration of time to reduce its rate of degradation. …”
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Flavocoxid, a Nutraceutical Approach to Blunt Inflammatory Conditions by Alessandra Bitto, Francesco Squadrito, Natasha Irrera, Gabriele Pizzino, Giovanni Pallio, Anna Mecchio, Federica Galfo, Domenica Altavilla

“…Flavocoxid is a mixed extract containing baicalin and catechin and it acts as a dual balanced inhibitor of cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1) and COX-2 peroxidase enzyme activities with a significant inhibition of 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX) enzyme activity in vitro. …”
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Effects of Pesticides on Occupationally Exposed Humans by Stylianos M. Piperakis, Konstantina Kontogianni, Michael M. Piperakis, Ricardo Marcos, Smaragdi Tsilimigaki

“…Pesticides are known to contain numerous genotoxic compounds; however, genotoxicity biomonitoring studies of workers occupationally exposed to pesticides have produced variable results. …”
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Optimising deep learning models for ophthalmological disorder classification by S. Vidivelli, P. Padmakumari, C. Parthiban, A. DharunBalaji, R. Manikandan, Amir H. Gandomi

“…The Ocular Disease Intelligent Recognition (ODIR) database is used for experiments, and it contains fundus images of the patient’s left and right eyes. …”
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Annual Optical Performance of a Solar CPC Photoreactor with Multiple Catalyst Support Configurations by a Multiscale Model by Manuel I. Peña-Cruz, Patricio J. Valades-Pelayo, Camilo A. Arancibia-Bulnes, Carlos A. Pineda-Arellano, Iván Salgado-Tránsito, Fernando Martell-Chavez

“…The catalyst is supported over glass tubes contained inside a larger glass tube that functions as receiver of the CPC reflector. …”
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Machine Learning–Based Predictive Farmland Optimization and Crop Monitoring System by Marion Olubunmi Adebiyi, Roseline Oluwaseun Ogundokun, Aneoghena Amarachi Abokhai

“…Random forest algorithm and BigML were employed to analyze and classify datasets containing crop features that generated subclasses based on random crop feature parameters. …”
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Couple-Group Consensus: A Class of Delayed Heterogeneous Multiagent Systems in Competitive Networks by Lianghao Ji, Yue Zhang, Yiliu Jiang

“…This paper discusses the couple-group consensus issues of a class of heterogeneous multiagent systems containing first-order and second-order dynamic agents under the influence of both input and communication delays. …”
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APPLICATION OF THE DUAL TREE COMPLEX WAVELET TRANSFORM AND MINIMUM ENTROPY DECONVOLUTION IN INCIPIENT FAULT DIAGNOSIS OF THE GEAR BOX by WANG ChaoGe, LIU TongTong, REN XuePing, ZHANG HaoDong, WANG JianGuo

“…Then,the component that contains fault feature was processed by using minimum entropy deconvolution to reduce the strong background noise and enhance the fault information. …”
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A Critique and Review on the Book Endogenous Regional Development: Leadership and Institutions by Farhad Tarahomi

“…The results of the study show that although the concepts contained in the book cover part of the scientific needs of the country, it has shortcomings such as not testing the proposed model, mentioning indicators that cannot be measured accurately, and using inappropriate criteria in measuring is one of the introduced indicators. …”
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