Respirable Particles and Gas Contaminants Emissions from a Desktop Laser Cutter and Engraver by Kevin O’Neill, Xinyi Niu, Jun Wang, Runcheng Fang

“…Cardboard consistently exhibited the highest concentration of respirable particulate matter of 253.9 ± 47.6 mg m–3 and an average emission rate of sub-half-micron particles of 5.8 × 1010 # min–1, characterized by the smallest geometric mean diameter of 53 nm in the absence of ventilation. The extremely high emission highlighted the potential of ultrafine particle exposures and health risks from cutting cardboard. …”
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Sensitive and selective evaluation of the 3-hydroxy-2-butanone biomarker via gas sensors based on WO3 nanomaterials with multiple morphologies by Han Zhao, Xiaohui Duan, Siqi Xie, Lili Cheng, Fei Wang, Wenjuan Xu, Yaolei Zhang, Weiyi Zhang, Cheng Zhao

“…In this study, WO3 nanoflowers (a diameter of 2.8 µm) and two different hierarchical structures of WO3 were successfully synthesized. …”
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Urinary Schistosomiasis among Children in Murbai and Surbai Communities of Ardo-Kola Local Government Area, Taraba State, Nigeria by R. S. Houmsou, H. Agere, B. E. Wama, J. B. Bingbeng, E. U. Amuta, S. L. Kela

“…Urine samples were analysed by the standard filtration technique using 10 ml syringe, Swinnex polypropylene filter holder (13 mm diameter), and polycarbonate membrane filters (12 μm porosity). …”
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Preoperative prediction of flexible ureteroscopy outcome in the treatment of renal calculi by Mohammed Abozaid, Eid Elsherif, Fatma Elserafy, Islam Abobakr, Mohamed Selim

“…Methods Patients with renal stones up to 30 mm in greatest diameter were recruited. They were offered RIRS via disposable flexible ureteroscopy and Holmium laser fragmentation. …”
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Source Apportionment of Urban Ammonia and its Contribution to Secondary Particle Formation in a Mid-size European City by Laura Ehrnsperger, Otto Klemm

“…Particles in the accumulation range (diameter: 0.1–1 µm) showed the highest inorganic ion concentrations. …”
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Ultrawide bandgap semiconductor h-BN for direct detection of fast neutrons by J. Li, A. Tingsuwatit, Z. Alemoush, J. Y. Lin, H. X. Jiang

“…We report the successful attainment of 0.4 mm thick freestanding h-BN 4″-diameter wafers, which enabled the demonstration of h-BN fast neutron detectors capable of delivering a detection efficiency of 2.2% in response to a bare AmBe neutron source. …”
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Improving the Physical Properties of Nanofibers Prepared by Electrospinning from Polyvinyl Chloride and Polyacrylonitrile at Low Concentrations by Salih Abbas Habeeb, Baseem Ali Nadhim, Ban Jawad Kadhim, Mohammed Salam Ktab, Ali Jawad Kadhim, Farqad Saleem Murad

“…The results show that blending of PAN with PVC leads to improving of the electro spun ability of PVC with more stability, and the mean nanofiber diameter was 90.873±40.82 nm at 25 : 75 PVC: PAN. Moreover, mechanical properties are ultimate tensile strength and modulus of elasticity decreasing with decreasing the blending ration from pure PVC to 75 : 25 PVC: PAN nanofibers by 71% and 83%, respectively, while the elongation at break increases by 79%, and decomposition temperatures decreased from 451.96 to 345.38°C when changing the PVC content from pure PVC to 25 : 75 PVC: PAN. …”
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A Giant Parasitic Leiomyoma with Blood Supply from Omental Branches: A Case Report by Mustafa Ulubay, Fahri Burçin Fıratlıgil, Uğur Keskin, Ulaş Fidan, Nuri Yiğit, Rıza Efendi Karaca, Ali Ergün

“…In intraoperative examination, a fundal subserous located parasitic leiomyoma with around 10 cm diameter, supplied by a vascular structure about 30 cm in length from omentum was diagnosed.It was diagnosed that omentum adhered to leiomyoma partially. …”
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Unusual Dermoid Cyst in Oral Cavity by Evanice Menezes Marçal Vieira, Alvaro Henrique Borges, Luis Evaristo Ricci Volpato, Alessandra Nogueira Porto, Artur Aburad Carvalhosa, Gilberto de Almeida Botelho, Matheus Coelho Bandeca

“…In the present case, the lesion showed soft consistency, floating, regular borders, smooth surface, and the same color as the adjacent mucosa, asymptomatic and measuring 4.5 × 5.5 cm in its greatest diameter. The initial diagnostic was ranula in consequence of the similarity with clinical characteristics and localization. …”
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The Effectiveness of Ebselen in Facial Nerve Crush Injury: An Experimental Study by Lütfü Şeneldir, Veysel Alparslan Gölcük, Gökçe Tanyeri Toker, Ayşegül Verim, Pembegül Güneş

“…These groups also showed similar features in terms of histopathological parameters such as axonal degeneration, vascular congestion, axon diameter, and myelin thickness. Except for the macrovacuolization parameter, both showed statistically better results than the control group. …”
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Outplanting Performance of the Bornean Tropical Indigenous Species Shorea macrophylla (de Vriese) P. S. Ashton in relation to Seedling Age by Mugunthan Perumal, Mohd Effendi Wasli, Soo Ying Ho

“…Notwithstanding, the relative growth rate of the stem diameter was higher for the 3- and 9-month-old seedlings than for the 6- and 24-month-old seedlings after 42 months of outplanting. …”
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A virtual-reality (VR) cognitive pupillometry analysis of auditory and visual phonemic awareness tasks involving ‘th’ sound variations by Mohsen Mahmoudi-Dehaki, Nasim Nasr-Esfahani

“…The quantitative results demonstrated (a) no critical differences regarding the CL experienced by the participants in each group concerning voiced vs. voiceless’ th’ PATs and (b) higher levels of CL (increased pupil diameter, decreased blink rates, and increased gaze pattern or fixation duration) among participants in the auditory PATs group compared to the ones in the auditory and visual PATs group. …”
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A Rare Collision Tumor Composed of Follicular Lymphoma and Adenocarcinoma in the Ampulla of Vater: A Case Report by Shioto Suzuki, Fumihiko Tanioka, Keisuke Inaba, Shingo Takatori, Hideto Ochiai, Shohachi Suzuki

“…The follicular lymphoma, 40 mm in diameter, involved duodenal submucosa and regional lymph nodes without distant metastasis. …”
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Evaluation of Fluoride release from orthodontic acrylic resin by using two different polymerizations techniques: An InVitro Study by Diyar B. Sabir, Zana Q. Omer

“…Materials and methods: Sixty disc-shaped samples measured 10 mm diameter and 1mm thickness of orthocryle were divided into two groups according to polymerization technics, thirty samples for Auto polymerization and thirty samples for polymerization by IVOMAT. …”
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Experimental and Numerical Evaluation of Rock Dynamic Test with Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar by Kang Peng, Ke Gao, Jian Liu, Yujiao Liu, Zhenyu Zhang, Xiang Fan, Xuyan Yin, Yongliang Zhang, Gun Huang

“…The effects of different diameters, different loading rates, and different propagation distances on wave dispersion of input bars in SHPB with rectangle and half-sine wave loadings were analyzed. …”
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Optimizing Tuberose (<i>Polianthes tuberosa</i> L.) Production Using Mycorrhiza and Biostimulants to Enhance Water-Deficit Tolerance by Mahdyeh Saravani, Abdolrahman Rahimian Boogar, Mehdi Aran, Dariush Ramezan, Meisam Zargar, Simbo Diakite

“…We measured the length, diameter, and fresh and dry weight of the flower pedicel; the number of leaves per plant; the fresh and dry weight of the leaves, stem, and root of each plant; and the content of photosynthetic pigments, phenol, proline, carbohydrates, and flavonoids. …”
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Aspects of applying the method of chemical mutagenesis to develop cultivars of <i>Calendula officinalis</i> L. by F. M. Khazieva, I. N. Korotkikh

“…Plant height, number of branches, number of leaves, number of inflorescences per plant, inflorescence diameter, number of ray floret rows, and weight of one inflorescence were measured in the mass flowering phase. …”
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Tunnel squeezing prediction based on partially missing dataset and optimized machine learning models by Peng Guan, Guangzhao Ou, Feng Liang, Weibang Luo, Qingyong Wang, Chengyuan Pei, Xuan Che

“…An input feature system for tunnel squeezing prediction was established, comprising tunnel burial depth (H), tunnel diameter (D), strength-to-stress ratio (SSR), and support stiffness (K). …”
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Multiple PM Low-Cost Sensors, Multiple Seasons’ Data, and Multiple Calibration Models by S Srishti, Pratyush Agrawal, Padmavati Kulkarni, Hrishikesh Chandra Gautam, Meenakshi Kushwaha, V. Sreekanth

“…Abstract In this study, we combined state-of-the-art data modelling techniques (machine learning [ML] methods) and data from state-of-the-art low-cost particulate matter (PM) sensors (LCSs) to improve the accuracy of LCS-measured PM2.5 (PM with aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 microns) mass concentrations. …”
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Tree mapping and carbon inventory on a university campus in South Korea: Case study and global review by Songhee Lee, Woo Bin Park, Seungmin Lee, Jeong‐Min Lee, Yowhan Son, Tae Kyung Yoon

“…The case study on inventorying and mapping campus trees was performed by integrating drone‐based orthographic images and field censuses of tree data (species, diameter, GPS coordinates, etc.). A total of 2341 individual trees belonging to 73 species were surveyed over 28.7 ha of green spaces on campus, and various thematic maps were created online. …”
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