Porous Cellulose Beads Fabricated from Regenerated Cellulose as Potential Drug Delivery Carriers by Lee Ken Voon, Suh Cem Pang, Suk Fun Chin

“…The loading capacity and efficiency of curcumin onto CBs could be enhanced via the optimization of curcumin solution concentration and the morphological characteristics of CBs, whereas the release kinetic profiles of curcumin from CBs could be modulated by varying the mean diameter of CBs. Optimized CBs derived from regenerated cellulose of paper wastes are potentially useful as cost-effective drug delivery carriers.…”
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Site Specific Stem Volume Models for Pinus patula and Pinus oocarpa by Herbert Malata, Elisha S. Ngulube, Edward Missanjo

“…Various predictors including diameter at breast height (dbh) and height (ht) were run against total stem volume using a nonlinear mixed-effects modelling approach. …”
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Static Analysis of Tubular Space Frame Chassis of an Electric Racing Car Made of ASTM A106 Grade B by Encu Saefudin, Nuha Desi Anggraeni, Marsono Marsono, Syauqi Azhari

“…This chassis is made using ASTM A106 Grade B steel pipe with a diameter of 1 inch, and the total weight is 76.5 kg. …”
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Effects of Evaporation and Body Thermal Plume on Cough Droplet Dispersion and Exposure Risk for Queuing People by Fengjiao Li, Guoyi Jiang, Fei Chen, Weibin Yuan

“…Transient evaporation strongly affected the motion of droplets ranging in diameter from 60 to 150 μm. The body thermal plume affected airflow and particle dispersion under weak wind conditions, but its effect was negligible at wind speeds greater than 0.8 m/s. …”
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Treatment of biliary cysts of the liver and polycystic liver disease: a surgical view by M. P. Kochieva, N. N. Bagmet, A. G. Abdullayev, O. G. Skipenko

“…At present there is no uniform medical approach in relation to diameter of cysts that results in application of various methods of treatment. …”
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Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum associated with Ventriculo-Coronary Arterial Communication in a Fetus at 21 Weeks of Gestation by Can Yilmaz Yozgat, Yanki Celik Yilmazer, Yilmaz Yozgat

“…The size of the right ventricular cavity is proportional to the Z value of the diameter of the tricuspid valve. The essential associated cardiac finding of PA-IVS is ventricular-coronary arterial communications (VCAC). …”
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Effect of Caloric Restriction on Hepatic Sinusoidal System and Stellate Cells in Mice by Jian Chen, Kara King, Jian X. Zhang

“…Using intravital fluorescence microscopy, assessments were made on sinusoidal diameter, density, volumetric flow, perfusion index, and autofluorescence of vitamin A that was primarily stored with lipid droplets in stellate cells. …”
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New members of Alternaria (Pleosporales, Pleosporaceae) collected from Apiaceae in Algeria by Nabahat Bessadat, Nelly Bataillé-Simoneau, Justine Colou, Bruno Hamon, Kihal Mabrouk, Philippe Simoneau

“…Detailed descriptions of new species are provided based on colony color, aspect, diameter, conidial size, septa, sporulation patterns and compared with other relevant Alternaria species within same sections. …”
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Comparison of Three Methods for Wind Turbine Capacity Factor Estimation by Y. Ditkovich, A. Kuperman

“…The third “approximate” approach, valid in case of Rayleigh winds only, employs a nonlinear approximation of the capacity factor versus average wind speed curve, only requiring rated power and rotor diameter of the turbine. It is shown that the results obtained by employing the three approaches are very close, enforcing the validity of the analytically derived approximations, which may be used for wind turbine performance evaluation.…”
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Numerical Simulation Study on the Influence of Different Factors on the Uplift Bearing Capacity of Root Piles, Straight-Shaft Piles, and Pedestal Piles by Junpeng Zhou, Jun Yuan, Xuefeng Huang, Xueming Wang

“…In addition, the most economical way to increase pile bearing capacity is to increase pile length rather than increasing pile diameter.…”
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Chemical properties of Terminalia catappa wood by Richmond Acheampong, Kwaku Antwi, Mark Bright Donkoh, Michael Awotwe-Mensah, Frank Kofi Dorwu

“…Three mature trees of Terminalia catappa were acquired based on the diameter at the breast height (dbh) greater than 40 cm. …”
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A New Flow Line Function for Modeling Material Trajectory and Textures in Nonequal-Channel Angular Pressing by A. Hasani, L. S. Toth, Sh. Mardokh Rouhani

“…A variant of the ECAP process was proposed in 2009, which consists in reducing the diameter of the exit channel of the die; it is named the nonequal-channel angular pressing (NECAP) process. …”
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Seismic Response of a Tunnel Embedded in Compacted Clay through Large-Scale Shake Table Testing by Hao Zhou, Xinghua Wang, Changdi He, Changxi Huang

“…The cross-sectional diameter of the model tunnel is 0.9 m, and the thickness of the tunnel lining is 0.06 m. …”
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Experimental Study of the Swirling Oxidizer Flow in HTPB/N2O Hybrid Rocket Motor by Mohammad Mahdi Heydari, Nooredin Ghadiri Massoom

“…A modular motor with 70 mm outer diameter and variable chamber length is designed for experimental analysis. …”
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Designing a Control System for an Airplane Wing Flutter Employing Gas Actuators by A. R. Ansari, A. R. B. Novinzadeh

“…It should be noted that, to justify the application of the aerodynamic theory, we have speculated that the thruster jet ejected through a nozzle with a diameter smaller than several millimeters has a supersonic regime (with Mach number of the order of M≈3.5). …”
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Experimental Research on the Similarity of Rime Icing on a Cylinder Rotating around Its Horizontal Axis by Lei Shi, Yan Li, Wenfeng Guo, Ce Sun

“…To validate the similarity criterion, icing wind tunnel tests were carried out with aluminum cylinders with diameters of 40 mm and 20 mm. Key parameters for the experiment, such as wind speed, temperature, liquid water content, medium volume diameter, and test time, were selected based on the criterion. …”
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Design and Prototyping of a Dust Extraction System with a Suppression Mechanism: A Case Study of Limestone Dust on Small Scale Mines by Kambasu Bowen

“…The machine was then tested to examine its efficiency and the efficiency was actually dependent on the length and diameter of the cyclone. Conclusions and recommendations were drawn from the discussed results got after testing. …”
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Yield Responses of Black Spruce to Forest Vegetation Management Treatments: Initial Responses and Rotational Projections by Peter F. Newton

“…Lawrence and Canadian Boreal Forest Regions, the resultant mean effect size (response ratio) and associated 95% confidence interval for basal diameter, total height, stem volume, and survival responses, were respectively: 54.7% (95% confidence limits (lower/upper): 34.8/77.6), 27.3% (15.7/40.0), 198.7% (70.3/423.5), and 2.9% (−5.5/11.8). …”
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A Study of Impact Response and Its Numerical Study of Hybrid Polypropylene Fiber-Reinforced Concrete with Different Sizes by Ninghui Liang, Ru Yan, Xinrong Liu, Peng Yang, Zuliang Zhong

“…Compressive properties of hybrid polypropylene fiber-reinforced concrete (HPFRC) with different sizes of polypropylene fibers (PPFs) under the impact load (101∼102/s) were tested by using a 74 mm diameter various cross-section split-Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB), in which the fiber content of fine PPFs was 0.9 kg/m3 and that of coarse PPFs was 6.0 kg/m3. …”
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A Study of Millisecond Blasting on High Bench at Barun Iron Ore Operation by Pengfei Zhang, Runcai Bai, Xue Sun, Haoran Li, Honglu Fei, Shijie Bao

“…According to the technical conditions of the site, three sets of vertical boreholes at 310 mm diameter were drilled on 24 m high batter; and three sets of air-spaced charges were set up. …”
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