Experimental Study on the Damage and Deterioration Behaviour of Deep Soft Rock under Water-Rock Interaction by Zenghui Zhao, Hao Liu, Xianzhou Lyu, Lei Wang, Zhongxi Tian, Jiecheng Sun

“…Due to ion-exchange adsorption and the wedging action of water molecules, the edge of contact between particles changes from staggered to smooth, which leads to the expansion of pores, the loosening of mudstone structures, and a decrease in mechanical strength. Therefore, the diffusion, migration, and particle expansion of illite and other clay minerals in mudstone are the main factors leading to the structural damage and strength reduction of weakly cemented rock under water-rock interactions.…”
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A Simple and Rapid Method for Quantitative HPLC MS/MS Determination of Selected Perfluorocarboxylic Acids and Perfluorosulfonates in Human Serum by Valentina Marra, Annalisa Abballe, Elena Dellatte, Nicola Iacovella, Anna Maria Ingelido, Elena De Felip

“…They have raised global concern because of their diffusion in the environment, particularly in water, causing cases of human overexposure due to consumption of contaminated drinking water. …”
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A Comprehensive Study of the Relationship between the Production of β-Lactamase Enzymes and Iron/Siderophore Uptake Regulatory Genes in Clinical Isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii... by Mahyar Porbaran, Hamed Tahmasebi, MohammadReza Arabestani

“…The antibiotic resistance patterns and β-lactamase-producing strains were identified using the disk diffusion method (DDM). Also, IUS genes were detected by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method. …”
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Jean-Baptiste Camps, La Chanson d’Otinel. Édition complète du corpus manuscrit et prolégomènes à l’édition critique by Jean-Baptiste Camps

“…Starting with the tangible objects that manuscripts are, and proceeding to the study of the tradition and work itself, this study aims to provide a new examination of all the available data, in order to enable a restoration of a song that has know an important diffusion in Medieval Europe, but whose scattered remains only are available to us.This study is given a firmly methodological orientation, and searches to apply to the edition the epistemological progresses brought by recent contributions in the field of textual criticism and ecdotics, as well as by what is now called “Digital Humanities”. …”
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Electron Spin Resonance Spin Probe Technique for Investigating Non-TEMPO Radicals Dispersed in Nanospaces of a Crystalline Zn Complex by Hirokazu Kobayashi, Kento Akiniwa, Fumiyasu Iwahori, Hidehiko Honda, Masato Yamamoto

“…However, those for the derivatives of IN radicals were approximately reproduced only by rotational diffusion around the z-axis perpendicular to the plane in the IN group. …”
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Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Associated with Diarrhea in Children in Cairo, Egypt by Iman K. Behiry, Emad A. Abada, Entsar A. Ahmed, Rania S. Labeeb

“…The identified E. coli isolates were subjected to antimicrobial disc diffusion susceptibility test and further identified for EPEC serotype by slide agglutination test, using antiserum E. coli somatic trivalent I (O111, O55, O26) according to the instructions of the manufacturer. …”
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Use of Anionic Surfactant-Modified Activated Carbon for Efficient Adsorptive Removal of Crystal Violet Dye by Rumi Goswami, Amit Kumar Dey

“…The effectiveness of film diffusion and intraparticle has been shown by mass transfer parameters. …”
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Properties of Pickering Stabilized Associative Water‐In‐Water Emulsions Based on Ultra‐High Molecular Weight Polyacrylamides by Rafael B. Lira, Alexander Plucinski, YouBeen Ko, Niamh Bayliss, Chris vanEwijk, Wouter H. Roos, Bernhard V. K. J. Schmidt

“…The formed emulsion droplets are extremely fluid (5–10 mPa.s), enable fast (5 µm2 s−1), nearly complete (mobile fraction ≈0.8) and unhindered diffusion within and across compartments, which is a hallmark of fluids. …”
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Phytochemical Study and Antibacterial and Antibiotic Modulation Activity of Punica granatum (Pomegranate) Leaves by Amine Trabelsi, Mohamed Amine El Kaibi, Aïmen Abbassi, Amira Horchani, Leila Chekir-Ghedira, Kamel Ghedira

“…The antibacterial activity was assayed by the disc diffusion method and microdilution method against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli standard ATCC strains and clinical isolates resistant strains. …”
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Defect Study of MgO-CaO Material Doped with CeO2 by Han Zhang, Huizhong Zhao, Jinfeng Chen, Jingjie Li, Jun Yu, Jianhua Nie

“…Ce4+ approaches into CaO lattices, which enlarges the vacancy concentration of Ca2+ and accelerates the diffusion of Ca2+.…”
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Expected profitability, independence, and risk assessment of small farmers in the wave of GM crop collectivization——evidence from Xinjiang and Guangdong by Yu Pang, Helin Zou, Chunchun Jia, Chao Gu

“…This study enriches the theoretical frameworks related to technology acceptance, innovation and diffusion, livelihood strategies, and collective transformation among small farmers in developing countries. …”
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Quand l’opinion s’affiche, une affiche fait-elle l’opinion ? by Claude Robinot

“…Les premières affiches cristallisaient le sentiment diffus d’une population française craignant l’ennemi, mais culpabilisant dans le bénéfice de ses secours. …”
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High-Level Design and Implementation of a Configurable Cryptosystem With a Novel Chaos-Enhanced Function by Medien Zeghid, Hassan Yousif Ahmed, Akhtar Nawaz Khan

“…Thereafter, by applying chaos theory to address the limitations of default cipher parameters, and operating modes and to control S-boxes, permutation functions, key schedules, data masking, we introduce nonlinearity and diffusion, making the block ciphers more resistant to attacks. …”
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Additive and subtractive manufacturing of layered titanium-matrix composites: interface behaviour and forming mechanisms by Rui Wang, Dongdong Gu, Hao Ye, Kaijie Lin, Han Zhang

“…High laser power was found to enhance the interfacial element diffusion and promote a gradient transition in ceramic whisker concentration. …”
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Role of Trapping in Non‐Volatility of Electrochemical Neuromorphic Organic Devices by Henrique Frulani de Paula Barbosa, Andreas Schander, Andika Asyuda, Luka Bislich, Sarah Bornemann, Björn Lüssem

“…Hence, here we propose a 2D drift‐diffusion model that is capable to reproduce the device behavior. …”
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Antibacterial and Cytotoxic Effects of Moringa oleifera (Moringa) and Azadirachta indica (Neem) Methanolic Extracts against Strains of Enterococcus faecalis by Lucía Arévalo-Híjar, Miguel Ángel Aguilar-Luis, Stefany Caballero-García, Néstor Gonzáles-Soto, Juana Del Valle-Mendoza

“…The antibacterial effect of the extracts against Enterococcus faecalis was evaluated using the agar diffusion technique. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) was determined using the microdilution method and the cytotoxicity using the cellular line MDCK. …”
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Upper Ocean Thermal Responses to Sea Spray Mediated Turbulent Fluxes during Typhoon Passage by Lianxin Zhang, Changlong Guan, Chunjian Sun, Siyu Gao, Shaomei Yu

“…Diagnostic analysis indicates that sea spray acts as an additional source of the air-sea turbulent fluxes and plays a key role in increasing the turbulent kinetic energy in the upper ocean, which enhances the temperature diffusion there. Therefore, sea spray is also an important factor in determining the upper mixed layer depth during the typhoon passage.…”
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3D printed lactic acid bacteria hydrogel: cell release kinetics and stability by Yifei Liu, Xintao Yin, Xiudong Xia, Zhen Liu, Lifei Chen, Mingsheng Dong

“…The results show that the release of bacteria from hydrogel is regulated by the coupling of Fickian diffusion and polymer swelling. The stability of LAB hydrogel was evaluated by reuse experiments. …”
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Adsorptive Performance of Polypyrrole-Based KOH-Activated Carbon for the Cationic Dye Crystal Violet: Kinetic and Equilibrium Studies by Abdulaziz Ali Alghamdi, Abdel-Basit Al-Odayni, Naaser A. Y. Abduh, Safiah A. Alramadhan, Mashael T. Aljboar, Waseem Sharaf Saeed

“…The kinetic data of the adsorption process were very well described by a pseudo-second-order model (R2≥0.9996). However, surface diffusion seems to be the main rate-controlling step. …”
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Ultrafast humidity sensor and transient humidity detections in high dynamic environments by Fang Liu, Jin Hong, Xiangdong Chen, Xing Ding, Shaopeng Li, Xiang Yu, Jiaqi Lu, Xuan Zhao, Kun Tang, Chenghua Xie, Kemei Zhao

“…Abstract Limited by the adsorption and diffusion rate of water molecules, traditional humidity sensors, such as those based on polymer electrolytes, porous ceramics, and metal oxides, typically have long response times, which hinder their application in monitoring transient humidity changes. …”
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