Boosting the mechanical performance and fire resistivity of white ordinary portland cement pastes via biogenic mesoporous silica nanoparticles by Abdallah A. Aziz, Hossam F. Nassar, Mona T. Al-Shemy, O. A. Mohamed

“…The beneficial impact of biogenic MS-NPS was verified by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), and differential thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA/DTG) methods, revealing several hydration products such as calcium silicate hydrates (CSHs), calcium ferrosilicate hydrates (CFSHs), and calcium aluminosilicate hydrates (CASHs). …”
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Unveiling the Molecular Architecture of HBV Spherical Subviral Particles: Structure, Symmetry, and Lipid Dynamics by Sonal Garg, Alyssa Ochetto, Jianming Hu, Joseph Che-Yen Wang

“…Recent advances in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) have uncovered the heterogeneity and dynamic nature of spherical HBV SVPs, emphasizing the essential role of lipid–protein interactions in maintaining particle stability. …”
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The influence of mechanochemical activation on the Zn–Ce–O composition properties by O Sachuk, V Zazhigalov, L Kuznetsova, S Shcherbakov

“…The decrease in the particle size of oxides (CeO 2 – from 57 up to 18 nm, ZnO – from 174 up to 40 nm) and formation of Zn–Ce–O nanocomposite was shown by X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy methods. The optimal treatment conditions (diameter of the balls 5–10 mm, ball-to-powder ratio = 15, time treatment 2–4 hours) were established. …”
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Photoelectrocatalytic Degradation of Organic Pollutants in Aqueous Solution Using a Pt-TiO2 Film by Chun He, Mudar Abou Asi, Ya Xiong, Dong Shu, Xiangzhong Li

“…The Pt-TiO2 films were characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electronic microscope, electrochemical characterization to examine the surface structure, chemical composition, and the photoelectrochemical properties. …”
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Physical Therapists in Primary Care Are Interested in High Quality Evidence Regarding Efficacy of Therapeutic Ultrasound for Knee Osteoarthritis: A Provincial Survey by Norma J. MacIntyre, Jason W. Busse, Mohit Bhandari

“…We conducted a descriptive electronic survey to characterize the beliefs and use of US among physical therapists in Ontario treating people with nonsurgical knee OA. …”
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FAILURE ANALYSIS OF HIGH STRENGTH ALUMINUM ALLOY WHEEL by YU JianMin, ZHANG ZhiMin, WANG Qiang

“…Tensile testing machine,optical microscopy,scanning electronic microscope and energy disperse spectrometer detailed characterization of the mechanical properties,fracture morphology,crack characteristics and corrosion products of aluminum alloy wheel respectively. …”
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Multi-scale analysis of the progressive failure behaviour of 2.5D woven SiC/SiC composites under compression by Chenyu Yang, Chao You, Weilong Wu, Qiyu Wu, Xiguang Gao, Fang Wang, Yingdong Song

“…Subsequently, the microscale and mesoscale failure modes of the specimens were comprehensively characterised using X-ray computed tomography (X-CT) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). To simulate the damage evolution process of specimens, a multi-scale finite element model representing the meso-scale structure of 2.5D SiC/SiC composites was developed, in which the proposed progressive damage method emphasising on matrix damage was adopted. …”
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Analytical study of metal from the Petrovka Culture of Northern Kazakhstan by Kuzminykh Sergey V., Degtyareva Anna D., Artemyev Dmitry A., Blinov Ivan A., Orlovskaya Lyubov B.

“…The results of spectral, mass spectrometric and energy-dispersive scanning electron microscopy analyzes of non-ferrous metal from the Petrovka culture of the XIX–XVIII centuries BC in Northern Kazakhstan are presented. …”
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Separation of Spherical Nanosilica from Agricultural Wastes in Vietnam via Ultrasonic-Assisted Precipitation and Application for Effective Removal of Methylene Blue from Aqueous So... by Nguyen Duc Vu Quyen, Tran Ngoc Tuyen, Dinh Quang Khieu, Ho Van Minh Hai, Dang Xuan Tin, Bui Thi Hoang Diem, Le Van Thanh Son, Nguyen Thi Kieu Diem, Le Thi Nguyet, Bui Thi Thuy, Ho Thi Thuy Dung

“…The obtained nanosilica is characterized by modern methods including X-ray diffraction (XRD), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), infrared spectroscopy (IR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and nitrogen adsorption/desorption isotherms (BET). …”
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Arduino based platform for process control learning by Bruna Couto Molinar Henrique, Leonardo Couto Molinar Henrique, Humberto Molinar Henrique

“…The open-source software Processing was used to develop the source codes and user graphical interface and the open-source electronic prototyping platform Arduino was used to acquire data from an experimental unit. …”
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Finite Element Analysis of a Natural Fiber (Maize) Composite Beam by D. Saravana Bavan, G. C. Mohan Kumar

“…Morphological analysis and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis for the fiber were examined by means of scanning electron microscope (SEM) and X-ray diffractometer. …”
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Influence of Water-Cement Ratio and Type of Mixing Water on the Early Hydration Performance of Calcium Sulphoaluminate (CSA) Cement by Chuanlin Wang, Meimei Song

“…Experimental tests on the setting time, physical properties, compressive strength, chemical shrinkage, X-ray diffraction (XRD), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of CSA cement paste were carried out. …”
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The Psu protein of phage satellite P4 inhibits transcription termination factor ρ by forced hyper-oligomerization by Daniela Gjorgjevikj, Naveen Kumar, Bing Wang, Tarek Hilal, Nelly Said, Bernhard Loll, Irina Artsimovitch, Ranjan Sen, Markus C. Wahl

“…Phage satellite P4 polarity suppression protein, Psu, a building block of the viral capsid, inhibits hexameric transcription termination factor, ρ, by presently unknown mechanisms. Our cryogenic electron microscopy structures of ρ-Psu complexes show that Psu dimers clamp two inactive, open ρ rings and promote their expansion to higher-oligomeric states. …”
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Representation Degree Zero by Alberto Sdegno

“…With these surprisingly laconic words, the twenty-five-year-old Ivan Sutherland described, in his doctoral thesis [1], the most obvious difference between a traditional drawing and an electronic graphic document. Creator of the first interactive design system to be made public, called Sketchpad, presented precisely in the abovementioned thesis, and the first man to have drawn luminous lines on a monitor, he posed questions that have not yet been fully resolved even today, more than fifty years after that earliest act. …”
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Synthesis, characterization and adsorption studies of an acrylic acid-grafted sodium alginate-based TiO hydrogel nanocomposite by Sourbh Thakur, Omotayo Arotiba

“…The structure and morphology of the nanocomposites were investigated using X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), Fourier Transform Infra-Red Spectroscopy (FTIR), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) and thermogravimetric analysis techniques. …”
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Characteristics of A6061/(Glass Fibre + AL2O3 + SiC + B4C) Reinforced Hybrid Composite Prepared through STIR Casting by Subramani Nanjan, Ganesh Murali Janakiram

“…Here, some experimental study is carried out on the composite layer through scanning electron microscopy and XRD test to show the influence of the reinforcement on A6061, and the percentage of gold-silver-copper (AuAgCu), aluminium-zinc (ZA), and palladium deuteride is increased in this composition and justified through the graphical representation of the XRD image. …”
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RAA and υn: Relativistic transport approach for charm and bottom toward a more solid phenomenological determination of Ds(T) by Sambataro Maria Lucia, Plumari Salvatore, Minissale Vincenzo, Parisi Gabriele, Greco Vincenzo

“…Within an event-by-event full Boltzmann transport approach followed by a hybrid hadronization via coalescence plus fragmentation, we investigate the extension to bottom quark dynamics discussing predictions for RAA and υ2,3 of B mesons comparing to the available experimental data by ALICE collaboration on electrons from B meson decay. Furthermore, we extend our QPM approach to a more realistic model in which partonic propagators explicitly depend on quark momentum (QPMp) following Dyson-Schwinger studies. …”
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Effective Remediation of Lead Ions from Aqueous Solution by Chemically Carbonized Rubber Wood Sawdust: Equilibrium, Kinetics, and Thermodynamic Study by Swarup Biswas, Umesh Mishra

“…Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscope, and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy confirmed the batch adsorption of lead ion onto chemically carbonized rubber wood sawdust.…”
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Coexistence of Takayasu’s Arteritis in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases by Camilla de Almeida Martins, Ana Elisa Rabe Caon, Carolina Bortolozzo Graciolli Facanali, Carlos Walter Sobrado, Sergio Carlos Nahas, Rosa Maria Rodrigues Pereira, Reuma Margalit-Yehuda, Uri Kopylov, Natalia Sousa Freitas Queiroz

“…We analyzed retrospectively the electronic medical charts of TA-IBD patients at the University Hospital of São Paulo, Brazil, and at the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Aviv University, Israel. …”
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Expert perspectives on tuberculosis screening procedures for migrants by Marina Pinheiro, David N Moreira, Ana Aguiar, Raquel Duarte

“…Data were collected by using electronic, anonymized surveys with experts in tuberculosis in seven different countries within two World Health Organization regions (Europe and Africa). …”
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