Minimum Water Requirement Method for High-Performance Sulphoaluminate Cement-Based Materials by Hong-ping Zhang, Pei-kang Bai, Jian-hong Wang, Yan-li Dong, Yun-shan Han

“…In this work, we propose the use of steel slag instead of slag powder, in addition to fly ash and silica fume, to obtain high-performance sulphoaluminate cement-based materials. …”
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Drosophila Mutant Model of Parkinson’s Disease Revealed an Unexpected Olfactory Performance: Morphofunctional Evidences by Francescaelena De Rose, Valentina Corda, Paolo Solari, Patrizia Sacchetti, Antonio Belcari, Simone Poddighe, Sanjay Kasture, Paolo Solla, Francesco Marrosu, Anna Liscia

“…In spite of the above reported results, the behavioural response to olfactory stimuli in mutant flies is impaired compared to that obtained in wild type flies. …”
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Dynamic Analysis of the Scraper Conveyor under Abnormal Operating Conditions Based on the Vibration and Speed Characteristics by Shoubo Jiang, Weijian Ren, Qinghua Mao, Qingliang Zeng, Pengfei Yu, Kuidong Gao, Liang Wang

“…If the chain breaks during the test, the broken link may fly out and hurt the tester. The test risk of the scraper conveyor under abnormal working conditions is relatively large; hence, the test research is impossible to carry out. …”
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Insecticidal Action of Local Isolates of Entomopathogenic Fungi Against <i>Bactrocera oleae</i> Pupae by Spiridon Mantzoukas, Alexandros Margaritis, Thomais Sourouni, Vasiliki Georgopoulou, Chrysanthi Zarmakoupi, Vasileios Papantzikos, Ioannis Lagogiannis, Panagiotis A. Eliopoulos, George Patakioutas

“…In this work, the ability of certain entomopathogenic fungi to control the olive fruit fly <i>Bactrocera oleae</i> (Diptera: Tephritidae), which significantly affects olive cultivation, was assessed. …”
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High-integrity diffusion bonding of laser powder bed fused, forged, and rolled Ti–6Al–4V alloys by Seoyeon Jeon, Hyunjong Ha, Dong Jun Lee, Hyeonil Park, Yong Nam Kwon, Hyunjoo Choi, Hyokyung Sung

“…Diffusion bonding of additively manufactured Ti–6Al–4V components with complex geometries to conventionally processed frames is a cost-effective approach for reducing the buy-to-fly ratio while minimizing deformation. This is the first study to investigate the diffusion bonding between laser powder bed fusion (LPBF)-manufactured and conventionally processed Ti–6Al–4V alloys at various temperatures, durations, and pressures. …”
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Mechanical Properties and Micromorphology of Calcium Oxide Expansion Agent on River Sand/Machine-Made Sand Concrete by Feng Wei, Fei Zhang, Li Gao, Rui Wang, Xiang Ren, Dan Zhang

“…Concrete samples with different calcium oxide contents (0%, 6%, 8%, and 10%) were prepared by mass substitution with fly ash. Early air content, slump, compressive strength testing, and other analysis methods are used to determine the physical and mechanical properties of river sand-manufactured sand concrete with different calcium oxide expansion agent blending ratios. …”
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Dilution Ratio and Particle Loss Performance of a Newly Developed Ejector Porous Tube Diluter Compared to a Commercial Diluter by Dongho Shin, Hyunsoo Seo, Kee-Jung Hong, Hak-Joon Kim, Yong-Jin Kim, Bangwoo Han, Ga-Young Lee, Sung-Nam Chun, Jungho Hwang

“…As a demonstration, particle size volume distributions of fly ash at a coal-fired power plant stack were determined for different dilution ratios. …”
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The Effects of Magnesium Borate Whiskers on the Mechanical Performance of Oil Well Cement by Xianshu Gao, Ping Zhou, Xiaoliang Qin, Zhaijun Wen, Jing Wang, Hao Wang, Ming Li, Jia Zhuang, Chengxin Li

“…Among them, reinforcing agents are the most direct and effective means, such as slag, metakaolin, and fly ash. These materials can improve the performance of cement stone to a certain extent, but their chemical composition is still mainly silica, which does not in essence change the defects of cement. …”
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Multiple Roles of the Y Chromosome in the Biology of Drosophila melanogaster by Roberto Piergentili

“…Morgan was able to associate the X chromosome of the fruit fly with a phenotypic character (the eye color) for the first time. …”
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End-to-end neural automatic speech recognition system for low resource languages by Sami Dhahbi, Nasir Saleem, Sami Bourouis, Mouhebeddine Berrima, Elena Verdú

“…This study leverages a non-autoregressive neural text-to-speech (TTS) engine to generate high-quality speech, converting a series of phonemes into speech waveforms (mel-spectrograms). An on-the-fly data augmentation method is applied to these mel-spectrograms, treating them as images from which features are extracted to train a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a bidirectional long short-term memory (BLSTM)-based ASR. …”
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Predicting Compressive Strength of Concrete Containing Industrial Waste Materials: Novel and Hybrid Machine Learning Model by Mohammed Majeed Hameed, Mustafa Abbas Abed, Nadhir Al-Ansari, Mohamed Khalid Alomar

“…This paper investigates the capacity of hybrid models conducted for predicting the compressive strength (CS) of concrete where the cement was partially replaced with ground granulated blast-furnace slag (FS) and fly ash (FA) materials. Accurate estimation of CS can reduce the cost and laboratory tests. …”
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Development and characteristic of SFRCR-ECC as a novel multifunctional version of fire-resistive and corrosion-resistive coating by Junyu Yang, Liang Li, Jutao Chen, Yan Xiong, Kairen Lin, Solomon Tesfamariam

“…In response to the above problems, a spray-applied, fire-resistive and corrosion-resistive engineered cementitious composites (SFRCR-ECC) containing fly ash cenosphere (FAC), PP fibers and PE fibers was developed in this paper. …”
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Persistent intestinal myiasis caused by Oestrus ovis in a Nigerian university student: a case report by Winifred N. Adiri, Bruno Basil, Chinwe P. Onyia, Joy O. Ugwuanyi, Chinyere Azifuaku, Sam C. Iheukwumere, Olivia Obienu, Uchenna N. Ijoma, Sylvester C. Nwokediuko

“…Abstract Background Gastrointestinal myiasis is a rare form of infestation by fly larvae which typically occurs due to ingestion of contaminated food or water, especially in regions with poor hygiene. …”
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Performance Evaluation and Microstructure Study of Pervious Concrete Prepared from Various Solid Waste Admixtures by Yi Li, Jiong Zhang, Jie Ding, Feng-zhen Chen, Ming-zhu Liu, Jia Liu, Zhao Hou

“…In this study, three common SWM, including muck, steel slag (SS) and fly ash (FA), are used as raw materials. The chemical composition and physical properties of SWM are analyzed. …”
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Deterministic genetic barcoding for multiplexed behavioral and single-cell transcriptomic studies by Jorge Blanco Mendana, Margaret Donovan, Lindsey Gengelbach O'Brien, Benjamin Auch, John Garbe, Daryl M Gohl

“…By creating many such independently barcoded fly strains, TaG-EM enables positive identification of cell types in cell atlas projects, identification of multiplet droplets, and barcoding of experimental timepoints, conditions, and replicates. …”
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Climate Change and Environmental Influence on Prevalence of Visceral Leishmaniasis in West Pokot County, Kenya by Bulle Abdullahi, Joshua Mutiso, Fredrick Maloba, John Macharia, Mark Riongoita, Michael Gicheru

“…Kala-azar is a parasitic disease caused by Leishmania species transmitted by sand fly. In Kenya, kala-azar is endemic in thirty subcounties spread over in eleven counties in the arid zones. …”
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Preparation and Properties of Coal Ash Ceramic Membranes for Water and Heat Recovery from Flue Gas by Haiping Chen, Xiangsheng Li, Jiadi Wei, Yijun Feng, Dan Gao

“…The main material of this membrane is fly ash which can reduce the sintering temperature and save the costs. …”
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Strength Investigation of the Silt-Based Cemented Paste Backfill Using Lab Experiments and Deep Neural Network by Chongchun Xiao, Xinmin Wang, Qiusong Chen, Feng Bin, Yihan Wang, Wei Wei

“…Cementitious materials were selected to be the ordinary Portland cement (OPC), OPC + coal gangue (CG), and OPC + coal fly ash (CFA). A large number of lab experiments were conducted to investigate the unconfined compressive strength (UCS) of CPB samples. …”
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An ultrasonic-AI hybrid approach for predicting void defects in concrete-filled steel tubes via enhanced XGBoost with Bayesian optimization by Shuai Wan, Shipan Li, Zheng Chen, Yunchao Tang

“…SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) analysis revealed that sound velocity, sound time, acoustic amplitude, concrete strength, and fly ash content were the most influential features for model predictions. …”
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Applications of Organic and Inorganic Amendments Induce Changes in the Mobility of Mercury and Macro- and Micronutrients of Soils by Mercedes García-Sánchez, Adéla Šípková, Jiřina Száková, Lukáš Kaplan, Pavla Ochecová, Pavel Tlustoš

“…The individual treatments were (i) digestate from the anaerobic fermentation of biowaste; (ii) fly ash from wood chip combustion; and (iii) ammonium sulfate, and every treatment was added with the same amount of S. …”
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