Effect of friction-welding parameters on the tensile strength of AA6063 with dissimilar joints by Yashwanth Chapke, Dinesh N. Kamble

“…Microcracks are forming on the side of AA6063 and propagates along the grain boundaries. The effect of the influencing parameters on the tensile strength of the dissimilar joints are studied using the Taguchi’s DOE and ANOVA. …”
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Effects of Nuclear Genomes on Anther Development in Cytoplasmic Male Sterile Chicories (Cichorium intybus L.): Morphological Analysis by Ildephonse Habarugira, Theo Hendriks, Marie-Christine Quillet, Jean-Louis Hilbert, Caroline Rambaud

“…The development was similar in fertile and in male sterile florets up to meiosis, and then it was affected in anther wall structure and pollen grain development in male sterile floret. In the male sterile plants, the tapetum intrusion after meiosis was less remarkable, the microspores started to abort at vacuolate stage, the connective tissue collapsed, and endothecium failed to expand normally and did not undergo cell wall lignification, which prevented anther opening since the septum and stomium were not disrupted. …”
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A Fuzzy Similarity Elimination Algorithm for Indoor Fingerprint Positioning by Yongle Chen, Wei Liu, Yongping Xiong, Jing Duan, Zhi Li, Hongsong Zhu

“…According to clusters distribution feature of corresponding positions of the similar fingerprints, we proposed a K -Means+ clustering algorithm to achieve fine-grained fingerprint positioning. Due to the K -Means+ algorithm failing to locate the positions of outliers, we also designed a linear sequence matching algorithm to improve the outliers positioning, and reduce the impact of fuzzy similarity. …”
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TEM Study of High-Temperature Precipitation of Delta Phase in Inconel 718 Alloy by Moukrane Dehmas, Jacques Lacaze, Aliou Niang, Bernard Viguier

“…This latter phase is also present above the 𝛾 solvus and is used for grain control during forging of alloy 718. While most works available on 𝛿 precipitation have been performed at temperatures below the 𝛾 solvus, it appeared of interest to also investigate the case where 𝛿 phase precipitates directly from the fcc matrix free of 𝛾 precipitates. …”
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Time-and-ID-Based Proxy Reencryption Scheme by Kambombo Mtonga, Anand Paul, Seungmin Rho

“…Time- and ID-based proxy reencryption scheme is proposed in this paper in which a type-based proxy reencryption enables the delegator to implement fine-grained policies with one key pair without any additional trust on the proxy. …”
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Enhancing Medical Image Classification With Context Modulated Attention and Multi-Scale Feature Fusion by Renhan Zhang, Xuegang Luo, Junrui Lv, Junyang Cao, Yangping Zhu, Juan Wang, Bochuan Zheng

“…Meanwhile, it extracts fine-grained local information via the multi-stage Contextual Information Refinement (CIR) module and gradually fuses multi-stage local and global features to generate richer semantic representations. …”
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The Ordovician strata of the Ennedi Plateau, northeastern Chad (Erdi Basin) by Ghienne, Jean-François, Moussa, Abderamane, Saad, Abakar, Djatibeye, Barnabé, Youssouf, Hissein Mahamat

“…Above an erosional unconformity, the end-Ordovician glacial record consists of fluvioglacial conglomeratic deposits atop the Lower Sandstones, which are in turn superimposed by the fine-grained Bedo Formation. The latter interval, onlapping an exhumed erosion surface showing north-trending km-scale glacial lineations, shows glaciomarine deposits only at its base and possibly include Lower Silurian deposits in its upper part.…”
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Superior strength-ductility synergy of wire-arc directed energy deposited Mg-Al-Si alloys mediated by sub-rapid solidification by Qifei Han, Yueling Guo, Jinlong Hu, Rui Fu, Yangyu Yan, Changmeng Liu

“…Significant microstructure refinement is thus achieved, with reduced grain size and Mg2Si particle diameter. The transition from hypereutectic to fully eutectic microstructure is triggered by reducing the heat input. …”
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Study on Hot Deformation Behavior of 7085 Aluminum Alloy during Backward Extrusion Process by R. B. Mei, Y. X. Du, L. Bao, X. Y. Zhang, B. Zhang, Z. J. Zhou

“…Severe plastic deformation of shear and compression occurs when the metal flowed into the channel between fillet of punch and wall of die so that the grain size can be refined by backward extrusion. …”
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Microstructure and Density of Sintered ZnO Ceramics Prepared by Magnetic Pulsed Compaction by Ji-Woon Lee, Changhyun Jin, Soon-Jig Hong, Soong-Keun Hyun

“…The microstructures of the sintered ZnO ceramics prepared by MPC at sintering temperatures ranging from 900 to 1300°C showed a homogeneous grain growth compared to those of the samples prepared using other methods under the same sintering conditions. …”
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Influence of the Soil Genesis on Physical and Mechanical Properties by Marian Marschalko, Işık Yilmaz, Lucie Fojtová, Karel Kubečka, Tomáš Bouchal, Martin Bednárik

“…The study identified different values in certain cases, mostly in coarser-grained foundation soils, such as sandy loam S4 (MS) and clayey sand F4 (CS). …”
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Effect of ultrasonic radiation on the organization and mechanical properties of laser-melted Ni-based WC coatings by Changlong Zhao, Weilong Du, Zice Yu, Zihao Zhang, Haifeng Zhang

“…It was found that under ultrasonic radiation with an amplitude of 14 μm, the surface of the coating was smoother and the average grain size was 16.52 μm2, which was reduced by 66.47 % compared to that of the coating without applied ultrasonic. …”
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Rheological analysis of cemented carbides and Tungsten powders for additive manufacture via laser powder bed fusion technique by Fábio Miranda, Rodrigo Condotta, Nathalia Marina Gonçalves Pereira, Marcelo Otávio dos Santos, Daniel Rodrigues, Suzilene Real Janasi, Fernando dos Santos Ortega, Gilmar Ferreira Batalha

“…Due to the requirement for extremely fine grain size, the cohesive behavior of the particle bed becomes significant, influencing its compressibility and porosity. …”
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Lightweight multidimensional feature enhancement algorithm LPS-YOLO for UAV remote sensing target detection by Yong Lu, Minghao Sun

“…We propose LPS-YOLO, which improves small target feature extraction while reducing computational complexity by replacing the Conv backbone with SPDConv to retain fine-grained features. LPS-YOLO introduces the SKAPP module for better feature fusion and incorporates the E-BiFPN and OFTP structures to efficiently preserve and transfer backbone information. …”
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Effect of Wood Preservatives on Surface Properties of Coated Wood by Turgay Ozdemir, Ali Temiz, Ismail Aydin

“….), oriental beech (Fagus orientalis Lipsky), and chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) specimens (300 × 100 × 15 mm along the grain) were impregnated with aqueous solution of 2% CCA, 2% Tanalith E, 1% boric acid, and Immersol aqua. …”
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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

“…One of the most applied severe plastic deformation processes is ECAP (equal-channel angular pressing) which is suitable to produce ultrafine-grained metallic materials with high mechanical performance. …”
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Microstructure and Properties of Sulfoaluminate Cement-Based Grouting Materials: Effect of Calcium Sulfate Variety by Jianwu Zhang, Xuemao Guan, Xiao Wang, Xianwei Ma, Zhixin Li, Zhuoyue Xu, Biao Jin

“…The results showed that (1) the formation of ettringite can be completed during the first 2 h when gypsum was selected, causing nonexpansion of the harden body, and ettringite tends to be precipitated near the clinker grain, which has a negative influence on the “skeleton effect” of ettringite, resulting in lower strength of the hardened body. (2) Ettringite can be continually and slowly precipitated when an anhydride was chosen, and the hardened body shows significant expansion characteristic. …”
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A PCBM-Modified TiO2 Blocking Layer towards Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells by Gang Lu, Fengqin He, Shangzheng Pang, Haifeng Yang, Dazheng Chen, Jingjing Chang, Zhenhua Lin, Jincheng Zhang, Chunfu Zhang

“…And the PCBM layer can also be in favor of larger grain size perovskite film and further passivate the TiO2 blocking layer. …”
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Improved Mechanical Performances of Hastelloy C276 Composite Coatings Reinforced with SiC by Laser Cladding by Yuqing Tang, Zheng Lu, Xuan Zhang, Xihuai Wang, Shengbin Zhao, Mingdi Wang

“…These acicular crystals tend to extend away from the residual SiC powder particles, and the grain size in this region is smaller and more densely distributed. …”
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Effect of Al and Ta Impurities on Si Adsorption on (001) and (111) Surfaces of B1-TiN by Yury M. Koroteev, Leonid A. Svyatkin, Sergey O. Ognev, Vyacheslav M. Silkin

“…The nanocrystalline structure of the coating is formed due to Si impurity, which is poorly soluble in the Ti_1−x−yAl<i>_x</i>Ta<i>_y</i>N system based on B1-TiN and segregates mainly along grain boundaries, forming grain boundary amorphous phases of Si_zN type. …”
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