Hydrothermal Synthesis of Nanostructured Manganese Oxide as Cathodic Catalyst in a Microbial Fuel Cell Fed with Leachate by Yuan Haoran, Deng Lifang, Lu Tao, Chen Yong

“…Their crystal structures, morphology, and electrochemical characters were carried out by FESEM, N2-adsorption-desorption, and CV, indicating that the hydrothermally synthesized MnO2 (HSM) was structured by nanorods of high aspect ratio and multivalve nanoflowers and more positive than the naturally synthesized MnO2 (NSM), accompanied by a noticeable increase in oxygen reduction peak current. …”
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Remote sensing applications for managing a large-scale restoration dynamics project throughout the City of Gold Coast conservation estate by Jean-Marc Hero, Luke Shoo, Michael Duncan, Darren Roche, Jesse Kenny, Howard Taylor, Tim Robson, Sanjeev Kumar Srivastava, Josh Veitch-Michaelis

“…The City of Gold Coast established a program to restore native forests throughout the conservation estate (∼13,789 ha) utilizing constructed (CNR), assisted (ANR), and unassisted natural regeneration (UNR). Each year the city maintains over 4000 Ha of restoration works. …”
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Effect of Roundness and Surface Roughness of Foundry Sand on the Temperature Change of Sand Cores for Aluminum Casting by Taekyu Ha, Jongmin Kim, Youngki Lee, Byungil Kang, Youngjig Kim

“…Temperature changes were measured using three types of sand: angular artificial sand (AAS), natural sand (NS) with different roundness and surface roughness, and polished AAS with a smooth surface. …”
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La ciudad africana poscolonial: imaginario urbano y realidad en la ficción audiovisual by Ricardo Manuel Luque Revuelto, Daniel Moreno Muñoz

“… El medio natural y la evolución histórica, junto a diferentes culturas y religiones, han modelado unos conjuntos urbanos únicos y muy diversos en África. …”
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Baicalein Protects against Type 2 Diabetes via Promoting Islet β-Cell Function in Obese Diabetic Mice by Yu Fu, Jing Luo, Zhenquan Jia, Wei Zhen, Kequan Zhou, Elizabeth Gilbert, Dongmin Liu

“…These results demonstrate that baicalein may be a naturally occurring antidiabetic agent by directly modulating pancreatic β-cell function.…”
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A Network Investigation on Idiopathic Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism in China by Weiwei Zhao, Hongying Ye, Xiaolong Zhao, Zhaoyun Zhang, Shouyue Sun, Yiran Jiang, Min He, Cheng Xu, Renming Hu, Yiming Li

“…Idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (IHH) is a rare condition in which puberty does not take place naturally. We aimed to develop and follow an internet-based cohort and to improve our understanding of the disease. …”
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Risk Factors and Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori Infection in Persistent High Incidence Area of Gastric Carcinoma in Yangzhong City by Yangchun Zhu, Xiaoying Zhou, Junbei Wu, Jing Su, Guoxin Zhang

“…A prospective epidemiologic survey of H. pylori infection was accomplished in a natural population of 5417 individuals in Yangzhong city. …”
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Impact of non-Hermiticity and nonlinear interactions on disorder-induced localized modes by Bhupesh Kumar, Jonathan Andreasen, Patrick Sebbah

“…In non-Hermitian photonics, introducing gain and loss offers new degrees of freedom to control optical systems and a unique approach to explore fundamental concepts. Random lasers are a natural class of non-Hermitian open optical systems where spatial confinement, leakage, and non-orthogonality of the modes are further controlled by the degree of scattering. …”
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UJI TINGKAT KEMATANGAN BUAH MANGGA MENGGUNAKAN PIGMEN ANTOSIANIN DARI BUNGA TELANG (Clitoria ternatea) by Dhanang Puspita, Monang Sihombing, Karina Permata

“…Making indicators based on natural dyes, namely anthocyanins, to determine the level of sweetness of the fruit. …”
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An Evaluation of Bera Lake (Malaysia) Sediment Contamination Using Sediment Quality Guidelines by Mohammadreza Gharibreza, Muhammad Aqeel Ashraf, Ismail Yusoff, John Kuna Raj

“…Bera Lake is known as the first RAMSAR site and is the largest natural lake in Malaysia. Sediment quality guidelines (SQGs) and Geoaccumulation index were used to evaluate Bera Lake sediment contamination. …”
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Management of the Republic of Turkey fuel and energy complex: structure and legal regulation by B. D. Nuriev, S. V. Pospelov

“…Erdogan decree, which defined the general principles of the key management body – the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, and the energy development plan for the period 2019–2023, which outlines the main tasks and objectives of the management bodies. …”
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Evaluating the Impact of Oil Refinery on Landscape Values Perception and Mental Health: A Case Study of Tehran by Mahdi Gheitasi, David Serrano Giné, Yolanda Pérez Albert

“…Oil refineries, which use compounds derived from natural gas or crude oil, pose both short- and long-term environmental and health risks. …”
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Inotersen to Treat Polyneuropathy Associated with Hereditary Transthyretin (hATTR) Amyloidosis by Christopher Robinson, Cynthia Pham, Alec M. Zamarripa, Chase S. Dugay, Christopher A. Lee, Amnon A. Berger, Avi Landman, Elyse M. Cornett, Hisham Kassem, Alan D. Kaye, Ivan Urits, Omar Viswanath, Latha Ganti

“…Its most common presentation is that of polyneuropathy, and it carries a very poor prognosis and a natural history conveying a median survival of \< 12 years. …”
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Mathematical modeling of the parasitism and hyperparasitism increase on Halyomorpha halys eggs in a five-year survey in Northern Italy by Ezio Venturino, Francesco Cantaloni, Luciana Tavella, Silvia Moraglio, Francesco Tortorici

“…In the native area, egg parasitoids are the main natural enemies of H. halys, among which Trissolcus japonicus is considered the predominant species. …”
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A Bibliometric Perspective on AI Research for Job-Résumé Matching by Sergio Rojas-Galeano, Jorge Posada, Esteban Ordoñez

“…Recent advances in AI, specifically in the fields of text analytics and natural language processing, have sparked the interest of research on the application of these technologies to help recruiters accomplish this task or part of it automatically, applying algorithms for information extraction, parsing, representation, and matching of résumés and job descriptions, or sections within. …”
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Alkaline activation of different aluminosilicates as an alternative to Portland cement: alkali activated cements or geopolymers by M. Torres-Carrasco, F. Puertas

“…The aluminosilicates may be natural products such as metakaolin or industrial by-products such as blast furnace slag or aluminosiliceous fly ash. …”

The Role of Environmental Monitoring in Promoting Green Creativity by Taha Ibrahim Mohamed, Abbas Ali Abdulhassan

“…The main objective of the research article is to demonstrate the role played by environmental monitoring in promoting green creativity by creating competitive new products, services, processes, procedures and systems designed to use natural resources at the lowest level and to provide a better quality of life. …”
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Modeling and Solving Multi-Objective Path Planning Problem for Cooperative Cable-Suspended Load Transportation Considering the Time Variable Risk by Amir Arslan Haghrah, Sehraneh Ghaemi, Mohammad Ali Badamchizadeh

“…Cooperative load transportation has the potential to revolutionize the urban logistics industry and can also be utilized in rescue operations following natural disasters. Utilizing cooperative cable-suspended load transportation in such applications involves addressing three problems: static path planning, dynamic path planning, and control. …”
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De Masaccio à Stalker: pour une esthétique du seuil et de son franchissement  by Sylvie Castets

“…The suggestion of depth but also of thickness appears and thereby marks the beginning of naturalism in painting. The intellectual realism of the Middle Ages is replaced by a new mode of figuration. …”
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IDEALIZATION OF REALITY THROUGH PHOTOS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS by Svetlana M. Maltseva, Natalia A. Nikitina, Ekaterina S. Surovegina

“…The authors suggest that the illusion of an "ideal life" destroys the natural perception of modern society about the surrounding reality and beauty. …”
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