Shrinkage Effects of Using Fly Ash instead of Fine Aggregate in Concrete Mixtures by Dongsheng Zhang, Pengfei Han, Qiuning Yang, Mingjie Mao

“…Ambient humidities also affected the concrete shrinkage, but the water-to-binder ratio effects were negligible. Drying shrinkage largely occurred before 28 d, whereas autogenous shrinkage continued after 28 d. …”
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Modeling and Simulation of Traffic Congestion for Mixed Traffic Flow with Connected Automated Vehicles: A Cell Transmission Model Approach by Yunxia Wu, Yalan Lin, Rong Hu, Zilan Wang, Bin Zhao, Zhihong Yao

“…The results show the following: (i) CAVs can significantly alleviate traffic congestion, (ii) the duration of the bottleneck is positively correlated with the degree of traffic congestion, and (iii) The traffic congestion assessment results under different model parameters slightly differ, but the impact is negligible.…”
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INTERNAL AUDIT PRACTICES AND ORGANIZATION EFFECTIVENESS: INSIGHTS FROM SMES IN KWARA STATE by Saheed Lawal, Abdulkadri Toyin Alabi

“…Internal auditor use of information technology, however, has a negligible and detrimental impact on the organizational performance of SMEs in Kwara State. …”
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Stability Analysis of the New Section in Raising the Existing Composite Wala Dam Using Finite Element Methods by Dima A. Husein Malkawi, Abdallah I. Husein Malkawi

“…Moreover, the stability analysis showed that the stresses and deformation are minimal and negligible. Also, no failure was observed or reported within the soil. …”
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Fabrication of AChE/SnO2-cMWCNTs/Cu Nanocomposite-Based Sensor Electrode for Detection of Methyl Parathion in Water by Vikas Dhull

“…Developed sensor showed excellent analytical recovery of pesticide in water sample with negligible effect of interfering species. Also, AChE/SnO2-cMWCNTs/Cu was easily reactivated simply by varying pH of phosphate buffer. …”
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Formulation and Evaluation of Guggul Lipid Nanovesicles for Transdermal Delivery of Aceclofenac by Praveen Kumar Gaur, Shikha Mishra, Vidhu Aeri

“…Most new drugs have low water solubility and liposome is an important formulation to administer such drugs; however, it is quite unstable and has negligible systemic absorption. Objective. Aceclofenac nanovesicles were made using guggul lipid for formulating stable transdermal formulation. …”
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Are “Theory of Mind” Skills in People with Epilepsy Related to How Stigmatised They Feel? An Exploratory Study by A. J. Noble, A. Robinson, A. G. Marson

“…Feelings of stigma held a negligible, negative, and nonsignificant association with ToM performance (rs  −0.02 and -0.05). …”
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Fluorescence Properties of Novel Multiresonant Indolocarbazole Derivatives for Deep-Blue OLEDs from Multiscale Computer Modelling by Nikita O. Dubinets, Andrey Yu. Sosorev

“…QM/MM and QM/EFP calculations yielded negligible inhomogeneous broadening of the emission spectrum of the studied luminophores when embedded as dopants in anthracene-based hosts, predicting high colour purity of the corresponding devices. …”
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AReLU: Agile Rectified Linear Unit for Improving Lightweight Convolutional Neural Networks by Fu Chen, Yepeng Guan

“…But the improvements are achieved with extra memory and computational cost, which is non-negligible for lightweight convolutional networks. To address this issue, a lightweight input-dependent dynamic activation function is proposed, namely, Agile Rectified Linear Unit (AReLU). …”
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Proximity-induced flipped spin state in synthetic ferrimagnetic Pt/Co/Gd heterolayers by Jeovani Brandão, Pamela C. Carvalho, Ivan P. Miranda, Thiago J. A. Mori, Fanny Béron, Anders Bergman, Helena M. Petrilli, Angela B. Klautau, Julio C. Cezar

“…For the Pt, in both Pt/Co and Gd/Pt interfaces, the IMM follows the same direction as the Co magnetic moment, with negligible IMM in the Gd/Pt interface. Additionally, zero-field spin spirals were imaged using scanning transmission X-ray microscopy, whereas micromagnetic simulations were employed to unfold the interactions, stabilizing the ferrimagnetic configurations, where the existence of a sizable Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction is demonstrated to be crucial.…”
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Kinetics of austenite formation during continuous heating in as-cast and as-annealed conditions in a low carbon steel by Antonio Oliver-Reynoso, Octavio Vázquez-Gómez, Francisco Reyes-Calderón, Héctor J Vergara-Hernández, Martín Herrejón-Escutia, Miguel I Dávila-Pérez, Edgar López-Martínez

“…The analysis shows that elemental variations are negligible, so the difference lies mainly in the morphology of the initial condition.…”
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Investigation of the Effect of Aerosolized TiO2 Nanoparticles on the NO2 Concentrations under UVA Exposure by Ali Mohamadi Nasrabadi, Ana Maria Todea, Carmen Wolf, Tolga Demirel, David Habryka, Christof Asbach

“…However, when the former was high (> 3.23E+06 cm–3), the contribution of the latter was negligible. On the other hand, when the latter was high, the influence of the former was minimal. …”
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On the Effect of the Patient Table on Attenuation in Myocardial Perfusion Imaging SPECT by Tamino Huxohl, Gopesh Patel, Wolfgang Burchert

“…Conclusions The effect of the patient table on attenuation in MPI SPECT is negligible.…”
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Numerical Simulation of Tornado-like Vortices Induced by Small-Scale Cyclostrophic Wind Perturbations by Yuhan Liu, Yongqiang Jiang, Chaohui Chen, Yun Zhang, Hongrang He, Xiong Chen, Ruilin Zhong

“…The effect of the Coriolis force is negligible for meso-γ-scale and smaller systems, while for meso-β-scale and larger systems, it begins to have a significant impact. …”
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Mechanical Behavior of High-Strength Bolted Joints Fabricated from Fire-Resistant Steel at Elevated Temperatures by Yuedong Wang, Xiaorun Li, Peng Liu, Changdong Wu, Chuhan Liu, Lijing Zeng, Wentao He, Tiantian Yin

“…The experimental results show that the treatment of the friction surface (specifically, impeller blasting and sprayed hard quartz sand) has a negligible effect on the ultimate strength of specimens and a relatively significant effect on the slip strength. …”
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Effect of Mg interlayer on the microstructure and mechanical performance of resistance rivet welded 2 mm Al and ultra-high strength steel by Luyao Kong, Sizhe Niu, Ming Lou, Zixuan Chen, Yunwu Ma, Yongbing Li, Haiyang Lei

“…The presence of Mg interlayer has negligible impact on the mixed nugget size; however, it significantly alters the joint microstructure. …”
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On the Primary Ionization Mechanism(s) in Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization by Laura Molin, Roberta Seraglia, Zbigniew Czarnocki, Jan K. Maurin, Franciszek A. Pluciński, Pietro Traldi

“…Some experiments have been performed to evaluate the role of thermal ionization and indicate that its effect is negligible. Some differences have been observed for different matrices in the formation of analyte molecule (M) ion [M+H]+, [M-H]-, M+•, and [M-2H]-•, and they have been explained in terms of ionization energies, pKa values, and thermodynamic stability.…”
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Do Power Meter Data Depend on the Device on Which They Are Collected? Comparison of Eleven Different Recordings by José-Antonio Salas-Montoro, Ignacio Valdivia-Fernández, Alejandro de Rozas, José-Manuel Reyes-Sánchez, Mikel Zabala, Juan-José Pérez-Díaz

“…These findings suggest that, while variations in constant efforts may be negligible, in short-duration, high-intensity activities, the choice of device may be crucial for the accuracy and reliability of the data.…”
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Studies on the biological effects of ozone: 8. Effects on the total antioxidant status and on interleukin-8 production by V. Bocci, G. Valacchi, F. Corradeschi, G. Fanetti

“…The increase of haemolysis is negligible suggesting that the erythrocyte membrane is spared at the expense of other sacrificial substrates. …”
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Numerical study of the heat transfer characteristics of Helium-Air flow in PCHE with zigzag channel by Haidong Liu, Qiao Zeng, Deqi Chen, Yi Xiao, Yangyang Wang, Mingxia Liu, Xiaoli Qu

“…Changes in thermal-hydraulic parameters exert negligible effects on the inlet and outlet pressure drops for both helium and air (ΔPₕₑ ≈ 10 kPa, ΔPₐᵢᵣ ≈ 100 kPa). …”
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