Characterization of sustainable bacterial cellulose fabricated with Vietnamese ingredients for potential textile applications: Tensile and handle properties by Rajkishore Nayak, Donna Cleveland, Frances Joseph

“…Keeping the properties in mind, the authors successfully designed products such as wallets and decorative paintings using the harvested BC samples.…”
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Checkmate to Bioethics? by Fabio Alberto Garzón Díaz

“… Bioethics, as the first cousin of philosophy, suffers from what philosopher Hegel told us during his lifetime, “When philosophy paints lights and shadows, an aspect of life has grown old, and cannot be rejuvenated, but only understood. …”
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Characterization of a Bifacial Photovoltaic Panel Integrated with External Diffuse and Semimirror Type Reflectors by P. Ooshaksaraei, K. Sopian, R. Zulkifli, M. A. Alghoul, Saleem H. Zaidi

“…Reflection from the rear surface was provided by an extended semimirror and a white-painted diffuse reflector. Maximum power generation was observed at 30° with respect to ground for the semimirror reflector and 10° for diffuse reflector at an optimized reflector-panel separation of 115 mm. …”
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Improving Industrial Quality Control: A Transfer Learning Approach to Surface Defect Detection by Ângela Semitela, Miguel Pereira, António Completo, Nuno Lau, José P. Santos

“…To automate the quality control of painted surfaces of heating devices, an automatic defect detection and classification system was developed by combining deflectometry and bright light-based illumination on the image acquisition, deep learning models for the classification of non-defective (OK) and defective (NOK) surfaces that fused dual-modal information at the decision level, and an online network for information dispatching and visualization. …”
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The effective management of teachers’ habitual tardiness: Protecting scheduled teaching time by Michael Moreti Mahome, Lydia Kgomotso Mphahlele

“…The findings further painted a bleak picture on the scheduled teaching time that is lost and usually unaccounted for. …”
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Errors in Latin Inscriptions on Renaissance Works of Fine Art by Lazer-Pankiv Olesia, Korolova Nataliia

“…The analysis of the Latin inscriptions on paintings, frescoes and engravings of the Renaissance period shows that the most common errors are phonetic and orthographic. …”
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Transmedial presence of verbal texts in architecture and public space. Between informativity and emotivity by Elżbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska

“…In addition, they are almost always multimodal, that is polysemiotic texts whose content becomes complemented with pictorial elements (paintings, sculptures), with written or oral language and, on occasion, with music. …”
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Understanding the nature of substance use in Zimbabwe: State of the art and ways forward: A scoping review protocol. by Blessing N Marandure, Samson Mhizha, Amanda Wilson, Clement Nhunzvi

“…Reports of substance use in Zimbabwe paint a concerning picture of escalating prevalence of use, with over half of people admitted to inpatient mental health units reportedly experiencing a substance induced disorder. …”
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Comparison of fit of poly (etheretherketone) and cobalt-chromium removable partial denture frames: an in-vitro study. by Ary Yaqoub Putros, Jawad Mohammed Mikaeel

“…A Vinyl Polysiloxane(VPS) is used to paint the intaglio surface of the rest, and the frame samples are held in place with finger pressure on the master cast. …”
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Primordial Cause of Armament, Disarmament, Weaponry and Weapons of Mass Destruction by Effiong Ekpo

“…It traced the intractable problem to the emergence of civil wars of diverse intensity which have painted the world with red, which also facilitated the proliferation and spread of illicit small arms, weapons landmines and weapons of mass destruction. …”
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Walter Crane : de l’album considéré comme un des Beaux-Arts by Isabelle Guillaume

“…His books for young people and their engravings could therefore appear as a separate production from the watercolors and paintings that this symbolist painter exhibited in London galleries and presented at various World Fairs, for example in Paris in 1878 and in Chicago in 1893. …”
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Comparative Study of Cervical Pap Smear and Visual Inspection of The Cervix To Detect Premalignant Disease of The Cervix by Rozhan Yassin Khalil, Khanda Abdolrahman Qader

“…This study include 115 samples were reproductive women and premenopausal  between ages 20-50 years old with symptomatic women ( vaginal discharge, dyspareunia, post coital bleeding , intermenestrual bleeding ) and prepared patients for a Pap smear test done for them. The cervix was painted with 5% concentration of acetic fluid for visual inspection method and monitored for aceto-white wounds and biopsies were taken from suspected areas. …”
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THE SOCIAL THEORY OF MAX WEBER IN CONFLICT OF INTERPRETATIONS by Zenonas Norkus

“…The confrontation of the system functionalism and conflict sociology during the first post-war decades led to "translation wars" in USA and gave rise to two competing images of Weber - a theorist of social order painted by T. Parsons and as "bourgeois Marx" defended by H. …”
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Proximate, Mineral Contents and Physicochemical Properties of <i>Chrysophyllum Albidum</i> (African Star Apple) Kernel Flour and Oil by S.S. Audu, C.I. Beetseh, D.U. Edward-Ekpu, A.A. Ewuga

“…The quality of the kernel oil falls below the standard for edible oil but the oil may be useful in the paint and cosmetic industry Keywords: Chrysophyllum Albidum, Kernel, Oil, Flour …”
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Engineered Multifunctional Fluorinated Film Based on Semicontinuous Emulsion Polymerization Using Polymerizable Quaternary Ammonium Emulsifiers by Hongzhu Liu, Lingnan Wang, Minhuan Wang, Chuan-Jin Hou, Bin-bin Ye, Zefeng Wang, Jiming Bian

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Indoor Air Quality and Indoor Environmental Quality: The role of occupational health surveillance and the cooperation between public and occupational health stakeholders by Francesco Chirico, Gaetano Settimo, Nicola Magnavita

“…It details the dual nature of indoor pollutants—external sources like traffic, heating and cooling of buildings, industrial emissions, and internal sources including combustion for food preparation and heating, building materials and furnishing, paints, cleaning products materials, and human activities. …”
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Innovative Grouting Process Monitoring: Design and Implementation of a Measurement Device With Datalogger Function by Gabriel Gaspar, Roman Budjac, Stefan Sedivy, Maximilian Stremy, Denis Benka, Eduard Nemlaha, Rastislav Elias

“…The proposed device is versatile, enabling real-time monitoring of the grouting process, and can be adapted to measure the consumption of other materials, such as one- or two-component paints. The device underwent rigorous testing under laboratory conditions to ensure its functionality and reliability, and thus significantly contributes to the control and responsiveness of the grouting process by providing real-time data on critical operational parameters. …”
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Sudeten: Erinnerung reinterpretiert by Jan Pacholski

“…After the political changes in 1989, the dilapidated obelisk, with its red with the red paint already flaking off, was covered with sheets of bluish glass with the logo of Powszechny Zakład Ubezpieczeń (the oldestt surviving Polish insurance company) attached. …”
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Analysis of players and scenarios of the Iranian aluminum industry with a combination of fuzzy DEMATEL and game theory by Maryam Musavi-Nogholi, Mohammad Taghi Rezvan

“…Players’ preferences in different scenarios are explained in the form of 12 modes and, selected modes are extracted for each scenario based on different equilibrium points.Originality/Value: Futurology has been the main subject of this paper, which, by analyzing the aluminum industry and the activities of the main players active in this industry, paints a picture of the future of this industry, including the entire value chain in a five-year horizon.…”
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Osobnost a dílo Matouše Radouše a tvorba renesančních epitafů v Chrudimi by Ondřej Jakubec, Radka Milotová

“…Thanks to the sufficient archive sources, we know a lot of his life and together with his paintings, still preserved in Chrudim churches (in Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and St. …”
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