Synthesis and Characterization of Zeolite A from Alkaleri Kaolin using Conventional Hydro Thermal Synthesis Technique by Adamu Abubakar, Nasiru Yahaya, Wilson Lamayi

“…The kaolin was first transformed to meta kaolin by calcination at 600OC, then treated with 3M NaOH solution (1:5 ration) in a stainless-steel autoclave with a teflon liner. …”
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Livelihood Risk, Culture, and the HIV Interface: Evidence from Lakeshore Border Communities in Buliisa District, Uganda by Japheth Nkiriyehe Kwiringira, Paulino Ariho, Henry Zakumumpa, James Mugisha, Joseph Rujumba, Marion Mutabazi Mugisha

“…This study reveals that HIV risk assessment is an interplay of plural rationalities within the circumstances and constraints that impinge on the daily lives by different actors. …”
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Organic Glass-Forming Liquids and the Concept of Fragility by Alba-Simionesco, Christiane

“…An isochoric fragility index is defined as an intrinsic property of a given liquid, that can help in rationalizing all the correlations between the glass properties below $T_g$ and the viscous slowing down just above $T_g$ from which they are made. …”
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Improving the Physical Properties of Nanofibers Prepared by Electrospinning from Polyvinyl Chloride and Polyacrylonitrile at Low Concentrations by Salih Abbas Habeeb, Baseem Ali Nadhim, Ban Jawad Kadhim, Mohammed Salam Ktab, Ali Jawad Kadhim, Farqad Saleem Murad

“…Moreover, mechanical properties are ultimate tensile strength and modulus of elasticity decreasing with decreasing the blending ration from pure PVC to 75 : 25 PVC: PAN nanofibers by 71% and 83%, respectively, while the elongation at break increases by 79%, and decomposition temperatures decreased from 451.96 to 345.38°C when changing the PVC content from pure PVC to 25 : 75 PVC: PAN. …”
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Veterinary Drug Prescribing Practices at Selected District Veterinary Clinics of Rift Valley Areas of Ethiopia by Monenus Etefa, Ashenafi Feyisa Beyi, Dinka Ayana, Tariku Jibat Beyene, Takele Beyene Tufa

“…The rational use of drugs in veterinary medicine has various significances, such as reducing the risk of drug resistance, increasing efficacy, reducing drug residue, and decreasing adverse drug reactions. …”
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Saudi urologists’ treatment pattern for high-risk Bacillus Calmette–Guérin naïve and Bacillus Calmette–Guérin unresponsive nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer by Mohammad Alghafees, Mohamad Abou Chakra, Abdullah Alkhayal, Mohamad Moussa, Mohammad Alkhamees, Bader Alsaikhan, Ahmed Alasker, Abdulrahman Alsayyari, Abdullah Alsaghyir, Ali Alkahtani, Michael A. O'Donnell

“…Most commonly, during BCG shortages, Saudi urologists rationed BCG to patients with high-risk disease, preferring pT1and/or carcinoma in situ to Ta high grade. …”
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Improving ecological water diversion process to promote oasis restoration using a monthly conceptual lumped ecohydrological model: A case study of the Qingtu Oasis, China by Feng Huang, Yiping Li, Carlos G. Ochoa, Jisheng Li

“…The MCLEM coupling with the scenario simulation effectively depicted the oasis’s intra-annual ecohydrological dynamics responding to various EWD processes under wet, regular, and dry meteorological conditions, implying for designing a rational EWD strategy achieving optimal ecological benefits regarding a larger oasis area and higher vegetation coverage. …”
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Management of housing and communal services in apartment building: evaluation of alternative methods by S. V. Taruta

“…The results of the comparative analysis will allow the owners of premises and local self-government bodies to make a more rational choice of the method of managing the MCD. …”
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Securitization of China in the NATO discourse in the late 2010s— early 2020s: Towards a global collective identity by Yu. Yu. Melnikova

“…These attempts to securitize the Chinese factor in the NATO’s discourse are particularly noteworthy since they can hardly be rationalized by traditional military-political, economic or ideological reasons. …”
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Tolerance and Social Harmonization of The Hindu Islamic Community of The Tengger Tribe in Eid Al-Fitr And Nyepi by ali Hasan Assidiqi, Ahmad Barizi, M. Lutfi Mustofa

“…In the analysis of Max Weber's theory of action, the Islamic and Hindu societies do all of this because they have a goal for the future good, which is known as instrumental rational action, and because they follow their parents and ancestors who are known for traditional actions. …”
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Regulating the Urban Commons: A Romanian Case Study of Improving Building Facades by Anamaria Vrabie, Rodica Ianole-Călin

“…We interpret the results of this exploratory case study as a first step towards building a more comprehensive approach to serve as a toolkit in examining the development of innovative local policies in post-communist environments, through a combined research framework including also the significant contribution of behavioural insights, next to the traditional rational actor theories. Naturally, the usual limitations of the method also apply to our study, in the sense of non-generalizable conclusions. …”
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Diagnostic and Clinical Significance of Serum Levels of D-Lactate and Diamine Oxidase in Patients with Crohn’s Disease by Jierui Cai, Hong Chen, Meiling Weng, Shuyu Jiang, Jie Gao

“…D-LA and DAO have a good prognostic value for CD activity. Rational combined use of biomarkers can significantly improve the diagnostic efficiency.…”
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Effects of temperature and live prey concentration on Colossoma macropomum larviculture by Fabio Aremil Costa dos Santos, Gustavo Soares da Costa Julio, André de Sena Souza, Pedro Paulo Cortezzi Pedras, Ronald Kennedy-Luz

“…It is concluded that the larviculture of C. macropomum must be carried out with a temperature of 32° C and that the food management must be differentiated during the first 15 days, positively influenced in the period of feeding with ration. …”
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EXISTENTIAL CHOICE. AN ESSAY ABOUT THREE AFRICANS (REFLECTION ON AUGUSTINE’S CONFESSIONS) by S. V. Sannіkov

“…The author concludes, that unlike the day-to-day choices-preferences, which can be made following a rational and ecstatic decision, the existential choice is a dialectic unity of Gift, coming from Above, and an intuitive unconscious faith of a person who accepts this Gift.…”
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Three-Year Point Prevalence Survey of Antimicrobial Use in a Chinese University Hospital by Fa-Hong Jing, Qiang Wang, Tian-Jiao He, Na Xin, Yao-Wei Wang, Yang Han, Xin Wang, Zhuo Li

“…This survey can be used as a control to assess the rational application quality of antimicrobial after regular application of antimicrobial intervention.…”
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Safety assessment of rosuvastatin-fenofibrate combination in the treatment of hyperlipidemia based on FDA’s adverse event reporting system database by Qun Li, Wenya Shan, Saiwei Wu

“…In this study, we analyzed the safety signals of rosuvastatin-fenofibrate combination by assessing the publicly available US Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS), so as to provide a reference for rational clinical use of rosuvastatin and fenofibrate, and reduce the occurrence of related AEs.MethodsReports to the FAERS from 1 January 2004 to 19 March 2020 were analyzed. …”
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Detection of Burned Areas by Remote Sensing Techniques: İzmir Seferihisar Forest fire case study by Aslı Sabuncu, Haluk Özener

“…Based on the three different methods of results are compatible, rational and consistent with the results of the General Directorate of Forestry.…”
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Inferring sediment deposition trend in data scared wetland impacted by degraded urban catchment by Bhaswatee Baishya, Arup Kumar Sarma

“…The water spread areas were assessed via supervised classified Landsat images and the band rationing technique, i.e., the normalized difference pond index (NDPI). …”
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Genetic Algorithm Integrated Fuzzy AHP-VIKOR Approach for the Investigation of W-Cut Insert Heat Exchanger for Cooling of Dielectric Fluid Used in Ultra-High Voltage Transformer by N. Vasantha Gowri, J. Samson Isaac, T. Muralikrishna, G. Suresh Babu, Melvin Victor Depoures, S. Sekar, P. Sasirekha, M. Ramesh, S. Prabhakar

“…The empirical model equations for friction factor, performance enhancement ratio, Nusselt number, and rational efficiency are developed, and they show good affinity with experimental data. …”
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Dégradation des écosystèmes steppiques et stratégie de développement durable. Mise au point méthodologique appliquée à la Wilaya de Nâama (Algérie) by Tarik B. Bouchetata, Arslan A. Bouchetata

“…At last, the analysis of strategies based on the objectif’s forking allow to free three complementary programs having for specific objectives: the restoring of balance liverstock/course, the suppression of illicitly plough and the rational management of the steppes ecosystem.…”
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