Preparation and recovery of iron carbide from pyrite cinder using carburization-magnetic separation technology by Chen D., Gou H., Lv Y., Li P., Yan B., Xu J.

“…The effects of carburizing temperature, carburizing time and Na2SO4 dosage on carburized pellets were investigated, and the effects of Na2SO4 dosage and grinding fineness on magnetic concentrate were carried out. …”
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A new approach to estimate neighborhood socioeconomic status using supermarket transactions and GNNs by Eduardo Cruz, Monica Villavicencio, Carmen Vaca, Lisette Espín-Noboa, Nervo Verdezoto

“…Governments face challenges in measuring socioeconomic status with fine spatial resolution because traditional data collection methods, such as censuses and surveys, are time-consuming, labor-intensive, performed at long intervals, and cover only a limited population. …”
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Inhibition of <i>Salmonella enterica</i> and Enterohemorrhagic <i>Escherichia coli</i> by Ethanolic Extracts of Pomegranate Peels by Weifan Wu, Kevin Mis Solval, Jinru Chen

“…The extracts of three products were more effective (<i>p</i> ≤ 0.05) against <i>E. coli</i> than the extract of the remaining product, which had a similar activity to the extracts of two of the products used against <i>S. enterica</i>. Longer treatment time and higher extract concentration resulted in greater pathogen population reductions. …”
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Response Surface Approach to Optimize the Conditions of Foam Mat Drying of Plum in relation to the Physical-Chemical and Antioxidant Properties of Plum Powder by Saad A. D. Sifat, Anuva T. Trisha, Nurul Huda, Wahidu Zzaman, Norliza Julmohammad

“…This research was done to optimize the influence of various egg albumin (EA) concentrations of 2, 4, and 6% as a foaming agent and whipping times of 5, 10, and 15 minutes, on physicochemical and antioxidant properties of plum powder produced using response surface methodology (RSM). …”
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Outcomes of antibiotic therapy and transvaginal ultrasound-guided efficacy of transvaginal ultrasound-guided drainage in treating tubo-ovarian abscesses: Three case reports by Zahra Heidar, Tayebeh Esfidani, Atefeh Moridi, Mahtab Anvari

“…Case Presentations: 3 women with a history of long-time infertility, all of them were candidates for in vitro fertilization referred to the obstetrics and gynecology department with similar manifestations. …”
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Major Extremity Injuries Associated with Farmyard Accidents by Cem Copuroglu, Nurettin Heybeli, Mert Ozcan, Baris Yilmaz, Mert Ciftdemir, Elif Copuroglu

“…Hand was the most commonly injured part (n: 9) followed by the distal part of the lower limb (cruris) (n: 7) and foot (n: 7). Mean time between trauma and emergency-department arrival was 115 minutes (60–360). …”
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Employee discipline in the city of banjarmasin: case study of employee discipline in public service review at the north banjarmasin district office by Dewi Merdayanty, Arif Darmawan, Syahrial Shaddiq, Junaidy Junaidy, Sitna Hajar Malawat

“…The results of the study find (1) The discipline indicator for working time for civil servants is following the stipulated provisions, namely 37.5 hours in one week starting from Monday to Friday. (2) Disciplinary indicators for civil servant regulations are carried out under applicable procedures and all employees wear uniforms and attributes that have been determined. (3) Disciplinary indicators of civil servant work responsibilities in the use of tools and maintenance of equipment have been carried out properly, if damage occurs to the equipment, repairs are immediately carried out under established procedures…”
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The trend of urban environment quality as an importaut factorof migration processes by V. Yu. Novikov

“…The successes of socio-economic development of cities are confirmed by practice when the planned activities are fully implemented.At the same time, the goals are to consolidate the indigenous population of cities, to attract high-quality specialists from other cities with favorable living conditions. …”
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Ruta chalepensis L. Essential Oil: A New Antisprouting Agent for Potatoes Bioconservation by Olfa Lengliz, Jamel Mejri, Manef Abderrabba, Rachid Khalifa, Mondher Mejri

“…Ruta chalepensis L. essential oil (RCEO) was for the first time used as a potential sprouting inhibitor for potatoes. …”
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THE QUALITY OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS IN THE UNIVERSITY THROUGH STUDENTS’ EYES by S. S. Kotova, I. I. Hasanova

“…The results of the questionnaire are presented. 1–4 year students of full-time education at the Russian Vocational PedagogicalUniversity, in total – 36 groups take part in the questionnaire. …”
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AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE USAGE OF LEAN CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES IN NIGERIA by Olatunji J OLADIRAN

“…The findings reveal that fail-safe quality and safety, daily huddle meetings, increased visualisation, and the 5S process are poorly used, while the other eight techniques, namely Last Planner® System (LPS®), first-run studies, just-in-time (JIT), total production maintenance, concurrent design, kaizen, design for buildability, and supply chain management, are not used at all. …”
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Cleaning Schedule Optimization of Heat Exchangers with Fouling on Tube and Shell Sides: A Metaheuristic Approach by João P. V. de Cesaro, Mauro A. S. S. Ravagnani, Fernando D. Mele, Caliane B. B. Costa

“…The reformulated problem is solved using integer particle swarm optimization (PSO) coupled with a simple search strategy, where the number of cleaning actions is preset and their timing is optimized. The adopted approach achieved up to 84% lower computation times compared to previous ones. …”
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ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND ASSESSMENT METHODS OF TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS OF WATER SUPPLY AND WATER DISPOSAL by A. A. Kapansky

“…These factors include the technical condition of the equipment and piping systems, alterations in the modes of operation of pumping units over time, a significant impact of the ambient temperature on the power consumption, amount of precipitation and the chemical composition of the effluent. …”
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From Fields to Microclimate: Assessing the Influence of Agricultural Landscape Structure on Vegetation Cover and Local Climate in Central Europe by Jan Kuntzman, Jakub Brom

“…In contrast, the distribution of values on the Austrian side was more even, likely due to the greater diversity of cultivated crops, a more spatially diverse landscape, and a balanced spread of agricultural activities over time. In light of climate change and biodiversity conservation, these results emphasize the need to protect and restore landscape complexity to enhance resilience and environmental stability.…”
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Automatic Generation of Precast Concrete Component Fabrication Drawings Based on BIM and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning by Chao Zhang, Xuhong Zhou, Chengran Xu, Zhou Wu, Jiepeng Liu, Hongtuo Qi

“…However, the traditional manual drawing method is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and error-prone. …”
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Use of the task-based approach to strengthen writing fluency in the English language by Tamara Carpio Afonso, Jesús Alberto González Valero, Mallelin Bonachea Rodríguez, Ignacia Rodríguez Estevés

“…<br /><strong>Results</strong>: the application of different methods and techniques corroborated that the health professionals presented difficulties in fluency in writing; they spent too much time reviewing ideas; in addition to incurring in unnecessary repetitions, poor syntactic elaboration and writing of short sentences. …”
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The Influence of the Migration of the Governor’s Subjects from Kalmyk Khanate to China on the Kalmyk Settlements of Orenburg Province in 1771 by Stepan V. Dzhundzhuzov

“…Most archival documents are being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. The restoration of the outline of the events under consideration through the use of archival materials required the use of special methods of historical research: critical analysis of historical sources, historical continuity, as well as historical-comparative and historical-legal methods that allow tracing common and distinct features in the legal situation of Kalmyk villagers in Orenburg province. …”
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A Gestalt perspective on Manichaean worldviews and individuals’ engagement in violence: the case of the Italian far left by Giulia Grillo, Giulia Grillo

“…Far-left and far-right ideologies strongly influenced Italian socio-political movements of the time. Thus, this paper explores whether Manichaean perspectives informing far-left militants’ decision to resort to violence originated from far-left ideologies or whether they existed independently of these ideologies. …”
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Exploring the Novel Continuum-Cancellation Leal-Method for the Approximate Solution of Nonlinear Differential Equations by Hector Vazquez-Leal

“…In addition, a computation time analysis (using Fortran) for the proposed approximations presents average times from 3.5 nanoseconds to 7 nanoseconds for all the case studies. …”
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Random Vibration Analysis of Train Moving over Slab Track on Bridge under Track Irregularities and Earthquakes by Pseudoexcitation Method by Zhiping Zeng, Kunteng Zhu, Xianfeng He, Wentao Xu, Lingkun Chen, Ping Lou

“…The random excitations of the track irregularities and seismic accelerations are transformed into a series of deterministic pseudoexcitations by PEM. The time-dependent power spectral densities (PSDs) of the random vibration of the system are obtained by step-by-step integration method, and the corresponding dynamic reliability is estimated based on the first-passage failure criterion. …”
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