Experimental Investigation on the Effect of Pore Size on Spontaneous Imbibition Recovery in Oil-Wet Reservoirs by Ming Yue, Bingbing Li, Qiang Chen, Jidong Gao, Weiyao Zhu, Zhiyong Song

“…The imbibition recovery in the capillary with a diameter of 10 μm was the highest (27.81%), which was more than three times that of the capillary with a diameter of 60 μm (8.3%). …”
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Laboratory diagnostics of alcohol intoxication in patients with alcohol-induced liver disease by A. I. Pavlov, A. I. Khazanov

“…Growth of alcohol consumption by population in the country resulted in increase of number of patients with alcohol-induced LC. It account for 3,5 times more deaths (78,0%), than all viral LC. Results of these investigations demonstrated, that at testing only for asialotransferrin positive result was obtained only in 3 (5,4%) patients admitted to the hospital with severe manifestations of acute alcoholic hepatitis. …”
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Revisiting principles of partnership working in the third space by Julie Blackwell Young, Sarah Parkes

“…However, recognition and reward for such professionals remain complex, being at times hindered by the fluidity of their roles and fragmented nature of institutional acknowledgment. …”
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Equilibrium and Dynamic Osmotic Behaviour of Aqueous Solutions with Varied Concentration at Constant and Variable Volume by Ivan L. Minkov, Emil D. Manev, Svetla V. Sazdanova, Kiril H. Kolikov

“…The rise of pressure is much faster at constant solution volume, while the solvent influx is many times greater in the regime of variable volume. The results obtained suggest a feasible mechanism for the way in which the living cells rapidly achieve osmotic equilibrium upon changes in the environment.…”
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Active Fault Tolerant Control Based on a Novel Tracking Differentiator for Elevating Stage Control System by Haijie Mao, Wei Li, Xiaolin Feng

“…The simulation results show that the fault diagnosis method is simple and timely, the designed tracking differentiator is fast and effective, and the effect of the fault tolerant control based on smooth switching strategy is also satisfactory.…”
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Strength and Microfabric of Expansive Soil Improved with Rice Husk Ash and Lime by Jinrong Ma, Yunhe Su, Yuyi Liu, Xiangling Tao

“…The results of the study show that (1) for the best utilization effect, the optimum percentage of RHA is 12% and lime is 3%; (2) the UCS is 2.6 times of the pure soil after curing of 14 d under the optimum percentage; (3) the curing age has a significant effect on strength; (4) the main reason for the strength increase of the modified soil is that the crystal produced by the pozzolanic activity fills the pores of the soil.…”
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Interaction of Cationic Polymer-Treated Geosynthetic Clay Liners with Various Saline Solutions by Hakkı O. Özhan

“…As a result, %0.5 cationic polymer in 0.1 M KCl solution and %1 cationic polymer in 0.5 M KCl and 0.1 M MgCl2 solutions improved the hydraulic performance of the GCL by causing almost 0.13, 0.18 and 0.08 times decrease in hydraulic conductivity respectively. …”
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Experimental and FEM Investigation of Cob Walls under Compression by Enrico Quagliarini, Gianluca Maracchini

“…Earth has been used as construction material since prehistoric times, and it is still utilized nowadays in both developed and developing countries. …”
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Mechanisms on the Injection Conformance Reversion during Polymer Flooding of Offshore Heterogeneous Heavy-Oil Reservoirs by Zhijie Wei, Xiaodong Kang, Yuyang Liu, Hanxu Yang

“…The peak value and scope of conformance reversion decrease and reversion timing is advanced as oil viscosity or permeability contrast increases, or polymer concentration or relative thickness of low permeable layer decreases, which compromises the ability of polymer flooding to improve the volumetric sweep and lower suction of the low permeable layer. …”
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A Two-Zone Multigrid Model for SI Engine Combustion Simulation Using Detailed Chemistry by Hai-Wen Ge, Harmit Juneja, Yu Shi, Shiyou Yang, Rolf D. Reitz

“…Without loss in accuracy, an order of magnitude speedup was achieved in terms of CPU and wall times. To reproduce the results of the original GAMUT combustion model, either a low searching level or a procedure to exclude high-temperature computational cells from the grouping should be applied to the unburned region, which was found to be more sensitive to the combustion model details.…”
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Food Safety Training Is Associated with Improved Knowledge and Behaviours among Foodservice Establishments’ Workers by Hezekiah Kehinde Adesokan, Victor Oluwatoyin Akinseye, Grace Abiodun Adesokan

“…Furthermore, foodservice employees with refresher training demonstrated significantly higher knowledge (P=0.000) and practice (P=0.003) levels than those without, being about 45 and 14 times more likely to, respectively, improve their knowledge (OR = 45; 95% CI: 3.47–584.34) and practice (OR = 13.5; 95% CI: 2.01–90.69). …”
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RETHINKING CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATIONAL SECURITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA by AUSTEEN NDUBUISI ADIGWE

“…The implications of this in the long run remains unpredictable but the effect of this in contemporary times is orchestrating outcomes that offers no heritage of good to all and sundry. …”
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Elemental and Proximate Compositions of Sesame Seeds and the Underlying Soil from Tsegede, Ethiopia by Fuad Seid, Bewketu Mehari

“…The amounts of the trace elements, Fe, Cu, and Zn found in the soils were about 2 to 6 times higher than that found in the sesame seeds. …”
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System Dynamics Modeling Can be Leveraged to Predict Critical Care Pathways and Costs for End Stage Renal Disease: US Population to 2020 by Luca Fernandez, Christopher Koliba, Asim Zia, Katharine Cheung, Richard Solomon, Christopher Jones

“…**Background:** End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) accounts for 9% of Medicare spending, with the beneficiaries suffering from ESRD costing 7-9 times more than the average. This population is expected to continue to grow as a portion of Medicare beneficiaries. …”
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Shuffle-PG: Lightweight feature extraction model for retrieving images of plant diseases and pests with deep metric learning by Dong Jin, Helin Yin, Yeong Hyeon Gu

“…The results show that the proposed Shuffle-PG model uses approximately 20 times fewer parameters and reduces computational costs by an order of magnitude compared to existing benchmark models, while achieving higher mean average precision scores of 97.7 % and 98.8 % for the disease and pest datasets, respectively.…”
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Variable size sampling to support high uniformity confidence in sensor data streams by Hajin Kim, Myeong-Seon Gil, Yang-Sae Moon, Mi-Jung Choi

“…Experimental results show that UC-KSample improves the uniformity confidence over KSample by 2.2 times on average, and it always keeps the uniformity confidence higher than the user-specified threshold. …”
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Corrosion Behaviors’ Investigation of Carbide Coatings Developed for Sulphuric Acid Recovery Systems by Erhan Özkan

“…As a result of the article, the corrosion resistance of 316L stainless steels in sulfuric acid systems was improved by 5.02 and 3.15 times, respectively.…”
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Pantoea agglomerans Infections in Children: Report of Two Cases by Shraddha Siwakoti, Rinku Sah, Rupa Singh Rajbhandari, Basudha Khanal

“…The clinical course of infection was mild and timely administration of proper antibiotic resulted in a favorable outcome.…”
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Delayed Chylothorax during Treatment of Follicular Lymphoma with a Malignant Pleural Effusion by Chigozirim N. Ekeke, Ernest G. Chan, James D. Luketich, Rajeev Dhupar

“…Initially, most chyle leaks are managed with nonoperative strategies, such as gut rest, hyperalimentation, and pleural drainage, and, at times, medium-chained fatty acid diet or octreotide, with hopes to decrease chyle production (Zabeck et al. (2011)). …”
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Effects of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium formula fertilization on the yield and berry quality of blueberry. by Xinyu Zhang, Shuangshuang Li, Xiaoli An, Zejun Song, Yunzheng Zhu, Yi Tan, Xiaolan Guo, Delu Wang

“…Even the treatment with the worst results F6 (N2P3K1), its single fruit weight, anthocyanins, total phenols, soluble solids and soluble protein content were 1.09, 1.32, 1.23, 1.08 and 1.21 times higher than the control (CK), respectively. …”
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