Effect of Varied Cashew Nut Ash Reinforcement in Aluminum Matrix Composite by Yallamati Abshalomu, Y. Jyothi, K. Balamurugan, Rabin Selvaraj

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The Impact of Long-Term Nitrogen Addition on Microbial Community Composition in Three Hawaiian Forest Soils by Teri C. Balser

“…Fertilized plots at each site have received 100 kg ha year-1 N addition for at least 8 years. Soil parameters, water content, pH, and ammonium and nitrate availability differed by site, but not between control and N-addition treatments within a site at the time of sampling. …”
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Application of Hydrophilic Interaction Liquid Chromatography for the Quantification of Flavonoids in Genista tinctoria Extract by Aleksandra Sentkowska, Magdalena Biesaga, Krystyna Pyrzynska

“…In the case of bare silica column more or less apparent dual retention mechanism was observed, depending on the water component content in the mobile phase. ZIC-HILIC showed better selectivity (in comparison to silica column) with the detection limit of 0.01 mg/L (only for rutin was 0.05 mg/L). …”
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Simulation of Turbulent Wake at Mixing of Two Confined Horizontal Flows by Rok Krpan, Boštjan Končar

“…The development of a turbulent mixing layer at mixing of two horizontal water streams with slightly different densities is studied by the means of numerical simulation. …”
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Vulnerability assessment and zoning of developed and susceptible contaminated karstic (Case study: Ravenscar watershed) by asadolah hejazi, zahra heidari

“…In recent years, population growth and consequently the shortage of drinking water resources have increased the importance of studying the areas of caries Regarding the importance of the subject, in the present study, the evaluation and monitoring of the developed karstic areas and the potential of contamination of Cartesian resources in the Ravensar basin have been addressed In this study, 7factors were used to evaluate the factors of Karst development in Ravansar basin as well as two methods of OWA and ANP. …”
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Myelography in the Age of MRI: Why We Do It, and How We Do It by Christoph Ozdoba, Jan Gralla, Alexander Rieke, Ralph Binggeli, Gerhard Schroth

“…Myelography is a nearly ninety-year-old method that has undergone a steady development from the introduction of water-soluble contrast agents to CT myelography. …”
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Evaluation of Residual Geo-mechanical Characteristics of Rocks from Akure, Ado-Ekiti and Ikare-Akoko Quarries in Southwest Nigeria by T. A. Oluwadero, O. W. Osisanya, F. Z. Ajibade

“…The samples that were soaked in 0.75M, 1.5M, and 3.0M of acid and base showed varying degrees of deterioration during the second wetting cycle in the water medium, despite not being detected to be damaged during the first cycle. …”
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Experimental Research on Dehydration Process and Strength of Concrete Influenced by Drying Temperature and Concrete Size by Xiaoming Chen, Guohui Zhang, Wei Zhou, Hongchuan Liu, Shiqiang Yang

“…The results indicated that the maximum drying rate and water loss ratio of the specimens with different sizes under the same drying temperature are basically the same. …”
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Permeability Evolution of an Intact Marble Core during Shearing under High Fluid Pressure by Yuan Wang, Yu Jiao, Shaobin Hu

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The effects of irrigation methods on some of soil and plant microbial indices using treated municipal wastewater by Negar Nourmahnad, Jahangir Shams, Azita Shams

“…Shortage of irrigation water is a crucial problem in arid and semi-arid regions. …”
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Exploring the Impact of Cigarette Smoke Extracts on Vitamin B12: Insights into the Transformation of Methylcobalamin and Hydroxycobalamin to Cyanocobalamin through In Vitro Evaluat... by Mazhar Salim Al Zoubi, Mus’aab A. Al-Oun, Fatima Yacoub Abusahyoun, Manal Issam Abualarja, Asmaa Al Smadi, Bahaa Al-Trad, Sura A. Awadin, Khalid Al-Batayneh, Mai Elaarag, Raed M. Al-Zoubi

“…Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) is a water-soluble molecule required for the proper functioning of metabolism, blood and DNA synthesis, and neurological development. …”
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Study of the Hydration Mechanism of Portland Cement with Raman Spectroscopy Applying CO2 Laser Radiation by D. Quiroz-Portillo, I. Rosales-Candelas, J. J. Soto-Bernal, R. González-Mota, G. V. Vázquez

“…This work presents the results by irradiating fresh Portland cement pastes with CO2 laser, at powers of 1.6, 2.0, and 2.4 W, at different water-to-cement (w/c) ratios 0.4, 0.45, and 0.5. …”
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Tropical Fruit Pest Management Strategic Plan (PMSP) by Mark A. Mossler, Olaf Norman Nesheim

“…First, there has been change in water flow in the area due to the Everglades restoration plan. …”
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CONTEMPORARY EXPERT DEBATES ON THE SCO-RELATED ISSUES by I. E. Denisov, I. A. Safranchuk

“…Participating experts and officials reviewed problems of security, economic cooperation (including transport and water-energy issues) and SCO enlargement, the latter being one of the most debatable. …”
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Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Liquid Storage Tanks Isolated by Sliding-Based Systems by Alexandros Tsipianitis, Yiannis Tsompanakis

“…Liquid-filled tanks are effective storage infrastructure for water, oil, and liquefied natural gas (LNG). Many such large-scale tanks are located in regions with high seismicity. …”
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Chemical Composition and Nutritional Value of Three Sonchus Species by Galdino Xavier de Paula Filho, Tibério Fontenele Barreira, Helena Maria Pinheiro-Sant’Ana

“…There was no significant difference between the water content found in the three species. However, S. asper showed higher concentrations of lipids (1.32 g/100 g), carbohydrates (0.34 g/100 g), total carotenoids (5.58 mg/100 g), and Ca (96.25 mg/100 g), while S. arvensis had the highest concentration of vitamins E (72.98 μg/100 g) and K (604.85 mg/100 g). …”
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A Numerical Study of Railway Ballast Subjected to Direct Shearing Using the Discrete Element Method by Hongyi Zhao, Jing Chen

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Optimization of Flow Characteristics and Diffusion Angles of Forward Inflow Forebay of Pumping Station by LI Yun, LI Chaochao, LI Mingyang, GU Jingchao

“…To address issues arising from chaotic water flow due to unreasonable pumping station operation and insufficient forebay design, this study took the Yanhuangding pumping station as a typical case. …”
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Enhanced Asymmetric Bilinear Model for Face Recognition by Wenjuan Gong, Weishan Zhang, Jordi Gonzàlez, Yan Ren, Zhen Li

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Cooperative Search and Rescue with Artificial Fishes Based on Fish-Swarm Algorithm for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks by Wei Zhao, Zhenmin Tang, Yuwang Yang, Lei Wang, Shaohua Lan

“…The mobile nodes’ moving in mission space is similar to the behaviors of fish-swarm in water. So, we take the mobile node as artificial fish node and define its operations by a probabilistic model over a limited range. …”
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