Leave or stay? A narrative inquiry of tensions in novice English teachers’ professional identity construction at China’s private universities by Xiangchen Zhang, Xiangchen Zhang

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Simulation and prediction of the expansion of OpenStreetMap building data based on the Markov-FLUS model in Shenzhen, China by Sidan Chen, Lingjia Liu, Kaixiang Li, Xiaohui Ding, Wei Jiang

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Projected Urbanization Impacts on Surface Climate and Energy Budgets in the Pearl River Delta of China by Chunhong Zhao, Qunou Jiang, Zhongxiao Sun, Haiyue Zhong, Shasha Lu

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PGN: Progressively Guided Network with Pixel-Wise Attention for Underwater Image Enhancement by Huidi Jia, Qiang Wang, Bo Fu, Zhimin Zheng, Yandong Tang

“…Light scattering and attenuation in water degrade underwater images with low visibility and color distortion, which often interfere with the high-level visual tasks of underwater autonomous robots. …”
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Structural and Morphological Studies of V2O5/MWCNTs and ZrO2/MWCNTs Composites as Photocatalysts by Sajid Iqbal, Tanveer Hussain Bokhari, Shoomaila Latif, Muhammad Imran, Ayesha Javaid, Liviu Mitu

“…MWCNTs were functionalized/purified by treating with H2SO4 and HNO3 to improve their dispersion in water. The TMOs (ZrO2, V2O5) were decorated on MWCNTs by the hydrothermal method to yield V2O5/MWCNTs and ZrO2/MWCNTs composites. …”
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Experimental and Numerical Simulations Predictions Comparison of Power and Efficiency in Hydraulic Turbine by Laura Castro, Gustavo Urquiza, Adam Adamkowski, Marcelo Reggio

“…Mass flow rate was obtained using Gibson's water hammer-based method. A numerical counterpart was carried out by using the commercial CFD software, and flow simulations were performed to principal components of a hydraulic turbine: runner and draft tube. …”
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An Assessment of Physicochemical Parameters of Selected Industrial Effluents in Nepal by Abhinay Man Shrestha, Sanjila Neupane, Gunjan Bisht

“…This study has been conducted with samples of wastewater from 5 different industrial sites in 4 districts of Nepal, namely, Makwanpur, Sunsari, Morang, and Kathmandu, among which two were Waste Water Treatment Plants which treated the combined effluents collected from various sources. …”
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Increasing Inhomogeneity of the Global Oceans by Qiuping Ren, Young‐Oh Kwon, Jiayan Yang, Rui Xin Huang, Yuanlong Li, Fan Wang

“…Abstract The ocean is inhomogeneous in hydrographic properties with diverse water masses. Yet, how this inhomogeneity has evolved in a rapidly changing climate has not been investigated. …”
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A Preliminary Study of Banana Stem Juice as a Plant-Based Coagulant for Treatment of Spent Coolant Wastewater by Habsah Alwi, Juferi Idris, Mohibah Musa, Ku Halim Ku Hamid

“…It could be concluded that banana stem juice showed tremendous potential as a natural coagulant for water treatment purposes and could be applied in the pretreatment stage of Malaysian spent coolant wastewater prior to secondary treatment.…”
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Modeling Groundwater Resources in Data-Scarce Regions for Sustainable Management: Methodologies and Limits by Iolanda Borzì

“…This systematic review of Scopus-indexed papers identifies various approaches to address these challenges, including coupled hydrological-groundwater models, machine learning techniques, distributed hydrological models, water balance models, 3D groundwater flow modeling, geostatistical techniques, remote sensing-based approaches, isotope-based methods, global model downscaling, and integrated modeling approaches. …”
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Prehospital management of earthquake crush injuries: A collective review by Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Kamal Idris, Arif Alper Cevik

“…Ischemia–reperfusion injury following the relieving of muscle compression may cause metabolic changes and rhabdomyolysis depending on the time of extrication. Sodium and water enter the cell causing cell swelling and hypovolemia, while potassium and myoglobin are released into the circulation. …”
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Offshore wind energy: assessing trace element inputs and the risks for co-location of aquaculture by G. J. Watson, G. Banfield, S. C. L. Watson, N. J. Beaumont, A. Hodkin

“…However, a paucity of industry data makes it impossible to compare water and sediment TE concentrations at operational OWFs against toxicity thresholds, therefore, ecotoxicological risks are under assessed. …”
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Bioinspired nanofilament coatings for scale reduction on steel by Siad Dahir Ali, Mette Heidemann Rasmussen, Jacopo Catalano, Christian Husum Frederiksen, Tobias Weidner

“…Inspired by the natural hydrophobicity of springtail (Collembola) skin, which employs micro- and nanostructures to repel water, we investigate the application of silicone nanofilaments (SNFs) as a coating on steel surfaces to mitigate scaling. …”
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The Investigation of Nonavailability of Passive Safety Systems Effects on Small Break LOCA Sequence in AP1000 Using RELAP5 MOD 4.0 by Anwar Hussain, Amjad Nawaz

“…The actuation of all safety systems at their actuation set-points provides adequate core cooling by injecting sufficient water inventory into reactor core. The LOCA with actuation of one of the accumulators cause early actuation of ADS and IRWST. …”
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The Use of Rose Bengal Plate Test to Asses Cattle Exposure to Brucella Infection in Traditional and Smallholder Dairy Production Systems of Tanga Region of Tanzania by Emanuel Senyael Swai, Luuk Schoonman

“…Using multivariate logistic regression analysis, closeness to stock route, access to surface drinking water and location were identified as the major risk factors for individual herd seroprevalence. …”
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Investigating Ramifications of Climate Change on Farming Practices and Sustainable Livelihood Preferences for Farmers in Tropical Regions by Timothy O. Ogunbode, Timothy A. Akinkuolie, Victor O. Oyebamiji

“…Factor analysis identified and extracted three significant options for the sustainability of farmers’ living in the CC era, namely, (i) adoption of soil and water conservation option (35.007%); (ii) abandonment of farming for another means of livelihood (15.052%) and (iii) reduction in the farmland size (11.774%). …”
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Experimental Study of the Creep Disturbance Effect and Acoustic Emission Characteristics of Mudstone with Different Moisture Contents by Yongjiang Yu, Pengbo Wang, Shipeng Zhang, Jingjing Liu

“…It is important to have a clear understanding of the creep characteristics of water-rich soft rocks under a dynamic load and the evolution of cracks because soft rock roadways in deep mines are very sensitive to disturbances, and instability and damage can easily occur under the impact of disturbances such as mining and blasting. …”
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Application of Ultraviolet Radiation to Control the Calcium Carbonate Scale Formation and Deposition on the Membranes by Chanbasha Basheer, Mokhtar Rashwan, Eid Al-Mutairi, Amjad A. Shaikh, Khurram Karim Qureshi

“…Scale formation on surfaces in contact with water supersaturated with calcium carbonate creates technical problems, including heat transfer hindrance, energy consumption, and equipment shutdown. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Pollutant Transport in Fractured Vuggy Porous Karstic Aquifers by Xiaolin Fan, Shuyu Sun, Wei Wei, Jisheng Kou

“…Two phases are numerically simulated for a process of contaminant and clean water infiltrated in the fractured vuggy porous media by coupling mixed finite element (MFE) method and finite volume method (FVM), both of which are locally conservative, to approximate the model. …”
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Adsorption of Selected Pharmaceutical Compounds onto Activated Carbon in Dilute Aqueous Solutions Exemplified by Acetaminophen, Diclofenac, and Sulfamethoxazole by E.-E. Chang, Jan-Chi Wan, Hyunook Kim, Chung-Huei Liang, Yung-Dun Dai, Pen-Chi Chiang

“…The adsorption affinity represented as Langmuir was consistent with the ranking of the octanol-water partition coefficient, Kow. The adsorption behavior in binary or tertiary systems could be described by competition adsorption. …”
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