Understanding Friction and Wear Behaviours of Smooth Resilient Surfaces: Application for Pedestrian Fall Safety Improvements by In-Ju Kim

“…The recent literature identified that certain types of smooth floors and flooring materials showed good slip-resistance performance under moderately contaminated situations such as water wet and soapsuds-covered conditions. However, topographic structures of such flat floor/walkway surfaces are significantly changed by wear and tear developments with continuous ambulation. …”
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Exploring EPR Parameters of 187Re Complexes for Designing New MRI Probes: From the Gas Phase to Solution and a Model Protein Environment by Gustavo A. Andolpho, Elaine F. F. da Cunha, Teodorico C. Ramalho

“…The best methodology for the Aiso calculation of ReABT was using the M06L functional, SARC-ZORA-TZVP (for Re) and TZVP (for all other atoms) basis set, relativistic Hamiltonian, and the CPCM solvation model with water as the solvent which confirm that the relativistic effects are important for calculating the Aiso values. …”
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Slime-Groove Drag Reduction Characteristics and Mechanism of Marine Biomimetic Surface by Muhan Yan, Yunqing Gu, Longbiao Ma, Jianxing Tang, Chengdong He, Junjun Zhang, Jiegang Mou

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An Elastoplastic Softening Damage Model for Hydraulic Fracturing in Soft Coal Seams by Yang Hao, Yu Wu, Xianbiao Mao, Pan Li, Liqiang Zhang, Jing Tao

“…Then the parameters of water injection rate and time on fracture-influenced radius were studied. …”
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Polysaccharides of St. John’s Wort Herb Stimulate NHDF Proliferation and NEHK Differentiation via Influence on Extracellular Structures and Signal Pathways by S. Abakuks, A. M. Deters

“…As polysaccharides exhibit structure-dependent biological functions in the present study water-soluble polysaccharides were extracted from herb material, fractionated by anion exchange chromatography into four main polysaccharide fractions (denominated as Hp1, Hp2, Hp3 and Hp4) and characterized by HPAEC-PAD, CE, IR and GC-MS. …”
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Fly Ash/Silica Fume Coral Concrete with Modified Polypropylene Fiber for Sustainable Building Construction by Bo Wang, Wenhao Shi, Qing Wu, Xun Xi, Shangtong Yang

“…This paper develops a new coral concrete composite utilizing coral debris to replace sand and aggregates, sea water, supplementary cementitious waste materials, namely, fly ash and silica fume and modified polypropylene fiber (MPPF) to achieve both sustainable and economic development needs in coastal and island building and construction. …”
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PERSEPSI MASYARAKAT TERHADAP FUNGSI RAWA DI DAERAH MUSI RAWAS by Septi Kurnia, Meli Astriani, Saleh Hidayat

“…Swamps are part of relatively flat land along the coast, streams or lakes and there is vegetation in the form of water plants, leading to the land up to ± 100 km which is generally affected by tides from the surrounding rivers. …”
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Cloxacillin: A New Cause of Pill-Induced Esophagitis by Petros Zezos, Ziv Harel, Fred Saibil

“…This case signifies the importance of enhancing clinician awareness for drug-associated esophageal injury when assessing patients with retrosternal pain, as well as the value of prophylaxis against this unpleasant condition by universally recommending drinking enough water in an upright position during ingestion of any oral medication.…”
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Safety Risk Evaluation of Large and Complex Bridges during Construction Based on the Delphi-Improved FAHP-Factor Analysis Method by Teng Ji, Ji-Wei Liu, Qing-Fu Li

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Inhibitory effect of chitosan and gelatin on the physical, chemical, organoleptic and mikrobiological quality of keumamah fish by Khafiyya Nida, Uju, Bustami

“…Key parameters measured include proximate composition, pH, texture, color, peroxide value, water activity (aw), total volatile base (TVB), and total plate count (TPC). …”
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Research on Noise Reduction Scheme of Heat Pump Unit in a Square by Xueyong Zhang, Yuanyuan Hu, Shengyuan Geng, Qianyong Hu, Huanbao Wang

“…Heat pump unit is a host device located in the central air-conditioning terminal, providing cold and hot water. Heat pump unit has the advantages of energy saving, environmental protection, easy maintenance, and so on. …”
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Deformation Characteristics of Ultrahigh-Strength Concrete under Unrestrained and Restrained States by Joo-Ha Lee, Kwang-Mo Lim, Doo-Yeol Yoo, Nam-Hyoung Lim

“…The primary experimental variables are the compressive strength level according to the water-to-binder ratio (W/B), fly ash content, and concrete specimen thickness. …”
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Optimizing Cabbage Cultivation in Paddy-Converted Fields Using Discarded Coir Substrates and Controlled Irrigation by Xin Wang, Yongjae Lee, To Kang, Jongseok Park

“…Capitata), including the outer leaf growth, yield components, water use efficiency (WUE), photosynthetic parameters, chlorophyll content, proline content, malondialdehyde (MDA) content, and glucosinolates (GLs) content. …”
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Thermal Wavelength Measurement of Nanofluid in an Optical-Fiber Thermal Wave Cavity Technique to Determine the Thermal Diffusivity by Monir Noroozi, Bijan Mohammadi, Shahidan Radiman, Azmi Zakaria

“…The thermal diffusivity of distilled water, glycerol, and two different types of cooking oil was measured and has an excellent agreement with the reported results in the literature (difference of only 0.3%–2.4%). …”
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Collapsibility of Gypseous Soil Treated with Pectin-Biopolymer through Leaching by Ahmed H. Hussein, Farouk M. Muhauwiss, Riyadh A. Abdul-Jabbar

“…The danger increases when water flows through it and works to leach the soil, which leads to the loss of its mass by leaching gypsum. …”
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A Novel Multivariate Spectral Local Quasilinearization Method (MV-SLQLM) for Modelling Flow, Moisture, Heat, and Solute Transport in Soil by Elias Mwakilama, Vusi Magagula, Duncan Gathungu

“…Conventionally, the problem of studying the transport of water, heat, and solute in soil or groundwater systems has been numerically solved using finite difference (FD) or finite element (FE) methods. …”
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Treatment of Industrial Saline Wastewater Using Eco-Friendly Adsorbents by Safiya Al Ajmi, Murtuza Ali Syed, Feroz Shaik, Mohammed Nayeemuddin, Deepanraj Balakrishnan, Venkata Ratnam Myneni

“…A combination of chitosan and graphene has effectively removed the pollutants present in oil produced water (OPW) compared to chitosan alone. The maximum percentage removal efficiencies of COD (84%), TDS (91%), TSS (80%), turbidity (95%), and oil and grease (99.9%) were obtained for a mixture of chitosan (0.5 g/100 mL) and 5 wt% graphenes. …”
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<i>Mycobacterium abscessus—</i>An Emerging True Pathogen: A Case Report by Shruti Appaswamy, Bhavesh D Rathod

“…Since the organisms are frequently found on hospital instruments, water sources, and surfaces, timely and regular sterilization and microbiological quality checks should be carried out.…”
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Analytical Solution of Seepage Field in Karst Tunnel by Chong Jiang, Han-song Xie, Jia-li He, Wen-yan Wu, Zhi-chao Zhang

“…An analytical solution for the seepage field in water-filled karst tunnel is derived based on the inversion of complex function and groundwater hydraulics theory. …”
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Transdermal delivery of tolterodine tartrate for overactive bladder treatment: In vitro and in vivo evaluation by Rajabalaya Rajan, Mun Chung Yee, Chellian Jestin, Chakravarthi Srikumar, David Sheba R.

“…The patches were characterized for tensile strength, thickness, moisture content, modulus of elasticity and water absorption capacity. Differential scanning calorimetry and Fourier transform infrared analyses were also performed. …”
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