Evaluating 28-Days Performance of Rice Husk Ash Green Concrete under Compression Gleaned from Neural Networks by Sharanjit Singh, Harish Chandra Arora, Aman Kumar, Nishant Raj Kapoor, Kennedy C. Onyelowe, Krishna Kumar, Hardeep Singh Rai

“…Cement, coarse aggregates, fine aggregates, water, rice husk ash, superplasticizer, and type of sample are used as input parameters to predict CS at 28 days. …”
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A Data Stream-Based, Integrative Approach to Reliable and Easily Manageable Real Time Environmental Monitoring by Meilan Jiang, Jonghyun Lee, Karpjoo Jeong, Zhenguo Cui, Bomchul Kim, Suntae Hwang, Young Jean Choi

“…In this paper, we also demonstrate and evaluate the current prototype implementation of the Galilee system with those datasets obtained from the previous sensor-based water quality monitoring project for Lake Soyang from 2011 to 2012.…”
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Investigation of the Mechanical and Permeability Evolution Effects of High-Temperature Granite Exposed to a Rapid Cooling Shock with Liquid Nitrogen by Tianzuo Wang, Linxiang Wang, Fei Xue, Mengya Xue, Hangcheng Xie, Ningbo Tang

“…Compared with the air/water cooling methods, under LN2 cooling condition, the mechanical properties decrease markedly. …”
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Plants from Arid Zones of Mexico: Bioactive Compounds and Potential Use for Food Production by Isabel Márquez-Rangel, Mario Cruz, Alberto A. Neira-Vielma, Sonia N. Ramírez-Barrón, Pedro Aguilar-Zarate, Ruth Belmares

“…This has led to an opportunity to study arid zone plants as food sources that have potential biological activities and improve consumer health. (2) Methods: In this work, we review recent research focused on the traditional use and importance of arid zone plants, their nutritional contribution, and their beneficial effects on health when they are consumed; these effects are primarily because of their antioxidant activity, which inhibits free radicals and contributes to improved nutrition and benefits consumer health. (3) Results: Several plant-based functional food studies have shown that the consumption of bioactive compounds is a complement to drugs for preventing some chronic degenerative diseases, such as gastrointestinal diseases, diabetes, and obesity. (4) Conclusions: Given all of the previously mentioned factors, plants from arid zones are potential sources for obtaining bioactive compounds with low water requirements.…”
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Evaluation of Awareness, Knowledge, Attitude and Practices Related to Toxoplasmosis Among Females in Algeria by Mohamed Lounis, Samah Aissaoui, Fatima Ghouissem, Karim Souttou

“…The participants were aware of the role of cats as a source of contamination for humans (83.3%) and the common routes of transmission, including contact with cat feces (83.7%) and the consumption of undercooked meat (75%), but the role of unpasteurized milk from infected animals (40.3%), untreated water (35.8%), and blood transfusions (26.4%) was not well understood. …”
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Fungal planktonic community related to salinity and temperature in an oligotrophic sea by Ashwag A. Asseri, Alexandra Coello-Camba, Susana Agustí

“…To address this gap, we conducted a study to investigate the diversity of planktonic fungal communities in the Red Sea, a warm and oligotrophic sea. We collected water samples from the photic layer at six sites along the Red Sea basin and analyzed the fungal community by targeting the 28S rRNA gene. …”
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Bipolar membrane/hydrophobic gas permeable membrane electrochemical systems for highly efficient removal of ammonium nitrogen in wastewater by YAN Zhang, KUANG Wenjie, JIANG Zhuwu, FENG Chunhua*

“…Ammonia nitrogen is one of the primary pollutants found in both surface water and groundwater, and its predominant form is heavily influenced by the pH of the aquatic environment. …”
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Two-Step Facile Preparation of 2D MoS2/ZnO Nanocomposite p-n Junctions with Enhanced Photoelectric Performance by Ali Aldalbahi, Zhen-Bo Wang, Tansir Ahamad, Saad M. Alshehri, Peter X. Feng

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Performance optimization of sorption-enhanced DME synthesis (SEDMES) from captured CO2 and renewable hydrogen by I. Tyraskis, A. Capa, G. Skorikova, S. N. Sluijter, J. Boon

“…Sorption-enhanced dimethyl ether synthesis (SEDMES) is a powerful technology to produce dimethyl ether (DME) from captured CO2 and renewable H2. In situ water by-product removal by zeolites shifts the thermodynamic equilibrium of the reaction towards product formation. …”
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Effect of Psyllium Husk, Bran, and Raw Wheat Germ Addition on the Rheological Characteristics of Arabic (Pita) Bread Dough by Ahmad Aldughpassi, Tasleem Zafar, Jiwan S. Sidhu, Fatima Al-Hassawi, Mohammad Mirza Abdullah, Amani Al-Othman

“…Addition of fine bran, coarse bran, and raw wheat germ decreased the extensibility and resistance to extension and area under curve, lower dough stability, but enhanced water absorption and peak time. Addition of psyllium husk, though reduced the extensibility, but did not affect the area under the curve adversely, thus overcame some of the negative effects on rheological characteristics of the white flour dough. …”
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Dealing with hydrologic data scarcity: the case of the Tindouf basin by Gonçalvès, Julio, Nutz, Alexis, Séraphin, Pierre, Chekireb, Amine, Kabiri, Lahcen, Deschamps, Pierre

“…A basin-scale groundwater balance based on gravity data from the Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) was established to estimate values of the different terms of the hydrogeological water budget of the TAS. A recharge at $0.8\pm 0.2$ mm${\cdot }$yr$^{-1}$, an evaporation at $0.9\pm 0.2$ mm${\cdot }$yr$^{-1}$ and GRACE-derived groundwater depletion at $-0.7\pm 0.1$ mm${\cdot }$yr$^{-1}$ due to pumping and evaporation in excess of lateral groundwater flow are obtained.…”
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The role of geographic information systems (GIS) in decision-making for the localization of industrial areas and the evaluation of existing industrial areas (an applied study in th... by El Monhim Bilal, Sbai Abdelkader, Arabi Mourad, Makkaoui Mohamed, Hlal Mohammed, Benrbia Khadija

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INterpolated FLOod Surface (INFLOS), a Rapid and Operational Tool to Estimate Flood Depths from Earth Observation Data for Emergency Management by Quentin Poterek, Alessandro Caretto, Rémi Braun, Stephen Clandillon, Claire Huber, Pietro Ceccato

“…INFLOS calculates flood depth by interpolating water surface elevation from sample points along flooded area boundaries, derived from satellite imagery. …”
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Antibacterial Potential of Crude Extracts from <i>Cylindrospermum alatosporum</i> NR125682 and <i>Loriellopsis cavernicola</i> NR117881 by Albert Olufemi Ikhane, Foluso Oluwagbemiga Osunsanmi, Rebamang Anthony Mosa, Andrew Rowland Opoku

“…Cyanobacteria are oxygen-producing photosynthetic prokaryotes found in a variety of water habitats. Secondary metabolites are produced by cyanobacteria to survive extreme environmental stress factors, including microbial competition. …”
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Composition of plastic waste discarded by households and its management approaches by B. Gwada, G. Ogendi, S.M. Makindi, S. Trott

“…Majority of respondents (93.6%), re-use some plastic containers for food, water, and oil storage. There was a significant difference in terms of how the respondents re-used their plastic waste in the four sub-locations (FH=36.437, <em>p</em>=0.005). …”
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Detection of gene clusters for biodegradation of alkanes and aromatic compounds in the Rhodococcus qingshengii VKM Ac-2784D genome by Yu. A. Markova, I. S. Petrushin, L. A. Belovezhets

“…These bacteria are widely met in soil, water and living organisms. Previously, we have isolated the Rhodococcus qingshengii strain VKM Ac-2784D from the rhizosphere of couch grass growing on oil-contaminated soil. …”
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Photoirradiation Caused Controllable Wettability Switching of Sputtered Highly Aligned c-Axis-Oriented Zinc Oxide Columnar Films by P. W. Chi, C. W. Su, B. H. Jhuo, D. H. Wei

“…All the ZnO columnar films exhibit good transparency with a visible light averaged transmittance over 82%. According to water contact angle (CA) measurement, ZnO columnar films exhibit hydrophobic behavior. …”
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Regulatory mechanism analysis of signal transduction genes during rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) germination under aluminum stress using WGCNA combination with QTL by Chenyang Li, Ruili Wang, Jiana Li, Qingyuan Zhou, Cui Cui

“…Seeds of aluminum-sensitive (S) and aluminum-resistant (R) lines screened from the recombinant inbred lines (RILs) population of rapeseed were treated with 80 µg·ml-1 AlCl3 (ST, RT). Purified water served as the control (SC, RC). On the 3rd, 5th, and 7th day after treatment, the root tissue was collected for transcriptome sequencing. …”
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Any Long-term Effect of the Beirut Port Explosion on the Airborne Particulate Matter? by Yi-Bo Zhao, Nathalie Hayeck, Najat A. Saliba, Claudia Schreiner, Markus Zennegg, Fuze Jiang, Renato Figi, Davide Bleiner, Jing Wang

“…Hence, the results imply that investigations of the chemical contaminations in soil and water are urgently needed. Long-term monitoring is necessary to avoid subsequent air pollution caused by possible particle resuspension. …”
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Digitized thermo-responsive shape memory matrix band for tooth restorations by Chao Liu, Qin Huang, Bin Feng, Guanchen Ye, Yu Wang, Tianer Zhu, Junjie Wu, Lining Lin, Dongqi You, Haiping Yang, Weifang Zhang

“…The permanent shape could be designed and customized in software or retrieved from imaging database collected from large general population. Only warm saline or water was needed to trigger the shape transformation without any auxiliary tools. …”
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