Natural pozzolan as a sustainable cement replacement in high-performance concrete: Effects on mechanical properties, durability, and microstructural development by Yakoub Derrouiche, Djamel Achoura, Jacqueline Saliba, Franck Cassagnabère

“…Furthermore, the 20 % pozzolan mix demonstrates 15 % less total shrinkage at 180 days and a 25 % decrease in capillary water absorption when compared to the control mix, while retaining adequate workability. …”
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Future increase in compound soil drought-heat extremes exacerbated by vegetation greening by Jun Li, Yao Zhang, Emanuele Bevacqua, Jakob Zscheischler, Trevor F. Keenan, Xu Lian, Sha Zhou, Hongying Zhang, Mingzhu He, Shilong Piao

“…Although greening-induced transpiration enhancement has counteracting cooling and drying effects, the excessive water loss in the early growing season can lead to later soil moisture deficits, amplifying compound soil drought-heat extremes during the subsequent warm season. …”
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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Regarding High Salt Intake and Association With Hypertension Among Rural Women in Chandpur District of Bangladesh by Pradip Chandra, Aminul Islam, Shahara Robertson, Abu‐Al‐Rafe, Md. Abu Sayed, Afra Anjum Ahona, Mst. Nadira Parvin, Pradip Sen Gupta

“…ABSTRACT Background and Aims The human body requires a relatively little quantity of sodium to transmit nerve impulses, contract and relax muscles, and maintain appropriate water and mineral balance and which is typically added from diets. …”
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Comparative Study on the Evolution of Airflow Temperature and Valid Ventilation Distance Under Different Cooling Strategies in High-Temperature Tunnels for Mining Thermal Energy by Fangchao Kang, Jinlong Men, Binbin Qin, Guoxi Sun, Ruzhen Chen, Weikang Zhang, Jiamei Chen, Zhenpeng Ye

“…Our findings indicate that (1) the TIL-HE strategy demonstrates superior cooling performance, resulting in significantly lower airflow temperatures and markedly higher VVD; (2) higher water velocity and more heat exchangers contribute to lower airflow temperature and prolonged VVD; (3) positioning the heat exchangers within the surrounding rock rather than inside the insulation layer leads to even lower airflow temperature and longer VVD. …”
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Computational and GC-MS screening of bioactive compounds from Thymus Vulgaris targeting mycolactone protein associated with Buruli ulcer by Muhammad Naveed, Imran Ali, Tariq Aziz, Ayesha Saleem, Zeerwah Rajpoot, Sameera Khaleel, Ayaz Ali Khan, Mitub Al-harbi, Thamer H. Albekairi

“…The ADMET analysis predicted that the compound borneol crosses the PGP + through the Blood Brain Barrier and gastrointestinal tract without violating Lipinski’s rule of 5 having high water solubility, and log p-value of 2.29. The molecular dynamic simulation was performed and showed the Eigenvalue of 1.332692e-04. …”
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Optimization of Dyeing Conditions of Natural Dye Obtained from Vaccinium corrymbosum (Blueberry) On Cotton Fabric by Yahaya Musa Abubakar, Fatima Garba, Ma’aruf Abdulmumin Muhamad, Yilni Edward Bioltif, Ansar Bilyamin Adam, Lawan Usman

“…In this study, natural dye extraction from V. corymbosum was performed using a mixture of 15 ml methanol, 20 ml distilled water, and 1% HCl. The extracted dye was optimized for dyeing cotton fabric by studying the effects of dye concentration, temperature, and dyeing time. …”
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Enhancing mechanical and biological properties of 3D-printed polylactic acid scaffolds by graphitic carbon nitride addition for bone tissue engineering by Alborz Bakhtiari, Hamid Reza Madaah Hosseini, Reza Alizadeh, Mohsen Mohammadi, Masoud Zarei

“…Also, incorporating g-C3N4 into the PLA matrix significantly reduced the water contact angle of pure PLA from 82.54° to 54.65°, reflecting a transition from a hydrophobic to a hydrophilic surface, enhancing the wettability of the scaffolds, which is crucial for improved cell interaction. …”
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Transformation of Hydroacoustic Energy into Seismoacoustic Energy at 22 Hz in Medium Depth- and Deep-Sea Conditions by Grigory Dolgikh, Mikhail Bolsunovskii, Sergey Budrin, Stanislav Dolgikh, Mikhail Ivanov, Vladimir Ovcharenko, Aleksandr Pivovarov, Aleksandr Samchenko, Vladimir Chupin, Igor Yaroshchuk

“…The novelty and uniqueness of the work lies in the use of a harmonic low-frequency hydroacoustic signal with a frequency of 22 Hz of high power, capable of creating Rayleigh surface waves at the “water–bottom” interface. The surface waves propagating at the bottom are registered by a coastal laser-interference measuring system capable of recording deformations in the upper crustal layer with an accuracy of 0.01 nm. …”
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Lighting Spectrum Optimization With Deep Learning for Moss Species Classification by Kenichi Ito, Pauli Falt, Markku Hauta-Kasari, Shigeki Nakauchi

“…Mosses, due to their sensitivity to environmental changes, are utilized in investigations related to air pollution, water quality, and carbon consumption and emissions. …”
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Electron Push-Pull Effect of Benzotrithiophene-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks on the Photocatalytic Degradation of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products by Hongguang Guo, Jiaqin He, Yixi Guo, Yunxi Chang, Haidong Ju, Yizhou Li

“…This study confirms that BTT-based COFs are a class of promising photocatalysts for the degradation of PPCPs in water, and their performance can be further optimized by tuning the structure and composition of the frameworks.…”
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Informing proactive wildfire management that benefits vulnerable communities and ecological values by L. Mae Lacey, Justin P. Suraci, Caitlin E. Littlefield, Blake S. Busse, Brett G. Dickson

“…For instance, restoration in these refined focal areas would cover 28% greater imperilled species richness, 45% greater water importance and 26% more families falling below the poverty line. …”
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Enhancing Precipitation Nowcasting Through Dual-Attention RNN: Integrating Satellite Infrared and Radar VIL Data by Hao Wang, Rong Yang, Jianxin He, Qiangyu Zeng, Taisong Xiong, Zhihao Liu, Hongfei Jin

“…This model leverages the fundamental physical relationship between temperature and precipitation in a predictive framework that captures thermal and water vapor dynamics, thereby enhancing prediction accuracy. …”
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Immobilization of resin photocatalyst in removal of soluble effluent organic matter and potential for disinfection by-products by E.N. Hidayah, R.B. Pachwarya, O.H. Cahyonugroho

“…Resin immobilized photocatalyst has been using for pollutant reduction, however lack of studies focused on dissolved effluent organic matter and its impact on the formation carcinogenic as by-product of water or wastewater treatment. This study aims to characterize organic matter by resin immobilized photocatalyzed titanium dioxide and zinc oxide and to determine its effectiveness in removing organic matter and potential for disinfection by-products in treated wastewater compare with resin only.METHODS: The bulk parameters, including total organic carbon, aromatic organic carbon as ultraviolet at 254 nm wavelength and specific ultraviolet absorbance value, and disinfection by-products formation potential, including trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids concentration was measured.FINDINGS: The results present that all materials could remove organic carbon in the range 58.18% - 93.45%, aromatic organic carbon removal 48.77% - 76.51%, and specific ultraviolet absorbance value decreased into less than 2 L/mg-m after longer contact time. …”
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Divergent response of grassland aboveground net primary productivity and precipitation utilization efficiency to altered precipitation patterns by process-based model by Chen Cheng, Lu Wu, Lu Wu, Hongyan Liu, Boyi Liang, Xinrong Zhu, Feiyun Yang

“…The functioning of ecosystem services in water-limited grassland ecosystems is significantly influenced by precipitation characteristics. …”
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Response of Plant Leaf Traits to Environmental Factors in Climax Communities at Varying Latitudes in Karst Regions by Gang Xie, Yang Wang, Zhifeng Chen, Yangyang Ji, Yao Lu, Yi Liang, Ruiyu Zhou, Juan Tao

“…The distribution of soil factors was more concentrated in high and mid-latitude regions, whereas low-latitude areas displayed more pronounced variability. (3) The primary environmental factors influencing the climax community in the karst study area included soil water content (SPMC), soil bulk density (BD), soil organic carbon content (SOC), soil nitrogen content (SNC), and soil phosphorus content (SPC). …”
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Forest fire risk assessment model optimized by stochastic average gradient descent by Zexin Fu, Adu Gong, Jinhong Wan, Wanru Ba, Haihan Wang, Jiaming Zhang

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Bacterial diversity impacts as a result of combined sewer overflow in a polluted waterway by O. Calderon, H. Porter-Morgan, J. Jacob, W. Elkins

“…It is one of the most polluted water bodies in the United States and was designated as a superfund site in 2010. …”
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A Novel Adjuvant “Sublancin” Enhances Immune Response in Specific Pathogen-Free Broiler Chickens Inoculated with Newcastle Disease Vaccine by Yangke Liu, Jiang Zhang, Shuai Wang, Yong Guo, Tao He, Rui Zhou

“…Experiment 1: SPF broiler chicks (14 days old) were randomly allotted to 1 of 7 groups including a blank control (BC), vaccine control (VC), and 5 (3-7) vaccinated and sublancin supplemented at 5, 15, 30, 45, and 60 mg activity/L of water, respectively. Vaccinated groups (2-7) were vaccinated with ND vaccine by intranasal and intraocular routes at the 14th day. …”
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The Effect of Contraceptive Pills on the Severity of Visceral Leishmaniasis by Measuring Some Physiological Parameters by Hanan F. Ghazi, Sabaa T. Mohammed, Areej A. Zabbon, Mohamed Tawfiek Shaaban

“…It is taken by dosage in the form of tablets dissolved in water at a dose of 0.012 ml/day and is compared with the drug pentostam, which is given by injection at 0.04 ml/day for a treatment of 21 days. …”
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Development and Validation of an RP-HPLC Method for the Quantitative Analysis of Triclosan in Human Urine by Prince Karikari, James Oppong-Kyekyeku, Edmund Ekuadzi, Samuel Oppong Bekoe, Rita Opoku, Daniel Nimako Amprako, Emmanuel Addo-Yobo, Sandra Kwarteng Owusu, Bernard Arhin, Adegoke G. Falade, Ganiyu Arinola, Adeleye S. Bakarey, John I. Anetor, Kevin J. Mortimer

“…The method utilized methanol and water in a ratio of 90 : 10 as the mobile phase on a Phenomenex Luna 3 µm C18(2) 100 Å, 150 × 4.60 mm stationary phase, with a runtime of 5 minutes. …”
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