Extracellular polymeric substances as paper coating biomaterials derived from anaerobic granular sludge by Cuijie Feng, Lorenzo Bonetti, Hui Lu, Zhongbo Zhou, Tommaso Lotti, Mingsheng Jia, Giacomo Rizzardi, Luigi De Nardo, Francesca Malpei

“…The enhanced water-barrier and grease resistance of EPS-coated paper can be attributed to its non-porous, fine surface structure and the functional groups in EPS, particularly the high protein content and hydrophobic humic-like substances. …”
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Efficiency evaluation of product oil pipeline under transportation market by Hao ZHANG, Renfu TU, Xu ZHANG, Xinyi YANG, Yiwei SU, Yuheng XIA, Jun YAN, Rui QIU

“…Subsequently, the functions of pipelines within the entire product oil logistics system were evaluated in typical and extreme weather scenarios utilizing two key metrics: total transportation cost and the share of pipeline transportation. …”
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Healthcare utilization and disease burden in children with metachromatic leukodystrophy in Germany by Christiane Kehrer, Andrea Bevot, Pascal Martin, Christa Raabe, Saskia Gregor, Ingeborg Krägeloh-Mann, Samuel Groeschel

“…General well-being did not strongly correlate with motor function, whereas pain was associated with reduced well-being. …”
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Ivacaftor–tezacaftor–elexacaftor, tezacaftor–ivacaftor and lumacaftor–ivacaftor for treating cystic fibrosis: a systematic review and economic evaluation by Steven J Edwards, Benjamin G Farrar, Kate Ennis, Nicole Downes, Victoria Wakefield, Isaac Mackenzie, Archie Walters, Tracey Jhita

“…Most people with CF experience progressive lung function loss over their lifetime, and lung disease is the primary cause of death for people with CF. …”
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Production chain and COVID-19 disruption: Sustainability via flexibility framework a case of the beverage industry by Adedugba Adebayo, Adeyemo Felicia, Oreagba Oluwakemi

“…A purposive method was utilized as an information-gathering source from 200 participants. …”
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Utilization of waste lignin to prepare controlled-slow release urea by Jamshid Behin, Nader Sadeghi

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A Cost-Effective and High-Efficiency Novel 15-Level Hybrid MLI Topology for Renewable Energy Systems by Murat Karakılıç, Hasan Hataş

“…In this paper, a new hybrid model for single DC source multilevel inverters (MLIs) is proposed. The proposed switched diode (SD) and high frequency link (HFL) hybrid structure utilizes a single DC source voltage and supplies multiple DC voltages to the PUC circuit. …”
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To Hunt or Patrol? Social Composition and Location Mediate Scent Marking Decisions of a Large Carnivore by K. Whitney Hansen, Neil R. Jordan, Megan J. Claase, J. W. McNutt, Alan Wilson, Christopher C. Wilmers

“…Specifically, we used resource selection function frameworks to determine how and whether conspecifics influenced habitat selection and behavior at multiple orders of selection. …”
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An Adaptive Harmony Search Part-of-Speech tagger for Square Hmong Corpus by Di-Wen Kang, Shao-Qiang Ye, Sharifah Zarith Rahmah Syed Ahmad, Li-Ping Mo, Feng Qin, Pan Zhou

“… Data-driven models perform poorly on part-of-speech tagging problems with the square Hmong language, a low-resource corpus. This paper designs a weight evaluation function to reduce the influence of unknown words. …”
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Utilization Patterns and Optimization Suggestions for Wildlife Passages in Xinjiang Nature Reserves by Mengdi Fu, Jun Wang, Shuang Li, Le Qin, Junsheng Li, Shichao Jin

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Optimal Computation Offloading Decisions Based on System Utility and Cost Balance by Bingxue Zhang, Xisheng Li, Jia You

“…Based on the new evaluation model, an objective function is constructed to minimize the system’s cost-utility ratio, and an improved particle swarm optimization algorithm with enhanced search capabilities is proposed to solve it by designing a computation offloading strategy. …”
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Overview of solutions to improve efficiency of ground source heat pump system by ZHANG Yuping, YANG Xiao, LIU Jun, LIU Boyang, TANG Fujiao, TAN Yiqiu

“…Shallow geothermal energy, with applications ranging from road snow melting and deicing to building heating/cooling, primarily utilizes closed-loop vertical buried pipes for resource exploitation. …”
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Mapping service capabilities using ISM and fuzzy DEMATEL by Tingting Li, Dan Lv, Davod Khosroanjom

“…Abstract In the present competitive landscape, small enterprises (SEs) must consistently strive to enhance and sustain their position by utilizing suitable capabilities. Recognizing such advancements is mostly linked to service capabilities and resources. …”
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Zinc Glycine supplementation improves bone quality in meat geese by modulating gut microbiota, SCFA's, and gut barrier function through Wnt10b/NF-κB axis by Zeshan Zulfiqar, Muhammad Arslan Asif, Mengqi Liu, Shuhang Zhang, Hamid reza Rafieian Naeini, Yalei Cui, Boshuai Liu, Yinghua Shi

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Correction to: Utilization of waste lignin to prepare controlled-slow release urea by Maryam Hosseini, Nader Sadeghi, Jamshid Behin

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Sipuncula (Peanut Worms) in Indonesia Waters: A Review by Allsay Kitsash Addifisyukha Cintra, Tyani Fitrian, Hilda Novianty, Jasmadi Jasmadi, Nurul Dhewani Mirah Sjafrie

“…Sipunculans found in Indonesia have ecosystem function as bioturbator, shell-utilizer, and coral-symbiotic species. …”
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Localization of Acoustic Emission Source in Rock Using SMIGWO Algorithm by Jiong Wei, Fuqiang Gao, Jinfu Lou, Lei Yang, Xiaoqing Wang

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The Assessment of Utility and the Role of Rural Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in West Azerbaijan Province by ali Gholami, Fatemeh Moohamadzadeh

“…This suggests a different function of rural and urban ecosystems. Considering that the above conditions are in the villages of West Azarbaijan province, in order to identify and resolve some of these problems, the present article seeks to assess the utility of rural entrepreneurship ecosystem of the study area in comparison with the national and international model as well as the role of Each subsystem in its present condition. 2-Materials and Methods This is an exploratory and descriptive-analytical research. …”
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Research progress on the utilization of caproic acid bacteria for pit mud maintenance by FENG Wencong, SUN Wei, MAO Wending, LV Le, YIN Xiangxiang, CHEN Maobin, FANG Shangling

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A Review of Classical and Rising Approaches the Extraction and Utilization of Marine Collagen by Cesia Deyanira Gutierrez-Canul, Luis Alfonso Can-Herrera, Emmanuel de Jesús Ramírez-Rivera, Witoon Prinyawiwatkul, Enrique Sauri-Duch, Victor Manuel Moo-Huchin, Emanuel Hernández-Núñez

“…This comprehensive review explores the extraction and utilization of marine collagen, a sustainable alternative to traditional mammalian sources. …”
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