Combustion and engine roughness of water − jojoba biodiesel emulsions in diesel engine by Ihab Ayad, Mohamed Y.E. Selim, Mamdouh T. Ghannam

“…The data recorded continuously over time included cylinder combustion pressure, sound pressure level (external noise), block vibration smoke opacity, and exhaust gases. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Rock Failure Process with a 3D Grain-Based Rock Model by Zengwei Zhang, Fan Chen, Chao Zhang, Chao Wang, Tuo Wang, Fengshou Zhang, Huiling Zhao

“…The rock is represented as an assembly of tetrahedral blocks with bonded contacts. Material heterogeneity is modeled by varying the tensile strength at the block contacts. …”
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Face super-resolution via iterative collaboration between multi-attention mechanism and landmark estimation by Chang-Teng Shi, Meng-Jun Li, Zhi Yong An

“…This method employs a Multi-Convolutional Attention Block for multi-scale feature extraction, and an Attention Fusion Block is introduced to enhance features using facial priors. …”
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Selective adsorptive removal and separation of harmful anionic dyes using mesoporous magnesium oxide-chitosan composite by Mudita Nagpal, Nidhi Sharma, Ankit Mittal

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Impact of Production Inputs and Timing on Crackness of Rice in Northern Ghana by Daniel Asomning Odoom, Joseph Xorse Kugbe, Israel Kwame Dzomeku, Albert Berdjour, Dennis Owusu Boateng, Richard Naabe Yaro, Prince Wireko, Ebenezer Kofi Sam, Philip Ghanney

“…The experiment was laid out in a randomized complete block design with three geographically distinct locations serving as replicates. …”
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Ab-initio trained machine learning potential for MAX compound Ti2AlC: construction, validation, and study of non linear elasticity by Aishwaryo Ghosh, Amitava Moitra, Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta

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Investigation of antioxidant, antimicrobial, and enzymatic properties of thermophilic cyanobacteria extracts by Aytan Fataliyeva, Meral Yilmaz Cankilic, Nalan Yilmaz Sariozlu

“…The measurement of enzyme activity was carried out by a modification of the agar block method by the growth of the cyanobacteria. …”
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Investigation of Small-Scaled Soil Structure Model under Earthquake Loads via Small Shaking Table Tests by Mohammed El Hoseny, Jianxun Ma, Dong Luo, Yanchao Yue

“…In addition, the laminar soil container for the soil block was constructed to reduce undesirable boundary effects. …”
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Automatic Generation of Precast Concrete Component Fabrication Drawings Based on BIM and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning by Chao Zhang, Xuhong Zhou, Chengran Xu, Zhou Wu, Jiepeng Liu, Hongtuo Qi

“…Subsequently, the block layout is modeled as a layout optimization problem, and the internal spacing and position of functional category blocks are regarded as agents. …”
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Effective energy consumption parameters in residential buildings using Building Information Modeling by N. Amani, A.A. Reza Soroush

“…The results showed that the use of building information modeling technology in adjusting the parameters affecting energy consumption can save energy cost up to 58.23% in block D. Energy cost savings for block C and the western lobby were obtained as 51.03% and 43.05%, respectively. …”
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Spatiotemporal Video Denoising Based on Adaptive Thresholding and Clustering by Ali Abdullah Yahya, Jieqing Tan, Benyu Su, Kui Liu, Ali Naser Hadi

“…Consequently, we can successfully remove the noise effectively and at the same time preserve the edges of the image, because the clustering approach saves more computation time and is more capable of finding relevant patches than the block-matching approach. So, the K-means clustering method in the final estimate in this paper is adopted instead of the block-matching method in the VBM3D method in order to restrict the search of the candidate patches within the region of the reference patch and therefore improve the grouping. …”
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Multifeature Fusion Detection Method for Fake Face Attack in Identity Authentication by Haiqing Liu, Shiqiang Zheng, Shuhua Hao, Yuancheng Li

“…In the pyramid model, image processing is performed in each layer by using block calculations that form multiple block images. …”
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The usage of Bupivacaina as anesthetic agent in knee arthroscopy. by José Julio Ojeda González, Evangelina Dávila Cabo de Villa, Ana María Machado Consuegra, José Toledo Torres, Carlos M. Hernández

“…<strong><br />Conclusion: </strong>Bupivacaine is a good local anaesthetic because of its slow action since the onset of application and its prolonged duration, and because of the intensity and the duration of the sensorial block that is superior to the motor block.…”
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Interventions for SARS-CoV-2 prevention among Jailed adults: A network-based modeling analysis by Isaac Schneider, Karina Wallrafen-Sam, Shanika Kennedy, Matthew J. Akiyama, Anne C. Spaulding, Samuel M. Jenness

“…Methods: Social contact networks were simulated at two different overlapping network layers: cell and block. Cell-level contacts represented shared confined sleeping space, whereas block-level contacts represented shared socialization space. …”
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Geological, alteration, mineralogy and geochemical studies of the Copper deposit in the Kalatehno prospect area, northwest of Gonabad (Khorasan Razavi province) by Sedigheh Zirjanizadeh, Roohollah Miri Bydokhti

“…This area is located in the north of the Lut Block zone. Due to different tectonic situations and the huge amount of magmatism with different geochemical characteristics, the Lut Block has very good potential for various mineralization. …”
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Synergistic Interaction between Metformin and Sulfonylureas on Diclofenac-Induced Antinociception Measured Using the Formalin Test in Rats by Mario I Ortiz

“…BACKGROUND: There is evidence that biguanides and sulfonylureas block diclofenac-induced antinociception (DIA) in rat models. …”
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The Solar Cycle by J. Javaraiah, J. P. Rozelot, Luca Bertello

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ADAPTIVE LEARNING OF HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS FOR EMOTIONAL SPEECH by A. V. Tkachenia

“…To increase the reliability of estimated HMM parameters, a mechanism of forgetting and updating is proposed. A functional block diagram of the hidden Markov models adaptation algorithm is also provided with obtained results, which improve the efficiency of emotional speech recognition.…”
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Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum and Absence of Tricuspid Valve. A Report of Four Cases by Adel E. González Morejón, Ansia Serrano Sánchez, Giselle Serrano Ricardo

“…All patients underwent Blalock – Taussig shunt as initial palliative treatment, which was associated with balloon atrioseptostomy in two cases. …”
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Effects of Linear-Polarized Near-Infrared Light Irradiation on Chronic Pain by Dong Huang, Yong-Hong Gu, Qin Liao, Xue-Bin Yan, Shai-Hong Zhu, Chang-Qing Gao

“…In order to study the efficacy of linear-polarized near-infrared light irradiation (LPNIR) on relieving chronic pain in conjunction with nerve block (NB) or local block (LB), a 3-week prospective, randomized, double-blind, controlled study was conducted to evaluate the pre- and post-therapy pain intensity. …”
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