Effect of Adjusting for Particle-Size Distribution of Cement on Strength Development of Concrete by Daegeon Kim

“…Therefore, it is possible to see that customized cement or concrete can be manufactured in response to various consumer requirements by introducing such method that by-passes and collects fine or coarse cement in the cement-crushing process and then re-mixes them with OPC ASTM Type I cement depending on FMC.…”
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Corrosion behavior of Shape Memory Alloy in NaCl environment and deformation recovery maintenance in Cu-Zn-Al system by Andrea Brotzu, Barbara De Filippo, Stefano Natali, Laura Zortea

“…SMAs are an important class of smart materials able to recover after deformation a pre-imposed shape through a temperature modification. …”
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Acoustic lattice resonances and generalised Rayleigh–Bloch waves by G. J. Chaplain, S. C. Hawkins, M. A. Peter, L. G. Bennetts, T. A. Starkey

“…We investigate such a system and experimentally confirm the existence of a new class of generalised Rayleigh–Bloch waves that have been recently theorised to exist in classical wave regimes, without the need for resonant scatterers. …”
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Peran Petugas Kesehatan dalam Pencegahan dan Penanganan Stunting di Kabupaten Kolaka by Muhdar Muhdar, Rosmiati Rosmiati, Grace Tedy Tulak, Ekawati Saputri, Risqi Wahyu Susanti

“…The innovations that have been made include forming a nutrition-aware family team and a nutrition-smart mother class, while the obstacles experienced are the lack of public knowledge about stunting, the difficulty of changing people's behavior about the importance of nutrition, the lack of accurate tools in measuring children under five, and the lack of health workers who provide services. …”
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Accurate and optimal control of a bidirectional DC-DC converter: A robust adaptive approach enhanced by particle swarm optimization by Julius Derghe Cham, Francis Lénine Djanna Koffi, Alexandre Teplaira Boum, Ambe Harrison, Paul Michael Dongmo Zemgue, Njimboh Henry Alombah

“…The Half-bridge Bidirectional DC-DC converter, a special class of power electronic converters has received significant attention in DC-microgrids due to its high flexibility. …”
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PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS AMONG POPULATIONS OF THE RED VOLE MYODES (= CLETHRIONOMYS) RUTILUS PALLAS, 1779 IN THE NORTHERN PRIOKHOTYE AND KOLYMA REGIONS by V. V. Pereverzeva, A. A. Primak, E. A. Dubinin

“…During the second wave of dispersal, red voles from the eastern branch occupied the drainage area of the Kolyma river and the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk together with some neighboring islands.…”
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Type-II Fuzzy Decision Support System for Fertilizer by Ather Ashraf, Muhammad Akram, Mansoor Sarwar

“…These membership functions are mostly constructed through numerical data or range of classes. But there exists an uncertainty about the shape of the membership, that is, whether to go for a triangle membership function or a trapezoidal membership function. …”
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The Dynamics of Traditional Religion in the Political Economy of Ìkòrodú by Adéyẹmí Balógun

“… In the precolonial period, the coastal town of Ìkòrodú played a prominent role in the traffic of goods and services between traders on its coast and many Yorùbá groups who lived in the interior. …”
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Bandwidth Reconfigurable Metamaterial Arrays by Nathanael J. Smith, Dimitris Papantonis, John L. Volakis

“…Bandwidth reconfiguration of this class of array is then demonstrated achieving a variety of band-pass or band-rejection responses within its original bandwidth. …”
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Improving Students’ Vocabulary Retention by Local Culture-Based Material by Ilma Raihana, Neni Nurkhamidah

“… The objective of the study is to find out how the local culture-based material is being implemented in the class as well as the effect of implementing local culture-based material in improving the rural coastal area of Riau students’ vocabulary retention. …”
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The effect of learning planning skills and teaching material development skill on teacher teaching skills by Emidar Emidar, Vivi Indriyani

“…The data analysis method uses SPSS with the Multiple Regression analysis method. …”
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Application of an improved LightGBM hybrid integration model combining gradient harmonization and Jacobian regularization for breast cancer diagnosis by Xiaoyan Sun

“…Introducing gradient harmonic loss and cross entropy loss to enhance the model’s attention to minority classes in the dataset and alleviate the impact of data imbalance on diagnostic results. …”
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Household Waste Management Strategy in Upper Middle Housing by Susan Rendra Utama, Mei Ahyanti

“…Emphasizing household waste reduction through the 3R+P model, tailored for upper-middle-class housing, and bolstering community waste management awareness through continuous campaigns is essential.…”
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Particle size grouping method as a control system of efficiency flotation process on the example of coal by Kalisz D., Kuglin K., Młynarczykowska A.

“…Fine particles 100-200μm. turned out to be best for flotation, unlike coarse 400-500 μm.…”
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A Case of Persistent Generalized Retrograde Autobiographical Amnesia Subsequent to the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 by Yuji Odagaki

“…On 11 March 2011, the largest earthquake on record in Japan took place, and subsequent huge tsunami devastated the Pacific coast of northern Japan. This case report describes a patient suffering from retrograde episodic-autobiographical amnesia for whole life, persisting for even more than five years after the disaster. …”
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Aerodynamic Shape Design and Validation of an Advanced High-Lift Device for a Regional Aircraft with Morphing Droop Nose by Alessandro De Gaspari, Frédéric Moens

“…The morphing droop nose is compatible with an NLF wing that requires the continuity of the skin and, at the same time, extends the possibilities to improve the performances of the class of regional aircraft which usually are not equipped with conventional leading edge devices. …”
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A Review of Caveats in Statistical Nuclear Image Analysis by Helene Schulerud, Gunner B. Kristensen, Knut Liestøl, Liljana Vlatkovic, Albrecht Reith, Fritz Albregtsen, Hàvard E. Danielsen

“…In order to find features that separate different outcome classes of interest, statistical evaluation of the nuclear features must be performed. …”
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Short Term Virologic Efficacies of Telbivudine versus Entecavir against Hepatitis B-Related Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Young Woon Kim, Jung Hyun Kwon, Eun Chung, Sung Won Lee, Jong-yul Lee, Jeong Won Jang, Kyu Won Chung, Soon Woo Nam

“…The short term efficacy of TLV was similar to that of ETV. Since TLV is highly cost-effective, it should be considered as a first-line antiviral agent in patients with advanced HCC, poor liver function, and short life expectancies.…”
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Genotoxic impact of BPA and analogs (BPE, BPZ, and BADGE) on Mytilus galloprovincialis: insights from biomarker analysis by Beyza Nalbantlar, Özlem Çakal Arslan

“… The number of analogs being produced and substituted for bisphenol A (BPA), which belongs to the class of endocrine disruptors, is increasing day by day. …”
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“It’s about finding and knowing myself”: Why Johannesburg-based South African Millennials consume self-help media by Simphiwe Emmanuel Rens

“… Using semi-structured, in-depth interviews with a group of ten middle-class, internet-connected, South African millennials in Johannesburg, Gauteng this analysis explores the psychosocial gratifications derived from their self-declared active sourcing and consumption of self-help media texts. …”
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