The Comparison of Using Andesite Waste Powder and Fly Ash in Concrete by Hakan Ceylan, Metin Davraz

“…In order to estimate the status of mineral additives in various replacement levels; the 28 and 90 days compressive strengths of concrete specimens were tested by preparing concrete specimens in different cement dosages. For C40/50 strength class, the optimum replacement rate of andesite waste powder was determined as 10% at curing ages of 28 and 90 days. …”
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Physical drivers of bio-optical properties in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area during the winter dry season by Wenlong Xu, Shuibo Hu, Alex Hayward, Zuomin Wang, Shuaiwei Liu

“…In contrast, the GCCW was characterized by lower salinity, temperature, and suspended particulate matter and displayed reduced turbidity near the coast, whereas nutrient-rich GCCW waters transported to the mid-shelf region supported increased phytoplankton biomass and a greater abundance of micro-phytoplankton. …”
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Experimental Study of Reinforcing Broken Gangues by Colloid Cement Slurry by Xin Lyu, Ke Yang, Qiang Fu, Zhen Wei, Shuai Liu

“…Studies on jet grouting materials mainly focus on the aggregates in cement or the environment where they are maintained and rarely deal with the cohesiveness, reinforcement load-bearing characteristics, and surface spalling. …”
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Chemical Characterization of Specific Micropollutants from Textile Industry Effluents in Fez City, Morocco by Hakima Talouizte, Mohammed Merzouki, Mohammed Benlemlih, Mohammed Bendriss Amraoui

“…The results of GC/MS revealed the presence of various organic compounds belonging to a wide range of chemical classes. Main groups of chemical compounds detected in these effluents were aromatic carboxylic acids, alkanes, aromatic amines, phthalates, aliphatic carboxylic acids, and linear aliphatic alcohols. …”
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Effects of jigsaw learning strategy integrated with computer simulations on gender differences in students’ achievement and attitude in learning chemistry by Shimelis Kebede Kekeba

“…The study involved three intact classes: one using conventional methods (CM) and two experimental groups implementing JLSICS and the jigsaw learning strategy (JLS) independently. …”
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Targeted screening and profiling of massive components of colistimethate sodium by two-dimensional-liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry based on self-constructed compound databa... by Xuan Li, Minwen Huang, Yue-Mei Zhao, Wenxin Liu, Nan Hu, Jie Zhou, Zi-Yi Wang, Sheng Tang, Jian-Bin Pan, Hian Kee Lee, Yao-zuo Yuan, Taijun Hang, Hai-Wei Shi, Hongyuan Chen

“…In-depth study of the components of polymyxins is the key to controlling the quality of this class of antibiotics. Similarities and variations of components present significant analytical challenges. …”
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Learning a Quantum Computer's Capability by Daniel Hothem, Kevin Young, Tommie Catanach, Timothy Proctor

“…In this work, we propose a hardware-agnostic method to efficiently construct scalable predictive models of a quantum computer's capability for almost any class of circuits and demonstrate our method using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). …”
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Comparative analysis of enteroscopy, computed tomography enterography, and intestinal ultrasound for the evaluation of small bowel Crohn’s disease by Bo Peng, Zhongcheng Liu, Zicheng Huang, Huixian Lin, Zhiyue Wang, Qin Guo

“…Enteroscopy, CTE, and intestinal ultrasound differed in the assessment of inflammatory activity, and the agreement of the three methods was poor (all intra-class correlation coefficient <0.75). Conclusion: Enteroscopy is superior to CTE and intestinal ultrasound for the assessment of upper intestinal CD lesions. …”
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Water loss in transit in an intermittent river in brazilian semi-arid by Cristian Epifanio Toledo, Emanuelly de Moura Silva Almeida, Alexandre Vicente Lopes Neto, Thályta Lharyssa Gonçalves Rodrigues Gonçalves Rodrigues Silva, Filipe Augusto Rodrigues Santos

Subjects: “…Loss in transit…”
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L’impact de l’input et du type de tâche sur la production de la morphologie nominale en polonais par des apprenants francophones débutants by Marzena Watorek, Marie Durand, Katarzyna Starosciak

“…The participating learners (17 subjects) are French native speakers who have followed the same course of Polish for a total of 14 hours.    We analyze the impact of the input received by learners during classes and the impact of the type of activity on the production and acquisition of nominal morphology in Polish.    …”
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Indices of Abdominal Adiposity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness Test Performance in Middle-School Students by Ryan Burns, James C. Hannon, Timothy A. Brusseau, Barry Shultz, Patricia Eisenman

“…Data were collected on four separate testing days during the students’ physical education classes. Results. There were statistically significant moderate correlations between the %BF estimations, WHtR, and cardiorespiratory fitness test scores in both genders . …”
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Optimised Extraction and Purification of Dual-Function Cosmetic-Grade Phycocyanin and Allophycocyanin from Dried <i>Arthrospira platensis</i> Biomass Using Conventional Methods by Ugnė Krakauskaitė, Shahana Aboobacker, Vaida Kitrytė-Syrpa, Michail Syrpas

“…<i>Arthospira platensis</i> is a filamentous cyanobacterium considered an important source of phycobiliproteins (PBP), a class of water-soluble pigments with a wide range of applications. …”
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A construção do negro e a reprodução da lógica eurocêntrica no Brasil: a segregação socioambiental de base racial em Juiz de Fora by Ana Claudia de Jesus Barreto

“…A intenção é demonstrar que as cidades brasileiras são palcos abertos de exposição da espoliação a que a população negra está submetida pela classe dominante e o Estado é uma figura que ratifica e impõe a condição por baixo, por meio da violência, desconsiderando a sua condição humana e repetindo a história do castigo do corpo pelo viés da inferiorização. …”
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Corps sensible, environnement urbain moderniste by Françoise Michel-Jones

“…Then the dwindling of the “me, of the subject, of the person” (Mauss) is manifested in the opacity and absurdity of the loss of meaning and negation of history that accompany the presumed “functional” requirement of the serial and the undifferentiated.…”
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Assessment of disaster risk management knowledge among households in the South Gondar Zone: The case of kebeles affected by disasters by Temesgen Alemu Tilahun, Abraham Mebrat Asmare, Tesfahun Asmamaw Kassie

“…This study highlights the challenges in disaster risk management in Ethiopia, particularly due to inadequate household knowledge of essential concepts. Using a quantitative cross-sectional design, the research surveyed 412 households in the South Gondar Zone to assess their disaster awareness and the factors influencing it. …”
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Identification of Iron Homeostasis Genes Dysregulation Potentially Involved in Retinopathy of Prematurity Pathogenicity by Microarray Analysis by Xian-qiong Luo, Chun-yi Zhang, Jia-wen Zhang, Jing-bo Jiang, Ai-hua Yin, Li Guo, Chuan Nie, Xu-zai Lu, Hua Deng, Liang Zhang

“…The dual-color microarray approach was adopted to compare gene expression profiling between treated RMECs and the paired untreated control. The one-class algorithm in significance analysis of microarray (SAM) software was used to screen the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and quantitative RT-PCR (qRT-PCR) was conducted to validate the results. …”
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Insecticide resistant Anopheles from Ethiopia but not Burkina Faso show a microbiota composition shift upon insecticide exposure by Netsanet Worku, Antoine Sanou, Juliane Hartke, Marion Morris, Fatoumata Cissé, Salimata Ouédraogo, Madou Tapsoba, Nicola Vallon, Tewodros Debebe Akilu, Ligabaw Worku, Moussa Wamdaogo Guelbeogo, Victoria A. Ingham

“…Due to the widespread use of these interventions, insecticide resistance to the most used classes of insecticides is now pervasive across Africa. …”
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Tracking teachers’ experience of adopting my English step to infuse differentiated instruction by Ilza Mayuni, Yinghui Chen, Ni Made Ratminingsih, Tara Mustikaning Palupi, Nurhasanah Halim

“…The consistency of findings was triangulated by comparing findings from interviews to those in documents on teachers’ adoption of MES in class and the literature review. The first finding shows that experiences have influenced MES-usability and teachers’ intent to adopt MES. …”
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Russian Arctic in the Contours of the Maritime Doctrine of the Russian Federation by Sergey Yu. Kozmenko, Arina S. Kozmenko

“…The Arctic nuclear icebreaker fleet and fleets of reinforced ice-class vessels are rightly considered the symbol of the Arctic maritime potential. …”
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Antimicrobial Resistance of Escherichia coli Isolated from Ground Beef in Huasca de Ocampo, Hidalgo, Mexico by A. P. Cordero-López, V. Vega-Sánchez, V. M. Martínez-Juárez, J. I. Olave-Leyva, F. R. Gómez-De Anda, N. E. Reyes-Rodríguez

“…All strains showed multidrug resistance to different classes of antimicrobials, and the resistance profile yielded a MAR index of 0.64. …”
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