Impact of Temperature and Relative Humidity on PMD in Directly Buried Optical Fibre Cables in Semi-Arid and Tropical Highlands in Kenya by Moses Ndunda, Alix Dehayem-Kamadjeu, David Waswa

“…While installed fibre cables remain buried in the field, temperature and moisture in the locality subject them to mechanical expansions and corrosion. Directly buried fibre cables experience accelerated degradation that results from exposure to harsh environments. …”
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ÇOKLU YAPISAL KIRILMALAR ALTINDA ENFLASYON İLE ULUSLARARASI PETROL FİYATLARI İLİŞKİSİ: TÜRKİYE ÖRNEĞİ by Gökhan Kartal

“…Bu çalışmada, Türkiye'de yapısal kırılmalar altında uluslararası petrol fiyatları ile enflasyon arasındaki uzun dönemli ilişki 1960-2020 dönemi verileri kullanılarak analiz edilmektedir. Bu doğrultuda Carrion-i-Silvestre vd. (2009) tarafından önerilen çoklu yapısal kırılmalı birim kök testi ile Maki (2012) tarafından önerilen çoklu yapısal kırılmalı eşbütünleşme testleri kullanılmıştır. …”
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ESTIMATION OF THE CONCRETE PAVEMENT TEMPERATURE FIELDS AND THEIR GRADIENTS by M. K. Pshembaev, Ya. N. Kovalev, V. D. Akelyev

“…The heat fluxes impact on the road-dressing concrete surfacing under different regions climatic conditions of the construction and maintenance dramatically degrades their solidity, corroding-, shiftingand frost-resistance, and ultimately – the service durability. …”
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Fractional Characteristics of Heavy Metals Pb, Zn, Cu, and Cd in Sewer Sediment from Areas in Central Beijing, China by Haiyan Li, Mingxiu Wang, Wenwen Zhang, Ziyang Zhang, Xiaoran Zhang

“…The sum of these metals associated with exchangeable, carbonate bound, and Fe-Mn oxide fractions is quite high; however, these three fractions represent the proportion of heavy metals that can be remobilized by changes in environmental conditions.…”
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Predicting GPR Signals from Concrete Structures Using Artificial Intelligence-Based Method by Wael Zatar, Tu T. Nguyen, Hai Nguyen

“…This paper presents the application of an Artificial Intelligence-based method in analyzing the effects of environmental conditions, chloride contamination in concrete, and surface corrosion of rebars on the amplitude of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) signals. …”
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KUKHARENKOITE-(Ce) AND ITS MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE IN PEGMATITES OF THE VISHNEVYE MOUNTAINS (SOUTH URALS) by V.I. Popova, M.A. Rassomakhin, V.A. Popov, A.M. Kuznetsov, S.M. Lebedeva

“…, aegirine, magnesio-fluoro-arfvedsonite, allanite-(Ce), ilmenite, monazite-(Ce), anatase, rutile, brookite, titanite, pyrite, molybdenite, calcite, zircon, pyrochlore, and REE carbonates – bastnäsite-(Ce), parisite-(Ce), synchisite-(Ce), röntgenite-(Ce) and huanghoite-(Ce). …”
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Fuel R&D Needs and Strategy towards a Revision of Acceptance Criteria by François Barré, Claude Grandjean, Marc Petit, Jean-Claude Micaelli

“…Starting in the 1990s, the increased industrial competition and constraints led utilities to use fuel in more and more aggressive conditions (higher discharge burnup, higher power, load follow, etc.) and create incentive conditions for the development of advanced fuel designs with improved performance (new fuel types with additives, cladding material with better resistance to corrosion, etc.). These long anticipated developments involved the need for new investigations of irradiated fuel behaviour in order to check the adequacy of the current criteria, evaluate the safety margins, provide new technical bases for modelling and allow an evolution of these criteria. …”
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Artificial intelligence and 3D subsurface interpretation for bright spot and channel detections by Yasir Bashir, Muhammad Afiq Aiman Bin Zahari, Abdullah Karaman, Doğa Doğan, Zeynep Döner, Ali Mohammadi, Syed Haroon Ali

“…Seismic interpretation is primarily concerned with accurately characterizing underground geological structures & lithology and identifying hydrocarbon-containing rocks. The carbonates in the Netherlands have attracted considerable interest lately because of their potential as a petroleum or geothermal system. …”
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Giant memory window performance and low power consumption of hexagonal boron nitride monolayer atomristor by Sung Jin Yang, Yu-Rim Jeon, Dongyoon Kim, Sivasakthya Mohan, Shanmukh Kutagulla, Matthew Disiena, Sanjay K. Banerjee, Deji Akinwande

“…This study reports on the giant memory window performance and low power consumption of the atomristor structures using a hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) monolayer and symmetric silver (Ag) metal electrodes through a polypropylene carbonate (PPC) assisted transfer method. The h-BN atomristor exhibits the highest memory window (~4 × 109), the lowest leakage current (~0.24 pA), and the lowest power consumption (~3 × 10−14 W) compared to the other 2D atomristors. …”
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Study on the Relationship between Mechanical Properties and Mesostructure of Microbial Cemented Sand Bodies by Yue Yan, Yang Tang, Guobin Xu, Jijian Lian, Dengfeng Fu

“…Under relatively uniform spatial distribution, increasing the contents of crystals facilitated the initial construction of “spatial network” structure, and further stacks of calcium carbonate crystals promote the complete construction of the “spatial network” structure, and thus helped to increase compressive strength. …”
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Investigation effect of depressant additives on physicochemical properties of engine oil by S. V. Pashukevich

“…With the help of the SI-010 bench installation, the values of anti-pitting properties are indicated, as well as experiments are carried out on the NAMI-1m and Petter W-1 installations, with their help the tendency to the formation of low- and high-temperature deposits in the internal combustion engine (ICE) and the assessment of anti-corrosion properties respectively. …”
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Morphological Characteristics of Renal Artery and Kidney in Rats by Atilla Yoldas, Mustafa Orhun Dayan

“…Total of 106 three-dimensional endocasts of the intrarenal arteries of kidney that were prepared using standard injection-corrosion techniques were examined. A single renal artery was observed in 100% of the cases. …”
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Data analysis-based framework for the design and assessment of chemical process plants: a case study in amine gas-treating systems by Rahul Gupta, Gladys Navas, Daniela Galatro

“…The process design is then assessed by evaluating process variables and corrosion rate within an operational envelope, showing the synergy and integration of these variables. …”
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Diuretic Activity of the Aqueous Extract Leaves of Ficus glumosa Del. (Moraceae) in Rats by Fidèle Ntchapda, Djedouboum Abakar, Blaise Kom, Paulin Nana, Christian Bonabe, Maguirgue Kakesse, Emmanuel Talla, Théophile Dimo

“…Experiments were carried out to validate the use of F. glumosa extract as a diuretic in the treatment of hypertension as claimed by traditional healers. …”
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K-SMPC: Koopman Operator-Based Stochastic Model Predictive Control for Enhanced Lateral Control of Autonomous Vehicles by Jin Sung Kim, Ying Shuai Quan, Chung Choo Chung, Woo Young Choi

“…A high-fidelity vehicle simulator, i.e., CarSim, is used to validate the proposed method with a comparative study. …”
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Super-enhancers and efficacy of triptolide in small cell carcinoma of the ovary hypercalcemic type by Jessica D. Lang, William Selleck, Shawn Striker, Nicolle A. Hipschman, Rochelle Kofman, Anthony N. Karnezis, Felix K.F. Kommoss, Friedrich Kommoss, Jae Rim Wendt, Salvatore J. Facista, William P.D. Hendricks, Krystal A. Orlando, Patrick Pirrotte, Elizabeth A. Raupach, Victoria L. Zismann, Yemin Wang, David G. Huntsman, Bernard E. Weissman, Jeffrey M. Trent

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Snapshots of Pseudomonas aeruginosa SOS response reveal structural requisites for LexA autoproteolysis by Filippo Vascon, Sofia De Felice, Matteo Gasparotto, Stefan T. Huber, Claudio Catalano, Monica Chinellato, Riccardo Mezzetti, Alessandro Grinzato, Francesco Filippini, Lorenzo Maso, Arjen J. Jakobi, Laura Cendron

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Spatial characteristics and health risks assessments of trace metal pollution from road dusts in the industrialized city of Bangladesh by Masum Howlader, Ashik Md Mamun, Mohammad Mahfuzur Rahman, Md Hasibur Rahman, Sadhon Chandra Swarnokar, Mahfuza Sultana, Md Tanvir Rahman, Tusar Kumar Das

“…In contrast, the use of leaded gasoline, corrosion in car surfaces and road paint are the main contributors of lead in road dust. …”
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An Emotion Detection GIS-Based Framework for Evaluating Exposure to Heatwave Scenarios in Urban Settlements During a Pandemic by Barbara Cardone, Ferdinando Di Martino, Cristiano Mauriello, Vittorio Miraglia

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Uveitis associated with elevation of intraocular pressure – what is the optimal therapy? by Agnieszka Kubicka-Trząska

“…If SIG is diagnosed, it is necessary to modify the glucocorticosteroid treatment to maintain a balance between controlling inflammation and normalizing the IOP. β-blockers and carbonic anhydrase inhibitors are the first-line anti-glaucoma drugs in the treatment of SIG in patients with uveitis. α-2 agonists are classified as second-line drugs. …”
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