Environmental Efficiency of Node Cities in Chinese Section of Silk Road Economic Zone and Its Influencing Factors by Lei Zhang, Xinyu Peng

“…This paper adopts an environmental data envelopment analysis (DEA) model containing pollution emissions to measure the environmental efficiency of node cities in the Chinese section of Silk Road Economic Zone (SREZ) in 2011–2020 and verifies the convergence of the environmental efficiency. …”
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Influence des solvants aromatiques sur les propriétés optiques du bleu de phtalocyanine de cuivre en milieu pictural by Catherine Defeyt

“…Crystal growth can occur in many media but is most often seen in paints containing aromatic solvents. The use of aromatic solvents as part of conservation treatments of paintings is relatively common. …”
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Efficient Image Transmission over WVSNs Using Two-Measurement Matrix Based CS with Enhanced OMP by Hemalatha Rajendran, Radha Sankararajan, Jalbin Justus

“…WVSN is a collective network of motes containing visual sensors. The nodes in the network are capable of acquiring, compressing, and transmitting successive images to the sink. …”
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Potential Environmental Benefits of Ultralight Particleboards with Biobased Foam Cores by Christelle Ganne-Chédeville, Stefan Diederichs

“…The environmental impacts of three types of ULPB containing foam based on 100% polylactic acid (PLA), 100% expanded polystyrene, and 50% PLA/50% polymethyl methacrylate, as well as a conventional particleboard (PB), have been compared in an LCA. …”
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Implications Of Ingesting Soft Drink And Energy Drink On Hepatic Microcirculation Of Albino Rat by Saira Munawar, Faiza Irshad, G.P. William, Muhammad Suhail, Ayesha Yousaf, Ahmad Haris Suhail

“…The SD group was affected more (p-value 0.024) Conclusion: Caffeine-containing ED and SD are held responsible for congestion and dilatation of centrilobular veins, portal veins and sinusoids of albino rats, the augmented effect seen with SD could be because the high taurine content of ED would have interfered with the metabolism of the caffeine. …”
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Potential Use of Volcanic Ash as Filler Material in Hot Mix Asphalt by Basha Fayissa, Achalu Kebede, Fekadu Fufa

“…From the fatigue resistance analysis, the probable failure of pavement constructed with the mixture containing VA could be improved from 16600 to 14400. …”
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Screening A Christmas Carol (Dickens, 1843): Adaptation as Completion by Florent Christol

“…For what is the Carol if not a text about a character’s personal cinematic experience? The tale contains ‘techniques’ that would only be developed in cinema, as if Dickens was writing a story to be told by a medium not yet available in the Victorian age. …”
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Studies of the Selective Removal of Micro-Quantities of Platinum(IV) Ions from Macro-Quantities of Model Solutions of Aluminium, Copper, Iron, Nickel and Zinc Chloride on Anion-Exc... by Z. Hubicki, G. Wójcik

“…In the present studies, laboratory tests were undertaken to examine the selective removal of micro-quantities of platinum(IV) from 1 M solutions of aluminium, copper, iron, nickel and zinc chloride in 0.1 M hydrochloric acid using anion-exchangers containing tertiary amine group functions (Amberlite IRA-67 and Amberlite IRA-93) and polyamine group functions (Diaion CR-20). …”
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Like Mother, Like Daughter. Intergenerational Transmission of Infant Mortality Clustering in Zeeland, the Netherlands, 1833-1912 by Ingrid K. van Dijk, Kees Mandemakers

“…In this paper, we focus on the intergenerational transmission of mortality clustering in the Netherlands in the province of Zeeland between 1833 and 1912, using LINKS Zeeland, a dataset containing family reconstitutions based on civil certificates of birth, marriage and death. …”
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A Novel Damage Detection Algorithm using Time-Series Analysis-Based Blind Source Separation by A. Sadhu, B. Hazra

“…With the occurrence of newer measurements containing the signature of damaged system, a variance-based damage index is used to identify the damage instant. …”
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Rates of Tobacco Use Disorder, Pharmacologic Treatment, and Associated Mental Health Disorders in a Medicaid Claim Review Among Youth in Indiana, USA by Corey McBrayer DO, FAAP, Fangqian Ouyang MS, Zachary Adams PhD, Leslie Hulvershorn MD, Matthew C. Aalsma PhD

“…Mean age was 16.4 with 40% female. 1232 of the 6541 charts contained a TUD diagnosis equating to 1848 visits. …”
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Membangun e-trust mahasiswa melalui e-service quality dan e-satisfaction mahasiswa by Salamatun Asakdiyah, Deny Ismanto

“…Data Collection efforted by giving list of question to the respondent that is contains about E-Service Quality, E-Satisfaction, and E-trust. …”
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Regulatory impact assessment and “regulatory guillotine” as institutional forms of business community’s participation in the improvement of regulatory framework in Russia by A. A. Lialikov

“…The methodology of the study is based on the methods of comparative and structural-functional analysis of normative legal acts containing the procedures. The article provides a analysis of procedures, presents the legal basis and their functional roles in the system of state decision-making, identifies the objects of influence and stages of procedures, identifies access points and the degree of representation of the business community. …”
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Ion Exchange Study of Some New Copolymer Resins Derived from 8-Hydroxyquinoline-5-sulphonic Acid, Biuret and Formaldehyde by P. A. Dhakite, W. B. Gurnule

“…A batch equilibrium method was employed in the study of the selectivity of the distribution of a given metal ions between the polymer sample and a solution containing the metal ion. The study was carried out over a wide pH range and in a media of various ions strengths. …”
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Synthesis of Thinned Planar Antenna Array Using Multiobjective Normal Mutated Binary Cat Swarm Optimization by Lakshman Pappula, Debalina Ghosh

“…A Pareto-optimal front containing all the probable designs is obtained in this process. …”
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A Chinese Knowledge Graph Dataset in the Field of Scientific Fitness by Shutong Du, Zhitong Liu, Bingyu Pan

“…This knowledge graph contains over 10,000 fitness-related terms, categorized into eight main groups: body parts, items of exercise, fitness movement, equipment and tools, exercise goals, anatomical structures, nutrients, and technical terms. …”
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A Novel Approach to a Time-Dependent-Coefficient WBK System: Doubly Periodic Waves and Singular Nonlinear Dynamics by Bo Xu, Sheng Zhang

“…To gain more insight into the doubly periodic waves contained in the tdcWBK system, we simulate the dynamical evolutions of some obtained Jacobi elliptic doubly periodic solutions. …”
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Russian-Kalmyk Negotiations and the Shert’ of 1677 by Vladimir T. Tepkeev

“…The work focuses on Ambassadorial Book 5 contained in Collection 119 (‘Kalmyk Affairs’) of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts. …”
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Transforming Polycotton Textile Waste into New Bicomponent Fibers: An Investigative Study by Simon Kronberg, Behnaz Baghaei

“…The use of 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate ([EMIM][Ac]) as an ionic liquid solvent facilitated the dissolution of cotton, enabling the creation of a spinning dope containing cellulose and polyester fibers. Successful spinning of bicomponent fibers ensued, followed by comprehensive fiber evaluation. …”
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Paths to Polarization: How Extreme Views, Miscommunication, and Random Chance Drive Opinion Dynamics by Matthew A. Turner, Paul E. Smaldino

“…Finally, the apparent reduction in polarization under increased “cultural complexity” arises via a particular property of the polarization measurement, under which a population containing a wider diversity of extreme views is deemed less polarized. …”
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