Enhancement the Thermal Stability and the Mechanical Properties of Acrylonitrile-Butadiene Copolymer by Grafting Antioxidant by Abdulaziz Ibrahim Al-Ghonamy, A. A. El-Wakil, M. Ramadan

“…The thermal stability, mechanical properties, and ultrasonic attenuation coefficient were evaluated for NBR vulcanizates containing the commercial antioxidant, N-phenyl-𝛽-naphthylamine (PBN), the prepared grafted antioxidant, NR-graft-o-AP, and the control vulcanizate. …”
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Effects of School Closure on Transmission of COVID-19. A Rapid Systematic Review by Zana Faris Muhammed

“…Eight good quality studies were identified and these were reviewed. The studies that contained the desired outcomes were three epidemiological studies, and five modeling studies using actual data that making assumptions about changes in transmission dynamics after school closure is applied. …”
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An overview of skin cancer classification based on deep learning by Toqa A. Sadoon

“…Nevertheless, reviews containing the aforementioned borderline difficulties in skin melanoma classification are still rare. …”
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Rheology of Sesame Pastes with Different Amounts of Water Added by Li-Xia Hou

“…The sesame paste tested contains 59.71% of crude fat and 17% of protein. The ratios of sesame paste to added water (w/v) were 1 : 0.75 (T1), 1 : 1 (T2), 1 : 1.25 (T3), and 1 : 1.5 (T4), respectively. …”
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Long Term Compression Strength of Mortars Produced Using Coarse Steel Slag as Aggregate by Erika Furlani, Stefano Maschio

“…The behaviour of this reference composition was compared to that of some others containing further additives in order to investigate materials compressive strength after long time ageing. …”
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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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Emerging Trends in Bioavailability and Pharma-Nutraceutical Potential of Whey Bioactives by Adhithyan T. Pillai, Sonia Morya, Ladislaus Manaku Kasankala

“…Whey, a component of milk and a useful by-product of the dairy industry’s casein and cheese-making, has been used for generations to augment animal feed. It contains a range of proteins, including α-lactalbumin, β-lactoglobulin, bovine serum albumin, heavy and light chain immunoglobulins, lactoferrin, glycomacropeptide, and lactoperoxidase. …”
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Using Stacks for Image Segmentation Based on Region Growing by V. Yu. Tsviatkou

“…To avoid stack overflow, its size is determined for maximum load conditions when the image contains a single maximum area. In this case, the stack size is equal to the image size. …”
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Tat[o]ueur : pouvoirs du tatouage dans Little Tulip, de Jerome Charyn et François Boucq by Sophie Vallas

“…Beyond exposing the very concrete powers that enable the young tatoo artist to survive in Siberia by both respecting and transgressing the rules of the camp, and then to roam the violent streets of New York city, Little Tulip explores the laws of art that each drawing contains: rules that allow the artist to walk the thin line between art and magic, where the indelible ink of tatoo can paradoxically give birth to invisibility.…”
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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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Functioning features of industrial enterprises and complexes in modern economic conditions: structural changes and industrial development prospects by O. E. Astafyeva

“…The article presents an analysis that contains functioning features of industrial enterprises and complexes in the conditions of transformation of their activities caused by the fourth industrial revolution. …”
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AUDIT OF INCOME FROM LOCAL FEES IN SELECTED COMMUNES OF THE POMERANIAN PROVINCE IN POLAND by Cezary Szydłowski

“…The source materials for the analysis were documents made available on the pages of the Public Information Bulletin by the assessed local government units from the Pomeranian Voivodeship (reports on the implementation of the budget and Rb-27s reports containing information on revenue for the year). The local and spa fees constitute a small share in the total income of the budgets of the surveyed municipalities. …”
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Digital Storytelling: Boosting Literacy Practices in Students at A1-Level by Pedro Alejandro González Mesa

“…It is a descriptive qualitative study, carried out for about six months by using digital tools to foster language production in the language learners. The implementation contained digital storytelling as a pedagogical strategy for developing the writing literacy practice. …”
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Discovery of New Ligand with Quinoline Scaffold as Potent Allosteric Inhibitor of HIV-1 and Its Copper Complexes as a Powerful Catalyst for the Synthesis of Chiral Benzimidazole De... by Sabikeh G. Azimi, Ghodsieh Bagherzade, Mohammad Reza Saberi, Zeinab Amiri Tehranizadeh

“…In this paper, the novel Schiff base ligand containing quinoline moiety and its novel copper chelate complexes were successfully prepared. …”
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Dziecięce zmagania z czasem. Wyzwalanie rozumienia pojęcia czas przez dzieci 9–10-letnie w kulturze szkoły polskiej by Monika Wiśniewska-Kin

“…Based on my research, I see the need for triggering the cognitive activity of pupils in conditions that ensure the development of conceptual systems containing both matrix concepts and natural notions. …”
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Convergence Rates in the Law of Large Numbers for Arrays of Banach Valued Martingale Differences by Shunli Hao

“…In the special case where the array of Banach valued martingale differences is the sequence of independent and identically distributed real valued random variables, our result contains the theorems of Hsu-Robbins-Erdös (1947, 1949, and 1950), Spitzer (1956), and Baum and Katz (1965). …”
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THE PHENOMENON OF LANGUAGE GAMES AS COLLEGE STUDENTS RESPONSES TO THE REVISED CRIMINAL CODE DRAFT 2019: A SOCIOLINGUISTICS STUDY by Nurul Nisfu Syahriy, Ridwan Hanafiah, Rudy Sofyan

“… A language game is a form of utterance that obtains various deviations, which is intended for various purposes and contains of more than one meaning that depends on how it used and to whom it is intended. …”
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Wood analyses helped to determine the location and approximate construction period of the Roman bridge over the Drava River in ancient Poetovio (Ptuj, Slovenia) by Andrej Gaspari, Katarina Čufar, Maks Merela

“…Using dendrochronology, radiocarbon dating of carefully selected annual rings in the wood and calibration with the wiggle-matching method, the date of the last (outermost) annual ring on the pile was determined to be 161 ± 27 cal AD (1σ) or 160 ± 32 cal AD (2σ). Since the pile contained no sapwood, the dating approximately agrees with the date of the building inscription on the stone slab, which attributes the commission for the reconstruction or construction of the bridge to Emperor Hadrian in the last years of his reign (117-138 AD). …”
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Pyrolytic Product Distribution Analysis on Co-Pyrolysis of Face Mask Waste and Lignocellulosic Waste by Rain Agri Mahendra

“…COVID-19 causes a large increase in medical and non-medical waste in the world, especially in developing countries. Improper waste management causes significant health problems and impacts on the environment. …”
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Caladium Cultivars Developed at the University of Florida/IFAS by Zhanao Deng, Brent K. Harbaugh

“…Additional goals of this program included the following: 1) to improve the aesthetic values and performance of caladium plants in containers and landscapes; 2) to eliminate the costly labor associated with tuber de-eyeing; and 3) to improve tuber and plant productivity and profitability. …”
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