Enhancing the washing of harvested quinoa seeds with ultrasound-assisted hydration by Hongbin Bai, Yingsi Wu, Fei Liu, Dezheng Xuan, Xuan Zhao, Wenxue Dong

“…UH reduced the saponin content by 52 %–73 %, outperforming CH, which reduced it by 42 %–53 %. Fick’s diffusion model indicated that UH significantly increased the effective diffusion coefficient (Deff) of saponins and reduced the activation energy (Ea from 21.83 to 18.15 kJ/mol). …”
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Gravitational differentiation characteristics of condensate gas reservoir with fault-controlled fracture-cavity structure in second block of Shunbei Oil and Gas Field: A case study... by MA Longjie, HU Wenge, HE Xinming, CAO Fei, LI Zongyu, BAO Dian

“…The top gas injection is dominated by gravity displacement and supplemented by diffusion mixing， while the bottom gas injection is the opposite.…”
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Eco-benign synthesis of multifunctional silver nanoparticles using leptochloa fusca for enhanced biomedical and catalytic applications by Riaz Ahmad Khan, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Shahnaz, Kamran Tahir, Moamen S Refat, Abdel Majid A Adam, Amnah Mohammed Alsuhaibani

“…Additionally, the agar well diffusion technique demonstrated efficient antibacterial efficacy for LF-AgNPs against both Gram +ve ( Staphylococcus aureus ) and Gram -ve ( Klebsiella pneumoniae ) strains with ZOI values of 19 ± 0.7 mm and 19 ± 0.5 mm, respectively. …”
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Formulated Mathematical Model for Delayed Particle Flow in Cascaded Subsurface Water Reservoirs with Validation on River Flow by Richard Ombaki, Joash Kerongo

“…By introducing time delays due to constituent mixing processes in water quality simulation models that make use of advection-diffusion equation such as Qual2kw, the findings of this study can help for better understanding of the contaminant’s accumulation levels and their rate of transport in water resource. …”
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Release Profile and Antibacterial Activity of <i>Thymus sibthorpii</i> Essential Oil-Incorporated, Optimally Stabilized Type I Collagen Hydrogels by Caglar Ersanli, Ioannis Skoufos, Konstantina Fotou, Athina Tzora, Yves Bayon, Despoina Mari, Eleftheria Sarafi, Konstantina Nikolaou, Dimitrios I. Zeugolis

“…Although the strong antimicrobial activity of various EOs has already been studied and revealed, their characteristic high sensitivity and volatility drives the need towards a more efficient drug administration method via a biomaterial system. …”
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MXenes in biosensing: Enhancing sensitivity and flexibility – A review of properties, applications, and future directions by Ali Mohammad Amani, Lobat Tayebi, Ehsan Vafa, Alireza Jahanbin, Milad Abbasi, Ahmad Vaez, Hesam Kamyab, Lalitha Gnanasekaran, Shreeshivadasan Chelliapan

“…These materials, made from transition metal nitrides, carbides, or carbonitrides, have a number of advantages, including high hydrophilicity, a large surface area, strong metallic conductivity, superior ion transport capabilities, biocompatibility, and low diffusion barriers. Their surfaces are easily manipulated, making them more adaptable for a variety of applications, including biosensing. …”
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Acoustic Enhancement Performance of Hierarchical ZSM-5 Zeolites with Different Si/Al Ratios by Mingbo Guo, Yijun Wang, Lei Zhang, Junran Lu, Chang Gong, Wanning Zhang, Yuxi Fang, Xinyuan Zhu, Shunai Che

“…The presence of mesopores significantly facilitates diffusion within the zeolite crystals, enabling air molecules to access more micropores for efficient sorption–desorption processes during diaphragm vibration in microspeakers. …”
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Comparative study of the abatement of elevated fluoride in groundwater from Vea catchment in the Upper East Region of Ghana using bone char and thermally activated bone char by Shadrack Fosu, Emmanuel Daanoba Sunkari, Peter Anderson, Charles Mensah, Comfort Akasi Cudjoe, Abayneh Ataro Ambushe

“…The BC reduced F− concentration from 3.10 to 0.8 mg/L, representing 74% removal efficiency, while ABC reduced it to 2.9 mg/L representing 7% removal efficiency, after half an hour. …”
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Multifunctional Framework Nucleic Acid Vehicle for Antibiotic Sensitization and Treatment of Methicillin‐Resistant Staphylococcus aureus by Yicheng Zhao, Jingyi Si, Shisong Jing, Bingmei Wang, Yueshan Xu, Jiyu Guan, Quan Liu, Jianlei Shen, Min Lv, Li Wang, Changfeng Zhu

“…Upon interaction with bacterial cells, the locally concentrated TACs facilitate efficient ASO‐mediated mecA silencing, thereby disrupting PBP2a expression and re‐sensitizing MRSA to β‐lactams. …”
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Dual-Wavelength On-Chip Integrated Metalens for Epi-Fluorescence Single-Molecule Sensing by Elena Barulina, Dang Du Nguyen, Fedor Shuklin, Mikhail Podobrii, Sergey Novikov, Alexander Chernov, Inki Kim, Aleksandr Barulin

“…Such sensitivity provides reliable diffusion fluorescence correlation spectroscopy analysis of single molecules on a chip to extract their concentration and diffusion properties in the nanomolar range. …”
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A Review of Artificial Intelligence-Based Systems for Non-Invasive Glioblastoma Diagnosis by Kebin Contreras, Patricia E. Velez-Varela, Oscar Casanova-Carvajal, Angel Luis Alvarez, Ana Lorena Urbano-Bojorge

“…Multimodal approaches integrating T1WI with diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) have demonstrated improved classification performance. …”
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A novel characterization of alginate-attapulgite-calcium carbonate (AAC) gel adsorption in bacterial biodegradation of used engine oil (UEO) by Izeddin Abdalla Elhamrouni, Mohd Yusoff Ishak, Wan Lutfi Wan Johari, Normala Halimoon

“…The 1st order kinetics in SWE showed a UEO adsorption rate, K1 (h−1), of 0.11–0.15 h−1 correlating with 20 AAC-granules and 1, 2, 3 and 4% (w/v) UEO. The intra-particle diffusion kinetic model suggested that intra-diffusion was the main mode of mass transfer in AAC granules. …”
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Analysis of thermal wave scattering and temperature distribution in sub-surface, defects of gradient construction materials by Xujiao Yang, Jinlei Gai, Xinliang Zheng, Yi Xie, Xiaomiao Yu, Ruizhi Gong, Zhongqing Meng, Shuo Zhai, Xunlong Zhao

“…These shortcomings cannot meet the needs of modern buildings for energy efficiency, safety and durability. Therefore, it is imperative to study gradient building materials that integrate function and structure. …”
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Mechanism of water plugging by dynamic grouting with self-expanding slurry in karst tunnels by Shuangqiao Zhan, Lifeng Lu, Ziyan Liu, Jun Zhou, Yuncai Chen, Lei Cao, Lei Cao

“…We propose a grouting diffusion formula and blocking criterion that take into account the self-expanding properties of the slurry. …”
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Treatment of mine water containing ammonia nitrogen by sodium hexametaphosphate modified zeolite by Liping ZHANG, Xiang HU, Weiwei WANG, Wenbo LEI, Huitong LI, Huaran SUN, Yongqi ZHAN, Zeyu LIAN

“…The adsorption process was identified as chemisorption (ion exchange), and particle inner diffusion models revealed that the NH4+—N adsorption by both materials involves three stages: external diffusion, internal diffusion, and reaction equilibrium. …”
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Study on the two thermodynamic states of large-scale RF plasma discharge by Yue Niu, Weimin Bao, Donglin Liu, Xiaoping Li, Yanming Liu

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Application of nano-pico geotechnics and nano-pico heritage spray techniques for restoring and protecting historical brick buildings by Reza Biabani, Hamed Niroumand, Maryam Afsharpour, Mona Khaksar

“…By reducing the number and size of pores and making the diffusion path more tortuous, the nanoparticle treatment can increase the water vapor diffusion resistance of the brick. …”
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Preparation of quaternary ammonium-modified silica and its adsorption of vanadium(V) by ZHANG Cuihong, WANG Jing, WANG Jie, YUAN Wenjiao

“…The pseudo-second-order reaction kinetics and Langmuir adsorption isotherm model indicated that the process of adsorbing vanadium(Ⅴ) by SiO2@DMOA was a surface monolayer chemical adsorption process, and the intra-particle diffusion model and Boyd model demonstrated that liquid film diffusion was the main limiting rate of this adsorption process. …”
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White Matter Fiber Tracking Method with Adaptive Correction of Tracking Direction by Qian Zheng, Kefu Guo, Yinghui Meng, Jiaofen Nan, Lin Xu

“…The deterministic fiber tracking method has the advantage of high computational efficiency and good repeatability, making it suitable for the noninvasive estimation of brain structural connectivity in clinical fields. …”
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Analysis of Burning Processes in Turbulent Mixing Axial and Tangential Flows by R. I. Essmann, Y. P. Yarmolchick

“…The paper demonstrates that in the case of turbulent diffusion flame tongues the burning process of combined multiphase fuel is determined by flow structure and conditions for mixing various types of fuel and distributed oxidizer flows. …”
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