Bulk Motions in the Black Hole Jet Sheath as a Candidate for the Comptonizing Corona by Navin Sridhar, Bart Ripperda, Lorenzo Sironi, Jordy Davelaar, Andrei M. Beloborodov

“…We find that the electromagnetic power flowing through the jet sheath is comparable to the overall accretion power of the black hole. …”
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Evaluation of parameters extracted from tissue residue functions in dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI: Healthy volunteers examined during normal breathing and spontaneous hyperve... by Ronnie Wirestam, Arthur Chakwizira, Peter Reinstrup

“…The arterial delay, reflecting the inverse of arterial flow rate, was also prolonged in all volunteers, and the mean arterial delay was 63 % longer during hyperventilation. …”
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Influence of Shape and Piezoelectric-Patch Length on Energy Conversion of Bluff Body-Based Wind Energy Harvester by Changjiang Zhang, Lin Ding, Lin Yang, Zuomei Yang, Zesheng Yang, Li Zhang

“…In order to investigate the effects of piezoelectric-patch length and the shape of front bluff body on energy conversion of the wind energy harvester by flow-induced vibration, the characteristics of a piezoelectric wind energy harvester based on bluff body are experimentally studied in this work. …”
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The effect of rotating magnetic turbulators on the convective heat transfer and pressure drop through a circular tube: Experimental investigation by Seyyed Morteza Mansouri, Mohamad Ali Bijarchi, L Siamak K Kazemzadeh Hannani

“…The rotation of the magnetic spheres on the inner surface of the tube and simultaneously around themselves disrupts the hydraulic and thermal boundary layers. Hence, the flow regime shifts from laminar to turbulent, leading to an increase in both convective heat transfer and pressure drop inside the tube, which are respectively, favorable and undesirable impacts. …”
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Effect of synthesis on the purity and particle size of ZrB2 powder by Gadakary S., Davidson M.J., Veerababu R., Khanra A.K.

“…A stoichiometric mixture of ZrO2, H3BO3 and Mg powder is synthesised in a resistance heating tubular furnace with continuous flow of high pure argon gas. The synthesis is also carried out with NaCl as a diluent. …”
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Single-Stage Microwave-Assisted Coconut-Shell-Based Activated Carbon for Removal of Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) from Aqueous Solution: Optimization and Batch Studies by Azrina Aziz, Mohamad Nasran Nasehir Khan, Mohamad Firdaus Mohamad Yusop, Erniza Mohd Johan Jaya, Muhammad Azan Tamar Jaya, Mohd Azmier Ahmad

“…The CSAC was prepared by activating the coconut shell via single-stage microwave heating under carbon dioxide, CO2 flow. The total pore volume, BET surface area, and average pore diameter of CSAC were 0.420 cm3/g, 625.61 m2/g, and 4.55 nm, respectively. …”
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Chitosan as an Immunomodulating Adjuvant on T-Cells and Antigen-Presenting Cells in Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Infection by Bunsoon Choi, Do-Hyun Jo, A. K. M. Mostafa Anower, S. M. Shamsul Islam, Seonghyang Sohn

“…Ahead of HSV infection, chitosan, heat inactivated green fluorescent protein expressing HSV (G-HSV), and a combination of chitosan and G-HSV were used to pretreat ICR mice followed by HSV-1 infection. Using flow cytometric analysis, the frequencies of T-cells, monocytes, dendritic cells (DCs), and natural killer (NK) cells were analyzed by surface expression of CD4+, CD8+, CD14+, CD11c+, NK1.1+, and DX5+ cells. …”
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Cilium height difference between strokes is more effective in driving fluid transport in mucociliary clearance: A numerical study by Ling Xu, Yi Jiang

“…We first verify that asymmetry in the cilia motion is key to developing transport in the mucus flow. Next, two types of asymmetries between the effective and recovery strokes of the cilia motion are considered, the cilium beating velocity difference and the cilium height difference. …”
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Influence of Febrile Neutropenia Period on Plasma Viscosity at Malignancy by Ibrahim Tek, Selami Kocak Toprak, Efe Hasdemir, Samed Rahatli, Aysegül Yesilkaya

“…Despite normal values of various parameters known to trigger plasma viscosity, particularly fibrinogen, it can be easily argued that the main mechanism may be the endothelial injury during infectious process and immune response mediated microcirculatory blood flow alterations.…”
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Calcium Mass Balances in Bicarbonate Hemodialysis by Carlo Basile

“…Another important issue is the appropriate CaD in long-hour slow-flow nocturnal HD. Finally, which CaMB should we study: ionized CaMB or total CaMB? …”
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Design of Efficient Off-Grid Solar Photovoltaic Water Pumping System Based on Improved Fractional Open Circuit Voltage MPPT Technique by Ali Hmidet, Umashankar Subramaniam, Rajvikram Madurai Elavarasan, Kannadasan Raju, Matias Diaz, Narottam Das, Kashif Mehmood, Alagar Karthick, M. Muhibbullah, Olfa Boubaker

“…Moreover, the proposed method guarantees a fast response, less oscillations around the MPP, a system efficiency of 99%, and a high flow rate due to the extraction of maximum power.…”
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Review on the Millimeter-Wave Generation Techniques Based on Photon Assisted for the RoF Network System by Jiangnan Xiao, Chuang Zhao, Xingxing Feng, Xu Dong, Jiangli Zuo, Jun Ming, Ye Zhou

“…Furthermore, we list several approaches to realize the large capacity data transmission techniques and describe the digital signal processing (DSP) algorithm flow in the receiver. In the end, we summarize the RoF network system and look forward to the future.…”
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Optimization of Carrier-Based Dry Powder Inhaler Performance: A Review by Tanu Mehta, Saeed Najafian, Komalkumar Patel, Justin Lacombe, Bodhisattwa Chaudhuri

“…To reach the small airways of the deep lung, the active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) particles need to have an aerodynamic diameter of 1–5 μm to avoid impaction and particle sedimentation in the upper respiratory tract, and due to this small particle size, the powder becomes highly cohesive resulting in poor flow. Therefore, API is usually blended with a coarse carrier to improve flowability, and due to its large size, it is more fluidizable than the micronized drug. …”
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Detection of seismic anisotropy and azimuthally varying resonances from seismic data recorded at the Noto Peninsula using seismic interferometry and empirical mode decomposition by Andrés Pech-Pérez

“…Seismic data from KiK-net stations ISKH06 and ISKH04 are analyzed using deconvolution and empirical mode decomposition (EMD) to identify wave patterns possibly related to fluid flow and crack propagation. The ISKH06 and ISKH04 stations have boreholes equipped with triaxial accelerometers at depths of 200 m and 100 m, respectively, as well as at the surface. …”
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Expansion of Natural Killer Cells in Peripheral Blood in a Japanese Elderly with Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type 1-Related Skin Lesions by Shinsaku Imashuku, Naoko Kudo, Kagekatsu Kubo, Kouichi Ohshima

“…Dermal lesions had CD3+CD4+ cells, but no NK cells. Flow cytometry of his peripheral blood showed a phenotype of CD2+ (97%), CD3+ (17%), CD4+ (12%), CD7+ (94%), CD8+ (6%), CD11c+ (70%), CD16+ (82%), CD19+ (0%), CD20+ (0%), CD56+ (67%), HLA-DR+ (68%), and NKp46+ (36%). …”
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FKBP4 Accelerates Malignant Progression of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer by Activating the Akt/mTOR Signaling Pathway by Wen Meng, Jingfei Meng, Hong Jiang, Xing Feng, Dongshan Wei, Qingsong Ding

“…First of all, the expression of FKBP4 in NSCLC tissues and cell lines was detected by qRT-PCR; then, the effects of FKBP4 on proliferation, apoptosis, migration, and invasion of NSCLC were studied by CCK-8 assays, flow cytometry assays, wound-healing assays, and Transwell assays. …”
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Optimization of Hydraulic Machinery Bladings by Multilevel CFD Techniques by Susanne Thum, Rudolf Schilling

“…After having got a convergent solution, the optimization process is repeated on the second level using a full 3D Euler code yielding a more accurate flow prediction. Finally, a 3D Navier-Stokes code is applied on the third level to search for the optimum optimorum by means of a fine-tuning of the geometrical parameters. …”
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Capillary Water in Pericarp Enhances Hypoxic Condition during On-Tree Fruit Maturation That Induces Lignification and Triggers Translucent Flesh Disorder in Mangosteen (Garcinia ma... by Sompoch Noichinda, Kitti Bodhipadma, Siwaruth Kong-In

“…After that, water was continuously dropped (flow rate of 0.6 ml/min) on the wrapped sheet for 0, 1, and 2 days before picking. …”
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Drying of Malaysian Capsicum annuum L. (Red Chili) Dried by Open and Solar Drying by Ahmad Fudholi, Mohd Yusof Othman, Mohd Hafidz Ruslan, Kamaruzzaman Sopian

“…At the average solar radiation of 420 W/m2 and air flow rate of 0.07 kg/s, the collector, drying system, and pickup demonstrated efficiency rates of approximately 28%, 13%, and 45%, respectively. …”
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Stability-indicating HPLC-PDA assay for simultaneous determination of paracetamol, thiamine and pyridoxal phosphate in tablet formulations by Ali Amir, Athar Muhammad Makshoof, Ahmed Mahmood, Nadeem Kashif, Murtaza Ghulam, Farooq Umar, Salman Muhammad

“…A mixture of ammonium phosphate buffer (pH = 3.0), acetonitrile and methanol in the ratio of 86:7:7 (V/V/V) was used as the mobile phase pumped at a flow rate of 1.8 mL min−1. Detection of all three components, impurities and degradation products was performed at the selected wavelength of 270 nm. …”
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