Utilization of TiN and the Texture of Bionic Pangolin Scales to Improve the Wear Resistance of Cast Steel 20Mn Metal by Wenwen Zhang, Mingyuan Zhang, Xingliang Dong, Yuanzhe Huang, Shukun Cao

“…This can be chiefly attributed to the significant effects of the modified surface in augmenting hardness, diminishing the contact area of the friction surface, lowering shear stress, and entrapping wear debris. …”
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Determination of Young’s Modulus by Specific Vibration of Basalt and Diabase by Osvail André Quaglio, José Margarida da Silva, Edmo da Cunha Rodovalho, Leandro de Vilhena Costa

“…The work shows that the solnelastic is an innovate equipment and elucidated advantages of IET in comparison to the UCM such as shorter execution time, greater safety, and a lower cost ranging from 11.5% to 22.5% of the UCM.…”
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Short-term warming supports mineral-associated carbon accrual in abandoned croplands by Zhenrui Zhang, Hui Gao, Xiaoxia Gao, Shurui Huang, Shuli Niu, Emanuele Lugato, Xinghui Xia

“…The Q10 of MAOC is significantly lower than that of POC regardless of the warming or control treatment, suggesting that MAOC represents the most persistent and least vulnerable carbon fraction within SOC. …”
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Impact of Ramadan Intermittent Fasting on the Heart Rate Variability and Cardiovascular Parameters of Patients with Controlled Hypertension by Sabah Hammoud, Iman Saad, Rita Karam, Fayez Abou Jaoude, Bart J. F. van den Bemt, Mazen Kurdi

“…Fasting did not affect body composition, lipid panel parameters, and blood pressure of hypertensive subjects; males only presented lower body weight and hip circumference during Ramadan. …”
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Salicylic Acid Seed Priming: A Key Frontier in Conferring Salt Stress Tolerance in Barley Seed Germination and Seedling Growth by Rim Ben Youssef, Nahida Jelali, Jose Ramón Acosta Motos, Chedly Abdelly, Alfonso Albacete

“…Additionally, SA increased the content of calcium, iron, magnesium, and potassium while lowering the concentrations of sodium and malondialdehyde and electrolyte leakage. …”
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Granuloma Multiforme: A Rare Granulomatous Disease by Yogesh Poudyal, Anita Shah

“…It was distributed over upper trunk, lower back, and arms, and was mildly pruritic. Histopathologically, loss of elastic fibres at focal area of upper dermis, with elastic fibres engulfed histiocytes were noted. …”
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The Analogues Method: Reproducing the Seasonality of Drinking Water Distribution in Mountain Tourist Resorts by Martin Calianno

“…Few of the integrated water management surveys or water offer-demand models include a description of the seasonality of demand with sufficiently fine time steps (monthly and lower). The analogues method was developed in this study with as a case study the tourist resort of Megève (Haute-Savoie, France), presenting a strong seasonal variability in the demand for drinking water. …”
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Circularly Polarized Leaky-Wave Antenna Based on Low-Loss Transmission Line by Xingying Huo, Zheng Li

“…The radiation performance of this antenna is analyzed by CST simulation, which shows that the overlapping bandwidth of this antenna for 3 dB axial ratio with S11 < −10 dB is about 5.3%, with cross polarization 23 dB lower than copolarization. The simulated maximum directivity is l5.5 dBi with efficiency over 90% during the whole band.…”
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Switching Analysis in Hybrid OHL-Submarine Cable 500-kV Transmission System by Binhot P. Nababan, Kevin Marojahan Banjar-Nahor, Musa Partahi Marbun, Suwarno, Nanang Hariyanto

“…The probability distribution is fitted to a normal distribution, with the skewness and kurtosis shown to be skewed to the right and having a lower peak than that of the normal distribution, respectively. …”
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Relaxing the confirmatory factor model in the Big Five: Exploratory, Bayesian, and machine learning approaches by Jacob S. Gray

“…All three of these methods provided substantially better fit to the data than the CFA model did, while producing lower factor correlations. However, these methods did not always demonstrate agreement in which items cross-loaded on which factors. …”
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Primary adenocarcinoma of duodenal bulb mimicking a pancreatic tumor: a case report by Eya Slama, S. Ben Hamida, S. Zaouga, H. Elloumi, I. Cheikh, A. G. Dahak, M. Missaoui, A. Chelibi, I. Ganzoui

“…An abdominal CT scan however showed no abnormality in the pancreas but revealed on the other hand an irregular, non-stenosing, heterogeneous fibrous thickening of the lower aspect of the duodenal bulb. An EGD showed a congested infiltrated area in the post-bulbar region, and Pathological exam confirmed the diagnosis of a primary adenocarcinoma of the duodenal bulb. …”
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Lisbon Urban Heat Island Updated: New Highlights about the Relationships between Thermal Patterns and Wind Regimes by António Lopes, Elis Alves, Maria João Alcoforado, Raquel Machete

“…During the summer, the effect of the breezes was observed in Belém, lowering the temperature. The “strong” UHI (intensity >4°C) occurred more often during the summer, with median values of 2°C by night and 1.8°C by day. …”
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Differences of type of foods consumed by households in urban and rural West Java, Indonesia by Annisa Nurhidayati Vieta, Riyadi Hadi

“…Dietary diversity is a critical indicator of food and nutrition security, with a minimum consumption of four food groups shown to lower the risk of malnutrition and related health issues. …”
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Logarithmic loop corrections, moduli stabilisation and de Sitter vacua in string theory by Ignatios Antoniadis, Yifan Chen, George K. Leontaris

“…We show that they exhibit in general a logarithmic behaviour in the large volume limit transverse to the D7-branes, induced by a localised four-dimensional Einstein-Hilbert action that appears at a lower order in the closed string sector, found in the past. …”
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Model-Based Valuation of Ecosystem Services Using Bio-Economic Farm Models: Insights for Designing Green Tax Policies and Payment for Ecosystem Services by Seyed-Ali Hosseini-Yekani, Stefan Tomaczewski, Peter Zander

“…The results reveal that larger farms exhibit greater elasticity in response to green taxes on nitrate use and lower costs for supplying erosion control compared to smaller farms. …”
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Unique Surgical Issues in the Management of a Giant Retroperitoneal Schwannoma and Brief Review of Literature by Santhosh Kuriakose, Syam Vikram, Surij Salih, Satheesan Balasubramanian, Nizamudeen Mangalasseri Pareekutty, Sangeetha Nayanar

“…We report the management of a giant retroperitoneal schwannoma in a 19-year-old young lady who presented with lower abdominal distension. CT scan reported a large heterogenous lesion in the abdominopelvic retroperitoneum (42 cm × 16 cm × 16 cm) as a malignant tumor. …”
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Soil Contamination from Cassava Wastewater Discharges in a Rural Community in the Niger Delta, Nigeria by Q-AL Izonfuo, PA Bariweni, DMC George

“…Mean Mg level of the soil samples was lower than the mean in the control soil samples. …”
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Pore Geometry Optimization of Titanium (Ti6Al4V) Alloy, for Its Application in the Fabrication of Customized Hip Implants by Sandipan Roy, Debojyoti Panda, Niloy Khutia, Amit Roy Chowdhury

“…The results that are obtained are used to suggest a range of pore diameters that lower the effective stiffness and modulus of the implant to around 60% of the stiffness and modulus of dense solid implants while keeping the stress levels within permissible limits.…”
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Optimal Control of ISTR Rumor Propagation Model with Social Reinforcement in Heterogeneous Network by Liang’an Huo, Sijing Chen, Xiaoxiao Xie, Huiyuan Liu, Jianjia He

“…The wide spread of rumor is undoubtedly harmful to social stability; we should try to lower the effect of rumor on society. Therefore, it is reasonable to put forward the rumor control strategy on the basis of the study of the law of rumor propagation. …”
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Study on Hydrological Drought Forecasting Based on SWAT Model and ESP Thought by SUN Long, LI Meng

“…Based on measured data such as 40-year long series of hydrological and meteorological data from 1970 to 2009,and the distributed hydrological model SWAT with strong mechanism and integrated forecasting ESP thought,this paper builds a set of drought forecasting system,optimizes the parameters of SWAT model by data from 1970 to 2009,predicts the future long-term (April to October,2010) hydrological drought in the middle and lower reaches of Ganjiang,and calculates and predicts the probability of occurrence of hydrological drought from early April 2010 to late October 2010 in a ten-day basis with ten-day runoff depth anomaly percentage as the early warning indicator for judging the hydrological drought in various districts and counties.The results show that,hydrologic drought is more likely in the middle of May,middle of June to late July,middle of August,early September and middle of October to late October, among which a wide range of hydrological drought is likely to happen in early to middle of July and middle to late October.The predicting results can provide scientific guidance for drought resistance and disaster reduction.…”
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