Characterization of Glasses in One Type of Alumina Rich Fly Ash by Chemical Digestion Methods: Implications for Alumina Extraction by Lijun Zhao, Hanshuang Xiao, Baodong Wang, Qi Sun

“…In recent years, one type of alumina rich fly ash (ARFA) with about 50 wt% of alumina has been extensively investigated for alumina extraction in China. Due to the silica in ARFA, alumina extraction would have to generate a huge amount of solid waste. …”
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Important alien and potential native invasive insect pests of key fruit trees in Sub-Saharan Africa: advances in sustainable pre- and post-harvest management approaches by Shepard Ndlela, Saliou Niassy, Samira A. Mohamed

“…Climate change is expected to play a huge role in the influx of more alien invasive species and the shift of ecological requirements of some native species. …”
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Electricity Generation from Cow Dung Biogas by J. Akpojaro, G. Ofualagba, M.A. Akpojaro

“… Energy is one of the most important factors for accelerating economic development. Due to rapid industrialization and urbanization in Nigeria over the few decades, there is a huge pressure and ever increasing demand of Electrical energy, which has resulted in a concentrated need for finding some alternative sources of energy. …”
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BRICs Nations Growing Impact on the Global Health Sector by M. B. Jakovljevic, N. V. Ekkert, M. S. Mikerova, V. A. Reshetnikov

“…The most notable feature of the past five centuries of global economic history dating back from Colonial Age until the present accelerated globalization is the persistence of «North–South» division between the global rich and poor. …”
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Urban Land Subsidence Characteristics and Their Relationship with Locations Liable to Waterlogging Based on SBAS-InSAR by LIU Huanyu, WU Zhen, YU Huanghao, CHEN Guangcheng, XIAO Yang, LI Kuang, LI Binquan

“…SBAS-InSAR technology was used to analyze land subsidence characteristics, and the correlation between the temporal subsidence of land waterlogging points and precipitation, water depth, and waterlogging duration was analyzed. …”
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Validation of a Novel Landmark-guided Intra-articular Postero-medial Surgeon-administered Injection Technique by Nicolas S. Piuzzi, MD, Andrew I. Spitzer, MD, Jason Mussell, PhD, Ignacio Pasqualini, MD, Stan Dysart, MD, Jeffrey Gonzales, MD, Michael A. Mont, MD, Jess H. Lonner, MD, William Mihalko, MD, PhD

“…An anesthesiologist administered a US-guided ACB using 20 mL of dilute indocyanine dye. …”
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Two-dimensional flood model for risk exposure analysis of land use/land cover in a watershed by G. Puno, R. Puno, I. Maghuyop

“…The process involved utilizing a high-resolution digital elevation model and a set of high-precision instruments such as the real-time kinematic-global position system receiver, digital flow meter, deep gauge, and automatic weather station in collecting the respective data on bathymetry, river discharge, river depth, and rainfall intensity during a particular climatic event, needed for the model development, calibration and validation. …”
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Sensors on Flapping Wings (SOFWs) Using Complementary Metal–Oxide–Semiconductor (CMOS) MEMS Technology by Lung-Jieh Yang, Wei-Cheng Wang, Chandrashekhar Tasupalli, Balasubramanian Esakki, Mahammed Inthiyaz Shaik

“…The interpreted flow speed signals were checked and demonstrated similar behavior with the (net) thrust force exerted on the flapping wing, as measured in the wind tunnel experiments using the force gauge. The experimental results confirm that the in situ measurements using the concept of SOFWs can be useful for measuring the aerodynamic forces of flapping wings effectively, and it can also serve for future potential applications.…”
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Depression, Anxiety, and Stress In The Time of COVID-19 Pandemic In Kurdistan Region, Iraq by Niaz mustafa kamal, Nasih Othman

“…The global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, its threat to people’s health and its indirect impacts through the subsequent measures taken by governments to control the disease have led to uncertainty and huge disruption in the way people used to live with a negative impact on mental health and wellbeing.  …”
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Information Flow between Global Equities and Cryptocurrencies: A VMD-Based Entropy Evaluating Shocks from COVID-19 Pandemic by Emmanuel Asafo-Adjei, Peterson Owusu Junior, Anokye M. Adam

“…Accordingly, it is expected that information transmission between equities and digital assets has been altered due to the hostile impact of the pandemic outbreak on financial markets. …”
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Evaluating the Fatigue Resistance of the Innovative Modified-Reinforced Composite Asphalt Mixture by Gholamali Shafabakhsh, Mahdi Akbari, Hossein Bahrami

“…Fatigue failure is regarded as one of the most common failures in the road pavement and necessitates spending huge cost annually to maintain the road. Asphalt binder modification and asphalt mixture reinforcement are among the commonly used methods to increase the pavement resistance to a failure caused by fatigue. …”
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A Neovascularized Left Atrial Mass by Rania Hammami, Leila Abid, Souad Mallek, Ilyes Kharrat, Mariem Ellouz, Mourad Hentati, Imed Frikha, Samir Kammoun

“…The transthoracic echocardiography revealed a severe mitral stenosis with a huge left atrial mass, confirmed through transesophageal echocardiography. …”
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Comparison between relining of ill-fitted maxillary complete denture versus CAD/CAM milling of new one regarding patient satisfaction, denture retention and adaptation by Maha Nagy Mohamed Kamal

“…Both groups were evaluated regarding patient satisfaction by a specially designed questionnaire, retention values were measured by a digital force gauge at denture insertion appointment and two weeks later, geomagic software was used to evaluate dentures adaptation to oral tissues. …”
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Herramientas pedagógicas con enfoque interprofesional para la preparación del claustro docente by Lizgrace Llano Arana, Maria Cristina Núñez Martinez, Addys Teresita Stable Rodríguez, René M. Cabrera Núñez

“…Se consultaron diferentes fuentes bibliográficas, así como documentos rectores y normativos vigentes en la enseñanza de las ciencias médicas, con el objetivo de caracterizar a la educación interprofesional, vertiente educativa que ha tomado auge a nivel mundial y demostrar que, para lograr su desarrollo en Cuba, es necesario preparar los claustros docentes. …”
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Asia, laboratorio de los capitalismos… y de las teorías económicas by Robert Boyer

“…China ocupa un lugar especial, pues la intensa competencia entre una miríada de corporativismos locales condujo a un modo de desarrollo que debe compensar, con un excedente comercial, el desequilibrio entre la demanda interna y la capacidad de producción. …”
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Human drone interaction in delivery of medical supplies: A scoping review of experimental studies. by Franziska Stephan, Nicole Reinsperger, Martin Grünthal, Denny Paulicke, Patrick Jahn

“…<h4>Background</h4>The COVID-19 pandemic, ageing populations and the increasing shortage of skilled workers pose great challenges for the delivery of supplies for people with and without care needs. …”
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Ethno-cultural tourism as a promising area for inter-municipal and inter-regional cooperation in the development of rural areas in the Republic of Bashkortostan and the Chelyabinsk... by V. Ya. Akhmetov

“…One of the promising, but still underdeveloped types of domestic tourism in Bashkortostan and the neighboring Chelyabinsk region is ethnocultural tourism, the potential of which is huge in terms of opening new jobs, organising new small and medium-sized enterprises. …”
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From single to multi-stage forming process of copper thin sheet by Lagroum Amine, Manach Pierre-Yves, Thuillier Sandrine

“…There is a huge interest to numerically predict these multistage forming processes, to decrease design time and to anticipate production problems such as non-compliance with dimensional tolerances depending on the material used. …”
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Quantification of Dynamic Excitation Potential of Pedestrian Population Crossing Footbridges by Stana Žcaronivanović, Aleksandar Pavić

“…Due to their slenderness, many modern footbridges may vibrate significantly under pedestrian traffic. …”
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Automated Decision Technique for the Crowd Estimation Method Using Thermal Videos by Nermin K. Negied, Ayman El-Sayed, Asmaa S. Hassaan

“…This work aims at estimating the crowd density using two methods and decide which method is better and more accurate depending on the case of the scene; i.e., this work measures the crowd size from videos using the heat signature and motion analysis of the human body, plus using the results analysis of both approaches to decide which approach is better. …”
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