Metrology Needs for Predicting Concrete Pumpability by Myoungsung Choi, Chiara F. Ferraris, Nicos S. Martys, Didier Lootens, Van K. Bui, H. R. Trey Hamilton

“…The major obstacle to conduct research on concrete pumping is that it requires heavy equipment and large amounts of materials. Thus, developing realistic and simple measurement techniques and prediction tools is a financial and logistical challenge that is out of reach for small research labs and many private companies in the concrete construction industry. …”
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Contamination of urban waterways: A mini-review of water pollution in the rivers of East Africa's major cities by Meserecordias Wilfred Lema

“…Results show that BOD, COD, nutrients, heavy metals and bacteria levels exceed national and international standards, degrading riverine environments and posing public health risks. …”
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Air Pollution of Nature Reserves near Cities in Russia by Aleksei Kholodov, Kirill Golokhvast

“…Both sites contained comparable proportions of PM10 and contents of heavy metals, which points to the transportation of air pollutants from the city to the reserve. …”
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Application of Coal Ash to Postmine Land for Prevention of Soil Erosion in Coal Mine in Indonesia: Utilization of Fly Ash and Bottom Ash by Shinji Matsumoto, Shunta Ogata, Hideki Shimada, Takashi Sasaoka, Ginting J. Kusuma, Rudy S. Gautama

“…In the past studies, coal ash was applied to postmine land with the aim of improving soil conditions for plant growth; however, heavy rain in the tropical climate may cause soil erosion with the change in soil conditions. …”
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Why Olive Produces Many More Flowers than Fruit—A Critical Analysis by Julián Cuevas

“…Several, not mutually exclusive, hypotheses explaining the possible significance of heavy flowering followed by massive and premature flower and fruit abscission are analyzed and compared based on previously published works and recent observations on olive reproductive biology. …”
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Seismic Risk Evaluation of Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings: A Case Study for Çanakkale-Türkiye by Selen Aktan, Muhammed Benek

“…It was seen that soft stories with values ranging from 50% to 100% and heavy overhangs with values ranging from 37% to 63% were the most common irregularities in existing buildings in Çanakkale.…”
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Experimental and Numerical Study on Tensile Strength of Concrete under Different Strain Rates by Fanlu Min, Zhanhu Yao, Teng Jiang

“…The dynamic characterization of concrete is fundamental to understand the material behavior in case of heavy earthquakes and dynamic events. The implementation of material constitutive law is of capital importance for the numerical simulation of the dynamic processes as those caused by earthquakes. …”
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Metal Content and Stable Isotope Determination in Some Commercial Beers from Romanian Markets by Cezara Voica, Dana-Alina Magdas, Ioana Feher

“…In this work, the characterizations of 20 Romanian beers were performed by mean of Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) and Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (IRMS) in order to trace heavy metals and isotopic content of them. Major, minor, and trace metals are important in beer fermentation since they supply the appropriate environment for yeast growth and influence yeast metabolism. …”
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Future trends in plant-based meat: Consumer perception, market growth and health benefits by Janifer Raj Xavier, Sahana Hevlin Shashikumar, Dimple Vats, Om Prakash Chauhan

“…If businesses wish to appeal to the target market, to help clients make the transition to a diet heavy in PBM replacements, they must concentrate on the areas of anticipated advantages.…”
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Overview of Delivery Complications Using IKAlin Instruments in Bandar Lampung by Amrina Octaviana, Roslina Roslina, Ika Fitria Elmeida, Nurlaila Nurlaila, Nelly Indrasari, Rosmadewi Rosmadewi

“…The average results of mothers' answers show that the complication of preeclampsia that is felt is high blood pressure, the bleeding complication that is most often felt during labor is experiencing heavy bleeding, and the complication of dystocia that is most often felt is undergoing a prolonged second stage. …”
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Association between air pollution and osteoporosis: A systematic review by Prabowo Nurhasan Agung, Soetrisno, Nurwati Ida, Ardyanto Tonang Dwi, Poncorini Eti, Nurudhin Arief, Dirgahayu Paramasari

“…These mechanisms include oxidative stress, systemic inflammation, and heavy metal toxicity in women disproportionately, older adults and urban populations. …”
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Predictive channel scheduling algorithm between macro base station and micro base station group by Yinghai XIE, Ruohe YAO, Bin WU

“…A novel predictive channel scheduling algorithm was proposed for non-real-time traffic transmission between macro-base stations and micro-base stations in 5G ultra-cellular networks.First,based on the stochastic stationary process characteristics of wireless channels between stationary communication agents,a discrete channel state probability space was established for the scheduling process from the perspective of classical probability theory,and the event domain was segmented.Then,the efficient scheduling of multi-user,multi-non-real-time services was realized by probability numerical calculation of each event domain.The theoretical analysis and simulation results show that the algorithm has low computational complexity.Compared with other classical scheduling algorithms,the new algorithm can optimize traffic transmission in a longer time dimension,approximate the maximum signal-to-noise ratio algorithm in throughput performance,and increase system throughput by about 14% under heavy load.At the same time,the new algorithm is accurate.Quantitative computation achieves a self-adaption match between the expected traffic rate and the actual scheduling rate.…”
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Infrasound emitting at the start of a space rocket launch by Yehor Zahrevskyi, Halyna Sokol

“… The analysis of acoustic radiation during the launch of a heavy space rocket is the main goal of this work. …”
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Review of Cadmium Bioaccumulation in Fish Exposed to Cadmium by Ju-Wook Lee, A-Hyun Jo, Yue-Jai Kang, Dain Lee, Cheol-Young Choi, Ju-Chan Kang, Jun-Hwan Kim

“…Cadmium (Cd) is a highly toxic substance in the aquatic ecosystem, which can represent a high risk to fish. Fish are exposed to heavy metals through waterborne and dietary pathways, some of which are absorbed by the body and can accumulate in specific tissues without being eliminated. …”
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Angular Distributions and Polarization of Fluorescence in an XUV Pump–XUV Probe Scheme by Cristian Iorga, Viorica Stancalie

“…This work provides theoretical calculations of fluorescence angular distribution and polarization within an XUV pump–XUV probe scheme designed for determining ultra-short lifetimes of highly charged heavy ions. The initial pumping leads to a non-zero alignment in the excited levels. …”
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Enhanced Bearing Fault Detection Using Step-Varying Vibrational Resonance Based on Duffing Oscillator Nonlinear System by Yongbin Liu, Zhijia Dai, Siliang Lu, Fang Liu, Jiwen Zhao, Jiale Shen

“…However, information on the status of bearing is always buried in heavy background noise; that is, status information of bearing is weaker than the background noise. …”
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LANGUAGE SKILLS, SUB-SKILLS AND VOCABULARIES NEEDED BY AUTOMOTIVE DEPARTMENT STUDENTS OF TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL: A NEED ANALYSIS STUDY by Surya Lestari, Syahrial Syahrial, Bambang Suwarno

“…Related to car, are kick lever, oil pump, water cooling system, trail and rolling roof. Related to heavy machine are rear body offset, over hung, road clearance, light van and rear engine. …”
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Dynamical metastability and re-entrant localization of trapped active elements with speed and orientation fluctuations by Manish Patel, Amir Shee, Debasish Chaudhuri

“…The steady-state distributions of particle positions exhibit two types of non-Gaussian departures based on control parameters: bimodal distributions with negative excess kurtosis and heavy-tailed unimodal distributions with positive excess kurtosis. …”
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Noni Juice Improves Serum Lipid Profiles and Other Risk Markers in Cigarette Smokers by Mian-Ying Wang, Lin Peng, Vicki Weidenbacher-Hoper, Shixin Deng, Gary Anderson, Brett J. West

“…One hundred thirty-two adult heavy smokers completed a randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial designed to investigate the effect of noni juice on serum cholesterol, triglyceride, low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL), high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), and homocysteine. …”
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Simulation of rainfall temporal distribution pattern using WRF Model (case study of Parsian dam basin) by Elaheh Ghasemi Karakani, Ebrahim Fattahi, Loabat Salehi Pak, Hooshang Ghaemi

“…It showed that the WRF model was able to performance the heavy rainfall and simulates the rainfall pattern in these dates.…”
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