Investigating the Causes of Pavement Distresses on Bwankosya Road in Kabale Municipality. by Kigenyi, Luke

“…The above tests and surveys were done to identify the causes of the pavement failures and it was found out that most of the pavement sections were damaged by alligator cracks caused by repetitive heavy loading by the vehicles and also due to poor drainage, inadequate designing and poor quality of the base material.…”
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Changes in the histological structure of tissues and organs of pikeperch (Sander lucioperca Linnaeus, 1758) and perch (Perca fluviatilis Linnaeus, 1758) from the Zaporizhzhia Reser... by P. Korzhenevska, T. Sharamok, A. Doroshenko

“…Hematological and histological studies were carried out according to generally accepted methods. The concentration of heavy metals in water samples was determined on a C115-M1 atomic absorption spectrophotometer in mg/L. …”
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Diversity and Antimicrobial Activities of Actinobacteria Isolated from Mining Soils in Midelt Region, Morocco by Soumia Ait Assou, Jaouad Anissi, Khalid Sendide, Mohammed El Hassouni

“…Our findings suggest that Actinobacteria isolated from natural heavy metal ecosystems may be a valuable source of novel secondary metabolites and therefore of new biotechnologically promising antimicrobial compounds.…”
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Evaluation of the Marine Algae Gracilaria and its Activated Carbon for the Adsorption of Ni(II) from Wastewater by A. Esmaeili, P. Beirami, S. Ghasemi

“…The kinetic studies showed that the heavy metal uptake was observed more rapidly by the AC with compared to MD. …”
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Aurophilic interaction-based aggregation of gem-digold(I) aryls towards high spin-orbit coupling and strong phosphorescence by Xiao-Yi Zhai, Liang Zhao

“…Abstract Luminescent gold(I) compounds have attracted intensive attention due to anticipated strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) resulting from heavy atom effect of gold atoms. However, some mononuclear gold(I) compounds are barely satisfactory. …”
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Multivariate analysis of water quality of "omi-omo" stream Ikole Ekiti, Nigeria. by Oluwaseun Ayodele Ilesanmi, Olusola Oloye, Peter Oluwafemi, Okwunna Maryjane Umego, Olorunwa Omofunmi

“…Turbidity, alkalinity, Electrical Conductivity (EC), hardness pH, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), Dissolved Oxygen (DO), Biological oxygen demand (BOD), heavy metals (Cd, Cu, Pb, Fe, Mn), sulphate, phosphate, nitrate and chloride were also determined. …”
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Adsorption of U(VI) ions from aqueous solution using nanogoethite powder by Lijiang Zhang, Xiaowen Zhang, Qian Lu, Xiaoyan Wu, Tianjiao Jiang, Li Mi, Ying Peng

“…Goethite is a stable and widespread mineral present in soil with many uses, and it affects the transportation and immobilization of heavy metals in solution. Nanogoethite was synthesized by a chemical precipitation method and used to batch adsorb U(VI) in solution. …”
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Leachate characterization and identification of dominant pollutants using leachate pollution index for an uncontrolled landfill site by S. De, S. Maiti, T. Hazra, A. Debsarkar, A. Dutta

“…The overall LPI, LPI organic (LPIor), LPI inorganic (LPIin) and LPI heavy metals (LPIhm) of both the dumping grounds largely exceeded the LPI and sub-LPI values for treated leachate before disposal to the inland surface water. …”
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Retinal Displacement: Providing New Insights for Retinal Detachment Surgery by Olivier Houle, Eunice You, Mélanie Hébert, Shicheng Jin, Susan Ruyu Qi, Ali Dirani

“…Meanwhile, pneumatic retinopexy and PPV with silicone oil may offer similar surgical success with a significantly lower risk of displacement. The impact of heavy liquids such as perfluorocarbon liquid, postoperative positioning and preoperative extent of detachment on displacement remains inconclusive. …”
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Combined DFT and Fuzzy Based Faulty Phase Selection and Classification in a Series Compensated Transmission Line by Praveen Kumar Mishra, Anamika Yadav

“…Test results corroborate the proposed scheme reliability with wide variations in fault location, fault resistance, fault inception angle, evolving faults, compensation level, and heavy load interconnection. The results discussed in this work indicate that the proposed technique is resilient to wide variations in fault and system conditions.…”
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Deciphering antioxidant interactions via data mining and RDKit by Lucas B. Ayres, Justin T. Furgala, Carlos D. Garcia

“…The analysis focuses on the most commonly reported compounds and mixtures and considers how various chemical descriptors (number of atoms, number of heavy atoms, number of heteroatoms, number of carbon atoms, number of oxygen atoms, number of nitrogen atoms, number of chloride atoms, polar surface area, molecular weight, number of aromatic rings, logP, and hydrogen bond counts) affect the response. …”
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A next-generation Fab library platform directly yielding drug-like antibodies with high affinity, diversity, and developability by Fortunato Ferrara, Adeline Fanni, Andre A. R. Teixeira, Esteban Molina, Camila Leal-Lopes, Ashley DeAguero, Sara D’Angelo, M. Frank Erasmus, Laura Spector, Luis Antonio Rodriguez Carnero, Jianquan Li, Thomas J. Pohl, Nikolai Suslov, Klervi Desrumeaux, Conor McMahon, Sagar Kathuria, Andrew R. M. Bradbury

“…The scFab single-gene format provides balanced expression of light and heavy chains, with enhanced conversion to IgG, thereby combining the advantages of scFvs and Fabs. …”
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Atmospheric Ionizations by Solar X‐Rays, Solar Protons, and Radiation Belt Electrons in September 2017 Space Weather Event by Kiyoka Murase, Ryuho Kataoka, Takanori Nishiyama, Kaoru Sato, Masaki Tsutsumi, Yoshimasa Tanaka, Yasunobu Ogawa, Tatsuhiko Sato

“…We estimate the altitude profiles of the ionization rate by using the Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System (PHITS) with the input of the particle fluxes obtained by satellites. …”
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Enhancing Road Scene Segmentation With an Optimized DeepLabV3+ by Zhe Ren, Libao Wang, Tianming Song, Yihang Li, Jian Zhang, Fengfeng Zhao

“…To address these issues, this paper proposes an enhanced road scene segmentation method based on DeepLabV3+ that addresses the common trade-offs between accuracy and real-time performance in existing approaches. First, the heavy Xception backbone is replaced with the lightweight MobileNetV2, significantly boosting real-time efficiency while maintaining competitive segmentation accuracy. …”
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Design and Implementation of Spatial Operators and Energy-Efficient Query Processing Strategy in Wireless Sensor Network Database System by Chong sok Lim, Jeong-Hoon Lee, Minjee Park, Soon J. Hyun

“…Our energy-efficient query processing strategy implements an in-network query management based on the lowest common ancestor (LCA) algorithm, so that the query processing cost for calculating the target spaces is greatly reduced by avoiding the need of heavy query/data transmissions between the base-station and target nodes. …”
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Economic Burden Analysis of Parkinson’s Disease Patients in China by Jun-Xiu Yang, Lei Chen

“…PD reduces patients’ quality of life and exerts a heavy economic burden on patients and their families. …”
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Acute Deterioration of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) in a Patient with Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1) by Seiya Tanaka, Fuko Kawahara, Taro Miyamoto, Satoshi Tsurusaki, Yoshihito Sanuki, Kiyoshi Ozumi, Takashi Harada, Hiromi Tasaki

“…A 56-year-old woman was diagnosed as having chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with heavy smoking. Mild pulmonary hypertension (mean pulmonary arterial pressure: 31 mmHg) was detected at the first visit. …”
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STATIC STIFFNESS MODELING AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF TBM PROPULSION MECHANISM by XU YouNan, CHEN Jie, LIU ZhiQiang

“…Aiming at the bearing capacity of TBM hydraulic propulsion mechanism under the conditions of large sudden load and extreme heavy load, the stiffness performance performance and sensitivity of TBM hydraulic propulsion mechanism are studied. …”
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Performance Improvements of Selective Emitters by Laser Openings on Large-Area Multicrystalline Si Solar Cells by Sheng-Shih Wang, Jyh-Jier Ho, Jia-Jhe Liou, Jia-Show Ho, Wei-Chih Hsu, Wen-Haw Lu, Song-Yeu Tsai, Hsien-Seng Hung, Kang L. Wang

“…The optimal conversion efficiency of 15.95% is obtained with the SE3 (2 J/cm2 fluence) after laser opening with optimization of heavy and light dopant, which yields a gain of 0.48%abs compared with that of a reference cell (without fluence). …”
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A Comparative Study of Copper and Zinc Ion Adsorption on to Activated and Non-activated Date-pits by Fawzi Banat, Sameer Al-Asheh, Deaa Al-Rousan

“…This study demonstrated that date-pits without any physical or chemical pretreatment could be used as an effective adsorbent for the treatment of waters containing heavy metal ions such as Zn 2+ and Cu 2+ .…”
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