Effects of Micropit Depths on Tribology Performance of Textured Port Plate Pair by Haishun Deng, Shiju He, Feiyu Mao, Chuanli Wang

“…The conclusions are shown as follows: oil loading capacity would come to its peak when the oil film thickness is equal to the micropit depth; the optimal micropit depth is unrelated to the area ratios and micropits’ diameters. …”
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Variational Estimation of Optimal Signal States for Quantum Channels by Leonardo Oleynik, Junaid Ur Rehman, Hayder Al-Hraishawi, Symeon Chatzinotas

“…This article explores the performance of quantum communication systems in the presence of noise and focuses on finding the optimal encoding for maximizing the classical communication rate, approaching the classical capacity in some scenarios. Instead of theoretically bounding the ultimate capacity of the channel, we adopt a signal processing perspective to estimate the achievable performance of a physically available but otherwise unknown quantum channel. …”
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Vesicoureteral Reflux in the Child with Lazy Bladder Syndrome: The Infrequent Voider by Marco Grasso, Fabrizio Torelli, Salvatore Blanco, Flavio Fortuna, Marco Baruffi

“…The Infrequent Voider Syndrome or Lazy Bladder Syndrome in children is characterized by a large capacity bladder, frequently associated with a significant volume of residual urine. …”
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Evaluation of Optimal Pore Size of (3-Aminopropyl)triethoxysilane Grafted MCM-41 for Improved CO2 Adsorption by Zhilin Liu, Yang Teng, Kai Zhang

“…The adsorption heat values were correlated with the order of the adsorption capacities for pore expanded MCM-41s. After amine functionalization, the adsorption capacities and heat values showed a significant increase. …”
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On the Effect of Modifications to Montmorillonite for the Desulphurization of Synthetic Gasoline by Ying Zhang, Aiping Chen, Chunzhong Li, Meifang Luo, Zhenliang Xu

“…The adsorption thermodynamics and kinetics on all three adsorbents were investigated when it was found that SiO 2 Ce-MMT possessed a higher adsorption capacity than MMT and CTAB-MMT. The adsorption capacity increased as the temperature increased in the range 303–333 K. …”
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Organisational resilience: a proposal of an integrated model and research agenda by Cristina Chaves Goldschmidt, Kely César Martins de Paiva, Hélio Arthur Reis Irigaray

“…The first is the procedural, dynamic and ecosystemic capacity activated by people (i.e. individual resilience) and processes (i.e. systemic resilience) in the face of adversity. …”
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Human-induced water loss potentially threatens sustainable development of sandy regions in China by Runa A, Xinliang Pan, Liudi Zhu, Kelvin T. F. Chan, Zhangcai Qin, Enliang Guo, Yuhai Bao, Song Qing, Tingwei Cui

“…This study calls for urgent scientific regulations on water resources, including strict control of local consumption and enhancement of supply capacity.…”
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Decreased Count and Dysfunction of Circulating EPCs in Postmenopausal Hypercholesterolemic Females via Reducing NO Production by Ying Luo, Quan-Neng Yan, Wan-Zhou Wu, Fan-Yan Luo

“…EPC count and migratory and proliferative capacities remain unchanged in the premenopausal female with hypercholesterolemia. …”
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Diethylaminoethylation of Chitin and the Adsorption of Acid Dyes onto the Resulting Polymer by Yoshiaki Shimizu, Tsutomu Tominaga, Yoshihiro Saito

“…The conventional water-insoluble DEAE-chitins showed a high adsorptive capacity towards CI Acid Orange 7 compared to that on untreated chitin and alkali-treated chitin. …”
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Analytical Expression of the Beam-Plasma Particles Distribution Function Effect on the Electromagnetic Instability Growth Rate in Strongly Coupled Plasmas by Fatemeh Nejadtaghi, Mohammad Mahdavi, Saeid Hassan pour, Hengameh Khanzadeh, Ali Tavassoli

“…Also, the bi-Maxwellian distribution function has a more stable growth rate than the Kappa and the semi-Maxwell distribution functions.…”
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Gait and Function in Class III Obesity by Catherine Ling, Teresa Kelechi, Martina Mueller, Sandra Brotherton, Sheila Smith

“…Significant differences were found between the groups in the areas of gait, body size, health condition, and activity capacity and participation. The Timed Up and Go test, gait velocity, hip circumference, and stance width appear to be most predictive of activity capacity as observed during gait assessment. …”
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Experimental and Numerical Investigation on Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer-Strengthened Concrete Beam after High-Temperature Action of Asphalt Paving Construction by Xin Yuan, Chaoyu Zhu, Wei Zheng, Baijian Tang

“…Additionally, the interface bonding stress distribution model and the calculation formula of the debonding bearing capacity were proposed. The proposed calculation model was proved to have good accuracy in predicting the strain of intermediate cracking debonding and the debonding bearing capacity of the CFRP-reinforced concrete beam after high-temperature action.…”
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Particle Size Dependence of TiO2 Electrodes in Rechargeable Lithium Battery by S. Y. Huang, G. Campet, N. Treuil, J. Porter, K. Chhor

“…Nanosized TiO2 electrodes showed by 22% larger storage capacity, 50% lower overvoltage loss at the same current density, and 75% higher charge density for a given time than microsized ones; electric storage capacity enhances more rapidly with decreasing particle size and increasing surface area in a nanoscale region than in a microscale region. …”
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On the Performance of Energy Harvesting Dual-Hop Free-Space Optical Communication Systems with Secrecy Analysis by Abdulgani A. Ibrahim, Serdar Özgür Ata, Lütfiye Durak-Ata

“…In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed communication system, closed-form expressions for outage probability, ergodic capacity, average bit error rate, and throughput are derived. …”
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Strength Analysis of a Two-Layer PETF-Concrete Column with Allowance for Contact Interaction between Layers by Andrii Velychkovych, Liubomyr Ropyak, Olga Dubei

“…It has been determined that, in certain circumstances, the contact pressure between the layers can have a significant effect on the load-bearing capacity of the column. In general, a method of engineering assessment of laminated columns’ load-bearing capacity was developed.…”
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Feature selection and data‐driven model for predicting the remaining useful life of lithium‐ion batteries by Yuhao Zhang, Yunfei Han, Tao Cai, Jia Xie, Shijie Cheng

“…This paper employs a time series analysis of discharge capacity/voltage curves to perform feature predication. …”
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Quantitative Analysis of Flavonoids and Coumarins from Fingered Citron in Different Growth Periods and Their Regulatory Effects on Oxidative Stress by Tao Tan, Man Xu, Xianlong Hong, Zhenyuan Li, Jiangnan Li, Bining Jiao, Xijuan Zhao

“…And there was a significantly positive correlation between the total flavonoid content and the antioxidant capacity. Diosmin, hesperidin, and neohesperidin were the main contributors to antioxidation. …”
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Efficient Algorithms on Multicommodity Flow over Time Problems with Partial Lane Reversals by Urmila Pyakurel, Shiva Prakash Gupta, Durga Prasad Khanal, Tanka Nath Dhamala

“…The multicommodity flow problem arises when several different commodities are transshipped from specific supply nodes to the corresponding demand nodes through the arcs of an underlying capacity network. The maximum flow over time problem concerns to maximize the sum of commodity flows in a given time horizon. …”
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EFFECT OF CYLINDER HEAD GASKET ADDITION AND VARYING OCTANE NUMBER GASOLINE TO INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE PERFORMANCE by Bahtiar Rahmat, Mohammad Burhan Rubai Wijaya, Fahmy Zuhda Bahtiar, Yuris Bahadur Wirawan, Katiko Imamul Muttaqin

“…The study involved experiments using a single-cylinder motorcycle engine with a capacity of 125 cm. The selection of this type of engine is based on the popularity of vehicles in Indonesia that use a single-cylinder engine with a capacity of 125 cm. …”
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Isotherm Studies for the Sorption of Metal Ions on to Peat by G. Mckay, B. Vong, J.F. Porter

“…The Langmuir equation was used to determine the monolayer saturation capacity for each of the metals on peat. These sorption capacities are: cadmium, 99.47 μmol/g (11.18 mg/g) peat; cobalt, 446.93 μmol/g (26.34 mg/g) peat; copper, 198.31 μmol/g (12.60 mg/g) peat; nickel, 113.24 μmol/g (6.65 mg/g) peat; and zinc, 141.93 μmol/g (9.28 mg/g) peat.…”
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