Measurement of remaining storage, rate of siltation, and rate of erosion of the Ahmadu Bello University Farm Lake drainage Basin in Zaria by A Baba, M Akaegbobi, K Schoeneich

“…But there is a nearby abandoned impounding reservoir constructed around 1966, with original storage capacity 636,300 m3. The authors propose to use this reservoir as the main source of water for Shika Hospital. …”
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The Effect and Related Mechanism of Action of Astragalus Compatible with Curcumin against Colon Cancer Metastasis in Mice by Jiafei Wu, Decai Tang

“…During tumor metastasis, cancer cells first enhance their proliferative capacity by lowering autophagy and apoptosis, and then, their capacity is stimulated by boosting tumors’ ability to take nutrients from the outside via angiogenesis. …”
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Hydrogel and Organic Amendments to Increase Water Retention in Anthroposols for Land Reclamation by Valerie S. Miller, M. Anne Naeth

“…Mines and other large industrial disturbances requiring anthroposols usually have large amounts of nonorganic waste materials with low water holding capacity and large amounts of coarse fragments. Thus, water holding capacity is a key property to build into anthroposols as all aspects of revegetation are strongly influenced by soil water content. …”
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Modification of Superabsorbent Hydrogels for Industrial Wastewater Treatment by Md. Owaleur Rahman, Md. Abdul Halim, Anjan Deb, Shafi Ahmed, Md. Wasikur Rahman, N. C. Dafader, S. M. Nur Alam, Shahjalal Khandaker, Md. Jahangir Alam

“…The as-prepared hydrogel treated with KOH (THG) showed excellent absorption capacity but less mechanical stability compared to untreated hydrogel (UHG). …”
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Physicochemical Characteristics of Edible Film Sodium Caseinate with Sappan Wood Extract Addition by Govinda Anggita Fortin, Yohana Sutiknyawati Kusuma Dewi, Lucky Hartanti

“…Casein has flexibility, transparency, and tasteless film properties also it has a carrier antioxidant capacity. The addition of sappan wood extracts to the edible film that is interesting to observed as a carrier of antioxidant compounds. …”
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Mitigating the Bridge End Bump Problem: A Case Study of a New Slab System with a Lower Partition Slab-Pile Foundation by Yu Yang, Chuang Yu, Ze-xiang Wu, Dong-mei Tu

“…The mechanical bearing capacity of the deep-seated concrete slab is insufficient and prone to structural damage. …”
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Study on the Adsorption Performance and Adsorption Mechanism of Graphene Oxide by Red Sandstone in Aqueous Solution by Na Li, WenHao Dai, HaiBo Kang, Beifeng Lv, Ping Jiang, Wei Wang

“…In this paper, the use of red sandstone to treat GO-contaminated aqueous solution is proposed for the first time, and the adsorption capacity and adsorption mechanism of red sandstone to GO are discussed. …”
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Arithmetic-Like Reasoning in Wild Vervet Monkeys: A Demonstration of Cost-Benefit Calculation in Foraging by Sayaka Tsutsumi, Tomokazu Ushitani, Kazuo Fujita

“…This suggests that vervet monkeys are capable of spontaneously deploying mental manipulations of numerosity for cost-benefit calculation of foraging but that the extent of such capacity varies among individuals. Different foraging strategies might be deployed according to different levels of mental manipulation capacity in each individual in a given population. …”
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BRICS as a Catalyst for Global Governance Transformation: Beyond Western Perceptions by Dylan Yanano Mangani

“…These depictions underscore their contested regional leadership and ambiguous institutional, political, ideological, and socio-economic capacities to influence and reshape the global governance system. …”
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Epithelial cells detect functional type III secretion system of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli through a novel NF-κB signaling pathway. by Yael Litvak, Shir Sharon, Meirav Hyams, Li Zhang, Simi Kobi, Naama Katsowich, Shira Dishon, Gabriel Nussbaum, Na Dong, Feng Shao, Ilan Rosenshine

“…Notably, EPEC antagonizes this capacity by delivering anti-NF-κB effectors into the infected cells.…”
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Fruit Waste Substrates to Produce Single-Cell Proteins as Alternative Human Food Supplements and Animal Feeds Using Baker’s Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) by Asiri Nisansala Dunuweera, Dinusha Nayomi Nikagolla, Kapilan Ranganathan

“…The values for water absorption capacity and oil absorption capacity (mL/g) were high in all substrates, and they were comparable to each of them.…”
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Effect of Freeze–Thaw Action on Mesostructure of Ecological Fiber Reinforced Loess by Zhongnan Gao, Xiaofeng Liu, Chao Cheng, Chen Li, Haifeng Zhang, Qian Wang

“…Through its control of water, fiber bears the influence of some loess particles and pores, thus improving the freeze–thaw resistant capacity of loess.…”
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Kinetic, Equilibrium and thermodynamic studies on the biosorption of Cd(II) from aqueous solutions by the leaf biomass of <i>Calotropis procera</i> – ‘Sodom apple’ by Babalola J Oyebamiji, LC Overah, Adesola Babarinde, Vincent O Oninla, A Olatunde

“…The kinetics, equilibrium and thermodynamics of the biosorption of Cd (II) from aqueous solution by the leaf biomass of Calotropis procera popularly known in western Nigeria as ‘bom bom’and genrally known as Sodom apple were investigated at different experimental conditions. …”
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Comprehensive analysis and optimization of an efficient combined power and refrigeration cycle suitable for recovering low/mid-grade waste flue gas by Shaobo Zhang, Shixuan Wang, Jiafeng Wu

“…To effectively recover low/mid-grade waste flue gas and provide larger refrigeration capacity, an efficient combined power and refrigeration cycle only using ammonia water as the working fluid is proposed and studied in this paper. …”
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Digital Lovers and Jealousy: Anticipated Emotional Responses to Emotionally and Physically Sophisticated Sexual Technologies by Ashton Prochazka, Robert C. Brooks

“…Here, we report on two experiments designed to test participant responses to (1) “virtual friend” chatbots that vary in capacity to engage users socially and emotionally (i.e., emotional sophistication) and (2) “digital lover” technologies—in the form of sex toys, sex robots, or virtual reality entities—that vary in capacity to physically stimulate users (i.e., physical sophistication). …”
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Determination of antioxidant and immune responses with bile acids supplementation in geese by Jianwen CAO, Lei YANG, Guangpei XU

“…Although higher levels of BAs might influence the immune status, the supplementation significantly enhanced the antioxidant capacity in serum and liver, with an optimal addition level of 150 mg/kg.…”
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Simulation and analysis of software defined cognitive frequency hopping multi beam satellite system by Heng-zhi LI, Chun-feng WANG

“…Traditional multi-beam satellites cannot adapt to the changing traffic because of the fixed bandwidth and cannot adjust dynamically for the traffic load.In the future,the multi-beam broadband satellite system must have great flexibility and can be dynamically adjusted according to the change of the traffic flow.Beam hopping for multi-beam broadband satellite network system has been proposed to improve the traditional multi-beam broadband satellite network system performance,whose principle is to assign different beams to different time slots,rather than the allocation of bandwidth,so that in each time slot,the entire available bandwidth is allocated to each beam,and the time window is periodically applied to the beam selection system ,in the full band hopping mode,the band can be selected optimally in the duration of each beam to meet user transmission bandwidth and delay requirements.With the development of cognitive radio technology,cognitive beam hopping for multi-beam satellite system can further improve the efficiency of spectrum utilization,to meet the growing shortage of spectrum resources,to achieve large-capacity high-bandwidth broadband satellite network system,and to support the rising user service capacity and the transmission efficiency of user services under different load conditions.In addition,software definition technology is also used in satellite networks,which could achieve effective management of satellite resources to improve the utilization of satellite resources.In this paper,the principle of software-defined cognitive hopping multi-beam broadband satellite network system is discussed.The spectrum utilization efficiency and throughput are analyzed,which can be used as a reference for broadband satellite network system design.…”
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Capacitive Deionization for the Removal of Paraquat Herbicide from Aqueous Solution by Tusekile Alfredy, Joyce Elisadiki, Yusufu Abeid Chande Jande

“…However, the electrosorption capacity gradually increased with the increase of initial feed solutions’ concentration. …”
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Tunes that move us: the impact of music-induced emotions on prosocial decision-making by Hongwei Wu, Danni Wang, Linshu Zhou

“…Experiments 2 and 3 further explore mood and arousal effects by manipulating the mode (major vs. minor) and tempo (fast vs. slow) of the music.ResultsExperiment 1’s results indicated that sad music increases willingness to help more than happy music or white noise, suggesting that music-induced emotions influence prosocial behavior through immediate prosocial emotions like empathy. …”
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Vocal Emotion Perception in Children Using Cochlear Implant by Puttaraju Sahana, Puttabasappa Manjula

“…Vocal emotion perception was assessed for semantically neutral sentences in “happy,” “sad,” and “angry” emotions using a 3 alternate forced choice test. …”
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