Performance Evaluation and Site Application of a Hydrophobic Long-Chain Ester-Based CO2 Fracturing Fluid Thickener by Jianqiang Lu, Meilong Fu, Liu Xu, Qian Huang, Yan Zheng

“…To address problems in CO2 fracturing fluid operation (high frictional drag, low viscosity, low proppant-carrying capacity, narrow reservoir fractures, etc.), the authors have synthesized the novel hydrophobic long-chain ester thickener, studied viscosity, frictional drag, and proppant-carrying capacity of CO2 fracturing fluid and core damage by CO2 fracturing fluid by varying the temperature, pressure, and level of injection of the novel thickener and explored the thickening mechanism for this thickener in CO2. …”
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Effect of Vitamins C and E on Endothelial Function in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus by Rachel-Marie Cazeau, Hong Huang, John A. Bauer, Robert P. Hoffman

“…No differences were found for EF, high sensitivity CRP, total antioxidant capacity, adiponectin, or endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) between before and after combined vitamin C and E therapy. …”
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Effect of The Rs-10 Radioprotector on Protein-Steroid Interaction in Irradiated Animals with Biphasic Adrenocortical Response to Irradiation by Nadezhda Omelchuk

“…A leading role in the mechanism of reducing affected hypercorticism under protective conditions has a lesser degree of impairment of the binding capacity of the CSG, rather than a change in the total level of 11-OKS in the blood. …”
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Lithium Battery Life Prediction for Electric Vehicles Using Enhanced TCN and SVN Quantile Regression by Xinyue Li, Jiangwei Chu

“…In addition, the minimum difference in temperature prediction of battery charging under this model is close to 0.2°C, the minimum difference in temperature prediction during discharge is 0.3°C, and the battery capacity fidelity test findings’ average value is 91.08%. …”
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Impacts of pragmatic implementation science in a primary care laboratory by Nathalie Huguet, Sonja Likumahuwa-Ackman, Heather Holderness, April Lee, Jennifer E. DeVoe

“…In this paper, we describe examples of BRIDGE-C2 activities and the specific impact indicators within each relevant domain/subdomain of the TSBM, demonstrating that a single activity or project has multiple impacts on methods and capacity building, clinical domains, and community health.…”
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Potential of International Project Activity for University Development by E. V. Kudryashova, L. A. Zarubina, S. V. Popkova, N. V. Baykina

“…Fundraising and international projects provide substantial support for achieving the set objectives in terms of both allocating additional financial resources and attracting intellectual capacity of international partners. Due to such features as practice orientation, time limits, and the ability to integrate different types and forms of international cooperation, the projects help university to address the challenges in a complex way and achieve multiple effects and, therefore, contribute significantly to developing world-demanded research, creating scholars networks and publishing, strengthening international partnerships, capacity building, enhancing academic mobility, developing the university campus and its infrastructure. …”
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Effect of Camel Milk on the Physicochemical, Rheological, and Sensory Qualities of Bread by Noha M. Almoraie, Israa M. Shatwan

“…The increase in the water absorption capacity from 61% to 67% indicated that the supplemented dough was more suitable than the original dough for preparing bread. …”
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Binary Equilibrium Adsorption Data and Comparison of Zeolites with Activated Carbon for Selective Adsorption of CO from CH by Javad Tamnanloo, Shohreh Fatemi, Ayub Golmakani

“…The single isotherm data showed AC had the highest adsorption capacity for both CO 2 and CH 4 ; however, the CO 2 /CH 4 ideal selectivity of AC was less than that of the zeolitic materials. …”
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Equilibrium Studies of Fluoride Adsorption onto a Ferric Poly−mineral from Kenya by EW Wambu, CO Onindo, W Ambusso, GK Muthakia

“…High mean Langmuir adsorption capacity of 10.8 mg/g, indicate that the mineral could be of use as an inexpensive substrate for the removal of F from aqueous streams. …”
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User Needs of Online Tutoring Applications Using House of Quality by Qurrata Aini, Eko Ruddy Cahyadi, Faqih Udin

“…The technical requirements identified to address these needs include network coverage, storage capacity, data transmission speed, application size, power consumption, network accessibility, and display resolution. …”
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Adsorption of Heavy Metals on Bentonitic Soil for Use in Landfill Liners by Daniela Lima Machado da Silva, Maria Eugenia Gimenez Boscov, Marcela de Almeida Costa, Laércio Leal dos Santos, Márcio Camargo de Melo, Veruschka Escarião Dessoles Monteiro

“…The maximum adsorbent capacities obtained were similar to those of other Brazilian soils and other adsorbents. …”
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Heat Analysis of a Vacuum Flask by Chidebe Stanley Anyanwu, Abdelrahman Gad, Hussein Bilal, Daniel Raphael Ejike Ewim

“…In other words, change the parameters (without changing the fluid capacity) to minimize the heat loss over time. The range of the bottleneck radius used is from 40 mm to 60 mm, with a step size (increment) of 5 mm. …”
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Effect of Defatting Method on Japanese Quince (<i>Chaenomeles japonica</i>) Fruit Seed Protein Isolate Technological Properties by Danija Lazdiņa, Dalija Segliņa, Zaiga Anna Zvaigzne, Aldis Butlers, Inga Ciproviča

“…Defatting did not significantly affect amino acid composition but had a significant effect on every tested functional property (solubility, water, and oil binding capacity, apparent viscosity, foaming capacity, and emulsifying activity index). …”
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Reversible data hiding scheme based on enhanced image smoothness by Jinghan WANG, Hui ZHU, Helin LI, Hui LI, Xiaopeng YANG

“…With the prosperity of Internet technology and the popularity of social networks, reversible data hiding technology has been widely adopted in concealed information transmission of medical and military fields with its advantages on secret information recovery.Traditional reversible data hiding schemes mainly focus on the enhancement of embedding capacity and the reduction of the distortion rate of stego image, but pay less attention to the understanding of image details with the human eyes.Thus, it is difficult to resist hidden information detection methods.To solve the above challenge, a reversible data hiding algorithm was proposed, which ensured the visual quality of the stego image in the process of data hiding through the image visual smoothness enhancement.Specifically, the original image was divided into reference area and non-reference area.The secret data was embedded through the translation of the difference, which was calculated according to the predicted pixel value and the original pixel value of the non-reference area.To guarantee the visual quality of the image, smoothing mechanism was constructed, in which a Gaussian filter was utilized as a template to filter the predicted value and to add the filter difference into the cover image without loss.The pixel value of the reference region was used as edge information for lossless restoration of the original image.The filtering coefficient in Gaussian function was exploited as the embedded key to ensure the security of secret information.Simulation results regarding a large number of classical image data sets illustrated that the visual smoothness of stego image processed by this scheme was effectively enhanced with lower distortion rate, higher embedding rate, and higher embedding and extraction efficiency.In a typical circumstance, the similarity between the generated stego image and the Gaussian filter image can reach 0.9963.The PSNR and the embedded capacity can be up to 37.346 and 0.3289 BPP, respectively.…”
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Current Aspects of Legal Regulation for Monitoring Electronic Communications and Removal of Information from Electronic Communication Networks in Ukraine by V. M. Lazebnyi

“…The author has suggested measures, the realization of which should improve the capacity of authorized law enforcement agencies to combat crime in the field of information and communication technologies: adoption of the Law of Ukraine “On Interception of Electronic Communications”, amendments to the Laws of Ukraine “On Electronic Communications”, “On Operative and Search Activities”, “On Counterintelligence Activities”, “On Combating Terrorism”; bringing the norms of domestic legislation in line with the provisions of the Convention on Cybercrime; creation of conditions necessary to improve the capacity of authorized state agencies to remove information from electronic communication networks; establishing proper cooperation with foreign law enforcement agencies.…”
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Proximate Composition, Physicochemical, Functional, and Antioxidant Properties of Flours from Selected Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) Varieties by R. A. T. Nilusha, J. M. J. K. Jayasinghe, O. D. A. N. Perera, P. I. P. Perera, C. V. L. Jayasinghe

“…Flour from Suranimala contained approximately similar amylopectin content as commercial wheat flour. Water absorption capacity, oil absorption capacity, water solubility index, swelling power, emulsion activity, and emulsion stability of flours from five cassava varieties were significantly higher (p<0.05) than those of commercial wheat flour. …”
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Characterisation of Luffa cylindrica Fibre from Cameroon for Use in Composites: Effect of Alkaline Treatment by Jean Aimé Mono, Assona Appolince Rachelle, Claude Takoumbe, Odette Thérèse Adegono Assiene, Prince Hermann Pokem Nguimjeu, Fabrice Ella Belinga

“…The results obtained show the lightness of the fibre through its low density (0.233-0.419 g·cm-3), and a hydrophilic nature of the fibre is observed through its water absorption capacity (106.86-180.53%), its relative humidity (9.86-15.33%), and its capacity to diffuse water (2.03×10−14 m2·s-1 to 4.61×10−14 m2·s-1), which is close to that of other plant fibres, which means that it can be classified as porous, with possible applications in insulating and lightweight materials. …”
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Study on the Behaviors and Mechanism of Ni(II) Adsorption at the Hydroxyapatite-Water Interface: Effect of Particle Size by Xiaolan Zhao, Wangsuo Wu, Duoqiang Pan, Hanyu Wu

“…Hydroxyapatite (HAP) was a highly efficient decontamination material for its strong adsorption capacity used in the immobilization of heavy metals, while the particle-size effect was insufficiently investigated during the sorption process. …”
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Comparative Study of Nonlinear Static and Time-History Analyses of Typical Korean STS Container Cranes by Quang Huy Tran, Jungwon Huh, Van Bac Nguyen, Achintya Haldar, Choonghyun Kang, Kyeong Min Hwang

“…Typical Korean STS container cranes must be checked for the earthquake-resistant capacity. In this research, two nonlinear static analyses procedures, also known as pushover analyses, commonly used for seismic design of buildings, namely, capacity spectrum method and equivalent linearization method, are comprehensively studied to check their suitability for studying seismic behavior of STS cranes. …”
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The relationship between mitochondrial health, telomerase activity and longitudinal telomere attrition, considering the role of chronic stress by Mauricio Guillen-Parra, Jue Lin, Aric A. Prather, Owen M. Wolkowitz, Martin Picard, Elissa S. Epel

“…Mitochondrial Health Index (MHI), a composite marker integrating mitochondrial energy-transformation capacity and content, may be one important mediator of telomere attrition, as it could impact telomerase activity, a direct regulator of telomere maintenance. …”
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