Microstructural and Optical Characterization of Heterostructures of ZnS/CdS and CdS/ZnS Synthesized by Chemical Bath Deposition Method by Temesgen Geremew, Tizazu Abza

“…ZnS/glass and CdS/glass single layers and ZnS/CdS and CdS/ZnS heterojunction thin films were deposited by the chemical bath deposition method using zinc acetate and cadmium acetate as the metal ion sources and thioacetamide as a nonmetallic ion source in acidic medium. …”
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Predicting patient engagement in IAPT services: a statistical analysis of electronic health records by David Betts, Alice Davis, Theresa Smith, Jenny Talbot, Chris Eldridge

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Effects of Reheating Methods on the Quality of Prepared Pork Rib Soup with Carrot and Corn by LU Jiaxin, REN Weizhao, REN Jingnan, DONG Huilong, FAN Gang, WEI Jianying, WANG Zhuo, HUANG Shengwei, WU Qufang, ZHANG Benpeng, QIU Xiaoxiao

“…In order to investigate the effects of different reheating methods (microwave, steam, water bath, and open flame) on the quality of quick-frozen prepared pork rib soup with carrot and corn, heating characteristics, texture, soup color, taste substances, volatile components, and sensory quality were determined. …”
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Effects of pH Value of the Electrolyte and Glycine Additive on Formation and Properties of Electrodeposited Zn-Fe Coatings by İsmail Hakki Karahan

“…The presence of glycine in the plating bath decreases the corrosion resistance of Zn-Fe coatings.…”
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Folded pseudochiral Fermi surface in 4Hb-TaSe2 from band hybridization with a charge density wave by Matthew D. Watson, Andrea Tonelli, Mugerabe Zerabza, Sam Hayward, Rebecca Wilkinson, Ettore Carpene, Cephise Cacho, Valentina De Renzi, Simon Crampin, Enrico Da Como

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Assessment Of Service Quality And Consumer Satisfaction In A Hungarian Spa by Zsuzsanna Löke, Ernö Kovács, Zsuzsanna Bacsi

“…The present research carried out a single cross-sectional survey of the service quality and consumer satisfaction both in the lake and in the pool bath. Altogether 300 consumers were surveyed between 27 February and 31 March 2017. …”
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Mass Transfer during Osmotic Dehydration of Tunisian Pomegranate Seeds and Effect of Blanching Pretreatment by Basma Khoualdia, Samia Ben-Ali, Ahmed Hannachi

“…By applying blanching pretreatments, the water and solute effective diffusivities passed from the order of 10−9 to the order of 10−8, and the OD equilibrium time was significantly reduced.…”
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Thermodynamic and kinetic simulation of Y2O3 and Y2S3 nonmetallic phase formation in liquid steel by Gerasin S., Kalisz D., Iwanciw J.

“…The low oxygen content in the metal bath promotes the formation of yttrium sulphide. …”
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Interval Shannon Wavelet Collocation Method for Fractional Fokker-Planck Equation by Shu-Li Mei, De-Hai Zhu

“…Metzler et al. introduced a fractional Fokker-Planck equation (FFPE) describing a subdiffusive behavior of a particle under the combined influence of external nonlinear force field and a Boltzmann thermal heat bath. In this paper, we present an interval Shannon wavelet numerical method for the FFPE. …”
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Models for information propagation on graphs by Oliver R. A. Dunbar, Charles M. Elliott, Lisa Maria Kreusser

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Rapid Preparation of Biosorbents with High Ion Exchange Capacity from Rice Straw and Bagasse for Removal of Heavy Metals by Supitcha Rungrodnimitchai

“…The kinetics of adsorption agreed with the pseudo-second-order model. It was shown that the modified rice straw and the modified bagasse could adsorb heavy metal ions faster than the commercial ion exchange resin (Dowax). …”
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Water Absorption Behaviour and Its Effect on the Mechanical Properties of Flax Fibre Reinforced Bioepoxy Composites by E. Muñoz, J. A. García-Manrique

“…Flax fibre reinforced bioepoxy composites at different weight fractions (40 and 55 wt%) were prepared in order to study the effect of water absorption on their mechanical properties. …”
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Z′-mediated dark matter freeze-in at stronger coupling by Giorgio Arcadi, David Cabo-Almeida, Oleg Lebedev

“…In particular, we explore the regime of Boltzmann-suppressed production, when the Standard Model (SM) thermal bath temperature never exceeds the dark matter mass. …”
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C-V Calculations in CdS/CdTe Thin Films Solar Cells with a CdSxTe1-x Interlayer by A. Gonzalez-Cisneros, F. L. Castillo-Alvarado, J. Ortiz-Lopez, G. Contreras-Puente

“…In this work, we evaluate the effects of this interlayer in CdS/CdTe photovoltaic cells in order to improve theoretical results describing experimental C-V (capacitance versus voltage) characteristics. …”
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Tuning the nucleation kinetics of phosphate chemical conversion coating on Mg-Gd-Y-Zr magnesium alloy: The effect of pretreatment and organic additive by Siyu Sun, Peng Zhou, Yan Chen, JinTao Xiao, Jingli Sun, Yong Yuan, Tao Zhang, Fuhui Wang

“…In order to obtain a more protective phosphate conversion coating with a denser architecture, the nucleation kinetics of phosphate chemical conversion coating on Mg-Gd-Y-Zr magnesium alloy was tuned in this work. …”
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Surface quality of the Ni-TiO2 composite coatings produced by electroplating by Stanković V., Gojo M., Grekulovic V., Pajkić N., Cigula T.

“…Metallographic analysis has also been done in order to get an insight about particles distribution throughout the thickness of the coating layer. …”
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Indium-Free PTB7/PC71BM Polymer Solar Cells with Solution-Processed Al:ZnO Electrodes on PET Substrates by P. Fuchs, A. Paracchino, H. Hagendorfer, L. Kranz, T. Geiger, Y. E. Romanyuk, A. N. Tiwari, F. Nüesch

“…Al:ZnO is deposited by a low temperature chemical bath deposition route (T < 100°C at any step) to comply with the temperature sensitive substrate. …”
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Mechanical Behavior of Ion-Exchanged Alkali Aluminosilicate Glass Ceramics by Bruno M. F. Nunes, André Dinis, Jorge C. Fernandes, Rui M. Almeida, Luís F. Santos

“…The glass ceramics were then subjected to an ion exchange treatment in a KNO₃ bath, in order to further enhance the mechanical properties, without hindering the optical transmittance. …”
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Effects of CdS Buffer Layers on Photoluminescence Properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 Solar Cells by A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, R. A. Mereu, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti

“…Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) absorber layers grown by sputtering were investigated by photoluminescence before and after the chemical bath deposition of CdS in order to evaluate the possible passivation of point defects by Cd atoms at the absorber/buffer layer interface. …”
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Effect of Temperature on The Concentration of Ascorbic Acid in Three Selected Varieties of Cabbage Sold in Kabale Municipality Kabale District. by Bagambaki, Paul

“…The sample solutions were extracted from the cabbage varieties and the ascorbic acid concentration was analyzed in the raw cabbage samples and samples incubated for fifteen minutes at temperatures of 50 °C, 70 °C, and 100 °C using a water bath. The results obtained from the raw samples of cabbage varieties indicated that the concentration of ascorbic acid was in the order of red > green > white (94.62±0.42, 73.37±0.63, 58.71±1.10 mg/100 ml respectively). …”
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