Advanced Air Quality Forecasting Using an Enhanced Temporal Attention-Driven Graph Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory Model With Seasonal-Trend Decomposition by Yuvaraja Boddu, A. Manimaran, B. Arunkumar, M. Sucharitha, J. Suresh Babu

“…Specifically, the IRSA-TCN model excels in predicting key pollutants, including nitrogen dioxide (NO2), carbon monoxide (CO), benzene, and nitrogen oxides (NOx), showcasing its capability to account for seasonal variations and complex interdependencies among pollutants. …”
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Design and implementation of a solar powered kit for measurement and logging of environmental parameters using the SEN55 sensor by J. Nchi Muhvu, M.D. Fendji, C.M. Ekengoue

“…The device measures particulate matter (PM1, PM2.5, PM4, PM10), humidity, temperature, volatile organic compounds (VOC), and nitrogen oxides (NOx), with data logged via an ATmega2560 microcontroller and displayed for real-time visualization. …”
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Assessment of High-resolution Local Emissions and Land-use in Air Quality Forecasting at an Urban, Coastal, Desert Environment by Christos Fountoukis, Yasir Mohieldeen, Luis Pomares, Ivan Gladich, Azhar Siddique, Adam Skillern, Mohammed A. Ayoub

“…Abstract Fine particulate matter, ozone and nitrogen oxides are forecasted using a three-dimensional atmospheric meteorology-chemistry model (WRF-Chem) and a triple-nesting configuration over the Middle East and the Arabian Peninsula focusing on the hot desert climate of Qatar. …”
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Synthesis and Characterization of Metal Particles Using Malic Acid-Derived Polyamides, Polyhydrazides, and Hydrazides by Muhammad Farhan Qadir, Somavia Ameen, Rida Fatima, Nadim Ullah, Gamal A. Shazly, Abu Summama Sadavi Bilal, Mehwish Nazar, Anoosha Sajjad, Tawaf Ali Shah, Yukun Yang

“…The synthesized particles included both zero-valent metals and oxides exhibiting mixed-phase compositions that may influence their functional properties. …”
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FERROMAGNETIC NANOTUBES IN PORES OF TRACK MEMBRANES FOR THE FLEXIBLE ELECTRONIC ELEMENTS by E. Yu. Kaniukov, E. E. Shumskaya, M. D. Kutuzau, D. B. Borgekov, I. E. Kenzhina, A. L. Kozlovskiy, M. V. Zdorovets

“…The produced nanotubes consisted of iron, cobalt and nickel, respectively without oxides impurities. Nanotubes had a polycrystalline structure of walls with a body-centered cubic (iron), face-centered cubic (cobalt and nickel) crystal lattice. …”
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Concentrations, Deposition, and Effects of Nitrogenous Pollutants in Selected California Ecosystems by Andrzej Bytnerowicz, Pamela E. Padgett, Sally D. Parry, Mark E. Fenn, Michael J. Arbaugh

“…In southern California, most of the N air pollution is in oxidized forms as nitrogen oxides (NOx), nitric acid (HNO3), and particulate nitrate (NO3–) resulting from fossil fuel combustion and subsequent complex photochemical reactions. …”
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Potential use of the Maroua (Far North, Cameroon) river sand as construction materials and degreasing agent for earthenware ceramics by Mahamad Nafissatou, Bertin Pagna Kagonbé, Arnaud Ghislain Anombogo Mouthe, Bouba Nafissa, Viviane Djaoyang Bakaïné, Etienne Yanné, Likiby Boubakar, Armand Kagou Dongmo

“…The coefficient of uniformity and coefficient of curvature varies from 2.39 to 3.37 and 0.40 to 0.99, respectively, so it can be classified as a tightly-grained material. The most abundant oxides in the five samples are SiO2, Al2O3, and K2O, while Fe2O3, MgO, TiO2, and P2O5 are in small amounts except for CaO and Na2O which are present in high amounts in NS1, and NS2 samples. …”
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Experimental assessment of the gray cast iron production by inoculant injection by Reyes-Castellanos G., Cruz-Ramírez A., Gutiérrez-Pérez Hugo V., Rivera-Salinas J.E., Sánchez-Alvarado R.G., Colin-García E.

“…After the injection, the FeSi of the inoculant melted quickly, releasing the elements of the inoculant which interacted with the molten iron and formed oxides and sulfides creating nucleating sites during solidification. …”
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A Review of Ammonia Combustion and Emissions Characteristics in Spark-Ignition Engines and Future Road Map by Vikas Sharma, Angad Panesar, Guillaume de Sercey, Steven Begg

“…The formation of nitrogen oxides (NO_x) and slip-NH₃ is explored to understand emissions species such as NO and N₂O. …”
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Characterization of Colombian Clay and Its Potential Use as Adsorbent by Iván Fernando Macías-Quiroga, Gloria Inés Giraldo-Gómez, Nancy Rocío Sanabria-González

“…The chemical analysis of bulk clay showed that the predominant oxides are SiO2 (55.81 wt%), Al2O3 (16.25 wt%), and Fe2O3 (7.51 wt%), and the nitrogen adsorption indicated that the bulk clay has a specific surface area of 45.1 m2/g. …”
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Causal Effects of PM2.5, NOx, and NO2 on Cognitive Function: A Two-sample Mendelian Randomization Study by Yilin Tang, Zhenyu Li, Yicheng Fu, Mingyi Zhao

“…The exposure factors in our analysis were air pollutants, including “particulate matter air pollution (PM2.5); 2010”, “nitrogen oxides air pollution; 2010” and “nitrogen dioxide air pollution; 2010”, while our outcome variables focused on cognitive function, including the “fluid intelligence score”, “mean time to correctly identify matches”, and “number of incorrect matches in the round”. …”
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Nitrogen Management in a Maize-Groundnut Crop Rotation of Humid Tropics: Effect on N2O Emission by M.I. Khalil, A.B. Rosenani, O. Van Cleemput, C.I. Fauziah, J. Shamshuddin

“…Development of appropriate land management techniques to attain sustainability and increase the N use efficiency of crops in the tropics has been gaining momentum. The nitrous oxides (N2Os) affect global climate change and its contribution from N and C management systems is of great significance. …”
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The real driving emissions characteristics of light-duty diesel vehicle in four typical cities with varying altitudes in China by Haojie Gao, Rui Wang, Zhisong Wen, Xin Xiong, Zhuan Zheng, Shengqiang Lin, Hongchun Ding, Wenbin Tan

“…The emission factors of particle number (PN), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and carbon monoxide (CO) were calculated using the carbon dioxide (CO2) moving average window (MAW) method and compared across different altitudes and driving stages. …”
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Study of the physico-chemical properties of composites obtained by mechanochemical synthesis of nanoscale hydroxyapatite and synthetic zeolites by A.G. Shirokova, S.A. Bibanaeva, E.A. Bogdanova, V.M. Skachkov, O.V. Koryakova

“…X-ray phase analysis of the initial synthetic zeolites indicates the loss of adsorbed and crystallization water and decomposition to complex aluminosilicate oxides of calcium and sodium during heat treatment at 1000 °C. …”
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Molecular Design of Novel Chemicals for Iron Sulfide Scale Removal by Abdulmujeeb T. Onawole, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Hassan I. Nimir, Musa E. M. Ahmed, Mohammed A. Saad

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Synthesis and Growth Stimulant Properties of 2-Acetyl-3,7-dimethyl-5H-thiazolo[3,2-a]pyrimidin-5-one Derivatives by Vergush A. Pivazyan, Emma A. Ghazaryan, Roza S. Shainova, Rafael A. Tamazyan, Armen G. Ayvazyan, Aleksandr P. Yengoyan

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L’espace domestique des migrants marocains : les extensions transnationales de l’intimité familiale by Jordan Pinel, Thomas Lacroix

“…Studying the interior design of their home, this paper questions the idea that migrants overinvest in their homeland housing in order to appear as a member of the local elite and hide the stigma of their working-class condition. …”
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Major trends in a future South Africa and some implications for intercultural communication in marketing by Clive Corder

“…In many respects South Africa is moving in the opposite direction to other developed countries, but it can not hide from certain global influ ences, in particular the gathering world-wide concern about Environmental Conservation. …”
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Colonialism and Historical Imagination by Tlhabane Mokhine ‘Dan’ Motaung

“…Fluid pre-colonial social ‘identities’ were recast and calcified into hide-bound, immutable and toxic ethnicity that was invested with a separatist consciousness underwritten by corresponding differential economic livelihoods. …”
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Anonymous survey system based on NIZK by Lu LIU, Yu-xi LI, Fu-cai ZHOU

“…Aiming at the security problem that the existing in electronic surveys,such as information fraud,privacy security etc.An anonymous electronic survey scheme based on non-interactive zero knowledge proofs (NIZK) was constructed,which had the characteristics of self-organization,non-interactive,anti-replay,and high efficiency.The system uses the NIZK protocol and the Boneh-Boyen signature scheme to verify the user's identity in non-interactive manner,which guarantees the authenticity of the scheme.The system also uses the Pedersen commitment scheme and the pseudo random function to hide the user's identity and the related information,which guarantees the ano-nymity.Security analysis show that the system has security features such as malicious users attack resistance and anonymity.Finally,the function of the system was also verified and the result show that the system can accomplish all the functions correctly and guarantee the anonymity and authenticity of the system effectively.…”
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