Exploration of the intermolecular interactions in polyethylene glycol 400 + alkyl methacrylate mixtures at ambient temperatures by means of thermophysical and spectroscopic methods by Anil Kumar Nain, Nidhi, Neha Chaudhary

“…The u values have been estimated theoretically by means of scaled particle theory and compared with the experimental findings. …”
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From boundary data to bound states by Gregor Kälin, Rafael A. Porto

“…This limit is behind the map between the scattering angle for a test-particle and the two-body dynamics to 2PM. We show that it also captures a subset of higher order terms beyond the test-particle limit. …”
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Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Ground Shock Coupling Factor for Near-Surface Detonations by Timothy W. Shelton, John Q. Ehrgott, Ramon J. Moral, Michele Barbato

“…The results presented in this paper also suggest that the coupling factor curves are functions of several parameters in addition to the depth of burial and that numerical simulations can capture reasonably well the ground shock propagation of soil stresses and particle velocities.…”
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Properties of Raphia Palm Interspersed Fibre Filled High Density Polyethylene by Henry C. Obasi

“…Raphia palm interspersed fibre was prepared by grinding and sieved to a particle size of 150 µm. HDPE blends were prepared in a corotating twin screw extruder. …”
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Influence of Process Parameters on Content Uniformity of a Low Dose Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient in a Tablet Formulation According to GMP by Muselík Jan, Franc Aleš, Doležel Petr, Goněc Roman, Krondlová Anna, Lukášová Ivana

“…The article describes the development and production of tablets using direct compression of powder mixtures. …”
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Utilization of bauxite residue as fine aggregate for the development of structural concrete: An approach towards sustainable construction materials by Gali Kusumanjali, S. Tejas, Amit Chatterjee, Dinakar Pasla

“…The first phase of the present study aims to find the optimum replacement content of BR as a partial replacement for natural sand as fine aggregates. …”
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Soil organic carbon contents and their major influencing factors in mangrove tidal flats: a comparison between estuarine and non-estuarine areas by Ting Wu, Jia Guo, Gang Li, Yu Jin, Wei Zhao, Guangxuan Lin, Fang-Li Luo, Yaojun Zhu, Yifei Jia, Li Wen

“…The direct and indirect effects of the main influencing factors on SOC were studied using partial least squares structural equation modeling. …”
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Effects of Prepolymerization, Temperature, and Hydrogen Concentration on Kinetics of Propylene Bulk Polymerization Using a Commercial Ziegler-Natta Catalyst by Huiyue Liu, Gaiping Du, Yafeng Du, Dezhan Li, Jiangbo Chen

“…Otherwise, insufficient prepolymerization or excessive prepolymerization causes prepolymer particle fragmentation.…”
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Multiple PAHs’ Detection under CDOM Interference Based on Excitation-Emission Matrix and Interval Selection by Ruizhuo Li, Limin Gao, Guojun Wu, Jing Dong

“…The optimal excitation wavelength for each PAH was obtained by stability analysis, based on which the optimal emission interval was obtained by chaotic particle swarm optimization. The partial least squares (PLS) prediction models of four PAHs under interference were established. …”
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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. …”
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Mechanical Characteristics of Hardened Concrete with Different Mineral Admixtures: A Review by Tehmina Ayub, Sadaqat Ullah Khan, Fareed Ahmed Memon

“…In this paper, based on the reported results in the literature, mechanical characteristics of hardened concrete partially containing mineral admixtures including fly ash (FA), silica fume (SF), ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS), metakaolin (MK), and rice husk ash (RHA) are discussed and it is concluded that the content and particle size of mineral admixture are the parameters which significantly influence the mechanical properties of concrete. …”
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Centrality Dependence of Chemical Freeze-Out Parameters and Strangeness Equilibration in RHIC and LHC Energies by Deeptak Biswas

“…We have also shown that this departure from equilibrium reduces towards central collisions, and strange particle equilibration may happen after a threshold number of participants in A-A collision.…”
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Productive Entry Pathways of Human Rhinoviruses by Renate Fuchs, Dieter Blaas

“…Currently, complete or partial genome sequences of more than 150 human rhinovirus (HRV) isolates are known. …”
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Sonochemical Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles Using Starch: A Comparison by Brajesh Kumar, Kumari Smita, Luis Cumbal, Alexis Debut, Ravinandan Nath Pathak

“…Transmission electron microscopy followed by selected area electron diffraction pattern analysis indicated the formation of spherical, polydispersed, amorphous, silver nanoparticles of diameter ranging from 23 to 97 nm with mean particle size of 45.6 nm. Selected area electron diffraction (SAED) confirmed partial crystalline and amorphous nature of silver nanoparticles. …”
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The Effects of Activation Energy and Thermophoretic Diffusion of Nanoparticles on Steady Micropolar Fluid along with Brownian Motion by Zulqurnain Sabir, Assad Ayub, Juan L. G. Guirao, Saira Bhatti, Syed Zahir Hussain Shah

“…The increasing values of the parameter of rotation G show the decrement in velocity because of the rotation of the particle of the fluid, so the linear motion decreases. …”
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Rapid Characterization of Tanshinone Extract Powder by Near Infrared Spectroscopy by Gan Luo, Bing Xu, Xinyuan Shi, Jianyu Li, Shengyun Dai, Yanjiang Qiao

“…PLS models performed well for the content of crytotanshinone, tanshinone IIA, the moisture, and average median particle size, while, for specific surface area and tapped density, the LS-SVM models performed better than the PLS models. …”
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Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset by Niels G. Mede, Viktoria Cologna, Sebastian Berger, John Besley, Cameron Brick, Marina Joubert, Edward W. Maibach, Sabina Mihelj, Naomi Oreskes, Mike S. Schäfer, Sander van der Linden, Nor Izzatina Abdul Aziz, Suleiman Abdulsalam, Nurulaini Abu Shamsi, Balazs Aczel, Indro Adinugroho, Eleonora Alabrese, Alaa Aldoh, Mark Alfano, Innocent Mbulli Ali, Mohammed Alsobay, Marlene Altenmüller, R. Michael Alvarez, Richard Amoako, Tabitha Amollo, Patrick Ansah, Denisa Apriliawati, Flavio Azevedo, Ani Bajrami, Ronita Bardhan, Keagile Bati, Eri Bertsou, Cornelia Betsch, Apurav Yash Bhatiya, Rahul Bhui, Olga Białobrzeska, Michał Bilewicz, Ayoub Bouguettaya, Katherine Breeden, Amélie Bret, Ondrej Buchel, Pablo Cabrera-Álvarez, Federica Cagnoli, André Calero Valdez, Timothy Callaghan, Rizza Kaye Cases, Sami Çoksan, Gabriela Czarnek, Steven De Peuter, Ramit Debnath, Sylvain Delouvée, Lucia Di Stefano, Celia Díaz-Catalán, Kimberly C. Doell, Simone Dohle, Karen M. Douglas, Charlotte Dries, Dmitrii Dubrov, Małgorzata Dzimińska, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Christian T. Elbaek, Mahmoud Elsherif, Benjamin Enke, Tom W. Etienne, Matthew Facciani, Antoinette Fage-Butler, Md. Zaki Faisal, Xiaoli Fan, Christina Farhart, Christoph Feldhaus, Marinus Ferreira, Stefan Feuerriegel, Helen Fischer, Jana Freundt, Malte Friese, Simon Fuglsang, Albina Gallyamova, Patricia Garrido-Vásquez, Mauricio E. Garrido Vásquez, Winfred Gatua, Oliver Genschow, Omid Ghasemi, Theofilos Gkinopoulos, Jamie L. Gloor, Ellen Goddard, Mario Gollwitzer, Claudia González-Brambila, Hazel Gordon, Dmitry Grigoryev, Gina M. Grimshaw, Lars Guenther, Håvard Haarstad, Dana Harari, Lelia N. Hawkins, Przemysław Hensel, Alma Cristal Hernández-Mondragón, Atar Herziger, Guanxiong Huang, Markus Huff, Mairéad Hurley, Nygmet Ibadildin, Maho Ishibashi, Mohammad Tarikul Islam, Younes Jeddi, Tao Jin, Charlotte A. Jones, Sebastian Jungkunz, Dominika Jurgiel, Zhangir Kabdulkair, Jo-Ju Kao, Sarah Kavassalis, John R. Kerr, Mariana Kitsa, Tereza Klabíková Rábová, Olivier Klein, Hoyoun Koh, Aki Koivula, Lilian Kojan, Elizaveta Komyaginskaya, Laura König, Lina Koppel, Kochav Koren Nobre Cavalcante, Alexandra Kosachenko, John Kotcher, Laura S. Kranz, Pradeep Krishnan, Silje Kristiansen, André Krouwel, Toon Kuppens, Eleni A. Kyza, Claus Lamm, Anthony Lantian, Aleksandra Lazić, Oscar Lecuona, Jean-Baptiste Légal, Zoe Leviston, Neil Levy, Amanda M. Lindkvist, Grégoire Lits, Andreas Löschel, Alberto López-Ortega, Carlos Lopez-Villavicencio, Nigel Mantou Lou, Chloe H. Lucas, Kristin Lunz-Trujillo, Mathew D. Marques, Sabrina J. Mayer, Ryan McKay, Hugo Mercier, Julia Metag, Taciano L. Milfont, Joanne M. Miller, Panagiotis Mitkidis, Fredy Monge-Rodríguez, Matt Motta, Iryna Mudra, Zarja Muršič, Jennifer Namutebi, Eryn J. Newman, Jonas P. Nitschke, Ntui-Njock Vincent Ntui, Daniel Nwogwugwu, Thomas Ostermann, Tobias Otterbring, Jaime Palmer-Hague, Myrto Pantazi, Philip Pärnamets, Paolo Parra Saiani, Mariola Paruzel-Czachura, Michal Parzuchowski, Yuri G. Pavlov, Adam R. Pearson, Myron A. Penner, Charlotte R. Pennington, Katerina Petkanopoulou, Marija M. Petrović, Jan Pfänder, Dinara Pisareva, Adam Ploszaj, Karolína Poliaková, Ekaterina Pronizius, Katarzyna Pypno-Blajda, Diwa Malaya A. Quiñones, Pekka Räsänen, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Felix G. Rebitschek, Cintia Refojo Seronero, Gabriel Rêgo, James P. Reynolds, Joseph Roche, Simone Rödder, Jan Philipp Röer, Robert M. Ross, Isabelle Ruin, Osvaldo Santos, Ricardo R. Santos, Philipp Schmid, Stefan Schulreich, Bermond Scoggins, Amena Sharaf, Justin Sheria Nfundiko, Emily Shuckburgh, Johan Six, Nevin Solak, Leonhard Späth, Bram Spruyt, Olivier Standaert, Samantha K. Stanley, Gert Storms, Noel Strahm, Stylianos Syropoulos, Barnabas Szaszi, Ewa Szumowska, Mikihito Tanaka, Claudia Teran-Escobar, Boryana Todorova, Abdoul Kafid Toko, Renata Tokrri, Daniel Toribio-Florez, Manos Tsakiris, Michael Tyrala, Özden Melis Uluğ, Ijeoma Chinwe Uzoma, Jochem van Noord, Christiana Varda, Steven Verheyen, Iris Vilares, Madalina Vlasceanu, Andreas von Bubnoff, Iain Walker, Izabela Warwas, Marcel Weber, Tim Weninger, Mareike Westfal, Florian Wintterlin, Adrian Dominik Wojcik, Ziqian Xia, Jinliang Xie, Ewa Zegler-Poleska, Amber Zenklusen, Rolf A. Zwaan

“…To help researchers analyse the science-society nexus across different geographical and cultural contexts, we undertook a cross-sectional population survey resulting in a dataset of 71,922 participants in 68 countries. The data were collected between November 2022 and August 2023 as part of the global Many Labs study “Trust in Science and Science-Related Populism” (TISP). …”
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Large range sizes link fast life histories with high species richness across wet tropical tree floras by Timothy R. Baker, Stephen Adu-Bredu, Kofi Affum-Baffoe, Shin-ichiro Aiba, Perpetra Akite, Miguel Alexiades, Everton Almeida, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Esteban Alvarez Davila, Christian Amani, Ana Andrade, Luiz Aragao, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Eric Arets, Luzmila Arroyo, Peter Ashton, Suspense A. Averti Ifo, Gerardo A. C. Aymard, Michel Baisie, William Balee, Michael Balinga, Lindsay F. Banin, Olaf Banki, Christopher Baraloto, Jorcely Barroso, Jean-Francois Bastin, Hans Beeckman, Serge Begne, Natacha Nssi Bengone, Nicholas Berry, Wemo Betian, Vincent Bezard, Lilian Blanc, Pascal Boeckx, Damien Bonal, Frans Bongers, Francis Q. Brearley, Roel Brienen, Foster Brown, Musalmah Bt. Nasaradin, Benoit Burban, David F. R. P. Burslem, Plinio Camargo, Jose Luis Camargo, Wendeson Castro, Carlos Ceron, Victor Chama Moscoso, Colin Chapman, Jerome Chave, Eric Chezeaux, Murray Collins, James Comiskey, David Coomes, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Flavia R. C. Costa, Aida Cuni-Sanchez, Lola da Costa, Douglas C. Daly, Martin Dančák, Armandu Daniels, Greta Dargie, Stuart Davies, Charles De Canniere, Thales de Haulleville, Jhon del Aguila Pasquel, Geraldine Derroire, Kyle G. Dexter, Anthony Di Fiore, Marie-Noel K. Djuikouo, Jean-Louis Doucet, Vincent Droissart, Gerald Eilu, Thaise Emillio, Julien Engel, Bocko Yannick Enock, Fidele Evouna Ondo, Corneille Ewango, Sophie Fauset, Ted R. Feldpausch, Muhammad Fitriadi, Gerardo Flores Llampazo, Ernest G. Foli, Gabriella Fredriksson, David R. Galbraith, Martin Gilpin, Emanuel Gloor, Christelle Gonmadje, Rene Guillen Villaroel, Jefferson Hall, Keith C. Hamer, Alan Hamilton, Olivier Hardy, Terese Hart, Radim Hédl, Rafael Herrera, Niro Higuchi, Claude Marcel Hladik, Eurídice Honorio Coronado, Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Walter Huaraca Huasco, Wannes Hubau, Muhammad Idhamsyah, Sascha A. Ismail, Kath Jeffery, Eliana Jimenez, Tommaso Jucker, Elizabeth Kearsley, Lip Khoon Kho, Timothy Killeen, Kanehiro Kitayama, William Laurance, Susan Laurance, Miguel Leal, Simon L. Lewis, Stanislav Lhota, Jeremy Lindsell, Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez, Jon Lovett, Richard Lowe, William E. Magnusson, Jean-Remy Makana, Yadvinder Malhi, Beatriz Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon Junior, Andrew Marshall, Colin Maycock, Faustin Mbayu, Casimiro Mendoza, Irina Mendoza Polo, Faizah Metali, Vianet Mihindou, Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza, Sam Moore, Patrick Mucunguzi, Jacques Mukinzi, Pantaleo Munishi, Laszlo Nagy, Petrus Naisso, David Neill, Adriano Nogueira Lima, Percy Nunez Vargas, Lucas Ojo, Walter Palacios, Nadir Pallqui Camacho, Alexander Parada Gutierrez, Julie Peacock, Kelvin S.-H. Peh, Antonio Pena Cruz, Colin Pendry, Toby Pennington, Maria Cristina Penuela-Mora, Pascal Petronelli, Oliver L. Phillips, Georgia Pickavance, G. John Pipoly, Nigel Pitman, Axel Dalberg Poulsen, Ghillean T. Prance, Adriana Prieto, Richard B. Primack, Lan Qie, Simon A. Queenborough, Terry Sunderland, Carlos Quesada, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Hirma Ramirez-Angulo, Jan Reitsma, Maxime Réjou-Méchain, Anand Roopsind, Francesco Rovero, Ervan Rutishauser, Kamariah Abu Salim, Rafael Salomao, Ismayadi Samsoedin, Muhd Shahruney Saparudin, Juliana Schietti, Ricardo A. Segovia, Julio Serrano, Rafizah Serudia, Douglas Sheil, Natalino Silva, Javier Silva Espejo, Marcos Silveira, Murielle Simo-Droissart, James Singh, Bonaventure Sonké, Thaise Emilio Lopes De Sousa, Juliana Stropp, Rahayu Sukri, Terry Sunderland, Martin Svátek, Michael Swaine, Hermann Taedoumg, Joey Talbot, Sylvester Tan, James Taplin, David Taylor, Hans ter Steege, John Terborgh, Armando Torres-Lezama, John Tshibamba Mukendi, Darlington Tuagben, Peter van de Meer, Geertje van der Heijden, Peter van der Hout, Mark van Nieuwstadt, Bert van Ulft, Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez, Ronald Vernimmen, Barbara Vinceti, Simone Vieira, Ima Celia Guimaries Vieira, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Jason Vleminckx, Lee White, Simon Willcock, Mathew Williams, John T. Woods, Tze Leong Yao, Ishak Yassir, Roderick Zagt, Lise Zemagho

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On semilattices of groups whose arrows are epimorphisms by M. El-Ghali M. Abdallah, L. N. Gab-Alla, Sayed K. M. Elagan

“…A q partial group is defined to be a partial group, that is, a strong semilattice of groups S=[E(S);Se,ϕe,f] such that S has an identity 1 and ϕ1,e is an epimorphism for all e∈E(S). …”
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Influence of Ce Doping on the Electrical and Optical Properties of TiO2 and Its Photocatalytic Activity for the Degradation of Remazol Brilliant Blue R by Aisha Malik, S. Hameed, M. J. Siddiqui, M. M. Haque, M. Muneer

“…The SEM analysis shows the partial crystalline nature of undoped, and doped TiO2 and TEM analysis shows the particle sizes were in the range of 9–14 nm in size. …”
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