Influence of Coal Mining Activities on Soil's Agrochemical and Biochemical Properties by Svetlana Ivanova, Anna Vesnina, Nataly Fotina, Alexander Prosekov

“…All samples exceeded the background values of mobile forms of zinc, manganese, copper, lead, nickel, chromium, and cobalt. To effectively improve soil fertility, it is recommended to use biochar, compost, and/or peat and apply organic and inorganic fertilizers. …”
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Preparation and Characterization of Di-, Tri-, and Tetranuclear Schiff Base Complexes Derived from Diamines and 3,4-Dihydroxybenzaldehyde by Ahlam Jameel Abdulghani, Asmaa Mohammed Noori Khaleel

“…The second method involved the condensation of the copper complex LCu(II)L′ (L = 2,2′-bipyridyl, L′ = 4-formylbenzene-1,2-bis(olate)) with en, o-PD, or DMPD in a mole ratio of 2 : 1, respectively, followed by reaction with CuCl2 or Cu(ClO4)2 to form di-, tri-, and tetranuclear copper (II) complexes, respectively. …”
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Study on Vibration Control and Parameters Influence of Cable Inerter Viscous Damping System by Ruoyu Zhang, Meigen Cao

“…In this study, a single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) model with cable inerter viscous damper (CIVD) is established, and the vibration control equations and frequency response functions are established. …”
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Investigating the influence of reference group judgements of global warming on consumers by Maria A.O. Dos Santos

“…However segmenting consumers on the basis of sex and education in order to use reference group influence does not appear beneficial since there is no difference in their responses.…”
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Goya dans l’historiographie française du xixe siècle : images et textes by Agnès Gué

“…In the second half of the century, many books – sometimes illustrated – about the artist began to appear. While art historians and critics were fascinated by Goya, he was not as highly regarded as Velázquez. …”
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Removal of Heavy Metals from Steel Making Waste Water by Using Electric Arc Furnace Slag by C. L. Beh, T. G. Chuah, M. N. Nourouzi, T. Choong

“…The raw wastewater did not meet the standard B limitations, having high values of BOD, COD, TSS, Iron, Zinc, Manganese and Copper. After passing through the fixed bed column, BOD, COD and TSS values decreased to 1.6, 6.3 and <2 mgL-1, respectively while the concentration of Iron, Zinc, Manganese and Copper were 0.08, 0.01, 0.03 and 0.07 mgL-1, respectively. …”
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Provenancing ancient materials with lead isotopes: overlap uncovered by Sarah De Ceuster, Jurian Hoogewerff, Patrick Degryse

“…Firstly, the copper and lead ores of the same regions are compared, to assess if they are consistent and thus can be combined to increase sample size for provenance studies. …”
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Dysplasia in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Definition and Clinical Impact by Karel Geboes, Paul Rutgeerts

“…These changes can, however, be absent, appear early or late in the transition from normality toward dysplasia and cancer, or appear during repair. …”
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Fractal Acoustic Metamaterials with Subwavelength and Broadband Sound Insulation by Yu Liu, Meng Chen, Wenshuai Xu, Tao Yang, Dongliang Pei, Heng Jiang, Yuren Wang

“…As the number of fractal orders increase, more bandgaps appear. In particular, in the ΓX direction of the acoustic metamaterial lattice, more of these wide bandgaps appear in different frequency ranges, thus providing broadband sound insulation and showing promise for use in engineering applications.…”
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Modeling the flow of casson nanofluid on a stretching sheet with heat transfer: A study of electric MHD and Darcy-Forchheimer effects by Hamzeh Taha Alkasasbeh

“…The study primarily examines the electric magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of copper oxide suspended in water, forming a Casson nanofluid. …”
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Effect of Cow Urine on the Growth Characteristics of Fusarium lateritium, an Important Coffee Fungus in Zimbabwe by Timothy Gotora, Lawrence Masaka, Marvelous Sungirai

“…The growth characteristics selected were conidial germination, germ tube length, mycelial growth rate, and sporulation. Copper oxychloride 50% W.P. was the standard, distilled water was the negative control, and undiluted cow urine was the positive control. …”
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Active Suspension of Truck Seat by Masaaki Kawana, Taro Shimogo

“…The driver’s seat of a heavy duty truck is usually mounted on a spring–damper assembly anchored to the cab floor. To improve riding comfort, this study investigated the effects of mounting a computer-controlled actuator in parallel with the traditional spring–damper assembly. …”
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Classification of polyphenol oxidases shows ancient gene duplication leading to two distinct enzyme types by Ida K.S. Meitil, Caio de O.G. Silva, Anders Gorm Pedersen, Jane W. Agger

“…Summary: Polyphenol oxidases (PPOs) are coupled binuclear copper proteins that catalyze the oxidation of phenols. …”
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Effect of MgO Addition on the Surface and Catalytic Properties of the CuO/AlO System by Nasr-Allah M. Deraz

“…The results obtained revealed that CuO underwent solid–solid interactions with pure and doped alumina at temperatures of 600°C and above to yield a poorly crystalline copper aluminate (CuAl 2 O 4 ) phase. The amount of copper aluminate produced increased on increasing the precalcination temperature to 800°C. …”
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Analysis of the defect mode features in an asymmetric and symmetric acoustic system using expansion chambers by Ilyas Antraoui, Ali Khettabi, Mohammed Sallah, Zaky A. Zaky

“…Abstract In this paper, the transfer matrix method is used to study the dispersion of acoustic waves in a finite periodic expansion chambers system with a defect. …”
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A Simple Binary Run-Length Compression Technique for Non-Binary Sources Based on Source Mapping by Abdel-Rahman Jaradat, Mansour I. Irshid

“…In this paper, we propose a very simple and efficient binary run-length compression technique for non-binary sources. …”
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El discurso geopolítico práctico del gobierno Clinton: de la narcodemocracia al Plan Colombia by Mario Iván Urueña Sánchez

“…Este artículo se pregunta por los factores que llevaron a la reformulación del discurso geopolítico práctico del gobierno de Bill Clinton hacia Colombia durante la transición política de los gobiernos de Ernesto Samper y Andrés Pastrana. Se plantea como hipótesis que dichos factores fueron el cambio de modelo decisional de la Casa Blanca, la victoria republicana en las elecciones legislativas de 1994 y la voluntad política del presidente Pastrana. …”
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The Effects of Land Use Change upon Hydrological Balance Components in Kordan Basin Using HEC- HMS Model by Mojtaba Yamani, Akbar Mehrjonezhad

“…According to the research method used, at first the land use layers for the three mentioned years were obtained from the Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) using the supervised classification method. …”
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Response: Population Health Approaches to First Aid Training-- A Critical Need

“…Recommendation that first aid providers also address possible hazards after the provision of emergency care to possibly prevent further emergencies before they happen.…”
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A Simple Procedure for Searching Pareto Optimal Front in Machining Process: Electric Discharge Machining by Ushasta Aich, Simul Banerjee

“…As such, effective model development and determination of optimal operating conditions of electric discharge machining process (EDM) are reasonably difficult. In this apper, an easy to handle optimization procedure, weight-varying multiobjective simulated annealing, is proposed and is applied to optimize two conflicting type response parameters in EDM—material removal rate (MRR) and average surface roughness (Ra) simultaneously. …”
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