Dynamic Characteristics of Offshore Natural Gas Hydrate Dissociation by Depressurization in Marine Sediments by Xinfu Liu, Chunhua Liu, Jianjun Wu

“…The proposed methodology can analyze the processes of hydrate and water phase transitions, decomposition kinetics and thermodynamics, viscosity and permeability, ice-water phase equilibrium, and natural gas and water production. …”
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New Leakage Model for Naturally Fractured Formations Considering the Effects of Dual-System Hydro-Mechanical Coupling by Hao Peng, Qian Li, JiaJia Gao, Hu Yin, Jun Wang

“…The leakage rate increases with an increase in formation permeability, well bottom differential pressure, and initial width of the natural fracture, while it decreases with an increase in the fracture normal stiffness, yield stress, and plastic viscosity. The new leakage model and numerical method concerning time-step deduction are assessed by solving the issues of fully coupled fracture-wall and fracture-inner systems considering drilling fluid leak-off. …”
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Investigation of Rheological Characteristics and Bleeding Behavior of PPA-Modified Bitumen Emulsion for Microsurfacing by Mohammadjavad AkhavanBahabadi, Mohammad Khabiri

“…Evaluation of the modified bitumen emulsion samples was performed based on a number of physical parameters (Saybolt Furol viscosity, softening point, penetration, and thermal sensitivity) and dynamic shear rheometer (DSR) and multiple stress creep recovery (MSCR) tests. …”
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Agnosticisme, scepticisme épistémologique et « voie négative » en Grande-Bretagne au xixe siècle by Jean-Michel Yvard

“…Dans ce contexte de sécularisation croissante des visions du monde, les interrogations philosophiques et théologiques tendent à délaisser le terrain de la métaphysique classique et son interrogation séculaire sur l’être pour déboucher sur un questionnement de type épistémologique de plus en plus centré sur la possibilité, pour l’homme, de connaître Dieu et les réalités ultimes.L’agnosticisme philosophique, qui se développa alors en Angleterre en lien avec une interrogation théologique de plus en plus centrée sur la question des conditions transcendantales de la connaissance, doit-il être considéré comme ayant constitué l’antichambre d’un athéisme qui n’aurait pas osé avouer son nom ou doit-on plutôt voir en lui un courant de pensée qui n’aurait jamais rompu avec toute forme d’aspiration spirituelle, y compris dans ses formes les plus radicales ? …”
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Effect of acid whey protein concentrate on the rheological properties, antioxidant capacities, and biological activities of bioaccessible fractions in fermented camel milk by Mutamed Ayyash, Abdelmoneim H. Ali, Anas Al-Nabulsi, Tareq Osaili, Gafar Bamigbade, Athira Subash, Basim Abu-Jdayil, Afaf Kamal-Eldin

“…Furthermore, the adhesiveness in yogurt samples containing 6% of WPC was significantly higher than other treatments, representing 6.3 and 6.1 mJ after 1 and 15 d, respectively. The apparent viscosity of WPCA6 was also higher than other yogurt treatments at different shear rates throughout storage, indicating a thicker and more viscous yogurt. …”
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Construction and Release Characteristics of 3D Printed Spaced Multi-layer Structure of Lutein Emulsion Gel by Shuai DENG, Minghui ZHAO, Chunxue HAO, Ming LI, Dajing LI, Lei FENG, Zhongyuan ZHANG, Yayuan XU

“…The results indicated that increasing the oil phase volume fraction, separating the concentration of whey protein isolate (WPI), and loading of lutein could effectively enhance the apparent viscosity, storage modulus, and loss modulus of lutein emulsion gels. …”
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Neutrino-dominated Relativistic Viscous Accretion Flows around Rotating Black Holes with Shocks by Amit Kumar, Sayan Chakrabarti, Santabrata Das

“…Our findings indicate that, depending on the model parameters, namely, energy ( ε ), angular momentum ( λ ), accretion rate ( $\dot{m}$ ), viscosity ( α ), and black hole spin ( a _k ), NDAFs may harbor standing shocks where the Rankine–Hugoniot shock conditions are satisfied. …”
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Synthesis and Properties of a Polymer-Modified Material for Thin Spray-On Liners in Mine Roadways by Lianjun Chen, Xuekai Jiang, Zhaoxia Liu, Xiangfei Cui, Guoming Liu, Zhi Zhou, Qizheng Dong

“…In order to adapt to dry and wet environment in mine roadways and improve the performance of sealing materials under different environmental conditions, this study selected the materials based on their ability to spray and found that the materials with a viscosity of 1500–6000 MPa·s can achieve a balance between performance of spray and wall-hanging performance. …”
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Identifying and Analyzing the Effects of Urban Creep on the Situation Development of Rural Areas around (Case Study: Villages around of Marivan City) by saadi mohammadi, askandar moradi, Sharmin hosaini

“…These changes, in addition to having positive aspects in most cases, have had a negative impact on the sustainable development of rural areas located in the vicinity of these cities. In the current applied research, a quantitative and qualitative approach with a spatial and descriptive-analytic approach has been carried out. …”
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Determining anatomically-safe corridors for placement of lateral mass screws in the first cervical vertebra of the Emirati population – a CT study by Dineshwary Suresh, Nerissa Naidoo, Rashid AlSharhan, Usama Al Bastaki, Jeyaseelan Lakshmanan, Baylis Vivek Joseph, Ivan James Prithishkumar

“…Pre-operative knowledge of the above dimensions would help in greater precision, minimizing the risk of injury to neurovascular structures in the vicinity of C1 lateral mass.…”
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Investigating the RegCM model ability in simulation ‎of summer Khorasan dust ‎ by Elham Mobarak Hassan, Ebrahim Fatahi, Abass Ranjbar Saadat Abadi, Nasim Hossein Hamzeh‎

“…The Great Khorasan in northeast Iran has a variety of surface structures and plains and high peaks, but due to its vicinity to the deserts of Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, it is affected by dust all the time, especially in summer. …”
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Illicit drug use derived from wastewater-based epidemiology in Iran, their removal during wastewater treatment, and occurrence in receiving waters by Anvar Asadi, Shabnam Zarei, Nebile Daglioglu, Evsen Yavuz Guzel, Neda Ravankhah

“…These analytes were also measured in rivers vicinity to selected cities. The detected concentration in raw wastewater was converted into the quantity of illicit drugs per capita using back-calculation. …”
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Peculiarities of Optoacoustic Excitation and Propagation of Plate Waves in Thin-Walled Оbjects by A. R. Baev, A. I. Metskovets, A. L. Mayorov, M. V. Asadchaya, A. V. Vorobey

“…A significant change in the structure of the wave front at localization of the moving wave source zone in the vicinity of the crack simulator was found, accompanied by a change in the ratio of extreme values of amplitudes of the received asymmetric mode Aextr up to 14–15 dB. …”
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Composition of High Molecular Weight Glutenin Subunits in Polish Common Wheat Cultivars (Triticum aestivum L.) by Ewa Filip

“…Genes located in the vicinity of the Glu-1 locus have been identified and characterized in 28 Polish cultivars of Triticum aestivum. …”
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Nitrogen-carbon nanotubes as a basis for a new type of semiconductor materials for electronics devices by Irina V. Zaporotskova, Sergey V. Boroznin, Natalia P. Boroznina, Evgeniy S. Dryuchkov, Kseniya Yu. Verevkina, Yulia V Butenko, Pavel A. Zaporotskov, Lev V. Kozhitov, Alena V. Popkova, Aleksandr D. Grigoriev

“…One can also conclude that a new semiconductor material has been synthesized on the basis of carbon nanotubes with substitution nitrogen atoms since the test tubes exhibit a redistribution of electron density towards the nitrogen atoms and positive charge localization in the vicinity of the carbon atoms. The results are of utmost importance for the design and fabrication of components and units for nanoelectronics and microsystems: our theoretical study has confirmed the possibility to control the refraction index and conductivity of media by implementing a carbon-for-nitrogen substitution reaction to various concentrations. …”
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Simulation of structured populations in chemically stressed environments by Thomas G. Hallam, Qingping Deng

“…In the absence of a chemical stressor, simulation experiments indicate that despite a propensity to move to regions of higher resource density, organisms need not concentrate in the vicinity of high levels of resource. We focus on the dynamical variations due to advection induced by the toxicant. …”
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Source Identification of VOCs and their Environmental Health Risk in a Petrochemical Industrial Area by Nattaporn Pinthong, Sarawut Thepanondh, Akira Kondo

“…Abstract Ambient VOCs in the vicinity of a petrochemical industrial area were analyzed for their health impact and potential emission sources. …”
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Study on the Full‐Cycle Stress Evolution Law and Reasonable Size of Isolated Coal Pillar by Xiao‐Xiang Wei, Qing‐Long Yun, Jing Wu, Xiao‐He Wang, Yin‐Wei Wang

“…The results show that the vertical stress and maximum principal stress increase correspondingly with the decrease of the protective coal pillar size under both stages, and the minimum value of the minimum principal stress occurs on the 8 m protective coal pillar; The values of the principal stress ratio and the principal stress deflection angle do not differ greatly in the protection of the coal pillar, and the fluctuation of the values is mainly concentrated in the vicinity of the back‐mining roadway; The second invariant of bias stress (J2) is mainly concentrated in the protective coal pillar near the side of the extraction zone, when the size of the protective coal pillar is reduced to 10 m, the J2 on the side of the extraction zone and the J2 on the side of the roadway are connected, and the whole protective coal pillar is under the influence of J2, which is basically the same as the damage pattern of the plastic zone; Based on the formula of limit balance theory to calculate the elastic core width of different sizes of protective coal pillars, and combined with the results of numerical simulation analysis, it finally concluded that the reasonable size of the protective coal pillar of this isolated island working face is 15 m.…”
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Feeding Patterns and Xenomonitoring of Trypanosomes among Tsetse Flies around the Gashaka-Gumti National Park in Nigeria by Solomon Ngutor Karshima, Idris A. Lawal, Oluseyi Oluyinka Okubanjo

“…In order to understand the epidemiology of trypanosomoses in Gashaka-Gumti National Park, Nigeria, we determined the density, infection rates, and feeding patterns of tsetse flies using biconical traps, ITS, and mitochondrial cytochrome b PCRs. …”
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Future changes in compound explosive cyclones and atmospheric rivers in the North Atlantic by F. Lopez-Marti, F. Lopez-Marti, M. Ginesta, D. Faranda, A. Rutgersson, A. Rutgersson, P. Yiou, L. Wu, G. Messori, G. Messori, G. Messori

“…In agreement with the literature, atmospheric rivers are more often detected in the vicinity of explosive cyclones than non-explosive cyclones in all datasets, and the atmospheric river intensity increases in all the future scenarios analysed. …”
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