Bentonite as an engineered barrier material for nuclear waste repository - Geotechnical perspectives, key properties, knowledge gaps, and opportunities by Dong-Hwa Noh, Seunghee Kim, Jose Maria Ferdinand Victoria Calaunan, Yuan Feng, Jongwan Eun, Yong-Rak Kim

“…While extensive studies have examined its thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) properties, some aspects still remain unclear, requiring further research to secure the long-term stability of bentonite. …”
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Nano-Biomechanical Investigation of Phosphatidylserine-Mediated Ebola Viral Attachment via Human Gas6 and Axl by Decheng Hou, Qian Mu, Weixuan Chen, Wenpeng Cao, Xiaohui Frank Zhang

“…The binding strength and affinity of Gas6-Axl basically remain the same, indicating no impact in the presence of calcium ions. …”
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A procedure to derive partial safety factors in textile-reinforced concrete members by Jan Philip Schulze-Ardey, Tânia Feiri, Marcus Ricker, Josef Hegger

“…The paper includes the basics of data evaluation as well as the statistical characterisation of data extracted from literature.…”
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Foreword to the Special Issue on Paving the Way for the Future of Urban Remote Sensing by Sebastien Lefevre, Thomas Corpetti, Monika Kuffer, Hannes Taubenbock, Clement Mallet

“…Remote sensing is the tool to gain geoinformation in a consistent and systematic way, basically anywhere across the globe, and with it to fill in still existing large data gaps on cities on our planet. …”
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Reservoir direct feedback alignment: deep learning by physical dynamics by Mitsumasa Nakajima, Yongbo Zhang, Katsuma Inoue, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Toshikazu Hashimoto, Kohei Nakajima

“…While recent demonstrations have shown their excellent performance, particularly in the inference phase, computation of training using analog hardware is still challenging due to the complexity of training algorithms such as backpropagation. …”
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Conventional Medicine in the Treatment of Different Diseases as a Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Muhammad Fakhar-e-Alam Kulyar, Zeeshan Ahmad Bhutta, Moazam Ali, Shah Nawaz, Muhammad Asif

“…Traditional medicine is still the only treatment in many rural areas especially the rural communities of east. …”
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A Review and Integrative Analysis of Ancient Holistic Character Medicine Systems by Søren Ventegodt, Suzette Thegler, Tove Andreasen, Flemming Struve, Susan Jacobsen, Margrethe Torp, Hans Ægedius, Lars Enevoldsen, Joav Merrick

“…Using the concept of poly-ray cosmology we see that the medical systems from ancient India, China and Greek basically share the same inner structure and also the same logic of the treatment processes. …”
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Review of Hydrogen Storage in Solid-State Materials by Gelin Chen, Deqing Liang, Zhanxiao Kang, Jintu Fan, Shuanshi Fan, Xuebing Zhou

“…At the hydrogen storage density level, the hydrogen storage capacity of 1K-MOF-5 can reach 4.23 wt% at 77 K and 10 MPa, and remains basically unchanged in 20 isothermal adsorption and desorption experiments. …”
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Efekti primjene prirodnog gasa pri sagorijevanju čvrstih goriva u letu – reburning tehnologija by Nihad Hodžić, Kenan Kadić, Anes Kazagić

“…The energy transition basically implies a phased and significant reduction in the use of fossil fuels, until the final cessation of use in the near future. …”
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Status, Trend and Countermeasures of Development of Litchi Industry in China in 2022 by Wen'e QI, Houbin CHEN, Jiexin LI

“…The results showed that, in 2022, the cultivated area of litchi in China remained basically stable at about 526 073.33 hm2; total output was 2 222 700 t, decreasing by 21.02% year-on-year but still keeping at a medium to high level; market demand continued to be strong and on the rise; import and export trade of litchi and products from January to August 2022 was US 839 700, decreasing by 20.02% year-on-year; the average yield per hectare of litchi was 5 176.65 kg, declining by 9.82% compared with that of 2021; the total output value of litchi was approximately 35.392 billion yuan with an increase of 46.52% year-on-year. …”
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AI-powered literature search: some observations and concerns by Farooq Azam Rathore, Fareeha Farooq

“…Although, a disclaimer is often clearly displayed across most of the AI tools and websites, still researchers may be tempted to simply copy and paste the output without any critical evaluation. …”
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Policies and obligation of women athletes clothing at international sports events: A literature study by Dina Agustina, Cerika Rismayanthi, Sumaryanti Sumaryanti, Rina Yuniana, Sigit Nugroho, Muhammad Daffa Haidar, Ziyu Wang, Michael Murgolo

“…The participation of female athletes in a sporting event in each country is very minimal compared to men, basically the State policy has not fully allowed female athletes to wear the hijab. …”
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Calibration of bronchial methacholine challenge: addressing dose accuracy and practicality by Flemming Madsen, Birgitte Hanel, Jann Mortensen

“…Methacholine bronchial provocation (BMP) is a valuable tool in supporting the diagnosis of asthma, but the BMP must be validated regarding dosing, since the BMP basically is a dose response study.Historically, the dose delivered by a nebulizer has been calibrated gravimetrically, by weighing the nebulizer before and after dosing. …”
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Numerical Investigation on Rock-Fracturing Mechanism by Using Splitter under Hole Assistance by Hongsheng Li, Songyong Liu, Gang Cheng, Chuwen Guo

“…In addition, the numerical model was verified by experiment with and without a hole, and the simulation results are basically consistent with the experimental results in rock breaking. …”
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Legal, Organizational and Methodological Challenges of Providing Forensic Support for Intellectual Property Protection by E. R. Rossinskaya

“…For other participants in legal proceedings these techniques are practically inaccessible and their testing and implementation are still not often done at the interdepartmental level. …”
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Optical Modules for Optical Burst Switching by Huang Shuiqing

“…A testing system has been designed for this module, and the subsequent steps of the work are still in progress.【Results】The experimental results show that an optical link budget of 20 dB is obtained, basically meeting the requirements of high-speed optical switching for optical module link budget. …”
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Opportunizing by Ólavur Christiansen

“…Opportunizing is the recurrent creation and re-creation of opportunities in business. Opportunizing is basically what business managers do and do all the time. …”
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Physical culture as a key to post-injury recovery in sports: Methods and future perspectives by Olesia Kholodova, Oksana Yudenko, Oksana Konovalenko, Odnovorchenko Igor, Veronika Doroshenko

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Dualisme Makna Akta Pengakuan Hutang by Roulinta Yesvery Sinaga

“…Both types of debt acknowledgment deeds are still used in public life, the benefits and functions of each deed are different, because the position is different, the impact of the deed is also different.   …”
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Determination of the Characteristics of the Molecular Structure of Trialkyl Phosphates by the Joint Application of Electronic Ionization Mass Spectra with Registration of Positive... by Yu. I. Morozik, A. A. Tsvetkov, А. R. Valiev, A. G. Terentyev

“…Meanwhile, the development of ways to identify these substances is still in its infancy. In addition, trialkylphosphates are an interesting subject for the search of a solution to the analytical problem of establishing the structure of O-alkyl fragments in molecules of M(O) (OR)n esters of multibasic acids, where M is the central atom (central core), n is the basicity of the acid, R are alkyl radicals with an unknown and in general case different number of carbon atoms in each of them. …”
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