Adsorption of TDS and chloride ions from partially treated tannery wastewater using activated coffee husk by Nazrawit Debebe Tadess, Getasew Yehuala Gezahegn, Yosef Hagos Abrha

“…The activated coffee husk was characterized using SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy), FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy), BET (Brunauer Emmett Teller), and XRD (X-ray diffraction). …”
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Anticancer Activity of Ferulic acid Purified From Iraqi Apple petioles by Rihab J. Mansoor, Yasir H. Zaidan, Zainab Y. M. Hasan

“…Various analytical characterization methods confirmed the chemical structure of the isolated Ferulic acid (F2): Melting point, High-performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), Carbon Hydrogen and Nitrogen elemental analyses (CHN), and Identification by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). …”
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PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF INVOLVEMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN EXTREMIST GROUPS IN THE INTERNET ENVIRONMENT by Olga V. Kruzhkova, Irina V. Vorobyeva, Darya M. Nikiforova

“…Absorption of teenagers, boys and young men, in a virtual space essentially converts their activity and, as a result, transform the leading activity, which in turn leads to different mental tumors. …”
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Customizable Self-Microemulsifying Rectal Suppositories by Semisolid Extrusion 3D Printing by Hye Jin Park, Dong Wuk Kim

“…SSE 3D printing was employed to create three different-sized suppositories with varying drug contents. …”
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Formulation and Evaluation of Solid Self-Nanoemulsifying Drug Delivery System of Cannabidiol for Enhanced Solubility and Bioavailability by Fengying Wu, Qing Ma, Guanghui Tian, Kaixian Chen, Rulei Yang, Jingshan Shen

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> This study aims to develop a solid self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery system (SNEDDS) to enhance the solubility and oral bioavailability of cannabidiol (CBD). <b>Methods:</b> According to the solubility of CBD and pseudo-ternary phase diagrams of the different ingredients, an oil (medium-chain triglyceride, MCT), mixed surfactants (Labrasol, Tween 80), and a co-surfactant (Transcutol) were selected for the SNEDDS. …”
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Green Synthesis and Characterization of Silver Nanoparticles from <i>Minthostachys acris</i> Schmidt Lebuhn (Muña) and Its Evaluation as a Bactericidal Agent Against <i>Escherichia... by Fabián Ccahuana Ayma, Ana María Osorio Anaya, Gabrielle Caroline Peiter, Silvia Jaerger, Ricardo Schneider

“…The extraction process of the organic components is performed using two methods: immersion and the agitation of the leaves of <i>Minthostachys acris</i> Schmidt Lebuhn (Muña) at 0.1% for different times (0.5, 1, 3, 6, and 10 min). …”
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Enhancing ROP plus form diagnosis: An automatic blood vessel segmentation approach for newborn fundus images by José Almeida, Jan Kubicek, Marek Penhaker, Martin Cerny, Martin Augustynek, Alice Varysova, Avinash Bansal, Juraj Timkovic

“…The main requirements are that it can correctly identify the blood vessels in fundus images and perform well on different systems used for newborn evaluation. Methods: The pipeline uses different methods, including CIELAB Enhancement, Background Normalization, Bell-Shaped Gaussian Matched Filtering, Modified Top-Hat operation, and a combination of vesselness filtering composed of Frangi and Jerman Filters. …”
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Novel non-destructive authentication of nine Dendrobium species using residual convolutional neural network relying on plant images and FT-NIR spectral information by Yulin Xu, Lian Li, Yuanzhong Wang, Qiang Hu

“…This study attempts to use machine learning techniques for non-destructive combination authentication of different Dendrobium species based on plant photographs (SONY) and Fourier transform near-infrared spectroscopy (FT-NIR). …”
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Chemical Informatics Combined with Kendrick Mass Analysis to Enhance Annotation and Identify Pathways in Soybean Metabolomics by Troy D. Wood, Erin R. Tiede, Alexandra M. Izydorczak, Kevin J. Zemaitis, Heng Ye, Henry T. Nguyen

“…The high mass resolution and accuracy of the method allows for identification of ions from hundreds of different compounds in each cultivar. …”
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Microplastic analysis in soils: A comparative assessment by Stoyana Peneva, Quynh Nhu Phan Le, Davi R. Munhoz, Olivia Wrigley, Flora Wille, Heidi Doose, Crispin Halsall, Paula Harkes, Michael Sander, Melanie Braun, Wulf Amelung

“…Microplastic (MiP) contamination poses environmental risks, but harmonizing data from different quantification methods and sample matrices remains challenging. …”
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DETERMINATION OF SURFACE DEFORMATION OF CONTINUOUSLY INHOMOGENEOUS THERMOELASTIC HALF-SPACE UNDER LOCAL HEATING by Leonid Ivanovich Krenev, Sergey Mikhailovich Aizikovich, Boris Igorevich Mitrin

“…Outside the circle, the surface is perfectly insulated. Analytic methods, particularly, Hankel integral transform, are used to solve the problem. …”
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Le laboratoire du changement by Yannick Lémonie, Vincent Grosstephan

“…The article shows and illustrates the differences with the reflexive methods usually mobilized in the francophone framework of activity analysis and its potential to allow the expansion of developmental ergonomics.…”
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Beam-like damage detection methodology using wavelet damage ratio and additional roving mass by Juliana C. Santos, Marcus V. G. de Morais, Marcela R. Machado, Ramon Silva, Erwin U. L. Palechor, Welington V. Silva

“…Thus, a frequency-shift curve is observed, and different damage identification techniques were used, such as the discrete wavelet transform and the derivatives of the frequency-shift curve. …”
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Speaker Recognition Using Wavelet Cepstral Coefficient, I-Vector, and Cosine Distance Scoring and Its Application for Forensics by Lei Lei, She Kun

“…This model firstly uses the WCC to transform the speech into spectral feature vecors and then uses those spectral feature vectors to train the i-vectors that represent the speeches having different durations. …”
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Biomimetic synthesis of poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid)/multi-walled carbon nanotubes/apatite composite membranes by H. L. Zhang

“…Scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), water contact angle measurement and mechanical testing were used for characterization. …”
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Cerebrovascular pressure reactivity monitoring using wavelet analysis in traumatic brain injury patients: A retrospective study. by Xiuyun Liu, Joseph Donnelly, Marek Czosnyka, Marcel J H Aries, Ken Brady, Danilo Cardim, Chiara Robba, Manuel Cabeleira, Dong-Joo Kim, Christina Haubrich, Peter J Hutchinson, Peter Smielewski

“…<h4>Methods and findings</h4>Five hundred and fifteen patients with TBI admitted in Addenbrooke's Hospital, United Kingdom (March 23rd, 2003 through December 9th, 2014), with continuous monitoring of arterial blood pressure (ABP) and intracranial pressure (ICP), were retrospectively analyzed to calculate the traditional PRx and a novel wavelet transform-based wPRx. wPRx was calculated by taking the cosine of the wavelet transform phase-shift between ABP and ICP. …”
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Aesthetic experiences of patients with advanced cancer in end-of-life care in China: A phenomenological study by Xia Li, Waraporn Kongsuwan, Charlotte D. Barry

“…Aesthetic experience values meaningful moments and is sensitive to the impact of different environments and situations. Aesthetic expression enables individuals to transform intuitive cognition into artistic behavior, ultimately expressing real needs through aesthetic cognition, enhanced sensibility, and reflection, thereby promoting improved care quality.  …”
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Prediction of teaching quality in the context of smart education: application of multimodal data fusion and complex network topology structure by Chunzhong Li, Chenglan Liu, Wenliang Ju, Yuanquan Zhong, Yonghui Li

“…Firstly, the article utilized a score management system and intelligent cameras to collect multimodal learning data; then, the original signal was decomposed into detail layers and approximation layers of different frequencies using wavelet transform, and high-frequency detail layers were processed for denoising through threshold functions; afterwards, in order to reduce the network size and parameters, attention mechanism was applied to screen the input features of the neural network; using students, teachers, and learning resources as network nodes, the connections between nodes were analyzed and a complex network topology structure was constructed; then, attention mechanism was used to fuse multimodal data, assigning different weights to each modality, integrating educational information, and highlighting key information in the prediction task. …”
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Sorption behavior of pomegranate polyphenols on surfactant-modified clays in aqueous solution by Houda Saad, Thouraya Turki, Mondher Srasra, Ezzeddine Srasra

“…Surfactant-modified clays were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). The adsorption study was conducted at different pHs and polyphenols concentrations. …”
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Influence of Various Chemical Surface Treatments, Repair Materials, and Techniques on Transverse Strength of Thermoplastic Nylon Denture Base by Ghassan Abdul-Hamid Naji

“…This study aims to assess the transverse strength of nylon denture bases repaired by various resin materials, different curing techniques, and types of surface treatments. …”
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