A moisture differential technique for extraction and maintenance of imported fire ant colonies under laboratory conditions by Farhan Mahmood Shah, Ikhlas A. Khan, Abbas Ali

“…Dehydration is one of the major mortality factors in IFA, and the ants tend to relocate from dry to moist places. In our laboratory, we developed a moisture differential technique to extract fire ant colonies from mound materials. …”
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Study on the Stress Relaxation Behavior of Large Diameter B-GFRP Bars Using FBG Sensing Technology by Li Guo-wei, Pei Hua-Fu, Hong Cheng-yu

“…This paper investigates the influence of stress levels on the relaxation behavior of a GFRP bar griped with a seamless pipe under sustained deformations ranging from 30% to 60% of its ultimate strain. In order to study the behavior of stress relaxation, two basalt-glass fiber hybrid composite (B-GFRP) bars were developed and instrumented with fiber Bragg grating (FBG) strain sensors. …”
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Behavior and Performance of GFRP Reinforced Concrete Columns with Various Types of Stirrups by Woraphot Prachasaree, Sitthichai Piriyakootorn, Athawit Sangsrijun, Suchart Limkatanyu

“…Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites are gaining acceptance in concrete structural applications due to their high ratio of strength/stiffness to self-weight and corrosion resistance. …”
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Corps (é)conduits : La construction d’un regard-machine dans Crash (1996) et Cosmopolis (2012) de David Cronenberg by Guilhem Billaudel

“…Attachment, dependency and eroticism as represented here are but the outcome of the way film history has given an increasingly complex and central focus to the car, paralleling its ever-growing fetishization within Western culture. When narrating the quest for the perfect car-crash in a group of fin de siècle fetishists or the physical and mental dissolution of a trader locked in his limousine, Cronenberg always makes the car become more than a prop or a means of transportation. …”
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Near-Field Antenna Measurements Using Photonic Sensor of Mach-Zehnder Interferometer by Masanobu Hirose, Satoru Kurokawa, Michitaka Ameya, Koji Komiyama

“…We have been developing a photonic sensor system to measure the electric near-field distribution at a distance shorter than one wavelength from the aperture of an antenna. The photonic sensor is a type of Mach-Zehnder interferometer and consists of an array antenna of 2.4 mm height and 2 mm width on a LiNbO3 substrate (0.5 mm thickness, 8 mm length, and 3 mm width) supported by a glass pipe. …”
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Solar Light Radiometry Calibration Unit for a ScanPol Polarimeter of the Aerosol-UA Space Mission by Ivan Syniavskyi, Yevgen Oberemok, Vassyl Danylevsky, Yuriy Ivanov, Roman Osypenko, Mikhail Sosonkin, Gennadi Milinevsky

“…The construction of the radiometric calibration unit is based on a sun-illuminated reflective diffuser made from the white opal glass MS20. We evaluated the scattering and polarization characteristics of the diffuser in laboratory experiments at a wide range of wavelengths. …”
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Preparation of Silica Aerogel and Its Adsorption Performance to Organic Molecule by Hong-xin Shi, Jing-tao Cui, Hai-min Shen, Hong-ke Wu

“…Hydrophobic and lipophilic silica aerogel was prepared from water-glass by gelling, aging, silylation, and drying under atmospheric pressure and characterized by FT-IR and SEM. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Debris and Irrigation Extruded Apically Using Different Design of Needles and Penetration Depth - An In Vitro Study by Maha A. Habeeb

“…XP-endo Shaper was used for chemomechanical preparation. After removal from vials, the teeth were incubated and then removed from the incubator and weighed again three times. …”
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Multifaceted taxonomy of two Dactylogyrus species on Enteromius paludinosus: Integrating light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and molecular approaches by Maduenyane Mpho, Dos Santos Quinton Marco, Avenant-Oldewage Annemariè

“…Dactylogyrus Diesing, 1850 is the most speciose genus of platyhelminths with more than 900 species, and over a hundred species recorded from Africa. Of the latter, six are from the straightfin barb, Enteromius paludinosus (Peters). …”
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Pathological Characteristics, Prognostic Determinants and the Outcome of Patients Diagnosed with Colorectal Adenocarcinoma at the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali by Delphine Uwamariya, Déogratias Ruhangaza, Belson Rugwizangoga

“…The aim of this study was to document epidemiological, pathological characteristics, and prognostics determinants of patients diagnosed with CRC in Rwanda. The data from patients’ files and reviewed glass slides for 101 cases all from Kigali University Teaching Hospital (CHUK) were statistically analyzed and patient characteristics were described as mean and frequency accordingly. …”
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Predictable Behavior of GFRP-Reinforced Bridge Decks: Formulation of a Strain-Based Capacity Model by Young Hoon Kim, Yeesock Kim, Yeonho Park

“…This paper proposes a reliability analysis framework for glass fiber-reinforced polymer- (GFRP-) reinforced concrete systems with uncertain capacities and demands over time. …”
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Synthesis, Characterization, and Osteoblastic Cell Culture of Poly(L-co-D,L-lactide-co-trimethylene carbonate) Scaffolds by André Dutra Messias, Kelly Fernanda Martins, Adriana Cristina Motta, Eliana Aparecida de Rezende Duek

“…The polymers were synthesized from 30% TMC by bulk polymerization and resulted in an average molar mass >105 g/mol. …”
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Investigation of the Impact of Two Types of Epoxidized Vietnam Rubber Seed Oils on the Properties of Polylactic Acid by Nguyen Thi Thuy, Pham Ngoc Lan

“…This compatibility is confirmed by the decrease in the glass transition temperature, Tg, from 65.7 to 60.5°C. …”
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Sudeten: Erinnerung reinterpretiert by Jan Pacholski

“…The above example, although it comes from the foothill area, from the Nysa Kłodzka valley, flowing through the very centre of one of the most important Sudetes valleys, perfectly encapsulates the subject of this article. …”
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Network analyses of brain tumor multiomic data reveal pharmacological opportunities to alter cell state transitions by Brandon Bumbaca, Jonah R. Huggins, Marc R. Birtwistle, James M. Gallo

“…Simulation results were input into a boosted tree machine learning model which predicted the cell states or phenotypes of GBM patients from an independent public data source, the Glioma Longitudinal Analysis (GLASS) Consortium. …”
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Investigating the effect of ceramic fiber on the mechanical properties of glassphalt by Mohammad Hosein Dehnad, Abolfazl Yazdi, Gholam Hossein Hamedi

“…Abstract Glassphalt suffers from performance defects, especially against moisture damage and fatigue cracking. …”
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The Effect of Yttrium Addition on the Microstructures and Electrical Properties of CuMn Alloy Thin Films by Ho-Yun Lee, Chi-Wei He, Ying-Chieh Lee

“…CuMnY-resistive thin films were deposited onto glass and Al2O3 substrates. The electrical properties and microstructures of CuMn alloy films with different yttrium content were investigated. …”
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Problems of Vehicle Identification by Tire Marks on the Soil by M. H. Chernets

“…Photo or video recording of car wheel tracks is possible, as well as preparing the impression from the display of the tread on the soil. The possibilities of transport and traceological examination for studying the traces of car wheels have been established. …”
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Photocatalytic decomposition of fatty stains by TiO2 thin films by Juan Peris Vicente, Thierry Gacoin, Philippe Barboux, Jean-Pierre Boilot, Mauricette Rondet, Léthicia Guéneau

“…Thin films have been deposited onto glass substrates by dip-coating and eventually further crystallized by heat-treatment up to 300∘C. …”
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Physical properties of nanostructured ZnO thin films deposited by DC magnetron sputtering method with different volume of O2 in carrier gas by Asgary Somayeh, Ramezani Amir Hoshang, Mahmoodi Azam

“…High-quality ZnO thin films with polycrystalline hexagonal structure and (101) preferentially oriented were deposited on Si and corning glass substrates by reactive direct current magnetron sputtering. …”
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