Possible Traces of Early Modern Human Architectural Heritage: A Comment on Similarities Between Nest-Building Activity of <i>Homo</i> Species and Shelter Forms of Indigenous People... by Hasan Basri Kartal, Mehmet Emin Şalgamcıoğlu, Asiye Nisa Kartal

“…The central inquiry of this study is whether indigenous architectural artefacts, materials, and techniques have been passed down throughout the evolution of architectural culture. …”
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Impact of Thermo-Oxidative Aging on Flame Retardancy of Melamine Formaldehyde Particle Boards: Processes and Performance Degradation Analysis by Shiyue Ling, Yanni Zhang, Dan Yang, Luoxin Huang, Yuchen Zhang

“…Melamine formaldehyde particle boards (MFPBs), commonly utilized as a wooden decorative material in traditional architecture, demonstrate considerable performance deterioration with extended age, with reductions in essential flame retardancy and structural integrity presenting substantial risks to fire safety in structures. …”
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LITHOLOGICAL AND FACIAL FEATURES, COMPOSITION, AND SEDIMENTATION CONDITIONS OF TERRIGENOUS-CARBONATE ROCKS OF THE MOTY GROUP (SHAMAN CLIFF, IRKUTSK REGION) by Z. L. Motova, A. V. Plyusnin, E. V. Nikulin

“…The middle and upper parts are composed of sandy dolomites and dolomites, respectively. In terms of material characteristics, the terrigenous rocks correspond to arkoses. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF THE LINGUOCULTURAL COMPETENCE OF FUTURE TEACHERS OF PRESCHOOL EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS AS A PEDAGOGICAL PROBLEM by Inna D. Davydchenko

“…However, today it is necessary to draw attention to cultural linguistics in teacher education in order to ensure not only a high level of professional training, but also to raise the “general” level of culture, to study fixation in the language and discursive practice the spiritual and material culture of the people, i.e. the culturally significant information and symbolic ways of material and spiritual awareness of the world preserved in the collective memory of a people of a certain ethnic group, reproduced in their ideas, patterns of thinking and behavior, with ethical and aesthetic values, norms, customs, rituals, myths, beliefs, prejudices, everyday life.…”
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Recycled Carbon Black/High-Density Polyethylene Composite from Waste Tires: Manufacturing, Testing, and Aging Characterization by Catherine Billotte, Laurence Romana, Anny Flory, Serge Kaliaguine, Edu Ruiz

“…In this article, we present the environmental aging studies carried out on this composite material. The topographic evolution of the samples with aging and the oxidation kinetics of the surface and through the thickness were studied. …”
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Manipulation of room-temperature magnetic skyrmions in a van der Waals ferromagnet Fe3GaTe2 by Yanlong Yin, Minghe Liu, Wei Li, Wan Li, Mengting Zou, Si Wu, Weixing Xia, Baomin Wang

“…The magnetic skyrmion in two-dimensional van der Waals (vdW) ferromagnetic materials offer a feasible and robust platform for future spintronic applications, thanks to their atomic-scale interface and stacking structure. …”
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Neoteric solvents: Applications in matrix solid-phase dispersion extraction by Susanna Della Posta, Maria Chiara Frondaroli, Chiara Fanali

“…Three possible uses of neoteric solvents in MSPD extraction were investigated: (i) as extraction solvents to replace traditional organic solvents; (ii) as an adjuvant of MSPD extraction, to be added to the sample and dispersing material during the homogenization step; (iii) as an element to create innovative and highly selective dispersing materials. …”
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In Situ Capture of High-Temperature Precipitate Phases in Ti-48Al-2Cr-2Nb Alloy Using Convolutional Neural Networks by Xiaolei Li, Chuanqing Huang, Sen Zhao, Linlin Cui, Shirui Guo, Bo Zheng, Yinghao Cui, Yongqian Chen, Yue Zhao, Lujun Cui, Chunjie Xu

“…TiAl intermetallic alloy is a crucial high-performance material, and its microstructure evolution at high temperatures is closely related to the process parameters. …”
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Dynamic Abrasion Resistance and Fractal-Based Damage Quantification in Fiber Rubber Concrete for Hydraulic Structures by Zhantao Li, Shuangxi Li, Chunmeng Jiang

“…Through mechanical tests, underwater steel ball abrasion tests, three-dimensional morphology measurements, and fractal dimension analysis, the law behind the damage evolution of fibrous rubber concrete was revealed. …”
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Screening great ape museum specimens for DNA viruses by Michelle Hämmerle, Meriam Guellil, Lovro Trgovec-Greif, Olivia Cheronet, Susanna Sawyer, Irune Ruiz-Gartzia, Esther Lizano, Aigerim Rymbekova, Pere Gelabert, Paolo Bernardi, Sojung Han, Thomas Rattei, Verena J. Schuenemann, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Katerina Guschanski, Sebastien Calvignac-Spencer, Ron Pinhasi, Martin Kuhlwilm

“…Thousands of great ape specimens are kept in these collections, and could become an important resource for studying the evolution of DNA viruses. Their genetic material is likely to be preserved in dry museum specimens, as reported previously for monkeypox virus genomes from historical orangutan specimens. …”
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Influence of heat treatments on the tensile properties and thermal expansion behavior of Fe-Ni wire by CHEN Bao-an, ZHANG Qiang, WANG Rui-hong, HAN Yu, DING Yi, ZHU Zhi-xiang, CHEN Xin, YANG Chang-long, ZHANG Hong-yu

“…Grain boundary strengthening and dislocation hardening are observed to be the dominant strengthening mechanisms of the Fe-Ni wires, and the solute atom-dislocation interaction is mainly responsible for the evolution of the thermal expansion coefficient. The present work clearly demonstrates that suitable heat treatments are important for the optimization of the strength/thermal expansion coefficient of Fe-Ni alloy wires, which will be helpful for material design and technology tailoring of Fe-Ni wires to develop a new alloy with enhanced performance.…”
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Freeze–Thaw-Induced Degradation Mechanisms and Slope Stability of Filled Fractured Rock Masses in Cold Region Open-Pit Mines by Jun Hou, Penghai Zhang, Ning Gao, Wanni Yan, Qinglei Yu

“…Taking the Wushan open-pit mine as the engineering background, this study establishes a temperature–depth relationship, defines multiple thermal intervals, and conducts direct shear tests on structural plane filling materials under various <i>FT</i> conditions to characterize the evolution of cohesion and internal friction angle. …”
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Cut from the same cloth? Comparing Neanderthal processing of faunal resources at Amud and Kebara caves (Israel) through cut-marks analyses by Anaëlle Jallon, Anaëlle Jallon, Lucile Crété, Silvia M. Bello, Erella Hovers, Erella Hovers, Erella Hovers, Rivka Rabinovich, Rivka Rabinovich

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Research on sustainable supply capacity of critical metals in China’s new energy vehicles under coupled allocation of primary and secondary resources by DONG Xuesong, CHEN Jinyu, HU Meimei

“…[Methods] By integrating scenario analysis with a stock-driven material flow model, this study assessed the sustainable supply capacity of critical metals for new energy vehicles in China from 2010 to 2023. …”
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Facile One-Step Fabrication of 1T-Phase-Rich Bimetallic CoFe Co-Doped MoS₂ Nanoflower: Synergistic Engineering for Bi-Functional Water Splitting Electrocatalysis by Xinyue Li, Yahui Song, Yiming Huang, Jihui Zhang, Siyu Wu, Wentao Zhang, Jin Wang, Xian Zhang

“…MoS₂ has emerged as a highly promising catalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) owing to its exceptional catalytic properties. …”
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Gas Generation in Lithium-Ion Batteries: Mechanisms, Failure Pathways, and Thermal Safety Implications by Tianyu Gong, Xuzhi Duan, Yan Shan, Lang Huang

“…Gas evolution in lithium-ion batteries represents a pivotal yet underaddressed concern, significantly compromising long-term cyclability and safety through complex interfacial dynamics and material degradation across both normal operation and extreme thermal scenarios. …”
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Breathing time: a longue-durée multidisciplinary study of respiratory illnesses and airborne diseases in Switzerland (16th–21st century CE) by Tobias Hofstetter, Aude Fauvel, Silke Grabherr, Negahnaz Moghaddam

“…It reviews historical, demographical, statistical, medical, and bioarchaeological, primary and secondary data originating from archive material or previously published specific analyses into the topic (n = 55). …”
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Experimental Investigation of Mechanical Properties and Pore Characteristics of Hipparion Laterite Under Freeze–Thaw Cycles by Tengfei Pan, Zhou Zhao, Jianquan Ma, Fei Liu

“…We innovatively integrated F-T cycling tests with ring-shear experiments to establish a hydro-thermal–mechanical coupled multi-scale evaluation framework for assessing F-T damage in the slip zone material. The microstructural evolution of soil architecture and pore characteristics was systematically analyzed through scanning electron microscopy (SEM) tests. …”
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Acceleration and Transport of the Unstable Cosmic-Ray Isotope 60Fe in Supernova-enriched Environments by Xin-Yue Shi, Martin Pohl, Michael M. Schulreich

“…We independently tracked the evolution of the ^60 Fe mass ratio within the Local Bubble using passive scalars. …”
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Characteristics and chain-generated processes of extreme rainfall-induced geohazards in the upper reaches of the Juma River by He ZHU, Yongshuang ZHANG, Sanshao REN, Changxu TAO, Mingxue LIU

“…The geological disaster chain in the upper reaches of the river shows the characteristics of long chain evolution and multiple sources of material accumulation. …”
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