Study on the Properties and Pore Structure of Geopolymer Foam Concrete Incorporating Lead–Zinc Tailings by Yifan Yang, Ming Li, Qi He, Chongjie Liao

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Slow-wave sleep as a key player in offline memory processing: insights from human EEG studies by Leanna Keeble, Padraic Monaghan, Edwin M. Robertson, Sana Hannan

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Effect of unit cell topologies on mechanical properties of cylindrical lattice structures fabricated by indirect additive manufacturing by Ehsan Shahriyari, Sina Ghaemi Khiavi, Mehdi Divandari, Seyed Mohammad Ali Boutorabi

“…Quasi-static compression tests are conducted to evaluate their mechanical performance and deformation behaviors. …”
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Fast heating annealing of V-microalloyed TWIP steel: Pathway to ultrafine grains and enhanced mechanical performance by Atef Hamada, Ali Khosravifard, Tuomas Alatarvas, Matias Jaskari, Walaa Abd-Elaziem, Tarek Allam, Antti Järvenpää

“…Cold-rolled sheets were subjected to FA cycles at a heating rate of 200 °C/s over a temperature range of 700–900 °C for 30 s. The microstructures achieved through FHA were characterized using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), while mechanical performance was evaluated through uniaxial tensile testing and physically based modeling.FHA at lower temperatures (700–800 °C) promoted partially recrystallized structures, while fully recrystallized ultrafine-grained microstructures were obtained at 850–900 °C. …”
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Characteristics of Laser-Remelted Al–Ca–Cu–Mn (Zr) Alloys as a New Material for Additive Manufacturing by Nikolay V. Letyagin, Torgom K. Akopyan, Pavel A. Palkin, Stanislav O. Cherkasov, Anastasiya S. Fortuna, Alexandr B. Lyukhter, Ruslan Yu. Barkov

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Transforming waste into value: Advancing sustainable construction materials with treated plastic waste and foundry sand in lightweight foamed concrete for a greener future by Zhao Quanwei, Chen Qi, Alqurashi Muwaffaq, Alsaluli A., Mostafa Sahar A.

“…The mechanical properties, including compressive, tensile, and flexural strengths, were evaluated at ages of 7, 14, 28, 56, and 180, in addition to their fresh properties. …”
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Evaluating Finely Ground Coal Bottom Ash for Property Self-Compacting Concrete by Chun-Wei Chuang, Tai-An Chen

“…Cement was partially replaced by FGCBA and fly ash (FA) at 20%, 40% and 60% substitution rates under water-to-binder (W/B) ratios of 0.4, 0.45 and 0.5. A comprehensive evaluation of the properties of fresh and hardened concrete—including slump flow, setting time, compressive strength, air content, chloride ion permeability and water absorption—was conducted. …”
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Re-evaluating ‘Silkworm’ Cocoons in Early Medieval Poznań: A Critical Analysis by Aldona Kurzawska, Olga Antowska-Gorączniak, Edward Baraniak

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Evaluation of High-Performance Pervious Concrete Mixed with Nano-Silica and Carbon Fiber by Mingxuan Sun, Meng Sun, Yunlong Zhang, Lijun Ma

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FORECASTING STOCK MARKET LIQUIDITY WITH MACHINE LEARNING: AN EMPIRICAL EVALUATION IN THE GERMAN MARKET by Bogdan Ionut ANGHEL

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Non-Destructive Evaluation of Cement Mortar Quality with Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Methods by I. Ahmed, U. K. Sharma, P. K. Garg, A. K. Thakur, Pritipadmaja

“…It may indicate the influence of hydration and microstructural densification on surface characteristics. …”
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Utilizing multiple diffusion metrics in evaluation of corticospinal tract injury in patients with glioblastoma by Ting Chen, Peipei Wang, Eryuan Gao, Jie Bai, Guohua Zhao, Kai Zhao, Gaoyang Zhao, Yu Zhang, Yong Zhang, Mengzhu Wang, Guang Yang, Boyan Xu, Xiaoyue Ma, Jingliang Cheng, Jingliang Cheng

“…DeLong’s test revealed a significant performance difference between DKI and DTI.ConclusionDiffusion parameters from DTI, DKI, NODDI, and MAP-MRI are useful for evaluating CST injury. While DKI-derived MK and NODDI-derived ICVF achieved identical high AUC values, MK exhibited a more balanced sensitivity-specificity profile for assessing microstructural alterations in CST injury, this advantage of DKI may better address clinical demands, potentially aiding in surgical planning and preserving motor function in patients with GBM.…”
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FeMnCuNiTi and FeMnCuNiMo: Novel high entropy alloys for green hydrogen production by Andrea Brotzu, Carla Lupi, Daniela Pilone

“…Considering that some of the alloying elements used for producing these alloys are the same used for hydrogen electrocatalysis, few recent studies have been performed for evaluating the effectiveness of these alloys in the hydrogen catalysis. …”
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Interface dipole evolution from the hybrid coupling between nitrogen-doped carbon quantum dots and polyethylenimine featuring the electron transport thin layer at Al/Si interfaces by Sasimontra Timjan, Ta-Cheng Wei, Kuan-Han Lin, Yi-Ting Li, Po-Hsuan Hsiao, Chia-Yun Chen

“…In this work, the hybrid design of ETL, obtained from the solution-processed nitrogen-doped carbon quantum dots (NCQDs) incorporated with organic polyethylenimine (PEI) demonstrates the feasible contact characteristics for the modification of Si/Al contacts, which greatly facilitates the transport and collection of photoexcited electrons in the Si-based optoelectronics. The aspects of microstructures, functional groups, chemical features, interfacial characteristics and band structures of NCQD/PEI are explicated, visualizing that the evolution of interface dipoles mediated by the overall outcome of physisorption and chemisorption effects, modifies the surface potential difference and results in the explicit reduction of the Al work function from 4.3 eV for pristine Al to 3.23 eV based on the optimized constitutional design (0.10 % NCQD in PEI). …”
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Intergranular precipitation evolution and its effect on the impact toughness of Super304H austenitic stainless steel weld metal during long-term aging at 650 °C by Conghao Du, Xue Wang

“…The microstructural evolution and its effect on the impact toughness of Super304H austenitic stainless steel weld metal during long-term aging at 650 °C was investigated in detail. …”
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Effect of prior austenite grain size on strength-ductility trade-off, phase evolution, and fracture behavior in a fully austenitizated QP steel: Insights into TRIP behavior by Mostafa Yaghoubi, Ahmad Rezaeian, Mohammad Reza Toroghinejad, Ali Mojgani, Hamidreza Gholamalian Dehaghani

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Correlation between macroscopic and microscopic mechanical behavior of tuff material under uniaxial compression by Jin Linlin, Ma Hongfa, Yu Jiang, Wang Feng, Yin Dawei, Qu Xiao, Yang Yingsong, Tao Minghao

“…In addition, the two-dimensional particle flow numerical model was constructed based on the PFC2D partition modeling method to analyze the evolution law of the internal structure of tuff from the perspective of mineral microstructure. …”
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Effect of Processing-Induced Oxides on the Fatigue Life Variability of 6082 Al-Mg-Si Alloy Extruded Components by Viththagan Vivekanandam, Shubham Sanjay Joshi, Jaime Lazaro-Nebreda, Zhongyun Fan

“…The material showed significant variability under identical fatigue conditions, suggesting the presence of microstructural defects. Scanning electron microscopy with energy-dispersive spectroscopy (SEM/EDS) and scanning transmission electron microscopy (S/TEM) were used to identify the nature and location of the defects and evaluate the underlying mechanisms influencing the fatigue performance. …”
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Low and High Gas Tungsten Arc Welding Heat Inputs Influence on Corrosion of Stainless Steel Weldments by Bolarinwa Johnson Kutelu, Akinlabi Oyetunji, Daniel Toyin Oloruntoba

“…Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) was used to generate low and high levels welding heat input. Microstructures of the weldments were examined, using metallurgical optical microscope (OMM) (Olympus GX51), while the corrosion behaviours were evaluated by potentiodynamic polarization tests, and corrosion data were recorded, using a computer-based data logging system – Autolab PGSTAT 204N. …”
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Sulfate attack performance of concrete mixtures with use of copper slag as supplementary cementitious material by Yimmy Fernando Silva, Claudia Burbano-Garcia, Gerardo Araya-Letelier, Silvia Izquierdo

“…This study evaluates the short and long term (up to 360 days) sulfate resistance performance of concretes incorporating copper slag (CS), a major global mining waste, as supplementary cementitious material (SCM). …”
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