The Quality of High-Performance Concretes as a Function of their Hardening Time by Aleksander Kapelko

“…Long-term testing has confirmed that compressive strength as a function of time is steadily increasing. The increase is rapid in the first days of hardening. …”
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Axisymmetric Free Vibration of Functionally Graded Piezoelectric Circular Plates by Yang Li, Yang Gao

“…An analytical solution is presented for axisymmetric free vibration analysis of a functionally graded piezoelectric circular plate on the basis of the three-dimensional elastic theory of piezoelectric materials. …”
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Analysis of a Heroin Epidemic Model with Saturated Treatment Function by Isaac Mwangi Wangari, Lewi Stone

“…In the absence of backward bifurcations, Lyapunov functions can often be found and used to prove global stability. …”
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Performance of onion cultivars as a function of spacing between plants by Jandeilson P. dos Santos, Leilson C. Grangeiro, Valdívia de F. L. de Sousa, Francisco das C. Gonçalves, Francisco D. de Franca, Carlos J. X. Cordeiro

“…ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of onion cultivars as a function of the spacing between plants. The experimental design was a complete randomized block in a 3 x 4 factorial scheme, with four replicates. …”
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Air quality investigation using functional data analysis methods by Akvilė Vitkauskaitė, Milda Salytė

“…Functional data analysis approaches were used to find the origins and effects of these air pollutants by revealing their data patterns. …”
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Development of cost functions for wastewater treatment by sequential batch reactor by Bhaskar Sengupta, Abhisek Roy, Somnath Mukherjee

“…In this document the novel and appropriate methodology has been presented to develop cost functions based on engineering, estimation and statistical approach to forecast cost for sequential batch reactor based wastewater treatment system. …”
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Functional capacity and level of physical activity in centenarians of Florianópolis, Brazil by Inês Amanda Streit, Artur Rodrigues Fortunato, Eduardo Hauser, Giovana Zarpellon Mazo

“…Aim: To compare the level of physical activity and functional capacity of centenarians from Florianópolis, Brazil. …”
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Artistic Functions of Distorted Speech in the “Fandorin corpus” by B. Akunin by A. B. Borunov

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Functions of Social and Cultural Activities of Culture Institutions as Social Centers by M. S. Yakushkina

“…The results of the analysis of functions of social and cultural activities of culture institutions as social centers are presented. …”
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Nonlinear Torsional Vibration of Size-Dependent Functionally Graded Rods by Reza Nazemnezhad, Ehsan Razavian Shad, Ali-Akbar Jandaghian

“…This study aims to investigate the effect of functionally graded materials (FGMs) on the internal resonances of nanorods in torsional vibration. …”
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Selected functional solutions of strategic controlling in organisations operating in Poland by Bieńkowska Agnieszka, Kral Zygmunt, Zabłocka-Kluczka Anna

“…Selected functional solutions of strategic controlling in organisations operating in Poland The purpose of the article is to present partial results of the nationwide research with regard to selected functional solutions of strategic controlling. …”
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Layer-by-layer deposition of functional click polymers for microarray applications by L. Sola, A. Romanato, M. B. Siboni, F. Damin, E. Chiodi, D. Brambilla, M. Cretich, A. Gori, M. Chiari

“…A versatile approach to control the thickness of a polymeric coating based on click chemistry to obtain covalently linked layer-by-layer coatings for surface functionalization is presented. By alternating cycles of coating using copolymers bearing click groups, the thickness of the film increases, while remaining functional and stable. …”
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The aspartate-less receiver (ALR) domains: distribution, structure and function. by Andrew F Maule, David P Wright, Joshua J Weiner, Lanlan Han, Francis C Peterson, Brian F Volkman, Nicholas R Silvaggi, Andrew T Ulijasz

“…Although it is known that some REC domains are missing this Asp residue, it remains unclear as to how many of these divergent REC domains exist, what their functional roles are and how they are regulated in the absence of the conserved Asp. …”
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Vinylogous functionalization of 4-alkylidene-5-aminopyrazoles with methyl trifluoropyruvates by Judit Hostalet-Romero, Laura Carceller-Ferrer, Gonzalo Blay, Amparo Sanz-Marco, José R. Pedro, Carlos Vila

“…A valuable vinylogous addition reaction between 4-alkylidene-5-aminopyrazoles and alkyl trifluoropyruvates leading to highly functionalized tertiary alcohols bearing a trifluoromethyl group and a pyrazole ring is presented. …”
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Fungal fairy rings: history, ecology, dynamics and engineering functions by Maurizio Zotti, Giuliano Bonanomi, Stefano Mazzoleni

“…An historical appraisal from the most representative pioneer studies until recent works is presented in different scientific fields, including microbiology, chemistry, botany and ecology. …”
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FUNCTIONING YOUTH EDUCATIONAL CENTERS IN THE TIME OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC by Mirosław Mielczarek

“…The presented article analyzes the functioning of youth educational centers during the COVID-19 pandemic, based on our own research. …”
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Path Planning with Obstacle Avoidance Based on Normalized R-Functions by Songqiao Tao, Juan Tan

“…Besides, a normalized approach ensures accuracy calculation of signed distance function. Experimental results have shown that the presented approach is a feasible way for path planning with obstacle avoidance.…”
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Application of fragmentation function to the indirect production of fully charmed tetraquark by Hong-Hao Ma, Zheng-Kui Tao, Juan-Juan Niu

“…The corresponding theoretical uncertainty of heavy quark mass $$m_c$$ m c and distribution of energy fraction are also presented. The results show that the contribution for the production of $$T_{4c}$$ T 4 c through $$W^+$$ W + decay channel at LHC is relatively large. …”
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Neural network distillation of orbital dependent density functional theory by Matija Medvidović, Jaylyn C. Umana, Iman Ahmadabadi, Domenico Di Sante, Johannes Flick, Angel Rubio

“…The presented framework is general and could be extended to more complex orbital and energy dependent functionals as well as refined with specialized datasets.…”
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ZnO Functional Nanomaterial in Green Microalgae Growth Advancement by Praskoviya Boltovets, Sergii Kravchenko, Viktoriya Petlovana

“…As far as biosensor application is concerned, it is important to optimize the determination of target molecules in spatial and temporal modes. The purpose of the presented work was to study the effect of functional nanomaterials on the growth (the temporal component) and morphology (the spatial component) of cell culture. …”
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