Mechanical behavior and meso-degradation mechanism of cemented paste backfill under the coupled effect of disturbance damage and dry-wet cycles by Jifeng Hou, Kuiyuan Liu, Jinbo Li, Bin Wang

“…Above this threshold, however, dry-wet degradation occurs, and the elastic modulus degrades more significantly than the peak strength. ③The impact of disturbance damage diminishes with increasing dry-wet cycles. ④Under the coupled effect of disturbance damage and dry-wet cycles, the bind force between particles in CPB samples decreases, the energy absorption and storage capacity decreases, the frictional energy consumption increases, internal pores and microcracks initiate and develop, and the internal structure changes from dense to loose porous. …”
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Groundwater Quality Assessment Based on Improved Water Quality Index in Pengyang County, Ningxia, Northwest China by Li Pei-Yue, Qian Hui, Wu Jian-Hua

“…Information entropy weight makes WQI perfect and makes the assessment results more reasonable. The WQI for 74 samples ranges from 12.40 to 205.24 and over 90% of the samples are below 100. …”
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Piezoelectric Sensors Placement Strategy for Accurate Acoustic Data Evaluation in Cavitation-induced Erosion Processes by A. Nasseroleslami, A. Sarreshtehdari, M. S. Seif

“…A quick method for identifying cavitation erosion involves applying a special color to the sample plate. …”
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Preliminary results from monitoring perfluoroalkyl substance contamination in the livers of broiler chickens raised in Italy by Giacomo Depau, Marco Zampiga, Giulia Rampazzo, Elisa Zironi, Federico Sirri, Giampiero Pagliuca, Teresa Gazzotti

“…Further monitoring across more diverse samples is needed to confirm these preliminary findings and define mitigation strategies to reduce the risk of PFAS contamination. …”
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A Flow Cytometry Protocol for Measurement of Plant Genome Size Using Frozen Material by Abhishek Soni, Lena Constantin, Agnelo Furtado, Robert J Henry

“…In certain species, frozen samples can yield substantially more nuclei than fresh material. …”
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Combination of Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) with chemometrics for halal authentication of face mask products made from gelatin by Nina Salamah, Rabiatul Adawiyah, Any Guntarti, Hari Susanti

“…Porcine gelatin is often used to replace bovine gelatin because its production costs are more affordable, so there are concerns about contamination with haram ingredients such as porcine, along with the boom in face mask products circulating in Indonesia. …”
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Optimizing mouse metatranscriptome profiling by selective removal of redundant nucleic acid sequences by Morgan Roos, Samuel Bunga, Asako Tan, Erica Maissy, Dylan Skola, Alexander Richter, Daniel S. Whittaker, Paula Desplats, Amir Zarrinpar, Rick Conrad, Scott Kuersten

“…Our results demonstrate this method as efficient and consistent for rRNA removal in mouse cecal samples, thus providing a significant increase in the number of mRNA-rich sequencing reads for MetaT analysis.…”
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Identify Main-sequence Binaries from the Chinese Space Station Telescope Survey with Machine Learning. II. Based on Gaia and GALEX by Jia-jia Li, Jian-ping Xiong, Zhi-jia Tian, Chao Liu, Zhan-wen Han, Xue-fei Chen

“…We further utilized detection efficiencies and an empirical mass ratio distribution to estimate the binary fraction within the sample. To further validate the effectiveness of this method, we conducted a more realistic sample simulation, incorporating additional factors such as metallicity, extinction, and photometric errors from CSST simulations. …”
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Alte und neue Wege in der Rheometrie der Polymer-Schmelzen by Joachim Meissner

“…The first results show that after a rotation of the shear flow direction an anisotropy of the shear stress components follows due to the primary molecular orientation which needs time for readjustment to the new shear direction. In part II methods of elongational rheometry are described. In simple elongation small samples provide rheological information even if only a small amount of polymer is available. …”
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UPLC-MS/MS Analysis of Hydroxyanthracene Derivatives in Botanical Food Products and Supplements: Surveillance of the Italian Market by Mariantonietta Peloso, Alessandro Capriotti, Damiano Accurso, Elena Butovskaya, Giorgio Fedrizzi, Elisabetta Caprai

“…No sample contained danthron. Conversely, in the majority of aloe beverage samples, HAD levels were found to be below the LOQ. …”
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Development of a reversed dispersive based graphene functionalized with multiwalled carbon nanotubes for detection of β2-agonists in pork by high-performance liquid chromatography by Ying-Wen Qian, Xia Hong, Cai-Xia Yuan, Xin-Kui Zhou, Hai-Ning He, Dong-Shuai Wang

“…The precisions of the current method (coefficient of variation) are lower than 5%, while recoveries are more than 98.3%. …”
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气相色谱-质谱法同时检测植物油中2-氯丙醇酯、 3-氯丙醇酯和缩水甘油酯及其风险评估Simultaneous determination of 2-chloropropanol ester, 3-chloropropanol ester and glycidyl esters in vegetable oils by gas chrom... by 郝宇1,2，马艺荧3，于力涛3HAO Yu1,2, MA Yiying3, YU Litao3

“…The method showed good linearity for 2-MCPDE and 3-MCPDE in 5-800 ng/mL range, and total 3-MCPDE and GEs in 10-1 600 ng/mL range, with detection limits of 10.0 μg/kg, quantification limits of 25.0 μg/kg, determination coefficients more than 0.998, and high sensitivity. …”
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Dynamics of the Dissipation of Acetamiprid, Azoxystrobin, and β-Cyfluthrin in Jalapeño Pepper (<i>Capsicum annuum</i> L.) Produced Under Greenhouse and Open-Field Conditions by Luis Alfonso Jiménez-Ortega, Jaime Villa-Bojórquez, Pedro de Jesús Bastidas-Bastidas, Rosalba Contreras-Martínez, José Armando Carrillo-Fasio, Manuel Alonzo Báez-Sañudo

“…We believe these findings underscore the reliability and applicability of the method for monitoring pesticide residues in real-world scenarios.…”
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Non-destructive detection of internal quality of apple based on CT image by HUANG Taotao, SUN Teng, ZHANG Jingping

“…We intend to make CT non-destructive detection method much more useful in the prediction of the apple quality.Firstly, the window/level number of CT image should be unified at an appropriate level, before building the model between CT numbers and gray level values. …”
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MACROECONOMIC POLICIES AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN SELECTED ARAB COUNTRIES FOR THE PERIOD 1990-2020 by Eman Alzubaidi, Walid Sultan Albajari

“…Estimated from the first model on the economic growth of the second stage v Using the two-stage method, in order to reach more accurate results, and one of the most important conclusions reached by the research is that all economic variables are stable at the first level and difference, so the ARDL autoregressive vector model was chosen to estimate the relationship between the long and short term variables. …”
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Effect of Hot-Water Blanching Pretreatment on Drying Characteristics and Product Qualities for the Novel Integrated Freeze-Drying of Apple Slices by Hai-ou Wang, Qing-quan Fu, Shou-jiang Chen, Zhi-chao Hu, Huan-xiong Xie

“…The effect of hot-water blanching (HWB) on drying characteristics and product qualities of dried apple slices with the novel integrated freeze-drying (NIFD) process was investigated by comparing with 3 different FD methods. Compared with the NIFD process without HWB pretreatment (VF-FD), the NIFD process with HWB pretreatment (HWB-VF-FD) resulted in a significantly higher mass loss and more sufficient freezing in vacuum-frozen samples, significantly higher rehydration ratio (RR), higher shrinkage ratio (SR), smaller Vitamin C (VC) content and lower hardness and better apparent shape in freeze-dried samples, and fewer change to the color of the dried or rehydrated samples (p<0.05). …”
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Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Associated with Wati (Piper methysticum), a Medicinal Plant from Merauke Lowland, Papua, Indonesia by Suharno Suharno, Supeni Sufaati, Verena Agustini, Rosye H. R. Tanjung

“…Further work will be needed such as trap-plant culture method to get more information on the diversity of AMF associated with Wati.…”
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Catalytic behavior of Pt nanoparticles dealuminated Y-zeolite for some n-alkane hydroisomerization by S.A. Hanafi, H.M. Gobara, M.S. Elmelawy, S.A. Abo-El-Enein, A.A. Alkahlawy

“…Dealuminated zeolite Y-supported platinum was prepared adopting two dealumination methods, viz. fast (1, 3 and 6 h) and slow method (18 h). …”
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VIBROACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS REINFORCED BY CARBON FIBRES by Irina V. Zlobina, Danila V. Morozov, Sergey P. Pavlov

“…Objectives The aim of the research is to study the features of the propagation of mechanical oscillation waves of ultrasonic frequency through composite materials, including those exposed to a microwave electromagnetic field. Methods The propagation of mechanical waves generated by a source of ultrasonic vibrations is investigated in samples of composite materials reinforced by carbon fibres as used in aircraft construction. …”
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Seroprevalence Study of Dengue at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Jaipur, Rajasthan by Ashina Singla, Afreen Ali, Himanshi Galav, Ved Prakash Mamoria

“…Results: One thousand seven hundred and sixty-three serum samples were tested for dengue NS1 antigen, IgM, and IgG, out of which 1066 were positive for one or more serological parameters. …”
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