Strength, Hydraulic, and Microstructural Characteristics of Expansive Soils Incorporating Marble Dust and Rice Husk Ash by Fazal E. Jalal, Sultani Mulk, Shazim Ali Memon, Babak Jamhiri, Ahsan Naseem

“…Expansive/swell-shrink soils exhibit high plasticity and low strength, which lead to settlement and instability of lightly loaded structures. These problematic soils contain various swelling clay minerals that are unsuitable for engineering requirements. …”
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Image-Based Detection and Classification of Malaria Parasites and Leukocytes with Quality Assessment of Romanowsky-Stained Blood Smears by Jhonathan Sora-Cardenas, Wendy M. Fong-Amaris, Cesar A. Salazar-Centeno, Alejandro Castañeda, Oscar D. Martínez-Bernal, Daniel R. Suárez, Carol Martínez

“…Traditional diagnostic methods often struggle with inconsistent stain quality, lighting variations, and limited resources in endemic regions, making manual detection time-intensive and error-prone. …”
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Ecosystem services value for water provisioning in the Shule River Basin of northwestern China: Spatial and temporal evolution and drivers from 2000 to 2022 by Peng Shi, Dongmei Zhou, Jing Jiang, Jing Ma, Xiaoyan Zhu, Jun Zhang, Zihe Li, Qinghan Dong

“…Following the order of decreasing importance, these were land cover, land-use type, topographic surface (represented by the DEM), precipitation, temperature, population density, and economic activity (represented by nighttime lighting). The spatiotemporal evolution of water-provisioning ecosystem services in the Shule River Basin and its driving mechanisms are important for the sustainable development of the local economy. …”
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Implementation fidelity of a multisite maternity waiting homes programme in rural Zambia: application of the conceptual framework for implementation fidelity to a complex, hybrid-d... by Peter C Rockers, Godfrey Biemba, Davidson H Hamer, Nancy A Scott, Jeanette L Kaiser, Taryn Vian, Thandiwe Ngoma, Misheck Bwalya, Viviane Sakanga, Allison J Morgan

“…User experience corroborated poorer performing elements: insufficient lighting, small cooking spaces, non-locking cabinets and few educational classes. …”
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Substituting Fish Meal with Tubiechong (Eupolyphaga sinensis) By-Product in the Diets of Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides): Effects on Growth, Meat Quality, and Liver Health by Yuhua Yue, Binbin Tong, Mingshi Chen, Xiaoxue Bao, Yanming Qiu, Ying Yang, Hui Yu, Yingying Yu

“…Concurrently, the meat quality in the replacement groups was higher, specifically, the lightness and white values were higher, and the water loss rates were lower (P<0.05) than that in the control group. …”
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Physical, Textural, Rheological, and Sensory Characteristics of Amaranth-Based Wheat Flour Bread by Sahreen Nasir, Farhana Mehraj Allai, Murtaza Gani, Shaiq Ganaie, Khalid Gul, Aabida Jabeen, Darakshan Majeed

“…Bread samples with 5%, 10%, and 15% of AF showed lower yellowness (b∗) and higher lightness (L∗) and redness (a∗) values for crust colour while lower L∗ and higher a∗ and b∗ values for crumb colour. …”
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Electronic Playback Devices to Reduce Ungulates’ Attendance in an Olive Grove Farm in the Province of Florence (Italy) by Leonardo Conti, Giulia Angeloni, Piernicola Masella, Caterina Sottili, Ferdinando Corti, Stefano Camiciottoli, Veronica Racanelli, Agnese Spadi, Francesco Garbati Pegna, Alessandro Parenti

“…These devices use sounds and lights to induce wild animals to be afraid and thus run away from the cultivated plot to be protected. …”
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Evaluating Prospective Energy Services Demand for Residential Solar Photovoltaic (RSPV) Generated Electricity in Lagos State, Nigeria by Olalekan Jesuleye, Andrew Oriola, Adeyemi Adepoju

“…The results show that the energy intensity for refrigeration services is 1.06 kWh/hh/day, entertainment services is 0.84 kWh/hh/day, computing services is 0.97 kWh/hh/day, space cooling services is 7.59 kWh/hh/day, ventilation services is 9.05 kWh/hh/day, lighting services is kWh/hh/day, cooking services 2.77 kWh/hh/day, process heating services is 6.43 kWh/hh/day and water pumping is 1.89 kWh/hh/day. …”
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Effects of Tannic Acid Supplementation of a High-Carbohydrate Diet on the Growth, Serum Biochemical Parameters, Antioxidant Capacity, Digestive Enzyme Activity, and Liver and Intes... by Yi Wang, Jianjun Wu, Luoxin Li, Yuanfeng Yao, Chiqing Chen, Yucong Hong, Yi Chai, Wei Liu

“…Compared with the HC0 diet, 400 mg/kg dietary TA significantly increased serum catalase activity (P<0.05), and significantly decreased serum malondialdehyde, liver glycogen, lightness (L ∗), and yellowness (b ∗) (P<0.05). Moreover, compared with the HC0 diet, 200–400 mg/kg dietary TA effectively improved the vacuolation of hepatocytes caused by the high-carbohydrate diet and reduced the occurrence of intestinal epithelial cell vacuolation and necrosis. …”
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Preliminary Exploration of Natural Polyphenols and/or Herbal Mix Replacing Sodium Nitrate to Improve the Storage Quality of Pork Sausage by Angeliki-Niki Kaloudi, Agori Karageorgou, Michael Goliomytis, Panagiotis Simitzis

“…It was illustrated that the oxidative stability of sausages was ameliorated as a consequence of POL or/and NM addition, since the values of malondialdehyde (MDA) were significantly decreased compared to the control (<i>p</i> < 0.001) at months 1, 2 and 3, and the values were similar to those observed in the SN group that served as a positive control. Values for the lightness (L), shear force and cooking loss were similar among the experimental treatments (<i>p</i> > 0.05). …”
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Physicochemical Properties and Total Carotenoid Content of High-Quality Unripe Plantain Flour from Varieties of Hybrid Plantain Cultivars by Ekpereka Oluchukwu Anajekwu, Busie Maziya-Dixon, Rahman Akinoso, Wasiu Awoyale, Emmanuel Oladeji Alamu

“…Potassium ranged from 328.30–528.50 mg/kg, Calcium (9.46–11.98 mg/kg), Magnesium (24.73–29.11 mg/kg), Sodium (6.30–7.24 mg/kg), Zinc (0.12–0.29 mg/kg), and manganese (0.03–0.15 mg/kg). The L∗ (Lightness) ranged from 62.88 to 67.00. Bulk density ranged from 0.72 to 0.77 g/ml, WAC (143.59–174.08), OAC (98.07–100.66%), swelling power capacity (10.63 to 11.82%), solubility (5.58–6.71%), and dispersibility (86.50–88.00%). …”
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Comparative evaluation of Acheta domesticus and Hermetia illucens as alternative protein sources for the growth, health, and meat quality of the broiler by Farwa Mustafa, Asif Sajjad, Muhammad Sajjad, Mudssar Ali, Hafiza Sehrish Bashir, Muhammad Ghazanfar Abbas, Muhammad Binyameen, Raimondas Mozūratis, Raimondas Mozūratis

“…Feeding 12% A. domesticus and 12% H. illucens also had a significant positive impact on the meat quality traits of broilers, such as maximum redness (a*) and yellowness (b*) with minimal cooking loss and lightness (L*) (p &lt; 0.05) than the broilers fed the control diet. …”
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Improving the physiological status of broiler chickens using rosemary leaf meal and sodium bentonite as ammonia gas control agents by Mercy Chisara Ogwuegbu, Fredrick Ugochukwu Udeh, Josephine Chinenye Ugwuozor, Precious Ezinne Okoye, Joy Chimela Kalu, Emmanuel Chinonso Arum, Doctor Mziwenkosi Nhlanhla Mthiyane

“…Meat quality parameters such as redness, yellowness and water holding capacity improved significantly (P < 0.05), while lightness, driploss, and litter ammonia levels decreased. …”
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Effects of Providing Enrichment to Broilers in an Animal Welfare Environment on Productivity, Litter Moisture, Gas Concentration (CO₂ and NH₃), Animal Welfare... by Chan-Ho Kim, Woo-Do Lee, Ji-Seon Son, Jung-Hwan Jeon, Se-Jin Lim, Su-Mi Kim

“…Other environmental conditions (density, lighting, ventilation, temperature, humidity, feed, and water) were the same. …”
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The combination of hot water spray and subzero saline chilling improved chilling efficiency, meat quality, and sensory attributes by K. Kawamura, D. Ma, D.U. Ahn, H.-S. Seo, V. Hogan, L.N. Stephens, J. Moallem, J.W. Jin, I. Kang

“…HWS treatments showed higher lightness values (or partially cooked appearance) than WIC and SSC. …”
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ATRIBUT PENATAAN RUANG-DALAM PADA CO-WORKING SPACE BERDASARKAN PILIHAN KONSUMEN by Ulfaizah Ulfa Sahril Nurfadhillah, Diananta Pramitasari

“…The results show that in doing work in coworking  spaces, users tend to like contemporary architectural styles, with spaces that maximize natural lighting, namely windows and the use of tall and large glass walls, workspaces that are dominated by plant decorations, providing work space and furniture with a more private function and quiet area, the use of furnitures such as chairs and work desks with a more relaxed function and form and the provision of space by maximizing the use of natural ventilation in the form of semi-open workspaces and outdoor workspaces. …”
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RBMDC-Net: Effective Jaw Cyst Segmentation Network Using Residual Bottleneck and Multiscale Dilated Convolution by Huixia Zheng, Xiaoliang Jiang, Xu Xu, Zhenfei Yuan

“…These datasets encompass a wide range of jaw cyst characteristics, including size, shape, and location, as well as varying environmental conditions such as lighting and imaging quality. The experimental results demonstrate that our proposed RBMDC-Net significantly outperforms other comparable methods in the task of image segmentation. …”
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Near-infrared spectroscopy combined with vascular occlusion test to predict acute kidney injury in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: a prospective observational study by Ling Peng, Yeying Zheng, Fei Guo, Mengdan Su, Wei Wei

“…Abstract Background Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) enables a non-invasive measurement of tissue oxygen saturation (StO2) in regions illuminated by near-infrared lights. Vascular occlusion test (VOT) serves as a model to artificially induce forearm ischemia-reperfusion. …”
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Quality Evaluation of Muffins Enriched With Blueberry and Cranberry Powders by Njomza Gashi, Endrit Hasani, Salih Salihu

“…Furthermore, a direct relationship was observed between the concentration of these extracts and redness (a∗), while the ratio is inverse for the parameters of lightness (L∗), yellowness (b∗), chroma (C∗), and the value of hue angle (h). …”
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Le corps féminin à Casablanca : un reflet mouvant des rôles de genre ? by Leila Bouasria, Nezha Aidi

“…For a long time, plumpness was a criterion of feminine beauty indicating privileged social status, while a supple body suggested lightness in movement and, by extension, moral looseness in a Maghrebian context where women were expected to be secluded to maintain the established patriarchal order. …”
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