The influence of mineralogical composition and alkali reactivity for utilization of some Egyptian crushed granites as a concrete aggregate by Maged El-fakharany, Ahmed Omar, Mahmoud Abdellatif

“… Egyptian Eastern Desert is rich in many areas that contain granites masses throughout the geological era; some of them show good characteristics of the rock hardness, durability, density and mineralogy. …”
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THE SOCIAL COMPOSITION AND MAIN TASKS OF RUSSIAN RIGHT-MONARCHIST AND CENTRIST POLITICAL PARTIES OF THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY by A. S. Zabolotskikh

“…The ideology of the Black Hundreds, which had the universal Christian character, reflecting the traditionalist outlook of the country's population, contributed to their penetration into the masses. Contrary to popular belief, the big bourgeoisie and the landlord class were not the only groups that are members of the «Union of October 17th». …”
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Free and Forced Vibrations of an Axially-Loaded Timoshenko Multi-Span Beam Carrying a Number of Various Concentrated Elements by Yusuf Yesilce

“…The purpose of this paper is to utilize the numerical assembly technique to determine the exact frequency-response amplitudes of the axially-loaded Timoshenko multi-span beam carrying a number of various concentrated elements (including point masses, rotary inertias, linear springs and rotational springs) and subjected to a harmonic concentrated force and the exact natural frequencies and mode shapes of the beam for the free vibration analysis. …”
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Determination of Appropriate Thresholding Method in Segmentation Stage in Detecting Breast Cancer Cells by Adem Polat, Cihat Ediz Akbaba

“…In this study, the determination of the most appropriate thresholding method for detecting the main tumor masses in the layered images was investigated. Moreo-ver, the contours of the tumoroid were determined in the original images based on applying the outcomes of thresholding. …”
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Simultaneous determination of macrolides in water samples by solid-phase extraction and capillary electrophoresis by Pavlović Dragana Mutavdžić, Babić Sandra, Čizmić Mirta, Sertić Miranda, Pinušić Tea

“…These compounds were extracted with different types of sorbents ( Oasis HLB, C18, C8, SDB, and Strata-X) and different masses of sorbents (60 mg, 200 mg, and 500 mg) using different organic solvents (methanol, ethanol, and acetonitrile) and different pH values of water samples (pH 7.00, 8.00, and 9.00). …”
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Coupled Dynamics of Vehicle-Bridge Interaction System Using High Efficiency Method by Lu Sun, Xingzhuang Zhao

“…This paper studies the accuracy and efficiency of discretizing the beam in space as lumped masses using the flexibility method and as finite elements using the stiffness method. …”
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Waist Circumference as Measure of Abdominal Fat Compartments by Scott M. Grundy, Ian J. Neeland, Aslan T. Turer, Gloria Lena Vega

“…Total abdominal fat (TAF), ASF, and IPF masses were measured by magnetic resonance imaging. …”
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The Hottest Neptunes Orbit Metal-rich Stars by Shreyas Vissapragada, Aida Behmard

“…A handful of close-in planets with masses between those of Neptune and Saturn have now been discovered, and their puzzling properties have inspired a number of interesting theories on the formation and evolution of desert-dwellers. …”
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Soviet Diplomacy and Intelligence Efforts to Facilitate Finland’s Withdrawal from the 1941– 1944 War: Insights from Russian Archive by V. S. Khristoforov

“…Through both intelligence channels and foreign policy efforts, Moscow gathered information in early 1941 about the growing alliance between Berlin and Helsinki, including increased German-Finnish military collaboration, the deployment of German troops and military equipment in Finland, the recruitment of Finnish volunteers for SS units in Germany, the construction of fortifications along the Soviet border, and the massing of Finnish forces near the Soviet frontier. …”
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Reflections of Asabiyyah Effect on Social Differentiation in Social Media: The Case of the July 15th Military Coup Attempt by Mustafa Sami Mencet, Onur Ertürk

“…For thispurpose, in this study, social media activities and the reactance of the masses pre – and intra-coup attemptare analyzed. Two hashtags and two visual contents representing the different reflections of the processof the 15th of July Coup Attempt in the social media are analyzed through Roland Barthes’s SemiologicalDenotation/Connotation Model, and the role of the media in the assumption of different attitudes of themasses are examined by scrutinizing the different attitudes of both pro – and against-government partiesand the collective actions through the Asabiyyah theory of Ibn Khaldun. …”
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Weedy plants at Ugolnye Kopi Village, Anadyrsky District, Chukotka Autonomous Area by E. G. Nikolin

“…Despite a relatively low latitude (64°44’N), more suitable for the development of boreal vegetation, the effect of cold-sea air masses on the environments of this locality forms vegetation more typical of the Subarctic tundra subzone. …”
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Landslide hazard assessment of an urban agglomeration in central Guizhou Province based on an information value method and SVM, bagging, DNN algorithm by Junhua Luo, Zulun Zhao, Wei Li, Liang Huang, Weiquan Zhao

“…Abstract The urban agglomeration in central Guizhou is located in a crustal deformation area caused by tectonic uplift between the Mesozoic orogenic belt of East Asia and the Alpine-Tethys Cenozoic orogenic belt, with high mountains, steep slopes, fractured rock masses and a fragile ecological environment; this area is the most affected by landslides in Guizhou Province, China. …”
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Urban parks biowaste as a sustainable source of new antidiabetics by Marijan Marijan, Jakupović Lejsa, Vujić Lovorka, Jurić Marina, Končić Marijana Zovko

“…Biowaste produced in urban parks is composed of large masses of organic matter that is only occasionally used economically. …”
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Effect of symbiont-targeted control of Halyomorpha halys on the co-occurring pentatomid community by Sofia V. Prieto, Bianca Orrù, Elena Gonella, Alberto Alma

“…Laboratory tests were conducted assessing the consequences of symbiont deprivation during the first nymphal instar. Egg masses treatment with an anti-symbiont formulation affected hatching rates in D. baccarum and G. italicum, while the mortality rates during the first instar increased in C. purpureipennis and G. italicum. …”
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Decolonising global health evaluation: Synthesis from a scoping review. by Ichhya Pant, Sonal Khosla, Jasmine Tenpa Lama, Vidhya Shanker, Mohammed AlKhaldi, Aisha El-Basuoni, Beth Michel, Khalil Bitar, Ifeanyi McWilliams Nsofor

“…As decolonisation awareness and activism amplifies in the mainstream masses and within academic realms across a variety of fields, the time is right to converge parallel movements to decolonise the fields of global health and evaluation by restructuring relations of dependency and domination reified through the "foreign gaze"1 or "white gaze." …”
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A Comparative Study on India’s Green Tax Policies Vis-a-Vis China with Reference to Environmental Justice in the Automobile Industry by Naresh Anguralia and Shamsher Singh

“…Academic discussions and literature on the subject are still lacking among the masses. Researchers intend to analyze the legal and economic measures taken by the Indian Government to curb vehicular pollution against this background. …”
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A New Unified Solution for Deep Tunnels in Water-Rich Areas considering Pore Water Pressure by Hao Fan, Lianguo Wang, Shuai Wang, Chongyang Jiang

“…Tunnels surrounded by rock masses with a higher residual cohesion experience lower postpeak zone radii and surface displacement. …”
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Signals of propaganda-Detecting and estimating political influences in information spread in social networks. by Alon Sela, Omer Neter, Václav Lohr, Petr Cihelka, Fan Wang, Moti Zwilling, John Phillip Sabou, Miloš Ulman

“…Protected by the anonymity of the internet, political actors use computational propaganda to influence the masses. Their methods include the use of synchronized or individual bots, multiple accounts operated by one social media management tool, or different manipulations of search engines and social network algorithms, all aiming to promote their ideology. …”
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C-reactive protein as a diagnostic marker for ovarian carcinoma by Angga Dewi Umar Wahyu, Syahrul Rauf, Susiawaty Susiawaty, Maisuri T. Chalid, Nugraha Utama Pelupessy, Irma Savitri

“…C-reactive protein (CRP) has shown promise as a cost-effective biomarker to distinguish ovarian carcinoma from benign ovarian masses. Elevated CRP levels are associated with an increased risk of ovarian cancer. …”
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In Vivo Noninvasive Optical Imaging of Receptor-Mediated RGD Internalization Using Self-Quenched Cy5-Labeled RAFT-c(-RGDfK-) by Zhao-Hui Jin, Jesus Razkin, Veronique Josserand, Didier Boturyn, Alexeï Grichine, Isabelle Texier, Marie-Christine Favrot, Pascal Dumy, Jean-Luc Coll

“…In addition, this quenched RAFT-c(-RGDfK-) 4 -Cy5-SS-Q probe is a very powerful vector for imaging tumor masses and investigating in vivo RGD-mediated internalization.…”
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