Exploration of the intermolecular interactions in polyethylene glycol 400 + alkyl methacrylate mixtures at ambient temperatures by means of thermophysical and spectroscopic methods by Anil Kumar Nain, Nidhi, Neha Chaudhary

“…The u values have been estimated theoretically by means of scaled particle theory and compared with the experimental findings. …”
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Spatial Variations in PAHs and Nitro-PAHs Bound to Total Suspended Solids in Urban Locations in Taiwan by Hsin-Chieh Kung, Bo-Wun Huang, Justus Kavita Mutuku, Guo-Ping Chang-Chien

“…Diagnostic ratios indicate the dominance of combustion processes, especially from diesel engines, in the emission of PAHs and nitro-PAHs compared to petrogenic emissions. …”
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Source Identification of VOCs and their Environmental Health Risk in a Petrochemical Industrial Area by Nattaporn Pinthong, Sarawut Thepanondh, Akira Kondo

“…The Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) Version 5.0 was further utilized to estimate the contribution of specific sources to the VOC mixing ratio. …”
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Hydraulic fracture propagation characteristics of directional perforation fracturing in horizontal wells for deep coalbed methane by Shuxin HUANG, Song LI, Bo CHEN

“…However, the mechanisms of hydraulic fracture initiation and propagation under the influence of geological and engineering factors remain unclear. To explore directional perforation fracturing characteristics in deep coal seams, a three-dimensional discrete lattice simulation algorithm was used to establish a numerical model. …”
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Pedestrian Safety in South Africa: A Comprehensive Analysis by Mmakwena Modipa

“…This qualitative article utilized a non-empirical research design through a systematic review, relying entirely on secondary data. …”
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Comparative Analysis of AES, Blowfish, Twofish, Salsa20, and ChaCha20 for Image Encryption by Rebwar Khalid Muhammed, Ribwar Rashid Aziz, Alla Ahmad Hassan, Aso Mohammed Aladdin, Shaida Jumaah Saydah, Tarik Ahmed Rashid, Bryar Ahmad Hassan

“… Nowadays, cybersecurity has grown into a more significant and difficult sci-entific issue. The recognition of threats and attacks meant for knowledge and safety on the internet is growing harder to detect. …”
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Defect Detection in Concrete Structures Based on Characteristics of Hammer Reaction Force and Apparent Stiffness of Concrete by Koki Shoda, Jun Younes Louhi Kasahara, Qi An, Atsushi Yamashita

“…Concrete structures play a vital role in civil engineering. However, their deterioration poses a significant safety risk, making regular inspection essential. …”
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Protocol for a systematic review of economic evaluations considering costs and health outcomes of weather and climate-related extreme events in humans by Collins Iwuji, Saeideh Babashahi, Kingsley Orievulu, Ekeminiabasi Eyita-Okon, Dominic Kniveton

“…A comprehensive search will be conducted using several search engines, for example, PubMed, Scopus and Institute for Scientific Information Web of Science. …”
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Research progress of laser powder bed fusion of Ti2AlNb-based alloys: Microstructure, defects and properties by Jianfa Liao, Aoqi Fan, Haojie Luo, Yulei Du

“…Finally, we propose future development directions, including the design of new alloy compositions, crack control, optimization of heat treatment processes, and performance evaluation of practical engineering components.…”
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ErbB- and MUC1-targeted CAR-T cell immunotherapy of oral squamous cell carcinoma by Saffron E. Summers, Saffron E. Summers, Vehid Salih, Andrew D. Foey

“…In this review, the process of CAR-T cell engineering and different generations of these cells will be summarised, highlighting their potential use in treating HNSCC through targeting ErbB and MUC1; TAAs highly expressed by this solid tumour. …”
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Smart Filter Performance Monitoring System by Chenxing Pei, Weiqi Chen, Qisheng Ou, David Y. H. Pui

“…With the proposed system, residential customers can rest assured with their air purifiers or HVAC furnace filter; industrial customers can monitor the filtered air cleanness that will enter their internal combustion engines or gas turbines. Moreover, filter monitoring data can establish a database for researchers to validate the filter models or train a machine learning model for filter performance prediction. …”
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Comprehensive Analysis of Word Embedding Models and Design of Effective Feature Vector for Classification of Amazon Product Reviews by B. Priya Kamath, M. Geetha, U. Dinesh Acharya, Dipesh Singh, Ayush Rao, Shwetha Rai, Roopashri Shetty

“…Sentiment Analysis (SA) is a well-known and emerging research field in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and text classification. Feature engineering is considered to be one of the major steps in the Machine Learning (ML) pipeline with effective feature extraction playing a vital role in improving the performance of the SA tasks. …”
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Benefit Evaluation of Different Allocation Modes of Soil and Water Conservation Measures in Ta-pieh Mountains Area by ZHOU Jie, TIAN Pei, WU Yijin, JIA Tinghui, SHEN Chenzhu

“…[Results] (1) There was no obvious benefit of soil and water conservation in normal farming, but the benefit of soil and water conservation was improved under terraced field + tillage mode, and the comprehensive benefit of stone ridge terraced field + peanut-rape was the best, and the reduction rate of soil erosion reached 55%; (2) The allocation mode of biological measures combined with engineering measures has good water and soil conservation benefits, but there are differences in the benefits of runoff and sediment reduction. …”
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Case report: A novel 11-bp deletion in exon 11 causing a frameshift in the C-terminal of the ALAS2 gene leading to X-linked sideroblastic anemia—a family study by Salam Al kindi, Salam Al kindi, Altaf Al-Mamari, Shoaib Al-Zadjali, Mohamed Al-Rawahi, Ali Al Madhani, Anil V. Pathare

“…The screening of the entire family’s kindred revealed that two other male siblings were also hemizygous for the same mutation with hypochromic microcytic anemia and tissue iron overload, whereas, three female siblings and their mother were heterozygous for the mutant allele. …”
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Do international students and temporary foreign workers pay more than Canadian-born individuals in the rental market? by Feng Hou, Wendy Kei, Haozhen Zhang

“…The higher rental costs paid by international students within a given urban area (or neighbourhood) can be entirely accounted for by differences in dwelling characteristics, as international students were less likely than Canadian-born individuals to reside in subsidized housing and more likely to live in condominiums and newer buildings.…”
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Public Perception of Environmental Pollution in Warri, Nigeria by AA Obafemi, OS Eludoyin, BM Akinbosola

“…Cough disease was believed to be really affecting the entire people of the area as 19.7% and 44.7% of total respondents agreed that water pollution and air pollution respectively caused the disease. …”
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Identification and Quantification of Emission Hotspots of Air Pollutants over Bhubaneswar: A Smart City in Eastern India by Saroj Kumar Sahu, Pallavi Sahoo, Poonam Mangaraj, Gufran Beig, Bhishma Tyagi, Basanta Samal, Ashirbad Mishra, Ravi Yadav

“…Nearly 14% and 12% area of the entire study domain are found to be responsible for almost half of PM10 and NOx emissions respectively. …”
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Development of a new method for maintainability and downtime analysis of mining machinery by M. Rezaei Dashtaki, A. Jandaghi Jafari, S. H. Hoseinie

“…The results indicate that all shovels are predominantly maintained in less than 45 h, and 80% of repairs can be accomplished within a single shift, which is operationally understandable and manageable for the entire crew. Alongside maintainability research, a novel quantitative method has been established to examine the composition of downtimes based on primary categories of action: pre-repair actions, repair actions, and post-repair actions. …”
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Assessment of the nutritional constituents of Elaeis Guineensis Jacq exudates from different States of Nigeria by FI Obahiagbon, GE Ilori, JO Erhabor

“…The relative density of all the samples was above 1. The entire samples had little quantity of acetic acid. …”
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Study on the stability of excavation process of permafrost subgrade slope in Alpine region by Zhilong Zhang, Jiyang Zhang, Jiangang Chen, Jing Luo, Bingbing Lei

“…Abstract The high-altitude mountainous half-excavated and half-filled embankment slopes primarily focus on the long-term stability of slopes, while the safety evaluation methods for the excavation process have received comparatively less attention. In practical engineering applications, the stability assessment of frozen soil slopes is predominantly based on thawing parameters. …”
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