Plastic waste management strategies toward zero waste: Status, perspectives and recommendations for Ethiopia by Tadele Assefa Aragaw

“…To address this, the Ethiopian government needs to establish effective plastic waste management strategies. Key future direction and recommendation include (1) Developing and enforcing national strategies, including a ban on many single-use plastics, for sustainable plastic waste management; (2) adopting international best practices and policies to move toward a zero-waste approach; (3) investing in a circular economy and plastic waste management systems; (4) strengthening policies through comprehensive legislation and extended producer responsibility frameworks; (5) establishing a council to integrate scientific research into policymaking; (6) promoting green technologies and innovations, such as plastic waste-to-energy and smart waste management; (7) engaging in global efforts to monitor hazardous chemicals in plastics and support transparency in a toxic-free circular economy to ensure the public’s right to information.…”
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Ribbon synapse plasticity in the cochleae of Guinea pigs after noise-induced silent damage. by Lijuan Shi, Lijie Liu, Tingting He, Xiaojing Guo, Zhiping Yu, Shankai Yin, Jian Wang

“…Thus, deterioration in temporal processing originated from the cochlea. This deterioration developed with the recovery in hearing threshold and ribbon synapse counts, suggesting that the repaired synapses had deficits in temporal processing.…”
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Thermal behavior and pyrolytic degradation kinetics of polymeric mixtures from waste packaging plastics by R. Tuffi, S. D'Abramo, L. M. Cafiero, E. Trinca, S. Vecchio Ciprioti

“…To account for the reliability of these values the integral isoconversional modified method developed by Vyazovkin was also applied.…”
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Productive automation of calibration processes for crystal plasticity model parameters via reinforcement learning by Jonghwan Lee, Burcu Tasdemir, Suchandrima Das, Michael Martin, David Knowles, Mahmoud Mostafavi

“…Crystal Plasticity Finite Element (CPFE), which merges crystal plasticity principles with finite element analysis, can simulate the anisotropic grain-level mechanical behaviour of polycrystalline materials. …”
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Plastics of the left ventricle aneurysm with minimally invasive multivessel coronary artery bypass grafting by V.M. Demianenko, O.D. Babliak, D.Ye. Babliak, O.S. Stohov, E.A. Melnyk, K.A. Revenko, L.V. Pidgayna

“…The left ventricular aneurysm plastics through left thoracotomy without cardiopulmonary bypass was first described by Likoff and Bailey. …”
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Recyclable Robust Plastic Scintillation Resin Achieving the Exceptional Separation and Detection of Technetium‐99 by Tonghuan Liu, Yichen Hu, Junqiang Yang, Kesheng Hu, Bei Qi, Yun Zhou, Juan Tong, Man Wang, Liang Huang, Keliang Shi, Xiaolin Hou

“…This strategy paves a new way to develop stable resin for the rapid capture and accurate measurement of 99TcO4⁻, which owns great potential for practical application.…”
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The impact of COVID-19 on Australian plastic and reconstructive surgery trainees: a survey study by James Cockburn, Noah Betar, Bavahuna Manoharan

“…A questionnaire developed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on plastic and reconstructive surgery trainees in the United States of America was adapted for the Australian context. …”
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PREDICTION OF CONCRETE STRENGTH WITH MODIFIED PLASTIC WASTE AGGREGATE AS PARTIAL REPLACEMENT FOR COARSE AGGREGATE by Muhammad FU, Agboola SA

“…Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET), commonly found in plastic bottles and food containers, is a readily available source of plastic waste. …”
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Estimation of Plastic and Other Waste Disposed of by Longline and Gillnet Fleets Operating from Cilacap by Berri Miraz Kholipah Rahman, Wazir Mawardi, Muhammad Fedi Alfiadi Sondita, Craig Proctor

“…Without a quantitative assessment of the types and amount of debris, port management cannot develop a strategy to address this problem. This study estimated the quantities of plastics and cartons disposed of by these fisheries in the Indian Ocean. …”
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Evolution of plasticity in production and transgenerational inheritance of small RNAs under dynamic environmental conditions. by Willian T A F Silva, Sarah P Otto, Simone Immler

“…In a changing environment, small RNAs (sRNAs) play an important role in the post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression and can vary in abundance depending on the conditions experienced by an individual (phenotypic plasticity) and its parents (non-genetic inheritance). …”
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Promoting Motor Cortical Plasticity with Acute Aerobic Exercise: A Role for Cerebellar Circuits by Cameron S. Mang, Katlyn E. Brown, Jason L. Neva, Nicholas J. Snow, Kristin L. Campbell, Lara A. Boyd

“…Thus, the results of these planned comparisons indirectly provide modest evidence that modulation of cerebellar circuits may contribute to exercise-induced increases in M1 plasticity. The findings have implications for developing aerobic exercise strategies to “prime” M1 plasticity for enhanced motor skill learning in applied settings.…”
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Efficient secretion of a plastic degrading enzyme from the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by João Vitor Dutra Molino, Barbara Saucedo, Kalisa Kang, Chloe Walsh, Crisandra Jade Diaz, Marissa Tessman, Ryan Simkovsky, Stephen Mayfield

“…In response, there is a growing interest in developing plastics that biodegrade naturally, thus avoiding the creation of persistent microplastics. …”
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Public perception on plastic pollution: a web-based study in Dhaka City, Bangladesh by Md Mostafizur Rahman, Israt Jahan, Faezah U-Shah, Abir Mohd Shakib Shahide, Ifta Alam Shobuj, Md. Tanvir Hossain, Edris Alam, Md Kamrul Islam

“…These findings offer valuable insights for policymakers aiming to improve plastic pollution management in Dhaka and other developing urban areas.…”
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Phenotypic plasticity in the health status of western Mediterranean sardines. Estimation of spawning quantity and quality by Xènia Frigola-Tepe, Judith Ollé-Vilanova, Quentin Schull, Marta Caballero-Huertas, Marta Caballero-Huertas, Jordi Viñas, Marta Muñoz

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CLINICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE APPLICATION OF THE IMPROVED TECHNIQUE OF MANUFACTURING PLASTIC BASES OF REMOVABLE DENTURES by O. A. Kryvchuk

“…Despite this, their effectiveness remains insufficient, due to the poor influence of plate bases made of acrylic plastics. It is proposed to improve the technology of making bases of removable dentures from acrylic plastics in two directions: firstly, by modernizing the method of pressing acrylic plastics, and secondly, by applying coating on the inner surface. …”
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Potable water boiling can induce havoc in the water quality management arena due to the presence of microplastics by Renjith VishnuRadhan, Shagnika Das, Camille Hennion, T.I. Eldho, Anil Lonappan

Subjects: “…Drinking water: plastics…”
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Structure and relations of a multi-level mathematical model for describing microcracks formation during polycrystals deformation by K.A. Kurmoiartseva, N.V. Kotelnikova, P.S. Volegov

“…The structure and main relations of the developed model are presented, including a description of the most significant mechanisms carriers evolution implemented at each structural-scale level. …”
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Algorithms for calculation damage processes by Aleksandr Dmitrievich Nikitin, Nikolay G. Burago, Ilia S. Nikitin, Boris A. Stratula

“…The thermodynamic derivation of constitutive relations for solids with elastic, viscous and plastic properties accounting possible destruction is presented. …”
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Fructose-induced synaptic and neuronal adaptations at neuropeptide Y/agouti-related peptide neurons by Mikayla A. Payant, Aditi S. Sankhe, Persephone A. Miller, Sarah S. Vieira, Yasmina Dumiaty, Jenny Phy-Lim, Zachary L. Levy, Melissa J. Chee

“…Fructose is a naturally-occurring sugar, consumed in excess as sweeteners, and is linked to the development of obesity. Fructose is consumed with glucose (dextrose) in added sugars, but while dextrose produces satiety, excessive fructose intake promotes hyperphagia through the brain. …”
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Assortment of black currant cultivars for the Southern Urals by A. A. Vasiliev, F. M. Gasymov, N. V. Glaz

“…‘Seyanets Druzhnoy’, environmentally plastic but insufficiently stable (bi = 1.17; Si2 = 6.1), exceeded in its average yield the environmentally plastic and stable cvs. …”
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