Abrasive resistance and microhardness of self-adhesive (Surefil one) and conventional bulk fill composites: An- in vitro study. by Maryam Fakher Ibrahim, Bahar Jafaar Selivany, Abduloma Baraka Ali

“…Materials and Methods: For the abrasive resistance test, thirty composite discs (4 mm hieght×8 mm width) in each group (n=10) were fabricated. …”
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Association Between Bone Mineral Density and Body Composition in an Iranian Population: A Cross-Sectional Study by Alireza Askari, Maryam Abidi, Zahra Ghiasi, Mojtaba Farjam, Jalaledin Mirzay Razzaz, Reza Homayounfar

“…The findings aimed to inform more effective prevention and treatment strategies to reduce osteoporosis-related complications and associated healthcare costs.Methods: This cross-sectional study randomly selected 1500 participants, 570 men (38%) and 930 women (62%), aged >15 years from a health clinic in Tehran (Iran) during 2016-2017. …”
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Experimental Study on Brine Storage for Overwintering by Using Salinity-Gradient Solar Pond in Zabuye Salt Lake, Tibet by Qian Wu, Yunsheng Wang, Jintao Zhang, Ke Zhang, Juntao Li, Zhikui He, Lingzhong Bu, Jiangjiang Yu, Zhen Nie

“…In order to improve the lithium yield and grade of a single crystallization pond, the cross-year brine mixing method can be used to increase the initial temperature and CO₃²⁻ concentration of the raw brine for making the SGSP. …”
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Impact of Resistance Training on Body Composition and Physical Function in Individuals with Down Syndrome: A Meta-Analysis by Hou-Ting Kuo, Ting-Hsu Lee, Li-An Su, Li-Yun Wu, Ping-Yan Mao, Ciao-Ci Yang

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Temporal changes in ruminal microbiota composition and diversity in dairy cows supplemented with a lactobacilli-based DFM by Bronwyn E. Campbell, Mohammad Mahmudul Hassan, Robert J. Moore, Timothy Olchowy, Martin Soust, Rafat Al Jassim, John I. Alawneh, John I. Alawneh

“…Conversely, Bacillus_P_294101 and SFMI01 were more abundant in the CON group. Temporal changes in microbial composition were observed, with significant differences in community diversity and structure between groups over time.DiscussionThese findings demonstrate that lactobacilli-based DFM supplementation can significantly alter the ruminal microbial ecosystem in dairy cows. …”
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Assessment of color stability and translucency of various CAD/CAM ceramics of different compositions and Thicknesses: An in vitro study by Passent Ellakany, Nourhan M. Aly, Shahad T. Alameer, Turki Alshehri, Shaimaa M. Fouda

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Securing aesthetic outcomes for composite grafts to alar margin and columellar defects: A long term experience by Rajeev B. Ahuja, Rajat Gupta, Pallab Chatterjee, Prabhat Shrivastava

“…Patients and Methods: Patient ages ranged from 3-35 years with 5 males and 14 females. …”
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Fracture resistance of endodontically treated teeth restored with indirect composite inlay and onlay restorations – An in vitro study by Ibraheem F. Alshiddi, Amjad Aljinbaz

“…Conclusion: Within the limitations of this study, endodontically treated teeth were successfully restored with indirect composite inlay and onlay restorations. However, the fractures that accompanied the inlay restorations were more severe and were unable to be restored. …”
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Measurement report: Size-resolved particle effective density measured by an AAC-SMPS and implications for chemical composition by Y. Song, J. Wei, W. Zhao, J. Ding, X. Pei, F. Zhang, Z. Xu, R. Shi, Y. Wei, L. Zhang, L. Jin, Z. Wang, Z. Wang

“…As determining the size-resolved chemical composition of particles remains challenging, a new method to investigate the size-resolved chemical composition was proposed, in which the size-resolved composition can be derived from the <span class="inline-formula"><i>ρ</i>_eff</span> and fixed material density of secondary inorganic aerosols (SIAs), organic aerosols (OAs), and black carbon (BC).…”
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Effects of Different Blood Flow Restriction Training Modes on Body Composition and Maximal Strength of Untrained Individuals by Hualong Chang, Xudong Yang, Biao Chen, Jianli Zhang

“…A-BFR and I-BFR achieved comparable gains in muscle strength and improvements in body composition to those seen with HL-RT. However, HL-RT demonstrated more significant improvements in leg circumference.…”
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Immunophenotyping of Blood Cell Subpopulations from Experimental Animals Infected by Yersinia Pestis with Different Plasmid Composition by V. V. Voitkova, V. I. Dubrovina, K. M. Korytov, G. B. Mukhturgin, S. A. Vityazeva, S. V. Balakhonov

“…To reveal characteristics of subpopulations of blood cells of experimental animals infected with Y. pestis containing various plasmids Materials and methods. The study was conducted on 370 white improved conventional mice with standard of content and weight (17 -19 g). …”
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Composition and toxicity of total water-soluble flavonoids from Lithocarpus litseifolius (Hance) Chun (sweet tea) by Junfei Xu, Yingqi Zhao, Jing Wen, Ye Lin, Yangtao Li, Yijun He, Xianjin Wu, Juzuo Zhang

“…In this study, total water-soluble flavonoids were extracted from sweet tea using optimised methods based on RSM. Its composition and toxicity were investigated by LC–MS and mouse models in vivo. …”
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Sampling effort for community composition higher by a magnitude compared to species richness in passive acoustic monitoring by Kim Lindner, Sascha Rösner, Dana G. Schabo, Hicham Bellafkir, Markus Vogelbacher, Markus Mühling, Daniel Schneider, Nicolas Friess, Stephan Wöllauer, Bernd Freisleben, Nina Farwig

“…While communities were similar between methods in terms of species activity and relative abundance, PAM also partially reflected the composition of territories in the conventional survey.4. …”
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Improved Mechanical Performances of Hastelloy C276 Composite Coatings Reinforced with SiC by Laser Cladding by Yuqing Tang, Zheng Lu, Xuan Zhang, Xihuai Wang, Shengbin Zhao, Mingdi Wang

“…The phase compositions, elemental distribution, microstructural characteristics, hardness, wear resistance and corrosion resistance of the composite coatings were analyzed using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), Vickers hardness testing, friction-wear testing and electrochemical methods. …”
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花生水剂法制油工艺中蛋白质的结构 特征研究Structural characterization of proteins in aqueous extraction of peanut oil by 贾琪琪，章绍兵，李端 JIA Qiqi，ZHANG Shaobing，LI Duan

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A Natural Language Processing Environment for Rule-Based Decision Making with Neutrosophic Logic to Manage Uncertainty and Ambiguity by A.A. Salama, Huda E. Khalid, Ahmed K. Essa, Nadheer M. Ahmed

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Composite fixed-length ordered features with index-of-max transformation for high-performing and secure palmprint template protection by Zhicheng Cao, Weiqiang Zhao, Heng Zhao, Liaojun Pang

“…Experiments show that the matching accuracy of the proposed method of fixed-length and ordered point features are superior to all other feature extraction methods on the PolyU and CASIA datasets. …”
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Estimation of mass loss under wear test of nanoclay-epoxy nanocomposite using response surface methodology and artificial neural networks by Manjunath Shettar, Ashwini Bhat, Nagaraj N. Katagi

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Comparison of Bioelectrical Impedance Analyser (BIA) with Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) Scan in Assessing the Body Composition of Adult Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes Me... by Srijoni G. Dastidar, Piyas Gargari, Debaditya Das, Subhankar Chowdhury

“…Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), being a more affordable method of assessing the body composition, should therefore be compared with the gold standard dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) to look for a correlation between the two and the potential of BIA to be used widely in this population. …”
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Plant Species Composition and Community Perception Towards Landscaping Work Executed at Hawassa University-Main Campus, Ethiopia by Birhanu Kagnew, Firew Kebede

“…With this understanding, the study was conducted to investigate plant species composition and community perception towards landscaping work executed at Hawassa University’s main campus using questionnaires, interviews, observation and group discussion methods. …”
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