Metal Consumption of Heat Engines and Heat Capacity of their Working Fluids by Kiselev V.G., Kalyutik A.A., Kukolev M.I.

“…The cost of such systems is largely related to the cost of heat engines operating both in the direct and reverse cycle, in its turn determined by their construction and installation costs that are directly related to their metal consumption. …”
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A novel approach to desalination: producing potable water from seawater by Farshad Farahbod

“…Membrane processes: These utilize semipermeable membranes to separate salt from water. Reverse osmosis is a common example, where pressure forces water molecules through the membrane while leaving salts behind. …”
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Dietary Strategies to Mitigate Alzheimer’s Disease: Insights into Antioxidant Vitamin Intake and Supplementation with Microbiota–Gut–Brain Axis Cross-Talk by Wan Zurinah Wan Ngah, Hajar Fauzan Ahmad, Sheril June Ankasha, Suzana Makpol, Ikuo Tooyama

“…The lack of effective treatments to halt or reverse the progression of this disease has prompted a search for non-pharmaceutical tools. …”
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Evaluating interventions to reduce child marriage in India by Bruce Rasmussen, Neelam Maharaj, Anup Karan, John Symons, Sakthivel Selvaraj, Rajeev Kumar, Margarita Kumnick, Peter Sheehan

“…The economic consequences of the COVID 19 pandemic are likely to reverse these gains, meaning that the interventions to reduce child marriage evaluated in this paper assume even greater importance…”
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Soft Switched Flyback Converter Using Active Lossless Snubber by Monireh Ghorbanian, Hosein Farzanehfard, Morteza Esteki

“…Moreover, based on the soft-switching condition, diode reverse recovery problem is omitted and leads to reduction of switching losses and increased efficiency. …”
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Catalyst layer at the junction of a forward bias bipolar membrane for CO2 electrolysis by Matthieu Dessiex, Vincent Plouzennec, Sophia Haussener, Felix N. Büchi

“…CO2 reduction in an electrolysis cell with a forward bias bipolar membrane (BPM) ensures good selectivity and CO2 utilization, but still suffers from large overvoltages. …”
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E-cigarettes: An Emerging Threat to the Respiratory Health of Our Next Generation by Caitlin Hon Ning Yeung

“…This study does not support e-cigarettes as a harm reduction tool and shows that e-cigarettes are not safe as general consumer products. …”
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Safety Profile of <i>Solanum tuberosum</i>-Derived Exosomes: Evidence from In Vitro Experiments and Human Skin Tests by Yeji Lee, Radwa Wahid Mohamed, Sanghwa Yang

“…The SDEs accelerated wound closure, elevated the skin barrier gene expression level, and improved the clinical parameters, including wrinkle reduction, elasticity enhancement, and whitening. No irritation or side effects were observed. …”
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Bifidobacterium bifidum reduces oxidative stress and alters gut flora to mitigate acute liver injury caused by N-acetyl-p-aminophenol by Juan Yin, Lin Chen, Yiyou Lin, Jiannan Qiu, Fucai Liu, Yuhao Wang, Xiaobing Dou

“…A reduction in oxidative stress accompanied a reduction in this effect. …”
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Blood Lipoproteins under the Action of Exogenous Sex Steroids in the Postresuscitation Period by L. N. Shcherbakova, A. V Volkov, Yu. V. Zarzhetsky

“…The exogenous estradiol in combination with dehydroepiandrosterone caused a significant increase in the concentration of HLD cholesterol and a reduction in that of VLDL cholesterol in males and females both. …”
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Haematinic and Hepatoprotective Properties of Telfairia occidentalis Fruit Mesocarp on Phenylhydrazine-Induced Anaemia in Experimental Rats by Ada Francesca Nneoyi-Egbe, Eridiong Onyenweaku, Andyno Akpanukoh, Patricia Ebai

“…The effect of T. occidentalis fruit mesocarp (aqueous extract) on phenylhydrazine (PHZ)-induced anaemia in experimental rats was investigated in a bid to determine its curative properties and potential in reversing haemolytic anaemia and protection of liver health. …”
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Implications of entropy generation in bioconvective flow on Maxwell nanofluid past a Riga plate with Cattaneo--Christov model by K. Loganathan, Prasun Choudhary, S. Eswaramoorthi, K. Senthilvadivu, N. Thamaraikannan, Reema Jain

“…Further, it is examined that in the presence of Hartmann number, velocity profile dominate those observed in its absence, whereas temperature profiles exhibit a reverse scenario.…”
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Investigation of Heat Flux Propagation in Heat-Conducting Oxide Substrates with Different Heat Conductivity by the Linear Heat Source Method by I. A. Vrublevsky, K. V. Chernyakova, E. N. Muratova, N. V. Lushpa

“…The results obtained allowed to propose a method for reduction of thermal resistance of a heatconducting substrate by creating conditions for increasing the area of heat-conducting section.…”
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Characteristics and Optimization of Transient Process of Pump-Turbine Units in Power Generation Mode by Minglu Zhang, Jie Liu, Junqin Yu, Changhua Nie

“…The rotational speed fluctuation amplitude of the sequential load reduction is also reduced. After the load of two pump–turbine units is rejected at the same time, the duration of pulsating pressure in the spiral case is shortened by 45% by using the quick-then-slow closure law compared with the straight-line closure law. …”
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Investigating the environmental awareness of Logistics Service Providers. The case of Italy by Mariangela Rosano, Anna Corinna Cagliano, Giulio Mangano

“…In addition, personnel involved in different company roles appear to pay diverse levels of attention to the sustainability issue. In particular, the reduction of pollutant is considered more crucial for employees in charge of dealing with operations (median equal to 5) and reverse logistics is perceived less important by managers (median equal to 3). …”
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The Activity and Ranging Patterns of Gelada Monkeys as Behavioral Responses to the Effects of Livestock Grazing in the Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia by Belayneh Abebe, Mezgebu Ashagrie, Eshetu Moges

“…The effect of grazing on social behavior is the reverse of moving. Similarly, geladas traveled longer daily range length and cover a wider home range size in the grazed areas. …”
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The influence of the disturbing effect of roadways through faults on the faults' stability and slip characteristics by Shuaifeng Lu, Andrew Chan, Xiaolin Wang, Shanyong Wang, Zhijun Wan, Jingyi Cheng

“…Abstract In order to mitigate the risk of geological disasters induced by fault activation when roadways intersect reverse faults in coal mining, this paper uses a combination of mechanical models with PFC2D software. …”
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Microbial solutions for plastic pollutants: Caprolactam, Polyvinyl alcohol, and surgical face masks by Ashvini Vetal, Kiran Patil, Apurva Pawar, Gayatri Atre, Aparna Gunjal, Meghmala Waghmode

“…Microbial face mask degradation showed 97.89 % reduction in the diameter of fibers, which proved the potential use of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the remediation of bioplastic, synthetic and microplastic polluted areas.…”
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Antiviral and Antifungal Activity of Biologically Active Recombinant Bouganin Protein from Bougainvillea spectabilis Willd by Abdullah Güller, Mustafa Usta, Emre Demirer Durak, Hikmet Murat Sipahioğlu

“…The full-length bouganin antiviral protein gene was amplified by reverse transcription-PCR using mRNA as template extracted from mature leaves. …”
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Characterization of immortalized human mammary epithelial cell line HMEC 2.6 by Pooja S Joshi, Vishnu Modur, JiMing Cheng, Kathy Robinson, Krishna Rao

“…To overcome this problem, we have developed a cell line that was immortalized using defined genetic elements, and we have characterized this immortalized non-tumorigenic human mammary epithelial cell line to establish it as a potential model system. human mammary epithelial cells were obtained from a healthy individual undergoing reduction mammoplasty at SIU School of Medicine. The cells were transduced with CDK4R24C followed by transduction with human telomerase reverse transcriptase. …”
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