Improving the high stress abrasive wear resistance of medium carbon quenched and partitioned bainitic steel by controlling the phase transformation sequence by Qiangguo Li, Wandong Li, Mingwei Li, Minghua Su, Zhihua Hu, Hongbo Ma, Zhengyun Wang, Tong Li, Yanan Zhang

“…Some spalling damage characteristics can be observed on the wear surfaces of the Q-B&P and Q&T samples, whereas only delamination damage characteristics are present on the wear surface of the B-Q&P sample. …”
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Investigation in physicochemical characteristics of jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) extract cake by Hojjat GHARAVI, Mehdi DAVOODI, Reihaneh Ahmadzadeh GHAVIDELl

“…Treatments were control and three levels of jujube extraction (2, 4, and 6 percent) which added to cake’s formulation and sampling in different time periods. In the present study, the process of baking was in four steps. …”
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Tool geometry optimization for enhanced mechanical properties in friction stir welding of carbon steel by Anmol Bhatia, Reeta Wattal, Rajeev Kumar, Anant Prakash Agrawal, Saurabh Dewangan

“…Fractography of the ruptured sample revealed a dimpled region indicating ductile failure.…”
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The technology of thermal cyclic electrolytic plasma hardening of steels by Б.К. Рахадилов, Р.С. Кожанова, Ю.Н. Тюрин, Л.Г. Журерова, Ж.Б. Сагдолдина

“…Tempered layers were obtained on the surface of the samples with average thickness values from 0.5 to 10 mm and hardness up to 750 HV. …”
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CHARACTERIZATION OF URBAN AEROSOL SOURCES IN DEBRECEN, HUNGARY by ZSÓFIA KERTÉSZ, ZOLTÁN SZOBOSZLAI, ERIK DOBOS, ILDIKÓ BORBÉLY-KISS

“…On the obtained database six sources of the urban aerosol were identified: 2 types of soil, domestic heating, sulphate originating from long range transport processes, an unidentified source enriched with chlorine andtraffic. …”
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Selective Separation of Scandium in Acidic Water Using Carboxyl Functionalized Covalent Phosphonitrile Polymers by Yu BAI, Ayinuer WUSHUER, Lei OUYANG, Lijin HUANG, Qin SHUAI

“…Considering that acid treatment is often required when processing raw materials such as Sc containing tailings, it is crucial to prepare adsorbents that can efficiently and selectively recover Sc(III) in acidic media.　　…”
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Effects of wilting extent on the concentration of phytoestrogens, nutritional value, microbial populations, and in vitro ruminal methane emissions of red clover hay and silage acro... by D. Zamudio, R.A. De Castro, A.P. Jimenez-Lagos, M.V.S.B. Cardoso, M.A. Killerby, G. Pereira, M.R.M. Lima, C. Knight, J.J. Romero

“…Only late samples of hay and silage were tested for the in situ procedure. …”
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Quality of Differently Dried Osmanthus fragrans Pomace: Physical Properties, Nutrient Composition, Antioxidant and Tyrosinase Inhibitory Activity by GUO Yingjie, BIAN Jianming, XIE Qiutao, LI Gaoyang, WANG Kai, ZHU Xiangrong

“…We examined the physical properties, nutrient composition, antioxidant capacity and tyrosinase inhibitory activity of O. fragrans pomace prepared by vacuum microwave drying (VMD), vacuum freeze drying (VFD), or heat pump drying (HPD). The results showed that the VFD sample had good color with the lowest ΔE and browning index of 14.26 ± 0.53 and 12.43 ± 0.65, respectively, and possessed the highest contents of total phenols and total flavonoids, and exhibited the highest water-holding capacity and antioxidant capacity. …”
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Effect of mineral filler on low velocity impact behaviour of bi-directional glass fibre/epoxy composites exposed to varied temperature conditions. by K S Lokesh, C G Ramachandra, Shrinivasa Mayya D, T Varuna, Praveen Kumar Kanti, Abhinav Kumar, Melkamu Biyana Regasa

“…Composites were prepared through manual lay-up route and prepared samples were exposed for 3 different temperature conditions of continuous heating and cooling cycles at +500c, -50C including room temperature conditions for 168hrs. …”
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Recycling analcime residues of lithium production from spodumene ore in eco-friendly cementitious binders by Patrick N. Lemougna, Srujana Gouda, Adeolu Adediran, Visa Isteri, Pekka Tanskanen, Katja Kilpimaa

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Use of tristimulus reflectance colorimetry for detection of fresh milk adulteration with reconstituted dry milk by D. S. Myagkonosov, E. V. Topnikova, D. V. Abramov, O. G. Kashnikova

“…These conditions include maintaining a moisture level of approximately 6 % and a temperature of 100 ± 1 °C for five hours. In the process of heat treatment, the transformation of uncolored products of the initial stage of the Maillard reaction (lactosylated amino groups of amino acids) into melanoids characterized by intense coloration takes place. …”
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Exploring the Potential of Emerging Digitainability—GPT Reasoning in Energy Management of Kindergartens by Nebojša Jurišević, Dušan Gordić, Danijela Nikolić, Aleksandar Nešović, Robert Kowalik

“…The first task was conducted on a sample of kindergartens in the Western Balkans. The LLM was instructed to provide the buildings’ specific heat consumption (SHC) by relatively detailed building descriptions and building occupancy. …”
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Effect of mode of metal transfer on corrosion properties of duplex stainless steel welding by Chintan Bahadursinh Gohil, Sanjay Narhar Soman

“…The highest volume ferrite % was observed in the heat-affected zone than weld and base metal for all samples. …”
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Commercially focused strategies to enhance PCM thermal conductivity in latent thermal energy storage systems by Giulia Righetti, Kamel Hooman, Claudio Zilio, Dario Guarda, Simone Mancin

“…We tested three types of aluminum-based thermal enhancers: a commercial metal foam, a wire mesh, and irregular aluminum flakes (chips) produced as waste from machining processes. The PCM-only sample required the longest time for both charging and discharging, while the PCM with metal foam had the shortest times. …”
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Pea protein gels crosslinked with transglutaminase with multiple textures for food formulations by Bianca Dimas Rios, Luísa Ozorio, Fabiana Perrechil

“…In Process 1 (P1), 15% (w/w) of pea protein and TGase (0.5, 0.75, 1 or 1.25% w/w) were mechanically homogenized, incubated at 50 °C for 30 min and, subsequently, heat treated at 80 °C for another 30 min. …”
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Use of machine learning techniques for modeling of snow depth by G. V. Ayzel

“…The purposeful character of learning process for models of the gradient boosting type, their ensemble character, and use of combined redundancy of a test sample in learning procedure makes this type of models a good and sustainable research tool. …”
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Hot-Air Drying Characteristics of Sea Cucumber (Apostichopus japonicus) and Its Rehydration Properties by Pengfei Jiang, Wengang Jin, Yan Liu, Na Sun, Kaiyue Zhu, Zhijie Bao, Xiuping Dong

“…Drying is one of the most common methods for processing and preserving sea cucumber. Based on the research of pretreatment and drying process, this paper develops a dried sea cucumber product that can be quickly rehydrated in only 8 hours. …”
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Sintering sodium chloride crystals for applications in optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dosimetry by Julia Vieira Lucena, René Rojas Rocca

“…In order to obtain an efficient luminescence, a better control in the amount of sample to be used, a better distribution of crystals in every aliquot and verify its applicability as a dosimeter, with dosimetric requirements testing. …”
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Sol-Gel Syntheses of Zinc Oxide and Hydrogenated Zinc Oxide (ZnO:H) Phases by Joshua Lelesi Konne, Bright Obum Christopher

“…ZnO synthesized by chemical precipitation with varying starch concentrations (0.00, 0.01, 0.02, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15, and 0.20%) as stabilizing agent was used in making ZnO:H when placed in a glass tube under mild heat and hydrogen (H2) gas flow for 2 mins. Observations showed that the sample colour changed from white to light brown and finally to dark brown during the process particularly for the ZnO-starch samples. …”
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Evolution Characteristics of the Cracks in the Completely Disintegrated Carbonaceous Mudstone Subjected to Cyclic Wetting and Drying by Ling Zeng, Jie Liu, Qian-Feng Gao, Hanbing Bian

“…The image processing technique was used to treat the images of the sample surface. …”
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