The potato ladybird beetle <I>Henosepilachna vigintioctomaculata</I> (Motsch.): classification, morphology and harmfulness (review) by M. V. Ermak, N. V. Matsishina

“…One beetle can eat up to 15 cm2 of leave surface on average per day, and 300-700 cm2 over its lifetime. …”
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Tribological and Corrosion Effects from Electrodeposited Ni-hBN over SS304 Substrate by Suresh Velayudham, Elango Natarajan, Kalaimani Markandan, Kaviarasan Varadaraju, Santhosh Mozhuguan Sekar, Gérald Franz, Anil Chouhan

“…The average coefficient of friction for the AD sample was 42.4% lower than the bare surface owing to the self-lubricating properties of nano hBN. …”
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Facile synthesis and characterization of nanorods Pb-MOF for toxic rodenticide detection by Ayman S. Eliwa, Magdi E.A. Zaki, Mostafa A. Besher, Gehad G. Mohamed

“…The surface area was determined to be 1304.27 m2 g− 1 according to the BET analysis. …”
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Back Propagation Neural Network-Based Predictive Model for Magnetorheological–Chemical Polishing of Silicon Carbide by Huazhuo Liang, Wenjie Chen, Youzhi Fu, Wenjie Zhou, Ling Mo, Yue Jian, Qi Wen, Dawei Liu, Junfeng He

“…The prediction models of the MRR and surface quality are constructed via a BP neural network, and their average absolute percentage errors are less than 2%, which is important for the online monitoring of processing and process optimisation.…”
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Quantification of evaporation water losses from nearly 5000 reservoirs in China by Yinuo Zhu, Aizhong Ye, Wei Tian

“…These reservoirs are crucial for water supply and management, and understanding the invisible water losses they incur is vital for assessing surface water availability. Study focus: This study reconstructs the monthly area series of 4863 inland reservoirs in China from 1988 to 2018 utilizing the latest reservoir database and water enhancement algorithm. …”
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TESTING OF TWO‐STAGE CULTIVATION OF DUNALIELLA SALINA TEOD. (TEODORESCO, 1905) IN THE SEVASTOPOL REGION by I. N. Gudvilovich, A. B. Borovkov

“…We determined the range of surface irradiance, which can be considered optimal for intensive cultivation of D. salina in terms of energy and mineral costs. …”
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Mechanism of the effect of Mn2+ on the agglomeration and flotation behavior of quartz fines by Qingxia LIANG, Zhihui SHEN, Song MAO, Yunhao YANG, Yue CHENG, Ziqiang CHEN, Liangyu CHEN

“…Sodium oleate has no agglomeration and flotation effect on quartz fines, and also cannot change the surface wettability of quartz. However, after the addition of Mn2+ and sodium oleate, the apparent particle size and recovery of quartz increases significantly, as well as the surface hydrophobicity. …”
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Specific impacts of climate change on the hydrological patterns and land use dynamics in the Arghandab River Basin, Kandahar, Afghanistan by Bashir Ahmad Karimi, Mohammad Aslam Haziq, Athiqullah Hayat

“…The primary goal is to understand the average general hydrology of the basin. Furthermore, based on that, assess the impacts of climate change on temperature and precipitation Next, evaluate the work done to simulate and model surface runoff and sediment transport in order to understand the impacts of climate change on these processes, as well as the temporal variations and alterations in land use and land cover due to climate change. …”
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An Investigation of Regional Plantar Soft Tissue Hardness and Its Potential Correlation with Plantar Pressure Distribution in Healthy Adults by Maimaitirexiati Helili, Xiang Geng, Xin Ma, Wenming Chen, Chao Zhang, Jiazhang Huang, Xu Wang

“…The relationship between hardness and average dynamic pressure was analyzed in each region. …”
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Evolution of lateral tectonophysical stresses in the spherical shell convection with an immobile supercontinent by A. Baranov, A. Bobrov, R. Tenzer, A. Chuvaev

“…The supercontinent covered one-third of the Earth`s surface and it is modeled as an undeformable, highly viscous immobile lid with respect to the ambient mantle and it is abruptly imposed on well-developed mantle convection. …”
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Automated Recognition of Submerged Body-like Objects in Sonar Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks by Yan Zun Nga, Zuhayr Rymansaib, Alfie Anthony Treloar, Alan Hunter

“…Average F1 scores for target vs background classification with unseen data are only 47% but the end result is enhanced by combining multiple weak classification results in an ensemble average. …”
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Transplantation of the Bowman’s layer in cases of biomechanical instability of the cornea after radial keratotomy by O. G. Oganesyan, P. M. Ashikova, A. V. Ivanova, K. B. Letnikova, C. O. Oganesyan, P. V. Makarov

“…No complications were noted during the follow-up period, the cornea and graft retained transparency. The average thickness of the BS graft was 20±2.1 µm. The average visual acuity corrected by contact lenses increased from 0.4±0.3 to 0.65±0.1, the average indicator of keratometric astigmatism changed from 1.9±1.6 to 3.0 D, these indicators remained after 6, 9 and 12 months, which indicates that biomechanical stability of the cornea was achieved and that the refractive-visual fluctuations are absent.Conclusion. …”
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Prediction of SNR Based on SVR and Adaptive Transmission Power Method for Underwater Acoustic Communication by Jixing ZHENG, Yufan YUAN, Xiaoxiao ZHUO, Xuesong LU, Fengzhong QU, Yan WEI

“…However, the continuous effect of factors such as sea surface temperature and tidal height can also make the power have certain periodic characteristics. …”
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Pore Structure and Connectivity of Mixed Siliciclastic-Carbonate Tight Reservoirs in the Palaeogene from Qaidam Basin, NW China by Xin Wang, Jianhui Zeng, Kunyu Wu, Xiangcheng Gao, Yibo Qiu, Tongzhi Lu, Kunkun Jia, Chen Zhang, Juncheng Qiao, Zixin Xue, Qianyou Wang, Xiangye Kong

“…The results showed that micrometer-sized pores in mixed siliciclastic-carbonate tight reservoirs are mainly dissolution pores, and that the spatial distribution of the pores is highly heterogeneous. The average pore radius range, average throat radius range, and average coordination number range of micronmeter-sized pores are 2.09~3.42 μm, 1.32~2.19 μm, and 0.48~1.49, respectively. …”
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Oral health status in children with inherited dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa by Čolović Aleksandra, Jovičić Olivera, Stevanović Radoje, Ivanović Mirjana

“…On permanent teeth average plaque index was 2 ± 0.4, and average calculus 1.6 ± 0.6. …”
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Date Fruit Detection and Classification Based on Its Variety Using Deep Learning Technology by Ahad Almutairi, Jawza Alharbi, Shouq Alharbi, Haifa F. Alhasson, Shuaa S. Alharbi, Shabana Habib

“…Based on the experimental results, YOLOv8 achieves a mean Recall of 0.99 % and Precision of 0.991% with an Intersection over Union (IoU) colorred in the range of [0-1], a mean Average Precision of 0.994%, a mean Average Precision of [0.5:0.95] and a mean Average Precision of [0.5:0.85]. …”
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Isotopic composition of oxygen and hydrogen of ice wedges in Central Yamal by Ju. N. Chizhova, E. M. Babkin, A. V. Khomutov

“…The isotopic composition of oxygen indicates temperatures of the cold period of the vein formation from −22.8 to −26.8 °C (on average 7 °C colder than the present-day) and the January temperatures from −34.2 to −40.2 °C (on average 10 °C colder than the present-day). …”
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Structome analysis of virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which survives with only 700 ribosomes per 0.1 fl of cytoplasm. by Hiroyuki Yamada, Masashi Yamaguchi, Kinuyo Chikamatsu, Akio Aono, Satoshi Mitarai

“…The outer membrane and plasma membrane surface areas were 3.04 ± 1.33 μm2 and 2.67 ± 1.19 μm2, respectively. …”
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Spatiotemporal variation in air temperature in Shuozhou of Shanxi Province by LI Rui, LI Yufu, LUO Huanmei

“…Since temperature is one of the most important factors influencing plant growth and evaporation of surface water and subsurface water, this paper analyses its spatiotemporal variation in this region. …”
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Novel design of serpentine channel heat sinks with rectangular and triangular ribs and grooves for 25Ah Li-ion battery thermal management by John Sathvik Sakkera, Ravikiran Chintalapudi, Bridjesh Pappula, Seshibe Makgato

“…The average pressure drops for RRRG and RRTG is higher than smooth channel heat sink by 56 and 35, respectively. …”
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