Road Performance and Microscopic Mechanism Analysis of Modified Straw Fiber Asphalt Binder by Kun Wang, Qiong Wu, Peng Hu, Hao Xu, Lu Qu, Xiongao Li, Yuquan Lin, Guoyi Du, Tao Shi

“…The adsorption capacity of the modified straw fiber for the light components of asphalt increased by 5.4% on average, and the low-temperature creep capacity of asphalt decreased by 9.6%. …”
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Determining biologic width and its relevance in periodontics – a review by Deeksha Sain, Amitha Ramesh, Pranav Murthy, Karthika Nair, Ayush Gupta

“…The length from the root surface of a tooth to the junctional epithelium and connective tissue attachment is termed as biological width (BW). …”
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Spatial-temporal patterns of euphausiids ecology in the Okhotsk Sea by Anatoly F. Volkov

“…The most common regularities in spatial distribution of mass Euphausia species and their size classes and ontogenetic stages are determined for the Okhotsk Sea using the data averaging by biostatistical areas and applying the average results to the centers of the areas that allows to smooth small-scale patterns as patchiness. …”
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Evaluating the Capture Efficiency of Microchannel Plates Through Photoelectron Detection by Mutong Wu, Lingmin Ye, Shangtong Li, Xuan Zhao, Hua Cai, Quan Yu

“…Additionally, by partially blocking the incident surface to modulate the active area of the MCP, we established a relationship between Ts and active area, providing a means to roughly quantify CE. …”
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Hydrodynamic Effects of River-Lake System Connectivity on Ecological Restoration of Urban Rivers: A Case Study of Liede River by WANG Shaobo, ZHANG Shu, XIONG Yulong, ZHOU Xinmin

“…The findings indicate that the average slope of the Liede River bed is 1.95‰, exhibiting typical characteristics of a mountain stream. …”
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Small-fragment genomic libraries for the display of putative epitopes from clinically significant pathogens by T. Henics, B. Winkler, U. Pfeifer, S.R. Gill, M. Buschle, A. von Gabain, A.L. Meinke

“…Large-scale sequencing revealed that the libraries, which provide an average of 20-fold coverage, were random and, as demonstrated with two S. aureus libraries, highly representative. …”
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Graphene oxide membranes coated on porous ceramic hollow fibers for the removal of pharmaceutical contaminants from wastewater by Aline Maria de Jesus Machado Cardoso, Vicelma Luiz Cardoso, Miria Hespanhol Miranda Reis

“…The produced alumina hollow fibers presented the desired asymmetric pore size distribution, with an outer sponge-like layer for a proper GO deposition. The average roughness of the outer surface of the ceramic hollow fiber was reduced from (122.5 ± 5.6) nm to (42.32 ± 3.50) nm after the deposition of a GO layer with a thickness of (0.27 ± 0.02) μm. …”
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The Effect of the Dry Line and Convective Initiation on Drought Evolution over Oklahoma during the 2011 Drought by Paul X. Flanagan, Jeffrey B. Basara, Bradley G. Illston, Jason A. Otkin

“…The location of the dry line varied due to this “dry” and “wet” pattern, with the average dry line location around 1.5° longitude further to the east than climatology. …”
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Effects of Calcination Temperature on Preparation of Boron-Doped TiO2 by Sol-Gel Method by Wenjie Zhang, Bo Yang, Jinlei Chen

“…When calcination temperature increased from 300°C to 600°C, specific surface area decreased sharply from 205.6 m2/g to 31.8 m2/g. …”
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Research and Design of a Medial-Support Exoskeleton Chair by Wenzhou Lin, Yin Xiong, Chunqiang Zhang, Xupeng Wang, Bing Han

“…The effectiveness of the exoskeleton seat was validated through surface electromyography (sEMG) experiments, with results showing that the exoskeleton significantly reduces lower limb muscle load by 49.2% to 72.9%. …”
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La population bruxelloise : un éclairage démographique by Patrick Deboosere, Thierry Eggerickx, Etienne Van Hecke, Benjamin Wayens

“…The Brussels-Capital Region is comprised of 19 municipalities and has a surface area of 161.4 km². The region is the core of a much broader morphological agglomeration made up of 36 municipalities with a total population of more than one and a half million inhabitants. …”
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Biosynthesis of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles and effect on seed germination of wheat (Triticum aestivum) in vitro by Mohammed Jasim Ali, Ahmed Saeed Mohmed, Rafid Ahmed Abbas Al-khaldy

“…The study results showed that a distinctive absorption peak at 366 nm caused by surface plasma resonance visible in the UV-Vis spectroscopy. …”
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The population of Brussels: a demographic overview by Patrick Deboosere, Thierry Eggerickx, Etienne Van Hecke, Benjamin Wayens

“…The Brussels-Capital Region is comprised of 19 municipalities and has a surface area of 161.4 km². The region is the core of a much broader morphological agglomeration made up of 36 municipalities with a total population of more than one and a half million inhabitants. …”
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Coating Performance of Water-Based Polyurethane-Acrylate Coating on Bamboo/Bamboo Scrimber Substrates by Jianfeng Xu, Ru Liu, Huagui Wu, Hongyun Qiu, Yanglun Yu, Ling Long

“…The results showed that PUA coating could well cover the surface of the three kinds of materials. However, the coating performances varied among these substrates due to their different chemical and morphological surfaces. …”
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Soil carbon maintained by perennial grasslands over 30 years but lost in field crop systems in a temperate Mollisol by Clarissa L. Dietz, Randall D. Jackson, Matthew D. Ruark, Gregg R. Sanford

“…Prairie and rotationally-grazed pasture maintained soil organic carbon. Average soil organic carbon losses for cash-grain and alfalfa-based systems were −0.80 (±0.12) and −0.54 (±0.13) Mg C ha−1 yr−1, respectively. …”
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Ion‐scale structure in Mercury's magnetopause reconnection diffusion region by Daniel J. Gershman, John C. Dorelli, Gina A. DiBraccio, Jim M. Raines, James A. Slavin, Gangkai Poh, Thomas H. Zurbuchen

“…Here we use ~150 ms measurements of energetic electrons from the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft observed over Mercury's dayside polar cap boundary (PCB) to infer such small‐scale changes in magnetic topology and reconnection rates. …”
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Formation and Optical Properties of Ag Nanoparticles in CaB4O7–Ag2O and CaB4O7–Gd2O3–Ag2O Tetraborate Glasses by V.T. Adamiv, Ya.V. Burak, R.V. Gamernyk, R.M. Dutka, I.M. Teslyuk

“…Formation of Ag nanoparticles (NPs) in the near-surface layer of CaB4O7–Ag2O and CaB4O7 –Gd2O3–Ag2O glasses by annealing in vacuum or in air is reported. …”
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Influence of biopolymer based gold nanoparticles and photobiomodulation in in vitro wound healing by Sathish Sundar Dhilip Kumar, Nicolette Nadene Houreld, Heidi Abrahamse

“…In physicochemical characterization results, we found that the synthesized nanoparticles are 10–20 nm with an average of 12 ± 2 nm in size, and smooth surface and confirmed the presence of GT on the GT-GNPs. …”
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Using X-Ray Mammograms to Assist in Microwave Breast Image Interpretation by Charlotte Curtis, Richard Frayne, Elise Fear

“…Twelve breast shapes were estimated and compared to ground truth MR images, resulting in a skin surface estimation accurate to within an average Euclidean distance of 10 mm. …”
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Tribo-technological features of laser powder bed fusion process: scratch and wear resistance of AlSi10Mg aluminium alloy by Danilo Guarino, Simone Venettacci, Vittorio Villani, Gennaro Salvatore Ponticelli, Stefano Guarino

“… Mechanical systems, regardless of their complexity, very often require that different parts must move relative to each other by sliding their surfaces, therefore appropriate tribological properties are needed. …”
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