Long-term investigation of pollutant removal efficiency in two constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment and reuse in urban areas by Davide Farruggia, Davide Farruggia, Mario Licata, Claudio Leto, Giovanni Urso, Francesco Salamone, Cristina Sousa Coutinho Calheiros

“…The two CWs had comparable surface areas and were each planted with a different species, resulting in monoculture systems. …”
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Rapid and Efficient Screening of <i>Helicobacter pylori</i> in Gastric Samples Stained with Warthin–Starry Using Deep Learning by José Aneiros-Fernández, Pedro Montero Pavón, Natalia García Gómez, Rosa María Palo Prian, Ismael Sánchez García, Ana Isabel Romero Ortiz, Rodrigo López Castro, César Casado-Sánchez, Víctor Sánchez Turrión, Antonio Luna, Manuel Álvaro Berbís

“…Patches classified as positive were examined to confirm the presence/absence of bacteria in contact with the gastric epithelial surface (<i>H. pylori</i>). <b>Results</b>: The algorithm exhibited 0.923 average precision and 0.982 average recall. …”
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A GNSS-IR Soil Moisture Inversion Method Considering Multi-Factor Influences Under Different Vegetation Covers by Yadong Yao, Jixuan Yan, Guang Li, Weiwei Ma, Xiangdong Yao, Miao Song, Qiang Li, Jie Li

“…Further analysis revealed that NRBO-XGBoost surpassed the other models, with its average R² outperforming SVR by 0.11 and CNN by 0.03. …”
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A numerical study of the effect of graphene nanoparticle size on brownian displacement, thermophoresis, and thermal performance of graphene/water nanofluid by molecular dynamics si... by Heider H.J. Almutter, Waqed H. Hassan, Shaymaa Abed Hussein, Dheyaa J. Jasim, Soheil Salahshour, Nafiseh Emami

“…This study reported the changes in heat flux (HF), thermal conductivity (TC), average Brownian displacement (BD), and thermophoresis. …”
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A decade-long study on the effect of furrow and subsurface drip irrigation using unconventional water on soil salinity and the growth of pistachio trees by Abdolhamid Sherafati, Mehrnoush Eskandari Torbaghan

“…However, there was a significant difference in the irrigation treatments during the two last years (2021 and 2022) in the annual growth, the average number of flower buds in the branch, and the average number of flower buds abscised. …”
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Prevalence of Listeria monocytogenes in meat products during 2017–2019 depending on technological factors and seasons by Yu. K. Yushina, O. A. Kuznetsova, A. V. Tutelyan, M. A. Grudistova, D. S. Bataeva, M. D. Reshchikov, I. S. Tartakovsky, Yu. A. Nikolaev

“…The highest occurrence of this pathogen was found in poultry meat (on average 18.7%) followed by products from beef (13.2%). …”
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Distribution, Sources, and Environmental Impact Assessment of Monocyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (BTEX) in the Western South China Sea and the Pearl River Estuary by Zutian WANG, Feng XU, Xue WANG, Jian WANG, Hao QIAO, Jinwei WU, Honghai ZHANG

“…The ozone formation potential (OFP) and secondary organic aerosol formation potential (SOAFP) of BTEX were also evaluated. The average concentrations of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, m/p-xylene, and o-xylene in surface seawater were (12.6±6.3), (79.5±92.8), (10.3±9.6), (21.6±24.1), and (13.4±14.6) ng/L, respectively, showing similar distribution trends. …”
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Significance of Low‐Velocity Zones on Solute Retention in Rough Fractures by Jordi Sanglas, Paolo Trinchero, Scott L. Painter, Vladimir Cvetkovic, Antti Poteri, Jan‐Olof Selroos, Liangchao Zou

“…The magnitude of this impact does not change considerably, regardless of whether diffusion into the rock matrix is considered in the model, and increases for a decreasing average Péclet number of the fracture.…”
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FRACTAL ANALYSIS IN ESTIMATING THE FRAGMENTATION DEGREE OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS by Florin SALA, Cosmin Alin POPESCU, Mihai Valentin HERBEI

“…For each studied polygon, the total surface (TS), the number of plots (PN), the average plot area (APA), and the fractal dimension (D) were determined. …”
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A Green Rheology Modifier for Aqueous Drilling Fluids by Kamal Ibtisam, Albadran Firas, Abdullah Mohammed Badiea

“…The response surface analysis revealed that the optimal rheological properties could be achieved using 27.07 g bentonite and less than 1 g barley grass. …”
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Effects of Moisture Content on Some Physical Properties of the Yellow Lentil by Eşref Işık, Nazmi İzli

“…Under the same conditions, the measurements of the average thickness, diameter, arithmetic mean diameter, geometric mean diameter, projected area, surface area, sphericity, thousand seed mass, porosity, and terminal velocity values varied as follows: from 1.22 to 1.42 mm, 4.29 to 4.6 mm, 3.26 to 3.53 mm, 2.82 to 3.1 mm, 15.33 to 17.66 mm2, 24.93 to 30.15 mm2, 0.66 to 0.67, 15.33 to 17.66 mm2, 15.1 to 18.01 g, 37.49 to 53.18% and 1.5 to 2.09 m s-1, respectively. …”
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Estimating Carbon Stock in Unmanaged Forests Using Field Data and Remote Sensing by Thomas Leditznig, Hermann Klug

“…We merged the Sentinel-2 derived vegetation index NDVI with aerial photogrammetry data and used an orthomosaic and a Digital Surface Model (DSM) to map the extent of woodland in the study area. …”
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Study on catalytic activity of bimetallic CuZn-ZIFs for Rhodamine B decomposition in the presence of potassium peroxymonosulfate by Ba Huy Tran, Dinh Thanh Nguyen, Minh Nhut Nguyen, Ngoc Tri Tan Ho, Huynh Giao Dang

“…Furthermore, an assessment revealed a Specific Surface Area of 1242.7 m2·g-1, accompanied by a pore volume of 0.47 cm3·g-1, a pore size measuring 11.53 Å, and an average particle size of 28.67 nm. …”
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Atomistic modeling of temperature dependent coercivity and switching behavior in compositionally modulated CoGd alloys by Kazi Zahirul Islam, Trae Lawrence Staggers, Liyan Jacob, Tanmay Dutta, Shawn David Pollard

“…Furthermore, the direction of the gradient determines the surface on which field driven magnetization reversal initiates, which can have design implications for future devices. …”
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Impact of Multivariate Background Error Covariance on the WRF-3DVAR Assimilation for the Yellow Sea Fog Modeling by Xiaoyu Gao, Shanhong Gao

“…Compared to those with CV5, the average POD and ETS of forecasted sea fog area using 3DVAR with CV6 can be improved by 27.6% and 21.0%, respectively.…”
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Physicochemical and Spectroscopic Characterization of Glycogen and Glycogen Phosphorylase <i>b</i> Complexes by Pandora Karakousi, Maria Karayianni, Evangelia D. Chrysina, Stergios Pispas

“…Previous studies using pig liver glycogen with rabbit muscle glycogen phosphorylase (RMGP<i>b</i>), which catalyzes the first step of glycogen degradation to glucose-1-phosphate, showed that the surface of an average glycogen molecule is covered by a total of 20 RMGP<i>b</i> dimeric molecules. …”
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“Optimizing sEMG Gesture Recognition with Stacked Autoencoder Neural Network for Bionic Hand” by Mr. Amol Pandurang Yadav, Dr. Sandip.R. Patil

“…This study presents a novel deep learning approach for surface electromyography (sEMG) gesture recognition using stacked autoencoder neural network (SAE)s. …”
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HackerRank: Identifying key hackers in underground forums by Cheng Huang, Yongyan Guo, Wenbo Guo, Ying Li

“…With the rapid development of the Internet, cybersecurity situation is becoming more and more complex. At present, surface web and dark web contain numerous underground forums or markets, which play an important role in cybercrime ecosystem. …”
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Characterization of Carboxylated Cellulose Nanocrystals Isolated Through Oxalic Acid Hydrolysis from Solid Residues of Softwood-Derived Glycol Lignin Production by Thi Thi Nge, Tatsuhiko Yamada

“…The overall results indicated that the yields, dimensions, surface charges, and thermal stability of the O-CNCs were largely influenced by the nature of the starting cellulose. …”
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Ground Settlement of High-Permeability Sand Layer Induced by Shield Tunneling: A Case Study under the Guidance of DBN by Cong Zhou, Wei Gao, Shuang Cui, Xiaochun Zhong, Chengjie Hu, Xin Chen

“…During the shield construction of Harbin Subway Line No. 3 Project, the average ground settlement exceeds the warning value. …”
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