Volumetric 3D Reconstruction of Large Osteochondral Lesions of the Talus Being Reconstructed with Viable Osteochondral Allograft Combined with Autograft by Nathaniel Zona BA, Daniel Moon MD, MS, MBA

“…Eight patients with preoperative and postoperative PROMIS-PF improved from 41.5 to 46.0 (p = 0.088), PROMIS- PI improved from 59.5 to 55.6 (p = 0.112), and SANE improved from 51 to 71.5 (p = 0.023). The average lesion was 0.464 cm2. Average coronal volume was smaller than average sagittal volume by 0.043cm2, but these differences were not significant (p = 0.124). …”
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THE INFLUENCE OF THE ORIENTATION AND STRENGTH OF THE EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD ON THE CORROSION PROCESS OF FERROMAGNETIC THIN FILMS OF IRON by A. S. Naboko, S. S. Maklakov, S. A. Maklakov, I. A. Ryzhikov, R. H. Akchurin, M. V. Sedova

“…The relief is formed on the surface due to the heterogeneity of the corrosion rate on the surface of the film. …”
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Spray Generation by a Plunging Breaker by M. A. Erinin, S. D. Wang, R. Liu, D. Towle, X. Liu, J. H. Duncan

“…We find three distinct time zones of droplet production, first when the jet impacts the free surface upstream of the wave crest, second when the large air bubbles entrapped by the plunging jet impact reach the free surface and burst, and third when smaller bubbles burst upon reaching the free surface later in the breaking process. …”
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Modelling of Light Trapping in Acidic-Textured Multicrystalline Silicon Wafers by Yang Li, Zhongtian Li, Yuebin Zhao, Alison Lennon

“…The relationship between weighted average reflection and surface morphology is demonstrated with some of the trends being explained by simulating reflection in different wavelength regions. …”
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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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Monitoring of Kolka Glacier in 2014–2017 by terrestrial stereophotogrammetry by K. A. Aristov, D. A. Petrakov, N. V. Kovalenko, S. A. Timonin, A. A. Kolchin, V. N. Drobyshev

“…As a result, the glacier tongue advanced by 50–70 m. Average over 2014–2017 increasing in the surface elevation (2.2 m/year) was slightly smaller than in 2004–2014 (3 m/year). …”
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Coupled Lake‐Atmosphere‐Land Physics Uncertainties in a Great Lakes Regional Climate Model by William J. Pringle, Chenfu Huang, Pengfei Xue, Jiali Wang, Khachik Sargsyan, Miraj B. Kayastha, T. C. Chakraborty, Zhao Yang, Yun Qian, Robert D. Hetland

“…Abstract This study develops a surrogate‐based method to assess the uncertainty within a convective permitting integrated modeling system of the Great Lakes region, arising from interacting physics parameterizations across the lake, atmosphere, and land surface. Perturbed physics ensembles of the model during the 2018 summer are used to train a neural network surrogate model to predict lake surface temperature (LST) and near‐surface air temperature (T2m). …”
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Microstructure examination of the biocorrosion susceptibility of mild steel coated with Zn and Zn-CaCO3 in a biodiesel environment by Vivi A. Fardilah, Ilham Alkian, Yustina M. Pusparizkita, Cristian Aslan, Mohammad Tauviqirrahman, J. Jamari, Athanasius P. Bayuseno

“…The resultant microstructure coating on the steel substrate comprises modest CaCO3 (2 wt%) and considerable Zn (98 wt%) and has a rougher surface than uncoated steel. The AFM parametric values of root mean square roughness (Rq), average roughness (Ra), and maximum peak-to-valley height (Rpv) for the surface of steel-coated Zn and Zn binary composites are higher than those of uncoated carbon steel substrates, signifying potential biodiesel corrosion protection. …”
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Numerical Investigation of Aerodynamic and Electromagnetic Performances for S-Duct Caret Intake with Boundary-Layer Bleed System by Qiang Wang, Bin Wang

“…Using the multilevel fast multipole method (MLFMM) to solve Maxwell equations, the current on the intake surface is calculated, and the radar cross-section (RCS) is analyzed. …”
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Robust Initialization of Active Shape Models for Lung Segmentation in CT Scans: A Feature-Based Atlas Approach by Gurman Gill, Matthew Toews, Reinhard R. Beichel

“…Our method constructs an atlas consisting of a set of representative lung features and an average lung shape. The ASM pose parameters are found by transforming the average lung shape based on an affine transform computed from matching features between the new image and representative lung features. …”
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Characterization of Khaya Senegalensis Gum: Effects of Drying Methods on the Physicochemical Properties by Mahmud Halima Sa’adiya, Rukayat Avosuahi Oyi, Yakubu KoKori E Ibrahim

“…It also displayed excellent flow and compressibility properties whereas the freeze-dried gum appeared flaky, porous with large surface area. The mechanism of water sorption was found to be initial surface adsorption and subsequently bulk absorption for both freeze dried and vacuum dried gum samples. …”
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Forecasting Tennis Match Results Using the Bradley-Terry Model by Aisha Fayomi, Rizwana Majeed, Ali Algarni, Sohail Akhtar, Farrukh Jamal, Jamal Abdul Nasir

“…The results reveal that surface on which a game is played on contributes significantly towards a player’s performance. …”
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Construction and Engineering Application of Salt-Discharging Model for Local Saline-Alkali Soil with Compact Structure in the Yellow River Delta by Chuanxiao Liu, Kesheng Li, Depeng Ma

“…Based on the structural characteristics of compact structure and slightly developed fracture, mechanisms of surface runoff, and water-salt migration of the local saline-alkali soil, a salt-discharging engineering model mainly with surface runoff was established considering auxiliary infiltration and without interflow. …”
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Analysis Study of Antibacterial Efficacy and Cytotoxicity of Prepared Metal-Based Nanoparticles against Streptococcus mutans: Focus on Gold Nanoparticles by Fattin Fadhil, Azhar Haleem, Abdulrahman Ali, Ahlam Mohammed

“…The properties of nanoparticles, including size, shape, and surface charge, play an essential role in determining antibacterial activity. …”
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ROLE OF STAND CHARACHTERISTICS, CLIMATE, SOIL PROPERTIES, AND TOPOGRAPHT FACTOERS IN CONES AND SEEDS PRODUCTION OF Pinus brutia Ten. IN SEMI-ARID ZONE (Dohuk region) by Munther Mohammed, Muzahim Younis, Ammar Mohammed

“…Similarly, the number of seeds produced by mother trees was correlated with factors such as (number of cones produced per unit area, total number of trees for all species per unit area, crown surface area of mother trees, spacing between trees per unit area, soil pH, litter thickness, average annual temperature and relative humidity, total annual precipitation, elevation, and soil nitrogen content).…”
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Quantifying soil wind erosion attribution in Inner Mongolia’s desert grassland by Hongtao Jiang, Wenbang Gao, Baoyuan Liu, An Chang, Qiankun Guo

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Tritium in the hydro-ecosystem of the South-Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant by L. I. Grygorieva, А. O. Aleksieieva, O. V. Makarova

“…Based on the results of radioecological studies in the aquatic ecosystem of the South-Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant region (SUNPP), the tritium content in technological reservoirs (cooling pond, biological pond of the cleaning station, splash pool) and adjacent surface and groundwater bodies were analyzed. It is shown that the average annual volumetric activity of tritium in the water of technological reservoirs of the SUNPP during 2014 - 2018 is kept at the level of 110 - 160 Bq/l, with a tendency to increase with an average annual rate of 12 - 13 Bq/l, which correlates with a decrease in the volume of blowdown water discharge from the cooling pond (about 8698 thousand m3 per yr). …”
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Feasibility of using a novel automatic cardiac segmentation algorithm in the clinical routine of lung cancer patients. by Robert Neil Finnegan, Lucia Orlandini, Xiongfei Liao, Jun Yin, Jinyi Lang, Jason Dowling, Davide Fontanarosa

“…The consistency of the automatic segmentation relative to manual contouring was evaluated using the Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) and mean absolute surface-to-surface distance (MASD). The DSC and MASD are comparable to inter-observer variability in clinically acceptable whole heart delineations (average DSC > 0.93 and average MASD < 2.0 mm in all the respiratory phases). …”
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Performance of high-gravity chemical precipitation process in continuous fabrication of nano-sized α-FeOOH by Chia-Chang Lin, Si-Cen Liu, Kuan-Yi Wu

“…The average pore size, BET specific surface area, and Langmuir specific surface area of Higee-FeOOH were 12.4 nm, 48.3 m2/g, and 63.4 m2/g, respectively. …”
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Diseño de producto cerámico de baja transmitancia térmica para sistemas de mampostería en clima cálido tropical by Marlyn Stephanny Narváez-Ortega, Jorge Sánchez-Molina, Jessica Viviana Sánchez-Zúñiga

“…Ceramic products for masonry in a clay region such as the department of Norte de Santander must respond to high temperature thermal conditions that can reach an average of 40 ° C at the extreme maximum points, therefore, the enclosure systems must provide thermal resistance to the heat accumulated on the outer surface of the envelope and its internal structure, preventing it from being transmitted to the inner surface and generating unwanted thermal loads for the building, from this perspective there are techniques from the design of constructive pieces that can avoid high thermal transmittance, such as the implementation of geometries that obstruct direct thermal bridges, the increase in the number of walls that the heat must pass through, the increase in air volume with respect to mass through air chambers and the dissipation of energy through external ventilated chambers, a synergy of this group of strategies can constitute a heat-resistant system that responds efficiently to hot tropical climates. …”
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