Pulsed reverse electrochemical synthesis of Ag-TiO2 composites from deep eutectic solvents: Photocatalytic and antibacterial behaviour by Ionela-Cristina Petcu, Raluca Negrea, Ana T.S.C. Brandão, Cosmin Romanitan, Oana Brincoveanu, Nikolay Djourelov, Iuliana Mihalache, L. Monica Veca, Gabriela Isopencu, Carlos M. Pereira, Liana Anicai, Cristina Busuioc, Sabrina State (Rosoiu)

“…Our findings clearly demonstrated that the incorporation of Ag improved the photocatalytic efficiency. The mechanism of MO dye degradation was explored by using various scavengers, revealing that superoxide radicals (•O2−) play a dominant role. …”
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Application of fluorescence spectroscopy and laser confocal technology in shale geological evaluation by LI Ping, ZHAI Zheng, WANG Xin, LI Zheng, LIN Jing, HAN Dongmei, AN Tianxia

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Impurity transport driven by kinetic ballooning mode in the strong gradient pedestal of tokamak plasmas by Shanni Huang, Weixin Guo, Lu Wang

“…Moreover, the removal efficiency of light fully ionized impurities, quantified by the ratio between the impurity diffusivity and effective ion heat conductivity $\frac{{{D_{\text{z}}}}}{{\chi _{\text{i}}^{{\text{eff}}}}}\approx \frac{{1 - {b_{\text{z}}}+ {{4{\omega _{{\text{Dz}}}}}\mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {{4{\omega _{{\text{Dz}}}}}{\omega_\text{r}^{\prime}}}}\right. }{{{\omega_\text{r}^{\prime}}}}}}}{{{{3\left({1+{1\mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {1 {{\eta _{\text{i}}}}}}\right. }{{\eta _{\text{i}}}}}}\right)}\mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {{3\left( {1 + {1 \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {1 {{\eta _{\text{i}}}}}}\right. }{{\eta _{\text{i}}}}}}\right)}2}}\right. }2}}}$ , increases with an increase of $Z$ mainly due to the smaller impurity finite Larmor radius (FLR) effects reflected by ${b_{\text{z}}}\propto {1 \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {1 Z}}\right. }Z}$ . …”
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Early intervention anti-Aβ immunotherapy attenuates microglial activation without inducing exhaustion at residual plaques by Lis de Weerd, Selina Hummel, Stephan A. Müller, Iñaki Paris, Thomas Sandmann, Marie Eichholtz, Robin Gröger, Amelie L. Englert, Stephan Wagner, Connie Ha, Sonnet S. Davis, Valerie Warkins, Dan Xia, Brigitte Nuscher, Anna Berghofer, Marvin Reich, Astrid F. Feiten, Kai Schlepckow, Michael Willem, Stefan F. Lichtenthaler, Joseph W. Lewcock, Kathryn M. Monroe, Matthias Brendel, Christian Haass

“…Long-term treatment with anti-Aβ results in a robust and dose-dependent lowering of amyloid plaque pathology, with a higher efficiency for reducing diffuse over dense-core plaque deposition. …”
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Visible-light deep reduction of low concentration CO2 over composite catalyst Ru/CoAl-LDH and the performance enhancement mechanism by Jun DAI, Fengting JIA, Juan YANG, Zhixiang FENG, Dazhao WANG, Chongchong LENG

“…As the photoelectron acceptor, the loaded Ru can not only enhance the separation and migration efficiency of photogenerated charges, but also implement multi-electron reduction as active reductive sites of CO2. …”
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Spectroscopic analysis (UV-VIS-NIR) for predictive modeling of macro and micronutrients in grapevine leaves by J.I. Manzano, M. Rodríguez-Febereiro, M. Fandiño, M. Vilanova, J.J. Cancela

“…Accurate determinations are also relevant for enhancing nutrient use efficiency and formulating fertilizer recommendations. …”
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Clinical-pathagenetic, Age, Gender, Genetic Aspects of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Nonviral Chronic Hepatitis Without, and also with Comorbid Hypothyroidism; Improving of... by Prysyazhnyuk V., Voloshyn O.

“…To improve the diagnostic and treatment efficiency of patients with NAFLD and nonviral CH, taking into account clinical and pathogenic, age, gender, genetic factors and the presence of hypothyroidism. …”
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Stability of non-fullerene acceptor-based organic solar cells: chemical and physical properties at the interfaces and active layer by Ian C Flores, Yenny L Casallas-Moreno, Ángel Sacramento, Magali Ramírez-Como, Marlene Camacho-Reynoso, Víctor Cabrera, Yuriy Kudriavtsev, Carlos Rivera-Rodríguez, Luis M Reséndiz

“…Organic solar cells (OSCs) have improved power conversion efficiency (PCE); however, their stability remains challenging. …”
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THE IMPORTANCE OF HIGH-RESOLUTION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IN EVALUATING THE EFFICACY OF RITUXIMAB IN PATIENTS WITH INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE IN SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS by O. A. Koneva, O. V. Desinova, L. P. Ananyeva, N. V. Kovaleva

“…The patients’ mean age was 48±2 years; the male-to-female ratio was 1:6; that of diffuse-to-localized SSc patients was 1.5:1 (25 and 17); the mean duration of SSc was 6.6±5.9 years. …”
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Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) science: Gas and dust in nearby galaxies [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] by Pamela Klaassen, Mark Booth, Caroline Bot, Thomas Stanke, Claudia Cicone, Tony Mroczkowski, Doug Johnstone, Luca Di Mascolo, Minju Lee, Eelco van Kampen, Thomas Maccarone, Daizhong Liu, Matthew Smith, Francisca Kemper, Sven Wedemeyer, Amelie Saintonge, Alessandro Boselli, Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez, Bendix Hagedorn, Timothy A. Davis, Ann Mao, Akhil Lasrado, Frank Bigiel, Serena Viti, Paola Andreani, Melanie Chevance, Martin A. Cordiner, Alexander E. Thelen

“…The new discovery space of AtLAST comes from its exceptional sensitivity, in particular to extended low surface brightness emission, a very large 2° field of view, and correspondingly high mapping efficiency. This paper focuses on four themes which will particularly benefit from AtLAST: 1) the LMC and SMC, 2) extragalactic magnetic fields, 3) the physics and chemistry of the interstellar medium, and 4) star formation and galaxy evolution. …”
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COVID-19 – if the cure is worse than the disease. The Italian chaos by Giuseppe FERRARI

“…Moreover, it has not been accurately considered the real feasibility to enforce an efficient social distancing model and the effects of a prolonged lockdown on the Italian economy. …”

Technology-Enhanced Differentiated Instruction: A Narrative Review by Ata Barzegari, Esmaeil Azimi Yancheshmeh, Javad Hatami

“…In TEL environments, DI can be implemented through "diffuse approaches," "self-directed learning," and "model-based differentiation." …”
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CFD algorithm for moving boundary problems of isothermal drying and shrinkage: Case of prunes by Lentzou Diamanto, Templalexis Charalampos, Boudouvis Andreas G., Karathanos Vaios, Xanthopoulos Georgios

“…A moving-boundary FEM model describing isothermal drying of fruit was employed as an inverse problem to estimate water diffusivity and peel resistance, including shrinkage. …”
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Resistive Collapse of 2D Nonrotating Magnetized Isothermal Toroids: Formation of Pseudodisks by Ya-Chi Wang, Hsien Shang, Ruben Krasnopolsky

“…., now with explicit nonideal MHD (ohmic diffusivity η ) and higher resolution using a code able to cover a broader range of the magnetization parameter H _0 . …”
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A Comparative Study of Divergent Surface Acoustic Wave Beams’ Generation on an Y128° Lithium Niobate Using Various Types of Interdigital Transducers by Marc Duquennoy, Dame Fall, Nada Ben Jafela, Nikolay Smagin, Zakariae Oumekloul, Lynda Chehami, Emmanuel Moulin, Mohammadi Ouaftouh

“…It was shown that the second configuration provides the highest SAW amplitude, which is important while measuring the diffuse acoustic field. Nevertheless, the third one was particularly efficient in terms of reducing the contact area.…”
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The shifting regulation and competition interface by Max Huffman

“…Where efficient outcomes deviate from those, however, market regulation is the better alternative. …”
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Chinese National Condition Based Power Dispatching Optimization in Microgrids by Gang Chen, Jian-Ming Wang, Xiao-Dong Yuan, Liang Chen, Lu-Jia Zhao, Yu-Ling He

“…However, in the case of perfect contamination-diffusing weather, the battery is not used to reserve its lifetime, while a large amount of exchanged power from the primary grid is used to obtain a most economic-efficient effect. …”
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Surface photochemistry: Photodegradation study of pyrene adsorbed onto microcrystalline cellulose and silica by A. S. Oliveira, L. F. Vieira Ferreira, J. P. Da Silva, J. C. Moreira

“…Ground-state diffuse reflectance, time resolved laser-induced luminescence, diffuse reflectance laser flash-photolysis transient absorption and chromatographic techniques were used to elucidate the photodegradation processes of pyrene adsorbed onto microcrystalline cellulose and silica. …”
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Developing lightweight structural concrete with enhanced thermal and durability properties through nano-silica and expanded polystyrene integration by Sabry A. Ahmed, Esraa Ebrahem, Ahmed A. M. El-Amir, M. S. El-Feky

“…These findings highlight the transformative potential of this composite material in developing high-performance, thermally-efficient, and sustainable concrete for energy-efficient buildings, reducing operational energy demands and carbon footprints.…”
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Benchmarking CNN Architectures for Tool Classification: Evaluating CNN Performance on a Unique Dataset Generated by Novel Image Acquisition System by Muhenad Bilal, Ranadheer Podishetti, Daniel Grossmann, Markus Bregulla

“…It is compared with conventional diffuse ring illumination to assess its effectiveness in evaluating state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks. …”
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