Estimation of Fresh and Hardened Properties of Self-Compacting Concrete by Optimized Radial Basis Function Methods by David Cadasse, Antonio Fontana

“…Most of the published literature on concrete containing fly ash was limited to predicting the hardened concrete properties. …”
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Pressure Reduction Effects of Compressible Materials on the Buried Pipes Subjected to Large Surcharges by Marcin Kochanowicz, Vo Van Hoang

“…Two-dimensional numerical analyses were conducted considering the incrementally increasing pressure applied on the surface of dry sand containing buried pipe. The analysis results were compared to the no EPS state to present the effectiveness of different EPS arrangements. …”
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Berberine-induced browning and energy metabolism: mechanisms and implications by Aslıhan Alpaslan Ağaçdiken, Zeynep Göktaş

“…Berberine, a phytochemical widely used in Asian countries, has positive effects on body weight control. …”
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Expanding Yarrowia lipolytica’s metabolic potential for detoxification of cyanogenic glycosides in edible plants by Fidelis Azi, Zhiyu Li, Peng Xu

“…The findings demonstrate that the strain is a robust, sustainable, and potentially efficient strain that could be used for industrial bioconversion of plant materials containing glycosylated toxicants into safe foods and animal feeds.…”
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Mental Images of Nurses with and without Patient with COVID-19: A Metaphor Study by Müjde Moran, Firdevs Ebru Özdemir, Zahide Gül Yazgi Demir, Mualla Yilmaz

“…The data collection form consists of six questions containing personal information and one metaphor question. …”
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Jets with electrons from boosted top quarks by Suman Chatterjee, Rohini Godbole, Tuhin S. Roy

“…Our method uses the distribution of energy in different parts of the detector to identify a jet containing an energetic electron, involves use of substructure of the jet to determine the momentum associated with the electron and then completes the identification of top jet with the construction of new variables which would reflect the top quark decay kinematics. …”
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An Endometrioid Ovary Cyst and Fallopian Tube in the Inguinal Canal: Conservative or Surgical Management? by Sema Ovalı, Ahmet Yılmaz, Gürkan Zorlu

“…Most of the cases of hernia containing ovary and other genital organs are found in children, but they may be seen in premenaposal or menaposal women also. …”
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Design and Prototyping of a Dust Extraction System with a Suppression Mechanism: A Case Study of Limestone Dust on Small Scale Mines by Kambasu Bowen

“…The designed dust collection system comprises of the hood for capturing the dust from a point source, a cyclone for separating dust using centrifugal force, a hopper for breaking the vortex and an airtight container for collecting the dust. The machine was then tested to examine its efficiency and the efficiency was actually dependent on the length and diameter of the cyclone. …”
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An algorithm to Detect Overlapping Red Blood Cells for Sickle Cell Disease Diagnosis. by Mabirizi, Vicent, Kawuma, Simon, Safari, Yonasi

“…In Africa, Uganda is among the countries with a high number of babies (20,000 babies)born with sickle cell, contributing between 6.8% of the children born with sickle cell every year worldwide and approximately 4.5% of the children born with hemoglobinopathies worldwide. …”
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Analysis of Leaching Rate of Heavy Metals from Fly Ash at Varying Leachant pH & Cumulative Liquid to Solid Ratios by Tobby, Micheal Agwe, Sharma, S. N., Pandey, Govind

“…This continued disposal of FA into the environment makes the heavy metals contained therein to move out in the leachate generated, polluting the soil, surface and ground water sources among others. …”
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Feeding Grain Sorghum to Swine by Robert O. Myer, Joel H. Brendemuhl, Daniel W. Gorbet

“…Gorbet, explains how to use grain sorghum, an attractive alternative to corn for use in swine diets -- types of grain sorghum, nutrient composition, results of feeding trials, processing, and low-test-weight, sprout-damaged, and contaminated grain sorghum, and high-moisture grain sorghum. …”
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Movimentos sociais e pós-colonialismo na América Latina by Ilse Scherer-Warren

“…Considering the tradition of social movement studies in Latin America, the present text brings some refl ections about the emergence of a post-colonial approach directed to the study of subaltern groups on our continent. To fulfi ll this objective, the connections among four elements in the production of knowledge about contemporary social movements are examined: the relation between the subject studied and the subject that produces knowledge; the relation between life experience, representation and recognition; the human rights in the perspective of subaltern subjects; and discourse formations derived from the historicity and emancipatory desire of these subjects.…”
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Onsite Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems: Viruses by Mary Lusk, Gurpal S. Toor, Thomas Obreza

“…This 7-page fact sheet characterizes the behavior of viruses in septic systems and the soil drain field and summarizes what we know about the extent and character of groundwater contamination with viruses emanating from septic systems. …”
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Onsite Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems: Viruses by Mary Lusk, Gurpal S. Toor, Thomas Obreza

“…This 7-page fact sheet characterizes the behavior of viruses in septic systems and the soil drain field and summarizes what we know about the extent and character of groundwater contamination with viruses emanating from septic systems. …”
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TRANSITION IN THE FRETTING PHENOMENON by Stefan GHIMISI

“…Obviously the partial slip transition develops the highest stress levels which can induce fatigue crack nucleation depending on the fatigue properties of the two contacting first bodies. Therefore prediction of the frontier between partial slip and gross slip is required. …”
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Slang jest spoko? Pedagogiczne aspekty obecności socjolektu uczniowskiego w dyskursie publicznym by Anna Dąbrowska

“…Students slang as a socially conditioned variety of language was initially intended and used by teenagers exclusively for informal contacts between peers. Today, it is also used for communication between children, young people and adults, including in official situations; it is even present in public discourse. …”
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Feeding Grain Sorghum to Swine by Robert O. Myer, Joel H. Brendemuhl, Daniel W. Gorbet

“…Gorbet, explains how to use grain sorghum, an attractive alternative to corn for use in swine diets -- types of grain sorghum, nutrient composition, results of feeding trials, processing, and low-test-weight, sprout-damaged, and contaminated grain sorghum, and high-moisture grain sorghum. …”
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Onsite Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems: Bacteria and Protozoa by Mary Lusk, Gurpal S. Toor, Tom Obreza

“…This 7-page fact sheet reports the sources of bacteria and protozoa in wastewater, discusses diseases associated with drinking water contaminated with wastewater, and then details their fate in septic systems. …”
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Onsite Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems: Bacteria and Protozoa by Mary Lusk, Gurpal S. Toor, Tom Obreza

“…This 7-page fact sheet reports the sources of bacteria and protozoa in wastewater, discusses diseases associated with drinking water contaminated with wastewater, and then details their fate in septic systems. …”
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Examination of Faecal Caliform Presence in Groundwater in Ghana (A Case Study in Ketu South Municipality) by Seth Y Ahiabor, Austin D Amoako

“…Well water from  both districts showed widespread contamination with faecal bacteria. This study revealed high Faecal and Total coliforms in all the samples with varying numbers. …”
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