Sedimentary Facies Evaluation of Tight Oil Reservoirs of Yanchang Formation in the Ordos Basin by Yu Peng, Huaijie Zhang, Xiaoli Zheng, Yi Wang, Jiye Li, Yinhui Zhu, Quine Doolen

“…The reservoir space is mainly composed of feldspar-dissolved pores and residual intergranular pores. Compaction and cementation are the decisive factors of pore reduction. …”
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Wetting front dynamic study in Brazilian cements using neutron and X-ray imaging techniques by Higor Rosenberger, Márcio Aparecido Bulla Jr, Estela Oliari Garcez, Nikolay Kardjilov, Fabiano Yokaichiya, Margareth K.K.D. Franco

“…X-ray tomography technique was used to investigate the differences between the pore structure and volume of pores (air voids). Finally, this article shows that image techniques is a suitable method for analyzing the size, surface and location of single air voids. …”
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Ethanol Dehydration over WO3/TiO2 Catalysts Using Titania Derived from Sol-Gel and Solvothermal Methods by Anchale Tresatayawed, Peangpit Glinrun, Bunjerd Jongsomjit

“…The present study aims to investigate the catalytic ethanol dehydration to higher value products including ethylene, diethyl ether (DEE), and acetaldehyde. …”
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Carbon nanotube supported direct borohydride fuel cell anode catalysts: the effect of catalyst loading by Aykut Caglar, Hilal Demir Kıvrak, Ömer Şahin, Tulin Avcı Hansu

“…The crystallite size corresponding to (1 1 1 ) plane is found as 5.87 nm for 30% Pd/CNT catalyst. The average pore size, pore-volume, and Brunauer, Emmet ve Teller (BET) surface area of Pd/CNT are obtained as 24.5 nm, 0.93 cm³/g, and 129.48 cm2/g, respectively. …”
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Cost-Efficient Fall Risk Assessment With Attention Augmented Vision Machine Learning on Sit-to-Stand Test Videos by Chunhua Pan, Boting Qu, Rui Miao, Xin Wang

“…Falls among the elderly and other at-risk populations pose a significant public health challenge, necessitating innovative methods to detect and intervene early. …”
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Fluid-dynamic imperative of the oil-gas occurrences in natural reservoirs by M. Z. Rachinsky

“…The pulsation-overflow-injection paradigm is presented as the imperative in the formation of hydrocarbon accumulations - «there are no subsequent synchronous hydrocarbon migration and accumulation without the emigration of syngeneic underground water and creation of empty pore-fracture volumes in the traps».…”
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Antibacterial and Antifungal Activity of Extracts from Five Portuguese Cowpea (<i>Vigna unguiculata</i>) Accessions by Acácio Salamandane, Mariana Candeias, Susana Lourenço, Emília Joana F. Vieira, Elsa Mecha, Ricardo Gomes, Rosário Bronze, Cátia Nunes, Luisa Brito

“…Leaf extracts showed the most promising results, with MICs and MBCs ranging from 1.1 to 9.1 mg/mL. …”
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Conjunction of ovarian dermoid cyst in a patient with Pituitary Micro Adenoma: A Case Report by Saroj Babu Aryal, Shasank Chitrakar, Akriti Panthi

“…This unusual combination may pose diagnostic challenges and warrants further exploration to determine any potential underlying link. …”
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The Transfinity of Culture and the Culture-Forming Features of Cyborgization by Vladimir S. Varakin

“…In addition, the concepts of posthuman and transhuman are expanded on; it is indicated that the most accurate concept is human technologizing, or technohuman. …”
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Late Eocene woods from central Oregon, western USA by Elisabeth Wheeler, Steven R. Manchester, Pieter Baas

“…Only Platanoxylon and Fagus occur at the two other Post localities. There also are fruits at Brummer Spring with the only overlap between the fruits and woods being one poorly preserved “ Prunus -like” endocarp. …”
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Robotic Wound Closure: Detection and Control of Patient Motion by Edward H. Currie, Yimin Zhao, Louis Kavoussi, Sina Y. Rabbany

“…The robot’s task is to determine the wound’s pose and relay magnetic fixtures near the wound edge with pre-specified accuracy. …”
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Stabilized two-phase material point method for hydromechanical coupling problems in solid–fluid porous media by X. Tang, X. Tang, X. Tang, W. Liu, W. Liu, S. He, S. He, L. Zhu, L. Zhu, M. Jaboyedoff, H. Zhang, H. Zhang, Y. Sun, Y. Sun, Z. Huo

“…<p>For the hydromechanical coupling of solid–fluid porous media, this study presents an explicit stabilized two-phase material point method (MPM) formulation based on the one-point two-phase MPM scheme. …”
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TREATMENT OF ULCER GASTRODUODENAL BLEEDINGS: CURRENT STATE OF THE PROBLEM (A LITERATURE REVIEW) by O. N. Antonov, A. I. Cherepanin, M. S. Sineokaya

“…Some patulous endoscopic hemostasis methods don’t fully meet safety and confidence reqirements that preserves high level of general and post-operational lethality in our country and in the rest of the world.…”
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Recent advances in heat transfer enhancement with gradient porous materials by Xinyu Shi, Zhao Zha, Xinyi Zhang, Binqi Rao, Xu Xu, Shuxia Qiu, Peng Xu

“…Gradient porous materials (GPMs) by meticulous design of pore-scale structures and sizes indicate high specific surface area and thermal conductivity, and show great potential in mitigating the drawbacks commonly observed in uniform porous materials (UPMs), including significant rise in pressure drop and flow resistance, and the need for high pumping power to provide effective heat transfer enhancement. …”
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Micromechanics-based thermo-hydro-mechanical model for air-entrained porous materials subjected to freezing-thawing cycles by Weiqi Guo, Yang Wu, Mingkun Jia, Zhihong Ma, Jinyang Jiang, Wenxiang Xu

“…The FT behaviors, including deformation, ice formation/melting, spacing factor, and pore water pressure evolutions, are focused. Comparisons with experimental results, confirm the capability of the present model. …”
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Rapid Detection of Chlorpheniramine Maleate in Human Blood and Urine Samples Based on NiCoP/PVP/PAN/CNFs Electrochemiluminescence Sensor by Yi Zhang, Jiayu Zhao, Jiaxing Chen, Tingfan Tang, Hao Cheng

“…This involved creating a pore structure by adding polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) as a pore-forming template to a polyacrylonitrile (PAN) substrate via electrostatic spinning. …”
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Social media, expression, and online engagement: a psychological analysis of digital communication and the chilling effect in the UK by Neil Anthony Daruwala

“…Political orientation significantly influenced willingness to speak out; specifically, “Very Liberal” participants were the most vocal, whereas Non-Political participants exhibited the highest self-censorship (F(5, 542) = 9.16, p &lt; 0.001, η2 = 0.08). …”
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Impact of the TiO2 polymorphic modifications and сitric acid amount on the particle size and crystallite formation of lithium-containing titanium oxides under the melting route by I. M. Shcherbatiuk, T. V. Lisnycha, K. D. Pershina

“…All samples were found to involve two kinds of pores: micropores with approx. 1?2 nm radius, and mesopores with approx. 10?…”
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Asphaltene Deposition during CO2 Flooding in Ultralow Permeability Reservoirs: A Case Study from Changqing Oil Field by Li Rong-tao, Liao Xin-wei, Zou Jian-dong, Gao Chang-wang, Zhao Dong-feng, Zhang Yuan-dong, Zhou Xing-ze

“…The deposited asphaltene occupies the pore volume and decreases permeability, resulting in serious formation damage and pore well productivity. …”
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Screening of electrospun PS/PCL scaffolds for three-dimensional triple negative breast cancer cell culture: impact of solvent, hydrophobicity, and setup orientation by Sira Ausellé-Bosch, Marta Pardo, Marta Pareja, Emma Polonio-Alcalá, Teresa Puig

“…Abstract Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) presents a significant challenge due to its aggressiveness and lack of targeted therapies. …”
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