Fate and health implications of the radioactive ultrafine aerosols in the air by Magdalena Długosz-Lisiecka, Myriam Lopes, Alexandra Monteiro, Joana Ferreira

“…Due to environmental significance of nanoparticles associated with radioactive isotopes of natural or artificial origin and the worldwide health risk they pose, this article presents how they are transported into the troposphere. …”
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Seeing Photographically by Scott McQuire, Jasmin Pfefferkorn, Emilie K. Sunde, Celia Lury, Daniel Palmer

“…These examples are leveraged to pose critical questions about photography’s transformation since the 19th century, and especially in the first decades of the 21st century, as trajectories associated with digitization, networked distribution, the widespread integration of cameras into mobile devices and the growing application of machine-learning to image-making have all taken hold. …”
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Automated mold defects classification in paintings: A comparison of machine learning and rule-based techniques. by Hilman Nordin, Bushroa Abdul Razak, Norrima Mokhtar, Mohd Fadzil Jamaludin, Adeel Mehmood

“…Mold defects pose a significant risk to the preservation of valuable fine art paintings, typically arising from fungal growth in humid environments. …”
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A Review of Flow Mechanism and Inversion Methods of Fracture Network in Shale Gas Reservoirs by Luoyi Huang, Guanglong Sheng, Su Li, Gang Tong, Siyao Wang, Xiaoyin Peng, Deng Liu, JiaTing Chen, LiYuan Xin, Zhouxiang Hu

“…The pore structure of shale gas reservoirs has strong heterogeneity, and the flow mechanism in multiscale media is complex. …”
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Influence of internal printing pattern and infill on morphological and dimensional properties of gluten-free bread manufactured by 3D printing by Carmen Molina-Montero, Adrian Matas, Marta Igual, Javier Martínez-Monzó, Purificación García-Segovia

“…The results showed that the dough presented a predominantly elastic behavior suitable for 3D printing. …”
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Our Experience with the Low-Profile Braided Occluder: A Case Series of Splenic Artery Embolization in Three Trauma Patients by Christopher Stevens, Chintan Mehta, Dylan Scott, Chaitanya Ahuja, Massoud Allahyari

“…Food and Drug Administration cleared the low-profile braided occluder (LOBO; Okami Medical, Aliso Viejo, California, United States), a vascular occlusion system designed to rapidly occlude vessels by using a high-density, uniform small pore structure. We present a small case series describing the use of the LOBO device for proximal splenic embolization in three trauma patients. …”
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Computed tomography and image processing based multi-scale fracture extraction method for core samples by Feng WU, Xuewu CHEN, Hui ZHAO, Xiangchao SHI, Jianfeng LIU

“…Fractures are widely present in various kinds of rocks and are critical for reservoir evaluation, deve-lopment, and geological disaster prediction. …”
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Macro- and Microresearch on Swelling Characteristics and Deformation Mechanism of Red-Bed Mudstone in Central Sichuan, China by Fei Yu, Kai-wen Tong, Zhang-jun Dai, Gao-shun Feng, Zhe Zhou, Shan-xiong Chen

“…Small pores gradually evolved into microcracks and large fissures. …”
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Influence of fin thickness variation on the thermal performance of metallic foam heat sink laminar condition by Marwa Alaa, Abbas J. Jubear, Hussein R. Al-Bugharbee

“… In recent years, open-pore metallic foams have been employed in a wide variety of applications owing to the essential qualities that they possess. …”
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Vibrio cholerae cytolysin induces pro-inflammatory and death signals through novel TLR assembly. by Shraddha Gandhi, Sindhoora Puravankara, Anish Kumar Mondal, Aakanksha Chauhan, Shashi Prakash Yadav, Kausik Chattopadhyay, Arunika Mukhopadhaya

“…VCC is a membrane-damaging pore-forming toxin by nature, and is well known for its ability to cause host cell death. …”
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SOIL BULK DENSITY AS IMPORTANT MANAGEMENT FACTOR AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES WELL FUNCTION by Alina EFTENE, Petru IGNAT, Irina-Adriana CHIURCIU, Alexandrina MANEA, Daniela RADUCU, Sorina DUMITRU

“…The HC depends not only on the poral space design, but also on the quality and quantity of the clay coatings that coated the pore walls. The illuvial constituents partially clog the pores, reducing the values of the poral space (as part of BD), and hence the HC. …”
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Adsorption of Phosphate from Aqueous Solution by Calcination of Silicified Coal: Kinetic and Isotherm Studies by Lisa Fandana, Faisal Abdullah, Abrar Muslim*, Suhendrayatna Suhendrayatna, Hesti Meilina

“…Silicified coal (SC) consisting of SiO2 is a promising raw material for adsorbent. The present study aimed to utilize silicified coal bottom ash (SCBA) adsorbent by calcination of the SC at temperatures of 600, 800, and 1000 oC for 1 hour. …”
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Potassium dynamics in cotton with a white clover living mulch: A Georgia Piedmont case study by Chandler Gruener, Matthew Levi, Nicholas Basinger, Miguel Cabrera, Nicholas Hill

“…This included soil, plant, and pore water samples collected at important cotton reproductive states for 2 site‐years with different soil fertility. …”
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A Theoretical Model of Soil Freezing Characteristic Curve Considering the Freezing of Adsorbed Water and Capillary Water by Yijie Wang, Liming Hu

“…Model analyses were performed to investigate the effects of individual pore size, soil type, and initial water content on the freezing process, revealing the distinct contributions of adsorption and capillarity in soil water freezing. …”
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The Effect of Okra Seed (Abelmoschus esculentus) Powder Supplementation on Nutritional, Textural, Microstructural, and Sensory Properties of Gluten-Free Muffins by Altan Sahan, Ezgi Ozgoren Capraz

“…A texture profile analysis revealed that the hardness, adhesiveness, gumminess, and chewiness values of the muffins increased with the supplementation of OSP, while scanning electron microscope imaging revealed a homogeneous pore structure in the control samples that decreased as the OSP substitution rate increased. …”
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Plugging Experiments for Ceramic Filling Layer with Different Grain Sizes Under Gas–Water Mixed Flow for Natural Gas Hydrate Development by Xiaolong Zhao, Yizhong Zhao, Meng Mu, Aiyong Zhou, Haifeng Zhao, Fei Xie

“…However, the fine silt particles can easily cause blockages in the sand control medium, so the balance between sand control efficiency and gas production should be considered. At present, there is a lack of reasonable and effective measures to prevent pore blockage in the sand control medium. …”
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Poroelastic Response to Karst Conduit Pressurization: A Finite Element Modeling Exercise Toward the Use of Tiltmeters in Karst Aquifer Monitoring Applications by Jacob Alexander Gochenour, Alex J. Rinehart, Andrew J. Luhmann, Ronni Grapenthin, Susan L. Bilek

“…Our analysis focuses on the impact of the parameterization on pore pressure, vertical displacement, and tilt. We find that the spatial distribution of the poroelastic signal depends on the hydraulic diffusivity, and its magnitude depends on the mechanical and coupling parameters. …”
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Biomimetic Full-Thickness Artificial Skin Using Stromal Vascular Fraction Cells and Autologous Keratinocytes in a Single Scaffold for Wound Healing by Jung Huh, Seong-Ho Jeong, Eun-Sang Dhong, Seung-Kyu Han, Kyung-Chul Moon

“…Similarly, SVF cells exhibited a viability of 93.68 ± 1.82% on day 1, which slightly improved to 97.12 ± 1.64% on day 7. This study presents a novel strategy for full-thickness artificial skin development, combining SVF and keratinocytes with an optimized single collagen scaffold and a gradient pore-density structure.…”
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Weakly-consolidated sandstone fracture conductivity under combined action of compressing, proppant embedding and fines plugging: experiments, model and application by Guolong Li, Changyin Dong, Haobin Bai, Yaotu Han, Qilong Zhang

“…Abstract Hydraulic fracturing is widely used to enhance hydrocarbon production in low-permeability reservoirs, but its application in loosely cemented sandstone reservoirs presents unique challenges. These formations exhibit high pore permeability and low rock strength, making frac-packing susceptible to fracture conductivity damage. …”
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Ultrastable and Highly Luminescent Quantum Dots Coating Highly Dense Protective Layers of Na‐Poly(Al‐O‐Si) Nanocomposites for Light‐Emitting Diodes by Chun‐Feng Lai, Chang‐Zhi Zhong, Yu‐Chun Lee

“…The synthesized NPAS NCs via a sol‐gel method with catalyst showed the lowest SSA (2.39 m2 g−1) with almost no pore, thereby demonstrating the best reliability analysis (RA) results for QD‐WLEDs. …”
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