Occurrence and risk assessment of organochlorine pesticide residues in tea and herbal products in Spain by Raquel Diez, Cristina Lopez, Jose M. Rodriguez, Raul de la Puente, Beatriz Romero, E. Milena Vazquez, M. Jose Diez, Nelida Fernandez, Ana M. Sahagun

“…The health risk assessment indicated that the presence of OCP in black tea and the two herbal products does not pose any risk to consumers.…”
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Effects of Vegetated and Synthetic (Impervious) Surfaces on the Microclimate of Urban Area by MO Obiakor, CD Ezeonyejiaku, TC Mogbo

“…The present paper shows the considerable impacts of both vegetated and synthetic surfaces on the microclimate of urban area. …”
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The Criterion and the Extension of the Proof of Seddiqin by Professor Javadi Amoli by عسکری سلیمانی امیری

“…The proof of the existence of God is one of the most worrying human thoughts and they pose rigorous demonstrations on it. But arguments were generally based on the existence of creation. …”
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Sujet et intersubjectivité by Isabelle Aubert

“…À partir des trois traitements de ce concept, on verra comment des développements très différents s’ensuivent sur les rapports entre sujet et intersubjectivité : Fichte présente une conception de l’action réciproque, qui pose les bases de la reconnaissance et du droit, Husserl interroge la constitution de l’expérience de l’autre à partir de la perspective phénoménologique du sujet, Habermas enfin fait de l’intersubjectivité un paradigme de philosophie sociale. …”
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The Use of Reduction Rhinoplasty to Accommodate a Local Flap for Large Nasal Tip Defect Reconstruction by Linda Regina Gudjonsdottir, BMsc, Gudjon Leifur Gunnarsson, MD

“…A nasal tip defect can pose a reconstructive challenge, especially if the defect size overrides the availability of a local flap for coverage. …”
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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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Visualization of structural and textural changes in the newly formed snow layer during prolonged snowfall by M. P. Tentyukov

“…Already on the third day, with the thickness of the newly formed snow layer of 12 cm, the primary texture in the form of internal layering, due to the microstructure of freshly fallen snow, began to differ in it. In the process of post-sedimentation transformations, the primary stratification in the newly formed stratigraphically significant snow layer was preserved, but became less noticeable. …”
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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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