Preparation and Properties of Coal Ash Ceramic Membranes for Water and Heat Recovery from Flue Gas by Haiping Chen, Xiangsheng Li, Jiadi Wei, Yijun Feng, Dan Gao

“…The membrane surface is uniform and dense, without cracks; the pore diameter is 1–4 μm, and the porosity is 26.6%. Furthermore, the CACM and CMCM were compared at the aspects of water and heat recovery performance using flue gas. …”
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Effect of Endophytic Trichoderma sp. Strains on the Agronomic Characteristics of Ecotypes of Theobroma cacao L. under Nursery Conditions in Peru by Antony Chavez-Jalk, Santos Leiva, Leidy G. Bobadilla, Carmen N. Vigo, Marielita Arce, Manuel Oliva-Cruz

“…The variables evaluated were chlorophyll indices (at 30, 45, 60, and 70 days after planting), percentage of endophyte colonization, root hair development, trichomes on stems, and agronomic characteristics (plant height, number of leaves, stem diameter, root dry and fresh weight, root size, etc.). …”
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EFFECT OF DIFFERENT NITROGEN DOSES ON PERFORMANCE OF BABY CORN (ZEA MAYS) UNDER LOCAL CONDITION IN KUSHMA, PARBAT, NEPAL by Kabita Bhat, Poojan Adhikari, Sushil Awasthi, Anu Panthy, Kiran Thapa, Saujan Acharya

“…The longest cobs were found at 260 kg/ha, and the shortest at 0 kg/ha, although cob length differences among treatments were not statistically significant. The largest cob diameter was observed at 190 kg/ha, and the smallest at 0 kg/ha. …”
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Orthodontic Rubber Band-Assisted Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection: An Efficient Method for Treating Superficial Colorectal Tumors by Linfu Zheng, Wen Wang, Dazhou Li, Junguo Chen, Longping Chen, Rong Wang, Chuanshen Jiang, Guanpo Zhang, Yaping Hou, Jin Zheng, Yang Bai

“…We retrospectively analyzed the data of patients with superficial colorectal tumor (with diameter≥20 mm) who received either ORB-ESD (n=34) or conventional ESD (n=90) between January 2019 and September 2020. …”
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Photocatalytic Degradation of Rhodamine B by C and N Codoped TiO2 Nanoparticles under Visible-Light Irradiation by Thuy Thi Thanh Le, Trinh Dinh Tran

“…The experimental results revealed that C, N codoped TiO2 nanoparticles were successfully synthesized, with an average diameter of 9.1 nm. C, N-TiO2 nanoparticles exhibited an energy band gap of 2.90 eV, which were lower than pristine TiO2 (3.34 eV), C-TiO2 (3.2 eV), and N-TiO2 (3.03 eV). …”
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Using the gene pool of CIMMYT cultivars and lines in spring durum wheat breeding in Western Siberia by V. S. Yusov, М. G. Evdokimov, M. N. Kiriakova, D. A. Glushakov

“…Local cultivars dominated in most of the studied traits, except the stem length, and the length and diameter of the second internode, where short-stemmed cultivars affected the degree of the traits’ expression in hybrids.Conclusion. …”
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Fish Larval Assemblage Associated with an Eastern Tropical Pacific Coral Reef: Seasonal and Interannual Variability by Juan José Gallego-Zerrato, Diego Fernando Córdoba-Rojas, Alan Giraldo

“…Fish larvae were collected by daytime and nighttime surface trawls, using a bongo net 30 cm in diameter and 180 cm in length, equipped with mesh sizes of 300 and 500 μm. …”
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Evaluating the Impact Performance of Environmentally Friendly Asphalt Concrete Slabs Containing Different Proportions of Recycled Concrete Aggregate and Corrugated Steel Fibers by Walid Mansour, Diaa Ashraf, Ali Basha

“…The results revealed that the ratio between the back and front crater diameters for slabs containing 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, and 50% RCA after incorporating steel fibers was 1.15, 1.17, 1.15, 1.28, and 1.36, respectively. …”
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Effect of Deficit Irrigation on Agronomic and Physiological Performance of Pomegranate (<i>Punica granatum</i> L.) by Rossana Porras-Jorge, José Mariano Aguilar, Carlos Baixauli, Julián Bartual, Bernardo Pascual, Nuria Pascual-Seva

“…SDI also reduced tree growth in height and trunk diameter compared to RDI and control strategies. The study concludes that RDI is a viable irrigation strategy for pomegranate cultivation under water-limited conditions, whereas SDI should be reserved for situations of severe water scarcity.…”
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Amikacin-loaded selenium nanoparticles improved antibacterial and antibiofilm activity of amikacin against bovine mastitis-causing Staphylococcus aureus by Leila Asadpour, Maryam Alsadat Mehrbakhsh Bandari, Roozbeh Sojoudi Masouleh

“…Results: Synthetized SeNPs and amikacin-loaded selenium nanoparticles (SeNPs@AMK) exhibited spherical appearances and 80.4 % of Se° had a diameter of 120 nm. SeNPs and SeNPs@AMK exhibited antibacterial effects against S. aureus isolates at the range of 32–128 μg/mL and 1–32 μg/mL respectively. …”
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Relationship between morphometric measurements and blood parameters in horses with varying adiposity levels and physiological conditions by Arash Omidi, Aria Rasooli, Saeed Nazifi, Abbas Heydari, Mohammad Seirafinia

“…Negative correlations were found between neck circumference to height at withers and glucose (r = −0.309, p = 0.029), CNS and glucose (r = −0.315, p = 0.026) as well as between crest diameter and cortisol (r = −0.360, p = 0.01). Main limitations Increasing the sample size and conducting longitudinal studies would enhance the study's validity and reliability. …”
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Secondary Vitrectomy with Internal Limiting Membrane Plug due to Persistent Full-Thickness Macular Hole OCT-Angiography and Microperimetry Features: Case Series by Dominika Wrzesińska, Katarzyna Nowomiejska, Dominika Nowakowska, Mario Damiano Toro, Vincenza Bonfiglio, Michele Reibaldi, Teresio Avitabile, Robert Rejdak

“…ILM flap was integrated in all cases with V-shape of closure, and atrophy was found in one case, with the largest diameter of FTMH. BCVA improved in two cases and remained the same in two cases. …”
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Settlement Behavior of Soft Subgrade Reinforced by Geogrid-Encased Stone Column and Geocell-Embedded Sand Cushion: A Numerical Analysis by Jia-Jun Gao, Hui Xu, Jian-Wen Qian, Yi-Fan Gong, Liang-Tong Zhan, Ping Chen

“…When the encasement length of stone column increased from 1D (one time the column diameter) to 8D (full encasement), the settlement in construction stage and postconstruction stage decreased by 32.2% and 35.1%, respectively, which is benefited from the increase in the compression modulus of the column. …”
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Development of an Orientation-independent Handheld Nebulizer by Sheng-Hsiu Huang, Chih-Wei Lin, Wei-Ren Ke, Yu-Mei Kuo, Chih-Chieh Chen

“…., the gap between the reservoir wall and the FEOT (LLR-FEOT), the diameter of the FEOT’s orifice (Dorifice), the orientation of the nebulizer, and the size of the aperture, on the performance of the device. …”
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Structural Alteration, Hydration Stability, Heavy Metal Removal Efficiency, and Montmorillonite Porosity Fate by Coupling the Soil Solution pH and a Thermal Gradient by Chadha Mejri, Walid Oueslati, Abdesslem Ben Haj Amara

“…The evolution of montmorillonite porosity is determined by adsorption measurement, based on Brunauer, Emmett, and Teller (BET) and Barrett-Joyner-Halenda (BJH) pore size distribution analyses which confirms for all samples, the exfoliation process, and the mesopore diameter rise by increasing the constraint intensity.…”
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Mathematical model for droplet size prediction of gas-water nozzle based on orthogonal experiment by Xin WANG, Wenpu LI, He SHAO, Yiyi ZHENG, Yurong GAO, Xi CHEN

“…In order to understand the influence of process parameters and structural parameters of internal mixing gas-water nozzle on atomization characteristics, based on a self-designed experimental platform for atomization characteristics, the influence of air supply pressure, water supply pressure, gas-water convergence angle, mixing chamber length and outlet size on atomization characteristics was quantitatively analyzed by orthogonal experiment method, and then a prediction model of nozzle droplet Sauter mean diameter (SMD) was established by using multivariate nonlinear regression method. …”
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Syntheses, Characterization, and Antimicrobial Screening of N-(benzothiazol-2-yl)benzenesulphonamide and its Cu(I), Ni(II), Mn(II), Co(II), and Zn(II) Complexes by N. L. Obasi, Okoye C. O. Benedict, P. O. Ukoha, A. O. Anaga

“…Thus the Inhibition Zone Diameter (IZD), the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC), and the Lethal and Effective Concentrations (LC50 and EC50) were determined. …”
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Transanal Hemorrhoidal Dearterialization (THD): A Single Center Experience on 100 Consecutive Cases by Aleksandar Mitevski, Vladko Cvetanovski, Petar Markov, Ilija Milev

“…Morphological and hemodynamic changes that occur in patients with hemorrhoidal disease is the finding of an increased diameter of the terminal branches of the superior rectal artery that supplies the hemorrhoidal nodes. …”
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Effect of the Preexisting Fissure with Different Fillings in PMMA on Blast-Induced Crack Propagation by Xin Yang, Xiangguo Zeng, Chuanjin Pu, Dingjun Xiao

“…In order to study the dynamic crack propagation law in fissured rock under the different fillings, a borehole with 7 mm diameter was processed in the center of a polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) specimen. …”
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Effect of NH4+ on the hydrothermal formation of calcium sulfate hemihydrate whiskers from fluorogypsum by Jianping Zhu, Qilin Wang, Zuolin Wang, Haixia Liu, Huachun Yang, Surendra P. Shah, Yadong Bian

“…NH4+ preferentially adsorbs on the (200) side surface parallel to the c-axis, which inhibits the growth of the crystal in the diameter direction, thereby increasing the average aspect ratio of the whisker. …”
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