New members of Alternaria (Pleosporales, Pleosporaceae) collected from Apiaceae in Algeria by Nabahat Bessadat, Nelly Bataillé-Simoneau, Justine Colou, Bruno Hamon, Kihal Mabrouk, Philippe Simoneau

“…Detailed descriptions of new species are provided based on colony color, aspect, diameter, conidial size, septa, sporulation patterns and compared with other relevant Alternaria species within same sections. …”
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Comparison of Three Methods for Wind Turbine Capacity Factor Estimation by Y. Ditkovich, A. Kuperman

“…The third “approximate” approach, valid in case of Rayleigh winds only, employs a nonlinear approximation of the capacity factor versus average wind speed curve, only requiring rated power and rotor diameter of the turbine. It is shown that the results obtained by employing the three approaches are very close, enforcing the validity of the analytically derived approximations, which may be used for wind turbine performance evaluation.…”
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Numerical Simulation Study on the Influence of Different Factors on the Uplift Bearing Capacity of Root Piles, Straight-Shaft Piles, and Pedestal Piles by Junpeng Zhou, Jun Yuan, Xuefeng Huang, Xueming Wang

“…In addition, the most economical way to increase pile bearing capacity is to increase pile length rather than increasing pile diameter.…”
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Synthesis and Characterization of TiO2-Water Nanofluids by Raviteja Surakasi, Srujana Sripathi, Sarada Purnima Nadimpalli, Sibtain Afzal, Bharat Singh, Manoj Tripathi, Rahel Alemu Hafa

“…Particles of TiO2 produced in this manner seemed to have an average diameter of 27 nm. Nanofluids have a poor stability, which is the most important aspect of employing them, although most studies did not focus on this. …”
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Chemical properties of Terminalia catappa wood by Richmond Acheampong, Kwaku Antwi, Mark Bright Donkoh, Michael Awotwe-Mensah, Frank Kofi Dorwu

“…Three mature trees of Terminalia catappa were acquired based on the diameter at the breast height (dbh) greater than 40 cm. …”
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A New Flow Line Function for Modeling Material Trajectory and Textures in Nonequal-Channel Angular Pressing by A. Hasani, L. S. Toth, Sh. Mardokh Rouhani

“…A variant of the ECAP process was proposed in 2009, which consists in reducing the diameter of the exit channel of the die; it is named the nonequal-channel angular pressing (NECAP) process. …”
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40CrMoV13.9 notched specimens under multiaxial fatigue: an overview of recent results by S.M.J. Razavi, M. Peron, J. Torgersen, F. Berto, T. Welo

“…The net sectional area of both cases was equal with a diameter of 12 mm. The notched specimens were tested under pure mode I (tension), mixed mode I/III and pure mode III (torsion). …”
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Seismic Response of a Tunnel Embedded in Compacted Clay through Large-Scale Shake Table Testing by Hao Zhou, Xinghua Wang, Changdi He, Changxi Huang

“…The cross-sectional diameter of the model tunnel is 0.9 m, and the thickness of the tunnel lining is 0.06 m. …”
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Ectopic Thyroid at the Base of the Tongue of a Young Patient by Paulo Henrique de Souza Castro, Luiz Evaristo Ricci Volpato, Julia Tramujas, Alvaro Henrique Borges

“…The CT scan showed a round, well defined hyperdense lesion of approximately 25.8 mm at its largest diameter, with infiltrative growth in the posterior region of the base of the tongue. …”
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A Novel Two-Step Approach for Retrieval of an Impacted Biliary Extraction Basket by Calvin H. Y. Chan, Fergal Donnellan, Godfrey C. K. Chan, Michael F. Byrne

“…Impaction of the extraction basket is a recognized complication of ERCP, and is usually the result of discrepancy between the size of bile duct stone and the diameter of the distal bile duct. Whilst mechanical lithotriptors can be used to crush the stone or break the wires of the basket to allow its release, failure of the lithotriptor device can occur. …”
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Experimental Study of the Swirling Oxidizer Flow in HTPB/N2O Hybrid Rocket Motor by Mohammad Mahdi Heydari, Nooredin Ghadiri Massoom

“…A modular motor with 70 mm outer diameter and variable chamber length is designed for experimental analysis. …”
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Designing a Control System for an Airplane Wing Flutter Employing Gas Actuators by A. R. Ansari, A. R. B. Novinzadeh

“…It should be noted that, to justify the application of the aerodynamic theory, we have speculated that the thruster jet ejected through a nozzle with a diameter smaller than several millimeters has a supersonic regime (with Mach number of the order of M≈3.5). …”
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Experimental investigation of crack initiation and propagation in high- and gigacycle fatigue in titanium alloys by study of morphology of fracture by M.V. Bannikov, O. B. Naimark, V.A. Oborin

“…High resolution profilometry (interferometerprofiler New View 5010) data of fracture surface roughness allowed us to estimate scale invariance (the Hurst exponent) and to establish the existence of two characteristic areas of damage localization (different values of the Hurst exponent). Area 1 with diameter ~300 μm has the pronounced roughness and is associated with damage localization hotspot. …”
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Experimental Research on the Similarity of Rime Icing on a Cylinder Rotating around Its Horizontal Axis by Lei Shi, Yan Li, Wenfeng Guo, Ce Sun

“…To validate the similarity criterion, icing wind tunnel tests were carried out with aluminum cylinders with diameters of 40 mm and 20 mm. Key parameters for the experiment, such as wind speed, temperature, liquid water content, medium volume diameter, and test time, were selected based on the criterion. …”
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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 machine was then tested to examine its efficiency and the efficiency was actually dependent on the length and diameter of the cyclone. Conclusions and recommendations were drawn from the discussed results got after testing. …”
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Yield Responses of Black Spruce to Forest Vegetation Management Treatments: Initial Responses and Rotational Projections by Peter F. Newton

“…Lawrence and Canadian Boreal Forest Regions, the resultant mean effect size (response ratio) and associated 95% confidence interval for basal diameter, total height, stem volume, and survival responses, were respectively: 54.7% (95% confidence limits (lower/upper): 34.8/77.6), 27.3% (15.7/40.0), 198.7% (70.3/423.5), and 2.9% (−5.5/11.8). …”
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A Study of Impact Response and Its Numerical Study of Hybrid Polypropylene Fiber-Reinforced Concrete with Different Sizes by Ninghui Liang, Ru Yan, Xinrong Liu, Peng Yang, Zuliang Zhong

“…Compressive properties of hybrid polypropylene fiber-reinforced concrete (HPFRC) with different sizes of polypropylene fibers (PPFs) under the impact load (101∼102/s) were tested by using a 74 mm diameter various cross-section split-Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB), in which the fiber content of fine PPFs was 0.9 kg/m3 and that of coarse PPFs was 6.0 kg/m3. …”
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A Study of Millisecond Blasting on High Bench at Barun Iron Ore Operation by Pengfei Zhang, Runcai Bai, Xue Sun, Haoran Li, Honglu Fei, Shijie Bao

“…According to the technical conditions of the site, three sets of vertical boreholes at 310 mm diameter were drilled on 24 m high batter; and three sets of air-spaced charges were set up. …”
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Reducing the Accumulative Charge on Fabric Filter Surfaces by Using a Bipolar Precharger by Pei Jia, Manqing Lin

“…According to the maximum corona current, the optimized basic wire-tube electrode configuration was 120 mm in span of the tubes, 80 mm in wire-tube spacing, and 25 mm in tube diameter. The current on the filter, which was one order of magnitude lower than that in the precharger, was quadratic to the applied voltage on the precharger, and proportional to the gas velocity. …”
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The Use of Gigantochloa Bamboo-Derived Biochar for the Removal of Methylene Blue from Aqueous Solution by Nabilah Suhaimi, Muhammad Raziq Rahimi Kooh, Chee Ming Lim, Chung-Ting Chou Chao, Yuan-Fong Chou Chau, Abdul Hanif Mahadi, Hai-Pang Chiang, Nurul Hazimah Haji Hassan, Roshan Thotagamuge

“…Basic characterisations (SEM, EDX, XRD, FTIR, and BET) were carried out for BC500 where FTIR and SEM confirmed the adsorption of MB onto the biochar, while the BET data showed the reduction of the BET surface area, total pore volume, and pore diameter after the adsorption process.…”
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