An artificial intelligence approach to palaeogeographic studies: a case study of the Late Ordovician brachiopods of Laurentia by Akbar Sohrabi

“…Based on these secondary parameters such as shell size index (SSI), shell convexity index (SCI), shell lamellosity index (SLI), and shell lamella density (SLD), they studied the differences between younger and older forms of Rhynchotrema and early forms of Hiscobeccus during the Late Ordovician time. …”
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A new large-sized lepetid limpet from the abyssal northwestern Pacific is the deepest known patellogastropod by Chong Chen, Miwako Tsuda, Yoshiyuki Ishitani

“…Here, we report a giant Bathylepeta up to a shell length of 40.5 mm from 5922 m deep in the northwestern Pacific and name it Bathylepeta wadatsumi sp. nov. …”
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Exploring National Transportation Safety Board Aviation Modality Recommendations Through Content and Sentiment Analyses: 2015–2019 by Brian J. Roggow

“…Addressing company, management, manning, or regulatory issues was the most prevalent risk mitigation strategy, followed by physical environment and other human-system support mitigations. …”
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Pertinence of contact duration as edge feature for epidemic spread analysis by Ramya D. Shetty, Shrutilipi Bhattacharjee

“…The recent studies focused on the weighted network, where most of the methods have computed the edge weights by utilizing degree and k-shell measure, which captures the topological structure of the network but not the interaction duration between pair of contacts. …”
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Association of Relativistic Electron Microbursts Duration With Chorus Wave Properties by Jiabei He, Lunjin Chen, Zhiyang Xia, Mykhaylo Shumko, Lauren Blum

“…A detailed quantitative comparison between observed and calculated microburst durations shows consistent ranges and similar correlations with L shell and magnetic local time (MLT). The most apparent trend is in MLT: microburst duration increases from midnight through the dawn sector but decreases after noon. …”
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Parallel visualization of reservoir models with ParaView by Oleg Kovalevskiy, Michel Cancelliere

“…Custom data format support can be implemented in ParaView as an extension by a plug-in or a script for embedded Python-shell. This in particular allows implementing visualization for GRDECL/EGRID—the most common reservoir data format. …”
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Crisis of the EU Eastern Policy by I. V. Bolgova

“…As a result, we see the EU's intention to narrow the geographical and qualitative field of its activities on the eastern directionwith saving the shell of the EaP for nominal functioning. Such tactics is not likely to result in a drastic change of the model of conflict dependencies in the "shared neighbourhood". …”
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Save A Life Maps-Traffic Clearance System for Emergency Services by Anusha Chaturvedi, J R Shruti, Himanshu Behl, Anushka Mittal, Ankita M Thakur, Sanjay Ha

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Innominate artery war injury by Ilić Radoje, Kronja Goran, Marković Zoran, Tišma Svetislav

“…A 26 - year-old soldier was injured in combat by a fragment of mortar shell. In the field hospital, the wound gauze packing was applied, followed by orotracheal intubation and thoracic drainage. …”
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Revisiting the genus Nodularia (Bivalvia, Unionidae): Mitochondrial phylogenomics and the description of a new species by Kaiyu Hou, Xiaoyan Liu, Liping Zhang, Gaiping Li, Ruiwen Wu

“…The genus Nodularia poses a significant challenge to traditional species classification and identification due to its highly convergent and variable shells, rendering it one of the most intricate groups within the family Unionidae. …”
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Biorefineries, Reducing the Volume of Agro-industrial Waste and Generating Products with High Added Value by Mario R. Alvear-Alayon, Lien N. Tejeda-Lopez, Lesly P. Tejeda Benitez

“…The coca shell was used because it is the waste with the largest amount in the fruit. …”
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Models for plasmasphere and plasmatrough density and average ion mass including dependence on L, MLT, geomagnetic activity, and phase of the solar cycle by Richard E. Denton, Kazue Takahashi, David P. Hartley

“…By examining formulas of varying complexity, we are able to determine the relative importance of the various dependencies. The most important dependencies for ne and ρm are that they decrease with respect to L shell and geomagnetic activity as specified by parameters such as Kp. …”
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Numerical Investigations on Charging/Discharging Performance of a Novel Truncated Cone Thermal Energy Storage Tank on a Concentrated Solar Power System by Qianjun Mao, Ning Liu, Li Peng

“…Developing a concentrated solar power (CSP) technology is one of the most effective methods to solve energy shortage and environmental pollution all over the world. …”
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Revisiting Drymaeus germaini (Ancey, 1892) (Gastropoda, Bulimulidae): ecological niche and first anatomical description of a poorly known land snail species from Brazil by Maria Isabel Pinto Ferreira Macedo, Ximena Maria Constanza Ovando, Sthefane D’ávila

“…Background Terrestrial gastropods are one of the most imperiled animal groups in the world. However, information on population size and structure, geographic range and their trends over time, which is necessary to assess species conservation status, is unavailable or insufficient for most land snail taxa, making it difficult to apply the IUCN criteria. …”
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Numerical investigation on fluid-thermal-electric performance of a thermoelectric-integrated helically coiled tube heat exchanger for coal mine air cooling by Lu Xing, Dai Renkun, Deng Jun, Ma Ting

“…Mine cooling and refrigeration system to deal with the heat hazard is well developed, but the mine air cooler which serves as the most important terminal equipment is relatively backward. …”
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Methodology for determining the bearing capacity of tensioned tubular reinforced concrete elements by Roman Shmyh, Taras Shchur, Mustafa B. Dawood, Adam Idzikowski

“…Tensioned CFST elements, in cross-section, consist of a steel shell tube filled with concrete, which is reinforced with either high-strength conventional or high-strength prestressed reinforcement. …”
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Design Principles and Engineering Strategies for Stabilizing Ni-Rich Layered Oxides in Lithium-Ion Batteries by Alain Mauger, Christian M. Julien

“…These strategies include synthesis methods to optimize the morphology (size of the particles, core–shell and gradient structures), surface modifications of the Ni-rich particles, and doping. …”
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Charging/discharging performance examination in a finned-tube heat storage tank: Based on artificial neural network, pareto optimization, and numerical simulation by Kourosh Vaferi, Sahar Nekahi, Sanam Nekahi, Hadi Ghaebi

“…This study aims to optimize the thermal performance of a novel heat storage tank inspired by shell-and-tube heat exchangers, using RT50 as the PCM. …”
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ANALISIS FAKTOR-FAKTOR PENGELOLAAN MANAJEMEN USAHA PETERNAKAN AYAM RAS PETELUR DI KABUPATEN 50 KOTA PROVINSI SUMATERA BARAT by Yosi Fenita

“…Cobb – duglass model was appliedto determine significant factors of productivity and Benefit Cost Ratio is applied to measure economic efficiency. …”
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Valorisation of food industry waste into high-performance biochar for environmental applications by Małgorzata Sieradzka, Wojciech Jerzak, Agata Mlonka-Mędrala, Anna Marszałek, Mariusz Dudziak, Izabela Kalemba-Rec, Aleksandra Błoniarz, Markus Reinmöller, Agnieszka Kopia, Wojciech Nowak, Aneta Magdziarz

“…The highest char yield was observed for rapeseed cake (26%), followed by walnut shells (24%) and maize cobs (22%). Elemental analysis revealed that the carbon content in the biochars of maize cobs and walnut shells exceeded 80%, with a particularly significant surface area (356 m2/g) noted for the walnut shells, and very low for the rapeseed cake and maize cobs, respectively. …”
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