Evaluation of white grain maize varieties for growth, yield and yield components by Arjun Bastola, Ankit Soti, Utshav Pandey, Mausami Rana, Manoj Kandel, Jiban Shrestha

“…Maize (Zea mays L.) is one of the most commonly cultivated crop after rice in Nepal. …”
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Effect of Discarded Group B and Group D Car Category Tyre Rubber Chippings as Partial Replacement for Coarse Aggregates in M25 Concrete. by Wancha, Vicent

“…After water, concrete is the second most consumed substance worldwide in construction industry. …”
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Study of Various Epoxy-Based Surface Coating Techniques for Anticorrosion Properties by T Ramakrishnan, K Raja Karthikeyan, V Tamilselvan, S Sivakumar, Durgaprasad Gangodkar, H R Radha, Anoop Narain Singh, Yosef Asrat Waji

“…Numerous polyepoxides have been employed as anticorrosive coating materials in both pure and cured forms, most notably for ferrite in acidic and NaOH solutions. …”
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Multifunctional glass fiber/polyamide composites with thermal energy storage/release capability by G. Fredi, A. Dorigato, A. Pegoretti

“…Thermoplastic composite laminates with thermal energy storage (TES) capability were prepared by combining a glass fabric, a polyamide 12 (PA12) matrix and two different phase change materials (PCMs), i.e. a paraffinic wax microencapsulated in melamine-formaldehyde shells and a paraffin shape stabilized with carbon nanotubes. …”
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Doctors in the kitchen: standardization of a home cooking method for <i>Chamelea gallina</i> and <i>Mytilus galloprovincialis</i> to eliminate microbiological risk by Giulia Talevi, Gabriele Angelico, Sara Nardi, Stefania Di Lullo, Elena Rocchegiani, Federico Piangerelli, Francesca Barchiesi, Francesca Leoni, Diego Maiolatesi, Andrea Antognini, Cinzia Spinsanti, Caterina Baldi, Silvia Pieralisi, Donatella Ottaviani

“… It is known that the consumption of edible lamellibranch mollusks (ELMs), undercooked or raw, is a vehicle for the oral transmission of viral and bacterial pathogens. ELMs most frequently fished/cultivated and consumed in Italy are Mytilus galloprovincialis and Chamelea gallina. …”
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Checklist of sponges (Porifera) at the shelf-break front of Argentina, SW Atlantic Ocean, with data on their settlement substrata by L. Schejter, C. Bremec, C. Cerrano, M. Bertolino, B. Calcinai

“…Polychaete tubes represented the second most important biogenic settlement substrate for sponges in the study area. …”
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Robust Simulation Platform of Biomass Gasification Process with Carbon Capture for Energy Vector Polygeneration by Josephine Hannah Macdonald, Khairunnisa Mohd Paad, Nursyuhada Kamaruzaman, Shinya Yamanaka, Ali Abbas, Norhuda Abdul Manaf

“…The BECCS system is operated using palm kernel shells as a feedstock, while monoethanolamine with a concentration of 30 wt.% is used for the PCC plant. …”
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Experimental study of coconut (Cocos nucifera) waste through densification to obtain pellets and briquettes by Luis Velázquez-Araque, Jonathan Teneta-Ibarra, Fernando Sáenz-Gómez

“… In Ecuador, extensive coconut (Cocos nucifera) harvesting generates large quantities of waste, including husks, shells, and fibers, posing environmental and economic challenges. …”
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Biological Effects of Propolis on Cancer by Hamide Doğan, Sibel Silici, Ahmet Ata Ozcimen

“…Propolis is a special resin and wax material collected from the leaves and shells of trees, buds and shoots of plants by honey bees (Apis mellifera L.). …”
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Protist ecology in Patagonian peatlands: pH, organic phosphorus, and sulfate as key drivers of testate amoeba diversity in undisturbed ecosystems by Leonardo D. Fernández, Erwin Domínguez, Antonio Parra-Gómez, Enrique Lara

“…Testate amoebae, a group of shelled protists, play key roles in nutrient cycling and are highly sensitive to environmental changes, making them valuable bioindicators. …”
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Slab Grave Culture and Turkic Ethnogenesis by Elvin Yıldırım

“…Undoubtedly, Chinese sources are one of the most important sources about early Turkic history. …”
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The effect of carbonic anhydrase on foraminiferal Mg/Ca by Siham De Goeyse, Chiara Lesuis, Gert-Jan Reichart, Lennart de Nooijer

“…The effect of increased CO2 on calcification and on the resulting chemistry of shells and skeletons, however, is only partly understood. …”
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Effect of Different Temperature and Humidity Storage Conditions on the Quality of Fresh Macadamia Nuts and the Construction of A Backpropagation Neural Network Prediction Model by Jiarong FU, Shangxuan MA, Yuexue YANG, Wenting XU, Xiuhua LAN, Yuanmiao WEI, Kechang HUANG, Xiyong HE, Gangjun GUO

“…The mold rate of the pericarps stored at 30 ℃ increased the most and was significantly higher than that of nuts treated at 35 and 40 ℃ (P<0.05). …”
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PreMevE Update: Forecasting Ultra‐Relativistic Electrons Inside Earth's Outer Radiation Belt by Saurabh Sinha, Yue Chen, Youzuo Lin, Rafael Pires de Lima

“…It is shown that the final ensemble model outperforms individual models at most L‐shells, and this PreMevE‐2E model can provide 25‐h (∼1‐day) and 50‐h (∼2‐day) forecasts with high mean performance efficiency and correlation values. …”
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ARCHAEOLOGY OF SONORA: ANCIENT CULTURES OF NORTHERN MEXICO AND THEIR ROLE IN ESTABLISHING TIES BETWEEN MESOAMERICA AND THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST by Valentina Baglay

“…They used shellfish as a traditional food, and traded shells, seashells on beautiful pottery, copper bells, etc. from Arizona and Chihuahua. …”
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Double-spiral as a bio-inspired functional element in engineering design by Mohsen Jafarpour, Mohammad Aryayi, Stanislav N. Gorb, Hamed Rajabi

“…Abstract Spiral, one of the most well-known functional patterns in nature that can be observed in structures such as the proboscis of lepidoptera and snail shells or as vortices forming in flowing fluids, has long served as a source of inspiration for humans in the creation of numerous spiral-based designs. …”
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Ear rot diseases in maize (Zea mays L.), associated mycotoxins, and management practices in Ethiopia: A review by Temesgen Deressa Hunde

“…Mycotoxins are a serious, multifaceted economic problem, and maize is one of the major crops most commonly affected by mycotoxins. Ear rot diseases and subsequent mycotoxin contamination begin at the preharvest level. …”
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Kolomna Machine-Building Plant during the Great Patriotic War: Defense and Civil Production by Mikhail Yu. Sergomasov, Evgeny L. Lomako

“…It was found that in the most difficult conditions of wartime, the specialists and equipment of the Kolomna Machine-Building Plant had become the basis for the creation of large defense enterprises in Siberia and after the liberation of Donbass - in Kharkov. …”
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Grindability Features of Torrefied Biomass by Mateusz Tymoszuk, Joanna Wnorowska, Sylwester Kalisz

“…Economic and legal conditions of the European power industry enforce higher participation of biomass in the thermal energy mix per power unit, due to the necessity of carbon dioxide emission reduction. One of the most important features dictating the suitability of biomass fuel for utilization in pulverized fuel-fired boilers is its grindability. …”
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VIRTUAL TOURISM ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE DEFUNCT KOSCELISKO MEDIEVAL CHURCH IN THE NORTH-WESTERN SLOVAKIA by Vladimír CECH, Pavel HRONČEK, Karol WEIS

“…In many cases, only their shells or foundations remain. In terms of cultural heritage conservation and monument protection, these sites are often among the most important religious buildings from various historical periods. …”
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