Improvement of Malagasy Traditional Earth Bricks by Using a Derivative of CNSL as a Binding Agent by Volana Mifelana Holiarinala, Fenia Diane Ramiharimanana, Hermann Rafanoela, Stephanoel Randriatsarazaka, Raymond Razafimahatratra, Estelle Metay, Voahangy Vestalys Ramanandraibe, Marc Lemaire

“…Traditional bricks are still the most widely used building material in Madagascar. …”
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Numerical performance analysis of latent heat thermal energy storage systems in different configurations cascaded in the longitudinal direction by Mücahit Emin Karagöz, Cenker Aktemur, Barış Kavasoğullari

“…A latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) system is considered the most advantageous type of thermal energy storage (TES); however, its low thermal conductivity remains a significant drawback that needs to be addressed. …”
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Characterization of Pore Heterogeneity in Lacustrine Shale Based on MIP, LTNA, NMR, and Multifractal Characteristics: A Case Study of the Jurassic Dongyuemiao Member, China by Xu Wu, Yifan Gu, Yuqiang Jiang, Zhanlei Wang, Yonghong Fu

“…Mesopores and macropores dominate, accounting for over 80% of the total pore volume. Mesopores are most developed in CLCS, representing 56.3%. (3) Quartz content is positively correlated with the multifractal dimension, while clay content shows a negative correlation. …”
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Influence of Kefir Grain Concentration on the Nutritional, Microbiological, and Sensory Properties of Camel Milk Kefir and Characterization of Some Technological Properties by Samira Arroum, Amel Sboui, Imen Fguiri, Mohamed Dbara, Naziha Ayeb, Mohamed Hammadi, Touhami Khorchani

“…According to a sensory evaluation, the ranking test showed that the best camel kefir can be produced by the addition of 2% kefir grains. It was the most appreciated by 73% of the tasters based on its physicochemical, microbiological, and sensory characteristics. …”
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Production system, and egg quality of village chicken reared under traditional management system in Angecha and Damboya districts of Kembata Tembaro Zone, Southern Ethiopia by Eskindir Amanuel, Desalegn Amanuel, Edao Shanku

“…All egg quality parameters were statistically similar among the agroecology except significant difference in egg yolk height and albumen height. Shell thickness was comparable to the acceptable eggshell thickness to withstand egg breakage. …”
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Comprehensive thermal properties, kinetic, and thermodynamic analyses of biomass wastes pyrolysis via TGA and Coats-Redfern methodologies by Ocident Bongomin, Charles Nzila, Josphat Igadwa Mwasiagi, Obadiah Maube

“…This study comprehensively analyzes the thermal decomposition characteristics as well as the kinetic and thermodynamic parameters of five biomass wastes, including coffee husk, groundnut shell, macadamia nutshell, rice husk, and tea waste, using Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) and the Coats-Redfern method. …”
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Taurodeoxycholate Aggregation Explored by Molecular Dynamics: Primary-To-Secondary Micelle Transition and Formation of Mixed Micelles with Fatty Acids by Fatmegyul Mustan, Anela Ivanova, Slavka Tcholakova

“…The latter creates a very suitable medium for hosting hydrophobic molecules in the micelles containing unsaturated fatty acids.…”
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Recent Progress in Polyolefin Plastic: Polyethylene and Polypropylene Transformation and Depolymerization Techniques by Acácio Silva de Souza, Patricia Garcia Ferreira, Iva Souza de Jesus, Rafael Portugal Rizzo Franco de Oliveira, Alcione Silva de Carvalho, Debora Omena Futuro, Vitor Francisco Ferreira

“…By leveraging these transformative strategies, we can reimagine the lifecycle of plastics and address one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time. …”
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Salinity tolerance in resting cysts of colpodid ciliates: Comparative transcriptomics analysis and chemical analysis of cyst walls to investigate their tolerance capability by Ryota Saito, Hiroki Yamanobe, Kazuma Yabuki, Tomohiro Suzuki, Takeru Saito, Shuntaro Hakozaki, Manfred Wanner, Ryota Koizumi, Tatsuya Sakai, Maribet Gamboa, Toshihiko Tanaka, Akiko Ono, Hoa Thanh Nguyen, Yuta Saito, Tetsuya Aoyama, Katsuhiko Kojima, Futoshi Suizu, Kozo Watanabe, Yoichiro Sogame

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Efficient delivery of anlotinib and radioiodine by long circulating nano-capsules for active enhanced suppression of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma by Linlin Zhang, Chuanying Zhu, Shuo Huang, Miaomiao Xu, Chao Li, Hongliang Fu, Yafu Yin, Sheng Liang, Hui Wang, Zhilei Cui, Lei Huang

“…The Anlotinib-BSA nano-capsule (nBSA) showed a mostly uniform size distribution centering at 21–23 nm, and the nano-drug had a characteristic absorption peak at the wavelength of 325 nm. …”
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THE ION-EXCHANGE PROPERTIES OF NATURAL ZEOLITE MORDENITE by G. A. Mamedova

“…This is due to the large hydration shell of magnesium, which adversely affects the cation exchange. …”
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Improving the Nutritional Properties and Reducing the Oil Absorption of Donut Using Saponinized Quinoa Flour by Mahtab Moradnia, Akram Arianfar, Ali Mohamadi Sani, Zahra Sheikholeslami

“…Therefore, the most important step for using quinoa in food products is to remove saponin. …”
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A new product for the control of arthropod pests in industrial apple orchards in the Forest-Steppe of Ukraine by Yu. Yanovskyi, S. Sukhanov, I. Krykunov, Ye. Chepernaty

“…During 2023—2024, the most harmful species in the university’s commercial apple orchards were: Mites: red fruit mite, common spider mite; Aphids: green apple aphid, red-gall or gray apple aphid, woolly apple aphid; Scale insects: California red scale, oyster shell scale (or false California scale), acacia false scale; Moths: rose leafroller, netted leafroller, timid leafroller, codling moth; Leaf-mining moths: hawthorn blotch miner, apple lower-side leaf miner, apple upper-side fruit miner. …”
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Optimization of microencapsulation of green tea extract for functional beverage development by Elizaveta Kochubei, Igor Lomovskiy, Oleg Lomovsky, Jibek Baktybekova, Vyacheslav Koptev, Anastasia Andreeva, Anna Matveeva, Alexander Vorobyov, Aml A. Tantawy, Mohamed Hamdy Eid, Tamer M. El-Messery, Elena Bychkova

“…The optimization of technological processes represents a promising direction in scientific research, enabling the selection of the most effective solutions in terms of efficiency. …”
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New approaches for capturing and estimating variation in complex animal color patterns from digital photographs: application to the Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina) by Erik Maki, Tilmann Glimm, Paramahansa Pramanik, Ylenia Chiari, Maria Kiskowski

“…The Eastern box turtle is an ideal species to study variation of complex color patterns as this species is easily encountered in the field and in museum collections in Northeastern US, has a relatively easy to identify bright color pattern against a dark background, and has a rigid shell structure, which removes problems related to body distortion. …”
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Hybrid Machine Learning Model for Efficient Botnet Attack Detection in IoT Environment by Mudasir Ali, Mobeen Shahroz, Muhammad Faheem Mushtaq, Sultan Alfarhood, Mejdl Safran, Imran Ashraf

“…Botnet attack emerged as one of the most harmful attacks. Botnet identification is becoming challenging due to the numerous attack vectors and the ongoing evolution of viruses. …”
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Differential patterns of axonal loss associated with threat-related adversity in atypical depression and non-atypical depression by Huifeng Zhang, Lei Ding, Lanxiang He, Rubai Zhou, Wenxian Lu, Tenghuan Xu, Ye Wu, Daihui Peng

“…Phenotypic markers of psychopathology are most likely influenced by exposure to childhood maltreatment, yielding distinct subtypes within conventional diagnostic boundaries. …”
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Occurrence characteristics of shale oil in the second submember of Da'anzhai Member of Jurassic Ziliujing Formation, central Sichuan Basin by Chenyu ZHANG, Ziyi LIU, Bin WANG, Shuaiqiang SHAN, Jianlin LU, Baohua WANG, Zongxin ZUO

“…The reservoir space of shale includes organic pores (pore size: 2 to 600 nm), pyrite intergranular pores (pore size: 10 to 700 nm), shell pores (pore size: 20 to 1 000 nm), quartz/feldspar intergranular pores (pore size: 4 to 500 nm) and clay mineral intergranular pores (pore size: 4 to 500 nm). …”
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In Situ Analysis of Jupiter's Broadband Kilometric Auroral Radio Emissions With Juno by B. Collet, L. Lamy, C. K. Louis, V. Hue, T. K. Kim

“…Sporadic bursts, produced slightly below fce, are driven by shell‐type EDF of 0.1–10 keV. These results are analyzed comparatively to those obtained previously for Jovian hectometric and decametric emissions.…”
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Discovering an invisible Z′ at the muon collider by Anjan Kumar Barik, Santosh Kumar Rai, Aviral Srivastava

“…We consider a scenario where the new gauge boson decays mostly to charge-neutral long-lived particles and/or dark matter (DM). …”
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