Parametric Study of the Borehole Drilling in Jointed Rock Mass by Yanan Gao, Yudong Zhang, Zetian Zhang, Minghui Li, Yingfeng Sun, Donghao Lan, Feng Gao

“…The line between the points that behaves as the maximum von stress is approximately perpendicular to the joint direction.…”
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Scientific Publication Ethics by Osman İnci

“…It is also fundamental that academics should not behave contrary to the ethics values. It is assumed that academic studies are conducted honestly, based on true foundations, that the research data are collected according to the correct methods, accurate statistics are used and results are reported accordingly. …”
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Mme de Graffigny and the Archduchess: Indirect Correspondence between the Court and 'le monde' by Kelsey Rubin-Detlev

“…By pretending to discuss between themselves Maria Elisabeth’s reputation and that of other ladies, Copineau and Graffigny sought to initiate Maria Elisabeth into eighteenth-century sociability and accordingly to teach the archduchess to manage her vivacious wit, to suppress her habit of criticising others and, in essence, to learn how to behave properly in society. Among the copious advice that Maria Theresa sent to her daughter in France every month, we find the same message that Graffigny tried to communicate to Maria Elisabeth: that one must participate with dignity in social exchange and avoid criticising others. …”
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Alkali Effect on Alkali-Surfactant-Polymer (ASP) Flooding Enhanced Oil Recovery Performance: Two Large-Scale Field Tests’ Evidence by Chen Sun, Hu Guo, Yiqiang Li, Guipu Jiang, Ruicheng Ma

“…For the SASP field test, the injected strong alkali NaOH makes the test behave unlike a typical strong ASP flooding due to the presence of CO2 in the formation fluid, which well explains why IORF is much higher than all the other SASPs but scaling is less severe than others. …”
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Generalising axion-like particle as the curvaton: sourcing primordial density perturbation and non-Gaussianities by Anish Ghoshal, Abhishek Naskar

“…We identify the parameter space involving the axion decay constant $$f_{\phi }$$ f ϕ , scale of confinement $$\Lambda $$ Λ , ALP mass m and the masses of the fermions, $$m_u$$ m u and $$m_d$$ m d where it can satisfactorily behave as the curvaton and source the observed primordial density perturbation. …”
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How Organizational Citizenship Behavior Stimulant: Transformational Leadership Identification Model Approaches by Mochamad Soelton, Agus Arijanto, Yanto Ramli, Suprapto, Irmayunita, Subur Karyatun, Anees Janee Ali

“…This condition is possible because employees are able to behave in ways that exceed what is standardized by the employees themselves (beyond expectations), so that high job satisfaction does not necessarily encourage someone to carry out OCB as expected company. …”
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Editorial by Joanna Krasodomska, Nadia Albu, Anna Szychta

“…The study identifies key drivers behind these changes and highlights reporting gaps, offering valuable insights into the challenges companies face in implementing double materiality. …”
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The measurement of microplastics in surface water and their impact on histopathological structures in wading birds of district Lahore by Shaza Mehboob, Khalid Mahmood Anjum, Hamda Azmat, Muhammad Imran

“…Chemical analysis revealed that most fragments, fibers; and beads belonged to the polyethylene class, while sheets were categorized as polypropylene and foam as polystyrene. …”
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Evaluating the impact of COVID-19 protection measures and staff absence on radiotherapy practice: A simulation study. by Elisabeth Jambor, Joe Viana, Melanie Reuter-Oppermann, Ralf Müller-Polyzou

“…Most scenarios of the three categories behave similarly despite increased patient waiting times due to COVID-19 protection measures in categories 2 and 3. …”
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Structure and identification of the native PLP synthase complex from Methanosarcina acetivorans lysate by Angela Agnew, Ethan Humm, Kang Zhou, Robert P. Gunsalus, Z. Hong Zhou

“…ABSTRACT Many protein-protein interactions behave differently in biochemically purified forms as compared to their in vivo states. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Multicriteria Decision-Making Methods for Bus Washing Process Selection: A Case Study by Paulo Ávila, Alzira Mota, Eliana Oliveira, Hélio Castro, Luís Pinto Ferreira, João Bastos, O. Fernandes Nuno, Joaquim Moreira

“…Therefore, the main objectives of this work are (1) to select the best sustainable technical solutions for washing buses depending on the specific conditions for a case study and (2) to analyze how different multicriteria decision-making methods behave in the selection process. To achieve these objectives, the problem was approached as a case study in a public transport company in Portugal and the methodology followed the next steps: started with the identification of the different types of commercial technical solutions for washing buses; the company’s experts selected four main criteria: water consumption, operating costs, quality of washing, and time spent; the criteria weights were determined using the fuzzy-AHP method; then four representative MCDM methods were selected, namely, AHP, ELECTRE, TOPSIS, and SMART; the ranks obtained for the four methods were compared; and a sensitivity analysis was performed. …”
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Stability of compact stars in a uniform density background cloud by Ksh. Newton Singh, S. K. Maurya, A. Errehymy, O. Donmez, K. Myrzakulov, T. T. Smitha

“…We found that for $$\alpha < 3 \times 10^{-5}$$ α < 3 × 10 - 5 , all the thermodynamic quantities are well-behaved, indicating a stable configuration. Once the coupling parameter exceeds $$3 \times 10^{-5}$$ 3 × 10 - 5 , the adiabatic index drops below $$\Gamma _{\text {max}}'$$ Γ max ′ , triggering a gravitational collapse. …”
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Utilization of personal protective equipment and the hygiene sanitation practices of farmers in the application of pesticides by G. Fizulmi, H. Agustina

“…Exploring other factors influencing farmers'' willingness to use protective equipment and maintain personal hygiene is also essential, including barriers preventing farmers from behaving well. Good pesticide use behavior will maintain the health of farmers and build the health of farmer families and the surrounding community.…”
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Serial cerebrospinal fluid concentrations of high mobility group box 1 in bacterial meningitis: a retrospective cohort study by Takeshi Matsushige, Hirofumi Inoue, Madoka Hoshide, Fumitaka Kohno, Hikaru Kobayashi, Kiyoshi Ichihara, Takashi Ichiyama, Shunji Hasegawa

“…HMGB1 and interleukin-6 (IL-6) concentrations were measured using ELISA and bead-based multiplex assays, respectively. Statistical analyses included Mann–Whitney U tests, Kruskal–Wallis tests, and three-way ANOVA to evaluate differences among groups and over time. …”
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Design of an Inhalation Chamber and Metrology Assessment to Study Tungsten Aerosol Neurotoxic Effects by Léo Macé, Chrystelle Ibanez, Thomas Gelain, Cécile Bodiot, Laure Juhel, François Gensdarmes

“…First, we fed a mixture of coarse tungsten bead powder and aerosolizable tungsten powder, which had been combined in specific mass proportions, to an RBG 1000 (Palas®) equipped with a cyclone at the outlet that filtered out the coarse particles. …”
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Addressing inter individual variability in CSF levels of brain derived proteins across neurodegenerative diseases by Sára Mravinacová, Sofia Bergström, Jennie Olofsson, Nerea Gómez de San José, Sarah Anderl-Straub, Janine Diehl-Schmid, Klaus Fassbender, Klaus Fliessbach, Holger Jahn, Johannes Kornhuber, G. Bernhard Landwehrmeyer, Martin Lauer, Johannes Levin, Albert C. Ludolph, Johannes Prudlo, Anja Schneider, Matthias L. Schroeter, Jens Wiltfang, Petra Steinacker, FTLD Consortium, Markus Otto, Peter Nilsson, Anna Månberg

“…Here, we measured the levels of 69 pre-selected proteins in cerebrospinal fluid using antibody-based suspension bead array technology in a multi-disease cohort of 499 individuals with neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer’s disease (AD), behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia, primary progressive aphasias, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), corticobasal syndrome, primary supranuclear palsy, along with healthy controls. …”
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Study on Cooling Effect and Pavement Performance of Thermal-Resistant Asphalt Mixture by Jiarong Wang, Zhengqi Zhang, Datong Guo, Cheng Xu, Ke Zhang

“…To reduce the temperature of asphalt pavement and improve the antirutting performance of asphalt mixture, a thermal-resistant asphalt mixture (TRAM) was produced, in which a certain proportion of mineral aggregate was replaced by ceramic (CE) or floating beads (FB) featuring low thermal conductivity. Firstly, a parallel plate test was developed to test the thermal conductivity of asphalt mixture added with different thermal-resistant materials. …”
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Recombinant SpTransformer proteins bind to specific sites on sea urchin phagocytes and modulate SpTransformer gene expression and immune responsiveness by Ryley S. Crow, Leon Grayfer, L. Courtney Smith

“…Other rSpTrf proteins cross-linked to inert beads show distinct functions for cell binding and augmenting phagocytosis . …”
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Gastrospheres as a Model of Gastric Cancer Stem Cells Skew Th17/Treg Balance toward Antitumor Th17 Cells by Alaleh Rezalotfi, Ghasem Solgi, Marzieh Ebrahimi

“…Peripheral blood mononuclear cells were isolated from healthy donors and were cultured with conditioned media of MKN-45 (parental) cells as well as gastrospheres’ conditioned media in the context of mixed lymphocyte reaction and in the presence of anti-CD3/CD28 beads. The proliferation was evaluated using CFSE staining; the percentages of CD4+CD25+FoxP3+ Treg and CD4+IL-17+ Th17 cells and IFN-γ+cells and the production of IL-17, TGF-β, and IL-10 were assessed by flow cytometry and ELISA, respectively. …”
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A Microfluidic Biosensor for Quantitative Detection of <i>Salmonella</i> in Traditional Chinese Medicine by Yutong Wu, Yang Liu, Jinchen Ma, Shanxi Zhu, Xiaojun Zhao, Huawei Mou, Xuanqi Ke, Zhisheng Wu, Yifei Wang, Sheng Lin, Wuzhen Qi

“…Immune gold@platinum nanocatalysts (Au@PtNCs) were utilized for specific bacterial labeling, while magnetic nano-beads (MNBs) with a novel high-gradient magnetic field were employed for the specific capture of bacteria. …”
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