Optimized Dehydrogenation of Magnesium Hydride with Fe and Cu Additives by Oluwashina Gbenebor, Abimbola Patricia Popoola

“… Solid state hydrogen storage with the use of MgH2 has gained widespread attention because of its good reversible storage capacity. This metal hydride however slowly releases hydrogen at high temperatures ranging between 325 – 375 oC. …”
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Influence of surface texture on osteogenic differentiation of dental pulp stem cells: An in vitro study by Komal Rajpurohit, Vidya Dodwad, Avinash Kharat, Spoorthi Belludi, Pooja Pharne, Sarah Marium

“…The osteoblastic cells on the acid-etched and sand-blasted implant surface disc had an almost identical capacity for proliferation till the MTT assay but according to the results of the alizarin red staining there was a slightly higher proliferation potential on acid etched surfaces compared to the sand blasted surfaces. …”
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Proportional-Switch Adjustment Process-Based Day-by-Day Evolution Model for Mixed Traffic Flow in an Autonomous Driving Environment by Yihao Huang, Han Zhang, Aiwu Kuang

“…Next, the pure HDV traffic capacity BPR (Bureau of Public Roads) function is adapted into a heterogeneous traffic flow travel time function to compute the travel time cost for mixed traffic flow. …”
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Optimal Information Hiding: Advanced Bitstream-Based Watermarking for Secure and Efficient Integration of Image Data in Digital Videos by null Ramyashree, Venugopala P. S., Raghavendra S., null Sarojadevi

“…While enhancing the existing approach, we systematically explored diverse strategies aimed at augmenting watermark capacity, bolstering robustness, and heightening visual imperceptibility. …”
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A Fusion Method Incorporating Dual-Attention Mechanism and Transfer Learning Into UNet++ for Remote Sensing Image Coastline Extraction by Yanru Song, Bai Xue, Yueyue Meng, Xiang Qin, Yixiao Li, Qi Liu

“…Firstly, to enhance the network’s ability to distinguish coastlines, a dual attention mechanism is introduced into the UNet++ network to improve the learning capacity of coastline features while suppressing the learning of non-coastline features. …”
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Interfacial tension reduction using nitrogen graphene quantum dots with various precursors, molar ratios, and synthesis durations for enhanced oil recovery by Younes Gholamzadeh, Abdolhossein Hemmati-Sarapardeh, Mohammad Sharifi

“…Abstract Nanofluids have the capacity to reduce interfacial tension (IFT) of crude oil and water for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) operations, but traditional nanoparticles are limited in tight reservoirs due to their inappropriate size for micro-nano pores and their tendency to aggregate. …”
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Blockchain: la nueva era de la identificación digital en internet by Javier Martínez Boada, Francisco José Santamaría Ramos

“…Por el contrario, hoy por hoy en la esfera digital, los usuarios son capaces de tener bajo su control diferentes identidades que pueden identificarlos de manera fehaciente o no. …”
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Trellis Decoding for Qudit Stabilizer Codes and Its Application to Qubit Topological Codes by Eric Sabo, Arun B. Aloshious, Kenneth R. Brown

“…Numerical simulations demonstrate a 20% improvement in the code-capacity threshold for color codes with boundaries by avoiding the mapping from color codes to surface codes. …”
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Reflection to enhance dental students´ awareness of and comfort with uncertainty – an experimental study by Joséphine Brodén, Helena Fransson, Niklas Vareman, Maria Pigg

“…After the exercise in June, 36% (9/25) of the students exposed to the reflection exercise changed their statements on how certain they felt about their capacity to handle the case. Conclusions The exercise did not affect the awareness of uncertainty and the students’ comfort with it, as the majority of students stated already feeling comfortable in their ability to handle the situation at baseline. …”
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Cardiovascular Disease and Its Implication for Higher Catastrophic Health Expenditures Among Households in Sub-Saharan Africa by Folashayo Ikenna Peter Adeniji, Taiwo Akinyode Obembe

“…Similarly, a 40% threshold was applied to household total nonfood expenditure, also referred to as the capacity to pay. To compare the difference in mean CHE by household CVD status and the predictors of CHE, Student’s _t_-test and logistic regression were utilized. …”
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Experimental study of combined thermal flooding in improving heavy oil flowability by Yongqiang Tang, Haitao Wang, Qiaoyu Ge, Suobing Zhang, Zengmin Lun, Xia Zhou, Tao Ma

“…Its working mechanisms were explored from the aspects of thermal effects, emulsification, precursor film, profile control capacity, and CO2 solution and extraction effects. …”
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Winery By-Products In Vitro and In Vivo Effects on Atherothrombotic Markers: Focus on Platelet-Activating Factor by Maria Choleva, Smaragdi Antonopoulou, Elizabeth Fragopoulou

“…Evidence from long-term studies shows that consumption may lower total and low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, improve insulin sensitivity, decrease lipid and protein oxidative damage, enhance antioxidant capacity, and have mild anti-inflammatory action toward reducing cytokine expression and levels. …”
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An Experimental Study on Bond Behavior of Rebar and High-Performance Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composite (HPFRCC) at High Temperatures by Salim Karimpour, Rahmat Madandous, Malek Mohammad Ranjbar, Habib Akbarzadeh Bengar

“…Furthermore, the bond capacity of rebar in HPFRCC continues to decline with temperature rise up to 600 °C to the point where this reduction for the chosen specimens is approximately 62% of the bond strength of the specimens at the room temperature (i.e., 23 °C). …”
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Carbohydrate Restriction During Recovery from High-Intensity–Interval Training Enhances Fat Oxidation During Subsequent Exercise and Does Not Compromise Performance When Combined W... by Camilla Soegaard, Simon Riis, Jesper Friis Mortensen, Mette Hansen

“…In addition, caffeine ingestion before exercise in the CHO-restricted state compensates for the decreased work capacity associated with the CHO-restricted state.…”
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Physicochemical properties, structure, growth-promoting and antioxidant activities of Glycyrrhiza leaf polysaccharides modified by fermentation by Juan Du, Yuan Wang, Xia Li, Zhalaga, Na Liu, Wenwen Wang, Jingwei Qi, Xiaoli Fan, Xiaoping An

“…The findings demonstrated that fermentation could enhance the utilization of Glycyrrhiza leaf polysaccharides and their antioxidant capacity. These findings opened avenues for further research into the bioavailability of FGLP in vivo and offered valuable insights into its potential as a natural and innovative antioxidant. …”
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Crisis urbana y respuesta institucional en dos megaciudades. Lecciones del manejo de la devastación sísmica en las ciudades de México y Los Ángeles by Aseem Inam

“…Las instituciones de planeación en la Ciudad de México y Los Angeles respondieron con efectividad porque fueron capaces de adaptar rutinas institucionales, en forma rápida y eficiente, a circunstancias imprevistas y dramáticas. …”
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The Association between Hepcidin and Iron Status in Children and Adolescents with Obesity by Ekkarit Panichsillaphakit, Orapa Suteerojntrakool, Chitsanu Pancharoen, Issarang Nuchprayoon, Sirinuch Chomtho

“…Complete blood count, serum iron, ferritin, transferrin saturation, and total iron binding capacity were analyzed. Serum hepcidin-25 was assayed using a hepcidin ELISA Kit (Human Hepc25). …”
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Lesiones dermatológicas ocasionadas por la exposición a los componentes del jagüey blanco by Yunior González Freyre, Anelys Mesa Viera, Luis Alberto Bestard Pavón, Laura Barrero Viera, Yamilet García González, Arianna Londres Lobaina

“…Introducción: Muchas plantas poseen efectos perjudiciales para la salud, no siempre del dominio público; dentro de estas se encuentra el jagüey blanco, que posee compuestos capaces de producir dermatitis de contacto. Objetivos: Presentar un caso clínico ocasionado por la exposición a los componentes del jagüey blanco. …”
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Omnidiversity Consolidation of Conservation Assessment: A Case Study of Tasmanian Coastal Geoconservation Sites by Jake Crisp, Joanna Ellison, Andrew Fischer

“…Omnidiversity allowed time-effective and cost-effective methods to simultaneously assess geodiversity and biodiversity, determine the harboring capacity of geodiversity for biodiversity, and facilitate conservation through unification of disparate steps into one streamlined approach. …”
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Associations between Chinese Visceral Adiposity Index and the Risk of Metabolic Dysfunction-associated Steatotic Liver Disease and Liver Fibrosis: A Large Cross-sectional Study by Hui Liu, Mingming Deng, Gang Luo, Jie Chen

“…Multivariate logistic regression analyses and restricted cubic spline (RCS) were used to determine the associations between CVAI and MASLD or fibrosis. The diagnostic capacity was evaluated by the area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) curve. …”
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