Energy and CO2 fluxes in the early stage development of reclaimed and unreclaimed post-mining areas by Aysan Badraghi, Ondřej Mudrák, Jiří Kučera, Leonardo Montagnani, Jan Frouz

“…Differences in NEE and LE were mainly caused by higher emissions (Reco) at the unreclaimed site due to lower soil bulk density and higher runoff at the reclaimed site due to compacted soil, both influenced by heavy summer rainfall. …”
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Study on the Freeze-Thaw Problems in the Winter Construction of the Lianghekou Earth-Core Rockfill Dam and the Countermeasures for Prevention by Qihao Yu, Xiu-Ling Ren, Pan Yue, Gui-Ke Zhang, Jun-Feng Wang, Yan-Hu Mu, En-Long Liu

“…And, the field tests demonstrate that the filling compaction degree of the frozen soils is difficult to meet the designed requirements. …”
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Particle Size-Dependent Monthly Variation of Pollution Load, Ecological Risk, and Sources of Heavy Metals in Road Dust in Beijing, China by Cong Men, Donghui Li, Yunqi Jing, Ke Xiong, Jiayao Liu, Shikun Cheng, Zifu Li

“…Wavelet analysis indicated that traffic exhaust showed periodicities of 5–8 and 10–13 months. Fuel combustion displayed the strongest periodicity of 12–15 months, peaking in winter.…”
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Is There Synchronicity in Nitrogen Input and Output Fluxes at the Noland Divide Watershed, a Small N-Saturated Forested Catchment in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park? by H. Van Miegroet, I.F. Creed, N.S. Nicholas, D.G. Tarboton, K.L. Webster, J. Shubzda, B. Robinson, J. Smoot, D. W. Johnson, S. E. Lindberg, G. Lovett, S. Nodvin, S. Moore

“…Also, as water passed through the various catchment compartments, the NO3-N flux declined below the canopy, increased in the upper soil due to internal N mineralization and nitrification, and declined again deeper in the mineral soil due to plant uptake and microbial processing. …”
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Effects of Biostabilization on Engineering Properties of Geomaterials by Shengting Li, Chenyi Luo, Yi Yang, Lvzhen Yang, Lijian Wu, Tuo Huang, Zhuangji Wang

“…Three types of geomaterials were selected, and two of them were compacted soil from unpaved road surface. Bacillus pasteurii, the biostabilization bacterium, was used to induce mineral precipitates within the geomaterial pore spaces, where the biostabilization effects were performed. …”
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Influence of Two Cooling Methods on Dynamic Mechanical Properties of High Temperature Sandstone by Qi Ping, Qi Diao, Dezhi Qi, Chen Wang, Chuanliang Zhang

“…The variation of dynamic stress-strain curves is basically consistent. Compaction stage of water cooling is slightly larger than that of natural cooling. …”
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OSAD: Open-Set Aircraft Detection in SAR Images by Xiayang Xiao, Zhuoxuan Li, Xiaolin Mi, Dandan Gu, Haipeng Wang

“…PCL employs prototype-based contrastive encoding loss to promote instance-level intraclass compactness and interclass variance, aiming to minimize the overlap between known and unknown distributions and reduce the empirical classification risk of known categories. …”
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Assessing ground stability of a vertical backfilled stope considering creep behaviors of surrounding rocks by Ruofan Wang, Lang Liu, Mengbo Zhu, Huafu Qiu, Bingbing Tu, Huisheng Qu, Hao Cui

“…It is found that the creep deformation of rock mass exercises compression on backfill and results in a less void ratio and increased modulus for fill material. The compacted backfill conversely influenced the stress distribution and ground stability of rock mass which was a combined effect of wall creep and compressibility of backfill. …”
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Breastfeeding and Neonatal Age Influence Neutrophil-Driven Ontogeny of Blood Cell Populations in the First Week of Human Life by Sebastiano Montante, Rym Ben-Othman, Nelly Amenyogbe, Asimenia Angelidou, Anita van den Biggelaar, Bing Cai, Yixuan Chen, Alansana Darboe, Joann Diray-Arce, Rebecca Ford, Olubukola Idoko, Amy Lee, Mandy Lo, Kerry McEnaney, Mehrnoush Malek, David Martino, Geraldine Masiria, Oludare A. Odumade, William Pomat, Casey Shannon, Kinga Smolen, The EPIC Consortium, Al Ozonoff, Peter Richmond, Scott Tebbutt, Ofer Levy, Beate Kampmann, Ryan Brinkman, Tobias Kollmann

“…Changes across days of life were most pronounced in the innate myeloid compartment. Breastfeeding, and at a smaller scale neonatal vaccination, were associated with changes in peripheral blood neutrophil and monocyte cell counts. …”
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Decarbonization of space heating in the Italian Alpine context: Thermo-economic assessment of the levelized energy cost of heating under alternative renewable scenarios by Lorenzo Menin, Gregorio Borelli, Alessandro Prada, Giovanni Pernigotto, Andrea Gasparella, Marco Baratieri

“…However, scenario (1) exhibits the highest competitiveness under recent subsidization policies, with a weighted average levelized energy cost of heat of 104 €/MWh, in line with the cost of standalone natural gas combustion in condensing boilers. PV delivers the second most cost-effective solution with strong improvement potential under grid electricity cost reductions. …”
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Reconstruction and analysis of the gene regulatory network for cell wall function in <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i> L. leaves in response to water deficit by A. R. Volyanskaya, E. A. Antropova, U. S. Zubairova, P. S. Demenkov, A. S. Venzel, Y. L. Orlov, A. A. Makarova, T. V. Ivanisenko, T. A. Gorshkova, A. R. Aglyamova, N. A. Kolchanov, M. Chen, V. A.  Ivanisenko

“…The plant cell wall represents the outer compartment of the plant cell, which provides a physical barrier and triggers signaling cascades under the influence of biotic and abiotic stressors. …”
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Experimental evaluation of mechanically stabilized earth walls reinforced with glass fiber reinforced polymer bars embedded in marble waste-sand mixtures by Shabir Hussain, Irshad Ahmad, Irfan Jamil, Fasih Ahmed Khan, Mansoor Ullah, Saif ul Islam, Mudassir Iqbal, R. Nawaz

“…Sand with 14 %MP, 28 %MR, and 21 %(MP+MR) were observed to be the optimum mixing ratios according to modified Proctor compaction testing. Results show that the large MSE wall model's average-FD decreased by 13 %, 18 %, and 27 %, and average-VS decreased by 21 %, 26 %, and 36 % due to addition of 14 %MP, 28 %MR, and 21 %(MP+MR) to sand (by weight). …”
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Dynamic Proteomic Analysis of Pancreatic Mesenchyme Reveals Novel Factors That Enhance Human Embryonic Stem Cell to Pancreatic Cell Differentiation by Holger A. Russ, Limor Landsman, Christopher L. Moss, Roger Higdon, Renee L. Greer, Kelly Kaihara, Randy Salamon, Eugene Kolker, Matthias Hebrok

“…Current approaches in human embryonic stem cell (hESC) to pancreatic beta cell differentiation have largely been based on knowledge gained from developmental studies of the epithelial pancreas, while the potential roles of other supporting tissue compartments have not been fully explored. One such tissue is the pancreatic mesenchyme that supports epithelial organogenesis throughout embryogenesis. …”
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Representative CO2 emissions pathways for China's provinces toward carbon neutrality under the Paris Agreement's 2 °C target by Han-Tang Peng, Da Zhang, Jun-Ting Zhong, Li-Feng Guo, Si-Yue Guo, Jun-Ling Huang, De-Ying Wang, Chang-Hong Miao, Xi-Liang Zhang, Xiao-Ye Zhang

“…We find that these methods yield comparable results for the emissions from energy combustion and industrial processes at the provincial level. …”
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Land subsidence and rebound response to groundwater recovery in the Beijing Plain: A new hydrological perspective by Dexin Meng, Beibei Chen, Huili Gong, Shubo Zhang, Rui Ma, Chaofan Zhou, Kunchao Lei, Lewei Xu, Xincheng Wang

“…A longer delay between GWL recovery and surface rebound was observed in the aquifer with thicker clay layers, with over 77 % of the compaction being irreversible.…”
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Insights into the photocatalytic removal of malachite green organic pollutant by highly efficient hard responsive Ba1 − xCoxDyyFe12−yO19 catalysts by Himanshi, Basant Lal, Ankit Verma, Suman, Jahangeer Ahmed, Arunima Singh, Chan Choon Kit, Rohit Jasrotia, Natrayan Lakshmaiya, Varun Mehra, Abhishek Kandwal

“…To tackle such environmental issues, we are synthesizing a novel catalyst of composition, Ba1 − xCoxDyyFe12−yO19 (x = y = 0.02–0.06) using sol-gel auto-combustion (SGAC) for the photocatalytic eradication of malachite green dye (MGD). …”
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Performance analysis of PCM-based lithium-ion battery module thermal management system under mechanical vibration by Jiebo Yang, Qinghua Yu, Wenjie Ye, Yang Yu, Sheng Chen

“…Phase Change Material-based Battery Thermal Management System (PCM-based BTMS) has become a current research hotspot due to its high efficiency, thermal stability, and compactness. Regrettably, most existing research on PCM-based BTMS neglects the existence of mechanical vibrations, despite the inevitable involvement of such vibrations in the operating conditions of BTMS in electric vehicles. …”
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A qualitative study exploring depressed participants’ experiences of receiving Augmented Depression Therapy (ADepT) by Rebecca Watson, Kim A Wright, Nigel Reed, Barney Dunn, Emily Widnall, Kalliopi Demetriou, Laura Warbrick, Katie Marchant, Nicole Geschwind, Isabella Magner-Parsons, Rachel Barter

“…Perceived mechanisms of change were reorienting to the positive, engaging with valued goals, taking a proactive life stance, gaining confidence and motivation for change, breaking down tasks into small steps, cultivating self-care and self-compassion, enhancing help seeking and interpersonal effectiveness, changing the relationship to depression, and rediscovering the self beyond depression.Conclusions Findings suggest that the wellbeing focus of ADepT is acceptable and leads to positive impacts, supports the logic model underpinning the intervention, and warrants continuation to a definitive trial.Trial registration number ISRCTN85278228.…”
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Ecological concrete by partially substitution of cement with Cameroonian corn stover ash by Martial Ngnihamye Nde, Seidou Youssoufa, Fabien Kenmogne, Merveille Meto Kuigne, Michel Mbessa, Emmanuel Yamb Bell, Didier Fokwa

“…Four concrete formulations were prepared, according to the amount of CCSA (that is at 0 %, 5 %, 10 % and 15 %), in order to carry out tests in the fresh state (slump test, compactness) and in the hardened state, i.e. mechanical tests (compression and bending tests) and physical tests (density test, water absorption, and porosity) after 7, 14, 28 and 60 days. …”
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Spatial-temporal baseline study of nutrients and trace elements characterization of a large tropical transition system in West Africa by Celso Paulo, João A. Carreiras, Susanne Tanner, Carmen Van-Dúnem dos Santos, Vanessa F. Fonseca, Bernardo Duarte

“…Within each of the surveyed abiotic compartments (water and sediment), the analyzed elements showed significant correlations with each other, indicating a shared source and accumulation mechanism. …”
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