Stability of alkyd emulsion resins and anti-corrosion properties of water-based alkyd emulsion paints by Le Huy Cuong Huynh, Khanh Xuan Phan, Thanh An Truong, Hung Thuy Nguyen

“…Particle size was determined using dynamic light scattering (DLS). Soybean oil alkyd resins were emulsified with the anionic surfactants linear alkyl- benzene sulfonate (LAS)/sodium lauryl sulphate (SLS) and the nonionic surfactant nonyl phenol ethoxylate (NP9) in an aqueous solvent. …”
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Proper Names as an Ethnocultural Text: Nogai Place Names as Determinants of Ethnic Memory by Mariia Bulgarova

“…The migration routes of the Nogais in the expanses of Eurasia are marked by toponyms preserved on maps of many historical territories and states, in archives and written monuments, oral folk art, ethnic memory of peoples. Nogai toponyms are scattered – from the Irtysh to the Danube, from Issyk-Kul to the Mediterranean Sea. …”
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CONTENT AND CHARACTERISTICS OF TOXIC ELEMENT DISSEMINATION IN TISSUES AND ORGANS OF THE BALTIC SEA FISH by M. V. Alexeyeva, A. V. Tyunev

“…Characteristics of toxic elements dissemination in organs and tissues of the following fish species: freshwater fish (redeye Scardinius erythrophthalmus, bream Abramis brama, perch Perca fluviatilis, cat fish Silurus glanis, crucian carp Carassius carassius, tench Tinca tinca, white bream Blicca bjorkna, pike Esox lucius) and sea fish (mackerel Scombers combrus, herring Clupea harengus membras, salmon Salmo salar, poutassou Micromesistius, cod Gadus morhua callarias, Baltic sprat Sprattus sprattus balticus), as well as species specificity in accumulation of elements under study were identified. …”
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Unified ultraviolet communication and sensing:modeling and system optimization by Chen GONG, Yuchen PAN, Zhengyuan XU

“…Currently, there exist few communication works which combine with sensing.It is necessary to build up a unified communication and sensing signal model and system joint design optimization framework.Based on this, a unified ultraviolet communication and sensing framework was proposed, consisting of a transmitter, a sensing detector and a communication receiver.The transmitter sent modulated signals to the communication receiver for information transmission.Due to the non-line of sight scattering effect, certain components of the transmitted signals reached the unknown target which further reflected to the sensing detector for target detection.Two performance metrics for communication and sensing were considered, including the mutual information between the transmitted symbol and the signal at the communication receiver, and the miss detection probability for the target detector.The relationship between the two metrics and the transmission parameters was further analyzed, including the transmission power for the high-level signal, the transmission power for the low-level signal, and the prior probabilities.The results demonstrate a tradeoff between the communication performance metric and sensing performance metric.It is also shown that the power for the high-level signal should be set to be the peak power, and the power for the low-level signal and the prior probabilities should be optimized, to minimize the miss detection probability given a lower bound on the mutual information.…”
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Ab Initio Study of Electron Capture in Collisions of Protons with CO₂ Molecules by Luis Méndez, Ismanuel Rabadán

“…Ab initio calculations of cross sections for electron capture by protons in collisions with CO₂ are carried out at energies between 100 eV/u and 50 keV/u, employing a semiclassical method within the Franck–Condon framework. The scattering wave function is expanded in a set of ab initio electronic wave functions of the HCO₂⁺ supermolecule. …”
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Metacognition in Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata): does impulsivity explain unnecessary looks in the tubes task? by Lorraine Subias, Noriko Katsu, Kazunori Yamada

“…This intriguing result counters the notion that excessive looking in the tubes task is solely due to impulsive looking, prompting us to advocate for further research into the relationship between inhibition and metacognitive performance.…”
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Penile Livedoid Vasculopathy: First Reported Case by Ahmad Hallak, William Bennett, Mohammed Adib Tanbir, Supriya R. Donthamsetty, Bethaney Vincent

“…Due to diagnostic uncertainty, a biopsy was performed which revealed hyaline thrombi within the lumens of small vessels within the upper to mid dermis, fibrinoid material in the walls of these blood vessels and within the perivascular stroma with overlying and adjacent epidermal spongiosis, and mild perivascular lymphocytic infiltrate with a few scattered neutrophils most consistent with livedoid vasculitis. …”
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A Digital Trail of Rupture. The German Film Exile 1933-1945 in the Data of Günter Peter Straschek by Imme Klages

“…German film exile during National Socialism, 1933-1945, has always been a complex subject to research because of the scattered nature of the sources in the international distribution of archives (Asper, Horak, Hilchenbach). …”
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“Pest Forests”, “Utility Forests” and “Cow Bends” by Gerard A. Persoon

“…Small and scattered patches of forests contrast sharply within the context of the flat and monotonous dark green pastures in the Dutch polder landscapes. …”
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Investigation of a CDDW Hamiltonian to Explore Possibility of Magneto-Quantum Oscillations in Electronic Specific Heat of Hole-Doped Cuprates by Partha Goswami, Manju Rani

“…We investigate a chiral d-density wave (CDDW) mean field model Hamiltonian in the momentum space suitable for the hole-doped cuprates, such as YBCO, in the pseudogap phase to obtain the Fermi surface (FS) topologies, including the anisotropy parameter(́𝜀) and the elastic scattering by disorder potential (|𝑣0|). For ́𝜀=0, with the chemical potential 𝜇=−0.27 eV for 10% doping level and |𝑣0|≥|𝑡| (where |𝑡|=0.25 eV is the first neighbor hopping), at zero/non-zero magnetic field (𝐵), the FS on the first Brillouin zone is found to correspond to electron pockets around antinodal regions and barely visible patches around nodal regions. …”
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Comparative experimental study of the mechanical and fracture properties of Portland limestone and Corsehill sandstone by Aikaterini Marinelli, Matthew R. Stewart

“…At a second stage, the effect of specimen shape and size on flexural strength, deflection at mid-span, crack mouth opening displacement and fracture energy was studied for Port¬land limestone. Despite the scattering of results, trends observed comprise (a) the negative correlation between the flexural strength of Portland limestone and the specimen span length and (b) the positive correlation between fracture energy and specimen size. …”
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Optical Performance of Sodium Tungsten Bronze Particles in Transparent Matrix: An Ensemble Particle Modeling Study by Hao Tu, Da-Ren Chen

“…Our particle ensemble modeling showed that multiple light scattering among particles dramatically increased the chance of near-infrared light absorption in a particle-suspended matrix, which differs from that observed in a single particle modeling. …”
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Changements socio-environnementaux et dynamiques des paysages ruraux le long du gradient bioclimatique nord-sud dans le sud-ouest du Niger (régions de Tillabery et de Dosso) by José Luis San Emeterio, Frédéric Alexandre, Julien Andrieu, Alain Génin, Catherine Mering

“…This article analyzes the changes which have occurred in land occupation and vegetation cover over the past few decades in a number of villages scattered along the bioclimatic gradient in the South-West of Niger, from the Tillabéry-Filingué line in the North to Gaya (on the Niger-Benin border) in the South. …”
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Absorption loss and Kerr nonlinearity in barium titanate waveguides by Annina Riedhauser, Charles Möhl, Johannes Schading, Daniele Caimi, David I. Indolese, Thomas M. Karg, Paul Seidler

“…Using cavity-enhanced photothermal spectroscopy, we measure the absorption loss of BaTiO3 ridge waveguides at wavelengths near 1550 nm to be αabs = 10.9−0.4+5.8 dB m−1, well below the propagation losses due to other sources, such as scattering. We simultaneously determine that the BaTiO3 has a large Kerr nonlinear refractive index of n2,BaTiO3 = 1.8−0.3+0.3 × 10−18 m2 W−1. …”
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Design of a Printed Dipole Antenna Array for a Passive Radar System by Peter Knott

“…Typical radar parameters are derived from the comparison between the direct line-of-sight from the transmitter and the signal scattered from the target object. Such systems are an attractive addition to existing active radar stations because they have the potential to discover low-flying and low-observable targets and no active radar transmitter is required. …”
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Kepemimpinan kepala sekolah dalam menjaga tata kelola sekolah selama masa pandemi Covid-19 by Bernadetha Nadeak, Citra Puspa Juwita

“…This study used a quantitative descriptive research method with as many as 63 school principals as respondents who were scattered throughout Indonesia. Data collection was carried out online using an open questionnaire via the google form platform. …”
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Ovarian Basaloid Carcinoma with Shadow Cell Differentiation by Michal Zamecnik, Daniel Jando, Peter Kascak

“…Cytokeratin 7 and CA125 were positive in scattered cells of the lesion. Estrogen and progesterone receptor, vimentin, and p53 were negative. …”
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Research Progress of Hydrological Big Data Based on CiteSpace Knowledge Graph by MENG Lu, YANG Haibo

“…Research related to hydrological big data has been a focal point and core issue in the field of hydrology in recent years.It is also an important component for improving the efficiency of hydrological affairs processing and enhancing the authenticity and credibility of hydrological patterns.This study utilized a sample dataset comprising 264 papers collected from China Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and 219 papers collected from Web of Science (WOS).Using CiteSpace software,this paper analyzed the researchers,institutions, and research hotspots and explored the development trend of research in this field in depth.The findings indicate that,overall,both Chinese and international publications show an increasing trend.Regarding researchers and research institutions,there is a phenomenon of “large scattering and small gathering” among Chinese scholars and institutions.Examining research hotspots reveals that keywords such as “intelligent hydrology,”“early warning system,”“big data testing” signify that the focus of research in this field is gradually shifting towards technological and digital directions.Whether domestically or internationally,modern hydrological monitoring technologies and hydrological methods,in comparison to traditional technologies and methods,demonstrate higher accuracy and stability.They can more fully meet the practical application requirements,and the combination of hydrology and big data has gradually become a research trend in this field.…”
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The Review and Analysis of the Book: "Seasons of the Transfiguration and Al-Tarib" from Experience to Translation by Reza Nazemian

“…The book consists of eight chapters that deal with various subjects in the field of translation from Arabic to English and vice versa, and although all of these chapters, are the subject of an article, they are scattered.  They are also dedicated to specialty in translation. …”
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The Knitwear Archive as a Tool to Explore New Technologies by Giovanni Maria Conti, Diego Dani, Martina Motta, Irene Sapuppo, Federica Vacca

“…The research underscores the archive’s role as a tool to anticipate the future and proposes the adoption of a design-oriented approach to fully understand its value, countering a passive consumption of the archive.…”
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