Photothermal performance of nanofluids: An experimental study on direct absorption solar energy conversion using graphene oxide and its binary composites for water purification by Abdul Sattar, Bai Bofeng, M. Adeel Munir, Muhammad Farooq, S. Bilal, M. Imran Khan, Noreen Sher Akbar, Mohammed Ilyas Khan, Mohammad Rehan, Fahid Riaz

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Altering the mechanical properties of self-assembled filaments through engineering of EspA bacterial protein by Moran Elias-Mordechai, May Morhaim, Maya Georgia Pelah, Irina Rostovsky, May Nogaoker, Jürgen Jopp, Raz Zarivach, Neta Sal-Man, Ronen Berkovich

“…The truncated recombinant filaments had a higher radial modulus than the full-length ones, and unlike the purely elastic natural filaments, recombinant filaments were less compliant with the applied force that penetrated them. …”
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Evolution of Volatile Flavour Compounds during Fermentation of African Oil Bean (Pentaclethra macrophylla Benth) Seeds for “Ugba” Production by C. O. Nwokeleme, J. Obeta Ugwuanyi

“…When Bacillus subtilis was used in pure culture, 30 compounds comprising 10 hydrocarbons, 8 esters, 3 alcohols, 2 amines, 2 sulfur compounds, and one of each of acid, aldehyde, phenol, ketone, and furan were identified. …”
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A Study on the Yield and Related Traits of some Forage Low-Tannin Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) Genotypes by Hamidreza Ghorbani, Mohamad Taghi Feyzbakhsh

“…Extended Abstract Background: The faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is considered one of the important legumes and is cultivated as a source of cheap protein. …”
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MOKSLO VERTYBINIO NEUTRALUMO PROBLEMA XX A. FILOSOFIJOJE (M. WEBERIS, ANALITINĖ MOKSLO FILOSOFIJA IR METAETIKA, KRITINĖ TEORIJA) by Zenonas Norkus

“…Raktažodžiai: mokslo vertybinis neutralumas, Maxas Weberis, metaetika, kritinis racionalizmas, kritinė teorija THE PROBLEM OF VALUE NEUTRALITY OF SCIENCE IN THE XXTH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY (MAX WEBER, ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND METAETHICS, CRITICAL THEORY) Zenonas Norkus Summary The article analyses prehistory of current discussions on the problem of value neutrality of science. In this problem, three aspects are distinguished: logical one (represented by the dichotomy of descriptive and evaluative statements, and by "Hume's principle"); methodological one (demand to base acceptance and rejection of hypotheses on cognitive values only), and ethical one (prohibition to advocate and to promote noncognitive values on behalf of science). …”
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MOKSLO VERTYBINIO NEUTRALUMO PROBLEMA XX A. FILOSOFIJOJE (M. WEBERIS, ANALITINĖ MOKSLO FILOSOFIJA IR METAETIKA, KRITINĖ TEORIJA) by Zenonas Norkus

“…Raktažodžiai: mokslo vertybinis neutralumas, Maxas Weberis, metaetika, kritinis racionalizmas, kritinė teorija THE PROBLEM OF VALUE NEUTRALITY OF SCIENCE IN THE XXTH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY (MAX WEBER, ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND METAETHICS, CRITICAL THEORY) Zenonas Norkus Summary The article analyses prehistory of current discussions on the problem of value neutrality of science. In this problem, three aspects are distinguished: logical one (represented by the dichotomy of descriptive and evaluative statements, and by "Hume's principle"); methodological one (demand to base acceptance and rejection of hypotheses on cognitive values only), and ethical one (prohibition to advocate and to promote noncognitive values on behalf of science). …”
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Intericonicity in Disguise in Madame Yevonde’s Goddesses series and Cindy Sherman’s History Portraits/Old Masters by Julie MORÈRE

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STUDY ON A NUMERICAL METHOD FOR THE DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF BOLTED STRUCTURE UNDER PRETENSION AND IMPACT LOADS by GUO LiLun, CHEN Zhongfu, LUO JingRun, CHEN Gang

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Crack path in aeronautical titanium alloy under ultrasonic torsion loading by A. Nikitin, C. Bathias, T. Palin-Luc, A. Shanyavskiy

“…This paper discusses features of fatigue crack initiation and growth in aeronautical VT3-1 titanium alloy under pure torsion loading in gigacycle regime. …”
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Activity and diffusivity of oxygen in the liquid dilute BixSb1-x solutions by Jendrzejczyk-Handzlik D., Handzlik P., Fitzner K.

“…The diffusivity and activity coefficient of oxygen in liquid antimony, bismuth and antimony-bismuth alloys were determined from coulometric titration experiments, which were performed in the temperature range from 985 to 1185 K. The diffusivity in pure metals (in cm2/s) is: Dbi,O =(9.04 ± 1.82)∙10-3 exp (-49115±1809/RT) DSb,O(2.87±0.22)∙10-4 exp (-16720±677/RT). …”
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A New Adaptive Hungarian Mating Scheme in Genetic Algorithms by Chanju Jung, Yong-Hyuk Kim, Yourim Yoon, Byung-Ro Moon

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Optimization of the Plastic Area of a Borehole Based on the Gas Extraction Effect and Its Engineering Application by Kuan Wu, Shiliang Shi, Yi Lu, He Li, Min Li

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Application of Chemically Modified and Unmodified Waste Biological Sorbents in Treatment of Wastewater by John Kanayochukwu Nduka

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Electrical and Optical Properties of Ge𝑥Si𝟏−𝑥:H Thin Films Prepared by Thermal Evaporation Method by A. A. J. Al-Douri, M. F. A. Alias, A. A. Alnajjar, M. N. Makadsi

“…Accordingly, models of the density of states for the Ge0.5Si0.5:H thin films as pure, doped with 3.5% of Al (p-type) and that doped with 3.5% As (n-type), were proposed.…”
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Sonication Assisted Callus Growth, Protein Content, and Plant Regeneration of Silybum marianum L. by Shifa M. Salih

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Nitrogen Incorporation in TiO2: Does It Make a Visible Light Photo-Active Material? by B. Viswanathan, K. R. Krishanmurthy

“…Titania is the preferred semiconductor for this process, in spite of its large band gap (~3.2 eV) that restricts its utility only in the UV region. …”
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Optical Active Thermal Stable Nanocomposites Using Polybutadiene-Based Polyurethane and Graphene Quantum Dot-MnO2 by Zahra Rahmatpanah, Mir Mohammad Alavi Nikje, Maryam Dargahi

“…Thermal stability showed direct relationship to nanoparticle content, and 3%wt nanocomposite showed improved thermal behaviour in comparison with pure PU. …”
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Rolling Bearing Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Multisynchrosqueezing S Transform and Faster Dictionary Learning by Guodong Sun, Ye Hu, Bo Wu, Hongyu Zhou

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Research on Rapid Evaluation Methods for Hydrogen Consumption and Driving Range of Fuel Cell Vehicles by Letian Sun, Rongliang Liang, Guozhuo Wang, Shiyu Wu, Ting Guo

“…This method does not require the test vehicle to be fully charged with hydrogen before the experiment but only requires the test vehicle to meet 2 cycles of pure electric driving and 7 cycles of hydrogen electric hybrid driving. …”
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Area Differences in Regional Logistics Efficiency and the Law Governing Its Temporal and Spatial Evolution by Wenxue Ran, Ruli Liu, Shiwen Liu

“…Results indicate the following: (1) affected by external environmental factors, the pure technical efficiency is underestimated and the scale efficiency and integrated technical efficiency are overestimated; (2) it reveals that residents’ consumption level and the total retail sales of social consumer goods are negatively correlated with regional logistics efficiency, whereas the regional per capita gross domestic product is positively correlated with regional logistics efficiency; (3) in terms of space, the logistics industry in the same region displays characteristics of high aggregation and cooperation, whereas serious segmentation and opposition are found among different regions. …”
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