Application of Adaptive Image Restoration Algorithm Based on Sparsity of Block Structure in Environmental Art Design by Bo Liang, Xin-xin Jia, Yuan Lu

“…This has high application value in environmental design, film and television special effects production, old photo restoration, and removal of text or obstacles in images. …”
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Towards Transformation of the Nigerian Youths: The Place of Yoruba Popular Music by Kayode Olusola

“…This paper concludes that the Nigerian government should use appropriate agencies like the National Film and Records Censor Board and Nigerian Copyright Council to prevent music that contains lyrics that can encourage violence and criminal acts circulated into Nigerian markets. …”
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A Novel ZnO-Methylene Blue Nanocomposite Matrix for Biosensing Application by Shibu Saha, S. K. Arya, S. P. Singh, Vinay Gupta

“…The introduction of methylene blue into the ZnO thin film leads to reduction in the charge transfer resistance and suggests an increase in the electron transfer capacity of the composite. …”
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Adsorption of Crystal Violet Dye from Aqueous Solution using Industrial Pepper Seed Spent: Equilibrium, Thermodynamic, and Kinetic Studies by Razia Sulthana, Syed Noeman Taqui, Usman Taqui Syed, T. M. Yunus Khan, Shaik Dawood Abdul Khadar, Imran Mokashi, Kiran Shahapurkar, M. A. Kalam, H. C. Ananda Murthy, Akheel Ahmed Syed

“…The adsorption kinetics were studied by implementing the Dumwald-Wagner, Weber-Morris, pseudo-first-order, pseudo-second-order, film diffusion, and Avrami models. The experimental value of adsorption capacity (Qm=129.4 mg g−1) was observed to be quite close to the Jovanovic isotherm adsorption capacity (Qm=82.24 mg g−1) at (R2), coefficient of correlation of 0.945. …”
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Efficacy, safety, and tolerability of lifitegrast 5% eye drops: A randomized, double-blind, active-controlled trial in Indian patients with dry eye disease by Namrata Sharma, Sayan Basu, Rohit Shetty, Pramod Kumar, Anindita Mondal, P Seshu Babu, Richa Srivastava, Ranjana A Pande, Shubashree Karat, Hemaxi P Desai, S Manjula, M Krishna Kumar

“…At week 6, values of all study variables were better in patients treated with lifitegrast compared to CMC; differences between the groups were statistically significant for all except photophobia. …”
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Investigation of the Improvement of Physical and Chemical Changes in Banana Fruits under Different Lighting and Packaging Conditions by Fatemeh Aboutalebi, Mohsen Azadbakht, Mohammad Vahedi Torshizi, Feryal Varasteh

“…Given the importance of storing and handling bananas to preserve their quality, flavor, and nutritional value, this study used various light treatments and packaging methods to maintain the quality of bananas. …”
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Fabrication of SiC@Cu/Cu Composites with the Addition of SiC@Cu Powder by Magnetron Sputtering by Zhang Yunlong, Li Wenbo, Hu Ming, Yi Hongyong, Zhou Wei, Ding Peiling, Tang Lili

“…The addition of SiC@Cu decreased CTE values of the SiC@Cu/Cu composite, especially at high-level fraction SiC@Cu powder.…”
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Is Membrane Filtration Applicable for the Recovery of Biologically Active Substances from Spent Lavender? by Yoana Stoyanova, Nevena Lazarova-Zdravkova, Dimitar Peshev

“…The process resistance, driven by osmotic pressure and concentration polarization, followed a power–law relationship with a power value of 1.20, consistent with prior nanofiltration studies of rosmarinic acid solutions. …”
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Application of Supply-Demand-Based Optimization for Parameter Extraction of Solar Photovoltaic Models by Guojiang Xiong, Jing Zhang, Dongyuan Shi, Xufeng Yuan

“…Modeling solar photovoltaic (PV) systems accurately is based on optimal values of unknown model parameters of PV cells and modules. …”
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Thermodynamics of Steel Corrosion in Acid Media Containing Organophosphorus Derivatives by E. Khamis, M.N. Moussa, E.S.H. El-Ashry, M. Ibrahim, A.K. Ibrahim

“…The values of the thermodynamic parameters, ΔG° ads. , ΔH° ads. and ΔS° ads. , have also been computed and are discussed.…”
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Characterization of TiZrN and TaZrN Nanocomposite Multilayer Coating Deposited via RF/DC Magnetron Sputtering on AISI4140 Steel by R. Hariharan, R. Raja, R. J. Golden Renjith Nimal, Mohamad Reda A. Refaai, S Ravi, Haiter Lenin Allasi

“…The flow rate ratio of Ar/N2 was set to 15 : 3 sccm and the thin film was prepared by the PVD (physical vapor deposition) method by RF/DC magnetron using a Ti-Zr and Ta-Zr target with a purity of 99.99%. …”
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Evaluation of cortical limitation of the mandibular second molar distalization with cone beam computed tomography by CHENG Ye, ZENG Weihao, LI Huang, LEI Lang

“…Distance between distal edge of crown and anterior edge of mandibular ascending branchwas also measured.The lateral cephalic film was generated for routine projection measurement. …”
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Mechanical Characterization of Reduced Graphene Oxide Using AFM by Alem Teklu, Canyon Barry, Matthew Palumbo, Collin Weiwadel, Narayanan Kuthirummal, Jason Flagg

“…Elastic and spectroscopic analyses were performed on the samples after each oxygen reduction cycle in the LightScribe, thus allowing for a comparison of stiffness, hardness, and the reduced Young’s modulus based on the number of reduction cycles. The highest values obtained were after the fifth and final reduction cycle, yielding a stiffness of 22.4 N/m, a hardness of 0.55 GPa, and a reduced Young’s modulus of 1.62 GPa as compared to a stiffness of 22.8 N/m, a hardness of 0.58 GPa, and a reduced Young’s modulus of 1.84 GPa for a commercially purchased graphene film made by CVD. …”
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Use of Anionic Surfactant-Modified Activated Carbon for Efficient Adsorptive Removal of Crystal Violet Dye by Rumi Goswami, Amit Kumar Dey

“…Thermodynamics studies revealed endothermicity of the process with negative ΔG values and positive ΔS and ΔH values. Activation energy of 48.31 kJ/mol suggested chemisorption process of the system. …”
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Sub-technology market share strongly affects critical material constraints in power system transitions by Huijuan Dong, Tianyu Zhang, Yong Geng, Peng Wang, Shu Zhang, Joseph Sarkis

“…Material constraints are likely to occur for gallium, terbium, germanium, tellurium, indium, uranium and copper. The importance value is determined by the ratio of power sector to all-sector material demand; the importance value of gallium will increase to 50% due to increases in gallium arsenide and permanent magnet sub-technologies. …”
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New Method of Depositing the Nanostructured Amorphous Carbon for Carbon Based Solar Cell Applications by A. N. Fadzilah, K. Dayana, M. Rusop

“…Transmittance spectrum exhibits a large transmittance value (85%) and absorption coefficient value of  cm−1 at the visible range from 390 to 790 nm. …”
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Electrical and photoelectric properties of photocell on base of Schottky barrier contact Au-n-GaAs by A. I. Blesman, R. B. Burlakov

“…It is shown that air annealing of structures n-n+-GaAs-AuGe under (200–220) ºC within 30 minutes before precipitating a film Au on n-GaAs brings to the reduction on two- three orders direct I dir and inverse I inv currents (under 0,5 V) to reduction on three orders of density of the current of the saturation J0 , to reduction of capacities of photocells before values (204–191) pF under inverse tensions (0,22–0,96) V, reduction of the current of the short circuit of photocells and to increase their photovoltage that connected with formation fine oxide layer on n-GaAs under air annealing of structures n-n+-GaAs-AuGe.…”
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Synthesis, optical linear and non-linear characterization and metal ion sensing application of some novel thieno[2,3-b]thiophene-2,5-dicarbohydrazide Schiff base derivatives by Ahmed. M. M. Soliman, Mahmoud Abd El Aleem Ali Ali El-Remaily, Moumen S. Kamel, Alaa El-Araby, E. Kh. Shokr

“…The obtained results manifested that compound 4 and DTT have lower (1.92 eV), and higher (3.47 eV) energy band gap values, respectively, as a result of the conjugation number effect. …”
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New Long-Term Use Solid Bismuth Microelectrode Arrays for Rapid and Sensitive Determination of Sunset Yellow in Isotonic Beverages and Water Samples by Adsorptive Stripping Voltamm... by Mieczyslaw Korolczuk, Iwona Gęca, Artur Mazurek, Paulina Mrózek

“…The correctness of the presented procedure was also confirmed by satisfactory recovery values obtained during the analysis of spiked environmental water samples.…”
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Analysis of the influence factors of cultivated land transfer in Guangdong coastal important agricultural areas based on geodetectors by Zhaogang Fu, Zhaogang Fu, Qingyi Xue

“…In single-factor analysis, factors such as irrigation conditions, agricultural output value, urbanization level, electricity supply, and centralized water supply projects have a particularly prominent impact on farmland transfer. …”
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