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2022-01-01 | The guidelines of the North American and European Societies for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (NASPGHAN/ESPGHAN) define gastroesophageal reflux (GER) as the physiologic passage of gastric contents into the esophagus and GER disease (GERD) as reflux associated with troublesome symptoms or complic... | Gastroesophageal Reflux | 10.1007/978-3-030-80068-0_10 |
2022-01-01 | The ladder-bucket apple harvest method has a number of shortcomings, including inefficiency, high cost, and causing occupational injuries. Harvest-assist platform is a potential approach to replace the conventional ladder-bucket method. The platform replaces the ladders, and thus could improve the harvest efficiency an... | Design, Test, and Improvement of a Low-Cost Fresh Market Apple Harvest-Assist Unit | 10.1007/978-981-16-5316-2_2 |
2022-01-01 | Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are, nowadays, used for implementing critical applications. However, ANN is not inherently fault tolerant. In the hardware implementation of constituent neuron comprising of adder and multiplier should be made fault tolerant, for the system to perform faultless. The building unit of a ... | A Hybrid Design for Low-Power Fault Tolerant One-Bit Full Adder for Neural Network Applications | 10.1007/978-981-16-8542-2_22 |
2022-01-01 | The unorganized sector highly contributes to economic growth in India and provides enormous employment opportunities. Street Vendors form an inevitable and prominent part of the unorganized retail sector. Fulfilling the daily needs of almost every Indian household, they are considered the lifeline of every Indian city.... | Multipurpose, Low-Cost and Electricity-Free Cold Storage Cum Vending Cart for Vegetable and Fruit Vendors | 10.1007/978-3-030-94277-9_54 |
2022-01-01 | In the context of 3 ChArMEx field campaigns conducted in summer 2012 and 2013, 16 boundary-layer pressurized balloons (BLPBs), carrying ozone payloads, were launched over the western Mediterranean from 3 sites, in order to measure photochemical ozone formation. Such balloons allow a quasi-Lagrangian monitoring approach... | Ozone Photochemical Production Rates in the Western Mediterranean | 10.1007/978-3-030-82385-6_8 |
2022-01-01 | Due to favourable living conditions, the Lower Danube River Basin in Serbia has constantly been populated since prehistory, which has caused different impacts on the environment. This chapter aims to address human impacts on water resources in this area. These impacts involve the use of aquatic resources for water supp... | Human Impacts on Water Resources in the Lower Danube River Basin in Serbia | 10.1007/978-3-031-03865-5_7 |
2022-01-01 | This paper presents a study of the influence of groundwater quality on supply network pipes in Illizi town, southeast of Algeria by assessing 5 parameters (pH, TDS, TH, TAC, and temperature) from 10 existent wells. All of the wells are used for drinking water supply from the lower Devonian layer. The influence of groun... | Groundwater Stability Assessment with Geospatial Modeling Using GIS: A Case Study of Illizi Town, Algeria | 10.1007/978-3-030-76081-6_6 |
2022-01-01 | The abuse of new psychoactive substances (NPS) is increasingly rising to a global issue exposing especially young healthy persons to serious, in many cases life-threatening complications. N -benzylphenethylamines (NBOMes) are potent agonists of the serotonin receptor 5-HT 2A and were initially developed for research pu... | Pathological Effects and Adverse Events Associated with the Phenylethylamine Derivative NBOMe | 10.1007/978-3-030-92392-1_165 |
2022-01-01 | Aswathy, J. Surendra Singh, Patel Sai Krishna, V Kumar, Navjot Panchariya, P. C. Low field $$^{1} $$ 1 H Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (LF NMR) Spectroscopy is an efficient tool to capture a research sample’s content and purity. LF NMR is employed for the qualitative analysis of Edible oils that are available in Indian Ma... | Qualitative Analysis of Edible Oils Using Low Field
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2022-01-01 | Exposure to ambient Particulate Matter (PM) of air pollution is a leading risk factor for morbidity and mortality. The most common approach for air quality monitoring is to rely on environmental monitoring stations, which are expensive to acquire as well as to maintain. Moreover, such stations are typically sparsely de... | Air Quality Data Collection in Hyderabad Using Low-Cost Sensors: Initial Experiences | 10.1007/978-3-031-11217-1_29 |
2022-01-01 | In this work, we propose a rail-to-rail output buffer with low static-power and high speed for OLED display applications. To guarantee low static power consumption, low tail-current is designed in the buffer’s first stage and the output stage is cut off in the static operation. To improve the transient response, dynami... | High-Speed Low-Power Rail-to-Rail Buffer using Dynamic-Current Feedback for OLED Source Driver Applications | 10.1007/s10470-021-01834-x |
2022-01-01 | The Malaysia Smart City Framework (MSCF) launched in September 2019 serves as a national guideline for cities and their local governments, as well as for other relevant agencies and stakeholders, in developing and implementing smart city initiatives. The involvement of national, state, and local authority agencies, alo... | Envisioning Sustainable and Resilient Petaling Jaya Through Low-Carbon and Smart City Framework | 10.1007/978-3-030-95037-8_10 |
2022-01-01 | Management of all patients with lymphedema begins with nonsurgical management. Lymphedema physical therapy using complete decongestive therapy (CDT) is the mainstay of lymphedema management and consists of two phases: the reduction phase and the maintenance phase. The reduction phase involves either the use of low-stre... | Nonsurgical Management of the Lymphedema Patient | 10.1007/978-3-030-93039-4_6 |
2022-01-01 | At present, the production of crude oil in low permeability oil field accounts for more than 70% of the new production and the low permeability oil field have become the main battlefield of petroleum exploration and development. Injecting CO 2 into reservoir as oil displacement agent can greatly improve oil recoveries ... | Main Factors of Production with CO2 Water-Alternating-Gas Injection in Low Permeability Reservoirs | 10.1007/978-981-19-2149-0_314 |
2022-01-01 | Improving the oil production rate and recovery ratio is a difficult problem in the development of low-permeability oilfields. Low-permeability oilfields generally have low natural energy, high permeability resistance, fast energy consumption, rapid pressure drop, and large output decline. The ultra-low permeability res... | Analysis of Development Effect of Water Flooding and Carbon Dioxide Flooding in Block A | 10.1007/978-981-19-2149-0_181 |
2022-01-01 | A healthy spine is of utmost importance when it comes to our quality of life. Many aspects of our lives including posture, exercise, nutrition, smoking, sleep and stress impact the spine. A fundamental understanding of the anatomy of our spine and how various factors affect spine health is important. The tremendous ris... | Lifestyle Management of Spine Patient | 10.1007/978-3-031-04990-3_1 |
2022-01-01 | Object detection and identification with great accuracy and speed in real time are a major issue in present growing applications, deep learning models, such as deep neural networks, convolutional neural networks, and modified models like YOLO, SSD are achieving sufficient performance in object identification with great... | Human Identification Using Low-Resolution Thermal and High-Resolution RGB Images | 10.1007/978-981-16-7637-6_21 |
2022-01-01 | In the Remote Health monitoring system measurement of heart rate and oxygen saturation (SpO2) are the most important parameters needed to be monitored. Effective measurement of these parameters may reduce the risk of sudden death or heart stroke and other diseases. In this paper, we developed a low-cost pulse oximeter ... | IoT Based Low-Cost Pulse Oximeter for Remote Health Monitoring | 10.1007/978-3-031-23724-9_18 |
2022-01-01 | Power system stabilizer (PSS) has been traditionally used to damp low-frequency oscillation (LFO). But multi-band PSS (MBPSS) provides damping of local, inter-plant, and inter-area oscillations. Again, pertaining to random SPV penetration, LFO damping is going to be a challenging task. In this work, optimal MBPSS is pr... | Design of Optimal Multi-band PSS for Variable Solar-Penetrated Power System | 10.1007/978-981-16-7076-3_23 |
2022-01-01 | Fetal lower urinary tract obstruction (LUTO) is a bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) resultant from congenital urinary tract outflow anomalies. It represents a spectrum of pathologies characterized by dilated fetal bladder and bilateral hydronephrosis that can occur as an isolated defect or be accompanied by other congen... | Prenatal Minimally Invasive Procedures for Fetal Lower Urinary Tract Obstruction | 10.1007/978-3-030-99280-4_51 |
2022-01-01 | In the last decades, researchers have used the physical-Human–Robot-interaction (pHRI) to develop rehabilitation and assistance wearable robots. The control strategies implementation based on impedance control considers the force/torque generated between the user and the wearable robot such as the lower-limb exoskeleto... | Impedance Control Strategies for Lower-Limb Exoskeletons | 10.1007/978-3-030-79630-3_8 |
2022-01-01 | Wireless sensor networks consist of spatially dispersed sensors for monitoring physical parameters in various applications and in organizing the collected data at centralized location. These days, energy is one of the main factors that need to be intelligently consumed in wireless sensor networks. Techniques which can ... | A GUI to Analyze the Energy Consumption in Case of Static and Dynamic Nodes in WSN | 10.1007/978-981-16-1866-6_40 |
2022-01-01 | Modern web technologies allow novel types of sensor networks that collect measurements from different sources ranging from citizen-collected data to official sources. In this paper, we propose a scheme to deal with measurement sources of different quality for time-series prediction of urban particulate matter. Our appr... | Neural Kernel Network Deep Kernel Learning for Predicting Particulate Matter from Heterogeneous Sensors with Uncertainty | 10.1007/978-3-031-21047-1_22 |
2022-01-01 | This paper examines the design of low-cost digital solutions for manufacturing. A set of criteria are established that consider the limited designer experience and limited time budget that accompany a low-cost project. Alternatives are assessed and a design approach is proposed that addresses these criteria using a set... | Designing Shoestring Solutions: An Approach for Designing Low-Cost Digital Solutions for Manufacturing | 10.1007/978-3-030-99108-1_18 |
2022-01-01 | The challenge of fine-grained visual recognition often lies in discovering the key discriminative regions. While such regions can be automatically identified from a large-scale labeled dataset, a similar method might become less effective when only a few annotations are available. In low data regimes, a network often s... | Improving Fine-Grained Visual Recognition in Low Data Regimes via Self-boosting Attention Mechanism | 10.1007/978-3-031-19806-9_26 |
2022-01-01 | Purpose Unaccustomed eccentric contractions generally result in a long-lasting contractile impairment, referred to as prolonged low-frequency force depression (PLFFD), and delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS). We here used repeated drop jumps (DJs) as an eccentric contraction model and studied the effects of increasing... | Increasing the resting time between drop jumps lessens delayed-onset muscle soreness and limits the extent of prolonged low-frequency force depression in human knee extensor muscles | 10.1007/s00421-021-04834-x |
2022-01-01 | Currently, the world is witnessing a rapid development in the area of wireless sensor networks. It holds a potential to transform many features of our economy and life, starting from bio diversity mapping to industry automation, transportation, healthcare monitoring. These networks primarily aim to develop protocols to... | Performance Analysis and Assessment of Various Energy Efficient Clustering-Based Protocols in WSN | 10.1007/978-981-19-0898-9_11 |
2022-01-01 | The health monitoring technology of gear transmission system is developing towards the direction of big data information mining, high real-time performance and advanced prediction. By using performance degradation assessment and noise prediction technology, sensitive degradation or fault information can be extracted fr... | Design of Signal Feature Extraction Solution for Gear Performance Degradation | 10.1007/978-981-16-7381-8_128 |
2022-01-01 | For power-limited wireless sensor networks, energy efficiency is a critical concern. Receiving packages is proven to be one of the most power-consuming tasks in a WSN. To address this problem, the asynchronous communication is based on wake-up receivers. The proposed receiver circuit can detect on-off keying pulses ins... | Improved Wake-Up Receiver Architectures with Carrier Sense Capabilities for Low-Power Wireless Communication | 10.1007/978-3-031-17718-7_4 |
2022-01-01 | Cell-free protein synthesis can enable the combinatorial screening of many different components and concentrations. However, manual pipetting methods are unfit to handle many cell-free reactions. Here, we describe a microfluidic method that can generate hundreds of unique submicroliter scale reactions. The method is co... | High-Throughput Experimentation Using Cell-Free Protein Synthesis Systems | 10.1007/978-1-0716-1998-8_7 |
2022-01-01 | The operational amplifier (op amp) design in very deep submicron technology endure the barriers like exponential increase in leakage current, process variations, quantum–mechanical tunnelling, and lithographic limitations. This results in low gain stages and decreased impedance thereby degrading the performance of op a... | A Low-Power Positive Feedback Operational Amplifier Using Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor | 10.1007/978-981-16-7985-8_98 |
2022-01-01 | Particulate matter refers to suspended particles in the air that was responsible for 1.2 million deaths in the world in 2012, raising this number to 10 million by 2021. For this reason, air quality becomes a major interest area for governments in developed and undeveloped countries due to its high mortality rate. The a... | A Study on the Behavior of Different Low-Cost Particle Counter Sensors for PM-10 and PM-2.5 Suspended Air Particles | 10.1007/978-3-031-18082-8_3 |
2022-01-01 | Wireless sensor network (WSN) is implemented using low priced sensor nodes. These nodes are constrained in terms or memory, battery life, and computations. WSNs can monitor environmental conditions and are typically deployed in places that cannot be attended by humans like forests. The sensor nodes can be attacked in m... | A Systematic Review on Various Attack Detection Methods for Wireless Sensor Networks | 10.1007/978-981-16-3071-2_17 |
2022-01-01 | Nowadays Lima, Mauro , digital Morgado, José F. marketing Duarte, Rui P. has become an indispensable tool for companies to promote and sell high-quality products to cope with increasingly competitive markets. For these to be shaped according to the customer’s interests and preferences, technology has been pushed to evo... | Low-Cost Embedded System for Customer Loyalty | 10.1007/978-981-16-1781-2_67 |
2022-01-01 | Aiming at the problems of low signal-to-noise ratio, low resolution and low illumination in low illumination environment, this paper proposes a low illumination images enhancement method based on generative adversarial networks with self attention mechanism. Firstly, the DenseNet framework is used to build the generato... | A Low Illumination Images Enhancement Method Based on Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks with Self Attention Mechanism | 10.1007/978-3-030-89698-0_93 |
2022-01-01 | Feature extraction is one of the main parts of Machine Learning. Regardless of the nature of solving tasks, developers either need to use standard sets of features for a certain problem or try to generate their own features from raw data. In this paper, we present the genetic programming (GP) algorithm for feature gene... | Self-Configuring Genetic Programming Feature Generation in Affect Recognition Tasks | 10.1007/978-3-031-20980-2_40 |
2022-01-01 | An electrocardiogram (ECG) monitors the electrical activity generated by the heart and is used to detect fatal cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Conventionally, to capture the precise electrical activity, clinical experts use multiple-lead ECGs (typically 12 leads). Recently, large-scale deep learning models have been us... | LRH-Net: A Multi-level Knowledge Distillation Approach for Low-Resource Heart Network | 10.1007/978-3-031-18523-6_18 |
2022-01-01 | Today, the Internet has become an integral part of people's lives, so that it is impossible for some people to imagine life without the Internet. With the spread of the Internet, and the diversity of Internet use, a new type of Internet use called the Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged. In the Internet of Things, inf... | Improving Monitoring and Controlling Parameters for Alzheimer’s Patients Based on IoMT | 10.1007/978-981-19-2057-8_8 |
2022-01-01 | To study the semi-active nonlinear low-disturbance follower, based on the time delay interference observer and the sky-hook damping control theory, a simple structure and strong practical control strategy are proposed, and based on this design A control system of semi-active low-frequency vibration isolator based on ti... | Control and Test Research of Semi-active Low-Frequency Vibration Isolator Based on Time Delay Estimation | 10.1007/978-981-19-1309-9_161 |
2022-01-01 | In high connectivity knowledge graph, distance based knowledge graph embedding methods show promising performance on link prediction task, and are capable of encoding complex relations and key relation patterns. However, the existing methods fail to achieve excellent results in knowledge graph with poor context structu... | Bi2E: Bidirectional Knowledge Graph Embeddings Based on Subject-Object Feature Spaces | 10.1007/978-3-031-17834-4_1 |
2022-01-01 | In our work, we extend the search space of the differentiable N eural A rchitecture S earch (NAS) by adding bitwidth. The extended NAS algorithm is performed directly with low-precision from scratch without the proxy of full-precision. With our low-precision NAS, we can search for low- and mixed-precision network archi... | Neural Architecture Search for Low-Precision Neural Networks | 10.1007/978-3-031-15937-4_62 |
2022-01-01 | In this paper, a design and analysis of wideband bandpass filter with compact size are proposed. Chebyshev and elliptic approximation model is considered for the filter design. The filter is designed, and the analysis is carried out by three, five and seven parallel coupled lines. The model can be used for GSM, WiMAX a... | Design and Analysis of Microstrip High-Frequency Filter | 10.1007/978-981-16-8721-1_23 |
2022-01-01 | In context to smart city initiatives in India, the paper proposes development and deployment of LoRa-based smart water management for campus, a framework for Green Campus. Water is a vital resource, and maintaining this is a key role. Present manual distributing of water in campus is leading to improper management and ... | Framework for a Green Campus-LoRa™-Based Low-Power Smart Water Management for Campus | 10.1007/978-981-16-0739-4_35 |
2022-01-01 | The lower Palaeozoic sedimentary succession of the Baltic Basin forms a petroleum system with several commercial hydrocarbon accumulations predominantly present in Cambrian reservoirs. The main petroleum generation area is situated at the SW part of the basin due to maximum subsidence. The central part of the basin hos... | Petroleum Generation Potential of the Lower Palaeozoic Organic Matter-Rich Shales in the Central Part of the Baltic Sedimentary Basin | 10.1007/978-3-030-73026-0_88 |
2022-01-01 | Over the years, many recent advances for diagnosis as well as treatment of lower limb edema have evolved. The current diagnostic tool indocyanine green lymphography (ICG-LG) can detect dermal lymph backflow in asymptomatic legs even at stage 0. At symptomatic stage ≥1, ultrasonography, magnetic resonance imaging-lympho... | Overview of Management in Lower Limb Edema | 10.1007/978-981-16-6206-5_18 |
2022-01-01 | The lower sequence metavolcanic rocks consist primarily of biotite two-pyroxene plagioclase gneisses, clinopyroxene hornblende plagioclase gneisses, amphibolites, hornblende plagioclase gneisses, and biotite plagioclase gneisses, which were metamorphosed primarily under amphibolite to granulite facies. These metavolcan... | Lower Sequence Metavolcanic Rocks | 10.1007/978-981-19-4395-9_6 |
2022-01-01 | With the development of new wearable technologies, the use of exoskeletons is gradually gaining ground in the world’s advanced militaries. The aim of this paper is to explore the current status of exoskeletons and describe the requirements of exoskeletons for military use towards the specifics of use. The most importan... | Current State and Design Recommendations of Exoskeletons of Lower Limbs in Military Applications | 10.1007/978-3-030-98260-7_29 |
2022-01-01 | A new control method using jet to control airfoil is proposed through arranged jet on the lower surface of the trailing edge (LSTE jet). Commercial computational fluid dynamics software CFX was utilized to compute the flow field around the airfoil. Through comparing the changes of the flow field before and after the je... | Influence of Continuous Jet at the Lower Surface on Airfoil Aerodynamic Performance | 10.1007/978-981-15-8155-7_147 |
2022-01-01 | A landmark-selection optimization method based on a relaxation optimization algorithm is proposed for autonomous optical planetary landing navigation systems. The objective function of the optimal problem is constructed using the Cramér–Rao lower bound and the Mahalanobis distance; the Cramér–Rao lower bound is used to... | Landmark-Selection Optimization Method for Autonomous Optical Planetary Landing Navigation Systems Using a Relaxation Optimization Algorithm | 10.1007/978-981-16-6320-8_54 |
2022-01-01 | This chapter discusses the utilization of various peripheral nerve block techniques in the format of single administration as well as continuous catheters and their clinical applications to address bedside pain management. Peripheral nerve blocks can be used in the perioperative setting for acute pain management of sur... | Bedside Peripheral Nerve Blockade: Overview | 10.1007/978-3-031-11188-4_6 |
2022-01-01 | Domestic work has various risk factors and hazards like the other working sector. Studies show women are more likely to MSDs than men as they are consistently found to spend more time at work. The present study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of musculoskeletal discomfort and its associations with work-related factors... | Impact of Work-Related Factors on Musculoskeletal Discomfort Among the Rural Housewives in Central India | 10.1007/978-3-030-94277-9_128 |
2021-12-30 | In this study, an attempt has been made to assess the farmers’ perception of climate change over the last 30 years (1986 to 2015) and adaptation strategies in agriculture along with their determinants in Lower Gangetic Plain, India. A total of 528 households from nine villages have been surveyed in Maldah district loca... | Farmers’ perception of climate change and adaptation strategies: a study of the Lower Gangetic Plain in India | 10.1007/s12517-021-09390-4 |
2021-12-30 | Dioximes as ligands are used as analytical reagents and serve as models for biological systems as well as catalysts in chemical processes. A number of novel mixed complexes of the type [Fe(DioxH) 2 (amine) 2 ] have been prepared and characterised by FTIR, 57 Fe Mössbauer and mass spectroscopy by us. We have found stron... | Mössbauer study of some novel iron-bis-glyoxime and iron-tris-glyoxime complexes | 10.1007/s10751-021-01738-2 |
2021-12-27 | Beneficiation of low-grade phosphate deposits through direct froth flotation has captured more attention to satisfy the future needs of phosphorous industry. This is owing to the excessive consumption of the global reserves of high-grade phosphate deposits. Phosphate flotation using mixed collectors has been proved to ... | Review of the reagents used in the direct flotation of phosphate ores | 10.1007/s12517-021-09293-4 |
2021-12-26 | Background Systemic lupus erythematosus is an inflammatory disease affecting several organs. Serositis is one of the systemic lupus erythematosus presentations, but peritonitis is a relatively rare presentation. Particularly, it is extremely rare to observe peritonitis as the first presentation of systemic lupus erythe... | Peritonitis as the first presentation of systemic lupus erythematous: a case report | 10.1186/s13256-021-03216-3 |
2021-12-24 | Enterobacter cloacae AKS7 was previously reported to degrade UV-treated low-density polyethylene (LDPE) more efficiently than UV-untreated LDPE. However, the degradation of LDPE by Enterobacter cloacae AKS7 at the LDPE-contaminated soil remained unaddressed. To address this issue, soil microcosms were prepared in which... | Bioaugmentation of Enterobacter cloacae AKS7 causes an enhanced degradation of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) in soil: a promising approach for the sustainable management of LDPE waste | 10.1007/s00203-021-02645-4 |
2021-12-23 | The problem of detecting pollutants in water with non-invasive and low-cost sensors is an open question. In this paper, we propose a system for the detection and classification of pollutants based on the improvement of a previous proposal, focused on geometric cones. The solution is based on a classifier suitable to be... | Evolutionary Computation to Implement an IoT-Based System for Water Pollution Detection | 10.1007/s42979-021-00986-x |
2021-12-20 | The use of calcined clays as supplementary cementitious materials provides the opportunity to significantly reduce the cement industry’s carbon burden; however, use at a global scale requires a deep understanding of the extraction and processing of the clays to be used, which will uncover routes to optimise their react... | Clay calcination technology: state-of-the-art review by the RILEM TC 282-CCL | 10.1617/s11527-021-01807-6 |
2021-12-20 | Background Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most common subtype of renal cancer and one of the most common cancers. While survival for localized ccRCC is good, the survival of metastatic disease is not, and thirty percent of patients with ccRCC develop metastases during follow-up. Although current scoring... | AGAP2-AS1 as a prognostic biomarker in low-risk clear cell renal cell carcinoma patients with progressing disease | 10.1186/s12935-021-02395-9 |
2021-12-18 | Background One limiting factor of short amplicon 16S rRNA gene sequencing approaches is the use of low DNA amounts in the amplicon generation step. Especially for low-biomass samples, insufficient or even commonly undetectable DNA amounts can limit or prohibit further analysis in standard protocols. Results Using a new... | ddPCR allows 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing of very small DNA amounts from low-biomass samples | 10.1186/s12866-021-02391-z |
2021-12-16 | The mining process in a coal industry is responsible for a large environmental impact, 60% of the total extracted are discarded and sent to a controlled dam due to its potential toxicological effect when exposed to the environment. On the other hand, polymer consumption has grown at an annual rate of 5%, exceeding 300 ... | Mechanical and Thermal Behavior of Recycled Low-Density Polyethylene Composites with Coal Mining Waste | 10.1007/s42824-021-00049-9 |
2021-12-15 | Low-temperature germinability (LTG) is an important agronomic trait that can affect the planting time, planting area, and grain yield of staple crops, such as rice. However, the genetic mechanism of LTG is still unclear. In this study, a multi-parental permanent population with 208 single segment substitution lines (SS... | Integrative QTL Identification, Fine Mapping and Candidate Gene Analysis of a Major Locus qLTG3a for Seed Low-Temperature Germinability in Rice | 10.1186/s12284-021-00544-2 |
2021-12-15 | In experiments searching for rare signals, background events from the detector itself are some of the major factors limiting search sensitivity. Screening for ultra-low radioactive detector materials is becoming ever more essential. We propose to develop a gaseous time projection chamber (TPC) with a Micromegas readout... | Screener3D: a gaseous time projection chamber for ultra-low radioactive material screening | 10.1007/s41365-021-00983-y |
2021-12-13 | Background Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the world, affecting mainly women residing in low- and middle-income countries. Progression from a pre-invasive phase to that of an invasive phase generally takes years and provides a window of opportunity to screen for and treat precancerous lesions. Metho... | Safety and efficacy of the new CryoPop® cryotherapy device for cervical dysplasia in low- and middle-income countries: study protocol for a multicenter open-label non-inferiority clinical trial with historical controls | 10.1186/s13063-021-05802-8 |
2021-12-13 | Background Complex orthoplastic lower limb trauma in individuals with multiple injuries requires considerable resources and interdisciplinary collaboration for good outcomes. We present the first reported end-to-side free flap microanastomosis for lower limb trauma reconstruction involving a peronea arteria magna witho... | Free gracilis end-to-side microanastomosis to a peronea arteria magna: a case report | 10.1186/s13256-021-03133-5 |
2021-12-09 | This study investigates the influence of the chemical and physical properties of two abundantly available waste by-products in Sri Lanka, fly ash and rice husk ash (RHA) as precursor materials for the synthesis of alkali-activated binders. The suitability of the two types of fly ash and the replacement of fly ash by RH... | Investigation of the reaction mechanism of blended fly ash and rice husk ash alkali-activated binders | 10.1007/s43452-021-00349-6 |
2021-12-08 | Space heating in buildings represents nearly half of the final heat demand in Europe. The potential to save emissions from existing fossil-based heating supply systems is substantial. The Netherlands announced in 2018 its decision to phase out natural gas by 2050 and to supply buildings from 2021 with sustainable heati... | Exploring sustainable heating solutions for buildings at the neighbourhood level | 10.1007/s12053-021-10004-x |
2021-12-08 | This paper describes an ongoing research project which explores the design and use of inexpensive robotics, artificial intelligence techniques, and human–computer interaction methods, to enrich assisted living environments. Such environments provide help to the inhabitants of a home or office, assisting them to perform... | Towards Richer Assisted Living Environments | 10.1007/s42979-021-00983-0 |
2021-12-07 | Requirement of clean energy sources urges us to find substitutes for fossil fuels. Microorganisms provide an option to produce feedstock for biofuel production by utilizing inexpensive, renewable biomass. Rhodotorula toruloides ( Rhodosporidium toruloides ), a non-conventional oleaginous yeast, can accumulate intracell... | Rhodotorula toruloides: an ideal microbial cell factory to produce oleochemicals, carotenoids, and other products | 10.1007/s11274-021-03201-4 |
2021-12-07 | Background Doxorubicin (Dox) is a widely used anthracycline drug to treat cancer, yet numerous adverse effects influencing different organs may offset the treatment outcome, which in turn affects the patient’s quality of life. Low-level lasers (LLLs) have resulted in several novel indications in addition to traditional... | Low-level laser prevents doxorubicin-induced skeletal muscle atrophy by modulating AMPK/SIRT1/PCG-1α-mediated mitochondrial function, apoptosis and up-regulation of pro-inflammatory responses | 10.1186/s13578-021-00719-w |
2021-12-06 | The local structure around iron atom is important to show spin-crossover phenomenon in the assembled Fe(II) complexes. In the present study, the low symmetry bridging ligand, 2,6-diethyl-bis(4-pyridyl)benzene (2,6-debpb) (A-B type ligand) was synthesized. And the assembled Fe(II) complexes, [Fe(NCX) 2 (2,6-debpb) 2 ] n... | SCO phenomenon for assembled Fe(II) complexes using low symmetry ligand | 10.1007/s10751-021-01744-4 |
2021-12-06 | Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio vulnificus are critical foodborne pathogens that need to be intensively controlled for their infection due to the intake and distribution of seafood, especially raw oysters. For this reason, various methods have already been developed for the detection and enumeration of these bacteria. The m... | Simultaneous isolation and enumeration of virulent Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio vulnificus using an advanced MPN-PCR method | 10.1007/s00203-021-02613-y |
2021-12-04 | Background Atmospheric Low-Temperature Plasma (ALTP) can be used as an effective tool in conjunctival cyst ablation, but little is known about how conjunctival ALTP-exposure affects the concentration of inflammatory mediators and also the duration of inflammatory responses. Methods We used 8 female adult Lewis rats tha... | The assessment of the concentration of candidate cytokines in response to conjunctival-exposure of atmospheric low-temperature plasma in an animal model | 10.1186/s12886-021-02167-z |
2021-12-04 | Nitrogen (N), a fundamental macronutrient for plant growth and development, is absorbed from the soil primarily in the form of ammonium (NH 4 + ) and uptaken through a plant’s ammonium transporters (AMTs). While AMT proteins have been documented within diverse plant taxa, there has been no systematic analysis of their ... | Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of ammonium transporter 1 (AMT1) gene family in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) and functional analysis of MeAMT1;1 in transgenic Arabidopsis | 10.1007/s13205-021-03070-6 |
2021-12-04 | Background Transfemoral amputees experience a complex host of physical, psychological, and social challenges, compounded by the functional limitations of current transfemoral prostheses. However, the specific relationships between human factors and prosthesis design and performance characteristics have not yet been ade... | Survey of transfemoral amputee experience and priorities for the user-centered design of powered robotic transfemoral prostheses | 10.1186/s12984-021-00944-x |
2021-12-01 | This study investigates the bulk density, sintering behaviour, and microwave dielectric properties of the MgO-2B 2 O 3 series ceramics synthesised by solid-state reaction. According to the X-ray diffraction and microstructural analyses, the as-prepared MgO-2B 2 O 3 ceramics possess a single-phase structure with a rod-l... | Sintering behaviour and microwave dielectric properties of MgO-2B2O3-xwt%BaCu(B2O5)-ywt%H3BO3 ceramics | 10.1007/s40145-021-0503-0 |
2021-12-01 | With the support of density functional theory (DFT) calculation, the amelioration of sintering and dielectric properties of the Mg 3 B 2 O 6 (MBO) ceramic was realized through the substitution of magnesium with nickel. The TE-mode cylindrical cavity method was used to measure the dielectric properties at different freq... | Amelioration of sintering and multi-frequency dielectric properties of Mg3B2O6: A mechanism study of nickel substitution using DFT calculation | 10.1007/s40145-021-0515-9 |
2021-12-01 | We analyze the impact of in utero temperature exposure on the birth weight and an indicator for low birth weight using administrative data on singleton live births conceived between 2000 and 2016 in Hungary. We find that exposure to high temperatures during pregnancy decreases birth weight, but its impact on the probab... | Temperature, climate change, and birth weight: evidence from Hungary | 10.1007/s11111-021-00380-y |
2021-12-01 | The feasibility of applying the grain boundary character distribution (GBCD) optimization to Inconel 625 for improving the intergranular corrosion (IGC) resistance was studied. The GBCD was obtained and characterized by electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) analysis, and its optimization was mainly attributed to anne... | Improving Intergranular Corrosion Resistance in Inconel 625 via Grain Boundary Character Distribution Optimization | 10.1007/s11595-021-2487-6 |
2021-12-01 | The preservation of foods at low temperatures is a well-established concept. While conventional methods of food freezing rely on the isobaric (constant pressure) approach, they often result in a series of irreversible changes that can significantly hamper the quality of frozen foods. In recent years, taking its roots f... | Isochoric Freezing and Its Emerging Applications in Food Preservation | 10.1007/s12393-021-09284-x |
2021-12-01 | The removal of NOx from low-temperature diesel engine emissions still represents a big challenge in view of the upcoming more stringent worldwide regulations. In our previous studies, we proved the ability of novel AdSCR (Adsorption + Selective Catalytic Reduction) systems, based on the combination of a chemical trappi... | AdSCR Systems (Adsorption + Selective Catalytic Reduction): Analysis of the Influence of H2O and CO2 on Low Temperature NOx Emission Reduction Performances | 10.1007/s40825-021-00204-3 |
2021-12-01 | A comparative study of the fracture features of a promising low-activation 12% chromium ferritic-martensitic steel EK-181 after uniaxial tensile tests in the temperature range from –196 to 800°C in the states after traditional heat treatment (THT) and high-temperature thermomechanical treatment (HTMT) is carried out. I... | Fracture Mechanisms of Low Activation 12% Chromium Ferritic-Martensitic Steel EK-181 in the Temperature Range from –196 to 800°C | 10.1007/s11182-022-02520-9 |
2021-12-01 | The present study was aimed to assess the effect of nitric oxide (NO) and the interaction of NO with hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) on plant tolerance to low temperatures in cucumber seedlings. Exogenous NO significantly increased the endogenous NO content, initial and total activities of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carbox... | Nitric Oxide and Its Interaction with Hydrogen Peroxide Enhance Plant Tolerance to Low Temperatures by Improving the Efficiency of the Calvin Cycle and the Ascorbate–Glutathione Cycle in Cucumber Seedlings | 10.1007/s00344-020-10242-w |
2021-12-01 | Gracilariopsis lemaneiformis is an economically relevant red macroalga whose cultivation is affected by temperature. This study investigated the molecular mechanism of G. lemaneiformis at low temperature. Transcriptomes were obtained after the algae were treated at 5 °C for 6 and 24 h. Among the total clean reads of th... | Transcriptome analysis of Gracilariopsis lemaneiformis at low temperature | 10.1007/s10811-021-02514-z |
2021-12-01 | Life prediction of low cycle fatigue under asymmetrical cyclic loading is still open because the mean stress has complex effect on the fatigue life. In this paper, the yield stress is introduced to the mean stress correction model with natural exponential function description and two novel improved versions of the Mans... | Development of improved Manson-Coffin model considering the effect of yield stress under asymmetrical cyclic loading | 10.1007/s12206-021-1112-0 |
2021-12-01 | Waste bamboo-derived activated carbon (BAC), biomass char (BBC), and nitric acid-modified BACN and BBCN supports as well as commercial activated carbon (AC) and corresponding ACN were prepared for comparative study. Their denitrification performance in 100–250 °C decreased as BACN > ACN > BBCN > BAC > AC > BBC. BACN an... | Comparative study on the physicochemical properties and de-NOx performance of waste bamboo-derived low-temperature NH3-SCR catalysts | 10.1007/s11164-021-04567-8 |
2021-12-01 | The investigation of inexpensive, effective, environmentally friendly next-generation energy storage devices is an urgent task due to the discontinuities of new generation energy that hinder their further widely application. Among the multitudinous explored energy storage devices, supercapacitors have been regarded as ... | Recent advances in transition metal oxides with different dimensions as electrodes for high-performance supercapacitors | 10.1007/s42114-021-00358-2 |
2021-12-01 | Durability indicators of products operating in extreme conditions largely depend on their working part material properties, the properties of the surface layer in particular. For the purposeful formation of these properties, the method of the surface layer exposure to a gas discharge of low-temperature plasma formed by... | Low-temperature plasma technique for skin structure consolidation | 10.1007/s00170-021-07041-2 |
2021-12-01 | Fluorite, a kind of critical non-metallic minerals, is the primary source of industrial fluorine. Sodium oleate (SO) is commonly used as the collector of fluorite ores. However, because of its some features (such as the low solubility, high solidifying point, and poor dispersion of SO) at low temperatures, it profoundl... | Comparison of Sodium Oleate and Sodium Petroleum Sulfonate for Low-Temperature Flotation of Fluorite and the Collecting Mechanisms | 10.1007/s42461-021-00494-9 |
2021-12-01 | In response to high-temperature corrosion after low NO x transformation with separate over fire air (SOFA), combined arrangement of corner and wall tangential firing burners, as well as anti-tangential and deflecting air technology are studied. Numerical simulation with realizable $$k-\varepsilon$$ k - ε two equation a... | Numerical investigation on the optimized arrangement for high-temperature corrosion after low NOx transformation | 10.1007/s10973-021-10734-1 |
2021-12-01 | Maize is a low-temperature (LT)-sensitive plant and its physiological responses towards LT of temperate regions developed is an adaptive trait. To further our understanding about the response of maize to LT at the physiological and photosynthesis level, we conducted Infrared Gas Analysis (IRGA using LICOR6400-XT in 45-... | Combined gas exchange characteristics, chlorophyll fluorescence and response curves as selection traits for temperature tolerance in maize genotypes | 10.1007/s11120-021-00829-z |
2021-12-01 | The vacuum carbothermal reduction behavior of low-grade phosphate ore was examined using coke powder as a reducing agent. The findings show that the reduction ratio of phosphate ore and the volatilization ratio of P increased with increasing temperature and holding time, of which the reduction temperature had a more si... | Experimental Approach for the Characterization of Low-Grade Phosphate Ore Performance in Isothermal Conditions | 10.1007/s40831-021-00451-2 |
2021-12-01 | Most of the reported coal spontaneous combustion events occur in surface and underground mines where low rank coals (i.e., subbituminous and lower for this particular studies) are extracted indicating their high propensities for spontaneous combustion. Low rank coals have high moisture content (15 to 45%) and are capab... | Improved R70 Method for Evaluating Heat of Wetting Effects on Low Rank Coal’s Self-heating Process | 10.1007/s42461-021-00487-8 |
2021-12-01 | A crosshead slipper-guide system, which bears a significant thrust force, is an essential friction pair in low-speed marine diesel engines. Owing to the low moving speed of the crosshead slipper during engine startup, it is difficult to form good hydrodynamic lubrication between the crosshead slipper and guide. Therefo... | Transient tribo-dynamic analysis of crosshead slipper in low-speed marine diesel engines during engine startup | 10.1007/s40544-020-0433-9 |
2021-12-01 | Inspired by nature, biomass-derived carbon has become a representative electromagnetic wave absorption (EMA) material due to its advantages of economy, renewability, and environmental protection. However, it is a challenge to make further breakthroughs in effective absorption bandwidth (EAB) and filling ratio. In this ... | Mace-like carbon fiber/ZnO nanorod composite derived from Typha orientalis for lightweight and high-efficient electromagnetic wave absorber | 10.1007/s42114-021-00277-2 |
2021-12-01 | The broad emission and high photoluminescence quantum yield of self-trapped exciton (STE) radiative recombination emitters make them an ideal solution for single-substrate, white, solid-state lighting sources. Unlike impurities and defects in semiconductors, the formation of STEs requires a lattice distortion, along wi... | Self-trapped exciton emission in inorganic copper(I) metal halides | 10.1007/s12200-021-1133-4 |
2021-12-01 | Abstract The goal of the study is determination of the regularities of changes in cyclic strains and related deformation diagrams attributed to the existence of time dwells in the loading modes and imposition of additional variable stresses on them. Analysis of the obtained experimental data on the kinetics of cyclic e... | Features of the Kinetics of Cyclic Elastoplastic Deformation Diagrams at Dwells in Cycles and Superimposition of Variable Stresses on Them | 10.1134/S0020168521150073 |
2021-12-01 | The inappropriate disposal of plastic waste causes serious environmental problems. Nowadays, alternative processes are being studied for the sustainable reutilization of plastics. One of these options is the cracking into shorter liquid hydrocarbon fractions, while maintaining its basic chemical structure. The energeti... | Conversion of PP, HDPE and LDPE Plastics into Liquid Fuels and Chemical Precursors by Thermal Cracking | 10.1007/s10924-021-02150-1 |
2021-12-01 | A multidisciplinary approach combining multiscale geological-structural analyses (from field to microscale) and clay mineral transformations (clay mineralogy, illite and chlorite “crystallinity” and b cell dimension ( b 0 ) of K-white mica) was adopted to unravel the tectono-metamorphic evolution of low- and very low-g... | Geological, Structural and Mineralogical Approach to Investigate the Evolution of Low- and very Low-Grade Metamorphic Units from the Intra-Pontide Suture Zone, Central Pontides, Turkey | 10.1007/s12583-021-1445-8 |
2021-12-01 | Abstract The Au/CeO 2 composite catalyst is prepared by pulsed laser ablation in liquid (PLAL). Dispersions of gold and cerium are prepared in alcohol and water, respectively, mixed, dried, and annealed at various temperatures: 450 °C, 600 °C, 800 °C. It is shown by a number of physical methods (XPS, XRD, HRTEM, Raman ... | ACTIVATION OF Au–CeO2 COMPOSITES PREPARED BY PULSED LASER ABLATION IN THE REACTION OF LOW-TEMPERATURE CO OXIDATION | 10.1134/S0022476621120118 |
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