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Concern over mercury cytotoxicity inside live specimens has encouraged the development of efficient methods for the in vivo detection of this heavy metal. In this study, by using the previous developed fluorescence dye EPNP (2,6-bis-(4'-peperazino-N'-butyl-1',8'-naphthalimide) dimethylpyridine) as a...

The experiment was carried out on the stability of heavy metals with the high concentration of heavy metal solution, which was prepared by absorbing bentonite and bentonite. The results show that after adding a certain amount of adsorption material in heavy metal solution, bentonite, concavo convex rod...

Literature courses in German as a foreign language often struggle with low reading motivation, limited listening input, and misalignment between textual complexity and learners’ proficiency. This study reports the design, development, and classroom piloting of an AI-generated audiobook based on an original...

Nowadays, Ebola epidemic situation is more and more severe and out of control. Taking Sierra Leone as an example, we build a reliable and extensive model to control or at least inhibit the spread of Ebola. We select 16 cities that are affected by Ebola according to the news re¬ports. Taking advantage...

Integration processes in economy suggest an increase in the im-portance of logistics in solving national economic problems. One of the topical scientific directions in logistics and supply chain management (SCM), which are of practical importance, is a com-prehensive study of the problems of territorial...

Conversion of bicycles into electric bicycles is currently carried out by many people. in the conversion process, there are still many people who do not understand the working concept and analysis of determining the right speci-fications for the conversion carried out. This paper presents experimental...

This paper introduced a novel and efficient inorganic antibacterial material technique, which used hydroxyapatite (HAP) as a carrier, taking the method of co-precipitation and ion-exchange to prepare Titanium/metal ions (Ag+, Cu2+, Zn2+) and then combined with hydroxyapatite (HAPTiM). According to the...

The mechanism governing the flocculation of activated sludge (AS) with different concentrations of aluminum was studied in this paper. The AS samples were cultivated in sequencing batch reactors at 22 . The sludge retention times (SRT) was 15 d. The dosages of Al3+ were 0.00, 0.0625, 0.125, 0.250, 0.500,...

Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is a leading cause of maternal morbidity and mortality in the world. It requires a higher level of standard care. Peripartum haemorrhage is bleeding that occurs during pregnancy (antepartum), at birth (intrapartum) and after birth (postpartum). Management of postpartum haemorrhage...

Ammonium ion is an common pollutant which exist in municipal sewage, fertilizer plant discharge and agriculture wastewater. This study aims to investigate the potential of carbon black (from pyrolysis of tire waste) and modified carbon black on the adsorption of ammonium ion in aqueous solution. The...

Copper-modified 13X Zeolite was prepared by impregnation of metal nitrate solution with ion exchange and combined with calcination, and its application in desulfurization of fuel oil was investigated. Different anions have a great influence on the performance of modified adsorbents. Chloride ions are...

The stability of underground mine excavations is frequently im proved through the technique of backfilling, which enhances both environmental sustainability and operational efficiency. Accurately assessing vertical stress (σₓ) in inclined mine stopes with backfill is essential for the safe and optimal...

The water of the Citarum river in West Java is used as a water source for three hydropower plants, and some industries operate along the river area. Besides industries, the Citarum river also accommodates domestic and livestock waste. These lead to very high-level pollution in the Citarum river, especially...

This study discusses the relation between text and picture elements and analyzes the semiotic signs that appears in anti-exploitation of wild animals in the circus advertisements. The methodology used in this study is a descriptive analysis methodology with a corpus of three poster adverts of Keine Wildtiere...

Because of the large capacity and high energy density, lithium-ion batteries are often used as power source in electric vehicles. However, in the process of batteries, temperature will significantly adverse the battery, such as shorten the battery life, reduce the battery performance and so on. Therefore,...

In the battery management system, the SOC estimation is the most basic and most important part. The exact estimation of SOC can prevent battery over-change or over-change, and extend battery life. Based on traditional SOC estimate algorithm and analysis of factors affecting SOC, the method to estimate...

The article presents a comprehensive study of the mechanisms for the formation, implementation and effectiveness evaluation of the resource potential use. The evaluation is based on a multilevel system of indicators taking into account the specified charac-teristics of the corresponding resources. While...

Groundwater is not a nutrient-rich environment for microorganisms to grow and thrive, but it is polluted by many environmental factors. These nutrients can exceed the permissible levels in drinking water and can be a reason for spreading highly infectious diseases in the population. Therefore, there...

A resource-based method for completely removal of SO₂ from flue gas by utilizing recycling manganese hydroxide (Mn(OH)₂) as an absorbant was proposed, which utilized catalytic oxidation of the manganese in the air on the oxidation of sulfur dioxide to soluble sulfate while removing impurities by filtration...

The aim of this study was to investigate and compare the change in the total content of phenolic compounds, flavonoids, and the antioxidant capacity in Manuka Honey (MH) after gastrointestinal digestion and different purification methods. MH was subjected to an in vitro gastrointestinal simulation process,...

The consistency of power Li-ion batteries storage was researched at 20?and 40? environment temperatures. The results showed that the self-discharge rate of monomers of similar initial performance in storage will lead to inconsistency of monomer battery voltage after storage. That is to say, the battery...

Extractable polysaccharides (CBP) from abundant low-priced by-product of corn bran and three polysaccharide sub-fractions (CBP1, CBP2 and CBP3) were isolated and purified by ion-exchange and DEAE cellulose chromatography. Structural characterization, antioxidant and bile acid binding activities of the...

Background: Arterial stiffness—a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases—is more frequently observed in obese men. Moreover, the male sex hormone testosterone has an anti-atherogenic effect. Serum testosterone levels are found to be lower in obese men than in age-matched normal-weight men. However, the...

In the era of rapid development of new energy vehicles, the health status of lithium-ion batteries (SOH) will have a direct impact on the endurance and safety of new energy vehicles, so it is very important to predict the health status of lithium-ion batteries. This study uses lightgbm as a data prediction...

Pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ), an important natural product, is biosynthesized by Gluconobacter oxydans. In order to prepare the product in large scale, a rapid and selective chemical complexation extraction (CCE) is proposed to separate and purify PQQ from fermentation broth. In this work, the effect...

The red-emitting phosphor Sr2CeO4: Eu3+, Sm3+ was synthesized by conventional high-temperature solid-state method. X-ray diffraction, and photoluminescence spectra were used to characterize the as-synthesized phosphor. In Eu3+ singly doped Sr2CeO4 phosphors, Eu3+ ion showed a weaker 7F0-5L6 transition...

The paper presents current research results of the HYBAT project, in which a hybrid lithium-ion battery storage solution is being developed for three types of application: self-consumption optimization in industry and commerce, capacity-firming in a renewable energy park and buffer storage for electric...

The wellbore chemical anti-scaling technology is one of the effective ways to enhance the maintenance time of pump in the ASP flooding. This study investigated the different amount of calcium ion, silicon ion and scale inhibitor influenced the anti-scaling performance of the simulation system. The result...

Collection and acquisition of water meter, electric meter, heat meter and gas meter is an effective way to im-prove the intelligence and automation level in the energy field. In this paper, the data collection technology scheme of public utilities was introduced. Using construction achievements and experience...

Thermal characteristics of lithium ion batteries are particularly important for both the optimization of the battery cells and design of the thermal management system for battery packs. The Si-C composite applied in lithium ion battery could improve the battery's energy density. For a 3 Ah pouch lithium...

This paper addresses the use of data-driven evolving techniques applied to fault prognostics in Li-ion batteries. In such problems, accurate predictions of multiple steps ahead are essential for the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) estimation of a given asset. The fault prognostics’ solutions must be able...

Nowadays, the utilization of phosphogypsum (PG) as source is a hotspot along the world. This experiment investigated the impact of varying amounts of steel slag (SS) on the initial performance of PG modified with steel slag. The mechanical property and hydrated mechanism of PG-based cementitious material...

Focusing on the problem of serial cell imbalance in lithium-ion batteries applied in electric vehicles (EVs), this paper presents an active battery balancing method based on state-of-charge (SOC). The basic principle of the proposed balancing method is aligning battery cell SOCs to 50% and making sure...

A novel anticoagulant, diethyl citrate (Et2Cit) was synthesized and characterized by carbon nuclear magnetic resonance (13C NMR), mass spectrometry and UV-visible spectroscopy. There were two isomers with different chemical environments, that is, 1, 3-diethyl citrate and 1,5-diethyl citrate. Through...

Climate change has encouraged using greener and environmentally friendly renewable energy. Lithium-ion batteries have become an important component in electric vehicles, energy storage, and portable electronic devices based on nickel. Therefore, there has been a rapid increase in the exploration and...

This study has been developed for the synthesis of hydroxyapatite using low-cost dolomite material. We investigated the influence of calcination temperature and feed gases on the decomposition of raw dolomite, and the relation between the calcination temperature and the phosphorus affinity. Also, the...

Compton scattering of BaCl2 solutions is studied in this article. And the electronic structure of some aqueous BaCl2 solutions is analyzed profoundly according to the density functional theory. The microscopic mechanism of Compton Scattering of such solutions is discussed. And it is concluded that the...

This report presents synthesis of well-dispersed Ag3VO4 nanoparticles@polyacrylonitrile (PAN) nanofibers by an easily controlled, template-free method as a photo-catalyst for the degradation of methylene blue. Their structural, optical, and photocatalytic properties have been studied by X-ray diffraction,...

The manganese cobalt ferrite (Mn1-xCoxFe2O4) of x = 0.25, 0.50, and 0.75 have been synthesized to determine the structure and magnetic properties to be used as an adsorbent to remove Pb ions from aqueous solution. The material was prepared using the co-precipitation method and the removal process was...

One new organic-inorganic hybrid materials of complex Ag2ClO5N5C28H22 (1) was synthesized by evaporation methods using 2-Chlorobenzeneacetic acid(2-CBAA), 4,4'-dipyridyl (4,4'-bipy), and AgNO3. And the complex was characterized by elemental analysis, FT-IR, thermogravimetrie analysis(TGA), XRD, X-ray...

In this paper, a series of orthogonal experiments on the silicon dioxide (SiO2) substrate of the fiber optic sensor are carried out. The surface modification of the substrate with different thicknesses of Au nanoparticles is carried out, and the surface-enhanced Raman spectra of the optic-based materials...

Multimodality has become an exciting frontier of research. In this study, I de-ploy the Appraisal theory of discourse semantics within systemic-functional lin-guistics and the social semiotic approach of multimodal discourse analysis on im-ages and texts to analyze the interperson-al meaning-making of...

Abaca fiber is a strong natural material that can improve concrete. Fly ash, a by-product of coal power plants, can make concrete more workable and durable. Fibers increase strength but may cause voids if poorly mixed. Fly ash reduces this by refining the concrete’s microstructure and improving the bond...

Linear Optimization (LO) course is one of the important courses in Industrial Mathematics (IM) and Operations Research (OR) field of applied mathematics. As the curricula now change into a competency based curricula, thus the instructional objective, course content, and approaches of teaching have to...

Titanates have great attention mainly due to its versatile properties that make their various applications in science and technology such as in electronic transducers, thin film capacitors, computer memory cells, etc. The thermal study of ferroelectric titanates RTiO3 (R = Pb, La, Ba) have been investigated...

Introduction: Arterial restenosis after angioplasty/stenting has hindered coronary artery disease treatment, especially in diabetics. We theorized that gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) antagonists and growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) antagonists might decrease neointimal hyperplasia and restenosis...

Chloride ion permeation is the most important factor for durability of concrete in marine environment. Therefore, it is the basic on durability design of concrete structures to choose reliable and accurate testing method for chloride ion permeability in concrete. In this paper, according to transport...

The encapsulation of Fe3O4 particles in a graphene shell to form a core-shell structure is a promising way to improve the electrochemical performance of lithium ion batteries (LIBs). The continuous graphene shell may enhance the electrical conductivity of the electrodes, facilitating current collection...

Most countries adopt film rating system for protect their children from bad content. But there are often disagree with the rating results because of subjective judging system. This study tried to develop evaluation algorithm for film rating using human response data like EEG and eye movement. Eye-tracking...

With proliferous usage in CMC (Computer-Mediated Communication), textspeak (such as c u means see you) has become common words appears in email, SMS, IM, Blog and Twitter. Little research has explored how text-speak affects people’s intimacy when interacting through CMC tools. Thus, this study investigates...