HDPE caps are collected together with PET bottles, which have been recycled into new bottles for decades. Due to Deposit Return Schemes, the bottle caps are sorted by type and are suitable to be recycled again for sensitive applications e.g., food co...
RNAs with methylated cap structures are present throughout multiple domains of life. Given that cap structures play a myriad of important roles beyond translation, such as stability and immune recognition, it is not surprising that viruses have adopt...
The neutralization of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) involves the use of disrupting agents propelled explosively. Due to the special nature of such materials, a proper investigation of the parts most susceptible to sympathetic detonation is in o...
This paper developed a set of size detection systems with a computer vision method based on the accuracy requirements of the hole saw caps to meet the needs of the accuracy detection machine. The results allow manufacturers to build a digitalized hol...
Compared with the conventional column caps, the reverse column caps that are used for slab-column joint of basement roof can improve the clearance of the basement while ensuring structural safety, and they are hidden in the covering soil without affe...
In the beverage, food and drug industry, more and more machine vision systems are being used for the defect detection of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) bottle caps. In this paper, in order to address the result of cylindrical distortions that influ...
The Chinese Area Positioning System (CAPS) is a new positioning system developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences based on the communication satellites in geosynchronous orbit. The CAPS has been regarded as a pilot system to test the new technology...
Arcs and caps are fundamental structures in finite projective spaces. They can be generalised. Here, a survey is given of some important results on these objects, in particular on generalised ovals and generalised ovoids. This paper also contains rec...
In this study, we prepared new antioxidant active plastic bottle caps by incorporating butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) or butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) and 2% (w/w) white masterbatch in high-density polyethylene (HDPE). Fourier-transform infrared (FT...
This study explores the effect of different numbers of wall-mounted vent caps and their installation locations on the indoor air environment in residential kitchens, for which limited information is available. Wind tunnel tests were performed to stud...
The cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes (CAPS) are usually caused by heterozygous NLRP3 gene variants, resulting in excessive inflammasome activation with subsequent overproduction of interleukin (IL)-1β. The CAPS spectrum includes mild, mod...
The structure of synthetic mRNAs as used in vaccination against cancer and infectious diseases contain specifically designed caps followed by sequences of the 5′ untranslated repeats of β-globin gene. The strategy for successful design of synthetic m...
Aluminium, iron and plastic are materials which are extensively used at both industry and individual levels. However, significant amounts of aluminium, iron and plastic end up in the environment. Specifically, bottle caps made of these materials are...
A problem for wind turbine operators is decreasing prices for wind-generated electricity. Many turbines are approaching their rated 20-year lives. A more economically viable and sustainable solution that reduces Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) and av...
Pile easily develops necking defects during construction, which can limit the exertion of shaft resistance, resulting in reducing ultimate bearing capacity and creating potential safety hazards to projects. Based on transparent soil technology, this...
Toe caps are one of the most important components in safety footwear, but have a significant contribution to the weight of the shoe. Efforts have been made to replace steel toe caps by polymeric ones, since they are lighter, insulated and insensitive...
The conventional strengthening strategy on the connection between the steel pile cap and reinforced concrete footing requires a series of complicated processes such as the distribution of reinforcing bars, their anchorage into concrete, and the usage...
Technical literature provides experimental campaign results for four-pile caps with significant value in structural engineering. However, failure modes and measurement of these specimens are particularly challenging due to their volumetric nature. Th...
We evaluated for the morphology and growth behavior of IMC grain according to number of reflows of solder cap pure Sn microbumps. In the structure of Ni barrier/Cu layer between Cu pillar and pure Sn, solder cap pure Sn on the top layer was analyzed...
The primary function of noise barriers is to shield inhabitants of affected areas from excessive noise generated by road traffic. To enhance the performance of noise barriers while simultaneously adhering to height restrictions, the attachment of str...
In Japan, when people take their waste bottle caps to designated recycling companies, JPY 5/kg is donated to developing countries for polio vaccine dissemination activities. The waste volume of plastic bottles and caps is increasing every year, and t...
Four-pile caps made from concrete are essential elements for the force transfer from the superstructure to piles or pipes. Due to the difficulties in carrying out full-scale tests and all the instrumentation involved, the use of numerical models as a...
A new type of remote red quantum-dot (QD) component was designed and fabricated to improve the color-rendering properties of conventional white LED (light-emitting diode) lightings. Based on an optical simulation, the rectangular cavity-type QD cap w...
The buckling response of functionally graded (FG) porous spherical caps reinforced by graphene platelets (GPLs) is assessed here, including both symmetric and uniform porosity patterns in the metal matrix, together with five different GPL distributio...
The pile group-pile cap structure is a key foundation form for deep-water bridges. However, current effective methods for calculating the earthquake-induced hydrodynamic forces on pile caps with arbitrary cross-sections remain insufficient. In this s...
Agaricus bisporus is a globally cultivated mushroom with high economic value. Despite its widespread cultivation, commercial button mushroom strains have little genetic diversity and discrimination of strains for identification and breeding purposes...
We computed circum-Arctic surface velocity maps of glaciers and ice caps over the Canadian Arctic, Svalbard and the Russian Arctic for at least two times between the 1990s and 2017 using satellite SAR data. Our analyses are mainly performed with offs...
Cyclase-associated proteins (CAPs) are evolutionary-conserved actin-binding proteins with crucial functions in regulating actin dynamics, the spatiotemporally controlled assembly and disassembly of actin filaments (F-actin). Mammals possess two famil...
This study investigated the effects of partial and total substitutions of fossil polypropylene (PP) for recycled plastic cap equivalents in the manufacture of signage labels used by the telephone industry. Four alternative scenarios to using virgin P...
Rf4 is one of the dominant restorer genes for maize C-type cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS-C), which has significant value in hybrid maize seed production. However, the highly complex fertility restoration mechanism of CMS-C makes it difficult to scr...
This study aimed to investigate the possibility of recycling cork scraps derived from the production of agglomerated bottle caps containing organic additives (glues and adhesives) in addition to virgin wood. The study involved pyrolysis treatment fol...
The inner Tibetan Plateau is a glacierized region where glaciers show heterogeneous change. The Xinqingfeng and Malan ice caps are located in this region, and a transition zone exists with shifting influences between the westerlies and Indian summer...
The role of HMW-GSs in soft wheat quality remains inadequately understood. In Chinese soft wheat variety Ningmai 9, a nonsense mutation (Glu-B1x, 1Bx7null) reduced dough tenacity while enhancing dough extensibility under both low (LN) and high nitrog...
The mandatory introduction of tethered caps on plastic beverage bottles under European Directive (EU) 2019/904 aims to reduce plastic litter and improve the collection efficiency of packaging waste. This regulatory change introduced a packaging desig...
In recent years, fiber gas lasers have obtained a rapid development, however, efficient and stable pump coupling is a key limitation for their applications in the future. Here, we report an all-fiber gas cavity based on anti-resonant hollow-core fibe...
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Household air pollution is estimated to cause half a million deaths from pneumonia in children worldwide. The Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) was conducted to determine whether the use of cleaner-burning biomass-fueled cookstoves would reduce hous...
Recycling used plastic can help reduce the amount of plastic waste generated. Existing methods, namely the process of pyrolysis, are chemical heating processes that decompose plastics in the absence of oxygen. This decomposes the plastics in a contro...
Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) is one of the most powerful tools for identifying and monitoring areas exposed to surface deformations such as landslides or subsidence. In this work, we propose a new method that we named CAPS (Correlation A...
This study investigates the interactive effect of changes in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on US multifamily cap rates. The data from the US and 20 of its metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) was used from 2000...
Accurate prediction of pile-cap strain is crucial for the safety of wind-turbine foundations, yet conventional methods struggle to screen key features from high-dimensional monitoring data and to model the nonlinear coupling between endogenous and ex...
Water-dispersible ZnS:Mn nanoparticles (NPs) were prepared by capping their surface with simple structured amino acids: l-alanine (Ala), l-glycine (Gly), and l-valine (Val) molecules, which have very similar structures except for the terminal organic...
The serine proteases CAP1/Prss8 and CAP3/St14 are identified as ENaC channel-activating proteases in vitro, highly suggesting that they are required for proteolytic activation of ENaC in vivo. The present study tested whether CAP3/St14 is relevant fo...
Translation regulation is essential to the survival of hosts. Most translation initiation falls under the control of the mTOR pathway, which regulates protein production from mono-methyl-guanosine (m7G) cap mRNAs. However, mTOR does not regulate all...
Bacterial leaf scorch (BLS), caused by Xylella fastidiosa (Xf), is a prevalent disease of blueberries in the southeastern United States. Initially, this disease was reported to be caused by X. fastidiosa subsp. multiplex (Xfm). However, a recent surv...
Heinong 84 is one of the major soybean varieties growing in Northeast China, and is resistant to the infection of all strains of soybean mosaic virus (SMV) in the region including the most prevalent strain, N3. However, the resistance gene(s) in Hein...
RNA 5′-modifications are known to extend the functional spectrum of ribonucleotides. In recent years, numerous non-canonical 5′-modifications, including adenosine-containing cofactors from the group of B vitamins, have been confirmed in a...
This study investigates the feasibility of a dry electrode cap design for neonatal electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings. Recordings on a phantom and a real infant are compared between a novel dry electrode cap and a clinically used gel-based electro...
High-temperature gas sensors are often affected by non-constant ambient conditions, especially with respect to mass flow variations. Steady operation conditions are essential for attaining stable results. So, appropriate protection caps must provide...
Following the success of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19, mRNA-based therapeutics have now become a great interest and potential. The development of this approach has been preceded by studies of modifications found on mRNA ribonucleotides that influen...
Stem blight, caused by Phomopsis asparagi, is the most serious disease affecting the cultivation of asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.) in the warm regions of East and Southeast Asia, including Japan. Although Asparagus kiusianus, a wild species end...
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