The crystallinity and the growth rate of crystalline structures of polyethylene glycol and polyethylene blocks in polyethylene-b-polyethylene glycol diblock copolymers (PE-b-PEG) were evaluated and compared to polyethylene and polyethylene glycol hom...
The development of situation-specific skills in prospective physical education (PE) teachers is crucial for effective inclusive PE. While research emphasizes the need for such competencies, there is a gap in understanding how school internships contr...
Wastes can be effectively used in concrete and the characteristics of concrete can be maintained or enhanced, the economy of waste management can be greatly increased, and the pollution of the earth can be reduced. This study aimed to research the du...
Since obtaining a highly oriented structure based on a large-scale commercial ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) is considered very difficult due to its high molecular weight and melting index, modifying the structure of these cheap co...
PE/PPE proteins secreted by the ESX-5 type VII secretion system constitute a major protein repertoire in pathogenic mycobacteria and are essential for bacterial survival, pathogenicity, and host–pathogen interaction; however, little is known ab...
Waste plastic pollution is a serious issue. In order to adhere to the concept of green development and rationally dispose of polyethylene waste plastic products, polyethylene (PE)-modified asphalt was prepared using recycled polyethylene (RPE) and lo...
In this work, waste polyethylene (PE)-modified 90# asphalt was made in order to investigate the performance of waste polyethylene-modified high-grade asphalt and the optimal blending quantity. Dynamic Shear Rheology (DSR) and Bending Beam Rheometer (...
The barrier performance and structural lightening of organic materials are increasingly desired and constitute a major challenge for manufacturers, particularly for transport and packaging. A promising technique which tends to emerge in recent years...
We recently discovered an anti-ferroptotic mechanism inherent to M1 macrophages whereby high levels of NO● suppressed ferroptosis via inhibition of hydroperoxy-eicosatetraenoyl-phosphatidylethanolamine (HpETE-PE) production by 15-lipoxygenase (15LOX)...
Road infrastructure sustainability and pavement performance may be increased by using waste materials like polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyethylene waste (PE waste) in polymer-modified asphalt mixtures. As seen by a more pronounced rise in t...
Microplastics are ubiquitous in aquatic environments and interact with other kinds of pollutants, which affects the migration, transformation, and fate of those other pollutants. In this study, we employ carbamazepine (CBZ) as the contaminant to stud...
The aging processes of microplastics (MPs) are prevalent in natural environments. Understanding the aging mechanisms of MPs is crucial for assessing their environmental behavior and potential risks. In this study, we selected polylactic acid (PLA) an...
(PE)-UHPFRC, a novel strain hardening ultra high-performance fiber reinforced concrete (UHPFRC) with low clinker content, using Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMW-PE) fibers, was developed for structural applications of rehabilitation. A...
As the severe environmental impacts of plastic pollution demand determined action, the European Union (EU) has included recycling at the core of its policies. Consequently, evolving jurisdiction now aims to achieve a recycling rate of 65% for non-PET...
To study the dynamic response of UHMW-PE composite armor under ballistic impact, two kinds of UHMW-PE composite armors are designed. Both of them are composed of UHMW-PE laminates and steel face sheets of Q235. The blunt projectile is made of 35CrMnS...
It is widely acknowledged that adolescent females are particularly at risk of low body esteem. Low body esteem is associated with poor mental health and other negative outcomes. Interventions to help raise body esteem could have a considerable impact...
During the last decade, the cybersecurity literature has conferred a high-level role to machine learning as a powerful security paradigm to recognise malicious software in modern anti-malware systems. However, a non-negligible limitation of machine l...
This paper investigates the effects of the basalt-fiber-reinforced polymer (BFRP) and polyethylene (PE) hybrid fiber ratio on the mechanical properties and durability of engineered cementitious composites (ECC). First, four different PE-BFRP hybrid f...
Polyethylene (PE) and its variations are among the most traditional materials used for cushioning in packaging systems. The role of these materials is to prevent damages during handling and distribution processes from physical events such as vibratio...
Kawasaki disease (KD) is a vasculitis syndrome that frequently develops coronary artery lesions (CALs). In the treatment of KD, the utility of high-dose intravenous immuno-globulin (IVIG) therapy has already been clarified, and it has been establishe...
Cyber threat intelligence includes analysis of applications and their metadata for potential threats. Static malware detection of Windows executable files can be done through the analysis of Portable Executable (PE) application file headers. Benchmar...
Plastics are essential in modern civilization due to their affordability, simple manufacturing, and properties. However, plastics impact the environment as they decompose over a long period and degrade into microplastics. The construction sector has...
In this study, a numerical simulation was used to evaluate the insulation performance of polyethylene (PE) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) under varied environmental and electrical conditions. Tests were conducted at temperatures of 22 °C and 55 &de...
In this work, composites of high density polyethylene (HDPE) with chitosan were prepared by melt compounding in a laboratory internal mixer. Maleic anhydride grafted HDPE (PE-g-MA) in a concentration up to 25 phr was used as a compatibilizer to enhan...
In this paper, we report on polyethylene (PE) film modified by atmospheric dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma prior to the deposition of SiOx coating to improve its barrier properties. Three kinds of monomers: allylamine, acrylic acid, and eth...
Gas sensors can provide early warning of fires by detecting pyrolysis gas components in the sheaths of high-voltage cables. However, air humidity significantly affects the thermal decomposition gas production characteristics of the outer sheath of hi...
Methane hydrates were studied in systems containing aqueous dissolved surfactants in oil emulsions with a volume ratio of 40/60. Two commercial surfactants, named synperonic PE/F127 and cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, were evaluated at 0, 350, 700 an...
When overhead lines are impacted by lightning, the traveling wave of the fault contains a wealth of fault information. The accurate extraction of feature quantities from transient components and their classification are fundamental to the identificat...
In this work, the effects of blend ratio and mixing time on the migration of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) within poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF)/polyethylene (PE) blends are studied. A novel two-step mixing approach was used to pre-localiz...
Multilayer plastic films provide a range of properties, which cannot be obtained from monolayer films but, at present, their recyclability is an open issue and should be improved. Research to date has shown the possibility of using whey protein as a...
This study concerns the optimization of an industrial recycling line; in other terms, this paper aims to find the optimal processing parameters that allow for a decrease in the loss of stress crack resistance (SCR) using a notched crack ligament stre...
Biochar application can effectively immobilize Cadmium (Cd) in soil. However, it is largely unknown how the biogeochemical processes of sulfur (S) in biochar affect Cd fixation under conditions of decreasing pe + pH. Using two field-contaminated padd...
This study investigated demographic factors, teaching characteristics, psychological characteristics, school-related characteristics, professional efficacy, and subjective health perceptions among PE teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducte...
In order to elucidate the importance of grafting in the compatibilization process of silane coupling agents, poplar veneer was treated with silane coupling agents and grafted under different heating conditions. The treated veneers were used composite...
The remediation of paddy soils co-contaminated with As and Cd is tricky. It is difficult to decrease Cd and As availability simultaneously due to their opposite geochemical characteristics. Finding the optimal trade-off relationship between As and Cd...
This study presents an innovative approach for the utilization of industrial by-products and municipal waste in the production of sustainable and environmentally friendly cement mortar. We explored stabilized stainless-steel reduced slag (SSRS) and p...
The large-scale production of waste plastics has brought serious environmental pollution problems and its recycling and high value-added utilization technology remains a global challenge. Therefore, this study uses waste polyethylene (PE) to prepare...
The present paper reports a novel method to improve the properties of polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) polymer foils suitable for applications in food packaging. It relates to the adsorption of chitosan-colloidal systems onto untreated and ox...
The morphology and crystallization behavior of two triblock terpolymers of polymethylene, equivalent to polyethylene (PE), poly (ethylene oxide) (PEO), and poly (ε-caprolactone) (PCL) are studied: PE227.1-b-PEO4615.1-b-PCL3210.4 (T1) and PE379.5-b-PE...
The epicardium is the outer skin of the mature vertebrate heart. Its embryonic origin and its possible roles in the developing and mature heart did not receive much recognition during the 19th and most of the 20th century. During the past 25 years, h...
The aim of the study was to validate the Polish version of the Perceptions of Inclusion Questionnaire (PIQ) for the first time. The analysis included not only pupils, parents/legal guardians, and teachers but also physical education teachers, which i...
In the introduction, we present an overview of previous research on this subject in order to help the reader review possible technological solutions regarding the joining of construction materials. The original research presented in this article conc...
Wind power time series data always exhibits nonlinear and non-stationary features, making it very difficult to accurately predict. In this paper, a novel hybrid wind power time series prediction model, based on ensemble empirical mode decomposition-p...
Polyethylene (PE) pipes are widely used in urban gas transportation due to their good toughness and corrosion resistance. Currently, the designed service life of a PE pipeline is 50 years, and some urban gas PE pipelines are approaching their service...
This study presents a location method for buried polyethylene (PE) pipelines based on the double-tree complex wavelet cross-correlation delay. Initially, the dual-tree complex wavelet transform (DTCWT) is applied to denoise the acquired signal, follo...
To enhance the accuracy and precision of fault diagnosis and location for the collector lines in wind farms under complex operating conditions, an intelligent combined method based on CNN-LSTM and ICEEMDAN-PE-improved wavelet threshold denoising is p...
A polyethylene (PE) liner is the basic element in high-pressure type 4 composite vessels designed for hydrogen or compressed natural gas (CNG) storage systems. Liner defects may result in the elimination of the whole vessel from use, which is very ex...
In this work, recycled poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PETR) was blended with virgin high-density polyethylene (HDPE) in an internal mixer in an attempt to obtain a material with improved properties. A compatibilizer (PE-g-MA) and a chain extender (Jon...
Payments for Environmental Services (PES) are instruments which seem well suited for forest conservation. However, their impact on reducing deforestation might be weakened by negligible additionality and leakage effects; the first refers to the low v...
Engineered cementitious composites (ECCs) are a special class of ultra-ductile fiber-reinforced cementitious composites containing a significant amount of short discontinuous fibers. The distinctive tensile strain-hardening behavior of ECCs is the re...
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