Climate change and the gradual phaseout of the spruce from Central Europe inspired us to study the effects of the ageing process of trees on wood properties. This study was conducted in old tree stands with significant involvement of the spruce (Pice...
Hesperidin, a secondary orange (Citrus sinensis) metabolite, was extracted from orange bagasse. No organic solvents or additional energy consumption were used in the clean and sustainable process. Hesperidin purity was approximately 98% and had a yie...
Human ageing is a complex and integrated gradual deterioration of cellular processes. There are nine major hallmarks of ageing, that include changes in DNA repair and DNA damage response, telomere shortening, changes in control over the expression an...
Aging and washing factors have a direct influence on changing the properties of textile products, e.g., causing a release of textile fragments in the washing process. In this study, polyester fabrics were exposed to artificial aging under controlled...
Aging in females affects the ovaries before any other organ. This has a significant impact on women’s health. Aging results in the gradual depletion of ovarian follicles and a decline in oocyte quality. Studies have shown that cellular changes...
In this paper, we investigate the impact of latency aging on exchangeable (invariant under permutation of indices) inter-arrival times arising from mixed renewal point processes (statistical mixtures of point processes with renewal inter-arrival time...
Water wells play an increasingly important role in providing water for the civilian population all over the world. Like other engineering structures, wells are subject to ageing processes resulting in degradation, which is observed as a reduction in...
Beef dry-aging consists of a selection of unpackaged prime cuts placed in a controlled environment cold room for several weeks. The goals are to concentrate flavors like nutty and beefy and to improve tenderness. The aim of this study was to verify t...
Background/Objectives: Ageing in people with intellectual disabilities is a social reality that poses challenges for the individual, their family and social environment, and the direct care services. The main objective of this study was to identify t...
In this document, we examine the effects of the age process on aggregate discounted claims by studying the conditional raw and joint moments, the moment generating function and the distribution function of the increments of compound renewal sums with...
Over the last two decades, the use of bioreactors filled with aged refuse extracted from closed areas of landfills has proven to be a viable alternative for the treatment of different types of wastewater. This study presents the results obtained duri...
Feedback processing contributes to efficient learning, decision making, and social interaction. Studies using event-related brain potentials (ERPs) reveal that feedback processing is associated with transient ERP components over the medial frontal an...
Temperature sensitivity characteristics of bitumen can be evidently influenced by modifier types and natural aging processes. Many types of modifiers have been used to improve the temperature sensitivity performance of bitumen, but their effects are...
Semantic deficits are common in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). These deficits notably impact the ability to understand words. In healthy aging, semantic knowledge increases but semantic processing (i.e., the ability to use this know...
Auditory temporal processing is a vital component of auditory stream segregation, or the process in which complex sounds are separated and organized into perceptually meaningful objects. Temporal processing can degrade prior to hearing loss, and is s...
Building and finishing materials are among the main sources of indoor air pollution and can provide ideal substrates for microbial growth. Environmental factors can induce physico-chemical aging of these materials, altering their composition and incr...
Many modern alcoholic beverages are subjected to ageing processes during which compounds extracted from wood contribute decisively to the overall beverage character. Wines represent a perfect example of beverage in which ageing is a crucial technolog...
The insulation pressboard is very important in the insulation of oil-immersed transformers, which determines the useful life of the transformer. In order to analyze the change in the micro topography of the pressboard under the condition of thermal a...
In the modern world, many products are disposable or have a very short lifespan, while at the same time, those products are made from materials that will remain in the environment in the form of waste for hundreds or even thousands of years. It is a...
In this work, a novel Zn-0.5%Li-0.1%Ag alloy was cast and extruded into rods, which were rolled into a plate, and the effects of extrusion and rolling on the microstructure and mechanical properties of the Zn-0.5%Li-0.1%Ag alloy were evaluated. The r...
The evolution of interfacial morphology and shear strengths of the joints soldered with Sn-0.3Ag-0.7Cu (SAC0307) and SAC0307-0.05Pr aged at 150 °C for different times (h; up to 840 h) were investigated. The experiments showed the electronic joint...
This study investigated the effects of aging processes on the microstructure, mechanical properties, and wear properties of Cu-Cr-Zr alloys prepared by vacuum melting. The experimental results show that the particles in the alloy are arranged along t...
The aim of this study was to identify latent groups of similar trajectories in processing speed through aging, as well as factors that are associated with these trajectories. In the context of the Ageing Trajectories of Health: Longitudinal Opportuni...
An alternating magnetic field (AMF)/Ag multi-alloying combined process was applied to the solidification of Cu–14Fe alloy to study its effects on the microstructure and properties of the resulting samples. The applied AMF and Ag multi-alloying...
In this paper, the issue of an aging process’s influence on power LEDs’ properties is considered. Some measured DC characteristics of these devices and their thermal and optical parameters obtained are presented after considering differen...
Natural substances have traditionally been used in skin care for centuries. There is now an ongoing search for new natural bioactives that not only promote skin health but also protect the skin against various harmful factors, including ultraviolet r...
The present work examined the effect of artificial aging on the microstructure, texture, and hardness homogeneity in aluminum alloy AA6082 subjected to friction stir processing (FSP). Aging was applied to FSP samples at three different temperatures (...
The posterior-to-anterior shift in aging (PASA) effect is seen as a compensatory model that enables older adults to meet increased cognitive demands to perform comparably as their young counterparts. However, empirical support for the PASA effect inv...
The age of information (AoI) has been widely used to quantify the information freshness in real-time status update systems. As the AoI is independent of the inherent property of the source data and the context, we introduce a mutual information-based...
A reliable aging-prediction method is significant for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) to prolong the service life and increase the efficiency of operation. In this paper, an improved Gaussian-process regression (GPR) is proposed to predict the degradati...
“Aging” is a practice that allows alcoholic beverages to mature and gives them particular flavors and colors. In this context, oak or durmast wooden barrels are used in this process, thus providing different types of aging. This conventio...
Friction stir processing (FSP) has confirmed its valuable contribution to refining microstructures and the improvement of mechanical properties for Mg-Al alloys. Reference papers illustrate that post-processing aging treatments enhance hardness, but...
Objectives: Although behavioral studies suggest that syntactic comprehension is relatively preserved in healthy aging, the underlying neural mechanisms remain a subject of intense debate. This review aims to synthesize neuroimaging and electrophysiol...
Zhenjiang aromatic vinegar (ZAV) is one of the well-known fermented condiments in China, which is produced by solid-state fermentation. It can be classified into traditional Zhenjiang aromatic vinegar (TZAV) and industrial Zhenjiang aromatic vinegar...
(1) Background: Auditory processing (AP) disorder is associated with learning difficulties and poses challenges to school-aged children in their daily activities. This scoping review identifies interventions and provides audiologists with protocol in...
LiFeMnPO4 secondary agglomerates have been aged under different temperature and moisture conditions. The aged and pristine powder samples were then processed to water- and solvent-based cathodes. Structural studies by means of neutron and X-ray diffr...
Background/Objectives: Shift work in healthcare professionals affects performance in high cognitive processing, especially in complex environments. However, the beneficial effects that working in complex environments may have on auditory–cognit...
The influence of aging and thermal shock processes on polymer coating reinforced with various rubber fillers on an aluminum substrate was investigated. The coatings were made from a polyurethane matrix and two different reinforcement materials: EPDM...
Thermo-oxidative ageing is one of the main factors affecting bitumen performance. At present, the research on bitumen ageing has entered the micro stage. The purpose of this paper was to study the relationship between nano-morphology parameters and p...
Background and objectives: Chronological age (CA) may not accurately reflect the health status of an individual. Rather, biological age (BA) or hypothetical underlying “functional” age has been proposed as a relevant indicator of healthy...
The dynamic tensile behavior of the twinning-induced plasticity (TWIP) steel with the vanadium carbide is investigated at different strain rates of 10−4, 10−3, 10−2 and 0.05 s−1. Microstructure characterization, carried out us...
Polymeric parts have been increasingly used in various engineering fields. The performance of polymeric parts is significantly affected by working-environment-induced aging. In this paper, an ultrasonic-vibration-assisted injection molding system was...
Women of reproductive age have a high proportion of overweight/obesity and an overall poor nutritional intake and diet quality. Nutritional modelling is a method to forecast potential changes in nutrition composition that may offer feasible and reali...
Heat treatment processes play a pivotal role in optimizing the microstructure and mechanical properties of Mg-Li alloys, thereby enhancing their performance and expanding their potential applications in structural and lightweight engineering fields....
Thin-walled Al-Mg-Si alloy profiles with different compositions and aging states were prepared using the heating and extrusion process. The properties and structure of the profiles were then investigated using a metallographic microscope, scanning el...
Down syndrome (DS) subjects are more likely to develop the clinical features of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) very early in the disease process due to the additional impact of neuroinflammation and because of activation of innate immunity. Many factors in...
Banded iron formations (BIFs) are marine chemical sedimentary rocks comprised of alternating siliceous- and iron-rich bands and deposited from Eoarchean to early Paleoproterozoic. Due to their geological antiquity, BIFs normally have been overprinted...
This study aimed to examine whether different rhythm idioms significantly affect the reproduction accuracy of older adults and whether the participants’ age and personal current engagement in music affect their ability to reproduce rhythm. A to...
This scoping review aims to synthesize peer-reviewed literature exploring quality of life (QoL) for individuals with age-related hearing loss (ARHL), age-related central auditory processing (ARCAP) deficits, and age-related cognitive decline. A growi...
A multi-pass equal-channel angular pressing (helical channel angular pressing-parallel channel, HCAP-PC) is proposed to enhance process efficiency and avoid plastic deformation damage during the preparation of ultrafine-grained age hardened aluminum...
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