The concepts of sustainability and waste utilization have received urgent attention in the European construction industries. Material selection plays a vital role in the manufacturing process of sustainable building construction. The general objectiv...
This article presents the results of a study of a composite coating made of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) with a diabase filler obtained by flame spraying. Diabase of 10 wt.%, 20 wt.%, 30 wt.% and 40 wt.% was chosen as a filler. Th...
Diabase mud (DM) is a silica-rich residue yielding from aggregate crushing and washing operations in quarries. This work focuses on identifying the geopolymerization potential of a diabase mud through characterization of its mineralogical composition...
Diabase intrusion is a common geological phenomenon in lacustrine shale formations in continental basins in China, which has important effects on the physical and chemical properties of shale oil reservoirs. In this paper, we systematically analyzed...
The Yanlinsi gold deposit, located in the middle section of the Jiangnan Orogenic Belt, is one of the typical gold deposits in northeastern Hunan Province. Diabase dikes are exposed by underground workings and drill holes in the mining area. The dike...
Tianshan is one of the world’s largest gold provinces; however, the relationship between gold mineralization and metasomatized subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) remains poorly understood. To improve our understanding, we present new bul...
The Jinchanghe Fe-Cu-Pb-Zn polymetallic deposit is located in the northern Baoshan block in the Sanjiang metallogenic belt, southwestern China, and is one of the major large-scale Pb-Zn polymetallic deposits. This region is characterized by numerous...
This study addresses the low reactivity and poor toughness of diabase tailings (DT), a high-silica industrial byproduct, which restricts their large-scale application in geopolymer binders. To overcome these limitations, a dual-regulation strategy in...
This article presents, for the first time, the study of diabases from various ophiolite complexes from Greece and Cyprus to identify their performance as concrete aggregates. Within this scope, in the first step, diabase samples from four selected op...
This study presents the development and experimental assessment of novel, high strength, cementless binders that incorporate alkali-activated local waste. A silica-rich diabase mud (DM), currently considered as waste, was previously investigated for...
The Southern Alps are the retro-vergent belt of the European Alps that developed from Late Cretaceous subduction to Neogene times. The most prominent Alpine thrusts and folds, nowadays sealed off by the Adamello intrusion, were already developed befo...
The sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) can maintain a stable floral chamber temperature between 30 and 35 °C when blooming despite fluctuations in ambient temperatures between about 8 and 45 °C, but the regulatory mechanism of floral thermogenesis remai...
Malus sieversii is considered the ancestor of the modern cultivated apple, with a high value for apple tolerance breeding. Despite studies on the temperature adaptability of M. sieversii carried out at a physiological response and the genome level, i...
Cr and Platinum-Group Elements (PGEs), critical metallic elements, are mainly hosted in mafic and ultramafic rocks, but determining these rocks’ mineralization age has long been challenging. Zircon, the primary geochronological mineral, is scar...
Studies on post-collisional magmatic rocks can provide key clues to researching the crust–mantle interactions and the tectonic evolution of collisional orogenic belts. This study investigated a suite of newly discovered mafic intrusions in the...
The tremolite nephrite deposit in Dahua county, Hechi City, Guangxi province, China is a new genetic type of nephrite deposit. It is hosed by Mg-poor limestone (~1.30 wt.% MgO) and intruded by diabase (~45 wt.% SiO2). The Mg and Si contents of these...
A data-independent acquisition (DIA)-based proteomic analysis was performed to evaluate the unintended effects of fad2-1-gene-edited soybean line AE15 seeds. A total of 561, 269, and 227 differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) were identified in see...
Dephosphorylation of transcription factor EB (TFEB) at Ser142 and Ser138 determines its nuclear localization and transcriptional activity. The link between TFEB-associated genes and colorectal cancer (CRC) progression and prognosis remains unclear. T...
Endometrial cancers (ECs) are mainly adenocarcinomas arising from the uterine endometrium. In this work, we employed data-independent acquisition (DIA) mass spectrometry (MS)-based label-free quantification (LFQ-MS) proteomics to analyze the proteome...
To address the shortage of natural sand and the unclear mechanism of lithology’s influence on the application of manufactured sand, this study explores the applicability of neutral rock manufactured sand in asphalt mixtures. Taking neutral diab...
The widespread occurrence of Mesozoic ocean island basalt (OIB)-like igneous rocks in the Southern Tibetan Himalayan Belt provides important constraints on the rifting of East Gondwana. This study undertook a petrological, geochronological, and geoch...
The present paper discusses the analysis and modeling of laboratory data regarding the mechanical characterization of hot mix asphalt (HMA) mixtures for road pavements, by means of artificial neural networks (ANNs). The HMAs investigated were produce...
Sexually propagated scleractinian corals are in high demand for coral reef restoration. However, for threatened reef-building corals, many of the molecular mechanisms related to their reproduction remain largely unknown, which forms a major bottlenec...
The Newark Basin comprises Late Triassic and Early Jurassic fluvio-lacustrine rocks (Stockton, Lockatong, Passaic, Feltville, Towaco, and Boonton Formations) and Early Jurassic diabase intrusions and basalt lava flows. Boron concentrations in private...
Diabase intrusions have been widely found in sandstone-type U deposits of the southwestern Songliao Basin, indicating diabase-related hydrothermal fluids might play an important role in this type of U mineralization. The first discovery of U-bearing...
The Awulale Iron Metallogenic Belt (AIMB) located in Central Tianshan is a significant iron ore belt in China. The Beizhan area exhibits extensive volcanic and intrusive rocks that formed during or close to the iron mineralization period. The iron or...
In this paper, the influence of coarse aggregate on the slump flow and the following mechanical strengths (flexural and compressive strengths), the shrinkage rate, the chloride penetration resistance, and the freeze–thaw resistance were investigated....
The fatigue healing mechanisms of steel slag asphalt concrete remain unclear and involve complex influencing factors. When used as an asphalt pavement material in actual road engineering projects, there is a risk of significant deviations in fatigue...
Zircon U–Pb dating and Hf isotopic analyses are performed on clastic rocks, sedimentary tuff of the Dongchuan Group (DCG), and a diabase, which is an intrusive body from the base of DCG in the SW Yangtze Block. The results provide new constrain...
To study the effect of aggregate type on the adhesion between asphalt and aggregate, limestone, basalt, diabase, and 70# asphalt with SBS asphalt were selected. The mineral phase composition of the aggregates was analyzed by X-ray diffraction. The su...
Petrological, geochronological, and geochemical analyses of mafic rocks in northern Liaoning were conducted to constrain the formation age of the Proterozoic strata, and to further study the source characteristics, genesis, and tectonic setting. The...
Unique tectonic features have resulted in diverse metallic and non-metallic mineralization in Afghanistan. Hence, this paper is focused on the development of exploration and mineral resource data in Afghanistan. The study area is located in the weste...
The tectonic setting and subduction polarity of the early Paleozoic North Qilian Orogenic Belt (NQOB) in northwestern China is poorly constrained due to complex tectonic deformation. Mafic and ultramafic rocks in the South Ophiolite Belt of the NQOB...
Since each rock type represents different deformation characteristics, prediction of the damage beforehand is one of the most fundamental problems of industrial activities and rock engineering studies. Previous studies have predicted the stress&ndash...
The Luk-Ulo Melange Complex (LMC) is characterized by a chaotic assemblage of mixed rocks with a block-in-matrix fabric. The exposed blocks consist of various scattered rock types, trending in an ENE-WSW direction. In the case of Mt. Parang, the orig...
There is a magmatic lull period in the East Kunlun orogen (EKO) during the Jurassic to the Cretaceous. However, due to the lack of records of magmatic activity restricts our understanding of the late Mesozoic magmatic-tectonic evolution of the EKO. H...
The Makeng iron deposit in southwest Fujian is a significant iron polymetallic deposit containing various types of iron ore, including garnet magnetite, diopside magnetite, and quartz magnetite. The metallogenetic type of the deposit has been a subje...
The aim of this study was to compare filter-aided sample preparation (FASP) and protein aggregation capture (PAC) starting from a three-species protein mix (Human, Soybean and Pisum sativum) and two different starting amounts (1 and 10 µg). Pep...
Archaean metamorphic basement reservoirs, characterized by the development of natural fractures, constitute the primary target for oil and gas exploration in the Bozhong Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, Eastern China. Based on analyses of geophysical ima...
This study used spectrometry to determine the spectral absorption of five types of mafic-ultramafic rocks from the Kaishantun ophiolite suite in Northeast China. Absorption peak wavelengths were determined for peridotite, diabase, basalt, pyroxenite,...
Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a pancreatic inflammatory disease that varies greatly in course and severity. To further the understanding of the pathology of AP, we carried out data-independent acquisition-based proteomic analyses using proteins extracte...
This article presents the results of a study on the development of an anti-corrosion plaster composite based on water glass with increased electrical conductivity. Known acid-resistant quartz-fluorosilicate composites containing liquid sodium silicat...
Pyrite, a mineral that can cause potential environmental issues in coal mining, is commonly found in coal seams around intrusions. In this paper, pyrites from the Yuandian Coal Mine (Huaibei Coalfield, Anhui, Eastern China) were studied using SEM, Ra...
The development of self-compacting concretes with electric arc furnace slags is a novelty in the field of materials and the production of high-performance concretes with these characteristics is a further achievement. To obtain these high-strength, l...
The work is devoted to the results of processing electromagnetic radiation signals obtained during laboratory loading of marble and diabase samples using a technique for determining the parameters of microcracks, developed and published by the author...
The stability of roadway sidewalls is crucial to ensuring people’s safety and production efficiency in coal mining. This paper investigated the deformation and failure of deep roadway sidewalls, particularly the effects of height-width ratios a...
Geomechanical assessment of rocks requires knowledge of phenomena that occur under the influence of internal and external factors at a macroscopic or microscopic scale, when rocks are submitted to different actions. To elucidate the quantitative and...
To study the strain hardening and softening mechanism for hard brittle rocks, a strain hardening and softening constitutive model for hard brittle rocks is developed. First, the normalised hardening and softening factors are defined, which characteri...
The proper disposal of steel slag has always been a great challenge for the metallurgical industry in China and around the world. In this work, the steel slag aggregate (SSA) was surface pretreated (PSSA) and applied into asphalt mixture. The adhesiv...
Nocardia seriolae (N. seriolae) is a significant bacterial pathogen in global aquaculture, causing substantial economic losses. Live-attenuated vaccines represent a promising control strategy, but their molecular mechanisms remain poorly understood....
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