Prediction and control of crystal size distributions, a prerequisite for production of consistent crystalline material in the pharmaceutical industry, requires knowledge of potential non-idealities of crystal growth. Ampicillin is one such medicine c...
Blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima Torr.) is the dominant shrub on three million hectares across the transition zone between the western North American warm and cold deserts. This paper presents a study of blackbrush population structure at the stand...
Gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) displays a particular eating behaviour that involves considerable oral manipulation and feed waste. We assess the influence of feed delivery rate and pellet size on seabream growth and size variability, feed wastage...
This article presents a methodological approach to modeling the processes of changing the dispersed composition of solid phase particles, such as granulation, crystallization, pyrolysis, and others. Granulation is considered as a complex process cons...
We investigate the impact of dispersal on the long-term total population size in a discrete-time model of a population distributed across a patchy environment. Dispersal is allowed to be asymmetric, and each isolated patch exhibits a stable carrying...
Gas hydrate growth kinetics was studied at a pressure of 90 bars to investigate the effect of temperature, initial water content, stirring rate, and reactor size in stirred semi-batch autoclave reactors. The mixing energy during hydrate growth was es...
The impact of exchange-rate fluctuations on resource reallocation is of particular interest to researchers and policymakers with China’s further opening to the international market and the transformation of economic growth. With high-speed grow...
Laboratory experiments were conducted to study the effects of oil spills and dispersants on the growth of the red tide organism Chaetoceros sp. Crude oil produced from the Chinese Bohai Sea, diesel oil, and the chemical dispersant (GM-2) produced in...
Forecasting fire growth, plume rise and smoke impacts on air quality remains a challenging task. Wildland fires dynamically interact with the atmosphere, which can impact fire behavior, plume rises, and smoke dispersion. For understory fires, the fir...
High mortality rates of glioblastoma (GBM) patients are partly attributed to the invasive behavior of tumor cells that exhibit extensive infiltration into adjacent brain tissue, leading to rapid, inevitable, and therapy-resistant recurrence. In this...
Three large-scale, experimental, dispersed residual tree sites established in coastal British Columbia, Canada were measured for planted Douglas-fir tree growth and survival five to six years after planting. The dispersed trees were predominantly lar...
Acoustic emission (AE) technology was used to monitor the fatigue crack growth process of superalloy. The analysis results show that both the cumulative values and the K-entropy values of AE parameters have good correspondences with the three stages...
The location of the high mountains of southern Europe has been crucial in the phylogeography of most European species, but how extrinsic (topography of sky islands) and intrinsic features (dispersal dynamics) have interacted to shape the genetic stru...
To elucidate the mechanisms governing flammable gas dispersion and explosion hazard evolution in cross-sea bridge environments, the FLACS numerical model was employed to systematically investigate the dispersion behaviors and explosion responses of m...
To improve the growth rate of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) diamond coating, increasing the chemical reaction rate is essential. A novel method of dispersing graphene oxide (GO) particles as adsorbent on the substrate prior to deposition was propos...
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The biological treatment efficiency of dye wastewater using activated sludge (AS) is largely limited to the chromaticity and ecotoxicity of dyestuff. To alleviate this limitation, eleven industrial-grade disperse dyes were obtained from a fiber-dyein...
Enhanced equalization phase noise (EEPN), generated from the uncompensated dispersion experienced by laser phase noises, can cause serious damage to the transmission quality of optical fiber systems. In this work, the performance of a wideband Nyquis...
Invasive exotic species are currently a topic of interest for environmental management agencies and the media. This is due to the socio-economic and environmental problems that they are causing or may cause. The Monk Parakeet is a clear example of th...
Wireless data traffic has increased significantly due to the rapid growth of smart terminals and evolving real-time technologies. With the dramatic growth of data traffic, the existing cellular networks including Fifth-Generation (5G) networks cannot...
Asymmetrical river confluence zones play a critical role in water quality protection and remediation. This study develops a three-dimensional numerical model to simulate the hydraulic characteristics and contaminant dispersion processes within river...
The dispersion behavior of ceramic particles in aluminum alloys during rapid solidification critically affects the resulting microstructure and mechanical performance. In this study, we investigated the nucleation and growth of Al3(Sc,Zr) on TiB2 sur...
Community phylogenetic structure and diversity analysis are useful complements to species-centric approaches in biodiversity studies by providing new insights into the processes that drive community assembly. In this study, we aimed to understand the...
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Zinc sulfide semiconductor nanoparticles were synthesized in an aqueous solution of polyvinyl pyrrolidone via a simple microwave irradiation method. The effect of the polymer concentration and the type of sulfur source on the particle size and disper...
An attempt has been made to explore the relative contributions of moisture feedback processes on tropical intraseasonal oscillation or Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO). We focused on moisture feedback processes, including evaporation wind feedba...
An augmentative biological control program using the egg parasitoid Telenomus podisi Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) is a promising tool for the management of the brown stink bug, Euschistus heros (Fabricius) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in soybea...
The primary cause of the scale effect in scaled models for flood discharge and energy dissipation lies in the dissimilarity of the air dispersion patterns of the ski-jump nappe. To uncover the scale-effect relationship governing the air dispersion pa...
Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) is a major pathogen affecting citrus trees worldwide. However, few studies have focused on CTV’s evolutionary history and geographic behavior. CTV is locally dispersed by an aphid vector and long distance dispersion due to...
Reticulitermes grassei is a subterranean termite species that forages on woody structures of the Iberian Peninsula, and is often a building and crops pest. A total of 23 microorganisms associated with the activity of R. grassei were isolated from col...
The crystallization kinetics of the 50% W particles/Zr41.2Ti13.8Cu12.5Ni10Be22.5 metallic glass matrix composite were studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and scanning electron microscopy/energy dispersive spec...
Interspecific interactions take place over both long and short time-frames. However, it is not completely understood if the interacting-partners persisted, migrated, or expanded in concert with Quaternary climate and landscape changes. We aim to unde...
As Internet access grows at different rates across regions, the Internet has had variable effects on regional economies through agglomeration and spillover effects. This paper uses province-level panel data from 2000 to 2013 to study inequality in In...
Plant invasions generate massive ecological and economic costs worldwide. Predicting their spatial dynamics is crucial to the design of effective management strategies and the prevention of invasions. Earlier studies highlighted the crucial role of l...
The kinetics and evolution of hydrogen-induced cracking (HIC) were modeled using a theoretical model developed by Gonzalez to calculate the individual crack growth rate and a computational algorithm based on a Poisson distribution to generate the ini...
The nonthermal diffusion effects on the dispersion equations of ion-acoustic space-charge wave (SCW) in a nonthermal plasma column composed of nonthermal turbulent electrons and cold ions are investigated based on the analysis of normal modes and the...
We model the growth, dispersal and mutation of two phenotypes of a species using reaction–diffusion equations, focusing on the biologically realistic case of small mutation rates. Having verified that the addition of a small linear mutation ter...
Biofilm formation is one of the main obstacles in membrane treatment. The non-oxidizing biocide ethyl lauroyl arginate (LAE) is promising for mitigating biofilm development on membrane surfaces. However, the operating conditions of LAE and their impa...
Photon Density Wave (PDW) spectroscopy is used as process analytical technology (PAT) in three batch sizes, 1 L, 10 L and 100 L, of polyvinyl acetate—neodecanoic acid vinyl ester (Versa® 10) copolymerization. The effects on particle formati...
The stability of astrophysical jets in the linear regime is investigated by presenting a methodology to find the growth rates of the various instabilities. We perturb a cylindrical axisymmetric steady jet, linearize the relativistic ideal magnetohydr...
The oxidation of β-NiAl at high temperatures leads to the preferential formation of metastable alumina, such as θ-Al2O3, which exhibits a significantly faster growth rate compared to stable α-Al2O3. However, our recent research has s...
Population aging is a defining demographic transformation in Latin America, yet its subnational spatial dynamics remain insufficiently understood. We examined population aging in the Maule Region of Chile from 1992 to 2024 using official census data...
To alleviate CaF2 scaling on reverse osmosis membranes, polyepoxysuccinic acid (PESA) was modified with 2,5-dihydroxyterephthalic acid (DHTA) to obtain DHTA-PESA. Its structure and thermal stability were confirmed through characterization. Scale inhi...
Density-dependent population growth regulates long-term urban expansion and shapes distinctive socioeconomic trends. Despite a marked heterogeneity in the spatial distribution of the resident population, Mediterranean European countries are considere...
This study investigated the interfacial reactions between n-type Bi2(Te,Se)3 thermoelectric material, characterized by a highly-oriented (110) plane, and pure Sn and Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu (wt.%) solders, respectively. At 250 °C, the liquid-state Sn/Bi2(...
Reaction crystallization to produce glycidyl trimethyl ammonium chloride (GTA) via epichlorohydrin with gas-state trimethylamine was investigated. The crystallization process of the GTA gas-liquid reaction was optimized by a seed method. The optimize...
There are so many variables affecting the large-scale chemical synthesis of nanoparticles that mass production remains a challenge. Here, using a high-efficiency compact electron beam generator irradiating a low-energy electron beam, we fabricate car...
The proposed general theory of scientific variability for technological evolution explains one of the drivers of technological change for economic progress in human society. Variability is the predisposition of the elements in systems to assume diffe...
This study investigated biochar production from stranded Sargassum biomass and its effects on lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) growth and foliar elemental composition. Biochars were produced by laboratory-scale pyrolysis at 400, 500, and 600 °C a...
The growth of acetaminophen polymorphic crystals and the solution-mediated phase transition from trihydrate to form II in agarose gel were investigated. The form II crystals grown in gels, presumably because of the agarose content, dissolved less rap...
The objective of this study was to analyze a natural and safe oleogel with antimicrobial properties that can replace animal fats while lengthening the product’s shelf life. The oleogel was created using direct dispersion (MG-SO), and its materi...
We demonstrate the possibility of generation of zonal (shear) flows in a rotating self-gravitating fluid. A set of equations describing the nonlinear interaction between a large-scale zonal flow (ZF) and a small-scale drift-gravity wave is derived. A...
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