Sandes, Joana Lira, Juliana Pinheiro, Ulisses Muricy, Guilherme
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Marine Biodiversity
In the present study, the demosponge genus Melophlus Thiele, 1899 is revised and the type specimens of all its species are re-examined. The diagnosis of the genus is amended, based on the presence in the type species, M. sarasinorum Thiele, 1899, of a well-developed ectosome of acanthomicrorhabds and a dense feltwork of large oxeas, together with o...
Singh, Sunpreet Singh, Gurminder Prakash, Chander Kumar, Ranvijay
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Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
The applications of industrial polymers have grown extensively owing to the fact of their competent performance characteristics, at par with commonly used engineering materials, as well as technological breakthroughs. Friction stir welding (FSW) of thermoplastics is a recent approach that enabled the permanent joining of similar or dissimilar polym...
Agostini, Carla Henriques Ribeiro, Osmar Damasceno Fernandes, Arlete Caroli-Bottino, Adriana Pannain, Vera Lucia
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Surgical and Experimental Pathology
BackgroundGene mutations correlated with histological and immunohistochemical phenotypes of hepatocellular adenoma were recently identified. Based on these findings, four adenoma subtypes were distinguished. We classify hepatocellular adenoma (HCA) into subtypes based on histologic and immunohistochemical findings and verify the contribution of his...
Han, Lili Tian, Yimin Qi, Qianhui
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MATEC Web of Conferences
In order to solve the shortcomings of traditional Sobel edge detection operator, such as low accuracy of image edge location and rough edge extracted, an improved edge detection algorithm based on Sobel operator is proposed. Firstly, in the aspect of the accuracy of edge detection, the direction template is increased from two directions of horizont...
Ismail, Norafiqah Venault, Antoine Mikkola, Jyri-Pekka Bouyer, Denis Drioli, Enrico Tavajohi Hassan Kiadeh, Naser
About 100 years ago, Zsigmondy and Bachmann invented a new method to induce phase inversion, the so-called vapor induced phase separation (VIPS). Since then many researchers have demonstrated this method in membrane fabrication. Here we present a review on membrane fabrication via VIPS to provide insights into membrane formation parameters in order...
Moro, Isabella Trentin, Riccardo Moschin, Emanuela Dalla Vecchia, Francesca
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Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
The pollution of aquatic bodies by pharmaceutical compounds is an emerging environmental problem, with little explored consequences. Oxytetracycline (OTC) is an antibiotic used for treatment of infections caused by a variety of microorganisms and it is widely employed in medicine, livestock husbandry and aquaculture. This pharmaceutical compound ma...
Abdisatarov, Bektur Ilhom, Saidjafarzoda Kholikov, Khomidkhodzha Loomis, Devon Dobrokhotov, Vladimir Khenner, Mikhail Er, Ali Oguz
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Applied Physics A
Thin Pb films were grown by pulsed laser deposition on Si(111) at various laser fluences, pulse wavelengths, deposition time, and substrate temperatures. Scanning electron microscopy and ex situ atomic force microscopy were used to probe the surface morphology and structure. At room temperature, increasing the laser fluence and/or the pulse wavelen...
Kido, Ryunosuke Higo, Yosuke Takamura, Fukushi Morishita, Ryoichi Khaddour, Ghonwa Salager, Simon
Water retention characteristics are important for modeling the mechanical and hydraulic behavior of partially saturated sand. It is well known that the soil water characteristic curve shows hysteresis during drying and wetting processes. For a better understanding of the water retention characteristics of partially saturated soil, a microscopic inv...
Dahan-Moss, Yael Hendershot, Allison Dhoogra, Minishca Julius, Henry Zawada, Jacek Kaiser, Maria Lobo, Neil F. Brooke, Basil D. Koekemoer, Lizette L.
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Malaria Journal
BackgroundAccurate Anopheles species identification is key for effective malaria vector control. Identification primarily depends on morphological analysis of field samples as well as molecular species-specific identifications. During an intra-laboratory assessment (proficiency testing) of the Anopheles funestus group multiplex PCR assay, it was no...
Zhou, Linyu Cao, Shaobo Zhang, Liangliang Xiang, Guolei Wang, Jiexin Zeng, Xiaofei Chen, Jianfeng
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Journal of hazardous materials
Crystal facets can affect the catalytic decomposition of ammonium perchlorate, but the underlying mechanisms have long remained unclear. Here, we use the nanorods, nanosheets and nanocubes of Co3O4 catalysts exposing {110}, {111} and {100} facets as model systems to investigate facet effects on catalytic AP decomposition. The peak temperature of hi...
