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Biao Zhou, Tiejian Zhang and Fei Wang
There are several industrial processes in which heavy metals are used, including but not limited to chrome plating and tanning. Amongst the most toxic heavy metals to human health are arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, copper, nickel, and mercury. The afo...
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Jingjing Xue, Li Wang, Yong Fan, Jianing Xu, Jie Zhao, Limei Tian and Wenbo Du
Great attention has been paid to silicone-based fouling-release coatings (FRCs) in the realm of maritime antifouling due to their highly efficient and eco-friendly properties, but many challenges remain for developing a silicone-based FRC that improves i...
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Farid Mehri Sofiani, Behzad V. Farahani and Jorge Belinha
This work investigates fracture characteristics of a marble semi-circular bend (SCB) specimen with a pre-defined crack under a compressive loading condition. It aims at evaluating how the fracture toughness can be affected by the crack and span length va...
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Madhumithra Subramanian Karthikesh, Sa Wu, Rohit Singh, Yannis Paulus, Xueding Wang and Xinmai Yang
Several studies have investigated the effect of photo-mediated ultrasound therapy (PUT) on the treatment of neovascularization. This study explores the impact of PUT on the release of the vasoactive agents nitric oxide (NO) and prostacyclin (PGI2) from t...
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Florian Göttfert, Johanna Herzog, Christian Maurer-Grubinger, Gerhard Oremek, Fabian Holzgreve, David A. Groneberg and Daniela Ohlendorf
Introduction: An altered dental occlusion can also affect balance stability or mobility. Thus, the aim of this study was to examine whether wearing a mandibular splint, which retains the occlusion close to the centric occlusion, can increase or decrease ...
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