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Giovanni Falisi, Giordano Foffo, Marco Severino, Carlo Di Paolo, Serena Bianchi, Sara Bernardi, Davide Pietropaoli, Sofia Rastelli, Roberto Gatto and Gianluca Botticelli
The preparation of the implant site in guided surgery procedure takes place without irrigation, which could lead to increased friction of the drills with the formation and release of debris or metal particles. The presence of metal particles in the peri-...
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Emilia Bologa, Simona Stoleriu, Gianina Iovan, Cristina Angela Ghiorghe, Irina Nica, Sorin Andrian and Oana Elena Amza
This in vitro study evaluated the effects of dentifrices containing nano-hydroxyapatite (n-HAp) on dentinal tubule occlusion and on mineral deposition. Dentin specimens of ten human teeth were submersed for 30 s in 40% citric acid and then randomly divid...
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Naseem Akhtar, Muhammad Izzuddin Syakir, Saleh Ali Tweib, Muhammad Irman Khalif Ahmad Aminuddin, Mohamad Shaiful Md Yusuff, Abdullah H. Alsabhan, Faisal M. Alfaisal, Shamshad Alam and Jibran Qadri
Soil is a heterogeneous material, and its properties are vital from an agricultural perspective and for groundwater management. However, limited studies have been performed on the soil characteristics (soil texture, water-holding capacity, and soil compo...
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Alessandra Martines, Giulia Furfaro, Michele Solca, Maurizio Muzzi, Andrea Di Giulio and Sergio Rossi
Microplastic pollution constitutes a serious environmental problem that requires more effective scientific research to describe its potential impacts on marine fauna. The interaction between microplastics and marine biota can have significant negative ef...
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Douglas Olivares, Abel Taquichiri, Pablo Ferrada, Aitor Marzo, Mauro Henríquez, Darío Espinoza, Edward Fuentealba and Jaime Llanos
There is currently an energy crisis that has led to photovoltaic operators maximizing their resources, making soiling a problem to consider in order to ensure project profitability. Energy production costs are strongly affected by the use of scarcely eff...
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Giuseppe Acri, Carlo Sansotta, Francesca Maria Salmeri, Marco Romeo, Elisa V. Ruello, Lucia Denaro and Barbara Testagrossa
Purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS) is a rare condition characterized by purple discoloration of urine and urine bags. Although it is benign, it represents an alarming symptom to the patients and their relatives because of purple discoloration. We have phys...
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Andrew J. Clayton, Ali Abbas, Peter J. Siderfin, Stephen Jones, Ana Teloeken, Ochai Oklobia, John M. Walls and Stuart J. C. Irvine
CdTe solar cells were produced using metal organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD), which employed a (Zn,Al)S (AZS) high resistant transparent (HRT) layer at the transparent conducting oxide (TCO)/Cd(Zn)S emitter interface, to enable the higher anneal...
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Tudor Cosmin Iurcovschi, Viorica Vasilache, Ion Sandu, Marius Zaharia, Olga Pintilie and Andrei Victor Sandu
Cleaning of cultural heritage assets.
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Jie Li, Longyi Shao, Lingli Chang, Jiaoping Xing, Wenhua Wang, Wenjun Li and Daizhou Zhang
Beijing frequently experiences dust storms during spring, which result in deteriorated visibility and cause negative health impacts. In this paper, the dust particles were collected during a dust storm episode on 4–5 May 2017 in Beijing, and the sa...
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Walter Giurlani, Massimo Innocenti and Alessandro Lavacchi
Measuring the thickness and the composition of precious metal thin films is a challenging task. Currently, the available techniques for thickness measurements are either destructive or need heavy assumptions on the nature of the sample, relying on inform...
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Giacomo Fiocco, Tommaso Rovetta, Monica Gulmini, Anna Piccirillo, Claudio Canevari, Maurizio Licchelli and Marco Malagodi
Musical instrument coatings are generally made by multi-layered systems of organic and inorganic materials, applied on the wood substrate by the violin makers during the finishing process. This coating has paramount relevance for several aspects: protect...
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Luca Tagliaferri, Enrico Berretti, Andrea Giaccherini, Stefano M. Martinuzzi, Francesco Bozza, Martin Thoma, Ugo Bardi and Stefano Caporali
A novel aluminizing process based upon room temperature Al-electrodeposition from Ionic Liquids followed by diffusion heat treatment was applied on bare- and CoNiCrAlY-coated Inconel 738 (IN738). The aluminized samples were tested by isothermal oxidation...
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Adeola Abraham Omorinoye and Quoc-Tuan Vien
Wireless indoor and outdoor microcells (WIOMs) have emerged as a promising means to deal with a high demand of mobile users for a variety of services. Over such heterogeneous networks, the deployment of WIOMs costs mobile/telecommunications company high ...
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Amani-Christiana Saint, Vasiliki Dritsa and Maria Koui
A multi-analytical non-destructive testing (NDT) methodology was applied to copper-based artifacts originated from various archaeological sites of Greece. X-ray fluorescence (XRF), fiber optics diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (FORS) and scanning electro...
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Styliani Papatzani and Kevin Paine
A formulation and testing protocol for the development of low Portland cement content cementitious binders.
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Gabriela Toader, Daniela Pulpea, Aurel Diacon, Edina Rusen, Raluca Elena Ginghina, Traian Rotariu, Alice Ionela Podaru, Andreea Elena Moldovan, Maria Gavrilescu, Ana-Mihaela Gavrila and Bogdan Trica
This study presents the formulation and application of strippable coatings for the entrapment and removal of heavy metals (HMs) and radio nuclides (RNs). The ?green? formulations involve the use of a water-based solution consisting of a synthetic biodegr...
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Holger Schwarz, Thomas Uhlig, Thomas Lindner, Thomas Lampke, Guntram Wagner and Thomas Seyller
We demonstrate the systematic hardness enhancement of the CoCrFeNi high-entropy alloy (HEA) by the addition of tungsten carbide (WC). Mixed thin films are fabricated by magnetron co-sputtering using a home-made spark plasma-sintered CoCrFeNi target and a...
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Zehra SAPCI-AYAS
The textile industry produces enormous volumes of wastewater which must be treated effectively. In this study, biosorbent from the agricultural waste of potato peels (PP), which is environmentally friendly and easy to find everywhere, was used for the tr...
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Maria Valean, Daniela Lucia Manea, Claudiu Aciu, Florin Popa, Lumini?a Monica Ple?a, Elena Jumate and Gabriel Furtos
The rising concern for the environment and the need for a sustainable economic model has stimulated experimentation in the field of construction materials, notably in replacing certain components from cementitious materials with construction and demoliti...
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Kipkurui Ronoh, Jan Novotný, Libor Mrna, Alexandr Knápek and Dinara Sobola
Surface structuring by ultrafast lasers is a promising technique to modify surface-related properties of materials to tailor them for specific applications. In the present study, we experimentally investigated the laser structuring of commercially pure t...
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