Case study on performance of pumping concrete with super-fine river-sand and manufactured-sand by Minglei Zhao, Manman Dai, Jie Li, Changyong Li

“…Natural ecological protection changes the traditional practice for concrete production which faces a situation of the source exhaustion of natural materials, and the sufficient utilization of waste local materials becomes a strategy to reduce the carbon emission in infrastructure construction. …”
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Non-target screening to track contaminant removal and release during nature-based water treatment by Charlotte Guy, Charlotte Guy, Geoffroy Duporté, Linda Luquot, Elena Gomez

“…Reactive barriers (RB) made with natural materials offer a solution to remove TWW contaminants. …”
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Preparation of Ag NPs and Its Multifunctional Finishing for Cotton Fabric by Jionglin Zhu, Hong Li, Yu Wang, Yusu Wang, Jun Yan

“…In this paper, the natural material, honeysuckle extract, was used as a reducing agent to prepare the Ag NPs’ solution. …”
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Sunflower cake in multiple supplements for cattle grazing in the dry season: Nutritional characteristics by Allan Cristian Mesacasa, Joanis Tilemahos Zervoudakis, Luciana Keiko Hatamoto-Zervoudakis, Luciano da Silva Cabral, Joadil Gonçalves de Abreu, Renata Pereira da Silva-Marques, Marcella Katherine Alonso, Rafael Gonçalves Ferrato da Silva, Juliane Quenoizoré Soares

“…Supplements were formulated to be isonitrogenous (25% CP) and provided the amount of 1.5 kg / animal / day of natural material. The forage mass and the availability of dry matter digestible pontecialmente were 3,120 and 2,379 kg DM / ha respectively. …”
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Pemanfaatan daun sereh (Cymbopogon citratus) dan lidah mertua (Sansevieria trifasciata) sebagai kisi difraksi sederhana berbantuan tracker by Azizah Mutiarani, Durrotun Nafisah, Putut Marwoto, Bambang Subali, Fianti Fianti, Luqman Hakim

“…The diffraction phenomenon can be seen by conducting simple experiments using natural materials. This study used a diffraction grating made from lemongrass leaves (<em>Cymbopogon citratus</em>) and sansevieria (<em>Sansevieria trifasciata</em>) using a red laser (λ = 632.8 nm) with several variations in the distance of the diffraction grating to the screen. …”
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Conception of a 3D Metamaterial-Based Foundation for Static and Seismic Protection of Fuel Storage Tanks by Vincenzo La Salandra, Moritz Wenzel, Oreste S. Bursi, Giorgio Carta, Alexander B. Movchan

“…Metamaterials are generally regarded as manmade structures that exhibit unusual responses not readily observed in natural materials. If properly designed, they are able to stop or attenuate wave propagation. …”
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Effects of the Rapid Construction of a High-Quality Plough Layer Based on Woody Peat in a Newly Reclaimed Cultivated Land Area by Sicheng Zhang, Rui Zhao, Kening Wu, Qin Huang, Long Kang

“…Furthermore, the correlation between soil indexes and crop yield under the best fertilization mode through the addition of the natural material of woody peat instead of lengthy cultivation of the plough layer to rapidly construct a high-quality plough layer and solve the practical problem that the natural endowment of newly reclaimed cultivated land is far less than the occupied high-quality cultivated land was explored. …”
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Sleep-Enhancing Effect of Water Extract from Jujube (<i>Zizyphus jujuba</i> Mill.) Seeds Fermented by <i>Lactobacillus brevis</i> L32 by Gi Yeon Bae, Yejin Ahn, Ki-Bae Hong, Eun-Jin Jung, Hyung Joo Suh, Kyungae Jo

“…Currently, drugs used for the treatment of sleep disorders have various side effects, so it is essential to develop safe natural materials. Therefore, we evaluated the sleep-enhancing activity and mechanism of action of an aqueous extract of jujube seeds (ZW) fermented with <i>Lactobacillus brevis</i> L-32 in rodent models. …”
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MiR-146a-5p delivered by hucMSC extracellular vesicles modulates the inflammatory response to sulfur mustard-induced acute lung injury by Zhipeng Pei, Jinfeng Cen, Xinkang Zhang, Chuchu Gong, Mingxue Sun, Wenqi Meng, Guanchao Mao, Jingjing Wan, Bingyue Hu, Xiaowen He, Qingqiang Xu, Hua Han, Kai Xiao

“…Extracellular vesicles are natural materials that participate in intercellular communication by delivering various substances and can be modified. …”
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Characterization of the microbiome associated with in situ earthen materials by Alexis Simons, Alexandra Bertron, Jean-Emmanuel Aubert, Christophe Roux, Christine Roques

“…However, the microbial status of earthen materials raises major concerns: could the microbiome associated with such natural materials cause disease in building occupants? …”
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Undrained shear strength of soft clay reinforced with 6mm and 10mm diameter of single bottom ash column by Sharifah Ilya Nur Shuhada , Syed Abdullah

“…The utilization of the industrial by-products is recognized nowadays due to the continuous dwindling of non-renewable natural materials. Furthermore, the large production of bottom ash from coal burning in Malaysia has results in waste issues. …”
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Potential of oil palm leaves as an adsorbent for the removal of methylene blue from aqueous solution by Siti Fatin Raihanah, Mohd Suhaimi

“…Therefore, many low-cost adsorbents have been developed for dye removal such as natural materials, industrial waste and agriculture waste. …”
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Kajian keberkesanan sisa ekstrak patchouli (Pogostemon Cablin) terhadap kesan menghalau tikus sawah (Rattus Argentiventer) by Wan Norlinda Roshana, Mohd Nawi

“…Study on the usage of natural material such as essential oil from plants as new alternative to chemical insecticides and pesticides has been actively conducted by researchers. …”
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Moringa oleifera seed derivatives as natural bio-coagulants in water treatment process by Aziz Zaid, Aziz Qannaf

“…Therefore, there is a need to use some natural materials as an alternative to replace chemicals. …”
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Novel Sodium Alginate/Polyvinylpyrrolidone/TiO₂ Nanocomposite for Efficient Removal of Cationic Dye from Aqueous Solution by Noha A. Elessawy, Marwa H. Gouda, Mohamed S. Elnouby, Hoda F. Zahran, Aly Hashim, Mona M. Abd El-Latif, Diogo M. F. Santos

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Imipramine Inhibits Migration and Invasion in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer PC-3 Cells via AKT-Mediated NF-κB Signaling Pathway by Eun Yeong Lim, Joon Park, Yun Tai Kim, Min Jung Kim

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Predicting Strength Properties of High-Performance Concrete Modified with Natural Aggregates and Ferroslag under Varied Curing Conditions by Muthumani Soundararajan, Sridhar Jayaprakash, S. K. Maniarasan, Ravindran Gobinath

“…High-performance concrete (HPC) is obtained by inclusion of mineral admixtures like silica fumes and fly ash to the normal concrete. Consumption of natural materials such as sand, natural aggregates, and limestone produces environmental degradation. …”
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Effectiveness and Anticancer Activity of a Novel Phenolic Compound from Garcinia porrecta Against the MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cell Line in vitro and in silico by Darwati D, Safitri AN, Ambardhani N, Mayanti T, Nurlelasari N, Kurnia D

“…Development of anticancer agents with high efficacy and minimal negative effects is therefore an important focus of research. Natural materials provide an excellent source of bioactive compounds. …”
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A review of fibrin and fibrin composites for bone tissue engineering by Noori A, Ashrafi SJ, Vaez-Ghaemi R, Hatamian-Zaremi A, Webster TJ

“…While many bone tissue engineering approaches have traditionally focused on synthetic materials (such as polymers or hydrogels), there has been a lot of excitement surrounding the use of natural materials due to their biologically inspired properties. …”
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Etude de l’activité pouzzolanique d’une roche andésitique en Algérie Study of the pozzolanic activity of an andesitic rock in Algeria by Clastres P., Cyr M., Kacimi L., Hamidi M.

“…The present study is an attempt to the research of new supply sources in admixtures and raw materials and the evaluation of local natural materials used in the manufacture of cement. It deals with the pozzolanic activity of the volcanic rocks and aims to compare the physical and mechanical characteristics of a mortar control made with cement CEMI 52,5R provided by Lafarge firm and of a mortar made with the same cement incorporated by different replacement rate of andesitic rock in a range of 0 – 40%. …”
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