Quantitative assessment of groundwater resources and aquifer hydraulic properties using combined geophysical techniques, in North Gemas, Malaysia by Egbenda Juanah, Mohamed Sahr

“…Laboratory and combined geophysical techniques such as multi-electrode resistivity, induced polarization, and borehole geophysical techniques were carried out on volcano-sedimentary rocks as part of the groundwater resource's investigations. …”
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Salinity effect on surfactant-assisted zinc oxide nanoparticles for enhanced oil recovery by Abduljaleel Hamadani, Osamah Amer

“…It has been established in the literature that using a surfactant with nanoparticles can stabilize the latter, lower the oil/water interfacial tension, and alter the wettability of reservoir rocks. It is also common knowledge that chemical EOR is affected by the salinity of formation water. …”
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Relation between conventional and starch-assisted ASP injection and impact of crystallinity on flood formation by Al-Jaber, Hasanain A., Arsad, Agus, Bandyopadhyay, Sulalit, Jaafar, Mohd. Zaidi, Muhammad Tahir, Muhammad Tahir, Nuhma, Mustafa Jawad, Abdulmunem, Abdulmunem R., Abdulfatah, Mohammad Yasin, Alias, Hajar

“…Surface properties affect interactions with fluids and rocks. Crystallinity, a crucial characterization, was assessed using Origin software 2019b. …”
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Seismic performance of scaled IBS block column for static nonlinear monotonic pushover experimental analysis by Yip, C. C., Marsono, A. K., Wong, J. Y., Lee, S. C.

“…The measured maximum separation gap was 24.4 mm located at 340 mm height due to the rocking of the column. Based on seismic performance levels indicator from FEMA 273 & 356, the column was in the state of immediate occupancy with 21 mm roof top displacement and 1.7 kN base shear. …”
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Gis-based gully erosion susceptibility mapping: a comparison of computational ensemble data mining models by Nhu, V. H., Janizadeh, S., Avand, M., Chen, W., Farzin, M., Omidvar, E., Shirzadi, A., Shahabi, H., Clague, J. J., Jaafari, A., Mansoorypoor, F., Pham, B. T., Ahmad, B. B., Lee, S.

“…Gully erosion destroys agricultural and domestic grazing land in many countries, especially those with arid and semi-arid climates and easily eroded rocks and soils. It also generates large amounts of sediment that can adversely impact downstream river channels. …”
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Evaluation of stress and resilience quantification among university students using heart rate variability by AbdulHamid, Mohd. Sufian

“…Malaysia has recently been rocked by the news on the 1708 suicide cases from January 2019 to May 2021. …”
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Mine Strata Pressure Characteristics and Mechanisms in Gob-Side Entry Retention by Roof Cutting under Medium-Thick Coal Seam and Compound Roof Conditions by Xingen Ma, Manchao He, Jiong Wang, Yubing Gao, Daoyong Zhu, Yuxing Liu

“…According to the structural state of the surrounding rocks during the entire entry retaining process, the retained entry can be divided into coal support, dynamic pressure and stable entry areas.…”
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New insights into the multiple magmatic fluid generations from scheelite in the Bastielieke W-polymetallic deposit, Chinese Altay (NW, China) by Fengmei Chai, Zhaochong Zhang, Wen Wang, Qiuhong Xie, He Huang, Yan Zhang, Dongmei Qi, Xuebing Zhang

“…They exhibit different textures, and can be divided into four types and six subtypes, including those in granite (Schm), prograde skarn (SchI), retrograde-altered rocks (SchII), and those in late-stage quartz-fluorite veins (SchIII).SchIa and SchIb were formed in the early and late prograde stage, respectively. …”
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Mineralogical and physico-chemical properties of the Cretaceous shales of the Calabar Flank, south-eastern, Nigeria: Implication for paleo-weathering conditions, provenance and ind... by Christopher I. Adamu, Oluwaseye P. Oyetade, Azubuike S. Ekwere, Ebenezer A. Kudamnya, Kehinde I. Adebayo, Idara A. Uyok, Therese N. Nganje

“…The element ratios and discrimination diagrams revealed that the provenance of the shales is of intermediate to mafic igneous rocks and a tectonic setting of continental to oceanic arcs. …”
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3D dynamic cultures of HGSOC organoids to model innovative and standard therapies by Enrico Cavarzerani, Enrico Cavarzerani, Isabella Caligiuri, Michele Bartoletti, Vincenzo Canzonieri, Vincenzo Canzonieri, Flavio Rizzolio, Flavio Rizzolio

“…Under optimized conditions of the OrganoFlow (tilting angle of 15° and an interval of rocking every 8 min), the cancer organoids grow faster than when they are in static conditions and the number of dead cells is reduced over time. …”
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Cryptic trans-lithospheric fault systems at the western margin of South America: implications for the formation and localization of gold-rich deposit superclusters by Daniel Wiemer, Steffen G. Hagemann, Nicholas Hayward, Nicholas Hayward, Graham C. Begg, Graham C. Begg, Jon Hronsky, Jon Hronsky, Nicolas Thébaud, Anthony I. S. Kemp, Carlos Villanes

“…In combination with bulk-geochemical data from magmatic rocks, we suggest that inherited structures maintained a trans-lithospheric connectivity to pre-fertilized gold enriched upper mantle reservoirs, which were tapped during multiple tectono-magmatic reactivation episodes.…”
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Characteristics of Lower Paleozoic strike-slip faults and their significance for oil and gas exploration in Xunyi-Yijun area, Ordos Basin by Qichao WANG, Guangxiang LIU, Jiang WU, Xinxin YUE, Ziming SUN, Juntao ZHANG, Xiaopeng GAO, Ling LIU, Kai LU, Zhongpei ZHANG

“…The mechanisms of fault formation are predicted and the related impacts on the formation and accumulation of deep carbonate rocks are also discussed. The results indicate the presence of three fault systems in the Xunyi-Yijun area, with decoupling between deep and shallow layers. …”
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Rate-dependence of the compressive and tensile strength of granites by J. E. Kendrick, J. E. Kendrick, A. Lamur, J. Mouli-Castillo, J. Mouli-Castillo, A. P. Fraser-Harris, A. Lightbody, K. Edlmann, C. McDermott, Z. Shipton

“…The lower strength at slower strain rates causes smaller stress drops, indicating that rocks driven to compressive and tensile failure at slower rates release less energy upon failure. …”
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Relation between Conventional and Starch-Assisted ASP Injection and Impact of Crystallinity on Flood Formation by Hasanain A. Al-Jaber, Agus Arsad, Sulalit Bandyopadhyay, Mohd Zaidi Jaafar, Muhammad Tahir, Mustafa Jawad Nuhma, Abdulmunem R. Abdulmunem, Mohammad Yasin Abdulfatah, Hajar Alias

“…Surface properties affect interactions with fluids and rocks. Crystallinity, a crucial characterization, was assessed using Origin software 2019b. …”
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Concept and Design of Martian Far-IR ORE Spectrometer (MIRORES) by Jakub Ciazela, Jaroslaw Bakala, Miroslaw Kowalinski, Stefan Plocieniak, Natalia Zalewska, Bartosz Pieterek, Tomasz Mrozek, Marta Ciazela, Grzegorz Paslawski, Marek Steslicki, Zaneta Szaforz, Jaromir Barylak, Mateusz Kuzaj, Alessandro Maturilli, Joern Helbert, Andrzej Muszynski, Miroslaw Rataj, Szymon Gburek, Mateusz Jozefowicz, Dariusz Marciniak

“…Martian meteorites are rich in sulfides, which is reflected in recent findings for surface Martian rocks analyzed by the Spirit and Curiosity rovers. …”
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Structural features and exploration targets of platform margins in Sinian Dengying Formation in Deyang—Anyue Rift, Sichuan Basin, SW China by Fuying ZENG, Wei YANG, Guoqi WEI, Haiyong YI, Yunxian ZENG, Gang ZHOU, Shiwei YI, Wenzhi WANG, San ZHANG, Qingchun JIANG, Shipeng HUANG, Mingyi HU, Cuiguo HAO, Yuan WANG, Xuan ZHANG

“…In the Lezhi—Penglai area, independent and multi-stage fault controlled platform margins are developed in the Deng 2 Member, which trend in NE direction and are controlled by synsedimentary faults; the mound-shoal complexes are aggraded and built on the hanging walls of the faults, and they are shielded by tight intertidal belts and the Lower Cambrian source rocks in multiple directions, forming fault-controlled—lithologic and other composite traps. …”
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CO₂ Adsorption on Natural Zeolites from Puebla, México, by Inverse Gas Chromatography by Miguel Angel Hernandez, Gabriela Itzel Hernandez, Roberto Portillo, Efraín Rubio, Vitalii Petranovskii, Karin Montserrat Alvarez, Ma de los Angeles Velasco, Juana Deisy Santamaría, Mario Tornero, Laura Alicia Paniagua

“…The nanoporosity of these clinoptolite zeolites from new deposit in sedimentary rocks was studied through HRADS adsorption of N₂. …”
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Trace Element Geochemistry of Magnetite: Implications for Ore Genesis of the Huanggangliang Sn-Fe Deposit, Inner Mongolia, Northeastern China by Cheng Wang, Yongjun Shao, Xiong Zhang, Jeffrey Dick, Zhongfa Liu

“…Compositions of the ore fluids and host rocks, formation of coexisting minerals, and other physical and chemical parameters (such as fO2) may have influenced the variable magnetite geochemistry in the different Huanggangliang ore types, with fluid compositions and fO2 probably playing the most important roles. …”
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Preliminary Assessment of Ecological Status of the Siversky Donets River Basin (Ukraine) Based on Phytoplankton Parameters and Its Verification by Other Biological Data by Olena Bilous, Sergey Afanasyev, Olena Lietytska, Oksana Manturova, Oleksandr Polishchuk, Inna Nezbrytska, Maryna Pohorielova, Sophia Barinova

“…Within the basin, rivers of different sizes were explored (small, medium, large and extra-large) that flow through siliceous and calcareous rocks on the same elevation (lowland—below 200 m a.s.l.). …”
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Breakup of the Neoarchean supercontinent Kenorland: Evidence from zircon and baddeleyite U-Pb ages of LIP-related mafic dykes in the Coorg Block, southern India by Cheng-Xue Yang, M. Santosh, Jarred Lloyd, Stijn Glorie, Y. Anilkumar, K.S. Anoop, Pin Gao, Sung-Won Kim

“….%, and exhibit a sub-alkaline tholeiitic nature. These rocks show relatively flat LREE and constant HREE patterns and lack obvious Eu anomalies. …”
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