Effects of hypochlorous acid exposure on the rejection of salt, polyethylene glycols, boron and arsenic(V) by nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membranes by Do, Van Thanh, Tang, Chuyang Y., Reinhard, Martin, Leckie, James O.

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Positively-Coated Nanofiltration Membranes for Lithium Recovery from Battery Leachates and Salt-Lakes: Ion Transport Fundamentals and Module Performance by Foo, Zi Hao, Liu, Suwei, Kanias, Lucy, Lee, Trent R., Heath, Samuel M., Tomi, Yasuhiro, Miyabe, Tomotsugu, Keten, Sinan, Lueptow, Richard M., Lienhard, John H.

“…Over 8000 ion rejection measurements are recorded using salt lake brines and battery leachates. The experiments exemplify the coated membrane's ability to reduce magnesium concentrations to 0.14% from salt lakes and elevate lithium purity to 98% from battery leachates, in a single filtration stage. …”
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A multiphysics model of photo-sensitive hydrogels in response to light-thermo-pH-salt coupled stimuli for biomedical applications by Chen, Xiao, Li, Hua, Lam, King-Yeung

“…This paper aims to unveil the fundamental response mechanism of photo-sensitive hydrogels subject to light-thermo-pH-salt coupled stimuli, for their potential biomedical uses such as cell scaffolds and extracellular matrices, where biological activity largely depends on internal electrochemical changes. …”
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Poly(ß-hydroxy thioether)s: synthesis through thiol-epoxy ‘click’ reaction and post-polymerization modification to main-chain polysulfonium salts by Stuparu, Mihaiela Corina, Khan, Anzar

“…The thioether group can be modified by a post-polymerization alkylation reaction to access antibiofouling and antibacterial ß-hydroxy sulfonium salts. Overall, therefore, the thiol-epoxy reaction is highly utilitarian in the context of polymer synthesis. …”
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Production and optimisation of used cooking palm oil into protected fat calcium salts by fusion method using response surface methodology (RSM) by Mohamad Asrol, Kalam, Pak Dek, Mohd Sabri, Suyub, I. B., Sugnaseelan, Sumita, Jusoh, Shokri

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A comparative study on thermal conductivity of multi-walled carbon nanotubes/expanded graphite/graphene enhanced molten nitrate salt: a review by Li, Li, Muhamad, Mat Noor, Kadirgama, Kumaran

“…This review presents a comprehensive comparative study on the thermal conductivity enhancement of molten nitrate salt when integrated with multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTS), expanded graphite, and graphene. …”
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Ethnic differences in knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to dietary salt intake and association with hypertension in Malaysia: a multi-centre cross-sectional study by Chia, Yook Chin, Ching, Siew Mooi, Chew, Ming Tsuey, Devaraj, Navin Kumar, Oui, Jethro Ee Keat, Lim, Hooi Min, Chew, Bee Nah, Mohamed, Mohazmi, Ooi, Pei Boon, Cheng, Maong Hui, Beh, Hooi Chin, Chung, Felicia Fei-Lei

“…The association between high salt intake and elevated blood pressure levels has been well-documented. …”

REACH story of change: cleaning the tap: tap hygiene for safer drinking water by REACH

“…Evidence from Bangladesh suggests that regular cleaning of water point spouts and taps could substantially reduce this figure, even halving the number of contaminated handpumps.</p> <p>• Based on this evidence, new WHO guidance on Sanitary Inspections includes cleaning of handpump spouts for the first time. …”

A comparison of methods for forecasting value at risk and expected shortfall of cryptocurrencies by Trucíos, C, Taylor, JW

“…Those procedures are revisited in this paper, and their value at risk and expected shortfall forecasting performance are evaluated using recent Bitcoin and Ethereum data that include periods of turbulence due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the third halving of Bitcoin, and the Lexia class action. Additionally, in order to mitigate the influence of model misspecification and enhance the forecasting performance obtained by individual models, we evaluate the use of several forecast combining strategies. …”

Bisections of Mass Assignments Using Flags of Affine Spaces by Axelrod-Freed, Ilani, Soberón, Pablo

“…We also study the problem of halving several families of (𝑑−𝑘) -dimensional affine spaces of ℝ𝑑 using a (𝑘−1) -dimensional affine subspace contained in some translate of a fixed k-dimensional affine space. …”
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DAPA : Differential Analysis Aided Power Attack on (non-) linear feedback shift registers by Sim, Siang Meng, Jap, Dirmanto, Bhasin, Shivam

“…In addition, we improve the previous DPA on Keymill by halving the amount of data resources needed for the attack. …”
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Highly stretchable, elastic, and ionic conductive hydrogel for artificial soft electronics by Zhou, Yang, Wan, Changjin, Yang, Yongsheng, Yang, Hui, Wang, Shancheng, Dai, Zhendong, Ji, Keju, Jiang, Hui, Chen, Xiaodong, Long, Yi

“…The proposed ionic conductive hydrogel is achieved by physically cross-linking the tough biocompatible polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) gel as the matrix and embedding hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC) biopolymer fibers inside matrix followed by salt solution soaking. The wrinkle and dense structure induced by salting in PVA matrix provides large stress (1.3 MPa) and strain (975%). …”
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Thermally induced phase separation PVDF membrane fabricated by using NaCl coagulation bath: relation of membrane surface morphology and permeation performance by Chen, Ningyuan, Zhao, Jie, Shi, Lei, Goto, Atsushi, Wang, Rong

“…The inclusion of NaCl in the coagulation bath serves to decrease the solubility of PEG within this medium, owing to the salting-out effect. Consequently, the NaCl concentration in the coagulation bath emerges as a crucial factor in regulating the migration of PEG400 toward the membrane surface. …”
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Studies of seed-borne fungi of tropical pasture legume species by Nik, WZ, Parbery, DG

“…In order to isolate storage fungi, seeds were incubated on salt-malt agar. This medium was also effective in isolating pathogens which survived for long periods in seed, which suggests that such pathogens may share with storage fungi physiological characteristics which aid survival in seed. …”

A tale of two shuffle algebras by Neguț, Andrei

“…As a quantum affinization, the quantum toroidal algebra 𝑈𝑞,𝑞⎯⎯⎯(𝔤𝔩¨𝑛) is defined in terms of its “left” and “right” halves, which both admit shuffle algebra presentations (Enriquez in Transform Groups 5(2):111–120, 2000; Feigin and Odesskii in Am Math Soc Transl Ser 2:185, 1998). …”
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Understanding Entrainment in Human Groups: Optimising Human-Robot Collaboration from Lessons Learned during Human-Human Collaboration by Schneiders, Eike, Fourie, Christopher, Celestin, Stanley, Shah, Julie, Jung, Malte

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Effect of pore size distribution on the desalination performance of the selective layer of nanoporous atomically-thin membranes by Chow, Chun-Man, Karnik, Rohit

“…Sealing of large, salt-permeable pores (e.g. by interfacial polymerization) limits salt leakage but substantially reduces water permeance. …”
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Effect of pre-load on diffusion characteristics of composite material by Chew, Xin Yun

“…The aim of this project was to study the water absorption properties of the composite when immersed in salt water – the salt water had a salt to water concentration of 3.5%. …”
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Use of co-cultivation method to stimulate the production of antimicrobial natural products from mangrove microorganisms by Tan, Jin Wei

“…Cryptic gene clusters from actinomycetes are suspected to harbor potential in producing bioactive products, and in this study, co-cultivation is utilized to stimulate these cryptic gene clusters in novel antibiotics production. 10 actinomycete strains isolated from Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve were co-cultured with Mycobacterium Abscessus and Asperigillus Westerdijikiae in two liquid mediums, Glucose-Yeast extract-Malt extract (GYM) and Minimum Media (MM). Their culture extracts were screened for antibacterial activity using filter-disc assay. …”
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Mathematical modelling of water filtration by Tan, Cindy Xin Yu

“…Saline water can be desalinized with the use of reverse osmosis, wherein a mixture of water and dissolved salt molecules is forced by a high pressure pump through a semi-permeable membrane, preventing the bigger salt molecules from getting through the holes of the membrane but allowing the tinier water molecules to do so. …”
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