An enhanced fourier neural operator surrogate for radioactive plume transport forecasting by Ayoub, Ali, Wainwright, Haruko M., Wang, Lijing, Sansavini, Giovanni

“…The speed and efficiency of this framework offers a powerful tool for swift decision-making during emergencies, facilitating risk-informed protective actions, evacuation execution, and zone delineation. Its application extends to various contaminant release and transport problems, and can be instrumental in engineering tasks requiring uncertainty quantification (UQ) for environmental risk assessment.…”
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Chiral phonons and giant magneto-optical effect in CrBr₃ 2D magnet by Yin, Tingting, Ulman, Kanchan Ajit, Liu, Sheng, Granados Del Águila, Andrés, Huang, Yuqing, Zhang, Lifa, Serra, Marco, Sedmidubsky, David, Sofer, Zdenek, Quek, Su Ying, Xiong, Qihua

“…Here it is shown that 2D magnetic CrBr3 hosts chiral phonons at the Brillouin-zone center. These chiral phonons are linear combinations of the doubly-degenerate Eg phonons, and the phonon eigenmodes exhibit clockwise and counterclockwise rotational vibrations corresponding to angular momenta of l = ± 1. …”
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Strut-and-tie and finite element modelling of unsymmetrically-loaded deep beams by Fan, Shengxin, Zhang, Yao, Ma, You-Xin, Tan, Kang Hai

“…Furthermore, a minimum-strain-energy criterion is adopted to define the optimal STM geometry from the stress field, including the dimensions of struts and nodal zones, and strut angles. The proposed STM is validated against 140 test results, including 14 unsymmetrically-loaded deep beams and 126 symmetric deep and short beams, and finite element models (FEMs) for the 14 unsymmetrical deep beams. …”
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Alteration of hippocampal CA2 plasticity and social memory in adult rats impacted by juvenile stress by Raghuraman, Radha, Navakkode, Sheeja, Sajikumar, Sreedharan

“…Unlike entorhinal cortical inputs, the Schaffer collateral inputs to CA2 do not support activity-dependent long-term potentiation (LTP), which serves as the basis for long-term memories. This LTP-resistant zone also expresses genes that restrict plasticity. …”
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Range front faulting and volcanism in the mono basin, eastern California by Bursik, Marcus, Sieh, Kerry

“…If the craters represent incipient caldera formation, then calderas such as Long Valley may also have formed in pull-apart zones.…”
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Desalination : discharging brine into coastal waters by Cher, Leo Wei Kwang.

“…Therefore, it is vital to find the techniques to enhance mixing of brine in the “allocated impact zone” thus preventing the spread of high salinity out of this region. …”
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UNCLOS and its Limitations as the Foundation for a Regional Maritime Security Regime by Sam, Bateman

“…This paper discusses key limitations of UNCLOS; particularly the use of territorial sea baselines, navigational regimes, exclusive economic zones (EEZs), and some other issues covered by the Convention, such as piracy, hot pursuit and the responsibilities of flag States. …”
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The Capacities of Coast Guards to deal with Maritime Challenges in Southeast Asia by Prabhakaran, Paleri

“…The governments have to appreciate and understand the role of the coast guard in safeguarding the maritime and other national interests in their identified maritime zones. Then only they will acquire the necessary capacity and competence. …”
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Antibacterial effect of cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum) against bacteria isolated from cats with otitis externa by Mokhtar, Aimi Najwa

“…There were significant differences in the diameter of inhibition zone (DIZ) of each bacterium tested against different antibiotics and the cinnamon paste (p = 0.000). …”
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A Proposed Framework of Unemployment and Youth Restiveness in the North-Eastern Nigeria: Exloring the Role of the “Almajiri” Culture by Abbo, Usman, Romle, Abd Rahim

“…More so as unemployment in Nigeria increase by 16% from 2011 to 2013 representing 39.9%, with youth unemployment representing 50% of this, where the north-eastern region continue to manifest the worst poverty rate compare to the other five geo-political zones couple with the existence of about 10 million “Almajiris” in the entire northern region which is much more than the total population of Sweden and the result of several investigation panels revealing the involvement of “Almajiri” in most of the violence occurring in the northern region from 1980 to 2010, where the vulnerability of the “Almajiri” due to abject poverty makes them a tool for unleashing violence by some unscrupulouselements. …”
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Direct imaging of exoEarths embedded in clumpy debris disks by Defrere, D., Stark, C., Cahoy, K., Beerer, I.

“…Hence, the presence of large amounts of dust in the habitable zone around nearby main-sequence stars is considered as a major hurdle toward the direct imaging of exoEarths with future dedicated space-based telescopes. …”
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Temporal and spatial characteristics of the Beaufort Sea ambient noise environment by Chen, R., Schmidt, H.

“…In particular, the influx of warm Pacific water, so called the Beaufort Lens, has dramatically altered the level and vertical directionality of ambient noise, creating a low noise zone in the ∼75–250 m depth interval with a noise notch at low grazing angles. …”
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An abundant bacterial phylum with nitrite-oxidizing potential in oligotrophic marine sediments by Zhao, Rui, Jørgensen, Steffen L, Babbin, Andrew R

“…Nitrosediminicola aerophilus) is generally confined within the oxic zone, another (Ca. Nitrosediminicola anaerotolerans) additionally appears in anoxic sediments. …”
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Single-crystal growth of organic semiconductors by Jiang, Hui, Kloc, Christian

“…The growth of large crystals from the melt by zone melting, the Bridgman, or the Czochralski methods has been used to produce stable materials used in wafer manufacturing or large scintillator detectors. …”
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Evaluation of unsaturated soil slope stability by incorporating soil-water characteristic curve by Zhai, Qian, Tian, Gang, Ye, Weimin, Rahardjo, Harianto, Dai, Guoliang, Wang, Shijun

“…Loess soils are unsaturated and widely distributed in the northwest zone in China. Many steep slope of unsaturated are observed are observed to be naturally stable. …”
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Studies on coordination chemistry of a nitrogen–sulfur donor ligand with lighter and heavier metal ions and biological activities of its complexes by H. Tarafder, M. Tofazzal, Asmadi, A., Talib, Siti M. S., Ali, A. M., Crouse, K. A.

“…[Fe(SBDTCA)3], [Sb(SBDTCA)3] and [Sb(SBDTCA)2Cl · H2O] were strongly effective against bacteria giving clear inhibition zones with Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Bacillus cereus. …”

Assessment of the biological durability of oil palm trunk modified with 1,3-dimethylol-4,5-dihydroxy-ethyleneurea (DMDHEU) following subsequent curing at elevated temperatures by Rosli, Siti Nurul Ashikin, Chin, Kit Ling, Lee, Chuan Li, Maminski, Mariusz, Abdullah, Luqman Chuah, Toczylowska-Maminska, Renata

“…High curing temperature (> 180 °C) caused cracks and ruptured the cell walls, exposing the untreated zone of the OPT to biological attack. As a non-biocidal wood modification, homogeneous dispersion of DMDHEU with adequate concentration and curing temperature is important to fully prevent OPT degradation by wood-destroying fungi and termites. …”
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Development of temperature and mass transfer-based empirical models for estimating reference evapotranspiration in Nigeria by Awhari, Dauda Pius, Jamal, Mohamad Hidayat, Muhammad, Mohd. Khairul Idlan, Kamai, Matthew Boniface, Yaseen, Zaher Mundher, Shahid, Shamsuddin

“…The spatial distribution analysis of performance metrics showed both equations exhibited superior accuracy in estimating ET0 across diverse climatic zones in Nigeria. The incorporation of PSO in model development, coupled with spatial analysis, highlights the study’s multidimensional approach. …”
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Soil moisture-based drought monitoring using remote sensing over Africa by Lu, Catherine S.

“…Additionally, a methodology of exponential time filtering is explored to convert surface soil moisture from SMAP into root-zone soil moisture, which can be more relevant for agricultural production. …”
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Numerical modeling of explosion of a reinforced concrete magazine : secondary trajectory of debris due to roll-and-bound motion by Ang, Adele Yu Hui

“…One of the factors is considering the required clearance zone measured from the hazardous source such as an explosive-storing magazine. …”
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