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Studying the thermal decomposition of wood pellets is an important subject in order to understand the behavior of wood pellets during the combustion process. In fact, wood pellets have become an important fuel used in boiler combustion. The objective...

In this study, we evaluate a phosphorus-based fire retardant (HR Prof) on Norway spruce using Simultaneous Thermal Analysis (STA: TG/DTG/DSC), Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry (GC–MS), and bench-scale mass-loss measurements. Relative...

Background: Bariatric surgery effectively treats severe obesity, but postoperative weight loss includes reductions in both fat mass (FM) and fat-free mass (FFM). Excessive FFM loss may increase the risk of sarcopenia, frailty, and long-term weight re...

(1) Multimodal treatment is a standard treatment for patients with obesity. However, weight loss also leads to reductions in fat-free mass. The aim was to investigate whether additional protein intake contributes to better preservation of lean body m...

Understory vegetation is a critical component of forest ecosystems. Its removal can substantially alter litter decomposition processes, with cascading effects on carbon (C) and nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. However, the global response...

Wood, which is flammable, is commonly used as a building material and can be improved using a suitable surface treatment. A promising coating solution is polyurea, featuring properties like flexibility, mechanical resistance, resistance against water...

This study deals with the synthesis and evaluation of salen based derivatives as fire retardants in thermoplastic polyurethane. Salens, hydroxysalens and their first row transition metal complexes (salen-M) were synthesized (Copper, Manganese, Nickel...

This paper examines the possibility of using basalt-based glass ceramics for construction of structural parts of equipment in metallurgy and mining. An ultrasonic vibration method with a stationary sample pursuant to the ASTM G32 standard was used to...

Structural characterization of natural products in complex herbal extracts remains a major challenge in phytochemical analysis. In this study, we present a novel post-acquisition data-processing strategy—key ion diagnostics–neutral loss f...

Recent incidents of fire accidents attributed to oil combustion have emerged as a significant threat to both industrial safety and environmental conservation. In this study, the thermal oxidation and thermal analysis kinetics parameters of transforme...

To address the durability challenges faced by traditional concrete in marine environments, this study focuses on polyoxymethylene (POM) fiber-reinforced ultra-high-performance concrete (PFUHPC) and, for the first time, systematically investigates the...

CO₂ capture, applied in CO₂ separation from natural gas or in CO₂/N₂ separation from power plant flue gas streams, is of great importance for technical, economic, and environmental reasons. The latter seems important because CO₂, as a greenhouse gas,...

Enhancing our understanding of the specific characteristics that disuse-induced models should possess, based on the immobilized joint, could significantly enhance the effectiveness of research in this field. Objective: Our objective was to quantify t...

The quantification of food losses and waste (FLW) has become a research hotspot in the last decade, but little work has been done to have food waste data in Latin American countries. This paper contributes to addressing this knowledge gap by examinin...

Background: Malnutrition can significantly affect disease progression and patient survival. The efficiency of weight loss and bioimpedance analysis (BIA)-derived measures in the evaluation of malnutrition, and disease progression and prognosis in pat...

Corrosion in the marine environment is a complex and expensive form of damage. It is commonly studied by the deployment of coupons that reflect the marine corrosion a structure will experience, thus allowing design and maintenance prevention strategi...

The aim of the report was to determine the effects of soy isoflavones on lumbar spine, femoral neck, and total hip bone mineral density (BMD) in menopausal women. MEDLINE (PubMed), EMBASE, and Cochrane Library databases were searched for articles pub...

Background. Overweight and obesity are associated with atrial fibrillation (AF), and bariatric surgery (BS), able to induce sustained and prolonged weight loss, might represent the ideal treatment in the prevention of AF. Previous studies could not d...

In this work, we analyzed the hybrid nanofluid (Ag+CuO+kerosene oil) flow past a bidirectionally extendable surface in the presence of a variable magnetic field. The hybrid nanofluid flow considered is electrically conductive and steady. For the simu...

Phosphorylated cellulose can be an intrinsic flame retardant and a promising alternative for halogenated fire inhibitors. In this study, the mixture of di-ammonium hydrogen phosphate (DAP) and urea (U), containing phosphate and nitrogen groups, was a...

In this study, material and energy losses were systematically assessed, together with a comprehensive economic and environmental evaluation, for an industrial expanded polystyrene (EPS) recycling process implemented under a circular economy framework...

Proton exchange membrane water electrolyzers (PEMWEs) coupled with renewable energy resources are considered to be a key technology for producing green hydrogen. However, the high current density PEMWE operation features remarkable voltage losses. A...

Bone and muscle mass loss are known to occur simultaneously. The alpha-actinin three (ACTN3) genotype has been shown to potentially affect bone and muscle mass. In this study, we investigated the association between the ACTN3 genotype and bone and mu...

The climate warming over the Third Pole is twice as large as that in other regions and glacier mass loss is considered to be more intensive in the region. However, due to the vast geographical differences, the characteristics of glacier mass loss mig...

Eutypella parasitica R.W. Davidson & R.C. Lorenz is the causative agent of Eutypella canker of maple, a destructive disease of maples in Europe and North America. The fungus E. parasitica is known to cause wood stain and decay. However, it is not...

The water quality audit concept is an important feature in assessing the loss of disinfectant mass in drinking water distribution systems. Based on this concept, the loss can be divided into the loss of disinfectant mass through water losses ($M_l$) and...

This study conducted an exergy analysis of advanced adsorption cooling cycles. The possible exergy losses were divided into internal losses and external losses, and the exergy losses of each process in three advanced cycles: a mass recovery cycle, he...

This cross-sectional study investigated the association between osteoporosis, grip strength, and skeletal muscle mass in community-dwelling older women. Data obtained from 265 older women who participated in a community-based health check survey (Tar...

Corrosion of steel bars is of great significance for safety and service life of reinforced concrete structures. This work develops a prediction method for steel corrosion mass loss rate before the crack of concrete structure based on a spiral distrib...

There are still many unsolved mysteries in the thermal decomposition process of urea. This paper studied the thermal decomposition process of urea at constant temperatures by the thermal gravimetric–mass spectrometry analysis method. The results show...

Low muscle mass is associated with reduced survival in patients with different cancer types. The interest in preoperative sarcopenia and pancreatic cancer has risen in the last decade as muscle mass loss seems to be associated with poorer survival, h...

Arctic glaciers comprise a small fraction of the world’s land ice area, but their ongoing mass loss currently represents a large cryospheric contribution to the sea level rise. In the Suntar-Khayata Mountains (SKMs) of northeastern Siberia, in...

After a gastrectomy, the nutritional status of patients with gastric cancer has great effect on the treatment outcome and patients’ quality of life. We investigated the changes in body composition and nutrient intake after gastrectomy in 288 ga...

With the warming of the global climate, the mass loss of the Greenland ice sheet is intensifying, having a profound impact on the rising of the global sea level. Here, we used Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) RL06 data to retrieve the...

Plastic waste accumulation has been growing due to the increase in plastic generation and the lack of infrastructure for recycling. One of the approaches is to treat the mixed plastic waste (MPW) through thermal processes to produce feedstocks for ot...

Background: This study investigates whether the appendicular skeletal muscle index (ASMI) was an independent prognostic predictor for patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer (LAHNC) receiving concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) and whethe...

During the routing of coarse particles in sedimentary environments, the particles are subjected to abrasion, leading to mass loss and changes in the particles’ morphology. The particles become more spherical, rounded, and smooth. Here, particle...

The submerged cavitation jet is suitable for ocean engineering activities such as ship fouling cleaning, organic wastewater treatment, offshore oil drilling, and natural gas hydrate extraction due to its superior hydraulic performance and erosion cap...

Plain concrete specimens and FRP(Fiber Reinforced Polymer)-reinforced concrete specimens were fabricated to investigate concrete’s mechanical and surface degradation behaviors reinforced with carbon, basalt, glass, and aramid fiber-reinforced p...

Body composition analysis focuses on measuring skeletal muscle mass and total body fat. The loss of muscle function and mass is related to clinical conditions such as frailty, increased risk of falls, and prolonged hospitalizations. Despite the relev...

Half-cell potential (HCP) measurement is widely applied as a non-destructive technique for assessing corrosion probability, yet its diagnostic capacity remains limited to probabilistic interpretations rather than quantifying the extent of steel mass...

The ketogenic diet (KD) is gaining attention as a preventive treatment for migraine, which is sustained by many pre-clinical and clinical data. KD is also used for weight loss, and there is a relation between migraine and weight excess, but it is spe...

Body fat and muscle mass showed opposing associations with mortality. The results of research on the effectiveness of popular body mass (BM) loss diets in obese subjects showed 20 to 30% loss of muscle mass within the total BM loss; conversely, when...

In this research work, unfilled and monofilled polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) were investigated. The applied fillers were graphene, alumina (Al₂O₃), boehmite alumina (BA80) and hydrotalcite (MG70). Graphene and Al₂O₃ are already known in the literatu...

This in situ study presents an analysis of the wear of mobile contacts of switching in an automatic line voltage regulator, regarding the surface wear of the contacts. It is interesting to analyze the contacts of this equipment due to the friction an...

The majority of cancer patients experience wasting characterized by muscle loss with or without fat loss. In human and animal models of cancer, body composition assessment and morphological analysis reveals adipose atrophy and presence of smaller adi...

The quantum technology absolute gravimeters, gradiometers, and clocks are at the forefront of the instrumentation to be exploited in a future gravity mission (the QSG mission concept). Apart from the quantum payload, the mission design defines the ch...

The sex-linked dwarf (SLD) chicken is an ideal model system for understanding growth hormone (GH)-action and growth hormone receptor (GHR) function because of its recessive mutation in the GHR gene. Skeletal muscle mass is reduced in the SLD chicken...

In order to study the performance of a new cement-based grouting material under the coupling of freeze–thaw cycle and sulfate erosion, tests related to the performance of the new grouting material were designed and carried out to analyze the da...

Particleboards (PB) and oriented strand boards (OSB) are commonly used materials in building structures or building interiors. The surface of boards may hence become directly exposed to fire or radiant heat. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the b...