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Effects of Irrigation Water Quality on Soil Physico-chemical Proprieties: Case Study in North-West of Tunisia
Poor-quality water containing a high concentration of soluble salts is used to irrigate cropland worldwide, especially in arid and semi-arid regions, the limited rainfall is insufficient to wash away salts fro...
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Open AccessChemical–physical and dynamical–mechanical characterization on Spartium junceum L. cellulosic fiber treated with softener agents: a preliminary investigation
Long cellulose fiber (10–30 cm), extracted from Spartium junceum, was chemically treated with different softening agents with the aim to improve its textile applicability. A preliminary sensory evaluation of the ...
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Photocatalytic inactivation of Escherichia coli bacteria in water using low pressure plasma deposited TiO2 cellulose fabric
Fabrics obtained from cellulose spinning, extracted from Spanish broom, were coated with TiO2 film, through the low pressure plasma sputtering technique, in order to get antibacterial activity. The obtained fabri...
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Electrofluorochromism in π-conjugated ionic liquid crystals
Materials in which photoluminescence is modulated by redox processes are known as electrofluorochromic. Intrinsically switchable fluorophores, incorporating both redox and fluorescent moieties, could be ideal ...
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The influence of millimeter waves on the physical properties of large and giant unilamellar vesicles
Exposure of cell membranes to an electromagnetic field (EMF) in the millimeter wave band (30–300 GHz) can produce a variety of responses. Further, many of the vibrational modes in complex biomolecules fall in ...
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Open-Ended Waveguide Measurement and Numerical Simulation of the Reflectivity of Petri Dish Supported Skin Cell Monolayers in the mm-wave Range
Open-ended waveguide reflectometry is a promising tool for permittivity and other material properties calculation at mm-waves (30–300 GHz). Measurement of the reflection coefficient does not require sample man...
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Metabonomics and population studies: age-related amino acids excretion and inferring networks through the study of urine samples in two Italian isolated populations
The study of two different Italian isolated populations was combined with a metabonomic approach to better understand tubular handling of amino acids. Levels of amino acids and metabolites have been analyzed b...
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Evaluation of the Potential In Vitro Antiproliferative Effects of Millimeter Waves at Some Therapeutic Frequencies on RPMI 7932 Human Skin Malignant Melanoma Cells
The potential antiproliferative effects of low power millimeter waves (MMWs) at 42.20 and 53.57 GHz on RPMI 7932 human skin melanoma cells were evaluated in vitro in order to ascertain if these two frequencies...