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Open AccessNumerical Analysis of Blast Behavior for Non-ideal Explosive ANFO in Shock-Tube Test
In an explosion test using a shock tube, the behavior of pressure waves can be reproduced with high reliability. However, the explosion in a shock tube occurs in a confined space. It is difficult to predict th...
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Liquefaction of Latex Glove Waste for Volume Reduction
The accumulation of dry active wastes such as latex gloves in nuclear facilities has become a serious issue because of the high cost and limited storage area for their management. In this study, the liquefacti...
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Investigation of the chlorination behavior of Li(Ni0.6Co0.2Mn0.2)O2 for recycling
The chlorination behavior of Li(Ni0.6Co0.2Mn0.2)O2 (NCM(622)), a cathode material for Li-ion batteries, was investigated. Chlorination experiments were conducted in the temperature range of 400–600 ℃ for 1, 2, 4,...
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Open AccessHealth-related quality of life of children born very preterm: a multinational European cohort study
This study aims to (1) describe the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) outcomes experienced by children born very preterm (28–31 weeks’ gestation) and extremely preterm (< 28 weeks’ gestation) at five year...
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Recycling of LiMO2 cathode materials by a chlorination-based Li extraction technique
The recycling of Li(Ni1/3Co1/3Mn1/3)O2 (NCM) and LiCoO2 (LCO), which are cathode materials for Li-ion batteries, was demonstrated via a chlorination-based Li extraction technique. The recycling process follows a ...
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Effect of corrosion inhibitors on SA106 Grade B carbon steel in H2SO4-N2H4 solution for the hydrazine-based reductive metal ion decontamination process
The chemical stability of base metals in a nuclear facility is critical for chemical decontamination because the process typically utilizes a corrosive solution as a reaction medium. An electrochemical corrosi...
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Chlorination behavior of Li(Ni1/3Co1/3Mn1/3)O2
The chlorination behavior of Li(Ni1/3Co1/3Mn1/3)O2 (NCM) was investigated as a function of the reaction temperature (400–600 °C) and time (1–8 h) for application in a chlorination-based recycling process. Structu...
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Open AccessEconomic costs at age five associated with very preterm birth: multinational European cohort study
This study aims to estimate the economic costs of care provided to children born very preterm and extremely preterm across 11 European countries, and to understand what perinatal and socioeconomic factors cont...
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Chlorination behavior of LiCoO2
The chlorination behavior of LiCoO2 (LCO) was investigated as a function of the reaction temperature (400–600 °C) and time (1–8 h) under a 190 mL/min Ar+10 mL/min Cl2 flow. Based on the results of a structural an...
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Recycling of Li(Ni,Co,Mn)O2 via a chlorination technique
A new approach to recycle Li(Ni,Co,Mn)O2 (NCM, Ni : Co : Mn=1 : 1 : 1) is introduced and experimentally demonstrated. Chlorine gas was employed as a reaction agent to selectively extract Li from NCM. Through a re...
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Open AccessRecent Advances of Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing Industrial Sectors: A Review
The recent advances in artificial intelligence have already begun to penetrate our daily lives. Even though the development is still in its infancy, it has been shown that it can outperform human beings even i...
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Chlorination technique for decontamination of radioactive concrete waste contaminated by Sr
The feasibility of the chlorination reaction as a decontamination technique for 90Sr-contaminated concrete waste was investigated via thermodynamic and experimental approaches. Thermodynamic calculations suggeste...
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Knowledge Integration into deep learning in dynamical systems: an overview and taxonomy
Despite the sudden rise of AI, it still leaves a question mark to many newcomers on its widespread adoption as it exhibits a lack of robustness and interpretability. For instance, the insufficient amount of tr...
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Open AccessEstimating the phase volume fraction of multi-phase steel via unsupervised deep learning
Advanced high strength steel (AHSS) is a steel of multi-phase microstructure that is processed under several conditions to meet the current high-performance requirements from the industry. Deep neural network ...
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Ligament stabilization improved clinical and radiographic outcomes for individuals with chronic ankle instability and medial ankle osteoarthritis
Chronic ankle instability with a long symptom duration is often accompanied by medial compartment ankle osteoarthritis (OA). However, the outcomes of individuals after ligament stabilization have rarely been r...
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Open AccessNeuroprotective effect of paricalcitol in a rat model of transient global cerebral ischemia
Paricalcitol is known to attenuate ischemic-reperfusion injury of various organs. However, it is not known whether paricalcitol prevents neuronal injury after global cerebral ischemia. The purpose of this stud...
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Open AccessA method for measuring spatial effects on socioeconomic inequalities using the concentration index
Although spatial effects contribute to inequalities in health care service utilisation and other health outcomes in low and middle income countries, there have been no attempts to incorporate the impact of nei...
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Open AccessA bootstrap** approach for generating an inverse distance weight matrix when multiple observations have an identical location in large health surveys
Spatial weight matrices play a key role in econometrics to capture spatial effects. However, these constructs are prone to clustering and can be challenging to analyse in common statistical packages such as ST...
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Open AccessPerformance of composite mineral adsorbents for removing Cu, Cd, and Pb ions from polluted water
This study evaluated the efficiency of the removal of heavy metals from contaminated water via adsorption isotherm and kinetic experiments on two composite mineral adsorbents, CMA1 and CMA2. The developed CMA1...
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Electrolytic behavior of SrCl2 and BaCl2 in LiCl molten salt during oxide reduction in pyroprocessing
Ba and Sr elements in spent nuclear fuels are supposed to accumulate in LiCl molten salt electrolyte by forming chlorides (i.e., BaCl2, SrCl2) during oxide reduction in pyroprocessing. An electrochemical examinat...
