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Fifty years of Quaternary palynology in the Tibetan Plateau
Quaternary palynology in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) was initiated in the 1960s to meet the needs of economic development in western China. Pollen analysis was conducted for the first time on a 200-m long core of...
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Study on the hydration product of ettringite in cement paste with ethanol-diisopropanolamine
Ettringite (AFt) is a very important hydration product of hardened cement pastes in the early stage. The effect of ethanol-diisopropanolamine (EDIPA) on the formation and transform process of AFt in cement pas...
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The effect of gypsum on the hydration of alite–belite–ferrite phase system
Thermal analysis is a very effective method for the study of the hydration process of cement. This paper focuses on the interactions between the alite–belite–ferrite phase system and different amounts of gypsu...
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Open AccessEnvironmental exposure to arsenic may reduce human semen quality: associations derived from a Chinese cross-sectional study
Recent observations in in vitro and in vivo models suggest that arsenic (As) is an endocrine disruptor at environmentally-relevant levels. When exposed to As, male rats and mice show steroidogenic dysfunction tha...
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Eighteen novel microsatellite markers for the greater long-tailed hamster (Tscherskia triton)
Eighteen polymorphic microsatellite markers were developed for the greater long-tailed hamster (Tscherskia triton), a species of interest across northern China. The expected heterozygosity at these loci ranges fr...
