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Sedimentology and Diagenesis Effect on Jurassic Sandstone, Marwat-Khisor Ranges, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
The present study carries out the sedimentological and diagenesis impact on reservoir quality of the Early Jurassic sandstone (Datta Formation) of Trans-Indus Ranges, Pakistan. To fulfill the objectives of the...
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Soil Quality, Resilience, and Crop Productivity Under 32-Year-Old Long-term Rice-Rice System in Acidic Alfisol of Assam
Rice-rice system is the foundation of food security in South Asian countries. Assessment of the quality and resilience of soil for sustaining productivity of the double rice system is extremely important under...
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Open AccessAcceptability, feasibility and cost of point of care testing for sexually transmitted infections among South African adolescents where syndromic management is standard of care
Young people (YP) in southern Africa are at substantial risk of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Despite the epidemiological and biological link between STIs and HIV transmission and acquisition...
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Soret and Dufour Effects on MHD Flow Past a Uniformly Moving Plate with Uniform Heat Flux
An attempt has been made to investigate the simultaneous effects of thermal diffusion and diffusion thermo on a mass transfer flow of an incompressible, viscous, electrical conducting fluid past a uniformly mo...
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Thermal Diffusion Effect in MHD Natural Convective Dissipative Flow Past a Porous Plate Embedded in a Porous Medium
An analytical solution to the problem of a hydromagnetic convective flow past a continuously moving vertical plate embedded in a porous medium, with uniform suction, is obtained. A magnetic field of uniform st...
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Nano-K2CO3-Catalyzed Biginelli-Type Reaction: Regioselective Synthesis, DFT Study, and Antimicrobial Activity of 4-Aryl-6-methyl-5-phenyl-3,4-dihydropyrimidine-2(1H)-thiones
An efficient and facile approach has been proposed for the regioselective synthesis of 4-aryl(heteroaryl)-6-methyl-5-phenyl-3,4-dihydropyrimidine-2(1H)-thiones in the presence of nano-K2CO3. Nano-K2CO3 activates...
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Open AccessA parallelization model for performance characterization of Spark Big Data jobs on Hadoop clusters
This article proposes a new parallel performance model for different workloads of Spark Big Data applications running on Hadoop clusters. The proposed model can predict the runtime for generic workloads as a f...
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Open AccessA comprehensive performance analysis of Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark for large scale data sets using HiBench
Big Data analytics for storing, processing, and analyzing large-scale datasets has become an essential tool for the industry. The advent of distributed computing frameworks such as Hadoop and Spark offers effi...
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Open AccessSurrounding landscape influences the abundance of insect predators in rice field
Natural enemy abundance in a crop plot depends on its prey presence and also influenced by habitats close to field. Landscape changes are also important factors driving pest and natural enemy population abunda...
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Open AccessResponse of a rice insect pest, Scirpophaga incertulas (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in warmer world
Increases in global mean temperature, changes in rainfall patterns, and extreme climatic events are expected results of climate change. The individual effects of elevated temperature and precipitation on insec...
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Development of the Midlands Secure Setting Managed Clinical Network
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Analysis of lead and copper in soil samples by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy under external magnetic field
The purpose of the present study was to improve the detection limits of copper and lead in the soil samples by coupling Laser-Induced Plasma Spectrometry (LIPS) with an external magnetic field. The laser-induc...
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Patient mortality following alcohol use and trauma: a propensity-matched analysis
To examine the outcomes of trauma patients who tested positive for alcohol at the time of hospital arrival versus those who tested negative.
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Heat and Mass Transfer in MHD Poiseuille Flow with Porous Walls
An exact solution of the problem of a steady MHD Poiseuille flow with heat and mass transfer in the presence of a transverse magnetic field has been obtained with consideration for the induced magnetic field a...
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MHD Mass Transfer Flow Past an Impulsively Started Semi-Infinite Vertical Plate with Soret Effect and Ramped Wall Temperature
An exact solution to the problem of a hydromagnetic natural convective mass transfer flow of an incompressible viscous electrically conducting non-Gray optically thin fluid past an impulsively started semi-inf...
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A QoS-aware hybrid data aggregation scheme for Internet of Things
Quality of service provisioning for real-time data such as audio and video in large Internet of Things networks is considered to be a challenging issue. In order to maintain desirable service quality of the se...
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Dental pain management – a cause of significant morbidity due to paracetamol overdose
Highlights that paracetamol dosages in common OTC medicines are not fully appreciated by patients and dentists.
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Morphological and spectroscopic studies on the vertically aligned zinc oxide nanorods grown on low and high temperature deposited seed layer
Vertically aligned zinc oxide nanorods were grown on low and high temperature deposited aluminium doped zinc oxide seed layer by hydrothermal method and annealed to improve crystallinity. The morphology of the...
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Open AccessEnhancing the get healthy information and coaching service for Aboriginal adults: evaluation of the process and impact of the program
Non-communicable chronic diseases in Australia contribute to approximately 85% of the total burden of disease; this proportion is greater for Aboriginal communities. The Get Healthy Service (GHS) is effective ...
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Open AccessHigher Fertilizer Inputs Increase Fitness Traits of Brown Planthopper in Rice
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the primary staple food source for more than half of the world’s population. In many develo** countries, increased use of fertilizers is a response to increase demand for rice. In this...
