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    Influence of Environmental Humidity on Concrete Creep

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    It is generally accepted that environment humidity as one of the environmental affects concrete creep considerably. The environmental humidity cycling, drying and high level humidity on concrete structures have significant effects on concrete creep. This paper studied the distribution of humidity field within concrete at both constant humidity condition and variable humidity condition using finite element method. It can be shown from the comparison that the finite element method has satisfied accuracy on simulation of interior humidity field of concrete. Coupled with the changing of humidity field within concrete and improved microprestress solidification theory, creep of concrete at constant environment humidity and different humidity levels was studied

    Influence of Environmental Humidity on Concrete Creep

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    It is generally accepted that environment humidity as one of the environmental affects concrete creep considerably. The environmental humidity cycling, drying and high level humidity on concrete structures have significant effects on concrete creep. This paper studied the distribution of humidity field within concrete at both constant humidity condition and variable humidity condition using finite element method. It can be shown from the comparison that the finite element method has satisfied accuracy on simulation of interior humidity field of concrete. Coupled with the changing of humidity field within concrete and improved microprestress solidification theory, creep of concrete at constant environment humidity and different humidity levels was studied

    Engineered 3D-Printed Polyvinyl Alcohol Scaffolds Incorporating β-Tricalcium Phosphate and Icariin Induce Bone Regeneration in Rat Skull Defect Model

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    The skull defects are challenging to self-heal, and autologous bone graft repair has numerous drawbacks. The scaffolds for the rapid and effective repair of skull defects have become an important research topic. In this study, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)/β-tricalcium phosphate(β-TCP) composite scaffolds containing icariin (ICA) were prepared through direct-ink three-dimensional (3D) printing technology. β-TCP in the composite scaffold had osteoconductive capability, and the ICA molecule had osteoinductive capacity. The β-TCP and ICA components in the composite scaffold can enhance the capability to repair skull defects. We show that ICA exhibited a slow-release behaviour within 80 days. This behaviour helped the scaffold to continuously stimulate the formation of new bone. The results of in vitro cell compatibility experiments showed that the addition of ICA molecules contributed to the adhesion and proliferation of MC-3T3-E1 cells. The level of alkaline phosphatase secretion demonstrated that the slow release of ICA can promote the osteogenic differentiation of MC-3T3-E1 cells. The introduction of ICA molecules accelerated the in situ bone regeneration in in vivo. It is concluded that the 3D-printed PVA scaffold with β-TCP and ICA has a wide range of potential applications in the field of skull defect treatment

    Improving flexural properties of polymethyl methacrylate denture filled by carbon nanofibers under low filling content

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    In this article, we chose carbon nanofibers (CNFs) with high aspect ratio and excellent mechanical strength to investigate the evolution of the assemble behavior belong to the nanofillers and its effect on mechnaical properties of CNFs enhanced polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) base denture resins. Test specimens were manufactured by mixing 0.5%, 1% and 3% content of CNFs with PMMA powder and the flexural properties of the specimens were tested by three-points testing. Comparing with the low flexural strength of pure PMMA base denture resins, Statistical evaluation results revealed that CNFs fillers highly improved the flexural strength of the composite resins to 66.44 ± 1.40 MPa, 68.75 ± 6.82 MPa and 89.26 ± 1.97 MPa at content reached 0.5%, 1% and 3%, respectively. Flexural modulus of neat PMMA was 2.79 ± 0.48 GPa, and the flexural modulus of the sample contains 0.5%, 1% and 3% reached 6.42 ± 0.75 GPa, 5.95 ± 0.29 GPa and 6.27 ± 0.14 GPa, respectively. Scanning electron microscopy revealed the aggregation of CNFs fillers, which is considered a stereoscopic framework that played the role of a special enhancing reinforcement under low filler content, and this strategy is considered to be expanded and developed to a common strategy that guiding our design in composite denture resins

    Table_1_Development and status of moral education research: Visual analysis based on knowledge graph.docx

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    IntroductionMoral education is an educational process of the continuation, construction, and transformation of moral and social norms, and is an important guarantee for the sustainable vitality of human morality.MethodsWith bibliometrics applied and VOSviewer and CiteSpace as tools, this paper systematically analyzes 497 articles published in the Social Sciences Citation Index of Web of Science core collection from 2000 to 2022 in the field of moral education research.ResultsBy quantifying specific performance information in the field of moral education in terms of authors, journals, organizations and countries, this paper identifies the highly productive authors and organizations, as well as core journals (i.e., the Journal of Moral Education). A cluster analysis is used to show the knowledge structure, and an evolutionary analysis to present the macro-development trend of moral education.DiscussionIn this paper, the comprehensive description of the research topics on moral education clarifies the development model and disciplinary prospect of the moral education research, and provides theoretical and practical support for the continuous development and application practice of the moral education research.</p

    Analysis of Landscape Change and Its Driving Mechanism in Chagan Lake National Nature Reserve

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    Lake ecosystems play an important role in regional ecological security and the sustainable development of the economy and society. In order to study the evolution of landscape patterns and the main driving forces in the Chagan Lake Nature Reserve in recent years, we used landscape type data from 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2019 to study the characteristics of the regional landscape’s structural changes. At the same time, the spatial heterogeneity of the driving factors of landscape change was analyzed using the spatial analysis method, and the driving mechanism of landscape change was quantitatively analyzed. The results showed that: (1) from 2005 to 2019, the area of cultivated land, marshland, and water bodies increased, while the area of grassland and the area of bare land decreased. (2) The dominant patch types in the study area formed good connectivity, and the degree of landscape fragmentation increased. (3) In the past 15 years, there has been spatial heterogeneity in the regression coefficients of different driving factors of landscape change: the area with a greater influence of the elevation factor was in the south; the regression coefficient of precipitation showed the spatial distribution characteristics of highs in the west and lows in the east; the gross domestic product had a greater impact on the east and the south; the spatial variation of grain yield was mainly reflected in the southeast and northwest regions; the fishery yield gradually changed from high in the southeast and low in the northwest to the distribution characteristic of decreasing from the east to the southwest; the lake fluorine content showed a distribution pattern that gradually changed from high in the southeast and low in the northwest to high in the middle and low in the north and south; the distribution pattern of the distance to oil production changed from north to southeast to south to north; the distance to the road changed from high in the east and low in the west to the opposite spatial distribution pattern. (4) The interaction of precipitation and lake fluoride content with other factors showed a strong driving effect, which had a significant impact on the landscape change of Chagan Lake Nature Reserve. Since the study area is located in a typical fluorine-rich geochemical environment, human activities, such as the expansion of irrigation areas around Chagan Lake and groundwater exploitation, have accelerated the dissolution of fluorine-containing minerals, promoted the enrichment process of fluorine in Chagan Lake, and enhanced the explanatory power of lake fluorine content in terms of landscape changes. At the same time, the increase in precipitation during the study period is beneficial to the growth of vegetation and the storage of water in lakes, which promotes changes in landscape types such as grasslands and areas of water

    Hyperfine structure and isotope shift of neutral and singly ionized europium by Fourier transform spectroscopy

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    The magnetic dipole hyperfine structure (HFS) constants A of neutral and singly ionized europium (Eu I and Eu II) were determined using the emission spectra recorded by the Fourier transform spectrometer at the National Solar Observatory (NSO) at the Kitt Peak, USA. The HFS constants of 29 levels of Eu I and 15 levels of Eu II were determined, from which 22 results for Eu I and 8 results for Eu II are reported for the first time, as far as we know. The isotope shifts (ISs) of 30 transitions of Eu I and 19 transitions of Eu II were also determined, and the ISs of 22 transitions of Eu I and 8 transitions of Eu II are reported for the first time. This work increases the total number of levels with experimentally determined HFS constants A to 202 for Eu I and 24 for Eu II, and increases the number of transitions with known ISs to 359 for Eu I and 36 for Eu II
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