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Influence of chemical composition and discontinuities on energy transformation and rock mass behaviour: Insights into geological dynamic

Naeem Abbas, Kegang Li, Yewuhalashet Fissha, Zemicael Gebrehiwot et al. • The Journal of Engineering (2024)

Abstract In this study, efforts were made to incorporate the influence of discontinuities and failure modes of rock into the classification of rock masses. The past tectonic activities may create microfractures in the rock body therefore th...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1049/tje2.12388

EXARIS Model Development: Enhancing Elementary Scientific and Digital Literacy

Exsaris Januar, Nurhizrah Gistituati, Yanti Fitria, Alwen Bentri et al. • Educational Process: International Journal (2025)

Background/purpose. Study addresses the problem of low scientific and digital literacy among Grade 6 students (Phase C) in the IPAS (Science and Social Studies) subject under the Merdeka Curriculum, particularly in the theme “Our Endangered...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.22521/edupij.2025.18.450

Lysosome blockade induces divergent metabolic programs in macrophages and tumours for cancer immunotherapy

Jing Ma, Ruijuan Ma, Xueke Zeng, Liming Zhang et al. • Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research (2023)

Abstract Background Platinum-drugs based chemotherapy in clinic increases the potency of tumor cells to produce M2 macrophages, thus leading to poor anti-metastatic activity and immunosuppression. Lysosome metabolism is critical for cancer ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13046-023-02768-0

A review on green synthesis of ZnO nanoparticles

Madhusmita Swain, Durgamadhab Mishra, Gourishankar Sahoo • Discover Applied Sciences (2025)

Abstract Nanoparticles and Nanostructured materials are playing an ever-important role in affordable healthcare, environment remediation, renewable energy, agriculture, consumer electronics, cosmetics etc. However, progress in these sectors...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1007/s42452-025-06957-8

The Coming of Materials Science

David A. Weitz • Physics Today (2002)

The Coming of Materials Science , Robert W. Cahn Pergamon, New York, 2001. $64.00 (568 pp.). isbn 0-08-042679-4 If one takes the broadest view, a significant fraction of modern-day physicists are materials scientists. Similarly, many chemis...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1496379

Preliminary Investigation of the Antibacterial Activity of Antitumor Drug 3-Amino-1,2,4-Benzotriazine-1,4-Dioxide (Tirapazamine) and its Derivatives

Evelina Polmickaitė-Smirnova, Jonas Šarlauskas, Kastis Krikštopaitis, Živilė Lukšienė et al. • Applied Sciences (2020)

The antitumor drug 3-amino-1,2,4-benzotriazine-1,4-dioxide (tirapazamine, TPZ (1)) along with a number of newly synthesized tirapazamine derivatives (TPZs) bearing substitutions at the 3-amine position of TPZ (1) were estimated for their an...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/app10124062

Multifunctional properties of Phlomis aurea extracts: In-vitro antioxidant, antimicrobial, anticancer, potent repellency against two mosquito vectors and molecular docking studies

Mohamed A. M. El-Tabakh, Ahmed Z. I. Shehata, Ahmed M. Sadek, Salem S. Salem et al. • Applied Biological Chemistry (2025)

Abstract To develop economically viable and environmentally benign methodologies for organic reactions and reveal the practical utility of transitional natural compounds and their derivatives. In addition, a new research method to conduct d...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13765-025-00982-2

Synergistic heterojunction effects in Ag3PO4/SnO2 nanocomposites: a photocatalytic study on isoproturon degradation

Rishi Ram, Bhawna, Sanjeev Kumar, Akanksha Gupta et al. • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (2025)

IntroductionPesticides such as isoproturon are widely employed and represent a considerable environmental concern. The development of sustainable and efficient degrading techniques is crucial. Photocatalytic degradation employing semiconduc...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2025.1458965

Nanostructured transdermal hormone replacement therapy for relieving menopausal symptoms: a confocal Raman spectroscopy study

Marco Antonio Botelho, Dinalva Brito Queiroz, Gisele Barros, Stela Guerreiro et al. • Clinics (2014)

OBJECTIVE: To determine the safety and efficacy of a transdermal nanostructured formulation of progesterone (10%) combined with estriol (0.1%) + estradiol (0.25%) for relieving postmenopausal symptoms. METHODS: A total of 66 postmenopausa...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.6061/clinics/2014(02)01

Roles of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) in the pathogenesis of diabetic kidney disease (DKD)

Zhi Zheng, Yunkuo Li, Yujie Pan • Cell Death Discovery (2026)

Abstract Diabetic kidney disease (DKD), a prevalent microvascular complication of diabetes, is a leading cause of chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease. Moreover, it plays a crucial role in the morbidity and mortality of diabet...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41420-026-03117-8

Archéologie(s) du Paysage et Paysage Archéologique dans la région du Danube inférieur. Histoire d'un projet, méthodologie, et sélection de quelques résultats

PHILIPPE FAJON, BOGDAN SANDRIC, IRINA OBERLÄNDER-TÂRNOVEANU • Cinq Continents (2016)

Landscape Archaeology(ies) and Archaelogical Landscape in the Danubes inferior region. A project history, methodology and a selection of some results. Archaeological practising has changed a lot with the new technologies and new intellec...

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Photography and archaeology

• Choice Reviews Online (2012)

Through photographs we preserve the past, and looking for the past is the very job of the archaeologist. But what are we looking at in an archaeological photograph? Archaeological photography is often largely deserted, to be scanned with a ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.49-5484

Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice

A. J. B. Humphreys, Colin Renfrew, Paul G. Bahn • The South African Archaeological Bulletin (1992)

The text is organized around the key questions that archaeologists ask about the past and details the practical and theoretical ways in which answers to those questions are sought. The seventh edition has been thoroughly revised and updated...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3888999

The Archaeology of Animals

Simon Davis • Routledge eBooks (2012)

Ever since the discovery of fossil remains of extinct animals associated with flint implements, bones and other animal remains have been providing invaluable information to the archaeologist. In the last 20 years many archaeologists and zoo...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203060131

The Craft of Archaeology

Michael Shanks, Randall H. McGuire • American Antiquity (1996)

The idea of archaeology as craft challenges the separation of reasoning and execution that characterizes the field today. The Arts and Crafts Movement of the late nineteenth century established craftwork as an aesthetic of opposition. We es...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0002731600050046

Models in Archaeology

David L. Clarke • Routledge eBooks (2014)

This major study reflects the increasing significance of careful model formation and testing in those academic subjects that are struggling from intuitive and aesthetic obscurantism toward a more disciplined and integrated approach to their...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315748474