Hou, Junfeng Zhang, Ying Jin, Xiuliang Dong, Pengfei Guo, Yanan Wang, Keru Fan, Yinghu Li, Shaokun
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Plant Methods
BackgroundHigh grain breakage rate is the main limiting factor encountered in the mechanical harvest of maize grain. X-ray micro-computed tomography (μCT) scanning technology could be used to obtain the three-dimensional structure of maize grain. Currently, the effect of maize grain structure on the grain breakage rate, determined using X-ray μCT s...
Moradi, Marzieh Woods, Bailey M. Rathnayake, Hemali Williams, Stuart J. Willing, Gerold A.
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Colloid and Polymer Science
While similar in nature, the properties of silica and silsesquioxane are very different, but little is known about these differences. In this paper, functionalized silsesquioxane microparticles are synthesized by adapting the modified Stöber method and post-functionalized with rhodamine B. The as-synthesized silsesquioxane particles are characteriz...
Shiferaw, Wakshum Bekele, Tamrat Demissew, Sebsebe Aynekulu, Ermias
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Journal of Ecology and Environment
The aims of the study were to analyze (1) the effects of Prosopis juliflora (Prosopis) on the spatial distribution and soil seed banks (SSB) diversity and density, (2) the effects of environmental factors on SSB diversity and density (number of seeds in the soil per unit area), and (3) the effects of animal fecal droppings on SSB diversity, density...
Santos Junior, J. J. P. Pereira, R. G. Rosendahl, M. Santo Filho, D. M. E. Gouveia, J. M. G.
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Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
Steel pycnometers are used to determine density of liquids and gases at different temperatures and pressures. In order to determine this density with reliability, it is necessary to define the mass and the volume of this artifact with the best possible accuracy. This work proposes a methodology for calibrating this artifact, using the gravimetric m...
McLaughlin, Kimberley Burkot, Thomas R. Oscar, Jance Beebe, Nigel W. Russell, Tanya L.
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Malaria Journal
BackgroundIn the Solomon Island, the dominant malaria vector, Anopheles farauti, is highly anthropophagic and increasingly exophilic and early biting. While long-lasting insecticide-treated nets remain effective against An. farauti, supplemental vector control strategies will be needed to achieve malaria elimination. Presently, the only World Healt...
farough, aida karrasch, alexander k.
s moduli with slopes of 0.48, 0.77, and 0.45, respectively. Our results show that increase in serpentine content of mantle wedge and forearc mantle contributes to their brittle behavior and result in break-offs, obduction, and overthrusting. Therefore, serpentine content strongly affects tectonic processes at subduction zones, particularly serpenti...
Akinyemi, Oluwaseun Harris, Bronwyn Kawonga, Mary
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundStudies have shown that social networks influence health behaviors, including the adoption of health innovations. This study explored the potential for early adopters of community health worker-delivered injectable contraceptives (CHWDIC) to influence the uptake of this innovation by women in their social networks.MethodsThis Social Netwo...
Benabida, Houda Coquelet, Christophe Belaribi, Farid Brahim
_____ Excess molar volumes for 1,4-dioxane + 2-propanol + 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane ternary mixture and for the constituent binaries, were determined from density measurements, over the entire composition range, at four temperatures comprising between [288.15 and 318.15] K and at atmospheric pressure. The ether containing binary mixtures present po...
Ratel, Sébastien
Un schéma d’étiquetage est un procédé permettant de distribuer la représentationd’un graphe sur ses sommets. Il consiste en une fonction d’encodage quiattribue des étiquettes binaires (courtes) à chaque sommet, et d’une fonction dedécodage qui, étant données les informations locales contenues dans deux étiquettes,et sans connaissance supplémentaire...
Baird, Zachariah Steven Uusi-Kyyny, Petri Pokki, Juha-Pekka Pedegert, Emilie Alopaeus, Ville
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International Journal of Thermophysics
One major sustainable development goal is to produce chemicals and fuels from renewable resources, such as biomass, rather than from fossil fuels. A key part of this development is data on the properties of chemicals that appear in this bio-based supply chain. Many of the chemicals have yet to be studied thoroughly, and data on their properties is ...
