Effect of animal waste and vegetable compost on production and growth of earthworm (Eisenia fetida) during vermiculture by D. S. J. V. Vodounnou, D. N. S. Kpogue, C. E. Tossavi, G. A. Mennsah, E. D. Fiogbe

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Quasi‐Static Closed‐Loop Wind‐Farm Control for Combined Power and Fatigue Optimization by Ishaan Sood, Christophe del Fosse et d'Espierres, Johan Meyers

“…The optimal wake steering set points to maximize farm power production for a given inflow condition are generally determined using fast engineering models. However, due to a lack of fast structural models, influence of wind‐farm flow control on turbine structural fatigue and loading is generally not considered. …”
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Detection of Viable Zygosaccharomyces rouxii in Honey and Honey Products via PMAXX-qPCR by Shiqiong Chen, Qingyan Tang, Jianqiang Geng, Yanqin Liu, Jie Jiang, Xuefeng Cai, Hong Cao, Yantao Wu, Yan Ren, Kai Liu, Yue Cao

“…This method is not only fast and sensitive but also can detect both culturable and viable but nonculturable Z. rouxii. …”
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Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Cholangiography: Practical Tips and Clinical Indications for Biliary Disease Management by Stefano Palmucci, Federica Roccasalva, Marina Piccoli, Giovanni Fuccio Sanzà, Pietro Valerio Foti, Alfonso Ragozzino, Pietro Milone, Giovanni Carlo Ettorre

“…In recent years, three-dimensional T2-weighted fast-recovery fast spin-echo images have been added to the conventional protocol, increasing the possibility of biliary anatomy demonstration and leading to a significant benefit over conventional 2D imaging. …”
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Screening approaches and potential of isolated lactic acid bacteria for improving fermentation of Saccharina latissima by Evangelia Zioga, Susan Løvstad Holdt, Fredrik Gröndahl, Claus Heiner Bang-Berthelsen

“…Abstract Background With the growing interest in applying fermentation to seaweed biomasses, there is a need for fast and efficient selection of microbial strains that have the ability to 1) acidify quickly, 2) utilize seaweed constituents and c) exhibit some proteolytic activity. …”
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External Validation of Deep Learning Models for Classifying Etiology of Retinal Hemorrhage Using Diverse Fundus Photography Datasets by Pooya Khosravi, Nolan A. Huck, Kourosh Shahraki, Elina Ghafari, Reza Azimi, So Young Kim, Eric Crouch, Xiaohui Xie, Donny W. Suh

“…This study aims to externally validate deep learning (DL) models, specifically FastVit_SA12 and ResNet18, for distinguishing between traumatic and medical causes of RH using diverse fundus photography datasets. …”
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Effects of Synthetic Procedures and Postsynthesis Incubation pH on Size, Shape, and Antibacterial Activity of Copper (I) Oxide Nanoparticles by Vinh Tien Nguyen, Khanh Son Trinh

“…We used three different synthetic procedures with a fast reaction (procedure 1p), a fast-then-slow reaction (procedure 2p), and a slow-then-fast reaction (procedure 3p). …”
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Lights and Siren Transport and the Need for Hospital Intervention in Nontrauma Patients: A Prospective Study by Olivier Bertholet, Mathieu Pasquier, Elina Christes, Damien Wirths, Pierre-Nicolas Carron, Olivier Hugli, Fabrice Dami

“…To reduce the rate of overtriage (LST without TCHI), LST should mainly be used for fast-track and when TCHI is expected by the EMS providers.…”
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Observer-Based Robust Finite-Time Trajectory Tracking Control for a Stratospheric Satellite Subject to External Disturbance and Actuator Saturation by Shurui Huang, Yueneng Yang, Ye Yan, Shifeng Zhang, Zhiyang Liu

“…After that, a backstepping nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode control (BNFTSMC) strategy is designed to track the desired trajectory with high accuracy, fast convergence rate, and finite-time convergence. …”
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Estimation des teneurs en nitrates dans les eaux potables par l'utilisation de bandelettes réactives : un exercice d’éducation à l’environnement dans la vallée du Sourou au Burkina... by Francis Rosillon, Boubacar Savadogo, Aminata Kabore, Jean Noël Poda, Hortense Bado-Sama, Dayeri Dianou

“…Within the framework of the application of the contract of Sourou river in Burkina Faso, an estimation of the nitrates contents in waters was made by using a fast test by reagent strips. From 2008 to 2011, 29 drillings and wells and 9 points in surface waters located in the Sourou valley were the object of a comparative study between the test strips and the classic analysis in laboratory. …”
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Validation of Balance Map Analysis of Walking at Different Speeds by Takahiro Kagawa

“…The decrease in the margin during fast walking resulted from an increase in the forward velocity of the body’s center of mass in relation to the velocity of the swing leg. …”
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Study on Water Purification Effect of Different Plants in Constructed Wetland of South China by YANG Yongmin, SUN Yiting

“…Constructed wetlands feature low operating costs and investment,no secondary pollution,good landscape effects,and fast results in short construction periods.In the construction of constructed wetlands,plants play an extremely important role in the purification of sewage from wetlands.To screen suitable wetland plants under the climatic conditions in south China,this paper studies the adaptability of plants to low-concentration domestic sewage and determines the purification efficiency of pollutants and the relationship between the activity of root-zone matrix enzymes and purification efficiency.The test results reveal that rushes,river grass,heliconia,and shell ginger are obviously not suitable for the simulated constructed wetland environment irrigated by sewage,while pickerelweed,cattails,calamus,elephant grass,coix,and windmill grass grow fast and have large biomass,which are suitable for planting in sewage environment.Considering indicators such as the adaptability,purification ability,stress resistance,and landscape effect of the tested wetland plants to the sewage environment,it is concluded that the elephant grass,calamus,cattails,coix,windmill grass,calla,philodendrons,Echinodorus Osiris,and pickerelweed are more suitable for the constructed wetland system.There is a significant correlation between the phosphatase activity and urease and the COD_Cr removal rate of potted plants,and the enzyme activity of the root-zone matrix urease is not significantly correlated with the TN removal rate and TP removal rate of potted plants.…”
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Pengetahuan dan Sikap Berhubungan dengan Resiko Tertular Covid-19 pada Masyarakat Sulawesi Utara by Erika Emnina Sembiring, Maria Lupita Nena Meo

“…The transmission of Covid-19 in Indonesia is very fast and affects 34 provinces, many of which are in red zones. …”
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Age-dependent decline in sperm quality and function in a naturally short-lived vertebrate by Silvia Cattelan, Dario Riccardo Valenzano

“…Abstract Maximizing the life-long reproductive output would lead to the prediction that short-lived and fast aging species would undergo no – if any – reproductive senescence. …”
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Use of Response Surface Metamodels for Identification of Stiffness and Damping Coefficients in a Simple Dynamic System by A.C. Rutherford, D.J. Inman, G. Park, F.M. Hemez

“…Metamodels have been used with success in many areas of engineering for decades but only recently in the field of structural dynamics. A metamodel is a fast running surrogate that is typically used to aid an analyst or test engineer in the fast and efficient exploration of the design space. …”
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Forecasting the effect of water gastric emptying patterns on model drug release in an in vitro glass-bead flow-through system by Felicijan Tjaša, Bogataj Marija

“…Oral solid dosage forms are most frequently administered with a glass of water which empties from the stomach relatively fast, but with a certain variability in its emptying kinetics. …”
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Second order sliding mode control with proportional integral observer for wing rock by Ahmad Mahmood, Jamshed Iqbal

“…In this study, a reduced-order fast proportional integral (PI) observer with a fast convergence function based on the equivalent control notion is developed to estimate the side slip angle β. …”
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Wi-Pest:a method for detecting stored grain pests based on CSI by Shaowei SHAN, Weidong YANG, Le XIAO, Ke WANG

“…The environmental and biological factors that affect the food security during the food storage,such as the food temperature,environment humidity,moisture,gas,mildew,pests and others pose a threat to the food storage security,among which the pest is an important factor threatening food storage security.Therefore,a fast and effective detection method is needed to detect stored grain pests.Some of the existing methods are time consuming,using expensive equipment,potentially harmful to health and inefficient.A non-contact,fast and low-cost detection method for stored grain pests based on the amplitude of the channel state information (CSI) was proposed,namely,wireless-pest (Wi-Pest).The feasibility of the pest detection in the stored grain was verified by using CSI amplitude data.On this basis,a Wi-Pest detection method was designed.Firstly,the amplitude data of CSI was preprocessed by outliers removal,data normalization and noise elimination.Then the principal component analysis (PCA) was used to compress the data and extract the main feature components.Finally,random forest (RF) classification method was used to detect stored grain pests.Experiments show that the abnormal density of live pests in grain heaps can be detected under the line of sight (LOS) scenario,and the detection accuracy of the proposed method can reach 97% on average.…”
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Holomorphic embedding method for large-scale reverse osmosis desalination optimization by Junzhi Chen, Tao Wang, Jiu Luo, Hongbo Chen, Yi Heng

“…Abstract Large-scale optimal design problems involving nonlinear differential equations are widely applied in modeling such as craft manufacturing, chemical engineering and energy engineering. Herein we propose a fast and flexible holomorphic embedding-based method to solve nonlinear differential equations quickly, and further apply it to handle the industrial application of reverse osmosis desalination. …”
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Signal theory based encryption of faster-than-Nyquist signals for fiber and wireless transmission by Abhinand Venugopalan, Karanveer Singh, Janosch Meier, Thomas Schneider

“…Therefore, the encryption has to be simple, fast and spectrally efficient, so that the power consumption and latency are low and the scarce bandwidth is not wasted. …”
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