Essential Oils-Loaded Electrospun Biopolymers: A Future Perspective for Active Food Packaging by Shahla Ataei, Pedram Azari, Aziz Hassan, Belinda Pingguan-Murphy, Rosiyah Yahya, Farina Muhamad

“…Essential oils (EOs) as naturally occurring functional ingredients have shown great prospects in active food packaging. EOs can inhibit the growth of superficial food pathogens, modify nutritious values without affecting the sensory qualities of food, and prolong the shelf life when used in food packaging as an active ingredient. …”
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Performance Analysis and Comparison for High Maneuver Target Track Based on Different Jerk Models by Qinghai Meng, Bowen Hou, Dong Li, Zhangming He, Jiongqi Wang

“…If the process noise level is much lower, the track accuracy for four Jerk models is similar and stationary in the steady track situation, but it will be descended greatly in the much highly maneuvering situation.…”
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First record of two Leptothecata medusae (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) in Colombia with annotations on their distribution and ecology by Jorge Llorente-Vega, Cristina Cedeño-Posso, Jorge Quirós-Rodríguez

“…These organisms are generally small and translucent, with slight pigmentation, except for those that inhabit great depths and exhibit the typical body shape of a jellyfish. …”
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Electrochemical Behavior of Quinoxalin-2-one Derivatives at Mercury Electrodes and Its Analytical Use by Milan Zimpl, Jana Skopalova, David Jirovsky, Petr Bartak, Tomas Navratil, Jana Sedonikova, Milan Kotoucek

“…From this point of view, understanding of their electrochemical behavior is of great importance. In the present paper, a mechanism of electrochemical reduction of quinoxalin-2-one derivatives at mercury dropping electrode was proposed. …”
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An Experimental Study for Enhancing the Performance of the Photovoltaic Module Using Forced Air by Malik F. Jaffar, Abdulrahman Th. Mohammad, Ahmed Qasim Ahmed

“… The performance of the photovoltaic (PV) module is greatly affected by ambient conditions such as solar irradiance and air temperature.  …”
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Efficient and Scalable Graph Similarity Joins in MapReduce by Yifan Chen, Xiang Zhao, Chuan Xiao, Weiming Zhang, Jiuyang Tang

“…Along with the emergence of massive graph-modeled data, it is of great importance to investigate graph similarity joins due to their wide applications for multiple purposes, including data cleaning, and near duplicate detection. …”
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The Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Bearing Based on Improved Deep Forest by Xiwen Qin, Dingxin Xu, Xiaogang Dong, Xueteng Cui, Siqi Zhang

“…At present, the technology of intelligent identification of bearing mostly relies on deep neural network, which has high requirements for computer equipment and great effort in hyperparameter tuning. To address these issues, a rolling bearing fault diagnosis method based on the improved deep forest algorithm is proposed. …”
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Complex Tasks Force Hand Laterality and Technological Behaviour in Naturalistically Housed Chimpanzees: Inferences in Hominin Evolution by M. Mosquera, N. Geribàs, A. Bargalló, M. Llorente, D. Riba

“…Our results show that the difference between hand laterality in humans and chimpanzees is not as great as once thought. Furthermore, we found a link between hand laterality and task complexity and also an even more interesting connection: CRD tasks elicited not only the hand laterality but also the use of tools. …”
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Contribution of cooperative learning strategies to the improvement of the quality of students' native language knowledge by Semiz Marina Ž., Antonijević Radovan M., Čutović Mirjana M.

“…A successful application of cooperative learning in mother tongue teaching, from the point of view of improving the quality of students' knowledge, requires great didactic and methodical expertise of teachers in group forming, cooperative task structuring, basic principles of cooperative learning, etc. …”
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The Interplay between the Bone and the Immune System by Giorgio Mori, Patrizia D'Amelio, Roberta Faccio, Giacomina Brunetti

“…Research in this field has great potential to provide a better understanding of the pathogenesis of several diseases affecting both the bone and immune systems, thus providing the molecular basis for novel therapeutic strategies. …”
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Class B Gene Expression and the Modified ABC Model in Nongrass Monocots by Akira Kanno, Mutsumi Nakada, Yusuke Akita, Masayo Hirai

“…The discovery of the MADS-box genes and the study of model plants such as Arabidopsis thaliana and Antirrhinum majus have greatly improved our understanding of the molecular mechanisms driving the diversity in floral development. …”
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Study on Pressure Relief Effect and Rock Failure Characteristics with Different Borehole Diameters by Shiwei Liang, Long Zhang, Di Ge, Qiong Wang

“…Moreover, the existence of drilling causes a great change in the failure mode of the specimen.…”
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Pollen Sources for Melipona capixaba Moure & Camargo: An Endangered Brazilian Stingless Bee by Cynthia Fernandes Pinto da Luz, Tânia Maria Fernandes-Salomão, Lorena Gusmão Alvarenga Lage, Helder Canto Resende, Mara Garcia Tavares, Lucio Antonio de Oliveira Campos

“…The most frequent pollen types (>45%) were Eucalyptus, which generated great similarities between the samples, except one in which the Tibouchina was predominant. …”
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Radial self-accelerating acoustic beam for three-dimensional helical motion of microparticles by Di-Chao Chen, Jing Hao, Da-Jian Wu, Ying Cheng, Xiao-Jun Liu

“…The work presented here could greatly benefit acoustic particle three-dimensional trapping and manipulation.…”
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Boosting Parallel Applications Performance on Applying DIM Technique in a Multiprocessing Environment by Mateus B. Rutzig, Antonio C. S. Beck, Felipe Madruga, Marco A. Alves, Henrique C. Freitas, Nicolas Maillard, Philippe O. A. Navaux, Luigi Carro

“…We have successfully coupled a dynamic reconfigurable system to an SPARC-based multiprocessor and obtained performance gains of up to 40%, even for applications that show a great level of parallelism at thread level.…”
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Immunomagnetic Separation of Salmonella Typhimurium Based on Microfluidic Chip by JIN Yan, WANG Jingyi, CHENG Jianing, YU Lemin, ZHANG Bichen, ZHANG Yibo, XU Tongyu

“…This highly integrated immunomagnetic separation microfluidic system can enrich target bacteria from complex food matrices rapidly and accurately, thus providing an effective solution for the rapid detection of foodborne pathogenic bacteria, which is of great significance in addressing public health problems caused by foodborne diseases.…”
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A Reliability-Based Network Equilibrium Model with Adaptive Risk-Averse Travelers by Lei Zhao, Hongzhi Guan, Junze Zhu, Yunfeng Wei

“…Numerical results indicate that route travel time boundary produces a great influence on decision cost and route choice behavior of travelers.…”
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Modification of Urushiol Derivatives by Liquid Crystal Epoxy Resin by Gongwen Tang, Zhishan Yan, Linrong Ma, Xin Huang

“…Thermogravimetry analysis indicated that the cured UFUR/TMBPDE composite resin exhibited increasing thermodecomposition temperature as the TMBPDE concentration increased, indicating its great potential for high temperature applications. …”
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Real-Time Localization Algorithm for Maritime Search and Rescue Wireless Sensor Network by Huafeng Wu, Lei Yang, Ling Liu, Ming Xu, Xinping Guan

“…Maritime search and rescue (MSR), as the last defense line for the life at sea, plays a great role in shipping industry and ocean environment protection. …”
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Short-term urban traffic forecasting in smart cities: a dynamic diffusion spatial-temporal graph convolutional network by Xiang Yin, Junyang Yu, Xiaoyu Duan, Lei Chen, Xiaoli Liang

“…Accurately predicting short-term traffic trends can avoid traffic congestion and plan travel routes, which is of great significance to urban management and traffic scheduling. …”
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