The COVID-19 Pandemic and Diet Change by Hong Chuan Loh, Yin Kar Seah, Irene Looi

“…Sales of meat and seafood plummeted for many reasons, including distrust in meat due to fear of virus contamination, price increases, and also for ethical reasons. …”
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Analysis of the Main Factors Influencing the Dominant Frequency of Blast Vibration by Da Liu, Wenbo Lu, Yijia Liu, Ming Chen, Peng Yan, Pengchang Sun

“…Based on the fitting analysis, it has found that the correlation coefficient of radial vibration obtained by the proposed equation is higher than that of vertical vibration, which is resulted from the reason that the vibration in vertical is considered to be influenced most by the R-wave on the ground and perceived to be quite different from the radial vibration affected by P-wave. …”
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Late Cenozoic Stress State in Gulf of Güllük and Surroundings, SW Anatolia by Erdem Gündoğdu, Suha Ozden, Alper Demirci

“…This currently effective extensional regime was understood from focal mechanism solutions of earthquakes developing in the region. The reason for this regime being effective is the rapid pull by the African plate on the Anatolian plate, which rides above the African plate, and horizontal extension in the Anatolian plate.…”
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Investigation on the occupational situation of clinical research associates in China by Can Du, Qi Han, Ziqian Lu, Jia Li

“…But there is a conflict between the large number of CRAs personnel and unsatisfactory quality of clinical trial monitoring, and the reason is unknown. Therefore, our study investigated the occupational status of CRAs through a questionnaire survey. …”
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Advances in electrochemical sensors for naproxen detection: Mechanisms, performance factors, and emerging challenges by Seyed Saman Nemati, Gholamreza Dehghan, Jafar Soleymani, Abolghasem Jouyban

“…Naproxen (NAP), a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic drug, has fewer side effects than similar drugs due to its aryl acetic acid structure. For this reason, it is widely prescribed to manage fever, short-term and long-term pain, and musculoskeletal disorders. …”
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Cloud-Based Intrusion Detection Approach Using Machine Learning Techniques by Hanaa Attou, Azidine Guezzaz, Said Benkirane, Mourade Azrour, Yousef Farhaoui

“…Particularly, the security of resources and services represents a real challenge for cloud technologies. For this reason, a set of solutions have been implemented to improve cloud security by monitoring resources, services, and networks, then detect attacks. …”
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An embedded electron current layer observed at the edge of the plasma sheet in the Earth’s magnetotail by ChenChen Zhan, RongSheng Wang, QuanMing Lu, San Lu, XinMin Li

“…Thus, this decoupling of ions and electrons gave rise to a strong Hall electric field, which could be the reason for the formation of the embedded thin current layer. …”
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EVALUATION OF STRAIN-STRESS STATE OF THE RAILS IN THE PRODUCTION by V. V. Muravev, K. A. Tapkov

“…High values of residual stresses is one of the most common reason of breaking lots of metal constructions, including rails. …”
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Linking the Historical Sample of the Netherlands with the USA Censuses, 1850–1940 by Diogo Paiva, Francisco Anguita, Kees Mandemakers

“…Because of the sample character of the HSN even exact matches showed ambiguity that needs to be resolved. For this reason, a validation process comparing the household context was run to provide a more trustworthy result. …”
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Assessment of Winter Season Air Quality in the Marmara Region Using GIS and Air Quality Data by Kazım Onur Demirarslan, Halil Akıncı

“…When considered as a population, it’s determined that there’re approximately 24 million in total. The reason for this density is that the region is a major industrial, commercial, agricultural, tourism region of Turkey. …”
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Profiles of women presenting for abortions in Singapore at the National University Hospital: focus on married women by Xiang Wen Gregory Pek, Wei Shan Teoh, Duoduo Wu, Kuldip Singh

“…Introduction: In this study, we aimed to identify the differences in sociodemographic variables and reasons for termination of pregnancy (TOP) between married women and single/divorced women. …”
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Smoking Prevalence Increases following Canterbury Earthquakes by Nick Erskine, Vivien Daley, Sue Stevenson, Bronwen Rhodes, Lutz Beckert

“…Of the 273 participants who were current smokers in August 2010, 93 (34.1%) had increased consumption following the earthquake, 94 (34.4%) had not changed, and 86 (31.5%) had decreased their consumption. 53 (57%) of the 93 people whose consumption increased reported that the earthquake and subsequent lifestyle changes as a reason to increase smoking. Conclusion. 24% of ex-smokers resumed smoking following the earthquake, resulting in increased smoking prevalence. …”
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Historiography in Samanid’s Period by Maryam Doalatraftar Haghighi, Mohammad Sepehri

“…Historiography in this period was mostly based on personal observation, and for this reason access to the documents belonging to this period is very important. …”
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ANALYSIS OF RELIABILITY OF NONRECTORABLE REDUNDANT POWER SYSTEMS TAKING INTO ACCOUNT COMMON FAILURES by V. A. Anischenko, A. N. Ivanova, E. L. Mislo

“…The main attention was paid to numbers failures influence, caused by failures of all elements of System due to one general reason. Noted the main possible reasons of common failures formation. …”
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Solar Origins of August 26, 2018 Geomagnetic Storm: Responses of the Interplanetary Medium and Equatorial/Low‐Latitude Ionosphere to the Storm by A. O. Akala, O. J. Oyedokun, P. O. Amaechi, K. G. Simi, A. Ogwala, O. A. Arowolo

“…The solar wind energy which got transferred into the magnetosphere drove electrical currents, that penetrated down into the ionosphere to produce weak Prompt Penetration Electric Field (PPEF) (0.3 mV/m). For this reason, during the storm, at daytime, plasma densities of the Equatorial Ionization Anomaly (EIA) crests were localized within the inner flank of ±15° magnetic latitude strip. …”
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Deepening the cognition of ultrasonic vibration's role on plastic deformation of 2219 aluminum alloy tube during ultrasonic surface rolling process by Zhang YuanQi, Zhan Mei, Fan XiaoGuang

“…The results show that for the thickness of plastic deformation layer, the effect of ultrasonic vibration is infinitesimal. The reason why the simulation result (∼2.6%) is smaller than the experiment result (∼5.8%) may be the influence of temperature and friction. …”
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Predicting individual traits from models of brain dynamics accurately and reliably using the Fisher kernel by Christine Ahrends, Mark W Woolrich, Diego Vidaurre

“…But these approaches are missing a central aspect of brain function: the unique ways in which an individual’s brain activity unfolds over time. One reason why these dynamic patterns are not usually considered is that they have to be described by complex, high-dimensional models; and it is unclear how best to use these models for prediction. …”
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SOURCES AND DETERMINANTS OF CASH HOLDINGS IN THE AGRICULTURE OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE COUNTRIES AND THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE FINANCIAL SECURITY OF POLISH FARMS by Joanna Bereżnicka, Justyna Franc-Dąbrowska

“…This also applies to farms whose owners obtain funds from various sources, includingforeign capital. For this reason, the study aimed to identify sources and determine cash resourcesin farms in Central and Eastern European countries that are in the EU. …”
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Survey of software anomaly detection based on deception by Jianming FU, Chang LIU, Mengfei XIE, Chenke LUO

“…Advanced persistent threats (APT) will use vulnerabilities to automatically load attack code and hide attack behavior, and exploits code reuse to bypass the non-executable stack ＆amp; heap protection, which is an essential threat to network security.Traditional control flow integrity and address space randomization technologies have effectively prevented the pace of APT.However, the complexity of the software and the evolution of attacks make the software still being vulnerable.For this reason, deception defense with resources as bait is an indispensable supplement for network security.The trapping mechanism consists of bait design and attack detection, which infer possible unauthorized access or malicious attacks by sensing the interaction behavior with the bait.According to the three types of bait, which are file, data and code, the automatic construction scheme of bait is designed and deployed, and the effectiveness of bait is measured from the aspects of believability, detectability and enticement, etc.Ransom ware detection based on deception defense focuses on the deployment location of bait files, and in the area of vulnerability detection, code reuse attacks are detected by injecting bait code.Research work related to the implementation of deception defense in each phase of APT attacks was introduced, and the mechanism of deception defense from bait type, bait generation, bait deployment, and bait measurement was described.Simultaneously, deception defense applications in ransom ware detection, vulnerability detection, and Web security were analyzed.In response to the shortcomings of existing ransom ware detection research in terms of bait file design and deployment, a dynamic update method of bait for ransom ware detection was proposed.The deception defense challenges were discussed and hoped that deception defense can provide theoretical and technical support for discovering unknown attacks and attack attribution.…”
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L’abeille mellifère (Apis mellifera unicolor) à Mayotte by Samuel Perichon

“…The increasing difficulty of obtaining authentic honey and changes in local representations and practices are both responsible for this. The reason why collecting honey in the forest remains a marker of identity in Mahoran culture is undoubtedly because of this. …”
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