Reducing Postharvest Loss of Stored Grains Using Plant-Based Biopesticides: A Review of Past Research Efforts by Getachew Bezabih, Neela Satheesh, Solomon Workneh Fanta, Melaku Wale, Minaleshewa Atlabachew

“…The overall postharvest grain losses for sub-Saharan Africa could be as high as US$4 billion/year. This is around 15% of the total production of cereal crops. …”
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Cilium height difference between strokes is more effective in driving fluid transport in mucociliary clearance: A numerical study by Ling Xu, Yi Jiang

“…While multiple parts have to interplay and coordinate to allow for most effective mucociliary clearance, our findings from a simple model move us closer to understanding the effects of the cilia motion on the efficiency of this clearance system.…”
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Carlos Castillo-Chavez: A century ahead by James Schatz

“…First of all, the Agency relies heavily on mathematicians to carry out its mission. If the U.S. mathematics community is not healthy, NSA is not healthy. …”
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Environmental Influences on Young Adult Male Height. A Comparison of Town and Countryside in the Netherlands, 1815-1900 by Jan Kok, Erik Beekink, David Bijsterbosch

“…We contrast an early industrializing town, with a typical proletarian sub-culture of tile bakers and a significant middle class (Woerden in the province of South-Holland) to an agrarian community (the village of Akersloot and surrounding area in the province of North-Holland). Our dataset allows us to disentangle effects of the family composition, the family’s socio-economic status, food prices, and the environment on bodily growth of 1,738 young men. …”
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Inclusive innovation for the promotion of regional food heritage: A case study of a small producers' fair model in urban spaces by Bernardo Alayza, Domingo González, Emilio Diaz, Hernán Cornejo, Maritza Canales

“…This has generated a new value to this initiative and has laid the basis for the consolidation of the Fair as a model that can be replied. The analysis allows us to affirm that the Fair constitutes a space for inclusive innovation due to it has built new networks with heterogeneous actors, it has capitalized various types of traditional knowledge and it has generated opportunities for small producers. …”
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A Comparison Study on Rule Extraction from Neural Network Ensembles, Boosted Shallow Trees, and SVMs by Guido Bologna, Yoichi Hayashi

“…The DIMLP architecture allowed us to produce rules from DIMLP ensembles, boosted shallow trees (BSTs), and Support Vector Machines (SVM). …”
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Model-Based Optimization of Velocity Strategy for Lightweight Electric Racing Cars by Mirosław Targosz, Wojciech Skarka, Piotr Przystałka

“…In the following years, the experience gathered by the team gave us the vice Championship in the SEM 2016 in London.…”
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Comment on “Neutrino interaction with matter in a noninertial frame” by R. R. S. Oliveira

“…In particular, what motivated us to do this was the fact that the quantized energy levels for particles (fermions or bosons) in polar, cylindrical, or spherical coordinates depend on two quantum numbers: a radial quantum number and an angular quantum number. …”
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Unilateral Urogenital Disontogeny in a Dog by Adolfo Maria Tambella, Stefano Martin, Matteo Cerquetella, Daniele Spaziante, Angela Palumbo Piccionello, Andrea Marchegiani, Umberto Faccenda, Giacomo Rossi

“…A complete diagnostic work-up (hematological analysis, radiology, ultrasound, and computed tomography), followed by surgery and histopathology, allowed us to diagnose the condition as unilateral urogenital disontogeny. …”
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Exploring Lessons from Soviet Diplomacy and Western Allied Cooperation in World War II by V. O. Pechatnov

“…The article brings to light lesser-known documents from US and UK archives to illustrate this mindset. It also acknowledges dissenting voices in Anglo-American political spheres who advocated for a more equitable relationship with the USSR. …”
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‘Modern gardeners’ with Rustic Ideals: Fruitful Congruencies between John Ruskin and William Robinson by Aurélien Wasilewski

“…In a word, food, shelter, and beauty for all of us, living or dead, are the sum total of a world’s vegetation’. …”
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Octant Degeneracy and Quadrant of Leptonic CPV Phase at Long Baseline ν Experiments and Baryogenesis by Kalpana Bora, Gayatri Ghosh, Debajyoti Dutta

“…In a recent work by us, we have studied how CP violation discovery potential can be improved at long baseline neutrino experiments (LBNE/DUNE), by combining with its ND (near detector) and reactor experiments. …”
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MU’TEZİLE’NİN BASRA’DA ORTAYA ÇIKIŞI VE FAALİYETLERİ by Mehmet Usluer

“…Ömer döneminde Sâsâni topraklarına düzenlenen fütûhâta katılan askerlere destek olmak amacıyla askeri bir üs olarak kurulan şehirlerden biri Basra’dır. Kuruluşu sırasında fetih hareketlerine katılan Arap kabilelerin yerleştiği şehir, zamanla farklı kültür, ırk ve inançtan halklara ev sahipliği yaptı. …”
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Guest editorial: Advanced signal processing for integration of radar and communication (IRC) by Bin Liao, Wei Liu, Ziyang Cheng, Tianyao Huang

“…In this regard, integration of radar and communication (IRC) has proved to be a very promising development to address the spectrum congestion issue between radar and communications devices. This also brings us a number of key challenges in signal processing for both implementation of IRC and joint optimization between the two systems.…”
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Socio-economic development of agglomeration territories as an object of strategic management by G. A. Borovkova, D. V. Rodnyansky

“…The research methodology is the least squares method and the moving average method, comparing the results of which allowed us to make more adequate forecasts. When using each of the methods, also there was carried out the analysis of the forecast’ average relative error. …”
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Helping land trusts prepare for a new climate: experiences of challenges and facilitators for translating knowledge about climate change adaptation in Ontario, Canada by Michael Drescher, Daria Koscinski, Jenna Quinn, Morgan Roblin

“…Throughout the knowledge translation activities, we collected participants’ comments and examined them with hypothesis and descriptive coding to reveal data about challenges and facilitators, which we grouped into themes with pattern coding. The results helped us identify challenges and facilitators that land trusts experience when participating in climate change knowledge translation and attempting to adapt to climate change. …”
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Smart mobility as sustainable mobility: Application to the agglomeration of Fez in Morocco by Mohammed Mouhcine MAAROUFI, Laila STOUR, Ali AGOUMI

“…Finally, a comparison between the trend situation and the corrected situation with this sustainable mobility model allows us to appreciate its contribution. …”
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Microscopic origin of the spatial and temporal precision in biological systems by Anupam Mondal, Anatoly B. Kolomeisky

“…The stochastic coupling framework also allows us to explicitly evaluate dynamic properties for both biological systems, eliminating the need to utilize the phenomenological concept of thresholds. …”
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A thermodynamically consistent approach to the energy costs of quantum measurements by Camille L Latune, Cyril Elouard

“…In practice, this model allows us to perform a quantitative thermodynamic analysis of the measurement process. …”
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A System Dynamics Approach to Modeling Future Climate Scenarios: Quantifying and Projecting Patterns of Evapotranspiration and Precipitation in the Salton Sea Watershed by Michael E. Kjelland, Todd M. Swannack, William E. Grant

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