Ecology of litterfall production of giant bamboo Dendrocalamus asper in a watershed area by A.G. Toledo Bruno, R.A. Marin, M.A.P. Medina, G.R. Puno, R.O. Villarta, R.R. Puno

“…Findings of the study further revealed that fresh giant bamboo tissue contains high carbon content and the soil in the bamboo stand has higher organic matter than the open clearing. …”
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Explicit Dynamic DDA Method considering Dynamic Contact Force by Jian Zhao, Ming Xiao, Juntao Chen, Dongdong Li

“…The central difference method is adopted to deduce the explicit expression of block displacement containing dynamic contact force. With the relationship between displacement and dynamic contact force, contact constraint equations of a block system are obtained to calculate the dynamic contact force and the corresponding block displacement. …”
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Stimulators and Activators of Soluble Guanylate Cyclase: Review and Potential Therapeutic Indications by Bobby Nossaman, Edward Pankey, Philip Kadowitz

“…The heme-protein soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) is the intracellular receptor for nitric oxide (NO). sGC is a heterodimeric enzyme with α and β subunits and contains a heme moiety essential for binding of NO and activation of the enzyme. …”
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Effect of chiral imbalance on the electrical conductivity of hot and dense quark matter using Green–Kubo method within the 2-flavour gauged NJL model by Snigdha Ghosh, Nilanjan Chaudhuri, Sourav Sarkar, Pradip Roy

“…The scattering amplitudes containing the polarization functions of the mesonic modes in the scalar and pseudoscalar channels are also evaluated by considering finite value of CCP. …”
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Ultrabroadband near-infrared emission profiling in multicore optical fibers doped with Er3+ and Yb3+/Tm3+/Ho3+ ions by Jakub Markiewicz, Marcin Kochanowicz, Tomasz Ragiń, Piotr Miluski, Wojciech A. Pisarski, Joanna Pisarska, Marta Kuwik, Dominik Dorosz, Martin Leich, Matthias Jäger

“…Based on our previous work with barium gallo-germanate glasses and fibers, the 4 and 11-core fiber structures, each containing core glasses doped with Er3+ and Yb3+/Tm3+/Ho3+, were developed. …”
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Rendition of Planting and Payoff in Localized Films: A Case Study by Elahe Ebtehaji, Mahboubeh Moghadas, Milad Mehdizadkhani

“…Multimodal transcription and Chaume’s signifying codes were used to describe scenes containing plantings and their corresponding payoffs. …”
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Zinc Supplementation against Eimeria acervulina-Induced Oxidative Damage in Broiler Chickens by Nedyalka V. Georgieva, Margarita Gabrashanska, Ventsislav Koinarski, Zvezdelina Yaneva

“…This study was undertaken to determine the dietary supplements of Zn containing diet on the antioxidant status in chickens experimentally infected with Eimeria acervulina. …”
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Ameloblastic Fibroodontoma of the Mandible with Normal Karyotype in a Pediatric Patient by Esther Manor, Elena Kan, Lipa Bodner

“…Radiographs show a well-defined radiolucent area containing various amounts of radiopaque material of irregular size and form. …”
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Lactose-free milk powder can effectively relieve diarrhea symptoms in weaning SD rats and children by Manman Liu, Shiwen Han, Boya Li, Cheng Chen, Lu Yao, Jung-il Kwon, Juan Jin, Huilian Che

“…Antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD) model was established by gavage with antibiotic mixture in SD rats, followed by administration of milk powder containing lactose or not. The results showed that lactose-free milk powder ameliorated AAD-related diarrhea symptoms, and accelerated the recovery from diarrhea. …”
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EMPLOYING LOCAL WISDOM BASED SHORT STORIES FOR TEACHING ENGLISH AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL by Aninda Nidhommil Hima, Rosalin Ismayoeng Gusdian

“…The project implementation falls into three phases as follows (1) collecting all short stories which contain local wisdom (2) translating the short stories, and (3) implementing the short stories in the classroom.…”
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Immunopathology of Postprimary Tuberculosis: Increased T-Regulatory Cells and DEC-205-Positive Foamy Macrophages in Cavitary Lesions by Kerry J. Welsh, Semyon A. Risin, Jeffrey K. Actor, Robert L. Hunter

“…A higher percentage of cells in lipid pneumonia (36.1%) and cavitary lesions (27.8%) were positive for the dendritic cell marker DEC-205, compared to granulomas (9.0%, P<.05). Cavities contained significantly more T-regulatory cells (14.8%) than found in lipid pneumonia (5.2%) or granulomas (4.8%). …”
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Practical Tips for Construction of Custom Peptide Libraries and Affinity Selection by Using Commercially Available Phage Display Cloning Systems by Keisuke Fukunaga, Masumi Taki

“…In both systems, peptides containing odd number(s) of Cys should be designed with caution. …”
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Existence and regularity of pullback attractors for a 3D non-autonomous Navier–Stokes–Voigt model with finite delay by Julia García-Luengo, Pedro Marín-Rubio

“…In this manuscript previous results [Nonlinearity 25(2012), 905–930] are extended to a non-autonomous 3D Navier–Stokes–Voigt model in which a forcing term contains memory effects. Under suitable assumptions on the function driving the delay time, the existence and uniqueness of weak solution are proved. …”
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An Efficient and Self-Adapted Approach to the Sharpening of Color Images by Lih-Jen Kau, Tien-Lin Lee

“…With the proposed approach, the discontinuities can be highlighted while most of the original information contained in the image can be retained. Finally, the adjusted channel of Value and that of Hue and Saturation will be integrated to get the sharpened color image. …”
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An analysis of household waste generation in the Fomento 2 Public Housing Complex, Comoro Village, Dili, Timor Leste by Silva Augusto Almeida da, Maryono Maryono, Hermawan Ferry

“…The lack of access to waste sorting containers and the lack of community skills in processing waste properly and correctly. …”
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Luminescence properties of ZnSe single crystals co-doped with Fe and Cr by K. Lamonova, A. Prokhorov, M. Schmidbauer, A. Kwasniewski, Yu Kazarinov, M. Konuhova, A. Platonenko, Z. Remeš, K. Ridzoňová, M. Buryi

“…These represent clusters of three Cr-containing octahedral complexes accompanied by Zn vacancies, anticipating the formation of spinel ZnCr2Se4 inclusions in the host chalcogenide ZnSe matrix.…”
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Effects of Partial Replacement of Pork Meat with Chicken or Duck Meat on the Texture, Flavor, and Consumer Acceptance of Sausage by Namrye Lee, Han Sub Kwak, Jae-young Joo, Jinsoo Kang, Youngseung Lee

“…The OL for the duck-substituted sausage was highest in samples containing 5% duck meat and tended to decrease as more duck meat was added. …”
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Effects of chromophore interaction in photophysics and photochemistry of cyanine dyes by A. S. Tatikolov, Zh. A. Krasnaya, L. A. Shvedova, V. A. Kuzmin

“…The absorption spectra of ion pairs of cation-anionic dyes with overlapping cation and anion bands contain a new intense short-wavelength band inactive in fluorescence excitation. …”
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Discovery of novel tepovirus genomes with a nucleic acid-binding protein homolog by systematic analysis of plant transcriptome data by Dongjin Choi, Hyerin Park, Seungwoo Baek, Myeung Seok Choi, Sylvain Legay, Gea Guerriero, Jean-François Hausman, Yoonsoo Hahn

“…Notably, five of these newly identified tepoviruses contain a NABP-like open reading frame (ORF). Sequence comparison and phylogenetic analysis of NABP homologs suggest these tepoviruses independently acquired a NABP-like ORF from diverse sources. …”
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Exploring homotopy with hyperspherical tracking to find complex roots with application to electrical circuits by Sandoval-Hernandez Mario A., Jimenez-Islas Hugo, Vazquez-Leal Hector, Quemada-Villagómez Miriam L., Lopez-Gonzalez María de la Luz

“…Furthermore, this article details five case studies on electrical networks where this method is applied to solve systems of equations containing imaginary coefficients to find mesh currents. …”
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