Mobile sedentism? The Marakwet settlements of the Elgeyo Escarpment, north-western Kenya by David K. Kay

“…Such practices embody a particularly flexible approach to socio-cultural continuity, in which situational mobility has been vital in ensuring the overarching resilience of these communities and the rugged landscape they call home. Fine-grained and multi-disciplinary approaches are key to the recognition of mobility’s importance within such otherwise sedentary contexts, and it is hoped this particular study will inspire further such efforts across the continent.…”
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Analysis of the Impacts of Health Cost and Risk Preference on Farmers’ Protective Behavior of Pesticide Application Based on the Autoregressive Threshold Model: A Case Study of Wuh... by Shukai Cai, Yaxing Gu, Runze Li, Zhonghong Teng

“…Based on the field survey data from 523 farmers in the main grain-producing areas, the cost of illness (COI) method was employed to quantitatively measure the health cost (HC) of pesticide application, the Likert scale was used to measure the risk preference (RP) of pesticide applicators, and the autoregressive threshold model was used to test the impact of health cost and risk preference on farmers’ protection behavior in the process of pesticide application. …”
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Des céréales et du lait au Sahara et au Sahel, de l’épipaléolithique à l’âge des métaux by Christian Dupuy

“…The development of cereal culture implies the management of sowing, grain storing, guarding and protection of fields and defense of the harvests. …”
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Physical and Mechanical Properties of Fly Ash-Bottom Ash Geopolymer Mixtures on Expansive Clay Soil Stabilization as a Subgrade Material by Wijaya Miguel Felix, Ismanti Sito, Satyarno Iman

“…All physical property test results revealed that using fly ash-bottom ash geopolymer paste can improve qualities such as specific gravity, Atterberg limit, and grain size to improve expansive clay soil. Likewise, the mechanical property test results showed that the subgrade stabilized with fly ash-bottom ash geopolymer can increase its strength to surpass the requirements for road subgrades.…”
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Passenger Flow Scale Prediction of Urban Rail Transit Stations Based on Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) by Luzhou Lin, Yuezhe Gao, Bingxin Cao, Zifan Wang, Cai Jia

“…The improvement of data acquisition capability allows fine-grained and large-scale built environment data to be extracted. …”
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Effect of Strain Rate on Hot Ductility of a Duplex Stainless Steel by Zhenhua Wang, Wenyuan Ma, Chengming Wang

“…When the strain rate was increased from 0.005 s–1 to 0.5 s–1, dynamic recrystallization was promoted in the austenite, and the number fraction of low-angle grain boundaries in the ferrite was improved. The higher strain rate reduced the difference between ferrite and austenite in hardness, which improved the hot ductility. …”
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A METHOD FOR MONITORING RICE SEED LOSS BASED ON WOA-BP ALGORITHM by Jin Chen, Ting Shi, Yaoming Li, Yahui Zhu, Caoyuan Niu

“…ABSTRACT The combine harvester is a widely used piece of agricultural equipment in modern agriculture, and the seed loss rate is one of the important indexes used to measure its operational performance, so the monitoring of the seed loss rate is crucial for adjusting the operational parameters of combine harvesters and improving the quality of grain harvesting. Aiming at the problems of the slow response speed and low monitoring accuracy of the existing domestic seed loss rate monitoring models, this paper proposed a rice seed loss rate monitoring method based on the whale optimization algorithm-back propagation neural network (WOA-BP). …”
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Assessment of the quality of abrasion-resistant plates welded joint by Górka J.

“…The research involved macro and microscopic metallographic tests, the determination of the grain size using an Xpert PRO X-ray diffractometer, and the EDS analysis of the chemical composition of the precipitates. …”
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Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Heat Treatment Low-alloy Wear-resistant Steel NM450 by Wu　Zhennan, Yao　Kaiyang, Tao　Yun, Zhou　Weichen, WanXin　, Song　Xinli

“…The strengthening mechanism of the test steel was mainly dislocation strengthening and fine grain strengthening and solid solution strengthening. …”
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Production Constraints and Improvement Strategies of Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp.) Genotypes for Drought Tolerance by Gabriel V. Nkomo, Moosa M. Sedibe, Maletsema A. Mofokeng

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Review on the Effect of Microstructure on Gear Contact Fatigue by Ling Chen, Peitang Wei, Huaiju Liu, Caichao Zhu, Jiqiang Li, Huan Yan

“…Through the surveys of the current related research situation both at home and abroad，the main microstructure features of gear materials such as retained austenite，carbide，grain size and their influence on the contact fatigue performance of gears are introduced. …”
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Feature derivation and classification of auditory-motor coupling dynamics in healthy and neurologically impaired adults. by Muhammad Bergas Nur Fayyad, Joeri R Verbiest, Anna Ivanova, Mario Manto, Lousin Moumdjian

“…The proposed method is suitable for quantifying fine-grained observation of the dynamics of auditory-motor coupling in adult healthy and neurological impaired participants, with the potential of designing personalised rehabilitation.…”
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Study and development of methods for predicting the physical and mechanical properties of thin wire and metal cord by E. S. Eltsova, Yu. L. Bobarikin, Yu. V. Martyanov

“…Considering that the deformation manifests anisotropy of the properties of thin wire, the prediction of physical and mechanical properties and the degree of unevenness of deformation becomes an urgent task.The paper studies that an increase in the drawing speed of a thin wire leads to the acquisition of a more uniform and fine‑grained structure. The dependences of the physico‑mechanical properties of thin latuned wire after the metal cord is twisted on the speed of fine drawing are developed. …”
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A Novel Trip Coverage Index for Transit Accessibility Assessment Using Mobile Phone Data by Zhengyi Cai, Dianhai Wang, Xiqun (Michael) Chen

“…It enables decision makers to assess transit accessibility in a finer-grained manner on the individual trip level and can be well transformed to measure transit services of other cities.…”
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RESEARCH ON FAULT DIAGNOSIS METHOD OF ROTATING MACHINERY BASED ON REFINED IMPROVED MULTISCALE FAST SAMPLE ENTROPY (MT) by ZHOU FuMing, LIU WuQiang, YANG XiaoQiang, SHEN JinXing, CHEN ZhaoYi

“…After that, the improved multiscale expansion method is applied to replace the traditional coarse-grained method, thereby avoiding the loss of amplitude information. …”
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Different Types of Resistant Starch Elicit Different Glucose Reponses in Humans by Mark D. Haub, Kelcie L. Hubach, Enas K. Al-tamimi, Sammy Ornelas, Paul A. Seib

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L’économie agro-pastorale dans le Loiret à l’âge du Fer (du Hallstatt ancien à La Tène finale) : synthèse des données carpologiques by Bénédicte Pradat

“…Agricultural activities are not only attested through the crops, notably grain, but also the rearing of livestock (plants indicating the exploitation of meadows and evidence of fodder residues.In addition, the presence of a rather constant anthropic wooded medium could be favouredfor the contributions of the berries which it provides or to serve as hedges. …”
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Peculiarities of Chickpea Growing Technology in the Steppe Zone of Ukraine by Zhuk Mykola, Rudenko Viacheslav, Khodjibekov S.

“…Among legumes, chickpea (Cicer arietinum) occupies a leading position in both quality and quantity of protein, which makes it a valuable food source. Its grain is widely used in human nutrition, especially in countries such as Turkey, Israel and other Middle Eastern countries. …”
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Comparison of Microstructural and Morphological Properties of Electrodeposited Fe-Cu Thin Films with Low and High Fe : Cu Ratio by Umut Sarac, M. Celalettin Baykul

“…The surface roughness and grain size were found to decrease significantly with increasing Fe ion concentration in the electrolyte. …”
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Effect of Alloying Composition on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Ultranarrow Gap Welded Joints of U71Mn Rail Steel by Lian Gong, Hui Liu, Cheng Lv, Lijun Zhao

“…Results indicated that the base metal metallographic microstructure consisted mainly of pearlitic, the HAZ was mainly composed of fine pearlite, and the microstructure of the welded bead was composed of acicular ferrite, while the weld grain size decreased as the alloy composition increased. …”
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