Potato protease inhibitors, a functional food material with antioxidant and anticancer potential by Yaotong Liu, Yuanyuan Bian, Yan Bai, Siqi Yu, Yuxuan Tian, Jie Li, Suhong Li, Tuoping Li

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Testcross performance of Striga-resistant maize inbred lines and testers with varying levels of Striga reaction by Degife Zebire, Abebe Menkir, Victor Adetimirin, Wende Mengesha, Meseka Silvestro, Melaku Gedil

“…Results There were significant differences among test crosses for days to silking, days to pollen shedding, ear at harvest, ear aspect, ear per plant, grain yield, Striga damage rating at 8 and 10 weeks after planting (WAP), and Striga count at 8 and 10 WAP. …”
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Annealing-Induced Modifications in Physicochemical and Optoelectronic Properties of Ag-Doped Nanostructured CdS Thin Films by Vidya S. Taur, Rajesh A. Joshi, Ramphal Sharma

“…Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images represent grain growth and agglomeration upon annealing. Red shift in optical absorbance strength and energy band gap values from 2.28 to 2.14 eV is obtained. …”
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Rapid Identification of Saline–Alkali Stress-Tolerant Peanut Varieties Based on Multimodal Data by Fan Zhang, Longgang Zhao, Tingting Guo, Ziyang Wang, Peng Lou, Juan Li

“…The cultivation of saline–alkali-tolerant peanut (<i>Arachis hypogaea</i> L.) varieties can effectively increase grain yield in saline–alkali land. However, traditional assessment methods are often cumbersome and time consuming. …”
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Changes in the agriculture specialization Cherkasy region over 10 years by I. O. Zozulia

“…A possible way of "incorporating" the specialization of agriculture into existing natural landscapes and ecosystems can be, on the one hand, the reduction of the size of one farm, and on the other hand, the diversification of ecosystem relations through mixed sowing of grain mixtures (with legumes), increasing the share of hay and pastures.…”
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A Blockchain-Based Trustworthy Access Control Scheme for Medical Data Sharing by Canling Wang, Wei Wu, Fulong Chen, Hong Shu, Ji Zhang, Yuxuan Zhang, Taochun Wang, Dong Xie, Chuanxin Zhao

“…For the purpose to achieve the fine-grained permissions propagation control of medical data in sharing institutions, a trust-based authorization access control mechanism is suggested in this study. …”
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Utilization of Black Cotton Soil Stabilized with Brick Dust-Lime for Pavement Road Construction: An Experimental and Numerical Approach by Damtew Melese, Belete Aymelo, Tewodros Weldesenbet, Alemineh Sorsa

“…These tests were natural moisture content, grain size distribution, X-ray diffraction test, Atterberg limit test, modified compaction, California bearing ratio, and triaxial test. …”
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OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING THE HARMFUL ENTOMOFAUNA FROM WINTER RAPESEED CROPS IN THE CONDITIONS OF CENTRAL OF MOLDAVA, BETWEEN YEARS 2014-2017 by PAULA -LUCELIA URSACHE, ELENA TROTUS, ALEXANDRA -ANDREEA BUBURUZ

“…Of these, 11 species are specific to winter rapeseed crops and 11 species were accidental identified because of the proximity with different agricultural crops (maize. sunflower. grain cereals). The highest abundance was registered by Epicometis hirta Poda species which accounted 914 specimens collected during the analyzed period. …”
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Multi-authority attribute hidden for electronic medical record sharing scheme based on blockchain by Lin JIN, Youliang TIAN

“…Currently, there is no data exchanging and sharing between different hospitals, and it is easy to form data islands.At the same time, regional medical data contains a large amount of sensitive information of patients.The public acquisition, sharing and circulation of these data will lead to malicious tampering, theft, abuse and loss of ownership, thereby revealing patient privacy.In addition, the size of medical data is enormous and the data is unstructured, then it is more difficult to prevent and hold accountable some highly targeted malicious attacks, such as malicious attacks on medical data theft, tampering, and extortion.In view of the above problems, a blockchain-based on multi-authority attribute hidden electronic medical record sharing scheme was proposed to achieve fine-grained access to shared electronic medical records while ensuring patient privacy.The Multi-Authorization Attribute Encryption (MA-ABE) algorithm was introduced, which used multi-authority organizations to manage decentralized attributes.It also used hash functions to identify different users, in order to effectively resist collusion attacks between users with different authorizations.Besides, the linear secrets sharing scheme (LSSS) was used to realize partial hiding of attributes, and the attributes were divided into two parts:attribute name and attribute value.In addition, combined with the characteristics of blockchain openness, transparency and tamper-proof, the design of access policy can update the algorithm.Based on the access policy update algorithm, the policy block was added.The new access policy was uploaded to the blockchain to form a policy update traceability chain, which can realize distributed and reliable access control management under the condition of hidden policy.It can also support data privacy protection at the same time, and traceability of user behavior.The theoretical proof and experimental analysis have proved that this scheme protect attribute privacy effectively, while reduces computational overhead.…”
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Study on seismic performance of SRC frame-bent structures in CAP1400 nuclear power plants by Zhen-Hua Xu, Jin-Quan Zhao, Guo-Liang Bai, Ning-Jun Du

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Machine-learning crystal size distribution for volcanic stratigraphy correlation by Martin Jutzeler, Rebecca J. Carey, Yasin Dagasan, Andrew McNeill, Ray A. F. Cas

“…The workflow comprises three instance segmentation models for pre-processing the images, automated scale measurement and grain segmentation using Mask R-CNN. This avoids the laborious and time-consuming task of manual picking by image analysis, and allows for a rapid, unbiased and quantitative approach to determine crystal size distribution (CSD). …”
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Geoelectric Evaluation of Groundwater Potential: A Case Study of Sabongida-Ora and Environs, Southern Nigeria by FI Chinyem

“…The results showed seven to eight geoeletrical layers with resistivity values ranging from 127Ωm to 767Ωm, 47Ωm to 672Ωm, 70Ωm to 1380Ωm, 4Ωm to 428Ωm and 21Ωm to 400Ωm for the first to eight layers respectively with lithologies consisting of clay, clayey sand and coarse grained sand as indicating in the computed model parameters and geoeletrical section. …”
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Effects of Puddling Types and Rice Establishment Methods on Soil Characteristics and Productivity of Rice in Southern China by Evans Asenso, Zhimin Wang, Tian Kai, Jiuhao Li, Lian Hu

“…The maximum microbial population was found in PD. Rice grain yield showed a higher productivity increase of 7.65 t·ha−2 (31.25%) and 3.93 t·ha−2 (13.91%) for 1H and 2H (1H: 1st harvest and 2H: 2nd harvest), respectively, in PD compared with the lowest of 5.76 t·ha−1 and 3.45 t·ha−1 in 1H and 2H, respectively, under RT. …”
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Electrochemical Properties of Ce0.5Sr0.5 (Co0.8Fe0.2)1−xZrxO3−δ Cathode Materials for Low Intermediate Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (LIT-SOFCs) Synthesized by Sol-Gel Method... by Beyene Tesfaw Ayalew, P. Vijay Bhaskar Rao

“…Scanning electron microscope (SEM) micrographs showed the presence of pores on the microstructure. Average grain sizes of prepared samples found from SEM images were in the range of 105.30–183.02 nm. …”
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Improved dielectric performance of graphene oxide reinforced plasticized starch. by Eashika Mahmud, Shafiqul I Mollik, Muhammad Rakibul Islam

“…The complex impedance spectra analysis shows the change in resistance and constant phase element (CPE): grain boundary resistance, R2 decreases from 4.3 KΩ to 1.9 KΩ, and CPE increases from 0.59 μF to 0.72 μF for PS/GO (0.5%) nanocomposite. …”
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Adoption and Impact of the Maize Hybrid on the Livelihood of the Maize Growers: Some Policy Insights from Pakistan by Akhter Ali, AbduRahman Beshir Issa, Dil Bahadur Rahut

“…The results from PSM revealed that hybrid maize adopters had higher grain yields in the range of 94–124 kgs per hectare as compared with nonadopters. …”
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Zein patterns as effective markers of valuable agronomic traits in maize by V. V. Sidorova, A. V. Konarev, Yu. A. Kerv

“…On the examples of such agronomic traits as early maturity, explosiveness, and waxiness of maize grain, the possibility of controlling the “inclusion” of these traits in the breeding material with the help of zein markers has been demonstrated. …”
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Scientific support to plant breeding and seed production in Siberia in the XXI century by N. P. Goncharov

“…The agricultural area used in the SFD is about 50 million hectares and accounts for 13 % of the country’s gross grain production. The need for the introduction of modern molecular biological methods, bioengineering and IT technology is demonstrated and discussed. …”
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Performance Evaluation of Malt Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Varieties for Yield and Quality Traits in Eastern Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia by Abebe Assefa, Getawey Girmay, Tesfaye Alemayehu, Alemu Lakew

“…The results revealed that there was a highly significant difference in grain yield and quality traits (p<0.05). The kernel protein and starch content of the varieties ranged from 9.85 to 11 and 63–65%. …”
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Effects of NDVI/Meteorological Elements on Actual Evapotranspiration in Loess Plateau over Last 20 Years by HAN Yuping, XU Dan, HUANG Huiping, JIA Dongdong, PEI Duo, ZHANG Junfeng

“…Given that the Grain for Green Program significantly enhances the vegetation coverage in the Loess Plateau and that global warming keeps worsening,studying the spatio-temporal distribution law of the evapotranspiration (ET) in the Loess Plateau and the combined influences of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and meteorological elements on the ET can guide the comprehensive management of the water resources in the plateau.Spatial regression analysis,Morlet wavelet analysis,and principal component analysis are performed to examine the spatio-temporal evolution characteristics of the ET in the Loess Plateau during the three periods of the whole year,the growing season,and the non-growing season over 2001—2020 and the combined influences of NDVI and meteorological elements with MOD16A2 ET,MOD13Q1 NDVI,and meteorological data.The results support the following conclusions:① ET increases significantly in all the three periods,with the growth rate for the whole year higher than that for the growing season and much higher than that for the non-growing season.The three periods all have a first main cycle of 14 a.ET decreases from southeast to northwest both in the whole year and the growing season,and the ET in the non-growing season is lower than that in the whole year and that in the growing season.The higher value is in the west and the south,and the spatial distribution of the interannual variation of ET is consistent with that of ET.② NDVI also increases significantly in all the three periods,and the spatial distribution of its value is consistent with that of ET.Precipitation increases remarkably in the whole year and in the growing season,with no marked growth in the non-growing season.No obvious increase trends in temperature and wind speed are observed in the three statistics periods.The spatial distribution laws of precipitation and temperature are largely consistent with that of ET.③ The contribution of each influencing factor to the change in ET varies with the period.Specifically,the first principal factors in the growing season,the non-growing season,and the whole year are respectively wind speed,temperature,and NDVI,NDVI,precipitation,and temperature,and NDVI and precipitation.…”
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