Effect of Organic Material Type and Proportion on the Physical and Mechanical Properties of Vegetation-Concrete by Daxiang Liu, Baohua Zhang, Yueshu Yang, Wennian Xu, Yu Ding, Zhenyao Xia

“…It can be concluded that organic material with a large grain size is not suitable for use in vegetation-concrete directly and needs to be crushed before use to prevent crack formation. …”
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Enhancing the strength and toughness of WTaTiVN+Taμm heterogeneous alloys via nano Ti–V–N precipitation phase adjustment by Yifei Hu, Ang Xu, Jilong Liu, Ruoqi Wang, Jinping Suo

“…The dispersed Ti–V–N precipitates pinned grain boundaries, inhibiting grain growth in the HEA islands and matrix. …”
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Evaluation of naked oat accessions from the VIR collection for their qualitative characteristics in Kazakhstan by A. I. Abugalieva, I. G. Loskutov, T. V. Savin, V. A. Chudinov

“…Background. The grain of naked oat varieties has a unique biochemical composition (increased content of protein, starch, fat, and β-glucans) for the production of high-quality dietary food and feed. …”
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Foliar applied calcium chloride alleviated drought stress in pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum L.) by improving growth and yield contributing traits and antioxidant activity. by Tauqeer Ahmad Yasir, Wasif Azhar, Qaisar Ali, Muhammad Usman Masood Bhutta, Muhammad Ateeq, Allah Wasaya, Mubshar Hussain, Rehana Riaz

“…Results revealed that a significant reduction in the growth (plant height; PH, stem diameter; SD, fresh leaf weight; FLW, stem fresh weight; SFW, stem dry weight; SDW, root fresh weight; RFW, root dry weight; RDW, and plant dry weight; PDW), yield (panicle length; PL, grain per panicle; GPP, grain weight; GW, thousand grain weight; TGW, grain yield; GY, biological yield; BY, and harvest index; HI), and physiological attributes (membrane stability index; MSI, and soil plant analysis development; SPAD) were found under water drought stress condition, while increment in antioxidant level was observed due to low moisture contents in soil. …”
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Fermented soy whey induced changes on intestinal microbiota and metabolic influence in mice by Wei Han, Xuhui Zhuang, Qian Liu, Bo Sun, Haijiang Miao, Xiaolin Zhang

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Effect of zinc sulphate application and the cyclic incorporation of cereal straw on yields, the tissue concentration and uptake of Zn by crops and availability of Zn in soil under... by Rama Dwivedi, Prakash Chandra Srivastva

“…In I year, the grain yield of wheat crop was not significantly influenced by the different treatments while in II year the highest wheat grain yield was recorded with 25 kg ZnSO4 ha-1 to I year rice crop ? …”
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Growth, Yield-Related Traits and Yield of Lowland Maize (Zea mays L.) Varieties as Influenced by Inorganic NPS and N Fertilizer Rates at Babile, Eastern Ethiopia by Mekuannet K. Belay

“…Therefore, the highest grain yield (9.7 t·ha−1) was produced from Baate at a combined application of 150 kg NPS and 130.5 kg N·ha−1. …”
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Chemical Regulation Effect of Water Use Efficiency of Maize Intercropping by Hongwei Chen, Ling Huang

“…This method was used to study the effects of three stubble retention methods of traditional wheat straw incineration, straw return, and straw stubble on grain yield, water use efficiency (WUE), and economic benefits of wheat/maize intercropping. …”
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Evaluation of Maize (Zea mays L.) Varieties in Selected Lowland Areas of Southern Ethiopia by Tariku Simion Dojamo, Selamawit Markos Takiso, Melese Lema Tessema

“…The interaction of locations with varieties was nonsignificant for grain yield, cob length, and cob number. The mean grain yield indicated that the variety Melkassa-6Q is a high yielder compared to others with 3284 kg grain yield per hectare. …”
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Assessing the Hardness of Quenched Medium Steel Using an Ultrasonic Nondestructive Method by Shao-Yi Hsia, Yu-Tuan Chou

“…Our experimental results show that a smaller average grain size as well as higher hardness can be obtained from higher quenching temperatures. …”
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Experimental investigation of crack initiation and propagation in high- and gigacycle fatigue in titanium alloys by study of morphology of fracture by M.V. Bannikov, O. B. Naimark, V.A. Oborin

“…Fatigue (high- and gigacycle) crack initiation and its propagation in titanium alloys with coarse and fine grain structure are studied by fractography analysis of fracture surface. …”
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Surface properties of friction stir welded dissimilar joints of AA7075 and Mg-WE43 alloys: Effect of positional arrangement by Tariq Ahmad, Nadeem Fayaz Lone, Noor Zaman Khan, Babar Ahmad, Arshad Noor Siddiquee, Daolun Chen

“…Corrosion resistance improved from 77.59 mpy to 56.299 mpy. The higher grain refinement improved wear resistance due to higher grain boundary density and greater chances of formation of protective oxide films. …”
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Mechanical property strengthening by post-heat treatments in NiTiCu shape memory alloys fabricated by twin-wire arc additive manufacturing by Long Chen, Miao Zhao, Jiehao Wu, J. P. Oliveira, Fissha Biruke Teshome, Bowen Pang, Jiajia Shen, Yiming Wu, Naixun Zhou, Norbert Schell, Zhi Zeng

“…The enhancement of mechanical properties can be attributed to the smaller matrix grain size and precipitate size and the higher proportion of high-angle grain boundaries in this material condition. …”
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Effect of high-temperature heat treatment on mechanical properties and microstructure of CoCrNi medium-entropy alloy formed by laser powder bed fusion by Laixia Yang, Mengjia Yang, Yanze Zhang, Qidong Xie, Longbo Zhang, Zhen Chen, Hang Su

“…Alterations in grain morphology, dislocation density, fractions of recrystallization, and grain boundary misorientation significantly impact mechanical properties. …”
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Analysis and Prediction of Stable Height of Capillary Water Rising under Unsaturated Subgrade Soil by Jianfeng Cao, Zhihao Mao, Liqiang Hu, Yunfei Dai, Yu Luo, Wenwei Zhou

“…It involves the analysis of the factors affecting the capillary water stability height of the coarse-grained soil and fine-grained soil filler as well as establishing the corresponding prediction model. …”
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Stored Product Pests by P.G. Koehler, W.H. Kern, Jr., J.L. Castner

“…It details the characteristics, life cycles, and behaviors of pests such as the rice weevil, lesser grain borer, flour beetles, sawtoothed grain beetle, cigarette beetle, drugstore beetle, and various weevils and moths. …”
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SDFAC:software defined flow access control mechanism by Xiu-lei WANG, Guo-min ZHANG, Chao HU, Ming CHEN, Xiang-lin WEI

“…The software defined networking paradigm decouples control plane from data plane,offering flexible centralized control and fine grain flow management.Based on these advantages,a novel software defined access control mechanism SDFAC was proposed.Firstly,an analysis of the access control model was given from the flow granularity,and the precondition for the fine-grained access control was deduced from the model.Secondly,the framework and basic working process of the SDFAC was described.The flow authentication protocol was designed to support the function of SDFAC.Finally,the experiment results prove the feasibility and availability of SDFAC.…”
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Spatial variations in the microbiota: comparative analysis of microbial composition and predicted functions across different intestinal segments and feces in donkeys by Yanwei Wang, Yanwei Wang, Yanwei Wang, Tong Hu, Tong Hu, Kaixuan Liang, Kaixuan Liang, Shinuo Li, Shinuo Li, Qiyue Zhang, Qiyue Zhang, Qiyue Zhang, Wenqiang Li, Honglei Qu, Honglei Qu, Boying Dong, Haihua Zhang, Qiugang Ma, Qiugang Ma, Ru Jia, Shimeng Huang, Shimeng Huang

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Dual-phase medium-entropy diboride–carbide ceramics with metal element exchange during sintering by Pai Peng, Ji-Xuan Liu, Xiao-Ting Xin, Weichao Bao, Yongcheng Liang, Fangfang Xu, Guo-Jun Zhang

“…Multiphase composition design is a strategy for optimizing the microstructures and properties of ceramic materials through mutual inhibition of grain growth, complementary property improvement, or even mutually reinforcing effects. …”
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ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY OF NEW EARLY-MATURING BARLEY LINES by O. B. Batakova, V. A. Korelina, N. V. Ivanova, A. V. Anisimova, O. N. Kovaleva

“…As the result of the study in Kotlas, line L-1610 was identified as early-maturing (76-80 days), high-yielding (5.6 t/ga), with large grain (1000 grain weight: 51.3 g), and high resistance to lodging (9-7 points). …”
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