A comparative analysis of the microstructural and physicochemical properties of alluvial and dune sands from northeast Algerian Sahara by Rafika Hachem, Nassima Meftah, Ahmed Bouaziz

“…However, the dune sand is poorly graded sand with a mean grain size of 250?m; whereas, the alluvial sand is well-graded sand with a mean grain size of 406?…”
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Women’s visibility and bargaining power in the common bean value chain in Mozambique by Enock K. Maereka, Eileen B. Nchanji, Victor Nyamolo, Lutomia K. Cosmas, Bartholomew Y. Chataika

“…Compared to young women, young men sold twice the bean grain volume and earned nearly twice more income, despite the two groups producing comparable volumes of bean grain. …”
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Comprehensive Assessment of the Genotype-Environment Interaction and Yield Stability of Boro Rice Genotypes under Four Environments in Bangladesh Using AMMI Analysis by Shams Shaila Islam, Md. Borhan Uddin Sarker, Md. Masud Rana, Ahmed Khairul Hasan, Md. Rashed Karim, Thanet Khomphet

“…In addition, genotypes BRRI dhan 84, BRRI dhan 81, and BRRI dhan 67 exhibited the highest grain yields. The Rangpur environment demonstrated considerable stability across the four environments with a high mean value of grain yield (7,206 kg·ha−1). …”
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Lipidomics-based association study reveals genomic signatures of anti-cancer qualities of pigmented rice sprouts by Rhowell Navarro Tiozon, Rhowell Navarro Tiozon, Erstelle Pasion-Uy, Saleh Alseekh, Saleh Alseekh, Kristel June D. Sartagoda, Shem Gempesaw, Joel H. G. Tolentino, Alisdair R. Fernie, Alisdair R. Fernie, Nese Sreenivasulu

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Effects of Dietary Iron Levels on the Production Performance, Nutrient Digestibility, Blood Biochemistry, and Meat and Fur Quality of Growing Rex Rabbits by Jiali Chen, Jiyuan Wang, Lei Liu, Fuchang Li

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Effects of Providing Enrichment to Broilers in an Animal Welfare Environment on Productivity, Litter Moisture, Gas Concentration (CO₂ and NH₃), Animal Welfare... by Chan-Ho Kim, Woo-Do Lee, Ji-Seon Son, Jung-Hwan Jeon, Se-Jin Lim, Su-Mi Kim

“…Two identical zones within the house were created by installing a partition in the center; one side was provided with grain blocks (one grain block per 1000 birds), and the other side was not. …”
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Hairy vetch influence on nitrous oxide and nitrate leaching losses during corn growing seasons in reduced and no-till systems by Ashani Thilakarathne, Madhabi Tiwari, Oladapo Adeyemi, Amanda Weidhuner, Pawan Kumar, Gurbir Singh, Jon Schoonover, Karl Williard, Karla Gage, Amir Sadeghpour

“…Hairy vetch increased corn grain yield and soil N. However, it led to higher losses of both N2O-N and NO3-N, indicating that increased corn grain yield, due to the hairy vetch’s N contribution, also resulted in higher N losses. …”
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Crack of a helicopter main rotor actuator attachment: failure analysis and lessons learned by L. Allegrucci, F. De Paolis, A. Coletta, M. Bernabei

“…Further, FESEM boundary grain observation gave evidences of a high presence of precipitates on the investigated surfaces. …”
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Characterization of the Phosphotransferase from <i>Bacillus subtilis</i> 1101 That Is Responsible for the Biotransformation of Zearalenone by Yuzhuo Wu, Qiuyu Zhou, Junqiang Hu, Yunfan Shan, Jinyue Liu, Gang Wang, Yin-Won Lee, Jianrong Shi, Jianhong Xu

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Information service identity generation and management scheme for service supervision by Xiang LI, Hao WANG, Qiange LIU, Chao WANG, Jian MAO, Jianwei LIU

“…While information services have a significant impact on economic and social development, it also brings a series of security challenges.Realizing fine-grained, continuous, and dynamic supervision of information services has become the top priority of information service management.Traditional static identity authentication and management mechanisms, are difficult to meet the continuous monitoring requirements for information service entities and service quality.An information service identification generation and management scheme for service supervision was proposed.It defined an information service identification format from multiple perspectives such as information service category, service grade, and service quality credibility.It used the analytic hierarchy process to evaluate information services and designed a dynamic management of information service identification.The scheme can meet the needs of issuance and fine-grained dynamic management of information service identification for multi-dimensional business attributes.…”
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ELAB:end-host-based congestion aware load balancing for data center network by Guo CHEN, Weifeng ZHANG

“…A good load balance mechanism is the key to effectively use the network of the data center network.In current production data center,ECMP is the de facto load balancing scheme.However,it has two drawbacks.1) the load balance unit is too coarse-grained,2) it’s not congestion aware.To solve these problems,several fine-grained and congestion-aware load balancing works have emerged in recent years.These works either need to modify the switch hardware to collect congestion in various parts of the network in real time,and it is difficult to deploy; or only need to modify the end system,but the inaccurate sense of congestion cannot achieve a good load balancing effect.A novel edge-based load balancing scheme ELAB was proposed,which addresses above existing problems and improves the network performance up to 20%.…”
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Cloud data assured deletion scheme based on overwrite verification by Ruizhong DU, Pengliang SHI, Xinfeng HE

“…At the end of data life cycle,there is still a risk of data leakage,because mostly data which was stored in cloud is removed by logical deletion of the key.Therefore,a cloud data assured deletion scheme (WV-CP-ABE) based on ciphertext re-encrypt and overwrite verification was proposed.When data owner wants to delete the outsourced data,the data fine-grained deletion operation was realized by re-encrypting the ciphertext to change the access control policy.Secondly,a searchable path hash binary tree (DSMHT) based on dirty data block overwrite was built to verify the correctness of the data to be deletion.Finally,the dual mechanism of changing the ciphertext access control policy and data overwriting guarantees the data assured deletion.The experimental analysis proves that the fine-grained control is better and the security is more reliable than the previous logical delete method in the assured deletion of data.…”
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Cost-Effective Forage and Browse Legume Feed for Dairy Production: An Optimisation Approach Using Jaya Optimisation Algorithm by Godfrey Chagwiza

“…Further research can be directed towards investigating the effect of combining the next best feed, quality hay, and grain crop silage for profit contribution.…”
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Design on the full-dimensional reconfiguration polymorphic network switching chip architecture by Yu LI, Zhaozhao LI, Ping LYU, Qinrang LIU

“…At present, IP network has the problems of rigid structure, poor scalability and poor security.To solve these problems, the concept of polymorphic network has been proposed by researchers and gradually become a research hotspot.The programmable network switching chip is the basis of polymorphic network implementation.Therefore, a full-dimensional reconfigurable polymorphic network switching chip architecture was proposed.Based on eFPGA in the chip, the port-level and bit-level fine-grained reconfigurable polymorphic network was realized.Based on self-designed process element (PE), the coarse-grained reconfigurable network switching engine was realized.Thereby the full-dimensional reconfigurable polymorphic network switching chip was realized and laid the foundation for the data layer of polymorphic network.To improve the network switching performance, an improved bit vector algorithm was proposed, which could realize fast flow table lookup with a smaller resource consumption.The proposed algorithm has showed its practicability in the research.…”
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Nonradiative and Radiative Recombination in CdS Polycrystalline Structures by E. Gaubas, V. Borschak, I. Brytavskyi, T. Čeponis, D. Dobrovolskas, S. Juršėnas, J. Kusakovskij, V. Smyntyna, G. Tamulaitis, A. Tekorius

“…The confocal microscopy has been employed to correlate the homogeneity of photoluminescence and grain size in CdS layers. Three types of samples with crystallite grain size of <1 μm (the I-type) and of 2–10 μm of homogeneous (II-type) and inhomogeneous (III-type) grain distribution have been separated. …”
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Estimates of Combining Ability and Heterosis for Yield and Its Related Traits in Pearl Millet Inbred Lines under Downy Mildew Prevalent Areas of Senegal by Ghislain Kanfany, Amadou Fofana, Pangirayi Tongoona, Agyemang Danquah, Samuel Offei, Eric Danquah, Ndiaga Cisse

“…Data on downy mildew incidence, plant height, flowering time, panicle length and diameter, productive tillers, thousand-grain weight, panicle, and grain yield were recorded. …”
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Imaging Spectroscopy: Earth and Planetary Remote Sensing with the PSI Tetracorder and Expert Systems from Rovers to EMIT and Beyond by Roger N. Clark, Gregg A. Swayze, K. Eric Livo, Philip G. Brodrick, Eldar Noe Dobrea, Srinivasan Vijayarangan, Robert O. Green, David Wettergreen, Alberto Candela, Amanda Hendrix, Carlos Pérez García-Pando, Neil C. Pearson, Melissa D. Lane, Adolfo González-Romero, Xavier Querol, the EMIT and TREX teams

“…Absorption bands of a particulate surface change shape with grain size, and shape changes are used in some cases to constrain grain size of each component in the surface. …”
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Tuning lamella spacings for simultaneous strength-ductility improvements in heterogeneous lamella SiCp/2024Al composites by Kan Liu, Qifeng Cui, Lu Shi, Yunpeng Cai, Andong Hua, Yishi Su, Qiubao Ouyang, Di Zhang

“…With increasing extrusion ratio, both thickness and grain size of fine grain (FG) bands were decreased while ultra-fine grain (UFG) dimensions were almost constant. …”
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Enhancing sulfide stress cracking resistance of a Cu-bearing high strength low alloyed steel through decreasing austenitizing temperature by Tianyi Zeng, Qingzhan Zhang, Shuzhang Zhang, Yong Zhou, Yinghui Zhao, Xianbo Shi, Wei Yan

“…The current work showed that prior austenite grain size (PAGS) greatly increased as the austenitizing temperature was increased from 820 °C to 910 °C, but slightly increased with a further increase to 1000 °C. …”
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BREEDING DURUM WINTER WHEAT FOR IMPROVEMENT OF ADAPTIVE POTENTIAL AND YIELD by G. V. Shchipak, R. A. Nedostupov, V. G. Shchipak

“…The new cultivars are assessed for grain yield, frost resistance and productivity elements.…”
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