High-Fiber Crackers Supplemented with Asparagus Hard-Stem: Impacts of Supplementation Ratios and Water Amounts in Cracker Recipe on the Product Quality by Thi Thu Tra Tran, Le Hong Ngoc Ngo, Nu Minh Nguyet Ton, Thi Hong Nhung Le, Thi Thuy Le, Van Viet Man Le

“…As the AHP ratio increased from 0 to 20%, the dietary fiber and total phenolic contents of the fortified crackers were improved by 5.0 times and 3.2 times, respectively, while their ferric reducing antioxidant power and DPPH scavenging capacity were enhanced by 6.1 and 1.4 times, respectively. …”
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A prospective cohort study on the impact of healthy lifestyles on all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality among adult residents in Guizhou province by Jie ZHOU, Ling LI, Ji ZHANG, Lisha YU, Yujin REN, Wei JI, Yingjiao MU, Tao LIU

“…After adjusting for confounding factors such as sex, age, ethnicity, education level, marital status, residence, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, fasting blood glucose (FBG), 2-hour postprandial blood glucose (PBG), total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), the multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression analysis showed that the risks of all-cause mortality among adult residents in Guizhou province with 4, 5, 6, and ≥ 7 healthy lifestyle factors were 0.732 times (HR = 0.732, 95%CI: 0.542 – 0.990), 0.667 times (HR = 0.667, 95%CI: 0.499 – 0.893), 0.664 times (HR = 0.664, 95%CI: 0.490 – 0.900), and 0.566 times (HR = 0.566, 95%CI: 0.391 – 0.820) that of those with ≤ 3 healthy lifestyle factors, respectively. …”
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Design of an Ultra Compact 180-Degree Ring Coupler With Harmonic Suppression Using Composite Lines for Modern RF Systems by Saeed Roshani, Farid Zubir, Mohsen Karimi, Muhammad Akmal Chaudhary, Maher Assaad, Fawwaz Hazzazi, Noorlindawaty Md Jizat, Sobhan Roshani

“…Moreover, the conventional 800 MHz HRC occupied <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.5~\lambda \times 0.25~\lambda $ </tex-math></inline-formula> (140.7 mm <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times 70.8$ </tex-math></inline-formula> mm), while size of the proposed HRC is 10.7 mm <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times 6.7$ </tex-math></inline-formula> mm (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.038~\lambda \times 0.024~\lambda $ </tex-math></inline-formula>), which provides 99% size reduction.…”
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The Prevalence of Depression Among Parkinson&rsquo;s Disease Patients in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Al-Qahtani Z, Alqahtani ASM, Alzuhairi AMS, Qarah M, Alqarni AA, Alqahtani AOM, AlShehri FAA, Alqathanin MAA, Alshahrani OMO, Alqahtani MAF, Mahmood SE

“…PD patients lacking social support were 8 times more likely to develop major depression [OR = 8.27, 95% CI (1.47– 46.31), p = 0.016] and 5 times more likely to experience anxiety symptoms [OR = 5.36, 95% CI (1.14– 25.26), p = 0.034]. …”
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KATALIKYBĖ IR VISUOMENĖ TARPUKARIO LIETUVOJE by Valdas Pruskus

“…However, the terrestrian garment of it at that times did not cause a sympathy to them. According to them, perhaps, the most disadvantage was a formal character of the activities of Catholicism and the Church in Lithuania during the interwar period. …”
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Application of Two-Dimensional Compressive Sensing to Wavelet Method of Moments for Fast Analysis of Wide-Angle Electromagnetic Scattering Problems by Yi Liu, Qi Qi, Xinyuan Cao, Mingsheng Chen, Guoqing Deng, Zhixiang Huang, Xianliang Wu

“…Finally, after completing the other side of the bilateral sparse transform, the wide-angle problems can be solved rapidly by two times of recovery algorithm with prior knowledge. …”
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Performance Analysis of Interaction between Smart Glasses and Smart Objects Using Image-Based Object Identification by Jacek Rumiński, Adam Bujnowski, Tomasz Kocejko, Jerzy Wtorek, Alexey Andrushevich, Martin Biallas, Rolf Kistler

“…Particularly we are focusing on new interaction methods and the analysis of acceptable reaction times in the process of object recognition using smart glasses. …”
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Gene Expression in Aphelid Zoospores Reveals Their Transcriptional and Translational Activity and Alacrity for Invasion by Igor R. Pozdnyakov, Alexei O. Seliuk, Kristina O. Barzasekova, Sergey A. Karpov

“…For 589 of them, expression levels were shown to be more than 10 times higher than the median level. Among the highly expressed genes with known functions, the largest functional categories were “Cellular Metabolism”, “Protein Synthesis”, “Cell State Control”, and “Nucleic Acid Processing”. …”
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Reduced-Precision Redundancy on FPGAs by Brian Pratt, Megan Fuller, Michael Wirthlin

“…A novel method is also presented for improving the error-masking ability of RPR by up to 5 times at no additional hardware cost under certain conditions. …”
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Thermal Performance Analysis of Dry Unit of Hybrid Closed Cooling Tower by Ilnur Madyshev, Vitaly Kharkov, Marsel Vakhitov, Maxim Kuznetsov

“…The results showed that the finned surface of the coil pipes enhanced the heat flow rate by 2.63–3.22&nbsp;times, depending on the Reynolds number by air, and improved the efficiency of heat transfer by 2.34&nbsp;times.…”
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Numerical Analysis of Discrete Switching Prey-Predator Model for Integrated Pest Management by Changcheng Xiang, Yi Yang, Zhongyi Xiang, Wenjie Qin

“…Finally, the effects of key parameters on the switching frequencies and switching times are discussed and the sensitivity analysis of varying parameter values for mean switching times has also been given. …”
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Kinetic aspects of malachite deposition on marble from copper lactate solutions by Gogol, Daniil B., Rozhkovoy, Ivan E., Sadyrbekov, Danyar T., Aldabergenova, Saule K., Makasheva, Astra M.

“…The reaction rate constant is $4.19 \times 10^{-6}~\text{s}^{-1}$ and the effective diffusion coefficient is $1.39 \times 10^{-12}~\text{m}^2/\text{s}$ at room temperature (25 °C). …”
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Point de vue sur la conservation-restauration des matières plastiques by Sylvie Ramel

“…This phenomenon is particularly noticeable in the "collections of objects of uses" that she had the opportunity to treat several times.…”
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Bacterial Performance in Crack Healing and its Role in Creating Sustainable Construction by Digafe Alemu, Wubetie Demiss, Gamachis Korsa

“…As compared to conventional concrete, bacterial concrete was greater by 35.15% in compressive strength, 24.32% in average tensile strength, and 17.24% in average flexural strength, and it was 4 times lower in water absorption and 8 times lower in acid resistivity than conventional concrete. …”
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Promoting higher levels of immunity from colostrum among calves on organic dairy farms by Munashe Chigerwe, Hannah M. Laurence, Maire C. Rayburn, Betsy M. Karle

“…Focusing on varied practices in organic dairies, FTPI was 2.9 times more likely in calves fed less than 4 liters of colostrum within the first 24 hours, compared to calves fed more than that amount. …”
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The effect of led light sources with varied spectral composition on the <i>in vitro</i> rooting bility of garden strawberry (<i>Fragaria × ananassa</i>) by I. A. Byadovsky

“…It was established that the use of LED sources with an increased content of red light in the light flux increased the rooting percentage (1.15-1.25 times) and the number of roots per one microcutting (1.29-1.77 times) in in vitro culture, as compared with fluorescent lamp lighting. …”
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