Assessment of groundnut mutants for drought tolerance during germination and early seedling development by Imane SAIBARI, Saïd BARRIJAL, Mohammed TAOUSSI, Najlae BELKADI, Rachid LAHLALI, Ahlam HAMIM

“…The criteria under study were germination percentage (GP), germination speed (GS), mean germination time (MGT), as well as the lengths and dry weights of roots, hypocotyls, and epicotyls. …”
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Aluminum doped zinc oxide nanoplatelets based sensor with enhanced hydrogen sulfide detection by Brahim Ydir, Amine Ajdour, Iulia Antohe, Gabriel Socol, Marcela Socol, Luiza-Izabela Toderascu, Driss Saadaoui, Imade Choulli, Radouane Leghrib, Houda Lahlou

“…The AZO thin films exhibited a polycrystalline wurtzite structure and an increase in crystallite size with increasing Al concentrations. …”
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Impact of chevrons on driver behaviour in rural road curves at night-time by Ivana Kučina, Bernard Kosovec, Magdalena Čavka, Dario Babić

“…Due to their characteristics, rural roads have increased risk of fatal crashes. Particularly risky locations on rural roads are horizontal curves, especially during night-time when, due to the lack of available visual information, driver’s perception-reaction time is prolonged. …”
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Rates of gyrase supercoiling and transcription elongation control supercoil density in a bacterial chromosome. by Nikolay Rovinskiy, Andrews Akwasi Agbleke, Olga Chesnokova, Zhenhua Pang, N Patrick Higgins

“…Gyrase catalyzes negative supercoiling of DNA in an ATP-dependent reaction that helps condense bacterial chromosomes into a compact interwound "nucleoid." …”
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A Multi-Agent Approach to Modeling Task-Oriented Dialog Policy Learning by Songfeng Liang, Kai Xu, Zhurong Dong

“…In each update, we utilize the maximum action value function to determine the appropriate dialogue action, while the maximum state value function serves to guide the policy learning process. …”
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ENSURING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE THROUGH AGILE MARKETING by Mirela-Cristina VOICU

“…The success of these companies was determined, among other things, by the speed of reaction to change. The rapid changes in the market impose an increasingly acute need for a marketing activity that is more agile by the day, translated into a reaction to change at least as fast by marketers. …”
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Mobile App–Induced Mental Fatigue Affects Strength Asymmetry and Neuromuscular Performance Across Upper and Lower Limbs by Andreas Stafylidis, Walter Staiano, Athanasios Mandroukas, Yiannis Michailidis, Lluis Raimon Salazar Bonet, Marco Romagnoli, Thomas I. Metaxas

“…These findings demonstrate that mental fatigue selectively impairs fine motor strength and cognitive processing speed, particularly reaction time, while gross motor power remains resilient. …”
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Optimization and Comparison of Ni and Cd Removal Using Zinc Powder with the Response Surface Methodology by P. Abbasi, k. Shayesteh, v. vahidfard, M. Hosseini

“…The interplay of parameters showed that increasing the concentration of zinc powder can reduce the time and temperature of the entire reaction. …”
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Performance with an additional load: formula-based predictions for controlling the load intensity when carrying backpacks by Saskia Klughardt, Bettina Schaar

“…Both tests were conducted at 4 km/h and an incline of 1%, with the speed increasing by 1 km/h each minute until the subject reported feeling exhausted. …”
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Study on the Combustion Behavior of Inhomogeneous Partially Premixed Mixtures in Confined Space by Yanfei Li, Xin Zhang, Lichao Chen, Ying Liu

“…It exhibits rapid combustion characteristics, particularly during the initial combustion phase, where flame propagation speed and heat release rate increase significantly. …”
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Influence of selected cognitive performances on musculoskeletal injury occurrence in adult male professional Slovenian PrvaLiga football players in a prospective cohort study by Florian Giesche, Manca Peskar, Luka Šlosar, Boštjan Šimunič, Rado Pišot, Uros Marusic

“…Cognitive functions assessed by computerized tests (PsyToolkit) included psychomotor vigilance (simple, choice reaction time) and visuospatial memory (Corsi-block-tapping-test), while pen-and-paper tests assessed motor speed, visual scanning, and executive functions (TMT; Delis-Kaplan-Executive-Function-System). …”
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Optimization and Experimental Testing of the Drag Torque Model Based on the Cavitation Effect by Li Jie, Lian Hailong, Lan Hai, Wang Zhiyong

“…With the increased rotation speed, the cavitation effect volume fraction increases first and then decreases. …”
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Study on the Characteristics of a Composite Power System with a Tip-Jet-Driven Rotor by Yifei Wu, Yun Wang, Jinwu Wu, Jianxiang Tang

“…Tip-jet helicopters operate by utilizing the reaction force generated by a high-speed tip jet, offering advantages such as a simplified and compact fuselage design and a reduction in empty weight by eliminating anti-torque balancing equipment. …”
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Investigating the Performance of an Ultrasound-Assisted Rotating Packed Bed Reactor for the Enhancement of the Micromixing Efficiency by Mahdi Hefzi Lotfabadi, Mahdieh Abolhasani

“…By increasing the rotational speed and volumetric flow, the segregation index decreased and by increasing the concentration of acid and volumetric ratio, the segregation index increased. …”
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Modeling and Analysis of the Turning Performance of an Articulated Tracked Vehicle That Considers the Inter-Unit Coupling Forces by Ningyi Li, Xixia Liu, Hongqian Chen, Yu Zhang

“…The required turning space increased as both the steering angle and speed increased.…”
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Comparison of Hip and Low Back Loads between Normal Gait, Axillary Crutch Ambulation and Walking with a Hands-free Crutch in a Healthy Population by Karl Orishimo, Amir Shapira, Ian Kremenic, Malachy McHugh, Stephen Nicholas

“…Gait speed, hip and trunk range of motion, and hip and low back reaction forces, were compared using repeated-measures ANOVA…”
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Acute, dose–response effects of guayusa leaf extract on mood, cognitive and motor-cognitive performance, and blood pressure, heart rate, and ventricular repolarization by Nathaniel J. Helwig, Laura E. Schwager, Alexander C. Berry, Anna C. Zucker, Jacob S. Venenga, Samantha C. Sterbenz, Nathaniel D.M. Jenkins

“…GLE1200 also improved psychomotor speed (+5.08 ± 2.16 ms, p = 0.045) and uniquely increased motor-cognitive performance as reflected by a decrease in reaction time (−0.106 ± 0.04 ms, p = 0.026) during a neurocognitive hop test. …”
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Numerical Analysis of The Effect of Hydrodynamics and Operating Conditions on Biodiesel Synthesis in a Rotor-Stator Spinning Disk Reactor by Wen Zhuqing, Petera Jerzy

“…However, increasing rotational speed of spinning disk leads to more backflow, which decreases TG conversion. …”
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The use of microbial rhodopsin proteins in differential photodetection by Louisa Reissig, Louisa Reissig, Kirstin Buchanan, Kirstin Buchanan, Thea Lindner, Marie Kurihara, Po-Chuan Chan, Falk Kibowski, Keiichi Kojima, Simon Dalgleish, Kunio Awaga, Yuki Sudo

“…By modifying the internal parameters of the detectors, such as rhodopsin kind, salinity and pH, as well as by tuning the external environment, such as temperature, we could increase the responsivity and speed of our devices by over 2 orders of magnitude, compared to a previously reported proof-of-concept device, to the µA/W and kHz range, respectively. …”
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Trunk angular velocity: A convenient, valid and responsive substitute for force plate-based measures of dynamic postural stability. by Lammert A Vos, Maarten R Prins, Elien Plompen, Jaap H van Dieën, Idsart Kingma

“…Time-to-stability, mean center of pressure speed and the mean vertical force deviation of the ground reaction force were derived from force plate data and mean trunk angular velocity was obtained from an inertial measurement unit. …”
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