Critical Combinations of Higher-Order Terms in Einstein-Maxwell Theory and Compactification by Nahomi Kan, Kiyoshi Shiraishi

“…We consider the Lanczos-Lovelock term and Horndeski term as well as the higher-order Maxwell term for the second model, which contains a possible longer expansion time for the inflationary phase. …”
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Application of Aporrectodea caliginosa to Mitigate the Waste and the Effects of Vermicompost on the Exomorphological Features of Phaseolus vulgaris by Rouf Ahmad Mir, Sarita Shrivastava, Pragya Singh Pawaiya, Hemant Samadhiya

“…Each setup was conducted on plastic containers, and there would be control and the test at respective experiments. …”
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Development and Preliminary testing of a Mixing and Pelletizing Machine for Livestock Feeds Production by T.A. Ishola, R.A. Busari, O.S. Aboyeji

“… Agro crop residues such as cereal, stovers and fodders do not individually contain all the nutrients required for the optimum growth of ruminant animals, hence, the need to bring them together to form a balanced diet. …”
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Management of toxic and hazardous contents of oil sludge in Siri Island by M. Pazoki, B. Hasanidarabadi

“…Sirri Island is one of the most important islands in Iran where contains massive amounts of crude oil reservoirs and is a crude oil exporting and storage spot. …”
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Preface by Nikoletta Hendrik

“…We had the pleasure of attending John Sellars’ opening keynote speech and altogether eleven talks covering the reception of Stoicism by Cicero, Seneca, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Plotinus, Irenaeus, Lactantius, Lipsius, Spinoza, Deleuze and Frankfurt. This volume contains selected and peer-reviewed papers of the conference. …”
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Size Effects in Ruthenium-Based Thick-Film Resistors: Rutile vs. Pyrochlore-Based Resistors by M. Prudenziati, F. Sirotti, M. Sacchi, B. Morten, A. Tombesi, T. Akomolafe

“…Size effect can be suppressed with Pt/Au-based terminations provided that no Bi is contained and with Au-metallorganic-based contact provided that the peak firing temperature is not too high.…”
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Comparison of Cardiac Wall Thicknesses and Coronary Artery Obstructions Between Deaths Resulting From Acute Myocardial Infarction and Deaths From Other Causes by Ismail ALTIN, Mucahit ORUC, Osman CELBIS, Emine TURKMEN SAMDANCI

“…Methods: In this retrospective study of histopathological examinations of autopsies, two groups were formed. The first contained 28 cases diagnosed with acute MI and the second 28 cases with no heart pathology and the cause of death was reasons other than heart disease. …”
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Linking the Historical Sample of the Netherlands with the USA Censuses, 1850–1940 by Diogo Paiva, Francisco Anguita, Kees Mandemakers

“…The Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN) contains about 85,500 persons born in the Netherlands between 1812 and 1922. …”
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BREEDING FOR ANTIOXIDANT CONTENT IN GRAIN AS A PROMISING TREND IN OBTAINING HEALTHY FOOD PRODUCTS by V. I. Polonskiy, I. G. Loskutov, A. V. Sumina

“…It is widely known that oat and barley grains have high nutritional value, contain unsaturated fatty acids, basic minerals, proteins and β-glucans (the highest levels among cereal crops), and are characterized by the presence of diverse chemicals with antioxidant properties. …”
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Spin angular momentum of Gaussian beams with several polarization singularities by A.A. Kovalev, V.V. Kotlyar

“…Besides, we derive an optimal radius of the singularity-containing circle in the initial plane for which the maximal spin angular momentum density can be achieved upon propagation. …”
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N.R. Ayupova by N.R. Ayupova

“…Paleozoic siliceous-ferruginous oxide sedimentary rocks of the Urals massive sulfide deposits contain well-preserved textural and structural evidence indicating the role of microorganisms in their formation. …”
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A Roller Bearing Fault Diagnosis Method Based on LCD Energy Entropy and ACROA-SVM by HungLinh Ao, Junsheng Cheng, Kenli Li, Tung Khac Truong

“…Third, the energy features extracted from a number of ISCs that contain the most dominant fault information serve as input vectors for the support vector machine classifier. …”
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Sugarcane Variety Census: Florida 2001 by B. Glaz, Robert A. Gilbert

“…As a result, the census contains much descriptive and useful information for the Florida sugarcane industry. …”
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Ultrathin metal-organic framework nanosheets (Cu-TCPP)-based isothermal nucleic acid amplification for food allergen detection by Jiale Gao, Xiaodong Sun, Yongxin Liu, Bing Niu, Qin Chen, Xueen Fang

“…As a result, peanut and soybean allergens genes contained in food were successfully detected with a favorable detection sensitivity (5 ng/μL for peanuts and 10 ng/μL for soybeans) and reliable repeatability (The coefficient of variation was 3.38% for peanuts and 3.33% for soybeans). …”
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Population genetics of Glossina palpalis gambiensis in the sleeping sickness focus of Boffa (Guinea) before and after eight years of vector control: no effect of control despite a... by Kagbadouno, Moise S, Séré, Modou, Ségard, Adeline, Camara, Abdoulaye Dansy, Camara, Mamadou, Bucheton, Bruno, Bart, Jean-Mathieu, Courtin, Fabrice, De Meeûs, Thierry, Ravel, Sophie

“…In Guinea, the mangrove ecosystem contains the main HAT foci of Western Africa. There, the cyclical vector is Glossina palpalis gambiensis. …”
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Black fungi and ants: a genomic comparison of species inhabiting carton nests versus domatia by Yu Quan, Nickolas Menezes da Silva, Bruna Jacomel Favoreto de Souza Lima, Sybren de Hoog, Vania Aparecida Vicente, Veronika Mayer, Yingqian Kang, Dongmei Shi

“…Abstract Some members of Chaetothyriales, an order containing potential agents of opportunistic infections in humans, have a natural habitat in nests of tropical arboreal ants. …”
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Effect of Mercury on Seed Germination and Seedling Growth of Mungbean (<i>Vigna radiata</i> (L.) Wilczek) by ZI Muhammad, KS Maria, A Mohammad, S Muhammad, F Zia-ur-Rehman, K Muhammad

“…Minimum use of the mercury containing compounds in fungicide,  pesticide and nematicide is recommended. …”
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Performance and limitations of linkage-disequilibrium-based methods for inferring the genomic landscape of recombination and detecting hotspots: a simulation study by Raynaud, Marie, Gagnaire, Pierre-Alexandre, Galtier, Nicolas

“…Population genomic approaches offer an attractive way to infer the population-scaled recombination rate ρ=4Ner using the linkage disequilibrium information contained in DNA sequence polymorphism data. Such methods have been used in a broad range of plant and animal species to build genome-wide recombination maps. …”
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Plastic debris characteristics and the effect of wind on Bawean Island Beaches, East Java, Indonesia by Nurhafizh Sri Albarra, Defri Yona, Muhammad Arif Asadi, Syarifah Hikmah Julinda Sari, Riski Agung Lestariadi, Akhmad Amirudin

“…On the other hand, in terms of weight, leeward beaches contained a very low value of debris (0.927±0.746 g m-2) compared to windward beaches (4.479±3.551 g m-2). …”
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Numerical Approaches of the Generalized Time-Fractional Burgers’ Equation with Time-Variable Coefficients by Dumitru Vieru, Constantin Fetecau, Nehad Ali Shah, Jae Dong Chung

“…The classical Burgers equation is generalized by considering the generalized Atangana-Baleanu time-fractional derivative. The studied model contains as particular cases the Burgers equation with Atangana-Baleanu, Caputo-Fabrizio, and Caputo time-fractional derivatives. …”
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