Lubrication State Recognition Based on Energy Characteristics of Friction Vibration with EEMD and SVM by Hai-jie Yu, Hai-jun Wei, Jing-ming Li, Da‐ping Zhou, Li‐dui Wei, Hong Liu

“…The first six IMF components containing the main friction information were retained to calculate the energy ratio and construct the feature vector. …”
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Hemoglobins Likely Function as Peroxidase in Blood Clam Tegillarca granosa Hemocytes by Sufang Wang, Xiaopei Yu, Zhihua Lin, Shunqin Zhang, Liangyi Xue, Qinggang Xue, Yongbo Bao

“…The blood clam T. granosa is one of the few invertebrates that have hemoglobin-containing red hemocytes. In the present research, the peroxidase activity of T. granosa hemoglobins (Tg-Hbs) was characterized and the associated mechanism of action was deciphered via structural comparison with other known peroxidases. …”
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Preparation and Properties of Clay-Reinforced Epoxy Nanocomposites by Kusmono, M. W. Wildan, Z. A. Mohd Ishak

“…It could be concluded that the best properties in mechanical, wear resistance, and water resistance were obtained for the epoxy nanocomposites containing 3 wt% of clay.…”
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Decolorization of mixture of dyes: A critical review by V. K. Gupta, S. Khamparia, I. Tyagi, D. Jaspal, A. Malviya

“…Several treatment methods have been employed to embark upon the problem of dye removal but degradation becomes further more difficult for effluents containing dye matrix.  The review study has been an attempt to present the different diversified attempts used for decolorisation of a mixture of dyes.…”
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Acorn Oil: Chemistry and Functionality by Mehdi Taib, Lahboub Bouyazza, Badiaa Lyoussi

“…Acorns are a rich source of tocopherols, with γ-tocopherol being the most abundant. It also contains various bioactive compounds such as polyphenols and sterols (mainly β-sitosterol). …”
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Ferromagnetic Resonance Characterization of Nano-FePt by Electron Spin Resonance by S. S. Nkosi, H. M. Gavi, D. E. Motaung, J. Keartland, E. Sideras-Haddad, A. Forbes, B. W. Mwakikunga

“…The results revealed that the FePt system contains hyperfine coupling with sextet I=5/2 exhibiting a phase reversal behaviour compared to FMR line. …”
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EMISSIONS MONITORING OF HEAVY METALS AND THEIR COMPOUNDS RESULTED FROM COMBUSTION PROCESSES IN CLINKER KILNS IN ROMANIA by CRISTIAN CIOBANU, GHEORGHE VOICU, MAGDALENA – LAURA TOMA, PAULA TUDOR

“…The paper presents some aspects regarding the monitoring of heavy metals contained in the combustion gases from a Romanian cement factory. …”
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Bioethanol Production from Fermentable Sugar Juice by Hossain Zabed, Golam Faruq, Jaya Narayan Sahu, Mohd Sofian Azirun, Rosli Hashim, Amru Nasrulhaq Boyce

“…This paper will investigate ethanol production from free sugar containing juices obtained from some energy crops such as sugarcane, sugar beet, and sweet sorghum that are the most attractive choice because of their cost-effectiveness and feasibility to use. …”
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On the Structure of Cooperative and Competitive Solutions for a Generalized Assignment Game by R. Pablo Arribillaga, Jordi Massó, Alejandro Neme

“…We show that (i) each group stable set is closely related to the Core of certain games defined using a proper notion of blocking and (ii) each group stable set contains the set of payoff vectors associated with the two definitions of competitive equilibrium. …”
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Influence of Inertia and Low Active Mineral Admixture on Strength and Microstructure of Cement-Based Materials by Meijuan Rao, Wan Tang, Wei Zhou, Yaning Kong, Shuhua Liu

“…Cement-based materials were investigated by comparing the strength and microstructure of pastes and mortar containing limestone powder or low quality fly ash. …”
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Adaptive Bayesian Iterative Transmission Reconstruction for Attenuation Correction in Myocardial Perfusion Imaging with SPECT/Slow-Rotation Low-Output CT Systems by Ji Chen, Ernest V. Garcia, Russell D. Folks, Aharon Peretz, James R. Galt

“…In each iteration, ABITR calculated a three-dimensional prior containing the pixels with attenuation coefficients similar to water, then used it to encourage these pixels to the water value. …”
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Radiolytic Synthesis of Colloidal Silver Nanoparticles for Antibacterial Wound Dressings by Pimpon Uttayarat, Jarurattana Eamsiri, Theeranan Tangthong, Phiriyatorn Suwanmala

“…Using disc diffusion assay, the films containing 432 ppm AgNPs could effectively inhibit the growth of both Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. …”
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The impact of action descriptions on attribution of moral responsibility towards robots by Ziggy O’Reilly, Serena Marchesi, Agnieszka Wykowska

“…For the robot, when the vignettes contained mentalistic descriptions, moral responsibility ratings were higher for negative actions consequences than positive action consequences, however, there was no difference in intentionality ratings. …”
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Raman Spectroscopy of Amorphous Carbon Prepared by Pulsed Arc Discharge in Various Gas Mixtures by M. Marton, M. Vojs, E. Zdravecká, M. Himmerlich, T. Haensel, S. Krischok, M. Kotlár, P. Michniak, M. Veselý, R. Redhammer

“…The addition of N2 into the chamber promoted the sp2 creation, while with adding hydrogen the layer contained more sp3 bonds. The depositions of a-C thin films were carried out in pulsed arc discharge vacuum installation. …”
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A New Flow Line Function for Modeling Material Trajectory and Textures in Nonequal-Channel Angular Pressing by A. Hasani, L. S. Toth, Sh. Mardokh Rouhani

“…In the present work, an improved version of that flow function is presented containing two additional parameters compared to the previously proposed function. …”
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Circular dichroism of relativistically–moving chiral molecules by Mitchell R. Whittam, Benedikt Zerulla, Marjan Krstić, Maxim Vavilin, Christof Holzer, Markus Nyman, Lukas Rebholz, Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton, Carsten Rockstuhl

“…Inspired by previous experiments to detect interstellar chiral molecules, we assume that the molecules move between a stationary observer and a light source, and we study the rotationally averaged TCD as a function of the speed of the molecule.We find that the TCD spectrum that contains the signatures of the molecules shifts with increasing speed to shorter wavelengths, with the effects already being visible for moderate velocities.…”
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Results of analyzing the passport database ‘Spring bread wheat landraces in the VIR collection’ by E. V. Zuev, A. N. Brykova, E. Yu. Kudryavtseva

“…The passport database ‘Spring Bread Wheat Landraces in the VIR Collection’ is analyzed here. The database contains information on 5,925 accessions and has 36 fields. …”
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Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Anti-Inflammatory Actions of 6-(Methylsulfinyl)hexyl Isothiocyanate Derived from Wasabi (Wasabia japonica) by Takuhiro Uto, De-Xing Hou, Osamu Morinaga, Yukihiro Shoyama

“…Structure-activity relationships of 6-MSITC and its analogues containing an isothiocyanate group revealed that methylsulfinyl group and the length of alkyl chain of 6-MSITC might be related to high inhibitory potency. …”
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Diversity-oriented synthesis of stereodefined tetrasubstituted alkenes via a modular alkyne gem-addition strategy by Xuan Di, Sitian Zhou, Yali Qin, Wenjun Li, Yue Zhang, Jie Zhang, Xu Shen, Jie Han, Jin Xie, Hongming Jin

“…The diversity-oriented synthesis is further utilized to explore different TAE luminogenic properties and potential Se-containing antitumor lead compounds.…”
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Preparation of flavonoids from Amomum tsaoko and evaluation of their antioxidant and α-glucosidase inhibitory activities by Zelin Huang, Yan Zhao, Weixing Yang, Lu Lang, Jun Sheng, Yang Tian, Xiaoyu Gao

“…A widely targeted metabolomics assay revealed that the relative abundance of flavonoids in a mixture of 20 % and 30 % ethanol eluates was greater than 73 %, which mainly contained (+)-epicatechin, isoquercitrin, astragalin kaempferol-3-O-rutinoside, and procyanidin B2. …”
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