An Investigation of the Enolization and Isomeric Products Distribution in the Water Promoted Aldol Reaction of Tropinone and Granatanone by Ryszard Lazny, Artur Ratkiewicz, Krzysztof Brzezinski, Aneta Nodzewska, Katarzyna Sidorowicz

“…The exo,anti/exo,syn-diastereoselectivity of water promoted direct aldol reactions of tropinone and granatanone (pseudopelletierine) is strongly dependent on the amount of water added and aromatic aldehyde used. …”
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Comparison of Estimation Techniques for Vibro-Acoustic Transfer Path Analysis by Paulo Eduardo França Padilha, José Roberto de França Arruda

“…The effect of weak and strong coupling among the paths is also commented considering the techniques previously presented. …”
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A Promotion Role of MIR31 in the Process of Vocal Fold Wound Healing by Haizhou Wang, Wen Xu

“…However, the rat experiment indicated that MIR31 expression significantly increased after vocal fold injury (p<5.65×10−5) but decreased in the late stage of VFWH compared with the early and middle stages (p<5.40×10−3. Strong co-expression was observed between MIR31 and 17 VFWH-significant genes (Pearson correlation coefficient ∈ (0.63, 0.83)), primarily involved in collagen production. …”
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Application of an Improved Ensemble Local Mean Decomposition Method for Gearbox Composite Fault Diagnosis by Zhijian Wang, Junyuan Wang, Wenan Cai, Jie Zhou, Wenhua Du, Jingtai Wang, Gaofeng He, Huihui He

“…In industrial production, it is highly essential to extract faults in gearbox accurately. Specifically, in a strong noise environment, it is difficult to extract the fault features accurately. …”
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Non-Native Listeners’ Use of Information in Parsing Ambiguous Casual Speech by Natasha Warner, Daniel Brenner, Benjamin V. Tucker, Mirjam Ernestus

“…The two groups showed many of the same patterns, indicating that both make strong use of whatever acoustic information is available in the signal, even if it is heavily reduced. …”
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Development and implementation of EcoDecibel: A low-cost and IoT-based device for noise measurement by Ling-Jyh Chen, Sakshi Saraswat, Fu-Shiang Ching, Chih-Yi Su, Hsin-Lan Huang, Wen-Chi Pan

“…Results: EcoDecibel demonstrated strong correlation, yielding R2 values of 0.948 and 0.983 in comparison with Class 1 and Class 2 sound level meters and was able to monitor and forecast daily noise patterns effectively. …”
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Giant Water Bugs, Electric Light Bugs, Lethocerus, Abedus, Belostoma (Insecta: Heteroptera: Belostomatidae) by Paul M. Choate

“…Individuals are capable of inflicting a painful bite with their strong beak, and may also pinch with their front legs. …”
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Comparative Study of the Prevalence of Intestinal Parasites in Low Socioeconomic Areas from South Chennai, India by Jeevitha Dhanabal, Pradeep Pushparaj Selvadoss, Kanchana Muthuswamy

“…Conclusively, the examination of personal hygiene as well as routine medical examination and treatment is strongly recommended in the low socio-economic areas.…”
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“This Land Is Your Land”: A Note on America as a Nation of “Varied Carols” by Heinrich Detering

“…Against this background of listening to the countless different voices, his equally famous poem ‘America’ reads like a personal and individual answer: “Centre of equal daughters, equal sons, / All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old, / Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich”. Whitman’s poetry lays out the foundation for a specifically American tradition of song poetry that focuses on political equality and social justice as collective human rights and the free development of every person’s individuality at the same time. …”
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Sequential Load Transport in Grass-Cutting Ants (Atta vollenweideri): Maximization of Plant Delivery Rate or Improved Information Transfer? by Jacqueline Röschard, Flavio Roces

“…Taken together, these results strongly support the hypothesis that sequential load transport has been favoured during evolution because of an improvement in the information flow during foraging.…”
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Lipid signature changes of women with gestational diabetes mellitus in response to puerperal exclusive breastfeeding by Jin He, Xiaoxiao Yin, Tingting Yu, Lu Li, Yan Cui, Chen Jiang, Chengping Qiao, Zhijing Miao, Xianwei Cui, Chenbo Ji

“…Subsequently, we identified a panel of three lipids that were strongly associated with breastfeeding, from which we constructed a predictive model with higher discriminating power. …”
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Analysis of Volatile Components in Tremella fuciformis by Electronic Nose Combined with GC-MS by Lijun Fu, Jing Tian, Li Liu, Yongzheng Ma, Xiumin Zhang, Changyang Ma, Wenyi Kang, Yong Sun

“…Based on the ROAV, 8 key components affecting the aroma of T. fuciformis strongly were found. Among them, hexanal, nonanal, and pentanal were the common components of T. fuciformis, while butyrolactone, 1-octen-3-ol, and 2-carene were the unique key aroma components of T. fuciformis in Hebei Province. …”
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Processes Governing Alkaline Groundwater Chemistry within a Fractured Rock (Ophiolitic Mélange) Aquifer Underlying a Seasonally Inhabited Headwater Area in the Aladağlar Range (Ada... by Cüneyt Güler, Geoffrey D. Thyne, Hidayet Tağa, Ümit Yıldırım

“…Hydrochemistry of the aquifer shows a strong interseasonal variability where Mg–HCO3 and Mg–Ca–HCO3 water types are prevalent, reflecting the influence of ophiolitic and carbonate rocks on local groundwater chemistry. …”
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Complete Genome Sequence Analysis of Bacillus subtilis MC4-2 Strain That against Tobacco Black Shank Disease by Chunlan Shi, Shuquan Zeng, Xi Gao, Mehboob Hussain, Mingchuan He, Xurong Niu, Congcong Wei, Rui Yang, Mingxian Lan, Yonghui Xie, Zhijiang Wang, Guoxing Wu, Ping Tang

“…The present investigation found the biological control mechanism of B. subtilis MC4-2, which provides a strong theoretical basis for the best use of this strain in biological control methods and provides a reference for the subsequent development of agents of this bacterium.…”
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Th1 and Th2 cytokine profile in patients with early onset periodontitis and their healthy siblings by Jiřina Bártová, Zuzana Krátká-Opatrná, Jarmila Procházková, Otakar Krejsa, Jana Dušková, Lubor Mrklas, Helena Tlaskalová, Božena Cukrowská

“…Early onset periodontitis (EOP) is a chronic inflammatory periodontal disease with a strong genetic link affecting individuals aged 17 to 25. …”
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CO2 adsorption on microporous metal–organic frameworks unravelled by high-resolution X-ray computed tomography by Diponker Karmoker, Jorge Martinez-Garcia, Damian Gwerder, Benjamin Fumey, Andreas Borgschulte, Philipp Schuetz

“… The continuous increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration has triggered global warming and climate change. Strong policies and novel, cost-effective CO2 control methods have been developed to mitigate these issues over the last years. …”
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Exploration of Resident Satisfaction and Willingness in the Renovation of a Typical Old Neighborhood by Wenjun Peng, Yanyan Huang, Changquan Li, Yilin Wang

“…Residents over 61 years old or those who held real estate certificates had a strong willingness to renovate and tended to accept a unified management manner after the renovation of the old neighborhood. …”
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A Bursting Liability Evaluation Method Based on Energy Transfer by Yukun Hou, Shankun Zhao, Yang Zhao

“…The prepeak deformation energy exhibits a strong positive correlation with uniaxial compressive strength and peak strain. …”
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Combining Region-Guided Attention and Attribute Prediction for Thangka Image Captioning Method by Fujun Zhang, Wendong Kang, Wenjin Hu

“…On the COCO dataset in the natural domain, RGFEAP achieves performance comparable to other state-of-the-art models, showcasing its strong adaptability.…”
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History and Habitability of the LP 890-9 Planetary System by Rory Barnes, Laura N. R. do Amaral, Jessica Birky, Ludmila Carone, Peter Driscoll, Joseph R. Livesey, David Graham, Juliette Becker, Kaiming Cui, Martin Schlecker, Rodolfo Garcia, Megan Gialluca, Arthur Adams, MD Redyan Ahmed, Paul Bonney, Wynter Broussard, Chetan Chawla, Mario Damasso, William C. Danchi, Russell Deitrick, Elsa Ducrot, Emeline F. Fromont, Brandt A. L. Gaches, Sakshi Gupta, Michelle L. Hill, James A. G. Jackman, Estelle M. Janin, Mikołaj Karawacki, Matheus Daniel Koren, Roberto La Greca, Michaela Leung, Arturo Miranda-Rosete, Michael Kent A. Olohoy, Cecelia Ngo, Daria Paul, Chandan Kumar Sahu, Debajyoti Basu Sarkar, Mohammad Afzal Shadab, Edward W. Schwieterman, Melissa Sedler, Katie Texeira, Allona Vazan, Karen N. Delgado Vega, Rohit Vijayakumar, Jonathan T. Wojack

“…We thus conclude that the habitability of planet c depends most strongly on the initial volatile content and internal properties, but no data yet preclude the viability of an active biosphere on the planet.…”
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