Fertility Status of Soil in the Tea Garden Belts of Golaghat District, Assam, India by Bhupen K. Baruah, Bhanita Das, Chitrani Medhi, Abani K. Misra

“…A study was carried out in the paddy fields of tea garden belts namely, Rungagora, Balijan, Banwaripur, Khomtai, Rungajaun, Lattakoojan, Borjan, Behora, Negheriting, and Borsapori of Golaghat district of Assam to investigate the fertility status of soil during 2008–2010. …”
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Double Stokes polarimetric microscopy for chiral fibrillar aggregates by Viktoras Mazeika, Kamdin Mirsanaye, Leonardo Uribe Castaño, Serguei Krouglov, Mehdi Alizadeh, Mykolas Maciulis, Lukas Kontenis, Vitalijus Karabanovas, Virginijus Barzda

“…We present a reduced nonlinear polarimetry method named double Stokes polarimetry (DSP) for quick characterization of chiral $$C_6$$ C 6 symmetry fibers without data fitting that simplifies and speeds up the polarimetric analysis. …”
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Single dose of recombinant baculovirus vaccine expressing sigma B and sigma C genes provides good protection against novel duck reovirus challenge in ducks by Yufei Wang, Siyi Xu, Xia Chen, Yunlong Dou, Xingzhu Yang, Zenglei Hu, Shuang Wu, Xiaoquan Wang, Jiao Hu, Xiufan Liu

“…Two recombinant viruses, namely rBac-σB and rBac-σC, were successfully generated based on the consensus sequence of NDRV. …”
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Impact of High-Velocity Oxy-Fuel ZrO2 Coating on Corrosion Resistance and Fatigue Life of AISI 316L Austenitic Stainless Steel by J. Jagadesh Kumar, G. Diwakar, Vaddi Venkata Satyanarayana

“…The corrosion and fatigue analysis of the coated specimens are carried out by taking two control parameters, namely, rotational speed of job and axial speed of torch, into consideration and applying L4 Taguchi orthogonal array. …”
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Thyroid Autoimmunity in the Context of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Implications for Vitamin D by Konstantinos Toulis, Xanthippi Tsekmekidou, Evangelos Potolidis, Triantafyllos Didangelos, Anna Gotzamani-Psarrakou, Pantelis Zebekakis, Michael Daniilidis, John Yovos, Kalliopi Kotsa

“…To explore the potential association between 25(OH)D and thyroid autoimmunity while controlling for potential confounders—namely, age, gender, body mass index, and presence of T2DM—multivariate logistic regression analyses were undertaken. …”
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Robust fully distributed file caching for delay-tolerant networks: A reward-based incentive mechanism by Sidi Ahmed Ezzahidi, Essaid Sabir, Sara Koulali, El-Houssine Bouyakhf

“…We model this distributed network interaction as a non-cooperative game. Namely, the source node offers to the relay nodes a positive reward if they accept to cache and to forward a given file successfully to a target destination, whereas the relay nodes may either accept or reject the source deal, depending on the reward attractiveness and on their battery status (their actual energy level). …”
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Problems Faced by Tribes in Collection and Marketing of Tendu (Diospyros melanoxylon Roxb.) Fruit in Jhalawar District of Rajasthan by Shirish Sharma, Sourabh Dadhich

“…In this study 3 blocks namely: Jhalrapatan, Aklera and Khanpur blocks were selected purposively. …”
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BIMODAL VOTERS ACCREDITATION SYSTEM (BVAS) MACHINES AND ELECTIONS INTEGRITY IN NIGERIA: AN APPRAISAL OF THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTION IN KOGI STATE by Ahmed Audu YUSUFU, Mahmud Gana IDREES

“…Based on this conclusion, the paper recommends among others that, INEC should live up to its name by being independent and ensure it conducts elections without fear or favour and in accordance with the provisions of the electoral law. …”
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A fair non-collateral consensus protocol based on Merkle tree for hierarchical IoT blockchain by Seyedeh Somayeh Fateminasab, Davoud Bahrepour, Seyed Reza Kamel Tabbakh

“…This paper proposes a fair non-collateral consensus protocol named Proof of Action (PoAct), which utilizes Merkle tree-based techniques to address scalability, lightweightness, and energy efficiency in HIoTB. …”
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How do social entrepreneurship factors influence sustainable business development? The mediating role of social network by Titik Kusmantini, Heru Tri Sutiono, Anis Siti Hartati, Anidah Robani, Aris Kusumo Diantoro, Ashila Metta Rahmadati

“… This study aimed to empirically investigate the factors of social entrepreneurship - namely, social mission, social innovation, and the mediating role of social networks in achieving sustainable business development within developing tourist villages. …”
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A Modified Bat Algorithm with Conjugate Gradient Method for Global Optimization by Huda I. Ahmed, Eman T. Hamed, Hamsa Th. Saeed Chilmeran

“…The newly proposed approach, namely, the directional bat algorithm (CG-BAT), has been then tested using several standard and nonstandard benchmarks from the CEC’2005 benchmark suite with five other algorithms and has been then tested using nonparametric statistical tests and the statistical test results show the superiority of the directional bat algorithm, and also we have adopted the performance profiles given by Dolan and More which show the superiority of the new algorithm (CG-BAT).…”
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<i>Trachemys scripta</i> Eggs as Part of a Potential In Vivo Model for Studying Sea Turtle Egg Fusariosis by María Martínez-Ríos, Laura Martín-Torrijos, Javier Diéguez-Uribeondo

“…The fungal pathogens <i>Fusarium keratoplasticum</i> and <i>Fusarium falciforme</i> are responsible for the emerging infectious disease named sea turtle egg fusariosis (STEF). This disease affects all sea turtle species throughout the world, causing low hatching success and mass mortalities. …”
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Flame-Retardant and Thermal Degradation Mechanism of Caged Phosphate Charring Agent with Melamine Pyrophosphate for Polypropylene by Xuejun Lai, Jiedong Qiu, Hongqiang Li, Xingrong Zeng, Shuang Tang, Ye Chen, Zhen Chen

“…An efficient caged phosphate charring agent named PEPA was synthesized and combined with melamine pyrophosphate (MPP) to flame-retard polypropylene (PP). …”
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The effect of retained austenite on austenite reversion behavior and corresponding mechanical properties of Ti–Mo precipitation hardening stainless steels by Chih-Yuan Chen, Iting Chiang, Yung-Chang Kang

“…Therefore, via different cooling modes, i.e. water quenching (WQ), air cooling (AC), and furnace cooling (FC), applied after austenitization treatment, different amounts of retained austenite, namely 0.3 % (WQ), 0.5 % (AC), and 1.2 % (FC), were formed in the martensite matrix of Ti–Mo precipitation hardening stainless steels (PHSSs). …”
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Comparison of the Quality of Selected Meat Products and Their Plant-Based Analogs by Tomasz Daszkiewicz, Mariusz Florek, Monika Wodzak, Dorota Kubiak, Ewa Burczyk

“…These results indicate that the names of plant-based analogs, which make a direct reference to the corresponding traditional meat products, can be misleading for consumers who expect products with similar quality attributes.…”
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Study on the Ignition Process and Characteristics of the Nitrate Ester Plasticized Polyether Propellant by Xiaoting Yan, Zhixun Xia, Liya Huang, Likun Ma, Xudong Na, Yunchao Feng, Chuanbo Fang

“…Experimental results show that the ignition process of the NEPE propellant can be divided into three stages, namely the first-gasification stage, the first-flame stage, and the ignition delay stage. …”
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Carrion in Bomas: Multiple Observations of Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) Scavenging Events and Potential Causes in Managed Populations by Elizabeth Kennedy Overton, Robert S. Davis, Franck Prugnolle, Virginie Rougeron, Terry‐Lee Honiball, Olivia Sievert, Jan A. Venter

“…We suggest a common factor between these observations, namely that all adult individuals involved were temporarily housed in holding enclosures (bomas) during relocation processes and were provisioned with carrion as supplemental feed. …”
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Metabolic enzyme inhibitory abilities, in vivo hypoglycemic ability of palmleaf raspberry fruits extracts and identification of hypoglycemic compounds by Jun Tan, Danshu Wang, Yu Lu, Yehan Wang, Zongcai Tu, Tao Yuan, Lu Zhang

“…The unripe palmleaf raspberry, namely Fupenzi (FPZ), is an important medicinal and edible food. …”
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Summary of the 2023 (1st edition) Report of TCEP (Tracking Clean Energy Progress) by the International Energy Agency (IEA), and Proposed Process for Computing a Single Aggregate Ra... by Marzouk Osama A.

“…For each component, IEA assigned one of three qualitative progress levels; namely “On track”, “More efforts needed”, or “Not on track”. …”
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THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL FACTORS ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN LEARNING ENGLISH by Suci Farianti

“…In other word, there was no a significant correlation between social factors namely parents’ economic level, parents’ education level, parent’s  occupation level and environment on students’ achievement in learning English. …”
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