Road Pavement Condition Index Deterioration Model for Network-Level Analysis of National Road Network Based on Pavement Condition Scanning Data by Paulius Paplauskas, Audrius Vaitkus, Rūta Simanavičienė

“…In Lithuania, measurements of the quality indicators of road surfaces with new generation survey equipment have been carried out recently but the information stored in the databases about road sections is minimal, and it becomes difficult to adapt the models applied abroad due to the missing information. …”
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Mechanical Properties of Sandstones under Initial Unloading Damage by Hengbin Zhang, Lehua Wang, Jianlin Li, Huafeng Deng, Xiaoliang Xu

“…From the energy point of view, the greater the unloading damage, the smaller the stored elastic strain energy, which leads to the decrease of peak strength. …”
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Development of the potato cryocollection preserved in the VIR cryobank by O. S. Efremova, N. N. Volkova, D. A. Rybakov, O. V. Lisitsyna, P. V. Ozerski, Т. A. Gavrilenko

“…These 24 accessions were added to the potato cryocollection stored in the VIR cryobank. An analysis of the composition and structure of VIR’s potato cryocollection, which currently includes 140 accessions, is presented.…”
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Influence of Lactobacillus plantarum and cellulase on fermentation quality and microbial community in mixed silage of Solanum rostratum and alfalfa by Yuyu Li, Yuyu Li, Hua Wang, Hua Wang, Yandong Zhang, Yu Ji, Yu Ji, Lizhu Guo, Lizhu Guo, Lifen Hao, Lifen Hao, Kejian Lin, Kejian Lin

“…Treatments were a control treatment with no additive (CK), Lactobacillus plantarum (LP), cellulase (CE), and Lactobacillus plantarum in combination with cellulase (L+C), all of which were stored at ambient temperature for 7, 15, 30, and 60 days.ResultsThe results showed that the mixture could retain dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP), and water soluble carbohydrates (WSC) content, increase lactic acid (LA) content, decrease pH and alkaloid content, and improve fermentation quality during silage. …”
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Long term adult visual plasticity after the developmental critical period in genetically determined peripheral visual loss by Otília C. d’Almeida, Joana M. Sampaio, Sónia Ferreira, Eduardo D. Silva, Miguel Castelo-Branco

“…Adult neural plasticity within the visual system remains controversial. Starkly opposing views still remain on the ability of the visual system to reorganize in adulthood. …”
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Hyaluronic Acid (800 kDa) Supplementation of University of Wisconsin Solution Improves Viability of Osteochondral Grafts and Reduces Matrix Metalloproteinase Expression during Cold... by Takuya Yamada, Kentaro Uchida, Kenji Onuma, Gen Inoue, Jun Aikawa, Shotaro Takano, Hiroyuki Sekiguchi, Hisako Fujimaki, Masayuki Miyagi, Masashi Takaso

“…However, because the cell viability of osteochondral tissues (OCTs) gradually reduces during storage at 4°C, methods for maintaining the cell viability of fresh OCTs are needed to improve transplantation outcomes. …”
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Effect of water release behavior by pH-sensitive microgels on hydration, microstructure of cementitious materials by Gengtong Zhang, Huiyun Xia, Dongwei Cao, Huaxin Chen, Weihua Li

“…As the humidity dropped, the stored water is driven by a humidity gradient and drained almost entirely within 7 days. …”
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Adaptation of Sonication-Assisted Matrix Solid Phase Dispersion of Tissues for the Subsequent Extraction of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from Gulf Menhaden (Brevoortia patronus... by Gregory M. Olson, Buffy M. Meyer, Ralph J. Portier

“…This adapted protocol has been used exclusively on the analysis of high lipid content fish stocks affected by dispersed and weathered oil from the BP Horizon incident.…”
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Waterlogging of soil induces diverging rates of senescence in Svalbard reindeer forage plants by Emilie K. S. Andersen, Samantha P. H. Dwinnell, Leif Egil Loe, Caroline Iveland, René van der Wal

“…Water availability is expected to affect the end of the plant growth season, a time period essential for accretion of fat stores in Arctic herbivores, influencing their survival. …”
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V.N. TATISHCHEV’S BUSINESS LETTERS IN THE GENRE ASPECT (BASED ON THE DOCUMENTS OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVE OF THE REPUBLIC OF KALMYKIA) by Elena M. Sheptukhina

“…Tatishchev during his governorship in Astrakhan and heading the Kalmyk Commission at the Board of Foreign Affairs. The documents are stored in the National Archive of the Republic of Kalmykia. …”
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Revealing the Mechanism of Protein Degradation in Postmortem Meat: The Role of Phosphorylation and Ubiquitination by Xinran Zhao, Saisai Wu, Chi Ren, Yuqiang Bai, Chengli Hou, Xin Li, Zhenyu Wang, Dequan Zhang

“…The <i>longissimus thoracis lumborum</i> muscles were chosen and divided into tender and tough groups (<i>n</i> = 9), and then stored at 4 °C for 1 h, 12 h, 1 d, 3 d, and 5 d postmortem. …”
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UW supplementation with AP39 improves liver viability following static cold storage by McLean Taggart, Saige Holkup, Alexandra Tchir, Mohammadreza Mojoudi, Arnaud Lyon, Madeeha Hassan, Christopher Taveras, Ozge Sila Ozgur, James F. Markmann, Heidi Yeh, Korkut Uygun, Alban Longchamp

“…Abstract Static cold storage of donor livers at 4 °C incompletely arrests metabolism, ultimately leading to decreases in ATP levels, oxidative stress, cell death, and organ failure. …”
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DICAUVACOOP: A Software Tool to Calculate and Visualize Differentiated Payment According to Grape Quality by Javier Ruiz-Serrano, José C. Berenguer-García, José A. Mateo-Cortés, Enrique Arias-Antúnez

“…The application developed in this work, called DICAUVACOOP, not only promotes good practices but also introduces penalties. …”
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Numerically pricing American and European options using a time fractional Black–Scholes model in financial decision-making by Omid Nikan, Jalil Rashidinia, Hossein Jafari

“…This model prices American or European put and call options on non-dividend-paying stocks. Reliable and efficient numerical techniques are essential for solving fractional differential models due to the global characteristics of fractional calculus. …”
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Estimates of Spherical Satellite Drag Coefficients in the Upper Thermosphere During Different Geomagnetic Conditions by Xin Wang, Tingling Ren, Ronglan Wang, Bingxian Luo, Ercha Aa, Lei Cai, Ming Li, Juan Miao, Siqing Liu, Jiancun Gong

“…Furthermore, the drag coefficient may decrease due to the significant influence of increasing geomagnetic activity, such as geomagnetic storms, on thermospheric density and temperature. …”
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Revisiting water resources management in the Mandara Mountains by Diane Madomguia, Esther Laurentine Nya, Emma Laureane Njomou-Ngounou, Nadège Gatcha-Bandjun, Tulinave Burton Mwamila, Jules Balna, Emina Halimassia, Jules Metsebo, Wilfried Arsène Letah Nzouebet, Raoul Rodrigue Tchoumbe, André Firmin Bon, Willis Gwenzi, Chicgoua Noubactep

“…RWH is a small-scale water conservation approach for locally intercepting and storing rainfall before it enters the usual hydrologic cycle. …”
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Experimental Characterization of Reversible Oil-Flooded Twin-Screw Compressor/Dry Expander for a Micro-Scale Compressed Air Energy Storage System by Marco Francesconi, Arianna Baldinelli, Luca Sani, Marco Antonelli

“…The experimental data allow assessing the operation of such machine in a hypothetical micro-scale compressed air energy storage. The calculation revealed that this machine may operate in this energy storage asset and deliver up to 90% of the power recovered in the charging process when the temperature of the stored air is 80 °C.…”
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Eye tracking based clustering using the Korean version of the reading the mind in the eyes test by Se Jun Koo, Eun Jung Cha, Jee Eun Min, Eunchong Seo, Eun Lee, Suk Kyoon An

“…The long word fixation time cluster had significantly more total errors and fewer categories completed in the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, lower backward Digit Span score, and lower sequencing scores in the Theory of Mind Picture Stories Task than in the other clusters. …”
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Analysis of Five Earthy-Musty Odorants in Environmental Water by HS-SPME/GC-MS by Zhen Ding, Shifu Peng, Weiwen Xia, Hao Zheng, Xiaodong Chen, Lihong Yin

“…The limits of detection (LOD) are all below 1.3 ng L−1, and the relative standard deviation (%RSD) is between 4.4% and 9.9% (n = 7) and recoveries of the analytes from water samples are between 86.2% and 112.3%. In addition, the storage time experiment indicated that the concentrations did not change significantly for GSM and 2-MIB if they were stored in canonical environment. …”
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Nutritional properties, lipid oxidation, microbial growth, and sensory evaluation of beef burgers enriched with garden cress seeds powder by Huriyyah A. I. Almusawi, Randah Miqbil Alqurashi, Heba I. Mohamed, Abdelrahman R. Ahmed

“…This study aims to evaluate the antioxidant and antimicrobial effects of garden cress seeds at various percentages (2, 5, and 7%) on the quality of beef burgers stored at 4 °C for 7, 14, and 21 days. The results showed that increasing the garden cress seeds percentage in the beef burger resulted in lower moisture content and higher ash content. …”
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