Chapter 10. Minor Vegetable Crop Production by Dakshina R. Seal, Qingren Wang, Ramdas Kanissery, Anna Meszaros, Crystal A. Snodgrass, Julien Beuzelin, Johan Desaeger, Nicholas S. Dufault, Katia Viana Xavier, Shouan Zhang

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On Fractional Orthonormal Polynomials of a Discrete Variable by I. Area, J. D. Djida, J. Losada, Juan J. Nieto

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Cellular phones as an m-commerce application in the emerging youth market in South Africa by Clarissa Muir, Andrea Crystal

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Information seeking and students studying for professional careers: the cases of engineering and law students in Ireland by Gillian Kerins, Ronan Madden, Crystal Fulton

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Hydrogen-Bonded Di(hydroperoxy)alkane Adducts of the Type Cy₃P=O·(HOO)₂CHR (R = Alkyl) by Rahym Ashirov, Maya Todorovic, Nattamai Bhuvanesh, Janet Blümel

“…The single crystal X-ray structures of <b>2</b>–<b>6</b> and their unique features are discussed. …”
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An Experimental Study on Mechanical Properties and Fracture Characteristics of Saturated Concrete under Coupling Effect of Low Temperature and Dynamic Load by Mengxiang Wang, Qi Zong, Haibo Wang

“…The water-saturated low-temperature state of the concrete void is filled with ice crystal particles; for low-temperature water-saturated concrete in the impact of the dynamic load, the microstructure is affected by the ice crystal structure which is not easy to change; the specimen along the axial force direction microdefect development produces a crack, the crack along the parallel to the pressure direction of cracking, through the two ends of the specimen, and finally produces axial splitting tensile damage. …”
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Analysis of Ethereum transactions during the prevention and investigation of criminal offenses by V. V. Nosov, O. V. Manzhai, Ye. V. Panchenko

“…The effectiveness of the Crystal Blockchain platform as a tool for analyzing Ethereum transactions in criminal investigations has been evaluated. …”
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EFFECTS OF HEAT TREATMENT ON THE UPCONVERSION AND NEAR-INFRARED EMISSIONS OF ERBIUM IN TRANSPARENT TELLURITE GLASS-CERAMICS by Vũ Hằng Nga, Đoàn Thị Phúc, Hồ Kim Dân

“…Through the calculated results from the XRD peaks and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), the crystal size of BaF2 nanocrystals is identified by about 25nm. …”
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Modeling of structural and thermodynamics properties of sigma-phase for the Fe-Cr system by Udovskya A., Kupavtseva M.

“…Energetic parameters of 3SLM were calculated by fitting procedure fixed to results obtained by ab-initio calculations conducted for paramagnetic states of differently ordered complexes stayed at the sigma-phase’s crystal structure for Fe-Cr system at 0 K. Respective algorithm and computer program have allowed to calculate an atom distribution of components upon the sub-lattices of s-phase at 300 - 1100 K. …”
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PROCUREMENT OF FERROTITIAN FROM METAL INDUSTRY WASTE BY METHOD OF ALUMOTHERMAL SYNTHESIS by A. A. Zhukova, K. B. Podbolotov, A. A. Izyumov, V. V. Petrenko

“…Research of structure showed that at a crystallization of the received alloy two main phases are formed: exuberant, which is presented by dendrites with pronounced borders length of an axis of first order of a dendrite was about 250 microns and having the eutectic structure, is allocated in interdendritic space. …”
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Thioxopyrimidine in Heterocyclic Synthesis I: Synthesis of Some Novel 6-(Heteroatom-substituted)-(thio)pyrimidine Derivatives by Yuh-Wen Ho, Maw Cherng Suen

“…The structure of all new synthesized compounds was established from their spectral data, elemental analysis and the X-ray crystal analysis.…”
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Simple Formation of Nanostructured Molybdenum Disulfide Thin Films by Electrodeposition by S. K. Ghosh, C. Srivastava, S. Nath, J. P. Celis

“…High temperature X-ray diffraction studies clearly recorded the crystal structure transformations associated with grain growth with increase in annealing temperature. …”
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The Emerging Role of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Vascular Calcification by Changming Xie, Liu Ouyang, Jie Chen, Huanji Zhang, Pei Luo, Jingfeng Wang, Hui Huang

“…Vascular calcification (VC), characterized by hydroxyapatite crystal depositing in the vessel wall, is a common pathological condition shared by many chronic diseases and an independent risk factor for cardiovascular events. …”
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New materials based on InP-ZnS system for semiconductor gas analyzers by I. A. Kirovskaya, R. V. Ekkert, A. O. Ekkert, E. V. Mironova, I. Yu. Umansky, A. I. Blesman, D. A. Polonyankin, L. V. Kolesnikov, E. N. Kopylova, V. B. Goncharov

“…A correlation between theoretical calculated crystal density and acid sites strength (pHISO) has been found which served as the basis for recommending a less labour-consuming way to search for the advanced materials for semiconductor gas analyzers.…”
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Comparative analysis of structure and chemical state of nitrogen-doped multi-walled carbon nanotubes by S. N. Nesov

“…However, there is a significant increase in the degree of imperfection of the crystal structure of the walls of carbon nanotubes and the formation of oxygencontaining functional groups. …”
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Thermoelectric Power of YBa2Cu3O7-X and YBa2Cu4O8 Under Pressure by Sheela K. Ramasesha

“…The ab-plane TEP of 123 single crystal decreases monotonically and the c-axis TEP exhibits a maximum around 1.5 GPa. …”
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Effects of Kaolin Surface Treatments on the Thermomechanical Properties and on the Degradation of Polypropylene by Melia Guessoum, Sorya Nekkaa, Françoise Fenouillot-Rimlinger, Nacerddine Haddaoui

“…The mechanical properties of the composites exhibited important variations while the DSC results showed the decrease of the crystallization temperature as a function of kaolin content. …”
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Effect of Annealing on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Magnetron Sputtered Cu Thin Films by Shiwen Du, Yongtang Li

“…The residual stress depended on crystal orientation. The residual stress as-deposited was of tension and decreased with decreasing of (111) orientation. …”
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A Low-Field Temperature Dependent EPR Signal in Terraced MgO:Mn2+ Nanoparticles: An Enhanced Zeeman Splitting in the Wide-Bandgap Oxide by Peter V. Pikhitsa, Sukbyung Chae, Seungha Shin, Mansoo Choi

“…Beside the well-known hyperfine sextet of Mn2+ ions in the cubic crystal field of MgO, an additional EPR feature with a striking nonmonotonous temperature dependent shift of the g-factor is observed in terraced nanoparticles in the temperature range from 4 K to room temperature. …”
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UiO-66 Metal-Organic Framework Membranes: Structural Engineering for Separation Applications by Yanwei Sun

“…Various synthesis methods for UiO-66 membranes are explored, with a focus on modulated approaches that incorporate different modulators to fine-tune nucleation rates and crystallization processes. The influence of preferred orientation, membrane thickness, pore size, pore surface chemistry, and hierarchical structures on the separation performance is concluded. …”
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