Coconut Testa Flour Sub-Fractions: Correlation Between FTIR Spectral Data and α-Glucosidase Inhibitory Activities by Rasika Gunarathne, Savani Ulpathakumbura, Nazrim Marikkar, Lalith Jayasinghe, Jun Lu

“…The major absorbance peaks found in MeOH extracts were primarily indicative of the occurrence of the hydroxyl group associated with carbohydrates and phenolic compounds. …”
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Improved Cross‐Scale Snow Cover Simulations by Developing a Scale‐Aware Ground Snow Cover Fraction Parameterization in the Noah‐MP Land Surface Model by Ronnie Abolafia‐Rosenzweig, Cenlin He, Tzu‐Shun Lin, Michael Barlage, Karl Rittger

“…The new scale‐aware parameterization significantly reduces ground SCF errors and the scale‐dependence of errors in the western U.S (WUS) compared with the baseline ground SCF formulation. …”
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Investigation of viscous damping in perforated MEMS devices by Zeyu Jia, Yuhao Wang, Xiaoxu Wang, Xiang Xu, Jinshuai Sun, Mengqi Sun, Jian Bai, Wei Huang, Qianbo Lu

“…Moreover, compared to normal cylindrical holes, trapezoidal holes are found to achieve superior damping reduction with a smaller sacrifice in surface area, which holds great potential for capacitive, acoustic, and optical MEMS devices. …”
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False positive results in the Widal test in adults immunized with the Commirnaty (Pfizer-BioNtech) and BBIBP-CorV (Sinopharm) vaccines against COVID-19 by Jeel Moya-Salazar, Lizbeth Y. Ciprian, Víctor Rojas-Zumaran, Belén Moya-Salazar, Belén Moya-Salazar, Eliane A. Goicochea-Palomino, Hans Contreras-Pulache

“…The Wildal tests’ results of patients with Commirnaty vaccine had higher false-positive dilution titers for O antigen [titer 1/400 (7.1%) and 1/800 (9.5%)] and H antigen [titer 1/400 (4.8%) and 1/800 (17.6%)]. We found differences in the paratyphic B by age and gender (p < 0.05).ConclusionOur results suggest misleading results of the Widal test in patients vaccinated against COVID-19, mainly in those vaccinated with Commirnaty. …”
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A Preemptive Scan Speed Control Strategy Based on Topographic Data for Optimized Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging by Thi Thu Nguyen, Oyoo Michael Juma, Luke Oduor Otieno, Thi Ngoc Nguyen, Yong Joong Lee

“…The AFM system with this variable speed control algorithm was found to reduce the scan time needed for one AFM image by over 50% compared to the fixed-speed scanning while maintaining the similar level of accuracy. …”
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Measuring the Thermal Unfolding of Lysozyme: A Critical Comparison of Differential Scanning Fluorimetry and Differential Scanning Calorimetry by Weronika Malicka, Yueyue Dai, Andreas Herrmann, Rainer Haag, Matthias Ballauff, Marina Pigaleva, Thomas Risse, Daniel Lauster, Iman Asakereh, Mazdak Khajehpour

“…The temperature of unfolding (Tm) is found to be the most robust quantity. The unfolding enthalpy ΔHu and the change of specific heat were also obtained and errors in the range of 5–10 % and 30–50 % were determined, respectively. …”
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Characteristics Analysis of Three-Component Wave Field Based on Borehole Microseismic Data of Shear Wave Splitting by WEN Rou, LI Dong, HUANG Ke, WANG Xiyu, LU Yanping, FENG Shuchao

“…Through comparison, it is found that the orientation and distance of microseismic event localization results using only P-wave and S-wave are more reliable, and the fracture morphology is more consistent with the fracture growth law. …”
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Second-Order Nonlocal Effects Mitigation in Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Analysis Sensors by Tracking the Brillouin Frequency Shift Profile of the Fiber by Juan Jose Mompo, Haritz Iribas, Javier Urricelqui, Alayn Loayssa

“…We report on an additional limitation that has been found in Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) sensors due to the so-called second-order nonlocal effects (NLE). …”
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The potential of combining passenger rail with freight: A New York City case study by Pouria Bacher, Jacqueline M. Klopp, Martina Ortbauer, Maximilian Lackner

“…We visualized a freight train timetable and graph, analyzed meet-errors between freight and passenger trains, and formulated prevention policies. …”
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Repair of Retrorsine-Induced DNA Damage in Rat Livers: Insights Gained from Transcriptomic and Proteomic Studies by Yun Long, Yiwei Wang, Zijing Song, Xin He, Yisheng He, Ge Lin

“…Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) are common phytotoxins that are found worldwide. Upon hepatic metabolic activation, the reactive PA metabolites covalently bind to DNAs and form DNA adducts, causing mutagenicity and tumorigenicity in the liver. …”
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Irrigation monitoring from satellite at hyper-high resolution: Paving the way for remote-sensing-based agricultural water management support services by Jacopo Dari, Stefano Lo Presti, Luca Brocca

“…The irrigation quantification experiment, carried out through the SM-based (Soil-Moisture-based) inversion approach, provides satisfactory results especially in light of the scarcity of ancillary information for refining the estimates. Percentage errors aggregated at the consortium and the farm scales equal to −24 % and to −14 %, respectively, are found. …”
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Predicting forest understory habitat for Canada lynx using LIDAR data by Patrick A. Fekety, Rema B. Sadak, Joel D. Sauder, Andrew T. Hudak, Michael J. Falkowski

“…Model fit statistics for normalized root mean square errors (RMSE%) were 30.8–33.7% and pseudo‐R2 ranged from 0.64 to 0.71. …”
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Variable-Ratio Mode-Insensitive 1 × 2 Power Splitter Based on MMI Couplers and Phase Shifters by Fang Ren, Wei Chen, Tianwen Zhangsun, Yiying Zhang, Xiaojie Fan, Jianping Wang

“…Numerical simulations are carried out and it is found that the structure has the ability to realize variable-ratio dual-mode mode-insensitive 1 × 2 power splitter by designing the number and lengths of the phase shifters, which shows a good agreement with our theoretical analysis. …”
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Compressive performance of 3D-printed lightweight structures: Infill pattern optimization via Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis method by Cristina Vălean, Emanoil Linul, Dipen Kumar Rajak

“…In terms of specific properties, Star IP was found as the most efficient, owing to its lightweight design, outperforming other IPs. …”
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Enhanced Forecasting of Groundwater Level Incorporating an Exogenous Variable: Evaluating Conventional Multivariate Time Series and Artificial Neural Network Models by Md Abrarul Hoque, Asib Ahmmed Apon, Md Arafat Hassan, Sajal Kumar Adhikary, Md Ariful Islam

“…When comparing the models, it was found that the ANN-based model outperformed the time series models with enhanced forecasting accuracy (SSE of 9.894). …”
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Chip Design of PTP Time Synchronization for Industrial IoT by Yee-Shao Chen, Yuan-Sun Chu, da-Wei Lo, Yen-Ting Chiang, Ting-Chao Hou

“…After a detailed study of the IEEE 1588 protocol, this paper found that the main sources of time errors are frequency changes caused by the temperature characteristics and aging of the crystal oscillator, the uncertainty of network protocol stacking delay, and the queuing delay caused by packets. …”
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Impact of a short training on the recognition of excessively deep chest compressions during video-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a randomized controlled simulation trial by Jonas Paul Schulte, Martin Klasen, Michael Schauwinhold, Jörg Christian Brokmann, Christopher Plata

“…With regard to the remaining errors, no significant differences were observed between the study groups. …”
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Evaluation of the CRISPR/Cas9 system as genome editing platform for the Mucopolysaccharidosis IV A using a strategy for induction of higher homologous recombination frequency by Diego Alejandro Suarez, Andrés Felipe Leal, Carlos Javier Alméciga Díaz

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Heuristic Usability Evaluation of Web-Based COVID-19 Management Dashboard by Somayyeh Zakerabasali, Farnaz Salehian

“…In this joint meeting, any disagreements about the problems found by the evaluators were discussed and reached a common opinion. …”
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Features of bioelectric brain activity in people with different level of situational anxiety when performing non-verbal tasks by S. I. Pavlenko, D. S. Gromova, O. A. Vedyasova, A. M. Kovalev, A. I. Budaev

“…All data obtained are presented as arithmetic means ± standard errors of the mean, as well as changes in average values in %.Research results. …”
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