Analysis of Value Added Distribution of Brown Sugar (Saka) Agroindustry in Bukik Batabuah Village Canduang Sub-district Agam Regency by Nadia Firnalista, Nofialdi Nofialdi, Zednita Azriani

“… Rural agroindustry can absorb a relatively high labor rate, but the added value of the products is very low, resulting in low labor productivity. …”
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Comparative Antagonistic Activities of Endolichenic Fungi Isolated from the Fruticose Lichens <i>Ramalina</i> and <i>Usnea</i> by Lloyd Christian Jamilano-Llames, Thomas Edison E. dela Cruz

“…Endolichenic fungi (ELF) are a relatively underexplored group of microorganisms found thriving inside the lichen thalli. …”
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Collapse Potential of an Existing Reinforced Concrete Bridge Structure by Zeynep Yılmaz, Murat Serdar Kirçil

“…Bridges are key components of transportation systems, providing convenient and efficient access to different locations. However, these structures are susceptible to forces that can cause significant damage in the event of seismic activity. …”
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On the “Tantawy technique” and other methods for analyzing fractional Fokker–Plank type equations by Aljawhara H Almuqrin, CGL Tiofack, DV Douanla, A Mohamadou, Weaam Alhejaili, Sherif ME Ismaeel, Samir A El-Tantawy

“…Moreover, the novel “ Tantawy technique, ” developed for the first time, is highly accurate and efficient in analyzing the most complicated and nonlinear problems. …”
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Optimization method of investment package based on Markowitz portfolio theory by A. D. Baydalin

“…Portfolio theory Markowitz defines an efficient set, which is all possible portfolios with different combinations of assets that provide the same level of risk. …”
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Microwave-Assisted Optimization of Polyvinyl Alcohol Cryogel (PVA-C) Manufacturing for MRI Phantom Production by Ivan Vogt, Martin Volk, Emma-Luise Kulzer, Janis Seibt, Maciej Pech, Georg Rose, Oliver S. Grosser

“…Nevertheless, manufacturing-related microstructural properties and sample molding require further study.…”
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Evaluation of Fruit Juices as Probiotic Delivery Systems: Challenges, Current Strategies and Health Benefits by Dilara Yalmancı, Hilal Dikmen Meral, Sevda Dere, Selma Kayacan Çakmakoğlu, Osman Sağdıç, Enes Dertli

“…The insufficient viability of probiotic strains during shelf-life of fruit juices is one of the main challenges and efficient and relatively cheap encapsulation techniques should be developed to ensure their viability. …”
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Realizing Strategic Approach in E-mail Marketing by A. S. Melekhova

“…The use of digital information-communication technologies fosters customer base growth and building long-term relations with clients, which forms foundation for business extension and development. …”
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A meta-analysis approach for annotation and identification of lncRNAs controlling perirenal fat deposition in suckling lambs by María Alonso-García, Beatriz Gutiérrez-Gil, Rocío Pelayo, Pablo A. S. Fonseca, Héctor Marina, Juan José Arranz, Aroa Suárez-Vega

“…To that end, meta-analysis techniques have been implemented to efficiently characterize and detect differentially expressed transcripts from two different RNA-seq datasets, one including samples of two sheep breeds that differ in fat deposition features, Churra and Assaf (n = 14), and one generated from Assaf suckling lambs with different fat deposition levels (n = 8). …”
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Differential anti-glycan antibody responses in Schistosoma mansoni-infected children and adults studied by shotgun glycan microarray. by Angela van Diepen, Cornelis H Smit, Loes van Egmond, Narcis B Kabatereine, Angela Pinot de Moira, David W Dunne, Cornelis H Hokke

“…This resulted in the identification of differential glycan recognition profiles characteristic for the two different age groups, possibly reflecting differences in age or differences in length of exposure or infection.…”
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Biochar enhances soil hydrological function by improving the pore structure of saline soil by Angyuan Jia, Xiaojun Song, Shengping Li, Zhipeng Liu, Xiaotong Liu, Zixuan Han, Huizhou Gao, Qiqi Gao, Yan Zha, Ying Liu, Xueping Wu, Gang Wang

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Identifying Behaviours Indicative of Illegal Fishing Activities in Automatic Identification System Data by Yifan Zhou, Richard Davies, James Wright, Stephen Ablett, Simon Maskell

“…This paper presents our work to predict ship types using AIS data from satellites: in such data, there is a pronounced imbalance between the data for different types of ships, the refresh rate is relatively low, and there is a misreporting of information. …”
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Addressing Shortcomings in Contingency Standards of Care by Alexander Quan

“…Trends of Racial/Ethnic Differences in Emergency Department Care Outcomes Among Adults in the United States From 2005 to 2016. …”
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Packed Bed Microreactors for Sustainable Chemistry and Process Development by Lu Zhang, Jun Yue

“…Selected reaction examples involving different reactant phases and catalyst categories will be particularly discussed, with an emphasis on the reactor performance in relation to the fundamental chemistry and engineering principles under microflow. …”
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A Review on In Vitro Evaluation of Chemical and Physical Digestion for Controlling Gastric Digestion of Food by Hiroyuki Kozu, Isao Kobayashi, Sosaku Ichikawa

“…Hydrogel foods are useful tools for designing foods with controlled digestion because it is relatively easy to design their food characteristics by adjusting the type and content of the additives. …”
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MILITATING IN FAVOR OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW (EVEN IN TIMES OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC) by Laura-Cristiana SPĂTARU-NEGURĂ

“…Delimitating the protection of human rights from other branches of law is necessary due to the similarity of the legal relations that are the object of certain different legal branches. …”
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Enhanced Emotion Recognition Through Dynamic Restrained Adaptive Loss and Extended Multimodal Bottleneck Transformer by Dang-Khanh Nguyen, Eunchae Lim, Soo-Hyung Kim, Hyung-Jeong Yang, Seungwon Kim

“…This training strategy allows predictions from one modality to enhance the accuracy of predictions from other modalities, mirroring the concept of multitask learning, where the results of one task can improve the performance of related tasks. Furthermore, this work introduces the extended multimodal bottleneck transformer, an efficient and effective mid-fusion method designed for problems involving more than two modalities to enhance the performance of emotion recognition systems. …”
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Rare and acute complications of endometriosis in pregnant women by E. N. Vaulina, N. V. Artymuk, O. A. Zotova

“…Pregnancy increases the risk of endometriosis-related intestinal perforation of different localisation: small intestine, caecum, appendix, and rectosigmoid colon. …”
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Practical epistemology: the role of peer review in organizing scientific research by A. V. Shestopal, V. I. Konnov

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The long-run anthropogenic incidence on climate change, air pollution, water scarcity, and contribution to global warming in Morocco by Hamdi El Asli, Mohamed Azeroual

“…Background: Morocco experienced direct economic losses of approximately USD147.9 million due to climate-related disasters. Climate change (CC) could cost Morocco up to 6.5% of its GDP by 2050 if current trends continue, particularly due to freshwater scarcity (FWS) and droughts. …”
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