Dealing with Food Allergies by Keith R. Schneider, Renée Goodrich Schneider, Soohyoun Ahn, Susie Richardson

“…Allergic reactions from food have led to over 20,000 emergency room visits per year. Annually, between 150 and 200 fatalities associated with food allergic reactions occur in the United States. …”
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National key information infrastructure:status,international comparison and policy recommedations by Sude QING, Yang SONG, Li ZHAO, Lei CAO

“…2015 is the year when “the 12th Five-year Plan” fully completed,and “the 13th Five-year Plan” starts.To discover problems,judge trends and solve problems are the top priorities in the first year of planning.According to“Global Information Technology Report 2015”that released by World Economic Forum,China is also facing three weaknesses,such as the low per capita internet bandwidth,the limited mobile broadband penetration and the urgent need of innovation environment.Situation analysis and international comparison were presented,and policy recommendations were given from three major aspects,such as improving broadband capabilities,developing Aerospace integrated networks and innovative application environments，which break down into six sub-directions such as domestic broadband networks,international network layout,mobile communications,space infrastructure,application infrastructure and software-defined network.…”
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Sacralización de los revolucionarios en la poesía de Fina García Marruz by Mónica Ruiz-Bañuls

“…El presente ensayo muestra la manera en que la escritora del grupo Orígenes aprovecha la textualidad evangélica con los hechos noticiosos para fundir en su obra la sacralidad de su visión religiosa con la heroicidad de diversos per - sonajes históricos, donde el proceso revolucionario aparece vinculado a la misericordia y a la victoria de las bienaventuranzas bíblicas, produciendo así una elaborada ontología poético-religiosa.…”
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Blind estimation of spreading sequence of CDMA signals based on Fast-ICA and performance analysis by LU Feng-bo, HUANG Zhi-tao, JIANG Wen-li

“…The DS-CDMA signals can be divided into two types,the short-code（SC） and the long-code（LC） DS-CDMA signal.The existing methods are only used to estimate spreading sequences of SC-DS-CDMA signals,which cannot work for the LC-DS-CDMA signals.A new blind estimation algorithm for DS-CDMA signals based on fast independent com-ponent analysis was proposed by analyzing the mathematical model of the LC-DS-CDMA signal and the estimation per-formance of the proposed algorithm in theory was deduced.Moreover,the proposed method not only applies to the LC-DS-CDMA but also SC-DS-CDMA signals.The theoretical analysis and simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.…”
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Controlled Roof Collapse during Secondary Mining in Coal Mines by Ashleigh Hutchinson

“…The roof rock between the pillar, which is the working face, and the snook is modelled as an Euler-Bernoulli beam acted on at each end by a horizontal force and by its weight per unit length. The beam is clamped at the pillar and simply supported (hinged) at the snook. …”
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Template attack of Crypto chip based on clustering by Zhen WU, Zhibo DU, Min WANG, Chunling XIANG

“…The known-key establishment template and others full control of experimental equipment preconditions are required to implement the traditional template attack.The preconditions restrict the application scenario of template attack.The template attack is only applied to the device that the key input can be controlled.In order to resolve the restrictive preconditions,a novel method of template attack based on clustering was proposed.The clustering EM algorithm was modified according to the characteristics of information leakage model in the method.The modified clustering methods accurately fitted the leaked information probability model in the case of unknown key,the location of information leakage could be determined.Then the attack established the templates in the location,and implemented template matching.The proposed method eliminates the dependence of traditional template attacks on per-conditions and expand the application scenario of template attack.…”
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Survey on the deployment and design for regular topology structures in wireless sensor networks by Wen-xiang LI, Ya-jie MA, Jun XU, Jian-feng YANG

“…In wireless sensor networks,such regular topology structures as Square,Hexagon and Triangle could fully cover the area to be monitored,provide accurate positioning for special events,and achieve better network performance.In order to provide valuable guidelines for WSN design and optimization,related works on regular topology structures was surveyed.By the analysis on the index of Area per Node,the deployment method and efficiency of regular topology structures under such cases as full coverage,k-coverage and l-connectivity was explored.the performance,variation and application scenarios in such aspects as network connectivity,energy consumption,transmission performance,routing scheme and MAC protocol was summarized.The optimal application conditions for each structure together with several directions for further research were proposed.…”
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Should Genetics Be Blamed for High Incidence of Uterine Disease in Dairy Cows? by Klibs N. Galvão, Christopher M. Seabury, Pablo Pinedo

“…They have been associated with decreased pregnancy per artificial insemination (AI), extended interval to pregnancy, increased culling, and economic losses. …”
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Newcastle and Infectious Bronchitis Vaccine Reactions in Commercial Broilers by Gary D. Butcher, Richard D. Miles, Amir H. Nilipour

“…Questions arise over route of vaccination, age at vaccination, doses of vaccine to administer per bird, mixing of ND and IB vaccines or other vaccines, vaccine reactions, use of live vaccines versus bacterins, strains or serotypes of virus to include, need for and timing of revaccination, and others. …”
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Some Biological Features of Empoasca decipiens Paoli on Sesame in Varamin by Ahmad Parvin

“…It has four generations per year in sesame growing areas of Varamin (Tehran province). …”
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Broadband power line communication channel modeling based on Q3D by Wangbin CAO, Xiaolin LIANG

“…A method of broadband power line communication (PLC) channel modeling based on Q3D extractor was proposed. The per unit length RLGC parameters of PLC channel was extracted by the Q3D extractor. …”
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Can GnRH Be Used to Induce Ovulation Early in Lactation and Improve Fertility in Dairy Cows? by Klibs N. Galvão

“… It is well established that early cyclicity results in increased pregnancy per artificial insemination and decreased time to pregnancy. …”
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Temperature and pH Effect on the Sorption of Divalent Metal Ions by Silica Gel by S. Mustafa, B. Dilara, A. Naeem, N. Rehana, K. Nargis

“…On average two moles of H + ions were released per mole of metal cation sorbed. The sorption data fitted the linear forms of both the Kurbatov and Langmuir adsorption equations. …”
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Postharvest Pruning Guide for Hops in Florida by Mariel Gallardo, Shinsuke Agehara, Chistopher DelCastillo, Jack Rechcigl

“… In Florida, hops have two growing seasons per year, and different pruning practices are recommended after each season. …”
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Biology and Management of Common Purslane in Fruiting Vegetables, Cucurbits, and Strawberries by Nathan S. Boyd, Andrew W. MacRae

“…It produces thousands of seeds per plant, which germinate readily, but can also persist in the soil for up to 15 years. …”
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Plants and Fungal Products with Activity Against Tuberculosis by Marcus Vinicius Nora De Souza

“…This contagious disease kills four people every minute somewhere in the world and accounts for more than 2 million deaths per year. Due to the rapid spread of TB strains resistant to all the major anti-TB drugs on the market, and the association of TB with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in AIDS, we urgently need to develop new drugs to fight against TB. …”
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Particle filtering based semi-blind estimation for MIMO-OFDM time-varying channel by JING Yuan, YIN Fu-liang, ZENG Shuo

“…A semi-blind channel estimation method based on the particle filtering was proposed for the MIMO-OFDM wireless communication system.By optimizing the particles distribution locally,the traditional particle filtering algorithm was modified,and a local optimized particle filtering was proposed.This local optimized particle filtering can achieve the low MSE,and improve the precision of the MIMO-OFDM time-varying channel estimation.Since this method was per-formed in frequency domain,it was not necessary to know（or estimate） the length of the channel.Compared with exist-ing approaches,the proposed method was more robust to the non-gauss distribution noise and the detection performance is nearly optimal.The simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.…”
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Performance analysis of incremental cooperative relaying system over composite multipath/shadowing fading channels by HENGWei-jun CHENG, Yan HUANG

“…Since the performance metrics of digital communication systems over composite multipath/lognormal fading channels is intractable,a mixture Gamma (MG) fading model is used to approximate Nakagami-lognormal (NL) fading model.By using MG fading channel model,some exact closed-form expressions of the average error rate and outage probability for incremental cooperative relaying system are obtained,respectively,where per hop is independent and non-identically distributed.Finally,numerical and simulation results are shown to verify the accuracy of the analytical results.These results show that it is helpful to approximate the composite NL distribution by using the MG distribution in the performance analysis of cooperative relaying systems.…”
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On a Real-Time Blind Signal Separation Noise Reduction System by Ka Fai Cedric Yiu, Siow Yong Low

“…The final proposed FPGA system is able to handle signals with sample rate over 20000 samples per second.…”
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Exploring inconsistencies in environmental impact assessments of organic farming by Hikaru Komatsu, Jeremy Rappleye

“…A 2017 meta-analysis suggested elevated acidification and eutrophication potentials per unit of agricultural production for organic farming relative to conventional farming. …”
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