Aggregation of ice-nucleating macromolecules from <i>Betula pendula</i> pollen determines ice nucleation efficiency by F. Wieland, F. Wieland, N. Bothen, R. Schwidetzky, T. M. Seifried, T. M. Seifried, P. Bieber, P. Bieber, U. Pöschl, K. Meister, K. Meister, M. Bonn, J. Fröhlich-Nowoisky, H. Grothe

“…Our study reveals that three distinct INM classes active at <span class="inline-formula">−</span>8.7, <span class="inline-formula">−</span>15.7, and <span class="inline-formula">−</span>17.4 °C are present in <i>B. pendula</i>. …”
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Effect of Implantable Collamer Lens on Anterior Segment Measurement and Intraocular Lens Power Calculation Based on IOLMaster 700 and Sirius by Xiaoyong Chen, Di Zhang, Ziyuan Liu, Yinan Liu, Hongyuan Cai, Qianru Wu, Yu Zhang

“…The ocular biometric apparatus may misjudge the anterior surface of the lens, resulting in measurement errors of ACD and LT, which has little effect on the calculation of IOL power when using IOLMaster 700 (Barrett Universal II formula) and Sirius (ray-tracing).…”
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Evaluation of Shear Strength of Concrete Flat Plates Reinforced with GFRP Plates by Min Sook Kim, Young Hak Lee

“…Furthermore, the applicability of two formulas was investigated: a modified version of a shear strength formula from ACI 318-14 and the ACI 318-14 fracture prediction formula.…”
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Barriers and drivers to exclusive breastfeeding in Kyrgyzstan: a qualitative study with mothers and health workers by Cath Jackson, Marina Duishenkulova, Nurila Altymysheva, Jyldyz Artykbaeva, Raisa Asylbasheva, Eleonora Jumalieva, Anastasia Koylyu, Sian Lickess, Tursun Mamyrbaeva, Veerle Snijders, Julianne Williams, Tiina Likki

“…Mothers were purposively selected to represent four groups of infant feeding practices in the first six months: (1) exclusive breastfeeding, (2) breastfeeding alongside other fluids/solids, (3) breastfeeding alongside infant formula, (4) breastfeeding followed by switching to formula only. …”
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CHEMICAL AND ORGANOLEPTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF CHICKEN NUGGET BASED ON COMPOSITE FLOUR FROM MOCAF, BROWN RICE AND CORN STARCH by Lia Hairunnissa, Arni Komala Sari, Irawan Satrio Jati, Ila Maratush Shalihah, Sarah Dhia Akifah, Azizah Nur Izzati, Nia Ariani Putri, Zulfatun Najah

“…This research began with the nugget formulation, followed by organoleptic testing and chemical characterization of the nugget formula that was preferred by the panelists. The average results of the affection test showed that nugget B was preferred to nugget A, which used less, with the ingredient formula having a ratio of mocaf, brown rice flour and cornstarch, namely 4:1:3 (60g:15g:45g). …”
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Normal Thymic Size and Low Rate of Infections in Human Donor Milk Fed HIV-Exposed Uninfected Infants from Birth to 18 Months of Age by Dorthe Lisbeth Jeppesen, Annette Kjær Ersbøll, Tine Ursula Hoppe, Susanne Dam Nielsen, Niels Henrik Valerius

“…The infants were compared to a cohort of 47 term, HIV-unexposed breastfed or formula-fed infants. Results. The thymic size at 12 months of age was not significantly different between the HIV-EU group and the control infants (P=0.56). …”
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Formulation for Muscle Building and Mobility Improvement by Bingbing CAO, Zhengdong LIU, Huan GE, Jiali ZHOU, Xingwang YE, Mingyuan QI, Renyan LIU, Yiqiao XU

“…The results indicated that the formulation enhanced muscle fiber quality and improved muscle tissue structure in the zebrafish sarcopenia model. …”
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Extended algebraic immunity of symmetric Boolean function by Gao-fei WU, Xue-feng LIU, Ye TIAN, Yu-qing ZHANG

“…Boolean functions with optimal algebraic immunity play an important role in stream ciphers.Based on the univariate polynomial representation of Boolean functions,a construction of Boolean functions with maximum extended algebraic immunity (EAI) is proposed,some previous results are special cases of our construction.The EAI of symmetric Boolean functions which have maximum algebraic immunity (AI) are analyzed by using the properties of symmetric Boolean functions.The result shows that there are only <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <msup> <mn>2</mn> <mrow> <mrow><mo>＆#x230A;</mo> <mrow> <mtext>lb</mtext><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>/</mo><mn>2</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow> <mo>＆#x230B;</mo></mrow><mo>+</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow> </msup> </math></inline-formula> n-variable (n even) symmetric Boolean functions achieve maximum EAI.…”
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Evaluating the respective role of individual precipitates on the hydrogen trapping ability and locations of a co-precipitation enameled steel via in situ Scanning Kelvin Probe Forc... by Xuejian Fu, Chun Xu, Yu Li, Quanshe Sun, Yuwei Liu

“…There existed a significant difference in the potential change between the four composite precipitates, which could distinctly reflect the difference in hydrogen trapping abilities and fishscaling resistance. The results showed that the hydrogen trapping abilities of the four precipitates were in the following order: Ti(C,N)[Formula: see text]Al2O3[Formula: see text]Ti4C2S2[Formula: see text]TiN. …”
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An Improved Model to Calculate Pullback Force of Trenchless Horizontal Directional Drilling Pipeline by Xiao-qiang Liang, Da Hu, Yong-suo Li, Xian Yang, Lei Jiang, Yun-yi Zhang

“…Firstly, this paper analyzes the calculation method of pullback force in horizontal directional drilling; studies the calculation formula and principle of common pullback force through examples; obtains the advantages, disadvantages, and applicable scope of different formulas; and improves the calculation model of pullback force and step resistance. …”
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Face Recognition Method for Underground Engineering Based on Dual-Target Domain Adaptation and Discriminative Feature Learning by Yongqiang Yu, Cong Guo, Lidan Fan, Jiyun Zhang, Liwei Yu, Peitao Li

“…Extensive experiments are conducted on public and self-built datasets to verify the proposed method. The results show that <xref ref-type="disp-formula" rid="deqn1">(1)</xref> dual domain adversarial loss, dual CORAL loss, Blur-to-Sharp and NIR-to-VIS image reconstruction, and face keypoints intermediate domain can improve the DTDA performance of the model. …”
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The Merit-based Incentive Payment System: Pearson’s Chi-Square and Categorical Dependent Variable Models Analyzed for Domains---Effective Clinical Care and Efficiency/Cost Reductio... by Amrita Shenoy

“…**Background:** Following the 2015 repeal of the Sustainable Growth Rate formula, the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' formula under which physicians were reimbursed, two payment systems were put in place to incentivize physicians, one of which was the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). …”
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Analyzing Uniqueness of Solutions in Nonlinear Fractional Differential Equations with Discontinuities Using Lebesgue Spaces by Farva Hafeez, Mdi Begum Jeelani, Nouf Abdulrahman Alqahtani

“…We explore the existence and uniqueness of solutions to nonlinear fractional differential equations (FDEs), defined in the sense of RL-fractional derivatives of order <inline-formula><math display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>η</mi><mo>∈</mo><mo>(</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>. …”
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Novel approaches to representing the speed–time characteristics of a direct start-up induction machine driving gravitational-type loads by Ilija Knežević, Tatijana Dlabač, Martin Ćalasan, Maja Krčum

“…The first expression is derived using the formula for torque based on Thévenin’s equivalent circuit, while the second expression is derived from Kloss’s formula for torque. …”
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Suspender Replacement Method for Long-Span Concrete-Filled Steel Tubular Arch Bridges and Cable Force Measurement Based on Frequency Method by Yulin Deng, Luming Deng

“…Results indicate that the proposed formula effectively considers the influence of the sleeve on the overall calculated length of the suspender. …”
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Study on the Transmission Characteristic of Disk Type Magnetorheological Fluid with Variable Thickness by Huang Jin, Zhou Yi, Yuan Fapeng

“…The results show that the smaller the thickness of MRF,the greater torque can be transmitted,but MRF has the minimum thickness.…”
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Size Effect of Sandstone Particle Crushing Strength and Aggregate Shear Strength Based on Nominal Particle Size by QIU Zhenfeng, LEI Ruiyi, CHEN Renyuan, LIU Jinghong, FENG Yi, FANG Jun

“…Based on the Weibull statistical model, this paper establishes a formula for the size effects of particle strength. …”
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DESIGN OF ELASTIC RING CLAMPING STRUCTURE FOR PIEZOELECTRIC BENDING EFFECT by GAO ChangYin, WU XiaoLing

“…According to elastic mechanics and piezoelectricity,the calculation formula of bending stress and polarization of quartz wafer were deduced and the stress analysis of the elastic ring wafer clamping structure was carried out. …”
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Data comparable encryption scheme based on cloud computing in Internet of things by Qian MENG, Jianfeng MA, Kefei CHEN, Yinbin MIAO, Tengfei YANG

“…The previously proposed short comparable encryption (SCE) scheme can infer the plaintext relationship by comparing the ciphertexts relationship as well as ensuring data security in Internet of things.Unfortunately,it will incur high storage and computational burden during the process of comparing ciphertexts and generating tokens.To this end,an efficient short comparable encryption scheme called SCESW was proposed,which was utilizing the sliding window method with the same size window.Formal security analysis shows that the scheme can guarantee weak indistinguishability in standard model as well as data security and integrity.The experimental results demonstrate that the storage of the SCESW scheme is <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mfrac> <mn>1</mn> <mi>t</mi> </mfrac> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>t</mi><mi>＞</mi><mn>1</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></math></inline-formula> times shorter than that of the SCE scheme and the efficiency of the SCESW scheme is superior to that of the SCE scheme.…”
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THEORETICAL CALCULATION OF TORQUE COEFFICIENT OF BOLT WITH ARBITRARY END FACE by WANG ChengLin, XIAO YuKun, WANG Peng, DU ZhengChun

“…A simple torque coefficient measurement system is built to test and verify the torque coefficients of circular end face, hexagonal end face and T-shaped end face bolts. The testing results are consistent with the theoretical caleulation, which proves the accuracy of the theoretical caleulation formula of torque coefficient.…”
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