Enhancement Methods of Antioxidant Capacity in Rice Bran: A Review by Riza Andriani, Toto Subroto, Safri Ishmayana, Dikdik Kurnia

“…The two main subspecies of rice are <i>japonica</i> and <i>indica</i> which are different in physical characteristics. In general, both <i>indica</i> and <i>japonica</i> rice consist of three types of grain colors, namely white, red, and black. …”
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DARK TETRAD AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS AMONG MALE VIOLENT OFFENDERS AND MEN FROM THE GENERAL POPULATION by Milan Oljača, Selka Sadiković, Bojana M. Dinić, Valentina Baić

“…The sample included 142 male violent offenders (M = 40.73, SD = 11.43) convicted to murder, severe murder, and rape, and 573 males from the general population i Serbia (non-offenders, M = 41.71, SD = 15.11). …”
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Stability Analysis of Fractional-Order Periodic Piecewise Nonlinear Systems by Qingqing Li, Ticao Jiao, Guangming Zhuang, Housheng Zhang, Xuening Xing

“…Furthermore, asymptotic stability criteria are proposed for a general case, i.e., all subsystems are unstable. Three numerical simulation examples are finally provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed results.…”
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SOCIAL AUDIT OF THE MUNICIPAL SYSTEM OF GENERAL EDUCATION by T. I. Zerchaninova, T. V. Zubareva

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On the Representation of Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy in TOEFL iBT and IELTS Academic by Shadab Moslehi, Seyyed Ayatollah Razmjoo

“…The results indicated that in general TOEFL iBT codes are more inclined toward the higher orders of thinking and knowledge and the codes are not noticeably divergent; while, the majority of the codes in the IELTS Academic test are skewed toward the lower codes of the BRT. …”
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Lavender@MIT: The Case for an All-Gender Restroom Paradigm on the MIT Campus by Seaman, Elliott S. L.

“…In this thesis, we approach the issue of restroom equity (and inequity) on the MIT campus in three areas, offering a window into how nonbinary students experience MIT’s restroom infrastructure, documenting the history and recent progress around all-gender restrooms at MIT, and showing that MIT students have a vested interest in and thoughts about both all-gender restrooms and institutional restroom design in general. Parts I and II offer an account of my personal journey interacting with all-gender restrooms and all-gender restroom policy and activism on the MIT campus, and culminate with a series of proposed physical interventions and a single renovation to both increase the visibility of all-gender restrooms on campus and to act as a possible example for future single-gender to all-gender multi-stall restroom conversions. …”
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Towards Efficient Local 3D Conditioning by Zhang, Dingxi, Lukoianov, Artem

“…Recently, Neural Implicit Representations (NIRs) have gained popularity for learning-based 3D shape representation. General representations, i.e. ones that share a decoder across a family of geometries have multiple advantages such as ability of generating previously unseen samples and smoothly interpolating between training examples. …”
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The path of song by Kelly, A

“…Thus, the associative qualities of traditional narrative allow the poet during the realisation of the song to manipulate audience expectations as they listen to stories whose general outlines (i.e. who kills who, who must not die at a certain moment in the story, etc.) they know from a lifetime of experience. …”

Free-will, responsibility and punishment by Haksar, V, Haksar, Vinit

“…</p> <p>Similarly, the argument that different standards of mental defect prevail in different cultures, and that therefore there is something wrong with the concept of mental defect, is intended to be (at least in her more radical moments) a general one, i.e. it is intended to apply, <u>mutatis mutandis</u> against other kinds of mental disorders also.…”

Two aromatic residues in the PB2 subunit of influenza A RNA polymerase are crucial for cap binding. by Fechter, P, Mingay, L, Sharps, J, Chambers, A, Fodor, E, Brownlee, G

“…The recent resolution of the structure of three evolutionary unrelated cap binding proteins, the vaccinia viral protein VP39, the eukaryotic translation factor eIF4E, and the nuclear cap-binding protein CBP20 showed that the recognition of the cap structure is achieved by the same general mechanism, i.e. by "sandwiching" of the N7-methyl guanine of the cap structure between two aromatic amino acid residues. …”

Variation in structural location and amino acid conservation of functional sites in protein domain families by Pils, B, Copley, R, Schultz, J

“…Results: Functional sites were extracted from experimentally determined structural complexes from the Protein Data Bank harbouring a conserved protein domain from the SMART database. In general, functional (i.e. interacting) sites whose location is more highly conserved are also more conserved in their type of amino acid. …”

On the Ends of the Network as a Zone of Friction (And Extraction) by Sudipto Basu

“…Drawing on the Marxian notion of general intellect, I posit how habits are key to generating network surplus value, and to cybernetic expansionism. …”
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Misleading Advertising of Health-Related Products in Ecuador during the COVID-19 Pandemic by María Belen Mena, Ivan Sisa, Enrique Teran

“…Newscasts most often advertised products intended to improve sexual potency (22.9%) and to a lesser degree those intended to prevent and treat respiratory problems (1.8%); this relationship was reversed when compared to general programming (<i>p</i> < 0.05). <b><i>Conclusions</i></b> Most of the health-related products advertised on Ecuadorian television are advertised misleadingly, with news programs having the highest number of such advertisements per hour of programming.…”
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Magneto-optical double zero-index media and their electromagnetic properties in the bulk by Fanghu Feng, Neng Wang, Guo Ping Wang

“…Here, we extended the concept of DZIM and proposed a more general type, i.e., the magneto-optical DZIM (MODZIM), of which the permittivity and the determinant of the Hermitian permeability tensor are simultaneously zero. …”
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Titans Jousting for the Mob: Great Powers and Voting in the UN General Assembly by I. Istomin

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Editorial: Lipids and inflammation in health and disease, volume II by Evgeny Bezsonov, Evgeny Bezsonov, Evgeny Bezsonov, Evgeny Bezsonov, Mirza S. Baig, Michael Bukrinsky, Veronika Myasoedova, Alessio Ravani, Vasily Sukhorukov, Dongwei Zhang, Victoria Khotina, Victoria Khotina, Alexander Orekhov

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PENTOXIFYLLINE'S IMPACT ON VENOUS ULCERS: A RANDOMISED STUDY by Yasir Tajdar, Sakshi Singh, Ankit Raj, Ayush Raj

“…The study took place at the Department of General Surgery, I.G.I.M.S., Patna. A total of 40 patients with confirmed venous ulcers were included, after excluding other major causal factors. …”
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Initial approach to a research writing course: a case study of STEM and non-STEM female students under pressure to succeed by Maura A. E. Pilotti, Omar Elmoussa

“…There were no differences in generic and research-specific writing skills, but performance on the first assignment was higher in non-STEM students, whereas general confidence (i.e., self-efficacy) and confidence specific to research writing were higher in STEM students. …”
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Distribution and diversity of whales and dolphins (Cetacea) in the southern North Sea: 1970-2005 by Van Der Meij, S, Camphuysen, K

“…The frequency of sightings of cetaceans has generally increased between 1970 and 2005, but it is unclear how the increased popularity of cetaceans by the general public (i.e. more reports) has contributed to that trend. …”

Comparison of hyperpolarized (3)He MRI with Xe-enhanced computed tomography imaging for ventilation mapping of rat lung. by Santyr, G, Couch, M, Lam, W, Ouriadov, A, Drangova, M, McCormack, D, Holdsworth, D

“…The average S/I gradient obtained using the (3)He MRI method was found to be 0.17 ± 0.04 cm(-1) , whereas the average S/I gradient obtained using the Xe-CT method was found to be 0.016 ± 0.005 cm(-1) . In general, S/I ventilation gradients obtained from both methods were significantly different from each other (p = 0.0019 by two-tailed paired t-test). …”