What is to reproduce? On the overlap, development, and persistence account of reproduction by Palacios-González, C

“…Monika Piotrowska has defended a new account of reproduction. Her account seems able to answer the question of whether reproduction takes place, and who reproduces, when we employ biotechnologies that bear little to no resemblance to naturally occurring human sexual reproduction. …”

Why Brussels? Neruda’s ‘título absolutamente enigmático’ by Moran, D

“…<p>The primary purpose of this article is to propose a solution to longstanding literary mystery, namely, why Neruda&rsquo;s disconcertingly enigmatic poem &lsquo;Bruselas&rsquo; (from&nbsp;<em>Tercera residencia</em>&nbsp;[1947]) has a title which seems to bear little if any relation either to the city of Brussels itself or to its sometimes bewilderingly obscure content and imagery. …”

Autonomised harming by Eggert, L

“…Second, the paper examines how potential differences between human agents and non-human, artificial agents might bear on the permissibility of delegating life-and death decisions to AI systems. …”

Biosorption of silver ions. by Toh, Guanhong.

“…BCD grafted chitosan beads are the second most effective adsorbent followed by ECH-chitosan beads.…”
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Does bankruptcy law prevent internalization of environmental costs: evidence from China by Li, Xingwei

“…The principle requires those responsible for environmental damage or imminent threats of damage to bear the necessary costs of remediation and prevention. …”
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Entrapping of inclusions within carbon nanotubes during catalytic decomposition of C2H4 on a “thick” nickel film by Li, Feng Ji, Zhang, Sam, Sun, Geng Zhi, Kong, Jun Hua, Rawat, R. S., Ilyas, Usman, Li, Bo

“…It was found that pretreating of the nickel film resulted in lots of small nanoparticles extruding on the surface, among big ones, serving as seeds for the growth of tubes. The inner walls of a few tubes were sealed internally by multiple elongated “beads-like,” “bullet-shaped” or “needle-shaped” nickel inclusions. …”
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Will a crude oil price band stabilise the market by Fattouh, B

“…The proposal for a crude oil price band, revived by the Indian delegation during the Jeddah Meeting in July 2008, seems to be gathering support. The French president Nicolas Sarkozy and the UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged ‘oil producers to agree a target price range, based on a clearer understanding of the long-term fundamentals’. …”

The effect of germination of the physico-chemical properties of black gram (Vigna mungo L.) by Ghazali, H.M, Cheng, S.C

“…Rehydration of dry black gram seeds activated metabolic processes that caused changes in the chemical composition and allowed growth of the seeds. …”
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What We Should Do Before the Social Bots Take Over: Online Privacy Protection and the Political Economy of Our Near Future by Graeff, Erhardt

“…Bots inspire fear because they represent the loss of control. …”
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Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) as a matrix for immobilization of lipase by Yunus, W. M. Z. Wan, Salleh, A. B., Ismail, A., Ampon, K., Razak, C. N. A., Basri, M.

“…The best result based on hydrolytic activity was obtained by adsorption of the purified unbuffered enzyme solution onto PMMA beads without any modification of the beads. Prolonged exposure of the protein to the beads increased its adsorption but the expressed activity decreased after 1 h of exposure. …”
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Responses of herbaceous mimosa (Mimosa strigillosa), a new reclamation species, to soil pH by Nuruddin, Ahmad Ainuddin, Chang, Mingteh

“…The plant can survive and grow at soil pH as low as 4.7, but the optimum growth seems to be on soils with pH ranging from 6.2 to 7.1. …”
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3D printing formulation of probiotic extracellular vesicles for gastrointestinal cancer by Jaidev, Prapti

“…Subsequently, printing parameters were tailored to produce uniform-sized beads. A preservation study was then conducted to identify the optimal storage environment for preventing degradation of the 3D bioprinted beads. …”
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Lubricant evolution and depletion under laser heating : a molecular dynamics study by Li, Yong, Wong, Chee How, Li, Bei, Yu, Shengkai, Hua, Wei, Zhou, Weidong

“…A temperature gradient is formed in the radial direction due to the heat transfer between the heated beads and the surrounding lubricants. During the cooling process, the strong functional interaction between end-beads and the substrate layer hinders the recovery and redistribution of depleted lubricant beads, resulting in an undersaturated film. …”
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Synbiotic encapsulation against Vibrio parahaemolyticus infection in whiteleg shrimps by Wei, Guangmin, Tay, Moon Yue Fen, Kamaja, Vamshi Krishna, Chan-Park, Mary B.

“…Coculture method indicated that synbiotic beads reduce viability of Vibrio parahaemolyticus by 3 orders of magnitude. …”
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Theoretical investigations and simulations of femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy and coherent anti-stokes Raman spectroscopy by Li, Xiuting

“…Twenty four Feynman dual time line and four wave mixing energy level diagrams are first presented to depict CARS. The line-shape and relative intensity of each term are interpreted for both off-resonance CARS and resonance CARS on toluene and R6G, respectively.…”
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What are the intensities and line-shapes of the twenty four polarization terms in coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy? by Niu, Kai, Lee, Soo-Ying

“…It is shown that in fs/ps CARS, for the two cases of off-resonance CARS in toluene and resonanceCARS in rhodamine 6G, where we use a fs pump pulse, a fs Stokes pulse and a ps probe pulse, we obtain sharp vibrational lines in four of the polarization terms where the pump and Stokes pulses can create a vibrational coherence on the ground electronic state, while the spectral line-shapes of the other twenty terms are broad and featureless. …”
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Driver fatigue detection from facial features by Tee, Hui Qian

“…The increase in demand for private cars has resulted in the rising number of cars on the road over the past 10 years. …”
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Embedded Object Detection and Mapping in Soft Materials Using Optical Tactile Sensing by Solano-Castellanos, Jose A., Do, Won Kyung, Kennedy, Monroe D.

“…To demonstrate the effectiveness of the method, we tested our approach on an experimental setup that consists of a series of quartz beads located underneath a polyethylene foam that prevents direct observation of the configuration and requires the use of tactile exploration to recover the location of the beads. …”
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Bacteria as potential biocontrol agents for managing purple witchweed (Striga hermonthica) in grain sorghum by Osman, Nadia Yasseen, Ahmad-Hamdani, Muhammad Saiful, Oslan, Siti Nurbaya, Mohamed Zulperi, Dzarifah, Mohd Hashim, Amalia, Saidi, Noor Baity

“…However, biopriming of sorghum seeds with S. morookaensis did not enhance the inhibitory effects on Striga seed germination but resulted in a greater reduction in radicle elongation at 74.64% compared with non-primed seeds. …”
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Development of single seedling nursery tray for the System of Rice Intensification by Zubairu, Usman Bashar

“…It was made with 924 cone shape seed pickers for attachment of individual seeds and dropping the seeds into 924 SRI tray holes. …”
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