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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Automated breast masses segmentation in digitized mammograms by Zhang, Han, Foo, Say Wei, Thng, Choon Hua, Krishnan, Shankar M.

“…Pixels with local maximum gray levels are flagged as seeds, from which many candidate objects are grown using modified region-growing technique. …”
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The Origins of the East Greenland Coastal Current on the Northeast Greenland Shelf: a Comparison of Two Reanalysis Products by Vianco, Sara L.

“…How this fresh water initially flows onto the Northeast Greenland Shelf (NEGS) and feeds the EGCC is not well known due in part to the lack of observations in the region. …”
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Molecular pathways leading to sleep and wakefulness in Drosophila by Christodoulou, K

“…Activation of the receptor likely feeds into a small GTPase cascade that involves Cv-c and Sandman.…”

Brewers’ spent grains as potential novel functional food ingredients for food security by Tan, Yong Xing

“…BSG are residues generated as side streams from beer production. Currently, BSG are used as animal feed or disposed in landfills and these massive amount of BSG generated annually are causing significant environmental, economic, and climatic issues. …”
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SINGAPORE STANDARD : Specification for clean and green urban farms – Agriculture Incorporating Amendment No. 1 /

“…Adoption of this standard will enable urban farms to enhance their business competitiveness through optimising operational efficiency in a sustainable manner and to brand their farm products for market access. Permission has also been sought from the following organisations for the reproduction of materials from their publications into this standard: ISPM 5 Glossary of phytosanitary terms by International Plant Protection Convention; Soil taxonomy, a basic system of soil classification for making and interpreting soil surveys by United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service; Sustainability assessment of food and agriculture systems guidelines (version 3.0) by Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations; SS 632: 2017 Specification for organic primary produce by Enterprise Singapore. …”
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Exposure to Pb-halide perovskite nanoparticles can deliver bioavailable Pb but does not alter endogenous gut microbiota in zebrafish by Patsiou, Danae, del Rio-Cubilledo, Cristina, Catarino, Ana Isabel, Summers, Stephen, Afiq Mohd Fahmi, Boyle, David, Fernandes, Teresa F., Henry, Theodore B.

“…Induction of mt2 and reduction of ala-d expression levels in liver tissues showed Pb bioavailability after 2-d and 4-d dietary exposure to perovskite-spiked feeds. Changes in gut microbiota of adult zebrafish were detected after 14-d exposure to Pb-spiked food, but no changes were detected from perovskite-NP spiked food. …”
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Mechanistic insights into the membrane fouling mechanism during ultrafiltration of high-concentration proteins via in-situ electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) by Tanudjaja, Henry Jonathan, Ng, Angie Qi Qi, Chew, Jia Wei

“…The main takeaway for filtering feeds with high BSA concentrations is that higher steady-state flux could be achieved by averting internal fouling, either through using membranes with dense internal structures or lower MWCO.…”
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Elongated magma plumbing system beneath the Coso volcanic field, California, constrained by seismic reflection tomography by Wang, Dongdong, Wu, Shucheng, Li, Tianjue, Tong, Ping, Gao, Yongxin

“…Our final velocity model reveals a prominent low-velocity body sitting right beneath the CVF at 5–20 km depths, which we interpret as a rhyolite magma reservoir that supplies heat flux to the hot springs and also feeds the volcanic activities at Coso. We find that the upper-middle crustal low-velocity body dips southwards into the lower crust, extending to regions beneath the Indian Wells Valley and the Garlock Fault at depth greater than 20 km. …”
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Efficient threshold function secret sharing with information-theoretic security by Luo, Jinglong, Zhang, Liang Feng, Lin, Fuchun, Lin, Changlu

“…Specifically, a (t, n)-TFSS scheme with communication complexity O(l) is designed in this paper and it is better than the existing FSS schemes with lowest communication complexity O(λl), where λ is the length of pseudo-random generator's seeds. In addition, the (t, n)-TFSS have an extra robustness property in the sense that even if up to (n - t) function shares are not available, the protocol still computes the function value at a given point correctly.…”
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3D patient specific instrumentation for high tibial osteotomy by Wong, Gina Khay Fong

“…After a vast number of experiments with 3D Slicer, “Grow from Seeds” is proven to be more time efficient and accurate along with the “Logical Operators”, especially for a thin and uneven layer like the cortical region. …”
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Ultramafic Alteration and the Cooling of Earth and Mars by Murray, Joshua

“…I hope that in trying to meaningfully constrain these processes I plant seeds of inquiry from which myself and others can one day make more concrete statements of the cause and effect between tectonics and climate.…”
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21W.730-2 Expository Writing - Food for Thought: Writing and Reading about Food and Culture, Fall 2005 by Boiko, Karen

“…"Civilization is mostly the story of how seeds, meats, and ways to cook them travel from place to place." - Adam Gopnik, "What's Cooking" "A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one's accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes." - Wendell Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating" If you are what you eat, what are you? …”
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Crystal phase-based epitaxial growth of hybrid noble metal nanostructures on 4H/fcc Au nanowires by Lu, Qipeng, Wang, An-Liang, Gong, Yue, Hao, Wei, Cheng, Hongfei, Chen, Junze, Li, Bing, Yang, Nailiang, Niu, Wenxin, Wang, Jie, Yu, Yifu, Zhang, Xiao, Chen, Ye, Fan, Zhanxi, Wu, Xue-Jun, Chen, Jinping, Luo, Jun, Li, Shuzhou, Gu, Lin, Zhang, Hua

“…However, it remains a challenge to use these materials as seeds to construct heterometallic nanostructures with desired crystal phases and morphologies for promising applications such as catalysis. …”
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Highlights from Faraday Discussion 172: Carbon in electrochemistry, Sheffield, UK, July 2014 by Dyatkin, B, Ash, PA, Sharma, S

“…Traditionally, Faraday Discussions have been very true to their name, focussing genuinely on healthy, in-depth, and fruitful discussions rather than just serving as a platform for one to one researcher interaction and collaboration. …”

Interval elimination method for stochastic spanning tree problem by Mohd, Ismail

“…The optimum spanning tree problem has been well considered and until now several powerful algorithms have been proposed. …”
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Distributed execution of workflow by Khademi Hedayat, Maryam

“…The main reasons which led us to this selection are: (i) there is few existing work on partitioning workflow, specially as a means of accelerating workflow execution; (ii) several systems have been developed using three main enactment models (i.e., centralized, hierarchical, and distributed models), but most of them focus on centralized execution control while the existing hierarchical and distributed models still have problems such as high overhead in communication amongst the distributed parties; and (iii) data movement mechanisms are divided into: centralized, mediated, and peer-to-peer models. …”
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Analysis of influence and its applications in social advertising by Zhu, Yuqing

“…In social advertising, the influential users, also called influencers or seeds, generate revenue from the seed purchase of the advertiser for initiating the marketing campaigns. …”
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Whence came these plants most foul? Phylogenomics and biogeography of Lowiaceae (Zingiberales) by Niissalo, Matti A., Gardner, Elliot M., Khew, Gillian S., Šída, Otakar, Poulsen, Axel Dalberg, Leong-Škornicková, Jana

“…The strict reliance on a continuous habitat for the range expansion of Lowiaceae can be explained by their fruits and seeds, which lack obvious adaptations for long-distance dispersal. …”
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Amelioration of saline stress on Chia (Salvia hispanica L.) seedlings inoculated with halotolerant plant growth-promoting bacteria isolated from hypersaline environments by Yañez-Yazlle, María Florencia, Romano-Armada, Neli, Rajal, Verónica Beatriz, Irazusta, Verónica Patricia

“…The strains Kushneria sp. and Halomonas sp. showed the highest salinity tolerance (from 50 to 2,000 mM NaCl) and biomass and biofilm production. Chia seeds were treated with six of the first 13 selected strains to evaluate their plant growth-promoting effect under saline stress (without and with 50 and 100 mM NaCl). …”
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