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An Investigation on the Effect of Polyethylene Oxide Concentration and Particle Size in Modulating Theophylline Release from Tablet Matrices
Polyethylene oxide has been researched extensively as an alternative polymer to hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) in controlled drug delivery due to its desirable swelling properties and its availability in...
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Potential of Biopriming in Enhancing Crop Productivity and Stress Tolerance
Appropriate application of beneficial microbes to the seed or soil is essential for their efficacy and efficiency. Several methods like soil application, seed inoculation, root dip**, foliar application, and...
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Application of Endophytes Through Seed Priming
The nutrition requirement for the intensive agriculture has pressurized non-renewable resources and demands the shift to renewable resources, “biofertilizers,” being the most important in case of soil fertilit...
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Halophytic Microbiome in Ameliorating the Stress
Stress environments hinder the crop growth and development, and under ever-increasing food demand circumstances, concerns of food security have asked for exploring options to overcome such stress conditions. H...
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Open AccessMembrane charge and lipid packing determine polymyxin-induced membrane damage
With the advent of polymyxin B (PmB) resistance in bacteria, the mechanisms for mcr-1 resistance are of crucial importance in the design of novel therapeutics. The mcr-1 phenotype is known to decrease membrane ch...
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Changes in endophytic bacterial communities during different growth stages of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)
Endophytic bacterial diversity in plants presents the level of interaction between culturable and non-culturable endophytic bacteria, thereby providing an appropriate insight into the endophytic environment. T...
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A hybrid approach for evaluating CPT-based seismic soil liquefaction potential using Bayesian belief networks
Discernment of seismic soil liquefaction is a complex and non-linear procedure that is affected by diversified factors of uncertainties and complexity. The Bayesian belief network (BBN) is an effective tool to...
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A numerical study of fracture initiation under different loads during hydraulic fracturing
The fracture initiation behavior for hydraulic fracturing treatments highlighted the necessity of proposing fracture criteria that precisely predict the fracture initiation type and location during the hydraul...
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Non-target Impact of Dinotefuran and Azoxystrobin on Soil Bacterial Community and Nitrification
Pesticides to protect crops from pests are subject to rigorous risk assessment before registration in Japan. However, further information needs to be collected regarding the assessment of impacts on the natura...
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Use of Synthetic Ecology Approach in Exploring Plant–Microbial Interactions Under Habitat-Imposed Stresses
Soil microbes have received an attention due to their possible roles in plant growth promotion, avoidance of biotic and abiotic stress, soil remediation, and reclamation. However, climate change may affect mic...
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Integrated OMIC Approaches for Bioenergy Crops
This book chapter discusses the application of integrated OMIC approaches for bioenergy crops. OMIC technologies such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics have been increasingly used to i...
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Role of Endophytes in the Regulation of Metabolome in Bioenergy Crops
Bioenergy crops are a promising renewable energy source that may be used to reduce dependency on fossil fuels and mitigate climate change, though the growth of bioenergy crops can negatively impact the environ...
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The Study of Human Action Recognition in Videos with Long Short-Term Memory Model
Human Action Recognition (HAR) requires tracking diverse fields of human activities in healthcare, education, entertainment, visual monitoring, video collection, and irregular behavior identification. Machine ...
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Range guidance for subsonic unpowered gliding vehicle using integral action-based sliding mode control
Range enhancement for a Subsonic Unpowered Gliding Vehicle (SUGV) is an interesting and challenging problem because it depends only on mechanically stored energy. In this study, the inverted Y-tail joint stand...
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Adaptive sliding mode-based full-state stabilization control of an underactuated hovercraft
Hovercraft is commonly used for military operations, transportation, and scientific research. Therefore, considering the use of hovercraft, it is very important to design a controller that ensures its stabiliz...
