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An improvement on Weil bounds for character sums of polynomials over finite fields
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Biosynthesis of Feruloyl Glycerol from Ferulic Acid and Glycerol Through a Two-Enzyme Cascade Reaction
Feruloyl glycerol (FG) has a variety of biological activities, but the green synthesis methods of FG remain rare. In this study, FG was prepared by a cascade reaction catalyzed by 4-coumarate coenzyme A ligase...
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LCD codes and almost optimally extendable codes from self-orthogonal codes
LCD codes and (almost) optimally extendable codes can be used to safeguard against fault injection attacks (FIA) and side-channel attacks (SCA) in the implementations of block ciphers. The first objective of t...
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Two-valued cross correlation distributions between binary m sequences and their decimation sequences
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Unraveling the functional characterization of a jasmonate-induced flavonoid biosynthetic CYP45082G24 gene in Carthamus tinctorius
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Two classes of quasi-cyclic codes via irreducible polynomials
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Cyclic codes of length 5p with MDS symbol-pair
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Open AccessBiosynthesized silver nanoparticles inhibit Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci by directly destroying bacteria and inducing plant resistance in Nicotiana benthamiana
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Glucoside natural products have been showing great medicinal values and potentials. However, the production of glucosides by plant extraction, chemical synthesis, and traditional biotransformation is insuffici...
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Open AccessIdentification of oleoylethanolamide as an endogenous ligand for HIF-3α
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The Hermitian dual-containing LCD BCH codes and related quantum codes
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Development of MEMS directed evolution strategy for multiplied throughput and convergent evolution of cytochrome P450 enzymes
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Open AccessThe hepatic senescence-associated secretory phenotype promotes hepatocarcinogenesis through Bcl3-dependent activation of macrophages
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Open AccessESR1 as a recurrence-related gene in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: a weighted gene coexpression network analysis
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The minimum Hamming distances of repeated-root cyclic codes of length \(6p^s\) and their MDS codes
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Open AccessEngineering and elucidation of the lipoinitiation process in nonribosomal peptide biosynthesis
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Optimal Algorithm of Isolated Toughness for Interval Graphs
Factor and fractional factor are widely used in many fields related to computer science. The isolated toughness of an incomplete graph G is defined as ...
