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Isolation, identification, and tolerance analysis of yeast during the natural fermentation process of Sidamo coffee beans
Yeast, which plays a pivotal role in the brewing, food, and medical industries, exhibits a close relationship with human beings. In this study, we isolated and purified 60 yeast strains from the natural fermen...
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Work-function-induced interfacial electron redistribution of MoO2/WO2 heterostructures for high-efficiency electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction
The engineering of the electronic configurations of active sites, together with the production of more accessible active sites through heterostructure design, has been established as a forceful methodology for...
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Bimetallic active site nuclear-shell heterostructure enables efficient dual-functional electrocatalysis in alkaline media
Hydrogen, as a green and clean next-generation fuel, is a key to achieving the goal of carbon neutrality. Constructing an electrocatalyst with bifunctional hydrogen evolution and oxygen evolution activity in t...
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Research agendas and organizational commitment among academics in mainland China
This research pioneered the investigation of the statistically predictive power of academics’ research agendas for their organizational commitment—beyond age, gender, academic rank, and academic discipline. Th...
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Research agendas and job dissatisfaction among Hong Kong academics
This study’s principal objective was to explore the statistically predictive power of academics’ research agendas for their job dissatisfaction beyond demographics. Five hundred and forty-seven academics from ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Industrial Control System Attack Detection Model Based on Bayesian Network and Timed Automata
The current industrial control system attack detection methods are single, the detection results are fuzzy and cannot be applied to the domestic industrial environment. In response to the above problems, an in...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Industrial Control Honeypot Based on Power Plant Control System
Industrial honeypot is different from ordinary honeypot mainly because of the industrial control protocol used in the communication of industrial control equipment in the industrial control system. The trappin...
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Genome editing of Corynebacterium glutamicum mediated with Cpf1 plus Ku/LigD
Corynebacterium glutamicum (C. glutamicum) has been harnessed for multi-million-ton scale production of glutamate and lysine. To further increase its amino acid production for fermentation industry, there is an a...
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Experimental Study on Magnesium Sulfate Cement Concrete Splices of Widened Box Girder
The connecting part of bridge widening undertakes complicated forces and tends to crack. Basic magnesium sulfate cement concrete has excellent properties such as ideal early strength and tensile strength, meet...
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Factors fostering and hindering research collaboration with doctoral students among academics in Hong Kong
This study explored factors that influence academics to collaborate in research with their doctoral students. It focused on Hong Kong academics, using data from the Academic Profession in Knowledge Society sur...
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Open AccessCareer choice and influential factors among medical students majoring in psychiatry in China
The undergraduate program of psychiatry has been widely established in recent years to improve the education and recruitment of psychiatrists in China. We aim to investigate the career choice of medical studen...
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Giftedness as a Propensity to Use Creativity-Generating Intellectual Styles
Giftedness is a multifaceted construct and, as such, can be conceptualized in numerous ways. In this chapter, it is argued that giftedness can be conceptualized as a propensity to use creativity-generating int...
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Open AccessIdentification and genetic analysis of qCL1.2, a novel allele of the “green revolution” gene SD1 from wild rice (Oryza rufipogon) that enhances plant height
The exploitation of novel alleles from wild rice that were lost during rice cultivation could be very important for rice breeding and evolutionary studies. Plant height (PH) was a target of artificial selectio...
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Open AccessChemical composition, antibacterial activity and action mechanism of different extracts from hawthorn (Crataegus pinnatifida Bge.)
Present study was designed to compared the total flavonoids and polyphenols contents and antibacterial activity of hawthorn extracts with different polarities as well as the underlying antibacterial mechanisms...
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Open AccessProteomic analysis of the second-generation merozoites of Eimeria tenella under nitromezuril and ethanamizuril stress
Eimeria tenella is a highly pathogenic coccidian that causes avian coccidiosis. Both nitromezuril (NZL) and ethanamizuril (EZL) are novel triazine compounds with high anticoccidial activity, but the mechanisms of...
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Academics’ job-related stress and institutional commitment in Hong Kong universities
Recent developments in higher education have placed greater emphasis on performance and accountability and raised concerns about increasing levels of stress among academics. Stress not only influences academic...
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Comparison of the INTERGROWTH-21st standard and a new reference for head circumference at birth among newborns in Southern China
Previous studies proposed that there were racial or ethnic disparities in fetal growth, challenging the use of international standards in specific populations. This study was to evaluate the validity of applyi...
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Value of pre-operative CTX serum levels in the prediction of medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (MRONJ): a retrospective clinical study
The low incidence yet severe presentation of medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (MRONJ) makes it necessary to develop reliable predictive and preventive strategies. This study explored the value of pr...
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Open AccessBirth weight changes in a major city under rapid socioeconomic transition in China
Estimates of trends in birth weight may be useful in evaluating population health. We aimed to determine whether temporal changes in birth weight have occurred amongst 2.3 million neonates born in Guangzhou, C...
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Demographic Factors, Personality, and Ability as Predictors of Learning Approaches
This study investigated the extent to which learning approaches can be accounted for by personal factors (i.e., demographics, ability, and personality). The participants were 443 students in a university in ma...
