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Comparative efficacies of two fungal insecticides in field control of cereal aphids heavily infesting winter wheat
Sustainable control of cereal aphids during late spring and early summer requires alternatives to mitigate increasing resistance to chemical insecticides. Emulsifiable oil-formulated Beauveria bassiana ZJU435 (Bb...
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Two-Step Isothermal Bainitic Transformation in Medium-Carbon Low-Si Steels with Exceptional Mechanical Properties and Wear Resistance
The effects of the conventional isothermal bainitic transformation (CIT), two-step isothermal bainitic transformation (TIT) on the microstructure, mechanical behavior, and wear resistance of a medium-carbon lo...
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Random Foam Meso-Model and Mechanical Properties of Foam Concrete
With the development of various multi-composite materials, there are several methods to study the mechanical properties of materials with complex microstructures. As a typical multi-composite material, foam co...
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Influence of Globularization Process on Local Texture Evolution of a Near-α Titanium Alloy with a Transformed Microstructure
The microstructure and texture evolution of Ti60 (Ti–5.6Al–3.7Sn–3.2Zr–0.5Mo–0.4Nb–1.0Ta–0.37Si–0.05C) titanium alloy at two deformation temperatures in the α + β two-phase field, 900 °C and 980 °C, have been inv...
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Microtexture Evolution of Titanium Alloy During Hot Deformation: For Better Understanding the Role of Primary α Grains
Regions with sharp local texture, called macrozones, are often found in titanium alloy forgings and can reduce fatigue performances. This study observed the evolution of macrozones during hot compression of th...
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Open AccessCharge dynamics of a noncentrosymmetric magnetic Weyl semimetal
The interplay of topology with magnetism in Weyl semimetals recently arose to a vanguard topic, because of novel physical scenarios with anomalous transport properties. Here, we address the charge dynamics of ...
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Open AccessDemonstration of long-range correlations via susceptibility measurements in a one-dimensional superconducting Josephson spin chain
Spin chains have long been considered an effective medium for long-range interactions, entanglement generation, and quantum state transfer. In this work, we explore the properties of a spin chain implemented w...
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Resveratrol as a modulatory of apoptosis and autophagy in cancer therapy
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death, with a heavy socio-economical burden for countries. Despite the great advances that have been made in the treatment of cancer, chemotherapy is still the most commo...
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The Association between Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Cognitive Function in Middle-Aged and Older People: A Meta-Analysis
To explore the association between the intake of sugar-sweetened beverages and cognitive dysfunction in middle-aged and older adults, so as to provide an evidence-based basis for the early prevention of cognit...
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Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB) Test and Different Modeling Methods of Aluminum Honeycomb Materials
This paper uses the Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB) test to analyze the aluminum honeycomb’s dynamic and failure behavior under different strain rates. At the same time, we propose a modeling method. The r...
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Photocurrent-driven transient symmetry breaking in the Weyl semimetal TaAs
Symmetry plays a central role in conventional and topological phases of matter, making the ability to optically drive symmetry changes a critical step in develo** future technologies that rely on such contro...
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SuperKEKB operation using crab waist collision scheme
SuperKEKB is an electron–positron asymmetric-energy double-ring collider, which was built in Japan. It has been operated to explore new phenomena in B-meson decays. Hence, extremely higher luminosity is requir...
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Flows visualization for a supersonic mixing layer behind the blunt trailing edge under non-isobaric initial conditions
Nano-tracer Planar Laser Scattering (NPLS) technique and pseudo-color processing technology are employed to investigate the flow field after a thickness plate of non-isobaric initial conditions. The results sh...
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Origin of the ω-Strengthening and Embrittlement in β-Titanium Alloys: Insight from First Principles
The ω-phase precipitates in β-Ti alloys increase the strength but significantly degrade the ductility of the alloys. In the present work, the mechanism of ω-strengthening and embrittlement is investi...
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Baseline brain function in the preadolescents of the ABCD Study
The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study® is a 10-year longitudinal study of children recruited at ages 9 and 10. A battery of neuroimaging tasks are administered biennially to track neurodevelopme...
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Numerical Simulation of Various Materials for the Impact Protection of a Reinforced Concrete Slab
Numerical simulation methods and several measures are proposed to protect the existing reinforced concrete slabs and effectively resist impact loads. In the finite element model (FEM), two kinds of concrete ma...
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Morphological and molecular characterization of Cystoisospora laidlawi oocysts (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) in farmed American mink (Neovison vison) in Denmark
From a longitudinal survey conducted on 30 Danish mink farms in 2016, 11.0% of faecal samples (456/4140) were positive for Cystoisospora laidlawi oocysts by microscopy, with 60% (189/315) of mink being positive a...
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Effect of the Aluminum Particle Size, Solid Content, and Aluminum/Oxygen Ratio on the Underwater Explosion Performance of Aluminum-Based Explosives
Several aluminum-based explosives are prepared and their underwater explosion performances, including the specific bubble energy and specific shock wave energy, are measured in underwater explosion experiments...
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The Predictive Value of Sarcopenia and its Individual Criteria for Cardiovascular and All-Cause Mortality in Suburb-Dwelling Older Chinese
The aim of the present study is to investigate the associations between the Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia (AWGS) sarcopenic definition, and its individual criteria, and risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD...
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CTXA hip: the effect of partial volume correction on volumetric bone mineral density data for cortical and trabecular bone
This study compares the results of computed tomography X-ray absorptiometry (CTXA) hip volumetric BMD (vBMD) analyses of cortical and trabecular bone with and without partial volume correction. For cortical bo...
