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Erratum to: Control of surface wettability via strain engineering
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Open AccessAntimicrobial activity and safety evaluation of Enterococcus faecium KQ 2.6 isolated from peacock feces
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Effects of nitrogen content on growth and hydraulic characteristics of peach (Prunus persica L.) seedlings under different soil moisture conditions
A pot experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of nitrogen content [N1 (no fertilizer), N2 (0.15 g·kg−1), and N3 (0.3 g·kg−1)] on the growth and the hydraulic characteristics of peach seedlings under d...
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Control of surface wettability via strain engineering
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Introgression from soybean cultivars to its wild progenitor species is an interesting antidromic recombination in natural ecosystem with many consequences, including the alteration of genetic diversity, the or...
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Two sets of parameters known to affect the quality and thickness of the interfacial transition zone (ITZ), i.e. water/binder ratio and content of silica fume were varied in a series of mortars without and with...
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Investigation on Zener-Hollomon parameter in the warm-hot deformation behavior of 20CrMnTi
The warm-hot deformation behavior of 20CrMnTi steel was studied with hot compression tests at temperature range of 1123∼1273 K and strain rate of 0.1∼20 s−1. The activation energy for warm-hot deformation is 426....
