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The demand for high-quality nickel-titanium (NiTi) shape memory alloy (SMA) and stainless steel (SS) welded structures has led to significant challenges in fusion welding technology, which is largely influence...
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Open AccessAdjuvant screening of the Senecavirus A inactivated vaccine in mice and evaluation of its immunogenicity in pigs
Senecavirus A (SVA) causes an emerging vesicular disease (VD) with clinical symptoms indistinguishable from other vesicular diseases, including vesicular stomatitis (VS), foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), and swin...
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Open AccessPathogenicity of Seneca Valley virus in pigs and detection in Culicoides from an infected pig farm
Porcine vesicular disease is caused by the Seneca Valley virus (SVV), it is a novel Picornaviridae, which is prevalent in several countries. However, the pathogenicity of SVV on 5–6 week old pigs and the transmis...
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Retrospective surveillance of porcine circovirus 4 in pigs in Inner Mongolia, China, from 2016 to 2018
A novel circovirus designated "porcine circovirus type 4" (PCV4) was recently reported in pigs with severe clinical disease in Hunan Province, China. Relatively little is known about the molecular epidemiology...
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Effects of Temperature and Heat Input on the Wear Mechanisms of Contact Tube for Non-copper-Coated Solid Wires
Contact tube wear is the bottleneck of industrial application for non-copper-coated solid wire. It is crucial that we understand the wear mechanism of contact tube so that we can decrease contact tube wear. Th...
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Cinetics: fueling entrepreneurial innovations through crowdfunding
The case examines how the founder of a startup company came up with the entrepreneurial idea and used Kickstarter as a platform to establish and grow his company. The case describes in detail the history of th...
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Given the same alloy composition in Cr5 deposited surfacing metal, the influence of two different methods of adding Cr and C in the flux-cored welding wire (1#-chromium carbide powder; 2#-graphite and chromium...
