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Comparative Upland Cotton Fiber Length Measurement and the Relation to Fiber Maturity

Textiles
Cotton fiber length and maturity, two critical fiber qualities, are commonly determined in the U.S. by Uster high volume instrument (HVI) and advanced fiber information system (AFIS).
Yongliang Liu, SeChin Chang, Doug J. Hinchliffe   +2 more
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Secondary metabolites from the sponges Aplysina fistularis and Dysidea sp. and the antituberculosis activity of 11-ketofistularin-3 [PDF]

, 2010
The present investigation reports the isolation of aeroplysinin-2, 2-(3,5-dibromo-4-methoxyphenyl)-N,N,N-trimethyletanamonium, 7,9-dibromo-10-hydroxy-8-methoxy-1-oxa-2-azaspiro[4.5]deca-2,6,8-trien-3-carboxylic acid and its methyl ester, 11 ...
BERLINCK, Roberto G. S., FERREIRA, Antonio G., GALETTI, Fabio Cícero de Sá, GANDOLFI, Renata C., HAJDU, Eduardo, LIRA, Simone P., MEDINA, Marina B., PEIXINHO, Solange, SILVA, Célio L., VELOSO, Katyuscya   +9 more
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Variability of Fiber AFIS Length and Maturity within and Among Upland Cotton Cultivars

Journal of Natural Fibers
One of the current commercially available and accepted instruments for simultaneous cotton fiber length and maturity measurement is the advanced fiber information system (AFIS), which tests an individualized (single) fiber in lint samples.
Yongliang Liu
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Novel MYL1 Intron Variant With Expanded Phenotype

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Congenital myopathy‐14 (CMYO14) is an ultrarare autosomal recessive disorder caused by biallelic variants in MYL1, with only four patients reported to date. We describe what is likely the fifth reported patient, a neonate with severe hypotonia, respiratory insufficiency, and skeletal anomalies showing distinct histological changes of skeletal ...
Maria Barington, Marie Balslev‐Harder, Thomas Krag, Thomas van Overeem Hansen, Camilla Bernt Wulff, Ulrik Lausten‐Thomsen, Tina Duelund Hjortshøj, Elsebet Østergaard   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

First Peoples Economic Growth Fund: A Case Study of a Successful Aboriginal Financial Institution

Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, 2022
Start-Up Challenges Having identified lack of access to capital as a primary challenge, the AMC and the Province formed a group "to work on development of some sort of organization that would address that need" (Cramer, personal communication, November ...
Van Penner
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Exploring the Spillover Effect of Supply Chain Digitalisation on Pollution Emissions Through Social Network Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The supply chain consists of interconnected businesses and organisations responsible for the flow of goods and services. As firms increasingly adopt digital technologies, the spillover effects of supply chain digitalisation (SCD) on environmental performance remain underexplored.
Zengdong Cao, Nichola Latoya Williams, Ibrahim Labaran Ali, Ololade Periola, Yasanur Kayikci   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of TiC and Cr3C2 additions on the mechanical properties of a (W-Ti-Cr)C-Co sintered hardmetal

Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 2019
TiWCrC-Co alloys were manufactured by conventional powder metallurgy processes in a vacuum alumina furnace. The alloys were sintered at 1550 °C, and the chemical composition was changed in order to evaluate its influence on the mechanical properties of ...
Julian David Rubiano Buitrago, Andres Fernando Gil Plazas, Liz Karen Herrera Quintero   +2 more
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Zero Deforestation Commitments and Industry 4.0 Enabling Technologies: An Analysis of Their Role in Mitigating Deforestation

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the role of corporate zero‐deforestation commitments (ZDCs) and Industry 4.0 (I4.0) enabling technologies in mitigating deforestation. Drawing on data from 110 companies included in the Forest 500 dataset, the research explores whether sustainability commitments and digital innovation influence firms' deforestation ...
Valentina Beretta, Eugenia Parodi, Celine Buschmann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Novel Alignment Method for SINS with Large Misalignment Angles Based on EKF2 and AFIS

Sensors, 2020
In order to achieve the fine alignment of strapdown inertial navigation (SINS) under large misalignment angles, a novel filtering alignment method is proposed based on the second-order extended Kalman filter (EKF2) and adaptive fuzzy inference system ...
Yanming Zhao, Gongmin Yan, Yongyuan Qin, Qiangwen Fu   +3 more
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Generative Convolutional Networks for Latent Fingerprint Reconstruction

, 2017
Performance of fingerprint recognition depends heavily on the extraction of minutiae points. Enhancement of the fingerprint ridge pattern is thus an essential pre-processing step that noticeably reduces false positive and negative detection rates.
Bronstein, Michael M., Monti, Federico, Svoboda, Jan   +2 more
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