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Surface Evaluation of Aligners after Immersion in Coca-Cola and Orange Juice

open access: yesMaterials, 2022
Orthodontic removable appliances made of transparent thermoplastic materials—aligners—are becoming increasingly popular in contemporary orthodontic practice.
Maciej Warnecki   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Acceptability of reclaimed municipal wastewater in cities: evidence from India's National Capital Region

open access: yesWater Policy, 2022
Willingness to reuse reclaimed municipal wastewater was ascertained through a questionnaire completed by 424 respondents, opinions of 17 experts, and interviews with 15 farmers. Information was collected to assess their knowledge of water scarcity and to
Neha, Arun Kansal
doaj   +1 more source

Influence of Litter Size at Birth on Productive Parameters in Guinea Pigs (Cavia porcellus)

open access: yesAnimals, 2020
A study was conducted at the Escuela Superior Politècnica de Chimborazo, Ecuador, to evaluate the influence of litter size of guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) on their development and to establish the economic profitability of the production system.
Angela Edith Guerrero Pincay   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diffusion of crime control benefits: forced eradication and coca crops in Colombia

open access: yesSpatial Economic Analysis, 2022
One explanation for the increasing number of hectares of coca is that eradication strategies displace coca crops but fail to completely clear affected areas.
L. Morales, Eleonora Dávalos
semanticscholar   +1 more source

‘Everything peasants do is illegal’: Colombian coca growers’ everyday experiences of law enforcement and its impacts on state legitimacy

open access: yesThird World Quarterly, 2021
For decades, Colombian governments have imposed a narrative linking illegal crops with statelessness and presenting ‘more state’ and specifically ‘more law enforcement’ as the solution to a swathe of problems in drug-producing regions.
Camilo Acero, Frances Thomson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Has the Turning Point Been Missed? Exclusivity Payments Granted by Dominant Undertakings in the Light of the Enforcement Priorities Guidance [PDF]

open access: yesYearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, 2021
For many years, exclusivity payments and its specific type – loyalty rebates – were treated by the European Commission (Commission) as restrictions by object. This approach has been gradually revised towards a more effect-based reasoning. In the Guidance
Tomasz Krzyżewski
doaj   +1 more source

Structures of Some Novel α-Glucosyl Diterpene Glycosides from the Glycosylation of Steviol Glycosides

open access: yesMolecules, 2014
Four new minor diterpene glycosides with a rare α-glucosyl linkage were isolated from a cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase glucosylated stevia extract containing more than 98% steviol glycosides.
Indra Prakash   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Novel Diterpene Glycoside with Nine Glucose Units from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni

open access: yesBiomolecules, 2017
Following our interest in new diterpene glycosides with better taste profiles than that of Rebaudioside M, we have recently isolated and characterized Rebaudioside IX—a novel steviol glycoside—from a commercially‐supplied extract of Stevia rebaudiana ...
Indra Prakash   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Coca: Improving and Explaining Graph Neural Network-Based Vulnerability Detection Systems [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Conference on Software Engineering
Recently, Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based vulnerability detection systems have achieved remarkable success. However, the lack of explainability poses a critical challenge to deploy black-box models in security-related domains.
Sicong Cao   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

La dinámica espacial de la coca en Colombia durante 2012-2016: ¿Cómo una hidra?

open access: yesEstudios Geográficos, 2022
Una aproximación empírica a la eficacia y eficiencia de las políticas de control de los cultivos de coca: aspersión área, erradicación manual, desarrollo alternativo y la interdicción.
Ricardo Rocha García
doaj   +1 more source

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