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Moringa and Graphite as Additives to Conventional Petroleum-Based Lubricants
Lubricants, 2021 Many researches are focused on the tribological performances of pure vegetable oil in order to replace the conventional mineral engine oils. This work investigates the influence of local moringa oil (noted VO) on the performances of lubricants formed ...
Nadiège Nomède-Martyr +3 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Numerous recent studies have shown that in the continuum of cardiovascular diseases, the measurement of arterial stiffness has powerful predictive value in cardiovascular risk and mortality and that this value is independent of other conventional risk ...
Beatrice Romier +16 more
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Socialization, Autonomy, and Cooperation: Insights from Task Assignment Among the Egalitarian BaYaka
Ethos, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 400-418, September 2020., 2020 Abstract Across diverse societies, task assignment is a socialization practice that gradually builds children's instrumental skills and integrates them into the flow of daily activities in their community. However, psychosocial tensions can arise when cooperation is demanded from children.
Adam H. Boyette, Sheina Lew‐Levy
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American Journal of Human Biology, Volume 32, Issue 4, July/August 2020., 2020 Abstract Objectives The study goals were to (a) characterize the cultural model of fatherhood among the BaYaka, a community of egalitarian foragers in the Republic of the Congo; (b) test if BaYaka fathers' quality in relation to the cultural model predicts their children's energetic status; and (c) compare the variance in BaYaka children's energetic ...
Adam H. Boyette +4 more
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Agricultural innovation and environmental change on the floodplains of the Congo River
The Geographical Journal, Volume 186, Issue 1, Page 16-30, March 2020., 2020 This paper explores how people living in the Congo basin adopted flood‐recession agriculture on islands in the Congo River since the 1980s. This agricultural innovation was made possible by a shift in the hydrological regime of the Congo river and rose as a result of broader socio‐economic forces, among them demographic growth, economic crisis, and ...
Marion Comptour +7 more
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Scientific Reports, 2017 The tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-1 (TIMP-1) exerts inhibitory activity against matrix metalloproteinases and cytokine-like effects. We previously showed that TIMP-1 reduces neurite outgrowth in mouse cortical neurons and that this cytokine-like
Laurie Verzeaux +10 more
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Effect of ethofumesate herbicide on energy metabolism in roach (Rutilus rutilus)
Journal of Xenobiotics, 2014 Not ...
V. Maes +6 more
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Linking Data According to Their Degree of Representativeness (DoR) [PDF]
EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems, 2015 This contribution addresses the problem of extracting some representative data from complex datasets andconnecting them in a directed graph. First we define a degree of representativeness (DoR) inspired of theBorda voting procedure. Secondly we present a
Frédéric Blanchard +2 more
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Journal of Nucleic Acids, 2019 Fibrinolytic enzyme gene (fibE) is widely conserved among Bacillus spp. belonging to group I species. This is encoding a serine-like enzyme (FibE) secreted in extracellular medium.
Moïse Doria Kaya-Ongoto +6 more
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Temperature optimization of an electric heater by emissivity variation of heating elements
Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2014 This note addresses an industrial application concerning the way to optimize the surface temperature of commercial electrical heater. The aim of this paper is to reduce the temperature on accessible surfaces and electrical heater in order to respect the ...
Cédric Hemmer +2 more
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