Determination of Flavonoids, Phenolic Acids, and Xanthines in Mate Tea (Ilex paraguariensis St.-Hil.) by Mirza Bojić, Vicente Simon Haas, Darija Šarić, Željan Maleš

“…Raw material, different formulations of foods, and dietary supplements of mate demands control of the content of bioactive substances for which high performance thin layer chromatography (TLC), described here, presents simple and rapid approach for detections as well as quantification. …”
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Band Structure Analysis of La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 Perovskite Manganite Using a Synchrotron by Hong-Sub Lee, Hyung-Ho Park

“…A detailed analysis of the band structure of the LSMO perovskite manganite oxide semiconductor thin film was established using these techniques.…”
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A Novel Method for Preparation of Zn-Doped CuInS2 Solar Cells and Their Photovoltaic Performance by Cheng-Hsiung Peng, Chyi-Ching Hwang

“…These colloidal solvents with different shaped nanocrystals were further used as “nanoink” to fabricate a simple thin film solar device; the best efficiency we obtained of these crystals was 1.01% with a 1.012 μm thickness absorber layer (bar geometry). …”
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Organic Amendments and Earthworm Addition Improve Properties of Nonacidic Mine Tailings by P. M. Rutherford, J. M. Arocena

“…In general, Bray P concentrations were greater in the presence of earthworms. Soil thin sections showed that earthworms mixed organic residues into elongated spherical units within mine tailings. …”
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Boiling Heat Transfer and Critical Heat Flux Enhancement Using Electrophoretic Deposition of SiO2 Nanofluid by Aref Rahimian, Hosein Kazeminejad, Hosein Khalafi, Azam Akhavan, Seyed Mohammad Mirvakili

“…The electrophoretic deposition (EPD) technique was used to create a uniform SiO2 thin film coating on boiling plates, 4 mm in width and 9 mm in length. …”
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Differential Diagnosis of Amniotic Band and Intrauterine Synechiae in Second Trimester Pregnancy: Case Report by Bekir Kahveci, Yasemin Dogan, Gaye Kahveci, Muhammet Hanifi Bademkiran

“…The floor of the intrauterine adhesions is widely and lateral of the uterine cavity and occurs from four layers while the amniotic band is a thin layer and forms fluctuations in the amniotic fluid. …”
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Analysis of Titania Nanosheet Adsorption Behavior Using a Quartz Crystal Microbalance Sensor by Yuichiro Tashiro, Satoshi Komasa, Akiko Miyake, Hiroshi Nishizaki, Joji Okazaki

“…A Ti QCM sensor was fabricated by reactive magnetron sputtering. A thin layer of Ti was deposited on the QCM sensor. …”
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The influence of Si and V on the kinetics of phase transformation and microstructure of rapidly solidified Al-Fe-Zr alloys by Karpe B., Kosec B., Nagode A., Bizjak M.

“…Rapidly solidified samples, in the form of thin ribbons, were prepared with the single roll melt spun technique. …”
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Flexible micromachined ultrasound transducers (MUTs) for biomedical applications by Sanjog Vilas Joshi, Sina Sadeghpour, Nadezda Kuznetsova, Chen Wang, Michael Kraft

“…These devices operate in flexural mode using piezoelectric thin films and electrostatic forces, respectively. …”
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Optimizing Cutting Conditions and Prediction of Surface Roughness in Face Milling of AZ61 Using Regression Analysis and Artificial Neural Network by Nabeel H. Alharthi, Sedat Bingol, Adel T. Abbas, Adham E. Ragab, Ehab A. El-Danaf, Hamad F. Alharbi

“…Examining the surface topology and surface roughness profile for the two surfaces revealed that higher feed rate results in relatively thick roughness markings that are distantly spaced, whereas low values of feed rate result in thin surface roughness markings that are closely spaced giving better surface finish.…”
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Resonant Damping and Instability of Propagating Magnetohydrodynamic Body Modes in a Flux Tube with Shear Flow under Photospheric Conditions by D. J. Yu

“…An analytical dispersion relation for resonant absorption in the presence of flow shear is developed by assuming a thin boundary layer. The numerical solutions reveal that the presence of flow shear has a rather negative impact on the resonant absorption of the body mode compared to the surface modes. …”
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Modelling of Oblique Wire Cutting and Experimental Application on Soft Solid Foods for the Investigation of Friction Behaviour by Tilman Witt, Yannic Holländer, Sven Tietze, Jens-Peter Majschak

“…To test the theoretical approach, cutting experiments with thin wires are carried out on various foodstuffs. …”
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Analysis of Electrically Shorted and Open Cases on Love Waves Propagating in Piezoelectric Layer Embedded over a Fiber-Reinforced Substrate by Suparna Roychowdhury, Abhijit Pramanik, Mostaid Ahmed

“…The article incisively analyzes the impact of piezoelectricity on Love wave transmission in an inhomogeneous bi-layered structure consisting of smoothly embedded thin piezoelectric material bonded to a semi-infinite fiber-reinforced medium. …”
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Polypyrrole-Chitosan-CaFe2O4 Layer Sensor for Detection of Anionic and Cationic Dye Using Surface Plasmon Resonance by Amir Reza Sadrolhosseini, Pooria Moozarm Nia, Suhaidi Shafie, Kamyar Shameli, Mohd Adzir Mahdi

“…The prepared layer was characterized by using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, the X-ray diffraction technique, and field emission electron microscopy. The thickness of the thin layers was in the range of 2.8 nm to 59.5 nm, and the refractive index of the composite layer was in the range of 1.66131+0.156i to 1.62734+0.167i. …”
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Study of the Antioxidant Property Variation of Cornelian Cherry Fruits during Storage Using HPTLC and Spectrophotometric Assays by Anamaria Hosu, Claudia Cimpoiu, Luminita David, Bianca Moldovan

“…The present study aims to investigate the variation of the total antioxidant capacity of Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas L.) fruits during storage, using high-performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC) and two spectrophotometric assays based on different mechanisms: the 2,2-azinobis(3-ethylbenzothiazolyne-6-sulphonic acid) radical cation (ABTS+∙) assay and the ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) assay. …”
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Research of the influence of highcarbon steel wire drawing speed on stresses and deformations on wire cross section by Yu. L. Bobarikin, Yu. V. Martyanov

“…It is determined that the modes of coarse drawing can affect the complex of mechanical properties of thin wire due to the uneven distribution of equivalent stresses and strains. …”
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Global Shutter and Charge Binning With Quantum Dots Photodiode Arrays for NIR Imaging by Loic Baudoin, Arthur Arnaud, Sebastien Massenot, Pierre Magnan

“…This architecture allows to control the charge collection inside the CQD thin film through the electric field. This property enables to implement global shutter functionality, to bin charges from several photodiodes, or to operate two physically interleaved photodiodes arrays alternatively with different types of pixel circuitries. …”
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Flexural Behaviour of Chicken Mesh Ferrocement Laminates with Partial Replacement of Fine Aggregate by Steel Slag by Sridhar Jayaprakash, Jegatheeswaran Dhanapal, Vivek Deivasigamani, Elias G

“…The fundamental goal of the examination was to investigate the effects of partial substitution of fine aggregate by steel slag in cement mortar combining chicken mesh of different volume fractions as reinforcement in thin ferrocement laminates. The following variables were investigated: (a) volume fraction of chicken mesh as 0.94%, 1.88%, 2.82%, and 3.77% and (b) level of steel slag substitution from 0% to 50% by weight fine aggregate. …”
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Cyclodehydrogenation of molecular nanographene precursors catalyzed by atomic hydrogen by Rafal Zuzak, Pawel Dabczynski, Jesús Castro-Esteban, José Ignacio Martínez, Mads Engelund, Dolores Pérez, Diego Peña, Szymon Godlewski

“…The high efficiency of the method is demonstrated by the nanographene synthesis on metallic Au, semiconducting TiO2, Ge:H, as well as on inert and insulating Si/SiO2 and thin NaCl layers. The hydrogen-catalyzed cyclodehydrogenation reaction reported here leads towards the integration of graphene derivatives in optoelectronic devices as well as developing the field of on-surface synthesis by means of catalytic transformations. …”
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Model Calculation of Enhanced Light Absorption Efficiency in Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Phosphor Films by Taehun Kim, Sanghoon Lee, Kyungtaek Min

“…In this study, we modeled a two-dimensional (2D) PhC quantum dot (QD) film with a square-lattice structure using the finite-difference time-domain method to theoretically investigate its optical properties. The embedment of a thin-film layer with a high refractive index on the surface of the QD film enables an effective localization of excitation light within the phosphor. …”
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