Simple Formation of Nanostructured Molybdenum Disulfide Thin Films by Electrodeposition by S. K. Ghosh, C. Srivastava, S. Nath, J. P. Celis

“…Surface morphology investigations revealed featureless structure in case of as-deposited surface; upon annealing it converts into a surface with protruding nanotubes, nanorods, or dumbbell shape nanofeatures. …”
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Designing Unimodular Waveform with Low Range Sidelobes and Stopband for Cognitive Radar via Relaxed Alternating Projection by Xiang Feng, Yang-chun Song, Zhi-quan Zhou, Yi-nan Zhao

“…This novel method, based on phase retrieval and relaxed alternating projection, could convert the correlation optimization into the spectrum approximation via the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). …”
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Fault Diagnosis of Small Sample Automobile Planetary Gearboxes Based on Continuous Wavelet Transform and Model Agnostic Meta Learning by Xinxin Lu, Jun Ma, Yingcong Zhang

“…First， the vibration signal of the planetary gearbox is converted into a time-frequency image through CWT， which effectively expresses the non-stationary characteristics of the planetary gearbox； then， the ability of “learning to learn” of MAML is used to train small samples of time-frequency images， and finally the “unseen” faults of planetary gearboxes are tested. …”
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Recent Advances in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells by Umer Mehmood, Saleem-ur Rahman, Khalil Harrabi, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, B. V. S. Reddy

“…Solar energy is an abundant and accessible source of renewable energy available on earth, and many types of photovoltaic (PV) devices like organic, inorganic, and hybrid cells have been developed to harness the energy. PV cells directly convert solar radiation into electricity without affecting the environment. …”
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Hybrid Natural and Forced Active Balancing Control of Battery Packs State of Charge Based on Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles by Yewen Wei, Shuailong Dai, Jiayu Wang, Zhifei Shan, Jie Min

“…To enhance the working performance of the lithium-based power battery pack, a hybrid natural and forced active balancing control (HNFABC) strategy is proposed and adopted to the balancing circuit that is proposed in this work. These converters, which are advantageous in natural balancing and forced equalization, accelerate the balance speed of natural equilibrium in the final stage and protect the battery from being repeatedly charged and discharged. …”
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Modelling and optimization of a machine production process: Buffer stock supply implementation and replenishment control by Elbaraka Saad, Mokhlis Salah-eddine, Barra Adil, Fouraiji Hicham

“…In the industry and logistic the production process is the sequence that aims to convert raw materials into finished or semi-finished products. …”
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Managing Air Traffic Flow With Link Flow Rate Control: A Pure Integer Programming Model With More Accurate Link Connection Modeling by Han Zhong, Lai Wei, Wei Guan, Wenyi Zhang

“…Besides a new chromosome coding rule for converting binary decision into time series vectors, the algorithm uses a taboo mutation operator and an adaptive mutation probability selection operator. …”
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Improving the Performance of Phase-Change Perfluorocarbon Droplets for Medical Ultrasonography: Current Progress, Challenges, and Prospects by Paul S. Sheeran, Paul A. Dayton

“…More recently, interest has increased in “phase-change” PFC droplets (or “phase-change” contrast agents), which can convert from liquid to gas with an external energy input. …”
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Green Synthesis and Characterization of Biosilica Produced from Sugarcane Waste Ash by Rodrigo Heleno Alves, Thais Vitória da Silva Reis, Suzimara Rovani, Denise Alves Fungaro

“…The experimental data suggest that the sugarcane waste ash could be converted into a value-added product, minimizing the environmental impact of disposal problems.…”
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A SA-Based Wireless Seismic Stress Monitoring System for Concrete Structures by S. Hou, Y. Yu, H. B. Zhang, X. Q. Mao, J. P. Ou

“…In this paper, the SA is integrated with the ZigBee wireless network which consists of a charge-to-voltage converter, a microprocessing unit, a wireless transmission unit, a base station, and a host computer. …”
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Imaging Tasks Scheduling for High-Altitude Airship in Emergency Condition Based on Energy-Aware Strategy by Li Zhimeng, He Chuan, Qiu Dishan, Liu Jin, Ma Manhao

“…Firstly, the hierarchy architecture is adopted to convert this scheduling problem into three subproblems, that is, the task ranking, value task detecting, and energy conservation optimization. …”
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A Rule Based Energy Management System of Experimental Battery/Supercapacitor Hybrid Energy Storage System for Electric Vehicles by Qiao Zhang, Weiwen Deng, Sumin Zhang, Jian Wu

“…The role of the energy management system is to yield battery reference current, which is subsequently used by the controller of the DC/DC converter. First, a current controller is designed to realize load current distribution between battery and supercapacitor. …”
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A Novel Hybrid T-Type Three-Level Inverter Based on SVPWM for PV Application by Ayiguzhali Tuluhong, Weiqing Wang, Yongdong Li, Lie Xu

“…This structure takes full advantage of the two components, to reduce the harmonic content and the power loss of the converter and improve the conversion efficiency of the system. …”
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Effects of Rolling Reduction and Strength of Composed Layers on Bond Strength of Pure Copper and Aluminium Alloy Clad Sheets Fabricated by Cold Roll Bonding by Yoji Miyajima, Kotaro Iguchi, Susumu Onaka, Masaharu Kato

“…The tensile shear strengths considering the area fraction of deposit of Al alloy on Cu side were compared with the shear stress converting from the ultimate tensile strengths. As a result, the tensile shear strength of the clad sheets is attributed to the shear strength of Al alloy layer close to the well bonded interface. …”
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Control of Energy Storage Systems for Aeronautic Applications by G. Canciello, A. Cavallo, B. Guida

“…A controller based on high-gain concepts is designed to drive a DC/DC converter connecting the supercapacitor to the main electric bus. …”
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Carbon nitride caught in the act of artificial photosynthesis by Daniel Cruz, Sonia Żółtowska, Oleksandr Savateev, Markus Antonietti, Paolo Giusto

“…Abstract Covalent semiconductors of the carbon nitride family are among the most promising systems to realize “artificial photosynthesis”, that is exploiting synthetic materials which use sunlight as an energy source to split water into its elements or converting CO2 into added value chemicals. However, the role of surface interactions and electronic properties on the reaction mechanism remain still elusive. …”
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Solar Charge Controller with Maximum Power Point Tracking for Low-Power Solar Applications by Tomy Abuzairi, Wing Wira Adimas Ramadhan, Kresna Devara

“…The SCC is designed based on the Arduino microcontroller, which has the role of controlling the circuit and producing PWM signals to regulate the DC-DC converter. Several tests were conducted to validate the efficiency of the MPPT algorithm. …”
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Leaching of hemimorphite in neutral solution at high temperature by Zhao D.-Q., Yang S.-H., Chen Y.-M., Tang C.-B, He J., Li H.

“…Under these optimized conditions, the average leaching yield of zinc was 97.82%. The silicon was converted to quartz and remained in the residue. This process can be used to dispose willemite and hemimorphite as it solves the problem of silica gel dehydration.…”
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Protocol for differentiating cardiomyocytes and generating engineered heart tissues from human feeder-free extended pluripotent stem cells by Zhongjun Wan, Shanshan Wen, Ran Zheng, Li Li, Wei Jiang, Donghui Zhang

“…We describe steps for converting human embryonic stem cells or induced pluripotent stem cells (ESCs/iPSCs) into ffEPSCs, followed by their long-term maintenance, cryopreservation, seed preservation, and differentiation into cardiomyocytes. …”
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Study on Galloping Oscillation of Iced Catenary System under Cross Winds by Guo Chen, Yiren Yang, Yang Yang, Peng Li

“…The partial differential vibration equation of the system is converted into the ordinary differential equation by the Galerkin method and then numerically solved. …”
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