Preparation and physicochemical/antimicrobial characteristics of asparagus cellulose films containing quercetin by Tao Jin, Ling Yan, Wei Liu, Shuai Liu, Changhong Liu, Lei Zheng

“…Films were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The film produced by 0.01 g/mL asparagus cellulose solution exhibited a swelling ratio of 125.4% and excellent antimicrobial activity against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus using the disk agar diffusion method. …”
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Pneumatic gripping system based on airflow proximity sensing and a self-feedback principle by Y. Ni, J. Yang, Q. Ouyang, J. Peng

“…In response to relying on electronic sensors and controllers to achieve closed-loop control in pneumatic systems, a theory of airflow proximity sensing and self-feedback drive was proposed to achieve closed-loop control. …”
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Reversible Deposition and Dissolution of Magnesium from Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids by QingSong Zhao, Yanna NuLi, Tuerxun Nasiman, Jun Yang, JiuLin Wang

“…The electrochemical performance of six imidazolium cation-based ionic liquids (ILs) containing 0.3 mol L-1 Mg(CF3SO3)2 as the electrolytes for magnesium deposition-dissolution was examined by cyclic voltammogramms and constant current discharge-charge techniques. Scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy measurements were conducted to characterize the morphologies and components of the deposits. …”
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Microbial Fuel Cell: Recent Developments in Organic Substrate Use and Bacterial Electrode Interaction by Fatin Syahirah Fadzli, Showkat Ahmad Bhawani, Rania Edrees Adam Mohammad

“…A durable organic substrate with an efficient electron transfer medium (anode electrode) is the modern necessity for this approach.…”
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Efficacy of Nonthermal Atmospheric Pressure Plasma for Tooth Bleaching by Seoul Hee Nam, Hae June Lee, Jin Woo Hong, Gyoo Cheon Kim

“…The morphological results of tooth bleaching with plasma did not affect mineral composition under scanning electron microscopy (SEM) observations. On the basis of these results, the application of plasma and low concentration of 15% carbamide peroxide (CP) has a high capability for effective tooth bleaching. …”
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The Influence of the Ammonolysis Temperature on the Photocatalytic Activity of β-TaON by Songhak Yoon, Alexandra E. Maegli, Santhosh Kumar Matam, Matthias Trottmann, Takashi Hisatomi, Céline Marie Leroy, Michael Grätzel, Simone Pokrant, Anke Weidenkaff

“…X-ray diffraction revealed an enlargement of the unit cell and an increase of the crystallite size with increasing ammonolysis temperature. Scanning electron microscopy showed reduced particle sizes for β-TaON synthesized at 800 and compared to the precursor oxide. …”
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EDUCATIONAL ROADMAPS AS A MEANS OF STUDENT-CENTERED EDUCATION by Nikolay I. Pak, Yelena G. Doroshenko, Ludmila B. Khegai

“…It can be used effectively in the presence of the variety of electronic resources and e-learning tools. The effectiveness of student-centered education is provided by the possibility of constructing different options of educational roadmaps, its control and management.It is shown that the use of educational roadmaps in a specially created information educational environment provides an implementation of the principles of student-centered education.…”
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Schemes of eStories for Children with Social Communication Difficulties by Noura Al Ghurair, Ghada Alnaqi

“…The current paper presents the development and the evaluation of an Arabic application (app) for electronic stories (eStories) that can be used as an assistive tool in the rehabilitation of children with social communication difficulties. …”
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Modification of corncob-derived cellulose using Hexadecyltrimethylammonium Bromide and Propylene Carbonate by Ng Yee Shui, Ooi Zhong Xian, Teoh Yi Peng, Ooi Mei Lee

“…The modified corncob cellulose was characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and zeta potential. …”
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Absence of the Rashba Splitting of Au(111) Surface Bands by I. N. Yakovkin

“…The electronic structure of Au(111) films is studied by means of relativistic DFT calculations. …”
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Experimental Investigation on Material Transfer Mechanism in WEDM of Pure Titanium (Grade-2) by Anish Kumar, Vinod Kumar, Jatinder Kumar

“…The selected machined samples were analyzed using energy dispersive X-ray analysis, scanning electron microscope, and X-ray diffraction techniques. …”
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Task-Level Data Model for Hardware Synthesis Based on Concurrent Collections by Jason Cong, Karthik Gururaj, Peng Zhang, Yi Zou

“…The ever-increasing design complexity of modern digital systems makes it necessary to develop electronic system-level (ESL) methodologies with automation and optimization in the higher abstraction level. …”
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التصنیف العنکبوتى للأرشیفات : دراسة تقییمیة للأرشیفات الوطنیة العربیة على الانترنت فى ضوء اسلوب القیاسات العنکبوتیة... by د. عبد الرحمن فراج

“…It mirrors the Arab archivessignificance on the electronic environment. The study concludes somerecommendations targeting sending the Arab national archives ranks higher andsupporting their functions and services on the Internet.…”
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Effect of Catalytic Gasification of Active Carbon from Plum Stones on its Mesoporous Structure by R. Leboda, W. Grzegorczyk, A. Lodyga, A. Dabrowski

“…The texture of the adsorbent particles has been studied by means of scanning electron microscopy. The kinetics of gasification of the carbon adsorbent in the presence and absence of catalyst has also been studied. …”
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Multicomponent Nanocomposites for Complex Anticancer Therapy: Effect of Aggregation Processes on Their Efficacy by Nataliya Kutsevol, Yuliia Kuziv, Tetiana Bezugla, Vasyl Chumachenko, Vasyl Chekhun

“…The three-component nanocomposites with incorporated gold nanoparticles and photosensitizer and the four-component ones additionally loaded by Doxorubicin into polymer nanoplatform were studied at 25 and 37°C by transmission electron microscopy and dynamic light scattering. Nanocomposites were tested for their photodynamic cytotoxicity for the cell line of breast cancer MCF-7/S. …”
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Single and Binary Adsorption Systems of Rhodamine B and Methylene Blue onto Alkali-Activated Vietnamese Diatomite by Pham Dinh Du, Huynh Thanh Danh

“…The resulting material was characterized by using energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and nitrogen adsorption-desorption isotherms. …”
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Physical Properties of Macroporous Tungsten Oxide Thin Films and Their Impact on the Photocurrent Density by I. Riech, M. Acosta, M. A. Zambrano-Arjona, F. Peñuñuri, M. Rosado-Mendoza, E. Marín, P. Rodríguez-Fragoso, J. G. Mendoza-Álvarez

“…X-ray diffraction data and electron microscopy images show that annealed films exhibit polycrystalline structure with monoclinic phase and pore size of approximately hundred nanometers. …”
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2-Cys Peroxiredoxins: Emerging Hubs Determining Redox Dependency of Mammalian Signaling Networks by Jinah Park, Sunmi Lee, Sanghyuk Lee, Sang Won Kang

“…In particular, typical 2-Cys peroxiredoxins are the featured peroxidase enzymes that receive the electrons from NADPH by coupling with thioredoxin and thioredoxin reductase. …”
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Angiotensin-I-Converting Enzyme Inhibitory and Antioxidant Activities of Protein Hydrolysate from Muscle of Barbel (Barbus callensis) by Assaad Sila, Anissa Haddar, Oscar Martinez-Alvarez, Ali Bougatef

“…These results obtained by in vitro systems obviously established the antioxidant potency of barbel hydrolysate to donate electron or hydrogen atom to reduce the free radical. …”
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Chitosan Hydrogels for Chondroitin Sulphate Controlled Release: An Analytical Characterization by Annalisa Bianchera, Enrico Salomi, Matteo Pezzanera, Elisabeth Ruwet, Ruggero Bettini, Lisa Elviri

“…This paper provides an analytical characterization of chitosan scaffolds obtained by freeze-gelation toward the uptake and the controlled release of chondroitin sulphate (CS), as cartilage repair agent, under different pH conditions. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), and liquid chromatography-UV spectrophotometry (LC-UV) techniques were exploited to obtain qualitative and quantitative descriptions of polymer and drug behaviour in the biomaterial. …”
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