Sterol Carrier Protein Inhibition-Based Control of Mosquito Vectors: Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives by Hirunika Perera, Tharaka Wijerathna

“…Phytochemicals such as alpha-mangostin can be considered as the most promising group of compounds when considering the minimum environmental impact and availability at a low cost. Once the few limitations such as very low persistence in the environment are addressed successfully, these chemicals may be used as an effective tool for controlling mosquitoes and other disease-transmitting vector populations.…”
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A Multichannel THz Detector Using Integrated Bow-Tie Antennas by Hairui Liu, Junsheng Yu, Peter Huggard, Byron Alderman

“…Besides that, the proposed antenna has advantages of simple structure, easy fabrication, and low cost.…”
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Synthesis and Characterization of Nickel-Alumina Composites from Recycled Nickel Powder by V. G. Karayannis, A. K. Moutsatsou

“…In the present paper, nickel powder was recycled from ferrous scrap, a low-cost and largely available material, by an effective hydrometallurgical recovery process. …”
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Landscapes without landscape architects. The ecological beauty of informal urban landscapes by Chiara Catalano, Thomas E. Hauck, Susann Ahn, Salvatore Pasta

“…By analysing the aesthetic value, the species composition, and the ecological meaning of the vegetation of some roadside habitats close to the city of Catania (Sicily), the Authors shed light on the possibility of enjoying low-cost, biodiverse and beautiful seasonally green areas.   …”
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On-Body Characterization of Planar Differential Antennas for Multiple, Wide, and Narrow Bands by Luigi Vallozzi, Domenico Pepe, Thijs Castel, Hendrik Rogier, Domenico Zito

“…All the antenna designs have been implemented on low-cost FR4 substrate and characterized experimentally through on-body measurements. …”
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Effect of Al~2~O~3~ Passivation on Structured Si/PEDOT:PSS Hybrid Solar Cell by Sameer Alghanmi, Khalid Alshammari

“…Recently, silicon/organic heterojunction solar cells (HSCs) attain great attention because of its attractive characteristics such as rationally high efficiency, low cost, and simple device fabrication technique. …”
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Fractography and Tensile Properties of AA6061 Aluminium Alloy/Rice Husk Ash Silicon Nanocomposite by N. E. Udoye, O. S. I. Fayomi, A. O. Inegbenebor

“…The unstoppable quest for low-cost reinforcing agent gingered the enthusiasm towards developing and utilising the agro-based waste product as reinforcement since they are promptly accessible, sustainable, and inexpensive to purchase. …”
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Bedside Ultrasound Measurement of Rectus Femoris: A Tutorial for the Nutrition Support Clinician by Carlos Alfredo Galindo Martín, Enrique Monares Zepeda, Octavio Augusto Lescas Méndez

“…Because of this, we present this tutorial for nutrition support clinicians, in order to understand and perform muscle measurements by this reliable, accessible, low-cost, and easy-to-use technique. Reviewing issues such as quadriceps muscle anatomy, correct technique (do’s and don’ts), identification of structures, and measurement of the rectus femoris and vastus intermedius muscles helps to acquire the basic concepts of this technique and encouraging more research in this field.…”
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Suboptimal Greedy Power Allocation Schemes for Discrete Bit Loading by Waleed Al-Hanafy, Stephan Weiss

“…We consider low cost discrete bit loading based on greedy power allocation (GPA) under the constraints of total transmit power budget, target BER, and maximum permissible QAM modulation order. …”
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SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT OF TERRITORIES: STATUS, TRENDS, INTEGRATED APPROACH TO ASSESSING THE DIFFERENTIATION OF REGIONS (TERRITORIES) by L. A. Tretyakova, A. S. Astakhin

“…At the same time integrated indicators meet the requirements: quantitative measurement; formation on the basis of priority basic indicators of regional development; accounting for the main components of development: institutional, environmental, economic and social.The proposed methodology is characterized by simplicity of calculation, low cost application, as well as the fact that the information base is made up of official data of state statistics bodies, which ensures their accessibility and comparability.…”
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DYNAMIC TENSILE TEST AND DATA VERIFICATION METHOD OF AUTOMOTIVE HIGH STRENGTH STEEL PLATE by PAN YuanAn, CAO GuangXiang, FENG YuTao, GAO WenQiang, LI Xin

“…And it assists to realize the low-cost measurement of dynamic tensile parameters of high strength steel plates. …”
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Frozen shoulder contracture syndrome: manipulation under anesthesia or physical therapy? by Christopher Felipe Cereceda Muriel, Denisse Elizabeth Concha Valdebenito, Dennis González Valencia

“…The modalities of physical therapy are an option of easy access, low cost and with varied options. Despite multiple alternatives being presented, there is no consensus on which is the best treatment option, and specifically it remains unclear whether manipulation under anesthesia is a better option than physiotherapy treatment.…”
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Ultrafast Airy Beam Generation with a Mode-Locked Fiber Laser by Silin Guo, Yajun Lou, Cai Yue, Xinhai Zhang, Fan Zhang

“…The pulsed Airy beam fiber laser we constructed has the advantages of compactness, easy integration, low cost, and high stability and robustness, which are of great significance for applications in industrial and other tough environments.…”
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Implementation of Special Function Unit for Vertex Shader Processor Using Hybrid Number System by Avni Agarwal, P. Harsha, Swati Vasishta, S. Sivanantham

“…This paper presents a low-cost, high-performance SFU architecture with improved speed and reduced area. …”
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Internet of Things Technology for an Autonomous Photovoltaic Solar Energy System Monitoring by Mimouni Abdelmalek, Chahet Youssef, El Amrani Aumeur, El Amraoui Mohamed, Bejjit Lahcen

“…Furthermore, it proposes a low-cost monitoring system designed to monitor a PV system consisting of a PV module, a DC-DC boost converter, and a load.…”
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Robot Control Using Alternative Trajectories Based on Inverse Errors in the Workspace by Quoc Khanh Duong, Thanh Trung Trang, Thanh Long Pham

“…The results show that the proposed method can significantly reduce errors; moreover, this is a low-cost solution and easy to apply in practice and calibration can be done cyclically. …”
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Enhancing Real-Time Embedded System Education With Self-Driving Car Models by Dheya Mustafa, Safaa Mahmoud Khabour, Intisar Ghazi Mustafeh

“…We have built two experimental low-cost self-driving robotic systems designed specifically for the classroom within an educational context. …”
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Design and Fabrication of W-Band Waveguide Slotted Array Antenna Based on Milling Process by Hongfu Meng, Yang Chen, Wenbin Dou

“…The proposed array antenna features a simple structure, low cost, and easy implementation for W-band applications.…”
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Weakly-coupled real-time SDM technology for short-reach optical transmission by Yuyang GAO, Juhao LI, Yongqi HE, Zhangyuan CHEN

“…The capacity upgrade of short-reach optical fiber transmission has received more and more attention.Spatial division multiplexing provides two new dimensions of fiber core and mode, which can greatly increase the transmission capacity of a single fiber.However, the crosstalk between spatial channels severely limits the practical application of space division multiplexing technology.To address the problem, a weakly-coupled space-division multiplexing fiber was firstly designed, in which perturbed rings were introduced in the core to increase the effective refractive index difference between LP modes.Secondly, an all-fiber mode multiplexer/demultiplexer that could handle non-circularly symmetric degenerate LP modes was proposed, as well as a low insertion loss and low crosstalk fan-in and fan-out devices.Based on the proposed fiber and devices, the low-cost intensity modulation and direct detection were used to implement the short-reach weakly-coupled mode-division-multiplexing and multi-core and few-mode real-time transmission.Finally, the prospective of space-division multiplexing real-time optical transmission technology was discussed.…”
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Damage assessment of different FDM-processed materials adopting Infrared Thermography by Danilo D'Andrea, Giacomo Risitano, Marcello Raffaele, Filippo Cucinotta, Dario Santonocito

“…Among all AM techniques, FDM (Fused Deposition Modelling) represents the most used printing technique to produce polymeric and composite components, thanks to the flexible printing process, the low cost and the diversity of the materials adopted. …”
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