A Compact Dielectric Resonator Antenna Excited by a Planar Monopole Patch for Wideband Applications by Xuping Li, Yabing Yang, Fei Gao, Hanqing Ma, Xiaowei Shi

“…The proposed antenna is mainly composed by a notched cylindrical dielectric resonator (DR) coated with a metal surface on the top and a finite ground plane where the presented DR is placed. …”
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Large‐Area Bright Emission of Plasmon‐Coupled Dark Excitons at Room Temperature by Hyun Jeong, Hyeong Chan Suh, Ga Hyun Cho, Huitae Joo, Yeonjeong Koo, Hayoung Ko, Ki Kang Kim, Youngbum Kim, Jeongyong Kim, Kyoung‐Duck Park, Mun Seok Jeong

“…Abstract Brightening dark excitons in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers (MLs) can provide large‐area ultrathin devices for applications in quantum information science and optoelectronics. …”
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A facile one-step electrochemical preparation of graphene–Pd nanocomposite as a catalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction by Fatemeh Norouz-Sarvestani, Seyyed Mehdi Khoshfetrat

“…This study suggests an effective and controllable method for preparing graphene–metal NPs with high electrocatalytic activity.…”
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Development of Wood Apple Shell (Feronia acidissima) Powder Biosorbent and Its Application for the Removal of Cd(II) from Aqueous Solution by Ch. Suresh, D. Harikisore Kumar Reddy, Yapati Harinath, B. Ramesh Naik, K. Seshaiah, Annareddy V. Ramana Reddy

“…The effect of experimental parameters like initial pH, contact time, metal ion concentration, and sorbent dose on adsorption was investigated. …”
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SnO2 Nanostructure as Pollutant Gas Sensors: Synthesis, Sensing Performances, and Mechanism by Brian Yuliarto, Gilang Gumilar, Ni Luh Wulan Septiani

“…Their negative impact on the environment is well known; therefore detection with effective gas sensors is important as part of pollution prevention efforts. Gas sensors use a metal oxide semiconductor, specifically SnO2 nanostructures. …”
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DWSD: Dense waste segmentation datasetMendeley Data by Asfak Ali, Suvojit Acharjee, Md. Manarul Sk., Salman Z. Alharthi, Sheli Sinha Chaudhuri, Adnan Akhunzada

“…The dataset includes 14 waste categories: plastic containers, plastic bottles, thermocol, metal bottles, plastic cardboard, glass, thermocol plates, plastic, paper, plastic cups, paper cups, aluminum foil, cloth, and nylon. …”
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A Comparative Study between Via-Hole and Via-Free Grounded Coplanar Waveguide to Microstrip Transitions on Thin Polymer Substrate by Mohammed El Gibari, HongWu Li

“…The via-hole free transition achieves experimentally an ultrabroadband from 2 GHz to 78 GHz with an insertion loss of only 0.5 dB thanks to the copper metallization thickness of 2 μm. In addition, these measurement results are in perfect agreement with the simulation results. …”
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Modelling the Impact of Government Policies on Import on Domestic Price of Indian Gold Using ARIMA Intervention Method by Jyothi Unnikrishnan, Kodakanallur Krishnaswamy Suresh

“…In April 2013, to curb a record trade deficit, India imposed an import duty of 10 percent on gold and tied imports for domestic consumption to exports, creating scarce supply of the yellow metal and boosting premiums to curtail the Current Account Deficit (CAD). …”
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MOFs and MOF‐Based Composites for the Adsorptive Removal of Ciprofloxacin by Sriyanjali Bathula, Swathi Thottathil, Yashoda Malgar Puttaiahgowda

“…The exploration of adsorbents like metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), activated carbon, porous organic polymers, etc., have found major usage in the adsorptive removal of antibiotics to tackle contamination. …”
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Minerals in edible insects: A review of content and potential for sustainable sourcing by Mingxing Lu, Chenxu Zhu, Sergiy Smetana, Ming Zhao, Haibo Zhang, Fang Zhang, Yuzhou Du

“…The total content of essential elements in edible insects was very high in Tenebrio molitor, Bombyx mori, and Zonocerus variegatus. The heavy metal content (summarized for eight species) was below the maximum limit allowed for safe consumption. …”
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Modified Scaffolds With Magnetic Nanoparticles in Periodontal Tissue Regeneration by Dulce Araceli Guzman‐Rocha, Benjamin Aranda‐Herrera, Laura Susana Acosta Torres, Ma. Concepción Arenas‐Arrocena, Rene Garcia‐Contreras

“…ABSTRACT Nanomaterials have displayed vast potential across a spectrum of biomedical applications, particularly in recent studies aimed at optimizing traditional systems. Metal oxide nanoparticles, like Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs), offer unique physicochemical properties ideal for biomedical applications, advancing diagnostics, therapies, tissue engineering and imaging technologies in medicine. …”
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Study of the Interference Affecting the Performance of the Theremin by Carmen Bachiller Martín, Jorge Sastre Martínez, Amelia Ricchiuti, Héctor Esteban González, Carlos Hernández Franco

“…With the aim of reducing the degree of interference from nearby obstacles, some metallic isolating bars conforming an antenna array can be placed around the theremin pitch antenna. …”
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Research Progress in Raw Starch Degrading Enzymes by NING Ke, ZHANG Haoran, ZHAO Kai

“…Thereafter, this review outlines the sources of RSDE and analyzes the factors affecting RSDE activity, such as amylase action conditions, metal ions, and starch granule-associate protein. …”
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Wideband Slot Array Antenna Fed by Gap Waveguide with Right-Handed Circular Polarization and High Gain by Pejman Mahmoudi Kanesbi, Nasrin Amiri

“…The feeding network of the final array antenna consists of two layers based on the ridge gap waveguide (RGW), and it has four unconnected metal layers. It is shown by simulation that the proposed antenna has 20.5% impedance bandwidth over 25.8–31.7 GHz and 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth near 10% over 27.2–30 GHz. …”
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Phenolic Profile, Antioxidant Activity, and Enzyme Inhibitory Properties of Limonium delicatulum (Girard) Kuntze and Limonium quesadense Erben by A. Ruiz-Riaguas, G. Zengin, K.I. Sinan, C. Salazar-Mendías, E.J. Llorent-Martínez

“…Antioxidant and radical scavenging assays (phosphomolybdenum, DPPH, ABTS, CUPRAC, FRAP, and metal chelating activity), as well as enzyme inhibitory assays (acetylcholinesterase, butyrylcholinesterase, tyrosinase, amylase, glucosidase, and lipase), were performed to evaluate the potential bioactivity. …”
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Cathodic tandem alkylation/dearomatization of heterocycles enabled by Al-facilitated carbonyl deoxygenation by Jinhui Hu, Weijie Deng, Jianfeng Zhou, Yubing Huang

“…Notably, this method is transition metal-free and compatible with water and oxygen.…”
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Antibacterial Additive for Polystyrene Based on Silver Nanoparticles Supported on Titanium Dioxide by Miguel A. Waldo-Mendoza, Lucía Martínez-Jothar, Socorro Oros-Ruiz, E. G. Villabona-Leal, Luis Manuel Céspedes-Covarrubias, Zoe V. Quiñones-Jurado, Eduardo Ortega, Elías Pérez

“…These particles were synthesized using a deposition-precipitation method by adding silver nitrate as metallic precursor, sodium hydroxide as reducing agent, and commercial TiO2 (P25) as support. …”
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Analysis of Transient Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication of Asymmetric Polymer Gear by Mingyu Zuo, Youqiang Wang, Guangxiao Jian, Yu Hu, Jun Mo, Yuxin Fang

“…Correspondingly， polymer gear teeth are weaker than metal ones， so asymmetric design is adopted to improve the strength of polymer gear. …”
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Results of tuyere coke sampling with regard to application of appropriate coke strength after reaction (CSR) for a blast furnace by Shiau J-S., Ko Y-C., Ho C-K., Hung M-T.

“…Thus, insufficient coke strength will generate more coke fines in the lower BF and result in lower permeability and production of hot metal (HM). For understanding the behavior of coke at various HM productivities, a tuyere coke sampler was used to collect the coke samples for measuring the coke strength. …”
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Inhomogeneous coupling induced quantized distribution of photonic states in Kagome lattices across different Landau levels by Liyun Tao, Yahong Liu, Xin Zhou, Lianlian Du, Shaojie Ma, Xiaoyong Yang, Jintao Zhang, Zhenfei Li, Kun Song, Xiaopeng Zhao

“…We present the quantized distribution of photonic states across different Landau levels in a two-dimensional Kagome metal lattice. By introducing inhomogeneous coupling, we implement two kinds of pseudomagnetic field, which quantize spectrums and quantizes distribution of photonic states, respectively. …”
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