Engineering chiral mesoporous silica nanoparticles: Template design and structural control for advanced applications by Yu Yin, Wu Wei, Kai Zhang

“…These helical structures endow CMSNs with specialized functionalities, enabling their applications in chiral catalysis, enantioselective recognition, chiral separation, drug delivery, and optical devices, making them a focal point in materials and biomedical research. …”
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Cystoid Macular Edema 18 Years after Anterior Chamber Phakic Intraocular Lens Implantation by Elias L. Warrak, Majd S. Haddam, Walid N. Dandan, John E. Warrak, Fady K. Sammouh

“…BCVA was 20/60, and exam showed blunted macular reflex with no evidence of inflammation. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) showed CME. She was started on topical treatment (ketorolac 0.5%) OD four times daily. …”
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Effect of Noradrenaline on the Virulence Properties of Campylobacter Species by Sree V. Aroori, Tristan A. Cogan, Tom J. Humphrey

“…Campylobacter cultures grown with NA had reduced lag phases, increased growth rates, and higher final optical densities than controls. The motility of Campylobacter was also significantly increased in the presence of noradrenaline. …”
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Modified Grey Wolf Optimizer for Global Engineering Optimization by Nitin Mittal, Urvinder Singh, Balwinder Singh Sohi

“…A comparatively new algorithm motivated by the social hierarchy and hunting behavior of grey wolves is Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO), which is a very successful algorithm for solving real mechanical and optical engineering problems. In the original GWO, half of the iterations are devoted to exploration and the other half are dedicated to exploitation, overlooking the impact of right balance between these two to guarantee an accurate approximation of global optimum. …”
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Characterization of Zebrafish von Willebrand Factor Reveals Conservation of Domain Structure, Multimerization, and Intracellular Storage by Arunima Ghosh, Andy Vo, Beverly K. Twiss, Colin A. Kretz, Mary A. Jozwiak, Robert R. Montgomery, Jordan A. Shavit

“…The ability of this organism to generate thousands of offspring and its optical transparency make it unique and complementary to mammalian models of hemostasis. …”
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Dynamic Mechanical Response of Biomedical 316L Stainless Steel as Function of Strain Rate and Temperature by Woei-Shyan Lee, Tao-Hsing Chen, Chi-Feng Lin, Wen-Zhen Luo

“…Scanning electron microscopy observations show that the specimens fracture in a ductile shear mode. Optical microscopy analyses reveal that the number of slip bands within the grains increases with an increasing strain rate. …”
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Coprecipitation Method of Synthesis, Characterization, and Cytotoxicity of Pr3+:LaF3 (CPr = 3, 7, 12, 20, 30%) Nanoparticles by Maksim S. Pudovkin, Pavel V. Zelenikhin, Victoria Shtyreva, Oleg A. Morozov, Darya A. Koryakovtseva, Vitaly V. Pavlov, Yury N. Osin, Vladimir G. Evtugyn, Albert A. Akhmadeev, Alexey S. Nizamutdinov, Vadim V. Semashko

“…The Pr3+:LaF3 (CPr = 3, 7, 12, 20, 30%) nanoparticles were characterized by means of high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, optical spectroscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering, and MTT assay. …”
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Optimization of Poly-Si/SiOx Passivated Contacts for Crystalline Silicon Bottom Cells Applications by Julci Ditsougou, Thibaut Desrues, Anne Kaminski, Sébastien Dubois

“…We therefore demonstrate that for tandem applications, the bottom-cell can benefit from a gain in Voc and FF without suffering from a major optical limitation. …”
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Artificial neural networks and remote sensing in the analysis of the highly variable Pampean shallow lakes by Graciela Canziani, Rosana Ferrati, Claudia Marinelli, Federico Dukatz

“…Suspended organic and inorganic particles, resulting from the interactionsamong biological, physical, and chemical variables, modify the opticalproperties of water bodies and condition the trophic chain. The analysis oftheir optic properties through the spectral signatures obtained fromsatellite images allows us to infer the trophic state of the shallow lakesand generate a real time tool for studying the dynamics of shallow lakes.Field data (chlorophyll-a, total solids, and Secchi disk depth) allow us todefine levels of turbidity and to characterize the shallow lakes understudy. …”
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IRSnet: An Implicit Residual Solver and Its Unfolding Neural Network With 0.003M Parameters for Total Variation Models by Yuanhao Gong

“…Solving total variation problems is fundamentally important for many computer vision tasks, such as image smoothing, optical flow estimation and 3D surface reconstruction. …”
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Monitoring Detrusor Oxygenation and Hemodynamics Noninvasively during Dysfunctional Voiding by Andrew J. Macnab, Lynn S. Stothers, Babak Shadgan

“…Hence, near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), an established optical methodology for monitoring changes in tissue oxygenation and hemodynamics, has relevance as a means of expanding knowledge related to the pathophysiology of BPH and potential treatment options. …”
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Obtaining Thickness Maps of Corneal Layers Using the Optimal Algorithm for Intracorneal Layer Segmentation by Hossein Rabbani, Rahele Kafieh, Mahdi Kazemian Jahromi, Sahar Jorjandi, Alireza Mehri Dehnavi, Fedra Hajizadeh, Alireza Peyman

“…Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is one of the most informative methodologies in ophthalmology and provides cross sectional images from anterior and posterior segments of the eye. …”
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Association of Acinetobacter baumannii EF-Tu with Cell Surface, Outer Membrane Vesicles, and Fibronectin by Shatha F. Dallo, Bailin Zhang, James Denno, Soonbae Hong, Anyu Tsai, Williams Haskins, Jing Yong Ye, Tao Weitao

“…EF-Tu in the OM and the OMV subproteomes bound to fibronectin as detected by Western blot and confirmed by a label-free real-time optical sensor. The sensor that originates from photonic crystal structure in a total-Internal-reflection (PC-TIR) configuration was functionalized with fibronectin for characterizing EF-Tu binding. …”
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A case of Saturday night retinopathy following postoperative orbital compression bandaging: Diagnosis and evaluation using multimodal imaging by Rong Luan, Jinzhi Zhao, Zeying Liu, Limin Zhu, Lingyao Kong, Xiaorong Li, Tingting Lin

“…Multimodal imaging, including diagnostic imaging and angiography, revealed retinal and choroidal ischemia without optic nerve compression, confirming the diagnosis of SNR. …”
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Casting techniques of cannonballs from the Akko 1 shipwreck: Archaeometallurgical investigation by Cvikel D., Mentovich E.D., Ashkenazi D., Kahanov Y.

“…The examination used optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, including energy dispersive spectroscopy, and hardness tests. …”
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Improved Performances of a Fluidized Bed Photoreactor by a Microscale Illumination System by Paolo Ciambelli, Diana Sannino, Vincenzo Palma, Vincenzo Vaiano, Roberto S. Mazzei

“…The better performances with UVA-LEDs are due to the UVA-LEDs small dimensions and small-angle emittance, which allow photons beam be directed towards the photoreactor windows, reducing the dispersion outside of photoreactor or the optical path length. As a consequence, the effectively illuminated mass of catalyst is greater. …”
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Electrically tunable THz graphene metasurface wave retarders by Park Hyunwoo, Jeong Sodam, Seo Changwon, Park Hyeongi, Oh Donghak, Shim Jae-Eon, Lee Jaeyeong, Ha Taewoo, Kim Hyeon-Don, Baek Soojeong, Min Bumki, Kim Teun-Teun

“…However, the comparatively low anisotropy of natural materials hinders the miniaturization of optical components and devices at terahertz frequencies. …”
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Performance Evaluation of Real-time DustTrak Monitors for Outdoor Particulate Mass Measurements in a Desert Environment by Wasim Javed, Bing Guo

“…Additionally, the proposed approaches can serve as a model for field calibration and measurement data correction in other studies employing various types of real-time optical monitors.…”
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Femtosecond laser induced ultrafast interface dynamics between single layer graphene and quartz substrate: A theoretical study by Runping Zhao, Xia Wang, Lei Wang

“…This work indicates that rt-TDDFT is a promising method to study the strong electron dynamics and the coupled nuclear dynamics for graphene-SiO2 interfaces under ultrafast optical excitation, which benefits graphene device designs and mechanism analysis.…”
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Photoluminescence and Photocurrent from InGaN/GaN Diodes with Quantum Wells of Different Widths and Polarities by Artem Bercha, Mikołaj Chlipała, Mateusz Hajdel, Grzegorz Muzioł, Marcin Siekacz, Henryk Turski, Witold Trzeciakowski

“…We compare the optical properties of four <i>pin</i> diode samples differing by built-in field direction and width of the In_0.17Ga_0.83N quantum well in the active layer: two diodes with standard <i>nip</i> layer sequences and 2.6 and 15 nm well widths and two diodes with inverted <i>pin</i> layer ordering (due to the tunnel junction grown before the <i>pin</i> structure) also with 2.6 and 15 nm widths. …”
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