Metals Doped TiO2 Nanoparticle as an Efficient Photoelectrode in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Review by Asmaa Al-Baitai, Madeeha Mahmood, Saifaldeen abdulhussein, Saifaldeen Abdalhadi

“…The working electrode can be improved by adding a low percentage of nano-semiconductors to the TiO2, such as nanometals or other metal oxide. …”
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Cardiac Amyloidosis Masquerading as Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy: Co-existence or Coincidence? by Madhu Shukla, Jagdish Chander Mohan

“…A pyrophosphate scan of the heart was strongly positive both at 1 and 3 h intervals. M-band was observed on plasma protein electrophoresis. …”
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Isolated Inferior Rectus Muscle Entrapment following Endoscopic Sinus Surgery by Scott Shapiro, Jamie L. Schaefer, Sumeet Gupta, John Nguyen, Brian Kellermeyer

“…We postulate that an incomplete maxillary antrostomy contributed to scar band formation and entrapment of the inferior rectus muscle after the orbital floor was violated, and advocate early intervention with a wide, complete maxillary antrostomy if the orbital floor is injured during ESS.…”
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Rolling Bearing Fault Diagnosis based on Wavelet and Deep Wavelet Auto-encoder by Xiaolei Du, Zhigang Chen, Nan Zhang, Xingguo Guo

“…The sample entropy，permutation entropy and energy moment of each sub-band are calculated as raw eigenvectors. Finally，the raw eigenvectors are sent into DWAE for quadratic feature extraction and fault diagnosis. …”
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Familiarisation et dé-familiarisation : la figure de l’« étranger » dans la comédie indo-britannique by Amandine Ducray

“…This article, which focuses on three British-Asian comedies – East is East (Damien O’Donnell, 1999; screenplay by Ayub Khan Din), Bend It Like Beckham (Gurinder Chadha, 2002) and Bride and Prejudice (Gurinder Chadha, 2004) – aims, through a comparative analysis, at highlighting common discursive and iconographic trategies. …”
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Reduction of Maximum and Residual Drifts on Posttensioned Steel Frames with Semirigid Connections by Arturo López-Barraza, Edén Bojórquez, Sonia E. Ruiz, Alfredo Reyes-Salazar

“…Thirty long-duration narrow-banded earthquake ground motions recorded on soft soil sites of Mexico City are used for the analyses. …”
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A thin, wideband transmissive cross polarization converter by Negin Pouyanfar, Javad Nourinia, Changiz Ghobadi, Vahid Nayyeri

“…The suggested polarization converter operates well in the 9.53–13.35 GHz frequency band (36%). Additionally, The structure provides a larger than 90% Polarization Conversion Ratio (PCR) through the frequency range of 8.89–14.21 GHz. …”
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Investigation of Elastic Energy on Single Crystal GaN Nanobeams with Different Span by Shang-Chao Hung, Cheng-Fu Yang, Yi-Cheng Hsu

“…Also, we probe into the elastic deformation properties of clamped freestanding GaN nanobeams with different spans. In the bending process, displacement, D, corresponding to load, P is strongly dependent on the span of nanobeam at the same penetration depth and a distinct linearity is observed. …”
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Modeling and Optimization of BT and DBT Photooxidation over Multiwall Carbon Nanotube-Titania Composite by Response Surface Methodology by Molood Barmala, Mohammad Behnood

“…Although the generated structure band gap is 3.4, but due to the presence of MWCNTs in the structure, it is capable of absorbing visible light, and this leads to complete removal of DBT and 42% removal of BT under visible light radiation (in similar circumstances). …”
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A Wideband Hybrid Fractal Ring Antenna for WLAN Applications by Atif Jamil, Muhammad Rauf, Abdul Sami, Arsalan Ansari, Muhammad Dawood Idrees

“…The resonance frequency of the antenna is between 4.94 and 6.12 GHz (% BW = 21.83), which covers the entire 5 GHz WLAN band. The prototype has been fabricated and experimentally verified.…”
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The use of thermally expandable microcapsules for increasing the toughness and heal structural adhesives by Guillaume Pesquet, Lucas F. M. da Silva, Chiaki Sato

“…The single-edge-notch bending (SENB) test was used. Firstly, a standard toughness test was performed on adhesives with microcapsules. …”
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An Efficient Semianalytical Modal Analysis of Rectangular Waveguides Containing Metamaterials with Graded Inhomogeneity by Qianru Weng, Qian Lin, Haifeng Wu

“…Rectangular waveguides containing inhomogeneous metamaterials with graded refractive-index profiles have potential applications in bending waveguides and radiation-enhanced antennas, and accurate eigenvalue solutions are prerequisite. …”
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Pengaruh Fraksi Massa Serat Terhadap Kekuatan Fatik Material Komposit Berpenguat Serat Tandan Kosong Kelapa Sawit by Devi Chandra, Randha Mulia, Dedison Gasni, Gusriwandi Gusriwandi

“…Fatigue test has been performed by using rotary bending fatigue machine. The specimens were made by press hand lay-up with matrix to fiber mass ratio was 90:10, 80:20 and 70:30 respectively. …”
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Synthesis and Optical Performances of a Waterborne Polyurethane-Based Polymeric Dye by Xianhai Hu, Xingyuan Zhang, Jin Liu

“…The polymeric dye engendered two new absorption bands centered at about 520 nm and 760 nm if compared with CFBB in UV-vis spectra. …”
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Optical properties of 2D GeTe under strain: A DFT study by O. Ruiz-Cigarrillo, G. Flores-Rangel, U. Zavala-Moran, J. Puebla, R. E. Balderas-Navarro, B. Mizaikoff

“…Using Density Functional Theory (DFT), we investigate the impact of uniaxial strain, ϵ, on its band structure and dielectric function (DF), ε̃. …”
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A new automatic watermarking algorithm based on Fuzzy Logic and Harris Hawks optimization by Mehdi Fallah Kazemi, Arash Ahmadpour, Nadia Pourmahdi

“…In this design, in order to obtain efficient robustness and transparency, the Harris hawks optimization algorithm is used to find the best value of embedding factor. For this purpose, in the embedding algorithm, pyramid directional filter bank decomposition is utilized and accordingly the approximation sub-bands are divided into 8*8 non-overlapping blocks. …”
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Quantum theory of Bloch oscillations in a resistively shunted transmon by Vladislav D. Kurilovich, Benjamin Remez, Leonid I. Glazman

“…Despite having a broad-band spectrum, Bloch oscillations can be brought in resonance with an external microwave radiation. …”
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FATIGUE ANALYSIS OF PITCH BEARING AND HUB CONNECTION BOLT IN MEGAWATT WIND TURBINE by MA LiPeng, YANG Sheng, MENG ChunLing, FU Cheng

“…For bolts on the pitch bearing of the connection between the blade and the hub of the 1. 5 MW wind turbine unit,a method to calculate the fatigue damage value of connecting bolts was proposed. …”
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Design and Simulation of a Fully Digitized GNSS Receiver Front-End by Yuan Yu, Qing Chang, Yuan Chen

“…Based on the direct RF sampling technique, fully digitized receiver front-ends may solve the problem. In this paper, a direct digitization RF front-end scheme is presented. …”
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Fracture Behavior of Ion-Nitrided AISI 4140 Steel in accordance with Variable Applied Current Density by Hyun Jun Park, Bum Soo Kim, Chi Sung Ahn, Kyun Taek Cho, Kyoung Il Moon, Sang Sub Kim

“…In this study, the fracture behavior of AISI 4140 low-alloy steel nitrided with respect to the applied current density was investigated. A series of rotary bending fatigue tests were performed with various loads (350, 400, 450, and 500 N) at a constant rotational speed of 2000 rpm. …”
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