The Design and Validation of a Biocompatible and Cost-Effective Biomaterial Based Arm Patch for Intravenous Training Applications by Fizza Zaheer, Moiz Wali Khan, Maida Nadeem

“…Findings indicated that the arm patch was capable of accommodating a lot of pressure and possessed elastic properties like human skin. …”
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Design of Wideband Absorber Based on Dual-Resistor-Loaded Metallic Strips by Mingxi Zhang, Binchao Zhang, Xiaochun Liu, Shining Sun, Cheng Jin

“…By properly designing the resonant frequencies of these metallic strips, a wide absorption band with three resonances is obtained. An equivalent circuit model is introduced, and the current distributions are examined to understand the physical mechanism of the proposed absorber. …”
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EEG Emotion Recognition Based on Temporal and Spatial Features of Sensitive signals by Zhihao Qu, Xiujuan Zheng

“…First, the authors selected emotion-sensitive signals based on the physiological function of EEG regions and the active scenario of the band signals, and then merged temporal and spatial features extracted from sensitive signals by LSTM and CNN. …”
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The effect of annealing on the structural, optical, electrical and photoelectric properties of ZnO/NiO heterostructures by M. Yermakov, R. Pshenychnyi, A. Opanasyuk, Yu. Gnatenko, P. Bukivskij, A. Bukivskii, O. Кlymov, V. Muñoz-Sanjosé, R. Gamernyk

“…Low-temperature photoluminescence (PL), as well as absorption and photoconductivity, were studied to establish the optical properties, the nature of electronic optical transitions, the energy level position of the different defects present in the samples, and the effect of temperature annealing on these properties The band gap of the compounds was determined using the Tauc approximation and the first derivative of the absorption coefficient. …”
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Enhancement in Optical Properties of Lanthanum-Doped Manganese Barium Hexaferrites under Different Substitutions by Meshal Alzaid

“…The intensity peak is increased with increasing the concentration of lanthanum, which shows the enhancement in the degree of crystallinity and increase in the size of crystallite. The band gap energy decreased gradually with the increase of concentration of lanthanum. …”
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Algorithm Development and Design of Lattice Conical Shell Under Mechanical and Thermal Loads by Behrooz Shahriari, Mahdi Sharifi, Hassan Izanlo

“…The modeling of the lattice conical shell is investigated under mechanical (axial and bending load and internal pressure) and thermal loads. …”
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Effect of Multijunction Approach on Electrical Measurements of Silicon and Germanium Alloy Based Thin-Film Solar Cell Using AMPS-1D by Somenath Chatterjee, Sumeet Singh, Himangshu Pal

“…The top layer has the largest band gap, while the bottom layer has the smallest bandgap. …”
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Flexural Behaviour of Chicken Mesh Ferrocement Laminates with Partial Replacement of Fine Aggregate by Steel Slag by Sridhar Jayaprakash, Jegatheeswaran Dhanapal, Vivek Deivasigamani, Elias G

“…Bending tests were conducted on ferrocement laminates containing chicken mesh and steel slag. …”
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Confirmation of the Luminous Blue Variable Status of MWC 930 by A. S. Miroshnichenko, N. Manset, S. V. Zharikov, J. Zsargó, J. A. Juárez Jiménez, J. H. Groh, H. Levato, M. Grosso, R. J. Rudy, E. A. Laag, K. B. Crawford, R. C. Puetter, D. E. Reichart, K. M. Ivarsen, J. B. Haislip, M. C. Nysewander, A. P. LaCluyze

“…We present the object’s V-band light curve, analyze the spectral variations, and compare the observed properties with those of other recognized Galactic LBVs, such as AG Car and HR Car. …”
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ANALYSIS ON FAILURE OF T23 WELDED JOINS IN WATER WALL by LIU Shuai, CHEN JianJun, YAN ZhenRong, WU WenChao, YUAN WeiJie, YANG Cheng

“…The results show stress on the welded joints is seriously affected by the assembly stress, which could cause the leakage of the T23 water wall welded joints. The maximum bending moment can be given according to the allowable stress, which provides a reference for the construction of T23 water wall welding. …”
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High-Q Resonances Induced by Toroidal Dipole Bound States in the Continuum in Terahertz Metasurfaces by Lincheng Guo, Yachen Gao

“…Here, the influence of structural parameters on radiation modes has been systematically analyzed using band theory; the mechanisms of quasi-BIC mode and BIC mode were also analyzed through multipole decomposition of scattered power and near-field distribution. …”
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A Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Two-Dimensional Shock Wave Modeling by W. Lai, A. A. Khan

“…Applications include circular dam break with shock, shock waves in channel contraction, and dam break in channel with 45∘ bend. Numerical results show that the scheme is accurate and efficient to model two-dimensional shallow water flows with shock waves.…”
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Eastern Cherry Fruit Fly, Rhagoletis cingulata (Loew) (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae) by Howard V. Weems, Jr.

“…These two species closely resemble a third pest species, the apple maggot, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh); the adults of all three have banded wings. R. cingulata breeds in all varieties of cherries including the sweet cherry. …”
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Tension-Compression Damage Model with Consistent Crack Bandwidths for Concrete Materials by Wei He, Ying Xu, Yu Cheng, Peng-Fei Jia, Ting-Ting Fu

“…Moreover, of specific interest is an improved solution to the problem of mesh-size dependency using consistent crack bandwidths, which takes into account situations with irregular meshes and arbitrary crack directions in the context of the crack band approach. The performance of the model is validated by the well-documented experimental data. …”
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Health Monitoring System for Nursing Homes with Lightweight Security and Privacy Protection by Yu’e Jiang, Jiaxiang Liu

“…So this paper proposed a health monitoring system with lightweight security and privacy protection for nursing homes. Dual-band RFID, virtual routing location algorithm, and diet and exercise data collection based on RFID were adopted to obtain the location and health information. …”
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Improved Training Sequence Channel Estimation Scheme in 16QAM MB-OFDM UWBoF System by Changqing Xiang, Xi Yang, Xuan Zhou, Xiaojun Zhu, Jincan Xu, Qiong He

“…In this paper, an improved channel estimation scheme based on time-domain orthogonal gray complementary training sequence (Golay TS) is proposed to resist subcarrier mutual beat interference in 16-quadrature amplitude modulation multiband orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing ultrawide band over fiber (16QAM MB-OFDM UWBoF) systems. The simulation results showed that the performance of system with the improved Golay TS channel estimation scheme was improved by about 1 dB compared with the traditional Golay TS channel estimation scheme, at a bit error rate (BER) of 3.8 × 10−3 after 70 km standard single mode fiber (SSMF) transmission. …”
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Enhanced Light Emission from Type-II Red InGaN/GaNSb/GaN Quantum-Well Structures by Seoung-Hwan Park, Jong-In Shim, Dong-Soo Shin

“…The heavy-hole effective mass around the topmost valence band is not affected much by the insertion of the GaNSb layer, and the optical matrix elements are greatly increased by the inclusion of the GaNSb layer in the InGaN/GaN QW structure. …”
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Exploring the dynamics of energy security and energy poverty in the Andean basin by Darío Xavier Zhiña, María Isabel Fárez-Plasencia, Alex Avilés-Añazco, Otilia Vanessa Cordero-Ahiman, Jorge Leonardo Vanegas, Alexandra Guanuchi-Quito

“…Data were collected through random stratified surveys of 455 households, normalised using banding techniques, and analysed through weighted aggregations. …”
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Achieving Fair Spectrum Allocation and Reduced Spectrum Handoff in Wireless Sensor Networks: Modeling via Biobjective Optimization by Sang-Seon Byun, Kimmo Kansanen, Ilangko Balasingham, Joon-Min Gil

“…The results obtained from the numerical experiments show that, by adjusting the weight on each objective function, the proposed algorithm allocates spectrum bands fairly with well observing each sensor’s priority and reduced spectrum handoffs.…”
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Conference Room Reverberation Time Correction Using Helmholtz Resonators Lined with Absorbers by Hossein Namvar Arefi, Seyyed Mohammad Amin Ghiasi, Seyyede Mahshid Ghaffari, Farhad Ramezanghorbani, Shiva Sharifpour, Peyman Irajizad, Seyede Delaram Ghoreishi Langroudi, Ahmad Amjadi

“…They are particularly useful when noise has a narrow-frequency band. One of the advantages of using Helmholtz resonators is their capacity to be tuned on different frequencies. …”
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