Hard-soft-hard layered structure for enhanced mechanical properties in corrugated rolled AZ31 magnesium alloy sheets by Biwu Zhu, Yue Cui, Kang Xu, Xiao Liu, Fan Ye, Wenhui Liu, Pengcheng Guo, Yuanzhi Wu, Xiang Li

“…As the average strain rate increases, the twin density and shear band decrease. At a constant average strain rate, from the valley-to-peak, the twin density and the number of coarse grains gradually decrease, while the recrystallization fraction gradually increases. …”
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Study on the rheological properties of nano-SiO2 composite modified basalt mineral fiber asphalt mortar by Haiwei Gao, Nanxiang Zheng, Xiang Zhang, Zhihui Li, Zhuohong Cong

“…To investigate the impact of mineral fiber modification and dosage on the rheological properties of fiber asphalt mastic, basalt fiber surface roughness was enhanced using nano-SiO _2 solution. Fiber asphalt mastic was prepared with a filler-bitumen ratio of 1.6 and fiber dosages of 0%, 1.3%, 2.6%, 3.9%, and 5.2%. …”
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SiCnws/CNTs/Cf-C/SiOC composites with multi-scale lossy phases for simultaneous electromagnetic wave absorption and thermal insulation by Bin Ren, Yujun Jia, Hao Chen, Jiaying Ti, Yumeng Deng, Qiang Zhuang, Hejun Li

“…The prepared SiCnws/CNTs/Cf-C/SiOC (SCC-CS) composites exhibit an effective absorption (EAB) of 2.4 GHz at a thickness of 1.9 mm and a minimum reflection loss (RLmin) of −58.44 dB (99% absorption) in the X band. The EMW absorption of the composite is attributed to the multiple loss mechanisms and favorable impedance matching with free space, caused by the multi-conductive phase and SiOC in the composite. …”
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Kino odwróconego czasu by Marcin Giżycki

“…W interesujący sposób odwracania konwencje starych filmów Guy Maddin, m.in. w takich filmach, jak The Saddest Music In the World czy Cowards Bend the Knee (oba z 2003), w których miesza style i gatunki, wprowadzając w nie zakazane niegdyś treści i motywy. …”
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Adsorption isotherms and kinetics of vanadium by shale and coal waste by George William Kajjumba, Serdar Aydın, Sinan Güneysu

“…The Fourier Transform Infrared results show little distortion in the vibration of bands, and hence the surface properties remain unchanged for both sorbents after adsorption. …”
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On the Stability of Eccentrically Compressed Reinforced Concrete Elements with a Small Eccentricity, Taking into Account the Rheological Properties of Concrete by A. G. Tamrazyan

“…An eccentrically compressed rod with a small eccentricity of length l is replaced by a centrally compressed rod of length l0 so that the bending arrow includes the eccentricity. The numerical values of the rheological coefficients are determined from the boundary values of the reduced stiffness, which varies along the length of the rod. …”
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Nanosized κ-Carbide and B2 Boosting Strength Without Sacrificing Ductility in a Low-Density Fe-32Mn-11Al Steel by Changwei He, Yongfeng Shen, Wenying Xue, Zhijian Fan, Yiran Zhou

“…The key reason is that the high strain hardening rate is activated by combined factors, including the blockage of numerous twins and nanoscale B2 to the dislocation movements, and dynamic slip band refinement. This study is instructive for concurrently enhancing the strength and ductility of austenitic lightweight steels with fully recrystallized grains and dual nano-precipitates.…”
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60-GHz Millimeter-Wave Propagation Inside Bus: Measurement, Modeling, Simulation, and Performance Analysis by Aniruddha Chandra, Aniq Ur Rahman, Ushasi Ghosh, Jose A. Garcia-Naya, Ales Prokes, Jiri Blumenstein, Christoph F. Mecklenbrauker

“…Millimeter-wave (mmWave) transmission over the unlicensed 60-GHz spectrum is a potential solution to realize high-speed internet access, even inside mass transit vehicles. The solution involves communication between users and a mmWave-band on-board unit that aggregates/disseminates data streams from/to commuters and maintains the connection with the nearest terrestrial network infrastructure node. …”
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Power-Efficient Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT) for Batteryless IoT Devices Using a Co-Designed Rectifying Metantenna by Ping Lu, Linkai Luo, Linjie Yang, Ce Wang, Cheng Zhang, Chaoyun Song, Kama Huang, Yi Huang

“…The proposed rectifying metantenna operates at 5.8 GHz (an ISM band) and achieves a maximum energy conversion efficiency of 54.6% when subjected to an input power of 0 dBm. …”
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Performance Analysis of a Six-Port Receiver in a WCDMA Communication System including a Multipath Fading Channel by A. O. Olopade, M. Helaoui

“…This paper proposes the use of a six-port receiver (SPR) front-end (FE) in a WCDMA communication system. A WCDMA end-to-end physical layer MATLAB demo which includes a multipath channel distortion block is used to determine the viability of the six-port based receiver. …”
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RESIDUAL STRESS ANALYSIS OF UNCOOLED INFRARED FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS BY MICRO-RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY by CEN Hao, WANG KeYong

“…In the releasing process of the residual stress,it may make film fold,bend,bulge,and even cause disorder for the film sample when the residual stress reaches GPa level.…”
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Design and testing of a test rig for tubular joints hot-spot stress determination by Mohsin Iqbal, Saravanan Karuppanan, Veeradasan Perumal, Mark Ovinis, Muhammad Iqbal

“…It accommodates joints made of various materials, such as steel, aluminium, or acrylic, and supports the investigation of SCFs under different combinations of axial, in-plane, and out-of-plane bending loads.…”
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Exome-First Approach in Fetal Akinesia Reveals Chromosome 1p36 Deletion Syndrome by Masatake Toshimitsu, Shinichi Nagaoka, Shuusaku Kobori, Maki Ogawa, Fumihiko Suzuki, Takema Kato, Shunsuke Miyai, Rie Kawamura, Hidehito Inagaki, Hiroki Kurahashi, Jun Murotsuki

“…A 32-week-old fetus with akinesia showed multiple abnormalities, including fetal growth restriction, congenital cardiac defects, and ventriculomegaly. G-banding analysis using cultured amniocytes revealed 46,XY,22pstk+. …”
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Strain monitoring of cement-based materials with embedded polyvinyl alcohol - carbon nanotube (PVA-CNT) fibers by Zoi S. Metaxa, Wilfrid Neri, Philippe Poulin, Nikolaos D. Alexopoulos

“…The Electrical Resistance Change (ERC) of the embedded PVACNT fiber was in-situ monitored during four-point bending mechanical tests. For the case of coated PVA-CNT fiber, a linear correlation of the applied strain at the bottom surface of the specimen along with ERC values of the fiber was noticed for the low strain regime. …”
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Cavitation Detection in Centrifugal Pump Based on Interior Flow-Borne Noise Using WPD-PCA-RBF by Liang Dong, Kan Wu, Jian-cheng Zhu, Cui Dai, Li-xin Zhang, Jin-nan Guo

“…Then, time-frequency domain analysis is performed on the interior flow-borne noise signal using WPD, and the energy coefficient of each node is calculated to determine the optimal decomposition frequency band. Six-feature parameters are extracted based on frequency-division statistics, including three time-domain features and three wavelet packet features. …”
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Synthesis of ZnO nanostructures with different morphologies on biochar support for photocatalytic degradation of organic dye by maryam Fayazi

“…DRS data analysis revealed that the band gap energies of the fabricated nanocomposites were measured to be 2.98 eV and 3.08 eV for the spherical ZnO/biochar and nanoroad ZnO/biochar, respectively. …”
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Type III Mixed Cryoglobulinemia and Antiphospholipid Syndrome in a Patient With Partial DiGeorge Syndrome by Alice D. Chang, Raffi Tachdjian, Kerry Gallagher, Deborah K. McCurdy, Charles Lassman, E. Richard Stiehm, Ora Yadin

“…Immunofixation showed polyclonal bands. Our patient was treated successfully with antibiotics, prednisone, and mycophenolate mofetil (MMF). …”
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Onset of Intense Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering and Aggregation in the Au@Ag System by Priya Bhatia, Joseph Consiglio, John Diniz, Jia E. Lu, Christopher Hoff, Shelby Ritz-Schubert, Roger H. Terrill

“…This model permits a summary of the SERS responses in the form of plots of SERS intensity versus the aggregate absorption at 830 nm, which shows the excellent correlation between intense SERS and LSPR bands extinction.…”
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Study on Information Extraction of Water Bodyin Plain RiverNetwork Area Based on Multi-temporalGF-1 Image by LIAO Yubing, ZHOU Feng

“…In order to solve the mixture of pixels such as the towns, shadow and bare earth in the extraction of remote sensing information of water body in Plain River Network Area, based onmulti-temporal GF-1 image, this paper proposes a decision tree model combining the Normalized Differential Vegetation Index (NDVI), Normalized Differential Water Index (NDWI), and near-infrared albedo for water body information extraction, and conducts a study taking the typical plain atthe lower reaches of Yangtze and Huai River.The results show that compared with other methods including single-band threshold and Shadow Water Index (SWI), the multi-temporalspectral information in newly proposed method can effectively eliminate the mixture of pixels such as the towns, shadow and the bare earth, improve the extraction accuracy of smaller water bodies with an overall accuracy of 93% and a Kappa coefficient of 0.85,and reasonably show a spatial distribution of water surface rate with a declining trend from West to East, which could provide a reference for the information extraction of water body in other plains as well.…”
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Mixed Analytical-Numerical Modeling of Radar Backscattering for Seasonal Snowpacks by Martina Lodigiani, Carlo Marin, Marco Pasian

“…In this article, we propose a new mixed analytical-numerical model to describe the effect of the physical parameters related to the wet snowpack metamorphism on the intensity of the backscattering at L, C, and X bands, with a focus on high alpine snowpacks. Particular attention was paid to integrate the effects of the snow superficial roughness and the snow scattering. …”
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