Fighting Another’s War: Imperialist Projections on the Victorian Novel’s Continent by Tamara Wagner

“…The focus will be on the representation of the Italian struggle for independence in novels of the 1860s by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon (especially the Austrian villains in The Black Band and Run To Earth), and Meredith’s Emilia in England, later reprinted as Sandra Belloni, and the sequel, Vittoria. …”
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Photocatalytic dye degradation using novel Polypyrrole-Tungsten Oxide hybrid nanocomposite system. by Nandini Iyer, Jayant Kher, Shekhar Bhame

“…The electrical conduction of the nanostructured materials at room temperature exceeded that of PPy, with the electrical conductivity increasing linearly with higher WO3 concentrations. The band gap for the nanocomposite was found to be 2.12eV. …”
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Biosynthesis of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles via Leaf Extracts of Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don and Their Application in Improving Seed Germination Potential and Seedling Vigor of El... by Dhruv Mishra, Manoj Kumar Chitara, Sweta Negi, Jagat Pal singh, Rajeew Kumar, Preeti Chaturvedi

“…The FTIR absorption spectrum of ZnO NPs showed Zn-O bending at 547 cm−1. The size (44.5 nm) and shape (nonspherical) of ZnO NPs were revealed by TEM image analysis. …”
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Effect of temperature and time on purity, morphology and phase transformations of silica from rice husk by Md. Tariqul Islam, Md. Faruk Hossen, Md. Kudrat-E-Zahan, Md. Ali Asraf, C.M. Zakaria, Hayatullah, Md Shohel Rana

“…Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) revealed that the stretching and bending vibration of siloxane and silanol group of silica is similar to commercial grade silica. …”
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Progressive Collapse of Typical and Atypical Reinforced Concrete Framed Buildings by Solomon Abebe Derseh, Tesfaye Alemu Mohammed, Girum Urgessa

“…In addition to the global structural response, the local member end actions were also evaluated. The evaluation showed that the critical atypical frame configuration with closely spaced columns had a 91% and 127% maximum shear force and support bending moment value difference, respectively, when compared to a baseline typical frame configuration.…”
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Solid-Gas Flow Characteristics of Drilling Bit-Rod Integral Structure by Hongtu Zhang, Ouya Zhang, Le Wei, Banghua Yao

“…In addition, a high-velocity band in drill pipe became apparent for the particle phase; there was an obvious bottom flow characteristic at the PDC bit and an area of the highest layer thickness in the drill pipe. …”
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Time-resolved momentum microscopy with fs-XUV photons at high repetition rates with flexible energy and time resolution by Karl Jakob Schiller, Lasse Sternemann, Matija Stupar, Alan Omar, Martin Hoffmann, Jonah Elias Nitschke, Valentin Mischke, David Maximilian Janas, Stefano Ponzoni, Giovanni Zamborlini, Clara Jody Saraceno, Mirko Cinchetti

“…We show the capabilities of the system by tracing ultrafast electron dynamics in the conduction band valleys of a bulk crystal of the 2D semiconductor WS2. …”
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Envelope-Based Variable-Gain Control Strategy for Vibration Suppression of Solar Array Using Reaction Wheel Actuator by Song Wu, Guoan Tang, Bifa Chen

“…The control relation between the measured bending moment and the rotational speed of the RW actuator with the constant-gain coefficient is firstly developed and demonstrated in numerical simulation. …”
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Rectangular Glass Optical Fiber for Transmitting Sunlight in a Hybrid Concentrator Photovoltaic and Daylighting System by Afshin Aslian, Kok-Keong Chong, Seyed Hassan Tavassoli, Chin-Joo Tan, Omid Badkoobe Hazave

“…The flexibility test on the fabricated RGOF has been carried out to bend at a radius of 150 mm and twist at 90° at a fiber length of 2.2 m.…”
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Graphene metamaterial solar absorber using Al-TiN-Fe for efficient solar thermal energy conversion and optimization using machine learning by Khaled Aliqab, Bo Bo Han, Om Prakash Kumar, Meshari Alsharari, Ammar Armghan, Shobhit K. Patel

“…With the displacement of wavelength and bandwidth configuration, the current absorber is observed at 97.32% (more than 97%) for 1.5–2.5 µm wavelength range (1000 nm bandwidth) and above 95% rate (95.38%) is displayed by the 2000 nm bandwidth due to 0.5 and 2.5 µm wavelength separation. The 2800 nm band rate demonstration by 0.2–3 µm wavelength separation verifies 92.42%. …”
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Wearable Quarter-Wave Folded Microstrip Antenna for Passive UHF RFID Applications by Thomas Kaufmann, Damith C. Ranasinghe, Ming Zhou, Christophe Fumeaux

“…The proposed antenna is embedded with a sensor-enabled passive radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag operating in the ultra-high frequency (UHF) industrial-scientific-medical (ISM) band around 900 MHz. The device exhibits a low and narrow profile based on a planar folded quarter-wave length patch structure and is integrated on a flexible substrate to maximise comfort to the wearer. …”
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Dual Polarized Dual Fed Vivaldi Antenna for Cellular Base Station Operating at 1.7–2.7 GHz by Marko Sonkki, Sami Myllymäki, Jussi Putaala, Eero Heikkinen, Tomi Haapala, Harri Posti, Heli Jantunen

“…The paper presents a novel dual polarized dual fed Vivaldi antenna structure for 1.7–2.7 GHz cellular bands. The radiating element is designed for a base station antenna array with high antenna performance criteria. …”
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Delayed onset of ocean acidification in the Gulf of Maine by Joseph A. Stewart, Branwen Williams, Michèle LaVigne, Alan D. Wanamaker, Aaron L. Strong, Brittany Jellison, Nina M. Whitney, Diana L. Thatcher, Laura F. Robinson, Jochen Halfar, Walter Adey

“…Contrary to expectation, we also find that pH has increased (+ 0.2 pH units) over the past 40 years, despite concurrent rising atmospheric CO2. …”
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Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Hyperspectral Imaging: Integrating Tensor Robust Principal Component Analysis With Autoencoding Adversarial Networks by Atsuya Emoto, Ryo Matsuoka

“…Hyperspectral (HS) image analysis has gained significant attention due to its ability to capture detailed spectral information across hundreds of bands, making it useful for environmental monitoring and mineral exploration applications. …”
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The construction of large-aperture Schottky heterostructures and the study of the reduction properties of heavy metal ions under natural light by FengQi Qiu, Yanfei Pan, Yuan Tian, Huiming Shi, Shuaiqi Hu, Qiang Guo, Yuan Wang, Qinglun Liang, Mayin Dai, Zhenhua Xue

“…The composite layer with Schottky heterojunction structure, which improved the photogenerated electron-hole separation ability, and the forbidden band width was only 1.95 eV. The efficient and rapid reduction of Cu(II) under natural light can be realized, and the reduction rate can reach 76.7 % in 15 min, while it was up to 86.7 % after 60 min, and the reduction amount can reach 433.5 mg/g, indicating that excellent photocatalytic reduction performance can be obtained. …”
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Effect of Glazing on Flexural Strength of Full-Contour Zirconia by Hattanas Kumchai, Patrapan Juntavee, Arthur F. Sun, Dan Nathanson

“…The glaze material was applied to the glazed specimens before being fired. A three-point bending test (15 mm span) was performed in an Instron universal testing machine (ISO 6872). …”
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Influence of System Parameters on Nonlinear Dynamic Characteristics of the Herringbone Gear Transmission Under Different Coincidence Degrees by Wang Ji, Li Zhibin, Wang Sanmin, Wang Chunling

“…Combining meshing performance and dynamic characteristics of gear teeth, firstly, stiffness excitation and meshing impact excitation of the herringbone gear system are determined, and the lumped parameter method is used to establish the nonlinear dynamic model of the bending-torsion-shaft coupling of herringbone gear pairs under complex excitation source. …”
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Application of Principal Component Analysis as a Prediction Model for Feline Sporotrichosis by Franco Bresolin Pegoraro, Rita Maria Venâncio Mangrich-Rocha, Saulo Henrique Weber, Marconi Rodrigues de Farias, Elizabeth Moreira dos Santos Schmidt

“…The higher occurrence in male cats in this study could be related to being non-neutered and having access to open spaces. Principal component analysis (PCA) with two principal components, followed by binary logistic regression, and binary logistic regression analysis, with independent variables and backward elimination modeling, were performed to evaluate hematological (n = 56) and biochemical (n = 34) analytes, including red blood cells, hemoglobin, hematocrit, leukocytes, segmented neutrophils, band neutrophils, eosinophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, total plasma protein, albumin, urea, creatinine, and alanine aminotransferase. …”
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DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF COLUMN STRUCTURE OF TREE SHAPED PARKING GARAGE by WANG Juan, LI FengJie, GAO XinLong, ZHANG LiYong, LI TongJie

“…It provides some means and reference for the analysis of this kind of project.…”
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Prediction and Analysis of Abnormal Gas Emission Law in Low-Gas Tunnel Based on K-Line Diagram by Haiyang Wang, Shulei Zhao, Jialiang Liu, Yanmin Zhou, Xiang Chen, Jie Wang, Liang Cheng

“…The results show that the K-line diagram can reflect the changing trend of gas concentration in real time accurately and show the change law of gas concentration during different construction processes; the moving average (MA) of the K-line diagram can accurately reflect the time of abnormal gas emission, the moving average convergence divergence (MACD) index can reflect the upward or downward power and trend of gas, and the Bollinger Band (BOLL) index can reflect the fluctuation range of gas concentration. …”
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