Room Temperature NO₂-Sensing Properties of N-Doped ZnO Nanoparticles Activated by UV-Vis Light by Angelo Ferlazzo, Giovanni Neri, Andrea Donato, Giovanni Gugliandolo, Mariangela Latino

“…These improvements in gas-sensing capabilities are attributed to the reduction in particle size and the narrowing of the optical band gap.…”
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Diagnosis and Management of Freeman-Burian Syndrome: A Case Report by Aidin Arabzadeh, Hossein Azaditalab, Hesam Alitaleshi, Mohammad Reza Abbaszadeh

“…Presentation of the case: An Iranian girl presents mask-like face, deep sunken eyes,ptosis, wide nasal bridge, small mouth with the facial typical appearance of a whistler, dental crowding and high narrow palate, skin dimple on the chin in the shape of an  H-shape and abnormally long philtrum. defect in the hands of typical windmill vane hand and clasped thumb deformity ,Resistant contracture of the fingers with ulnar deviation and bilateral  rigid clubfoot,  and failure to thrive. …”
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Energy-Efficiency for IoT System With Cache-Enabled Fixed-Wing UAV Relay by Kang Song, Jifa Zhang, Zhengxia Ji, Jing Jiang, Chunguo Li

“…This paper studies the energy efficiency (EE) maximization problem of fixed-wing Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enabled Internet of Things (IoT) system, where an UAV is employed as an aerial relay with enough cache capacity to amplify and forward (AF) received signals between narrow band (NB)-IoT device and eNodeB. This paper optimizes the unconstrained trajectory of the UAV to maximize the EE of UAV-enabled IoT system to achieve the green communication. …”
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Experimental Study and Application of Inorganic Solidified Foam Filling Material for Coal Mines by Hu Wen, Duo Zhang, Zhijin Yu, Xuezhao Zheng, Shixing Fan, Bin Laiwang

“…A field application of the new material demonstrated that it seals crossheadings tightly, leaves no fissures, suppresses air leakage to the gob, and narrows the width of the spontaneous combustion and heat accumulation zone.…”
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Structural Stability of Cycle Paths—Introducing Cycle Path Deflection Bowl Parameters from FWD Measurements by Martin Larsson, Anna Niska, Sigurdur Erlingsson

“…Being both structurally thinner and narrower structures than roads, the cycle paths are extra prone to this problem. …”
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Weavers, embroiderers, and armadoras in Yucatan: New and old work classes at home by Jimena Méndez-Navarro, María de Jesús Ávila-Sánchez

“…This research is complemented by analyzing the longitudinal data of surveys about work from home, narrowing down on the textile economic sector. The findings suggest there are a set of factors connected to the proto-industry theory, specifically the relationship between the urban and rural, the extraterritorial market that strengthens the labor relationship between works and the commercial capital in the economic expansion of the state of Yucatan, Mexico.…”
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Over 19 W Single-Mode 1545 nm Er,Yb Codoped All-Fiber Laser by Jiadong Wu, Chunxiang Zhang, Jun Liu, Ting Zhao, Weichao Yao, Pinghua Tang, Le Zhang, Hao Chen

“…The fiber laser is designed to operate at 1545 nm by the use of a pair of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) to lock and narrow the output spectrum, which can be very useful in generating the eye-safe ~1650 nm laser emission through the Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) in silica fibers that is of interest in many applications. …”
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Hungarian Emerging by Diana Archangeli, Douglas Pulleyblank

“…One prediction is that we expect languages to have regularities with widely differing effect – both general patterns and subpatterns that exist but only in a narrow domain. We test this hypothesis against Hungarian vowel harmony, a harmony pattern that is often described as involving both [back] harmony and [round] harmony, despite the fact that the language has nonharmonic suffixes, suffixes with limited harmony, disharmony, antiharmony, and both transparency and opacity. …”
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Submicrosecond Q-Switching Er-Doped All-Fiber Ring Laser Based on Black Phosphorus by Yao Cai, Yanliang He, Xiaoke Zhang, Rui Jiang, Chenliang Su, Ying Li

“…By taking full advantage of the ultrafast relaxation time of BP-SA and careful design of compact ring cavity, we obtained stable Q-switching pulses output with a shortest duration as narrow as 742 ns. With increasing the pump power, the pulse repetition rate accreted gradually almost linearly from 9.78 to 61.25 kHz, and the pulse duration declined rapidly at lower pump power regime and retained approximate stationary at higher pump power regime from 3.05 to 0.742 μs. …”
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Ethical leadership in the military profession and the "dirty hands" problem in contemporary armed conflicts by Stanar Dragan

“…In this paper author explores the possibility and implications of the emergence of the ethical problem of "dirty hands" outside of the context of political decision-making in the narrower sense, more precisely in the context of decisions made by members of the military profession in war. …”
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UV Filtering of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: The Effects of Varying the UV Cut-Off upon Cell Performance and Incident Photon-to-Electron Conversion Efficiency by Matthew Carnie, Trystan Watson, David Worsley

“…It is shown that dyes that extend their IPCE further into the NIR region suffer lesser relative efficiency losses due to UV filtering than dyes with narrower action spectra. Furthermore, the results are encouraging to those working towards the industrialisation of DSC technology. …”
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Optimal Corridor Selection for a Road Space Management Strategy: Methodology and Tool by Sushant Sharma

“…Innovative road space management strategies like narrowing of multiple lanes (three or more) and shoulder width to add a lane enhance the utilization while eliminating the costs associated with constructing new lanes. …”
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Sol-Gel Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles: Preparation and Structural Characterization by Oon Lee Kang, Azizan Ahmad, Usman Ali Rana, Nur Hasyareeda Hassan

“…Particle size range was much narrower in an aprotic HNO3-THF medium, as compared to a differential HCl-THF medium. …”
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Numerical Simulation Study on Directional Solidification of DD5 Nickel-Based Single-Crystal Turbine Blades by Jianhui Wei, Min Lu, Libo Pi, Huan Zhao, Qian Lei

“…The paste–liquid interface paste zone of the new model structure in the directional solidification process was narrower. The solidification interface was more stable than that of the conventional model. …”
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Rectification effects of regional air–sea interactions over western boundary current on large-scale sea surface temperature and extra-tropical storm tracks by Lionel Renault, Thomas Arsouze, Fabien Desbiolles, Justin Small

“…Abstract The warm Western Boundary Currents (WBCs) and their zonal extensions are persistent, deep, strong and narrow oceanic currents. They are known to anchor and energize the Extra-Tropical storm tracks by frontal thermal air–sea interactions. …”
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Inclusive education from a sociological and pedagogical perspective: report from Polish research by Dagmara Kubiak, Magdalena Popowska-Bracka

“…Analizie poddano 72 źródła naukowe i usystematyzowano je w ramach czterech kategorii: tworzenie inkluzyjnej kultury, wypracowanie inkluzyjnej polityki, rozwój inkluzyjnych praktyk (Booth&Ainscow, 2011) oraz krytyczna refleksja. …”
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Role of crevice size induced microenvironment variation within the gap in initiating crevice corrosion of 201 stainless steel by Hao-Jing Ge, Yi-Han Bai, Hang Zhang, Hao-Ran Yuan, Ze-Jie Zhu, Pan Liu, Yun-Xiong Zeng, Jiang-Ying Wang

“…Results show that a decrease in pH and an increase in the Cl− concentration within the gap are the pivotal determinants of crevice corrosion initiation. A narrower crevice creates a more aggressive corrosive environment. …”
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The effect of low-cycle fatigue on evolution of fracture mechanics parameters in residual stress field caused by cold hole expansion by Yury Matvienko, Vladimir Pisarev, Svyatoslav Eleonsky

“…The results are obtained for the same stress range   = 350 MPa, but different stress ratio R = –0.4 and R = –1.0. A sequence of narrow notches, inserted under the constant external load, serves for crack modelling at different stages of cyclic loading. …”
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Leakage Immune Modified Pass Transistor Based 8T SRAM Cell in Subthreshold Region by Priya Gupta, Anu Gupta, Abhijit Asati

“…The proposed 8T SRAM cell shows improvements in terms of 7.735x narrower spread in average standby power, 2.61x less in average TWA (write access time), and 1.07x less in average TRA (read access time) at supply voltage varying from 0.3 V to 0.5 V as compared to 6T SRAM equivalent at 45 nm technology node. …”
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Study on the Electronic Structures and Optical Properties in Four Directions of Si-NWs Modified by Oxygen Atoms by Xue-Ke Wu, Song Zhang, Yan-Lin Tang

“…The Si─Si bonds adjacent to the region modified by oxygen atoms elongate, the cell volumes decrease, while the energy gaps of Si-NWs narrow. Evident impurity bands appear on the energy bands of the modified Si-NWs, forming S═O double bonds. …”
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