Characterizing Tidal Marsh Inundation with Synthetic Aperture Radar, Radiometric Modeling, and In Situ Water Level Observations by Brian T. Lamb, Kyle C. McDonald, Maria A. Tzortziou, Derek S. Tesser

“…Our findings demonstrate that inundation classifications based on L-band SAR—developed using backscatter thresholding applied to single-date imagery—were comparable in accuracy to the best performing C-band SAR inundation classifications that required change detection approaches applied to time-series imagery (90.0% vs. 88.8% accuracy, respectively). …”
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Digitized thermo-responsive shape memory matrix band for tooth restorations by Chao Liu, Qin Huang, Bin Feng, Guanchen Ye, Yu Wang, Tianer Zhu, Junjie Wu, Lining Lin, Dongqi You, Haiping Yang, Weifang Zhang

“…The results of in vitro class II restoration showed the shape memory matrix bands brought the best proximal profile and contact point, compared to traditional metal matrix and sectional matrix. …”
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Performance Analysis of Software-Defined Networking in Band Controllers for Different Network Topologies by Hussein Ali Al-Gubouri

“…In this paper, several SDN controllers have been evaluated using in-band communication mode with different network topologies to check the performance of the in-band controllers. …”
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Multi-Band mm-Wave Wearable Antenna Synthesized with a Genetic Algorithm by Arebu Dejen, Murad Ridwan, Jeevani Jayasinghe, Jaume Anguera

“…This paper presents the design of a novel fabric-based multi-band microstrip antenna in mm-wave frequencies for wearable applications. …”
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A Novel Fault Diagnosis Method for Diesel Engine Based on MVMD and Band Energy by Cheng Gu, Xinyong Qiao, Ying Jin, Yanbin Liu

“…This paper proposes the MVMD band energy method for fault diagnosis by four channels of vibration signals. …”
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Oxygen-modulated photoresponse in nickel oxide thin films for wide band gap photodetector application by Swati Suman, Anupama Behra, Parasuraman Swaminathan

“…Abstract Metal oxides, due to their wide band gap, are well suited for use in photodetectors as the active light-absorbing layer. …”
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Giant Penile Lymphedema Caused by Chronic Penile Strangulation with Rubber Band: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Shunsuke Hori, Yozo Mitsui, Hidenori Iwai, Toshihiro Tai, Hideyuki Kobayashi, Koichi Nakajima, Koichi Nagao

“…We treated a 65-year-old Japanese man with a giant penile lymphedema due to chronic penile strangulation with a rubber band. He was referred to our hospital with progressive penile swelling that had developed over a period of 2 years from chronic use of a rubber band placed around the penile base for prevention of urinary incontinence. …”
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Multispectral Inversion of Starch Content in Rice Grains from Yingjiang County Based on Feature Band Selection Algorithms by Xiaotong Su, Zhifang Zhao, Min Zeng, Fei Zhao, Ziyang Li, Yu Zheng

“…The results demonstrate that, compared to full-band data, the use of SPA feature selection significantly improved the predictive accuracy of both BP and ELM models, despite a slight increase in the models’ MSE. …”
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A 5.5–7.5‐GHz band‐configurable wake‐up receiver fully integrated in 45‐nm RF‐SOI CMOS by Rui Ma, Florian Protze, Frank Ellinger

“…Abstract This work investigates a 5.5–7.5‐GHz band‐configurable duty‐cycled wake‐up receiver (WuRX) fully implemented in a 45‐nm radio‐frequency (RF) silicon‐on‐insulator (SOI) complementary‐metal‐oxide‐semiconductor (CMOS) technology. …”
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Aggressively scaled T-Gated GaN-on-silicon RF power HEMT featuring step graded SRL-AlGaN buffer for next generation broad band power amplifiers by A Akshaykranth, J Ajayan, Sandip Bhattacharya, D Nirmal, Santhosh Paramasivam, Gianluca Gatto, Amit Kumar

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First-Principles Calculation of Conductivity of Ce-C Codoped SnO2 Contacts by Can Ding, Zhenjiang Gao, Xing Hu, Zhao Yuan

“…When the elements are codoped, more impurity energy levels are generated at the bottom of the conduction band and the top of the valence band. Its bandgap is reduced so conductivity is improved. …”
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A Dual-Wideband Double-Layer Magnetoelectric Dipole Antenna with a Modified Horned Reflector for 2G/3G/LTE Applications by Botao Feng, Weijun Hong, Shufang Li, Wenxing An, Sixing Yin

“…Firstly, a double-layer electric dipole structure is presented to provide a dualwideband, whose folded lower layer mainly serves the lower frequency band while the inclined upper layer works for the upper frequency band. …”
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A Frequency Selection Method Based on the Pole Characteristics by Songyan Yang, Weibo Deng, Qiang Yang, Guangxin Wu, Ying Suo

“…Due to the heavy jamming band of high frequency, frequency selecting strategies are serious issues for the system designed to achieve its best performance. …”
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Diverse Role of Silicon Carbide in the Domain of Nanomaterials by T. Sahu, B. Ghosh, S. K. Pradhan, T. Ganguly

“…Silicon carbide (SiC) is a promising material due to its unique property to adopt different crystalline polytypes which monitor the band gap and the electronic and optical properties. …”
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Antimicrobial Activity of the Synthesized of Copper Chalcogenide Nanoparticles by N. G. Mbewana-Ntshanka, M. J. Moloto, P. K. Mubiayi

“…Reaction time of 30 minutes gave the best optical (the shape of the absorption band edge and emission maxima values) and structural (size distribution of particles) properties for CuSe and CuS compared to other reaction times (15, 45, and 60 min). …”
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Design and Simulation of an Environment-Friendly ZrS2/CuInS2 Thin Film Solar Cell Using SCAPS 1D Software by Sunirmal Kumar Biswas, Monira Khanom Mim, Md. Mostak Ahmed

“…The best performance of proposed solar cell structure thickness, band gap, and donor density for n-ZrS2 is 0.3 µm, 1.7 eV, 1 × 1019 cm−3, and for p-CuInS2, respectively, 4 µm, 1.43 eV, 2 × 1017 cm−3. …”
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TiO2/ZnS/CdS Nanocomposite for Hydrogen Evolution and Orange II Dye Degradation by Václav Štengl, Daniela Králová

“…Doped titanium dioxide by the CdS increased band-gap energy and doping with ZnS increased photocatalytic activity. …”
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A New Method for the Calibration of Site-Related Response Spectra by Xin Han, Shun Yang, Jingshan Bo, Chaoyu Chang, Mei Guo, Yimeng Cai

“…Accordingly, the best fitting function for each period band is determined. …”
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Characterization of Conjugated Polymer Poly(fluorene-co-thiophene) and Its Application as Photosensitizer of TiO2 by Rongliang Qiu, Lin Song, Dongdong Zhang, Yueqi Mo, Eric Brewer, Xiongfei Huang

“…All four of the PFTs were capable of being excited by light with wavelengths above 455 nm, and all had reductive potentials more negative than the conduction band potential of TiO2. Consequently, it was deemed that transfer of electrons from the excited PFTs to the conduction band of TiO2 was thermodynamically possible. …”
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Receiver Jitter Tracking Characteristics in High-Speed Source Synchronous Links by Ahmed Ragab, Yang Liu, Kangmin Hu, Patrick Chiang, Samuel Palermo

“…Jitter tolerance analysis for a 10 Gb/s system shows that a near all-pass delay-locked loop (DLL) and phase-interpolator- (PI-) based de-skew performs best under low skew conditions, while, at high skew, architectures which leverage band-pass clock filtering or a phase-locked loop (PLL) for increased jitter filtering are more suitable. …”
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