A Compact Experimental Planar Antenna with a USB Connector for Mobile Phone Application by Cheng-Hung Lin, Kwong-Kau Tiong

“…A practical antenna design combined with a universal serial bus (USB) connector in close vicinity is proposed. In the proposed arrangement, the antenna unit consisted of two planar inverted F antennas (PIFAs) placed on the two sides of the USB connector. …”
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Digital model of a pseudo-random number generator based on a continuous chaotic system by Y. A. Drybin, S. V. Sadau, V. S. Sadau

“…On the example of the Lorentz system, the analysis of the law of motion of a chaotic system, linearized in the vicinity of points of stable and unstable equilibrium, is carried out, on the basis of which the parameters of the mathematical model of the generator of pseudo-random numbers are selected. …”
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Subwavelength Plasmonic Waveguides and Plasmonic Materials by Ruoxi Yang, Zhaolin Lu

“…The oscillation of free electrons, when properly driven by electromagnetic waves, would form plasmon-polaritons in the vicinity of metal surfaces and potentially result in extreme light confinement. …”
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Production of Secretory Leucocyte Protease Inhibitor (SLPI) in Human Pancreatic β-Cells by Max Nyström, Magnus Bergenfeldt, Irena Ljungcrantz, Èsa Lindeheim, Kjell Ohlsson

“…The function could be local protease/antiprotease regulation or antiviral/antibacterial defence in the close vicinity of the cell surface, or even inside the β-cell itself.…”
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Design of a Cell Phone Detector. by Atuheire, Gift

“…This designed cell phone detector can sense the presence of an active cell phone within its vicinity. It does this by detecting the signal produced by the cellphone and this causes the LED to blink and buzzer to sound. …”
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Ideas filosóficas y políticas en Rafael María Baralt by Johan Méndez Reyes, Ana María Padrón Medina

“…La mayoría de los documentos conocidos se centran en recopilar contenidos “clásicos” o proporcionar visiones generales de la vida de intelectuales reconocidos, sin explorar nuevos enfoques. …”
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3D Printing Properties of Surimi Inks Modulated by Bigels by WU Jiajie, TIAN Han, ZHONG Changxiu, CAI Xixi, HUANG Jianlian, WAN Shuo, CHEN Xu, WANG Shaoyun

“…The results showed that when the addition level of beeswax was 9.0%, the mass ratio of oleogel (9% beeswax) to hydrogel (4% xanthan gum) was 6:4, and the mass ratio of bigels to surimi was 3:7, the moisture content of surimi was 86%, the best rheological properties were obtained with yield stress (τ0) of 44.44 Pa, viscosity index (K) value of 7.972 × 104 Pa⋅sn, flow index (n) value of 0.265, and recovery rate of 86.75%. …”
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New Definition of Ultrafine Particles in Mine Paste and Its Relationship with Rheological Properties by Jincheng Xie, Dengpan Qiao, Runsheng Han, Tao Deng, Jun Wang

“…In this study, through experiments and correlation analysis, it was found that the content of ultrafine particles is positively correlated with the plastic viscosity of the mine backfill paste, and its growth range is exponential. …”
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Nanogels Containing Foeniculum vulgare Mill. and Mentha piperita L. Essential Oils: Mosquitoes’ Repellent Activity and Antibacterial Effect by Alireza Sanei-Dehkordi, Abbas Abdollahi, Mojdeh Safari, Farnaz Karami, Ghazal Ghaznavi, Mahmoud Osanloo

“…After that, their nanoemulsions were prepared; optimum samples with droplet sizes of 74 ± 7 and 136 ± 5 nm were gelified. The viscosity of the prepared nanogels and the successful loading of the essential oil in them were investigated. …”
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‘He crossed and re-crossed the way repeatedly’: Illegible Crossings in Poe’s ‘The Man of the Crowd’ by Estelle Murail

“…Poe’s London-set tale famously crossed the Channel to inform Baudelaire’s visions of Paris, but this traffic of influences goes both ways. …”
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Pattern Formation inside a Rotating Cylinder Partially Filled with Liquid and Granular Medium by Veronika Dyakova, Victor Kozlov, Denis Polezhaev

“…The spatial period of the patterns is studied in dependence on liquid volume, viscosity, and rotation rate. The experimental study of long time dynamics of pattern formation manifests that regular ripples transform into a series of dunes within a few minutes or dozens of minutes. …”
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Dynamic Change of Polymer in Rice Analogues and Its Effect on Texture Quality by Ke Zhang, Yang Tian, Chenglong Liu, Wentong Xue

“…The results showed that SA inhibited the leach of molecules, reduced MW of AL, decreased starch content of ES and AL, decreased shear viscosity of RA, and enhanced hydrogen bonding interactions. …”
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Unsteady Squeezing Flow and Heat Transfer Analysis of Magnetohydrodynamic Third-grade Nanofluid between Two Disks Embedded in a Porous Medium subjected to Thermal Radiation using H... by Gbeminiyi Musibau Sobamowo, Ahmed Amoo Yinusa, Mufutau Adekojo Waheed, Antonio Marcos de Oliveira Siqueira

“…The parametric studies from the series solutions show that for a suction parameter greater than zero, the lower disc's radial velocity increases while that of the upper disc decreases as a result of a corresponding increase in the viscosity of the fluid from the lower squeezing disc to the upper disc. …”
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Sentidos del cuidado en centros de privación de libertad para adolescentes en Uruguay by Cecilia Montes-Maldonado

“…Se concluye que existen visiones plurales asociadas al cuidado y que el tratamiento de los y las adolescentes se basa en el castigo por la vía del encierro disciplinante que legitima el uso de prácticas violentas.…”
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Re-pensando la geopolítica del conocimiento: reto a las violaciones imperiales by David Slater

“…El objetivo global de estas notas exploratorias es abrir el debate sobre ciertos aspectos importantes de las intersecciones entre poder, conocimiento y geopolítica, y hacerlo en el contexto del resurgimiento de visiones imperiales y de la necesidad urgente de una descolonización de la imaginación. …”
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Global Existence of Solutions for a Nonstrictly Hyperbolic System by De-yin Zheng, Yun-guang Lu, Guo-qiang Song, Xue-zhou Lu

“…First, by using the technique given in Tsuge (2006), we obtain the uniformly bounded L∞ estimates z(ρδ,ε,uδ,ε)≤B(x) and w(ρδ,ε,uδ,ε)≤β when a(x) is increasing (similarly, w(ρδ,ε, uδ,ε)≤B(x) and z(ρδ,ε,uδ,ε)≤β when a(x) is decreasing) for the ε-viscosity and δ-flux approximation solutions of nonhomogeneous, resonant system without the restriction z0(x)≤0 or w0(x)≤0 as given in Klingenberg and Lu (1997), where z and w are Riemann invariants of nonhomogeneous, resonant system; B(x)>0 is a uniformly bounded function of x depending only on the function a(x) given in nonhomogeneous, resonant system, and β is the bound of B(x). …”
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Effects of Commercial Antioxidants on Aging Resistances of Asphalt Binders by Xijie An, Ying Gao, Zizhen Dong, Qinglin Guo, Lili Li, Yancang Li

“…The basic properties of modified asphalt before and after the rolling thin film oven test (RTFOT) are evaluated by penetration, softening point, ductility, and viscosity. The Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) test was applied to determine the antiaging mechanism of modified and unmodified asphalt. …”
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Implementing the Galerkin Method Associated with the Shifted Vieta-Lucas Polynomials for Studying Numerically the Bionanofluid Flow Which Is Saturated by Gyrotactic Microorganisms... by M. M. Khader, M. M. Babatin, Ahmed M. Megahed, A. Eid

“…Also, the local Nusselt number escalates with the strength of the viscosity parameter while the friction drag decays with the same parameter. …”
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Enhancing transdermal drug delivery: formulation and evaluation of simvastatin-loaded invasomes in carbopol gel for improved permeability and prolonged release by Deepak Kumar Dash, Dibya Sundar Panda, Satyanarayan Pattnaik, Riya Vaiswade, Gayatri Gupta

“…We prepared and assessed different formulationsfor various parameters, including zeta potential, scanning electron microscopy, entrapment efficiency, viscosity, and drug content, and conducted in vitro studies. …”
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Density and surface tension of molten cast irons by Fima P., Sobczak N.

“…Computer-aided development of liquid-assisted metallurgical processes requires reliable basic data for the molten materials, including thermophysical properties such as density, surface tension, and viscosity. Cast irons belong to the group of Fe-C alloys of practical importance due to their good technological and utility properties, yet experimental thermophysical data of cast irons in the literature are scarce. …”
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