Effect of Power Cycling and Heat Aging on Reliability and IMC Growth of Sn-5Sb and Sn-10Sb Solder Joints by Tatsuya Kobayashi, Ikuo Shohji, Yusuke Nakata

“…On the basis of the comparison between the power cycling and the heat aging, it was clarified that growth kinetics of IMC layers in the power cycling can be predicted by investigating growth kinetics of the IMC layer at the temperatures in the vicinity of the peak temperature in power cycling.…”
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Parameter constraints on a black hole with Minkowski core through quasiperiodic oscillations by Ming-Yu Guo, Meng-He Wu, Xiao-Mei Kuang, Hong Guo

“…Abstract We investigate the geodesic motion of charged particles in the vicinity of regular black holes with a Minkowski core, embedded in a uniform magnetic field, and study the influences of magnetic field and regular black hole parameter on the radial effective potential and angular momentum of the particles’ orbits. …”
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Politiser le regard sur les marges. Le cas du mouvement « sur la voie 96 » d’Imider by Soraya El Kahlaoui, Koenraad Bogaert

“…Located in southeastern Morocco, Imider is a small rural town in the vicinity of the largest silver deposit in Africa. Exploited by the Managem group, a subsidiary of the royal holding, the mining industry has faced a strong challenge from local communities since its installation in the 1970s. …”
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Unfolder: fast localization and image rectification of a document with a crease from folding in half by A.M. Ershov, D.V. Tropin, E.E. Limonova, D.P. Nikolaev, V.V. Arlazarov

“…Unfolder is robust to projective distortions of the document image and does not fragment the image in the vicinity of a crease after rectification. A new Folded Document Images dataset was created to investigate the rectification accuracy of folded (2, 3, 4, and 8 folds) documents. …”
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Amplifying and Reversing the Chiral Bias in Asymmetric Photo‐Polymerization Reaction by Dingdong Liu, Xiangxiang Xu, Zeyu Feng, Chutian Zhang, Jialei Li, Yifan Xie, Jingguo Li, Hongli Zhang, Gang Zou

“…Nonetheless, little is known about how the spin angular momentum of light competes with the chiral electromagnetic field in the vicinity of a chiral nanoparticle during the chiral induction and amplification process. …”
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Wpływ emisji energii z terenów zurbanizowanych i szlaków komunikacyjnych na zmiany w rozwoju ekosystemów w ich otoczeniu by Urszula Kaźmierczak, Andrzej Kulczycki

“…It studies the effect of noise on the health of people living in the vicinity of highways, as well as studies of ecosystems in the surrounding routes. …”
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Trois monnaies en contexte « aqueduc » à Lyon à l’épreuve de la numismatique et de l’archéologie by Christian Cécillon, Catherine Coquidé

“…Three coins found in the vicinity of Lyon’s aqueducts have haunted the literature for more than two centuries, mentioned in one text after another as chronological evidence relating to construction or repair work on one or other of the canals, together with more or less complete quotations or embedded information without any source.It therefore seems appropriate to go back to the original documents and to expose them to contemporary numismatic evaluation in order to reassess the relevance of these data. …”
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Magnetic field characterization of edge currents in quantum spin Hall insulators by Felipe A Pinto, Ricardo C Heitzer, Eitan Dvorquez, Roberto Rodriguez, Qiang Sun, Andrew D Greentree, Brant C Gibson, Jerónimo R Maze

“…In this work, we calculate the magnetic field in the vicinity of the edge and explore the potential role of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond as local probes for the characterization of QSH edge states in topological insulators. …”
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A Cloud Detection System for UAV Sense and Avoid: Analysis of a Monocular Approach in Simulation and Flight Tests by Adrian Dudek, Peter Stütz

“…As output, the system generates a cloud occupancy grid of the aircraft’s vicinity, which can be used for cloud avoidance calculations afterwards. …”
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Approvisionner les villes en briques et en tuiles : les carrières urbaines d’argile en France by Bruno Comentale

“…After noting the concentration of the brick and tile industry in the vicinity of several cities in France, the study addresses the cases of the cities of Paris, Lille and Beauvais and the areas within these cities where bricks or tiles are more frequently used in buildings. …”
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Epigenetics and Shared Molecular Processes in the Regeneration of Complex Structures by Labib Rouhana, Junichi Tasaki

“…For example, structural damage is recognized and wound healing initiated upon injury, which is followed by programmed cell death in the vicinity of damaged tissue and a burst in proliferation of progenitor cells. …”
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An Adaptive Handover Prediction Scheme for Seamless Mobility Based Wireless Networks by Ali Safa Sadiq, Norsheila Binti Fisal, Kayhan Zrar Ghafoor, Jaime Lloret

“…Selection metrics, including received signal strength, mobile node relative direction towards the access points in the vicinity, and access point load, are collected and considered inputs of the fuzzy decision making system in order to select the best preferable AP around WLANs. …”
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Contaminant Delineation of a Landfill Site Using Electrical Resistivity and Induced Polarization Methods in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa by S. Mepaiyeda, K. Madi, O. Gwavava, C. Baiyegunhi, L. Sigabi

“…However, the steep nature of the landfill terrain due to its location at the foot of a vertical slope favours the rapid migration of the contaminants into the immediate vicinity of the landfill. The construction of containment structures such as waste cells will help in enhancing effective waste management practices in the landfill.…”
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Survey to Evaluate Escape of Eucalyptus spp. Seedlings from Plantations in Southeastern USA by Mac A. Callaham, John A. Stanturf, William J. Hammond, Donald L. Rockwood, Evelyn S. Wenk, Joseph J. O'Brien

“…To make a preliminary assessment of the risk of seedling establishment in the vicinity of Eucalyptus plantations, we conducted surveys at 3 sites in South Carolina and 16 sites in Florida. …”
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Understanding Multiferroic Hexagonal Manganites by Static and Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy by Yu Ting Wang, Chih Wei Luo, Takayoshi Kobayashi

“…Because of the strongly correlation between electronic structure and magnetic ordering, the amplitude of the initial rising component in ΔR/R shows striking changes at the vicinity of TN. Moreover, the coherent optical and acoustic phonons were observed on optical pump-probe spectroscopy. …”
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Numerical Modeling of Tsunami Waves Interaction with Porous and Impermeable Vertical Barriers by Manuel del Jesus, Javier L. Lara, Inigo J. Losada

“…Finally, flow around the breakwater is analyzed identifying different flow behaviors in the vicinity of the breakwater and in the far field of the structure.…”
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Physical Characteristics of Tetrahydroxy and Acylated Derivatives of Jojoba Liquid Wax in Lubricant Applications by Rogers E. Harry-O’kuru, Girma Biresaw, Sherald Gordon, Jingyuan Xu

“…Acylation of the resulting hydroxyl moieties has generated short-chain vicinal acyl substituents on the oil which keep the wax liquid, improving its cold flow properties and also protecting it from auto-oxidation and rancidity.…”
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Structural, Elastic, and Electronic Properties of Antiperovskite Chromium-Based Carbides ACCr3 (A = Al and Ga) by D. F. Shao, W. J. Lu, S. Lin, P. Tong, Y. P. Sun

“…The Fermi level locates at the vicinity of the density of states (DOSs) peak, which leads to a large DOS at Fermi level dominated by Cr-3d electrons. …”
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A Preliminary Study on the Design Method for Large-Diameter Deep-Hole Presplit Blasting and Its Vibration-Isolation Effect by Shuangshuang Xiao, Hongsheng Wang, Guowei Dong

“…According to the stress distribution in the vicinity of the blast holes under the action of explosive stress waves and blasting gas, we deduced theoretical formulae for parameters including charge mass in blast holes, hole spacing, and distance from presplit blast holes to cushion holes. …”
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Experimental Study on the Influence Mechanism of the Structural Plane to Rockbursts in Deeply Buried Hard Rock Tunnels by Guangtan Cheng, Jian Zhang, Qiang Gao, Chuanxiao Liu

“…The presence of small-scale structural planes in the vicinity of deep tunnels could be one of the major influence factors in triggering rockbursts. …”
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