High CO Methanation Performance of Two-Dimensional Ni/MgAl Layered Double Oxide with Enhanced Oxygen Vacancies via Flash Nanoprecipitation by Mengjuan Zhang, Feng Yu, Jiangbing Li, Kai Chen, Yongbin Yao, Panpan Li, Mingyuan Zhu, Yulin Shi, Qiang Wang, Xuhong Guo

“…The weight hourly space velocity was 20,000 mL∙g−1∙h−1 with a synthesis gas flow rate of 65 mL∙min−1, and a pressure of 1 atm. A control experiment used the CP method to prepare Ni/MgAl-LDO. …”
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Evaluation of an Ozone-Induced Free Radical Solution’s Characteristics and Its Efficacy as an Alternative Pest Control Method by Chundu Wu, Peng Tang, Aineng Cao, Pengfei Ni, Bo Zhang, Zhongwei Chang

“…The mechanism by which the solution eradicates pathogenic bacteria was investigated using electron microscopy, and a disease prevention and control experiment was conducted. Under slightly acidic conditions, the redox potential of the solution was observed to be high, with an air intake of 0.5 L/min and a liquid intake of 1.45 L/min, while the concentration decayed slowly, with a liquid intake of 0.98 L/min. …”
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Design and optimization of powertrain system for prototype fuel cell electric vehicle by S.M.H.S. Omar, N.M. Arshad, I.M. Yassin, M.H.A.M. Fakharuzi, T.A. Ward

“…In the design process, the car’s fuel-cell efficiency, energy demand, track behavior, motor efficiency analysis, and driving control strategy need to be monitored and used to verify the designed automated intelligent controller. Experiments on the automated intelligent controller were undertaken to analyze the performance of the powertrain system for a certain given time. …”
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Bioluminescence-induced photocatalysis on semiconducting oxide nanosheets by Kai Kamada, Hideaki Sano, Osamu Nakagoe, Shuji Tanabe, Jae-Min Oh

“…In contrast, a control experiment without HRP, i.e. a dark experiment, did not leave any evidence for photocatalytic reaction of PtCl62-. …”
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Smart Aquaponics: An Automated Water Quality Management System for Sustainable Urban Agriculture by Chiang Liang Kok, I Made Bagus Pradnya Kusuma, Yit Yan Koh, Howard Tang, Ah Boon Lim

“…In this study, we propose a comprehensive approach combining a literature review and controlled experiments. Through the literature review, the recent findings on water management and sustainability in food production were analyzed, providing crucial insights for enhancing aquaponic system performance. …”
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Soft Actuators Based on Spin‐Crossover Particles Embedded in Thermoplastic Polyurethane by Yue Zan, Mario Piedrahita-Bello, Seyed E. Alavi, Gábor Molnár, Bertrand Tondu, Lionel Salmon, Azzedine Bousseksou

“…This natural adaptive character can explain the drastically diminished response time in closed‐loop proportional–integral–derivative control experiments (2–3 s). Finally, tracking experiments are carried out to evaluate the robustness of the actuator with and without payloads. …”
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Sand Rubber Mixtures under Oedometric Loading: Sand-like vs. Rubber-like Behavior by Pravin Badarayani, Bogdan Cazacliu, Erdin Ibraim, Riccardo Artoni, Patrick Richard

“…In this article, the one-dimensional loading/unloading behavior of sand-rubber mixtures is investigated by laboratory strain-controlled experiments performed for different packing densities, particle sizes, rubber contents, and sand/rubber size ratios. …”
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Antiviral Compounds Screening Targeting HBx Protein of the Hepatitis B Virus by Yaojia Ma, Shingo Nakamoto, Junjie Ao, Na Qiang, Tadayoshi Kogure, Keita Ogawa, Miyuki Nakagawa, Kisako Fujiwara, Terunao Iwanaga, Ryuta Kojima, Hiroaki Kanzaki, Keisuke Koroki, Kazufumi Kobayashi, Naoya Kanogawa, Soichiro Kiyono, Masato Nakamura, Takayuki Kondo, Ryo Nakagawa, Sadahisa Ogasawara, Ryosuke Muroyama, Tetsuhiro Chiba, Jun Kato, Naoya Kato

“…GST protein alone was used for control experiments. Candidate compounds were tested for anti-HBV activity as well as cell viability using HepG2.2.15.7 cells and HBV-infected human hepatocytes. …”
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Gesture-Based Interactions: Integrating Accelerometer and Gyroscope Sensors in the Use of Mobile Apps by Sergio Caro-Alvaro, Eva Garcia-Lopez, Alexander Brun-Guajardo, Antonio Garcia-Cabot, Aekaterini Mavri

“…The Android app developed for this purpose has been created for its use in controlled experiments. Methodologically, it was created as a stand-alone tool to both capture quantitative (time, automatically captured) and qualitative (behavior, collected with post-task questionnaires) variables. …”
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AdvAndMal: Adversarial Training for Android Malware Detection and Family Classification by Chenyue Wang, Linlin Zhang, Kai Zhao, Xuhui Ding, Xusheng Wang

“…To evaluate the adversarial training effect of the framework, we propose the robustness coefficient, a symmetric interval i = [−1, 1], and conduct controlled experiments on the dataset to measure the robustness of the overall framework for the adversarial training. …”
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Analyzing external and internal membrane fouling by oil emulsions via 3D optical coherence tomography by Trinh, Thien An, Li, Weiyi, Han, Qi, Liu, Xin, Fane, Anthony G., Chew, Jia Wei

“…The experimental results were compared with the control experiments with ~ 10 µm glass beads to identify the optical artifacts. …”
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Treelike two-level PdₓAgᵧ nanocrystals tailored for bifunctional fuel cell electrocatalysis by Jiang, Xian, Xiong, Yuexin, Wang, Yufei, Wang, Jiaxin, Li, Naixu, Zhou, Jiancheng, Fu, Gengtao, Sun, Dongmei, Tang, Yawen

“…The formation mechanism of PdₓAgᵧ NTs has been investigated well via a series of control experiments, which is just like the germination and growth of a tree. …”
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Nanoscale stirring at the liquid-liquid interface: the interfacial nano-vortexer actively converges immiscible biphasic reactants for enhanced phase-transfer catalysis by Ang, Zhi Zhong, Pereira, Veronica, Boong, Siew Kheng, Li, Haitao, Lee, Hiang Kwee

“…This superior performance represents up to a 200-fold enhancement in phase-transfer catalysis compared to control experiments involving a non-dynamic liquid-liquid interface or traditional homogenization methods. …”
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Preliminary studies on immobilized cells-based microbial fuel cell system on its power generation performance by Mesran, Mohd. Hadi, Mamat, Syafikah, Pang, Yee Rui, Hong, Tan Yi, Z., Muneera, Md. Ghazali, Nazlee Faisal, Ali, Md. Abbas, Nik Mahmood, Nik Azmi

“…Furthermore, using the GAC, maximum open circuit voltage produced was 403 mV which was higher than a control experiment without the usage of GAC, which achieved 217 mV only after 200 hours operation. …”

Cooperation between laccase and glucose oxidase in the oxidation of lignin model compound by Mohamed Yazrul, Mohd Yassin

“…Therefore, in this study lignin model compound (LMC) will be used as a preliminary study to be able to understand the interaction between the enzymes and lignin. First, the control experiment was conducted by oxidizing 3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulphonic acid (ABTS) in the presence of laccase from trametes versicolor (LTV). …”
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Impact of AERI Temperature and Moisture Retrievals on the Simulation of a Central Plains Severe Convective Weather Event by William E. Lewis, Timothy J. Wagner, Jason A. Otkin, Thomas A. Jones

“…In this study, bias-corrected temperature and moisture retrievals from the Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) were assimilated using the Data Assimilation Research Testbed ensemble adjustment Kalman filter to assess their impact on Weather Research and Forecasting model analyses and forecasts of a severe convective weather (SCW) event that occurred on 18–19 May 2017. Relative to a control experiment that assimilated conventional observations only, the AERI assimilation experiment produced analyses that were better fit to surface temperature and moisture observations and which displayed sharper depiction of surface boundaries (cold front, dry line) known to be important in the initiation and development of SCW. …”
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Modeling and implementing a load management system for a solar home system based on Fuzzy Logic by Makmur Saini, Muhammad Ruswandi Djalal, Muhammad Azhar, Golda Evangelista Patrix

“…In the fan load control experiment using fuzzy logic, the energy consumption setting was obtained according to the room temperature input and the number of people in the room. …”
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Sensorimotor memory biases weight perception during object lifting by Vonne evan Polanen, Marco eDavare, Marco eDavare

“…This perceptual bias was only found if the current lift was light, but not heavy since the magnitude of sensorimotor memory effects had, according to Weber’s law, relatively less impact on heavy compared to light objects. A control experiment tested the importance of active lifting in mediating these perceptual changes and showed that when weights are passively applied on the hand, no effect of previous sensory experience is found on perception. …”
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THE IMPACT OF SERVICE VARIETY ON ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE IN A HETEROGENEOUS SECTOR: A REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF GERMAN RETAIL HORTICULTURE by Engelke C.

“…Part 1: We gave proof that relevant situational characteristics on GRH include size, level of controlling, experience and service variety as internal factor variables, showing high eigenvalues. …”
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scTIGER: A Deep-Learning Method for Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks from Case versus Control scRNA-seq Datasets by Madison Dautle, Shaoqiang Zhang, Yong Chen

“…Although many computational methods have been designed to predict GRNs from scRNA-seq data, they usually have high false positive rates and none infer GRNs by directly using the paired datasets of case-versus-control experiments. Here we present a novel deep-learning-based method, named scTIGER, for GRN detection by using the co-differential relationships of gene expression profiles in paired scRNA-seq datasets. scTIGER employs cell-type-based pseudotiming, an attention-based convolutional neural network method and permutation-based significance testing for inferring GRNs among gene modules. …”
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