Farm-Scale Water Storage in Morocco: Low-Carbon Design with Parametric FEA Optimization by Trézarieu, Raphaël

“…Rising temperatures have resulted in drier and denser soil, causing water to be trapped on the surface and evaporate. One solution is to shift water management from large-scale to farm-scale. …”
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Organic transistors-based backplane for flat panel displays by Wang, Victor Bo Chuan.

“…Electrical parameters such as mobility, threshold voltage, subthreshold slope and interfacial trap densities are probed to investigate the impact of different dielectrics and surface treatments on OTFT performance. …”
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Finding meaning behind immortality of Anne Rice’s vampires. by Nurhayati Zakaria.

“…This paper investigates the alluring appeal of immortality through the exploration of humans’ instinctive anxieties against death; it shows how experience in life shapes an individual’s personality and character which in turn is fossilized and magnified during his or her immortal existence; and finally illustrates how the very nature of being trapped in a state of arrested development renders the disenchanted vampire’s perspective of immortality as one that is more limiting rather than liberating.…”
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Electrical charge transport and optical properties of iron pyrite by Shukla, Sudhanshu

“…Charge carrier dynamics in nanocube thin film revealed fast carrier localization and long-lived trap states in the pure pyrite. Temperature dependent electrical and magnetic behaviors supported the existence of intrinsic localized gap states. …”
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Microfluidic chip for blood sample processing by Chalapathy Raja Shobana

“…The aluminum coating on the surface of filter paper traps the parasites, which is later observed under Raman Spectroscopy for detection of disease. …”
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New derivatives of polyglutamic acid as drug carrier systems by Hoste, K, Schacht, E, Seymour, L

“…Dynamic light-scattering measurements and surface tension measurements indicated that phase separation of dextran/PHEG and PEG occurs on a molecular level in the conjugates and results in the formation of aggregates with a PEG core in which free PEG can be trapped. Blood clearance and body distribution studies were performed on female BALB/c mice. …”

Alignment of rod-shaped single-photon emitters driven by line defects in liquid crystals by Pelliser, Laurent, Manceau, Mathieu, Lethiec, Clotilde, Coursault, Delphine, Vezzoli, Stefano, Leménager, Godefroy, Coolen, Laurent, DeVittorio, Massimo, Pisanello, Ferruccio, Carbone, Luigi, Maitre, Agnes, Bramati, Alberto, Lacaze, Emmanuelle

“…Arrays of liquid crystal defects—linear smectic dislocations—are used to trap semiconductor CdSe/CdS dot-in-rods which behave as single-photon emitters. …”
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Doping and switchable photovoltaic effect in lead-free perovskites enabled by metal cation transmutation by Harikesh, Padinhare Cholakkal, Wu, Bo, Ghosh, Biplab, John, Rohit Abraham, Lie, Stener, Thirumal, Krishnamoorthy, Wong, Lydia Helena, Sum, Tze Chien, Mhaisalkar, Subodh, Mathews, Nripan

“…It is also shown that this material possesses a direct-indirect bandgap enabling high absorption coefficient, extended carrier lifetimes >100 ns, and low trap densities similar to lead halide perovskites. …”
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Picosecond charge localization dynamics in CH₃NH₃PbI₃ perovskite probed by infrared-activated vibrations by Stallhofer, Klara, Nuber, Matthias, Cortecchia, Daniele, Bruno, Annalisa, Kienberger, Reinhard, Deschler, Felix, Soci, Cesare, Iglev, Hristo

“…A subpopulation of these can then fall into deeper trapped states over picoseconds, likely due to local reorganization of the organic molecules surrounding the carriers.…”
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Phase-separating peptides for direct cytosolic delivery and redox-activated release of macromolecular therapeutics by Sun, Yue, Lau, Sze Yi, Lim, Zhi Wei, Chang, Shi Chieh, Ghadessy, Farid, Partridge, Anthony, Miserez, Ali

“…Strategies to overcome this challenge often employ nanoscale carriers that can get trapped in endosomal compartments. Here we report conjugated peptides that form pH- and redox-responsive coacervate microdroplets by liquid-liquid phase separation that readily cross the cell membrane. …”
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The effects of processing conditions on the morphology of single conjugated polymers. by Yeo, Hui Lin.

“…Spun-cast single chains were largely found to give neat intensity traces exhibiting discrete emission levels and clear off-states, suggesting a compact and collapsed disordered conformation favoring efficient energy funneling to one or a few low-energy exciton traps. These emissive centers of the collapsed chain were proposed to be intrachain aggregates consisting of closely π-stacked segments, therefore possessing weak oscillator strength and an extended radiative lifetime. …”
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Developing a novel approach to map signals required for GalNAcT2 relocation. by Tan, Wei Ling.

“…Furthermore, to minimise the loss of GFP signals through anterograde trafficking of GalNAcT2 GFP FkBP mutant proteins, a new system was developed to trap these relocated proteins in ER upon addition of drug. …”
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Roles of leucine-rich alpha-2-glycoprotein 1 in normal and diabetic wound healing by Liu, Chenghao

“…Western blot analysis shows reduced formation of neutrophil extracellular traps in the wounds of diabetic Lrg1-/- mice. Neutrophils isolated from Lrg1-/- mice are less susceptible to inducer of ΝΕΤs formation. …”
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A Novel Discrete Filled Function Algorithm in Solving Discrete Optimization Problems (S/O: 12408) by Woon, Siew Fang, Karim, Sharmila, Mohamad, Mohd Saiful Adli

“…The challenge in global optimization is to avoid being trapped in the basins surrounding local minimizers. …”
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Controlled Growth and Reliable Thickness-Dependent Properties of Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Platelet Crystal by Niu, Lin, Zeng, Qingsheng, Shi, Jia, Cong, Chunxiao, Wu, Chunyang, Liu, Fucai, Zhou, Jiadong, Fu, Wei, Fu, Qundong, Jin, Chuanhong, Yu, Ting, Liu, Xinfeng, Liu, Zheng

“…Furthermore, from the time-resolved photoluminescence measurements, the best optoelectronic performance of the perovskite platelet is attributed with thickness of ≈30 nm to its dominant longest lifetime (≈4.5 ns) of perovskite excitons, which means lower surface traps or defects. This work supplies an alternative to the synthesis of high-quality organic perovskite and their possible optoelectronic applications with the most suitable materials.…”
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Subregion independence in gravity by Folkestad, Åsmund

“…We find that extremal surfaces, non-perturbative lumps of matter, and generic trapped surfaces are structures that enable dressing and subregion independence. …”
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Precision Metrology with Ytterbium Ions for New Physics Search by Kniazev, Evgenii

“…We conduct the isotope shift experiment by measuring ions one at a time and in a co-trapped configuration following the protocol of correlation spectroscopy. …”
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A hidden scourge by Caballero-Anthony, Mely

“…The scourge of human trafficking, sometimes called “modern slavery,” affects some 40 million men, women, and children trapped in a horrendous web of forced labor, sexual exploitation, and coerced marriage (ILO and Walk Free Foundation 2017). …”
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Estimation of crown characters and leaf biomass from leaf litter in a Malaysian canopy species, Elateriospermum tapos (Euphorbiaceae) by Osada, Noriyuki, Takeda, Hiroshi, Kawaguchi, Hideyuki, Furukawa, Akio, Awang, Muhamad

“…Leaf morphology was compared between the harvested and litter leaves for trees of various heights. Also, litter traps were set systematically around the trees of various heights, and distribution patterns were investigated for litter leaves. …”
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Improving the speed of variational quantum algorithms for quantum error correction by Zoratti, Fabio, De Palma, Giacomo, Kiani, Bobak, Nguyen, Quynh T., Marvian, Milad, Lloyd, Seth, Giovannetti, Vittorio

“…At variance with other quantum distances typically adopted in quantum information processing, QW1 lacks the unitary invariance property which makes it a suitable tool to avoid getting trapped in local minima. Focusing on a simple noise model for which an exact QEC solution is known and can be used as a theoretical benchmark, we run a series of numerical tests that show how, guiding the VQA search through the QW1, can indeed significantly increase both the probability of a successful training and the fidelity of the recovered state, with respect to the results one obtains when using conventional approaches.…”
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