An analytic approach for optimal geometrical design of GaAs nanowires for maximal light harvesting in photovoltaic cells by Wu, Dan, Tang, Xiaohong, Wang, Kai, Li, Xianqiang

“…Compared with the simulation results, the predicted maximal photocurrent densities lie within 1.5% tolerance for all cases. Along with the high accuracy, through directly disclosing the exact geometrical dimensions of NW arrays, this method provides an effective and efficient route for high performance photovoltaic design.…”
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The hollow fiber bioreactor as a stroma-supported, serum-free ex vivo expansion platform for human umbilical cord blood cells by Xue, Cao, Kwek, Kenneth Y. C., Chan, Jerry Kok Yen, Chen, Qingfeng, Lim, Mayasari

“…We evaluated the efficacy of such a platform in comparison to standard cultures performed on tissue culture polystyrene (TCP), using a human stromal cell line (HS-5) as stromal support, co-cultured with lineage-depleted human cord blood cells in serum-free medium supplemented with a cytokine cocktail. …”
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Resilient power systems operation with offshore wind farms and cloud data centers by Liu, Shengwei, Li, Yuanzheng, Liu, Xuan, Zhao, Tianyang, Wang, Peng

“…The static power curve of wind turbines (WTs) is used to capture the output of OWFs, and the fragility analysis of transmission-line components is used to formulate the time-varying failure rates of transmission lines. …”
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Electron transport and visible light absorption in a plasmonic photocatalyst based on strontium niobate by Wan, D. Y., Zhao, Y. L., Cai, Y., Asmara, T. C., Huang, Z., Chen, J. Q., Hong, J., Yin, Sheng Ming, Nelson, C. T., Motapothula, M. R., Yan, B. X., Xiang, D., Chi, X., Zheng, H., Chen, W., Xu, Rong, Ariando, Rusydi, A., Minor, A. M., Breese, M. B. H., Sherburne, M., Asta, M., Xu, Q-H, Venkatesan, T

“…Here we study epitaxial thin films of SrNbO3+δ and find that their bandgaps are ∼4.1 eV. Surprisingly, the carrier density of the conducting phase exceeds 1022 cm−3 and the carrier mobility is only 2.47 cm2 V−1 s−1. …”
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Investigations into high resolution imaging of the aqueous outflow system and cornea by Hong, Jesmond Xun Jie

“…The imaging probe has resolutions of 10.08 line pairs per mm (~49.61 µm) at the iridocorneal angle region and 5.04 line pairs per mm (~99.21 µm) at the fundus. …”
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Sustained exposure to Helicobacter pylori induces immune tolerance by desensitizing TLR6 by Zhang, Xiulin, He, Yang, Zhang, Xiaolu, Fu, Bo, Song, Zidai, Wang, Liang, Fu, Rui, Lu, Xuancheng, Xing, Jin, Lv, Jianyi, Guo, Meng, Huo, Xueyun, Liu, Xin, Lu, Jing, Du, Xiaoyan

“…The gastric epithelium acts as the first line of defense against H. pylori, with Toll-like receptors (TLRs) in gastric epithelial cells being sensitive to H. pylori components and subsequently activating the innate immune system. …”
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Mitigation of lightning-induced transient effects on a hybrid photovoltaic–wind system based on lightning protection standards by Abda, Zmnako Mohammed Khurshid, Ab Kadir, Mohd Zainal Abidin, Hizam, Hashim, Gomes, Chandima

“…It comprises a 2 MW PV farm, a 2 MW wind farm, and a backup energy storage system (ESS), which are all connected to a 132 kV grid via a step-up transformer and a transmission line. …”
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Power management system design and optimization for European Student Moon Orbitor (ESMO) by Muhammad Dzahir Mohamed Zain Affandi.

“…The buck converter designed is to be able to step down from a voltage of 80V to a bus line of 28V with the use of a specially controlled high frequency switching MOSFET through a high speed 100 MHz microcontroller C8051. …”
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The influence of the molecular packing on the room temperature phosphorescence of purely organic luminogens by Yang, Jie, Zhen, Xu, Wang, Bin, Gao, Xuming, Ren, Zichun, Wang, Jiaqiang, Xie, Yujun, Li, Jianrong, Peng, Qian, Pu, Kanyi, Li, Zhen

“…Herein we develop seven 10-phenyl-10H-phenothiazine-5,5-dioxide-based derivatives, reveal their different RTP properties and underlying mechanism, and exploit their potential imaging applications. …”
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Dataset: Optical fabrication and characterisation of SU-8 disk photonic waveguide heterostructure cavities - version 2 by Taylor, R, Nuttall, L, Lennon, S, Reid, B, Brossard, F

“…<br><br> The folder fig5 contains a scanning electron microscope image and associated 2D uPL map of one of the cavities. …”

Study on designer surface plasmon resonators by Gao, Fei

“…Spectral minimums associated with asymmetrical line-shapes are observed in near-field transmission spectra. …”
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Task-orientated human-robot teleoperation using wearable sensors by Teoh, Yee Seng

“…The average evaluation from the participants is 4.19 out of 5.0.…”
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Analysis of visitors’ mobility patterns through random walk in the Louvre Museum by Yoshimura, Yuji, Sinatra, Roberta, Krebs, Anne, Ratti, Carlo

“…A random walk is a minimalistic model providing a reference line for the frequency of sequences as induced by the graph structure of the museum. …”
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Assessing Early Stage Design Sketches and Reflections on Prototyping by Das, Madhurima, Yang, Maria C

“…This study proposes a rubric for assessing the quality of novice designers’ early stage design sketches including line smoothness, proportion, and understandability. …”
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Modular Verification of Secure and Leakage-Free Systems: From Application Specification to Circuit-Level Implementation by Athalye, Anish, Corrigan-Gibbs, Henry, Kaashoek, Frans, Tassarotti, Joseph, Zeldovich, Nickolai

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Cell activation-based screening of natively paired human T cell receptor repertoires by Fahad, Ahmed S, Chung, Cheng Yu, López Acevedo, Sheila N, Boyle, Nicoleen, Madan, Bharat, Gutiérrez-González, Matías F, Matus-Nicodemos, Rodrigo, Laflin, Amy D, Ladi, Rukmini R, Zhou, John, Wolfe, Jacy, Llewellyn-Lacey, Sian, Koup, Richard A, Douek, Daniel C, Balfour, Henry H, Price, David A, DeKosky, Brandon J

“…We then screened TCRα:β libraries expressed in an immortalized cell line using peptide-pulsed antigen-presenting cells and sequenced activated clones to identify the cognate TCRs. …”
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Three-dimensional flow structures and vorticity control in fish-like swimming by Zhu, Q., Wolfgang, M.J., Yue, D.K.P., Triantafyllou, M.S.

“…We employ a three-dimensional, nonlinear inviscid numerical method, in conjunction with experimental data from live fish and from a fish-like robotic mechanism, to establish the three-dimensional features of the flow around a fish-like body swimming in a straight line, and to identify the principal mechanisms of vorticity control employed in fish-like swimming. …”
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Richness and diversity in dust stormborne biomes at the Southeast Mediterranean by Ben-Dov, Eitan, Katra, Itzhak, Arotsker, Luba, Krasnov, Helena, Zaritsky, Arieh, Kushmaro, Ariel

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Detecting adversarial samples for deep neural networks through mutation testing by Tan, Kye Yen

“…Finding a defence mechanism for these attacks are imperative in ensuring the safe operation of CNNs. The first line of defence for CNNs against adversarial attacks is the detection of the adversarial images. …”
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Quintic non-polynomial spline for time-fractional nonlinear Schrödinger equation by Ding, Qinxu, Wong, Patricia Jia Yiing

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