Volumetric enhancement of Raman scattering for fast detection based on a silver-lined hollow-core fiber by Chu, Qian, Jin, Zhiqiang, Yu, Xingtao, Li, Caoxin, Zhang, Weihua, Ji, Wenbing, Lin, Bo, Shum, Perry Ping, Zhang, Xuping, Wang, Guanghui

“…With our proposed fiber inserted light coupling and light reflecting method, a Raman cell of 3.1 cm in length provides nearly 50 times of signal enhancement compared with direct detection using bare fiber tip. …”
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Visual hull based 3D reconstruction of shocks in under-expanded supersonic bevelled jets by Lim, Desmond Haoxiang, New, Tze How, Mariani, Raffaello, Cui, Y. D.

“…When applied to bevelled jets with non-uniform nozzle exit geometries, an additional assumption was made to address the problem of schlieren line-of-sight blockage by the non-conventional nozzle, and reconstruction errors were found to be larger near regions of poorer shock wave contrast. Current results indicate that the technique is robust and fast during image calibration and processing, with accuracy of reconstructed shock waves in both conventional and non-conventional nozzles strongly dependent on shock wave contrast. …”
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Remarkably distinct mechanical flexibility in three structurally similar semiconducting organic crystals studied by nanoindentation and molecular dynamics by Devarapalli, Ramesh, Kadambi, Sourabh Bhagwan, Chen, Chun-Teh, Krishna, Gamidi Rama, Kammari, Bal Raju, Buehler, Markus J., Ramamurty, Upadrasta, Reddy, C. Malla

“…The elastic modulus (E) of 1Me is nearly an order of magnitude lower than that of 1Et, whereas hardness (H) is less than half. …”
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Multi-objective optimization design and performance evaluation of a novel multi-stream intermediate fluid vaporizer with cold energy recovery by Wang, Zhe, Cai, Wenjian, Hong, Wei, Shen, Suping, Yang, Huizhu, Han, Fenghui

“…The results indicate that this new type of IFV can reach the highest cold energy recovery efficiency up to 95% within the 8% error range when the heat transfer capacity is 11.5 kW and the heat medium flow rate is near 330 L/h.…”
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Genotype-specific expression and NLR repertoire contribute to phenotypic resistance diversity in Plantago lanceolata by Safdari, Pezhman, Höckerstedt, Layla, Brosche, Mikael, Salojärvi, Jarkko, Laine, Anna-Liisa

“…High levels of phenotypic variation in resistance appears to be nearly ubiquitous across natural host populations. …”
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Interval job scheduling with machine launch cost by Ren, Runtian, Zhu, Yuqing, Li, Chuanyou, Tang, Xueyan

“…In the non-clairvoyant online setting, we design a O(μ)-competitive Modified First-Fit algorithm which is near optimal (μ is the max/min job processing length ratio). …”
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DropLab: an automated magnetic digital microfluidic platform for sample-to-answer point-of-care testing-development and application to quantitative immunodiagnostics by Hu, Xuyang, Gao, Xiangyu, Chen, Songlin, Guo, Jinhong, Zhang, Yi

“…In point-of-care testing (POCT), tests are performed near patients and results are given rapidly for timely clinical decisions. …”
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Inherently separated syngas production from plastic waste fast pyrolysis integrated with volatile chemical looping conversion with CO₂ splitting by Liu, Guicai, Lisak, Grzegorz

“…Three conversion modes, i.e., redox, cracking and redox-cracking mixed modes, were evaluated using different catalyst, and found that cracking mode with Ni/Al2O3 or Ni/MgAl2O4 exhibited better fuel conversion and syngas separation performance than redox and mixed modes (using Ca2Fe2O5 and Ni/Ca2Fe2O5, respectively), achieving nearly full CO-H2 separation from the syngas product. …”
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Full-spectrum out-of-distribution detection by Yang, Jingkang, Zhou, Kaiyang, Liu, Ziwei

“…These new benchmarks have a more fine-grained categorization of distributions (i.elet@tokeneonedot, training ID, covariate-shifted ID, near-OOD, and far-OOD) for the purpose of more comprehensively evaluating the pros and cons of algorithms. …”
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Flow-through electrochemically assisted reverse-osmosis: a new process towards low-chemical desalination by Long, Wei, Koo, Jing Wee, Yuan, Ziwen, She, Qianhong

“…Upon applying an extremely low-energy (< 0.005 kWh/m3) electrical field, the FT-EARO module could (1) produce a permeate with pH >10 with no alkali dosage, ensuring sufficient boron removal in the second-pass RO, and (2) generate protons and low-concentration free chlorine near the membrane surface, potentially discouraging membrane scaling and biofouling while maintaining satisfactory desalination performance. …”
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A tandem-locked chemiluminescent probe for imaging of tumor-associated macrophage polarization by Huang, Jingsheng, Xu, Mengke, Cheng, Penghui, Yu, Jie, Wu, Jiayan, Pu, Kanyi

“…Through a combined molecular engineering approach via both atomic alternation and introduction of electron-withdrawing groups, near-infrared (NIR) chemiluminophores are screened out to possess record-long emission (over 800 nm), record-high CL quantum yield (2.7 % einstein/mol), and prolonged half-life (7.7 h). …”
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Validating Thai translations of perceptual soundscape attributes: a non-Procrustean approach with a Procrustes projection by Watcharasupat, Karn N., Ooi, Kenneth, Lam, Bhan, Ong, Zhen-Ting, Jaratjarungkiat, Sureenate, Gan Woon-Seng

“…Subsequent analyses yielded a two-dimensional projection with [Formula presented] explained variance and near-perfect alignment of the composite Pleasantness and Eventfulness axes. …”
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Trust and distrust of tsunami vertical evacuation buildings: Extending protection motivation theory to examine choices under social influence by McCaughey, Jamie W., Mundir, Ibnu, Daly, Patrick, Mahdi, Saiful, Patt, Anthony

“…Our survey of residents living near TVE buildings (n = 202) shows that they clearly prefer horizontal evacuation: in the 2012 earthquake, only 26% evacuated to a TVE building, while 74% evacuated horizontally; if a similar earthquake happened in the future, only 32% intend to evacuate to a TVE building, while 68% intend to evacuate horizontally. …”
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Performance comparison on biomass gasification reactor for hydrogen production by Muhammad Bilal, Muslim, Suriyati, Saleh, Tuan Amran, Tuan Abdullah, Arshad, Ahmad, Noor Asma Fazli, Abdul Samad

“…The main advantage of biomass as renewable energy source is its capability to produce near zero carbon dioxide emissions through the use of gasification process. …”
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Integrative multi-omics dissection of cancer cell states and susceptibility by Liu, Yunpeng(Biologist)Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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All-sky, all-frequency directional search for persistent gravitational waves from Advanced LIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s first three observing runs by Sudhir, Vivishek

“…In addition, we outline a method to identify candidate pixel-frequency pairs that could be followed up by a more sensitive (and potentially computationally expensive) search, e.g., a matched-filtering-based analysis, to look for fainter nearly monochromatic coherent signals. The ASAF analysis is inherently independent of models describing any spectral or spatial distribution of power. …”
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Performance Characterization of High-Density Electrospray Thrusters by Corrado, Matthew N., Wangari, Charity, Finch, Michael R., Parameswaran, Lalitha, Cook, Matthew, Holihan, Eric C., Mathews, Richard, Kedzierski, Jakub, Racz, Livia M., Smith, Melissa A., Lozano, Paulo C.

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An Optimal Tradeoff between Entanglement and Copy Complexity for State Tomography by Chen, Sitan, Li, Jerry, Liu, Allen

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Motivations for watching videos on mobile phones while driving in parking lots and while waiting at intersections in the United States by Gao, Jingkang, Jackson, Jason, Zhao, Jinhua

“…Moral norms are significant predictors of intention in the parking lot scenario. Nearly half (48%) of drivers don’t know their state laws regarding mobile phone use while driving. …”
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Round-Trip Time Ranging to Wi-Fi Access Points Beats GNSS Localization by Horn, Berthold K. P.

“…Here, it is shown to be useful outdoors as well&mdash;and more accurate than smartphone code-based GNSS when used near buildings with Wi-Fi access points (APs). A Bayesian grid with observation and transition models is used to update a probability distribution of the position of the user equipment (UE). …”
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