The working class in Schrader’s Blue Collar (1978) by Wheeler, Mark

“…This chapter examines Paul Schrader’s directorial debut Blue Collar (1978) with reference to its entrapment of three Detroit autoworkers. Within this rust-belt drama, two of the men are black --- the thirty year-old Ezekiel ‘Zeke’ Brown (Richard Pryor) and the two-time ‘loser’ ex-convict thirty-five-year-old Sam ‘Smokey’ James (Yaphet Kotto) --- and one is white --- the thirty two year old Polish American Jerry Bartowski (Harvey Keitel). …”
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Effect of nickel on localized surface plasmon resonance activity of gold nanorods by Tay, Aloysius Kay Chong.

“…This has sparked great interest in the field of harnessing the unique optical properties of one-dimensional metallic nanoparticles for SERS applications, especially in Au or Ag gapped nanorods as well as nanodisks arrays. …”
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TORCH — an innovative high-precision time-of-flight PID detector for the LHCb upgrade by Föhl, K, Brook, N, García, LC, Cowie, EN, Cussans, D, Forty, R, Frei, C, Gao, R, Gys, T, Harnew, N, Piedigrossi, D, van Dijk, M

“…Optical design studies have been performed for using one of the available bar boxes of the BaBar DIRC detector containing assembled quartz radiator bars in a future test beam experiment.…”

Carbon-semiconductor hybrid nanostructures and their photoresponse behaviors by Zhan, Zhaoyao

“…Carbon nanomaterials are unique in terms of structure, carbon nanotube (CNT) bears a hollow one-dimensional structure; and graphene is an one-atom-thick sheet and has extremely high specific surface area; both of them are presenting excellent charge transport capability. …”
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Performance study of digital communication systems in TWDP fading by Li, Yuan

“…In the context of this kind of fading channel, we research into the bit-error-rate (BER) performance of some digital bandpass modulation schemes, which mainly touches on some binary one-dimension modulations and the quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM). …”
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Design and performance study of joint radar and communication (RadComm) system by Toh, Brandon Jun Xing

“…Performance metrics, including radar detection accuracy, communication throughput, and BER, are thoroughly analyzed under diverse environmental challenges such as interference, mobility, and multipath fading. …”
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3D printed photoacoustic shockwave transducer for cavitation research by Chan, Weiwei

“…The laser generated photoacoustic waves is focused thereby achieving several hundred bars of positive pressure in water. Previous designs employed concave glass substrates decorated with catalytically grown carbon nanotubes. …”
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A facile alternative strategy of upcycling mixed plastic waste into vitrimers by Ng, Joseph Kok Wei, Lim, Jacob Song Kiat, Gupta, Nupur, Dong, Bing Xue, Hu, Chun Po, Hu, Jingdan, Hu, Xiao

“…Chemical depolymerization has been identified as a promising approach towards recycling of plastic waste. …”
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A novel fabrication method for submicron hydrogel particles loaded with protein drug by Philips Laulia

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Pilot feasibility study to determine the utility of direct access and quantitative magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) in the assessment of suspected acute biliary o... by Novak, A, Acharya, A, Beer, S, Espinosa, A, Smith, GB, Saga, C, Andrews, J, Bailey, A, Soonawalla, Z, Bungay, H, Pavlides, M

Does bankruptcy law prevent internalization of environmental costs: evidence from China by Li, Xingwei

“…The ‘polluter pays’ principle has been implemented by several pieces of environmental legislation in China as a means to confront the issue of liability in the case of bankrupt polluters. …”
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Fragmentation of white phosphorus by a cyclic (alkyl)(amino)alumanyl anion by Koshino, Kota, Kinjo, Rei

“…Structural and electronic features of the latter were fully characterized by standard spectroscopic means, X-ray diffraction analysis, and computational studies, which revealed that 2 bears highly polarized Al (δ+) and P (δ-) and relatively short Al-P bonds, indicative of the σ-donating and π-accepting nature of CAAAl groups.…”
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HyMap imagery for copper and manganese prospecting in the east of Ameln valley shear zone (Kerdous inlier, western Anti-Atlas, Morocco) by Hajaj, Soufiane, El Harti, Abderrazak, Jellouli, Amine, Pour, Amin Beiranvand, Himyari, Saloua Mnissar, Hamzaoui, Abderrazak, Bensalah, Mohamed Khalil, Benaouiss, Naima, Hashim, Mazlan

“…Finally, this investigation highlights the significant potential of HyMap imagery for mineral exploration in inaccessible and remote parts of the western Anti-Atlas belt.…”

Factual approach for tropical forest parameters measurement and monitoring: future option with a focus on synergetic use of airborne and terrestrial lidar technologies by Bazezew, Muluken N., Hussin, Yousif A., Kloosterman, Evert H., M. Hasmadi, Ismail

“…This approach contributes to the development of efficient techniques for forest monitoring systems and bears the potential to extend the modelling options from remote sensing data to understory layer trees.…”

LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 hollow structures as high-performance cathodes for lithium-ion batteries by Zhou, Liang, Zhao, Dongyuan, Lou, David Xiong Wen

“…Built to last: Uniform LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 hollow microspheres and microcubes (see picture; scale bars: 1 μm) with nanosized building blocks have been synthesized by a facile impregnation method followed by a simple solid-state reaction. …”
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Experimental Investigation of the thermal performance of functional magnetic nanofluids by Lim, Wen Jing

“…It is also known as the world’s smallest stir bars. In this project, the nanofluid was tested inside a cylindrical cavity with a hot and cold surface and the temperature was taken by various thermocouples. …”
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TDCS-IDMA system for cognitive radio networks with cloud by Hu, Su, Li, Fan, Guo, Huiting, Wang, Pei, Bi, Guoan, Gao, Yuan, Liu, Zilong, Yu, Bin

“…Simulation results demonstrate that the two proposed system architectures can achieve significant improvement on BER performance, multiple access capability, and anti-interference ability with spectral nulling.…”
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Get a Copy Find a copy in the library Internet of Things and Connected Technologies : Conference Proceedings on 5th International Conference on Internet of Things and Connected Tec... by International Conference on Internet of Things and Connected Technologies (5th : 2020 : Patna City, India), organiser 643049, Misra, Rajiv, editor 643051, Kesswani, Nishtha, editor 643052, Rajarajan, M., editor 643053, Bharadwaj, Veeravalli, editor 643054, Patel, Ashok, editor 643055

“…This book presents the recent research adoption of a variety of enabling wireless communication technologies like RFID tags, BLE, ZigBee, etc., and embedded sensor and actuator nodes, and various protocols like CoAP, MQTT, DNS, etc., that has made Internet of things (IoT) to step out of its infancy to become smart things. …”

Linear A libation tables : a semitic connection explored by Eu Min, Niki Cassandra, Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco, Cavallaro, Francesco Paolo

“…Attempts to decipher the writing system have been unsuccessful for several reasons. Unlike the Linear B language (Mycenaean Greek), Minoan, the language hidden behind Linear A and still undeciphered, bears no apparent similarity to Greek, and any ‘translation’ of Linear A based provisionally on Linear B phonetic values has not produced any tangible result. …”
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Fluid fluxing and accumulation drive decadal and short-lived explosive basaltic andesite eruptions preceded by limited volcanic unrest by Utami, Sri Budhi, Costa, Fidel, Lesage, Ph., Allard, P., Humaida, H.

“…Here we interrogate the rock record and obtain insights into the processes and pre-eruptive conditions that led to the 1990 Kelud eruption, which we integrate with monitoring data (seismicity, lake temperature and hydro-Acoustics, sulfur emissions) towards a conceptual model for this type of events. Mineral-melt geothermobarometers indicate that the basaltic andesite magma carried a crystal cargo from as deep as 1519 km, and reached volatile saturation at 49 km with 24 wt.% water in the melt. …”
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