Biotin-streptavidin binding interactions of dielectric filled silicon bulk acoustic resonators for smart label-free biochemical sensor applications by Heidari, Amir, Yoon, Yong-Jin, Park, Woo-Tae, Su, Pei-Chen, Miao, Jianmin, Park, Mi Kyoung, Lin, Julius Tsai Ming

“…The resonance frequency of the biotin modified resonator decreased 315 ppm when exposed to streptavidin solution for 15 min with a concentration of 10−7 M, corresponding to an added mass of 3.43 ng on the resonator surface. …”
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On the origin and underappreciated effects of ion doping in silica by Song, Xiaohui, Ding, Tao, Yao, Lin, Lin, Ming, Lee, Rachel Siew Tan, Liu, Cuicui, Sokol, Katarzyna, Yu, Le, Lou, David Xiong Wen, Chen, Hongyu

“…Hollowing does not occur when the silica nanoparticles are incubated in solutions presaturated with “silica,” ruling out surface reposition and Ostwald ripening as the hollowing mechanism. …”
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A case-based reasoning framework to choose trust models for different E-marketplace environments by Irissappane, Athirai Aravazhi, Zhang, Jie

“…Thus, it becomes challenging to choose a suitable trust model for a given e-marketplace environment, especially when ground truth about the agent (buyer and seller) behavior is unknown (called unknown environment). …”
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A composite electrode of TiO2 nanotubes and nanoparticles synthesised by hydrothermal treatment for use in dye-sensitized solar cells by Wang, Hairong, Zhao, Dongliang, Huo, Kaifu, Fu, Jijiang, Wang, Xiaoyan, Sun, Lidong, Zhang, Sam, Wang, Xiu

“…The parts of the tubes near the bottom were constantly filled with nanoparticles, which limited cell efficiency to about 2.2% when the length was over 16.5 μm. Accordingly, a further efficiency enhancement of up to 3.5% was achieved with tubes of 16.5 μm by adjusting the duration of the hydrothermal treatment.…”
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Structural responses of secondary lining of high-speed railway tunnel excavated in loess ground by Zhang, Dingli, Fang, Qian, Li, Pengfei, Wong, Louis Ngai Yuen

“…It is found that the contact pressure reaches its first peak value when the tunnel formwork carriage is removed. The load acting on secondary lining is in the form of deformation pressure, which is different from the loose pressure prescribed in the China Tunnel Design Standard. …”
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A discrete artificial bee colony algorithm for the no-idle permutation flowshop scheduling problem with the total tardiness criterion by Tasgetiren, M. Fatih., Pan, Quan-Ke., Suganthan, P. N., Oner, Adalet.

“…The computational results show its highly competitive performance when compared to the genetic algorithm. Ultimately, we provide the best known solutions for the total tardiness criterion with different due date tightness levels for the first time in the literature for the Taillard’s benchmark suit.…”
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Lithium intercalation compound dramatically influences the electrochemical properties of exfoliated MoS2 by Ambrosi, Adriano, Sofer, Zdeněk, Pumera, Martin

“…MoS2 and other transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have recently gained a renewed interest due to the interesting electronic, catalytic, and mechanical properties which they possess when down-sized to single or few layer sheets. Exfoliation of the bulk multilayer structure can be achieved by a preliminary chemical Li intercalation followed by the exfoliation due to the reaction of Li with water. …”
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Independence test for high dimensional data based on regularized canonical correlation coefficients by Yang, Yanrong, Pan, Guangming

“…The asymptotic distribution of the statistic under the null hypothesis is established as a corollary of general central limit theorems (CLT) for the linear statistics of classical and regularized sample canonical correlation coefficients when p1p1p1 and p2p2p2 are both comparable to the sample size nnn. …”
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Heat transfer enhancement through periodic flow area variations in microchannels by Cheng, Kai Xian, Foo, Zi Hao, Ooi, Kim Tiow

“…Despite magnifications of the friction factors, the single wavy-walled channels attained a 120% increment in heat transfer coefficient when evaluated at the same pumping power. Overall, single-walled wavy passages were deemed suitable for heat exchanger designs demanding very high heat removal rates and efficiencies while the conventional serpentine channels were apt for moderately enhancing heat transfer while requiring low pumping power.…”
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The role of regional heterogeneity in age-related differences in functional hemispheric asymmetry : an fMRI study by Heng, Gladys Jiamin, Wu, Chiao-Yi, Archer, Josephine Astrid, Miyakoshi, Makoto, Nakai, Toshiharu, Chen, Annabel Shen-Hsing

“…Age-related functional hemispheric asymmetry reduction was found only in dorsal inferior frontal gyrus and was associated with better performance when the homophone condition was contrasted against fixation, and not line condition. …”
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Cultural resonance & spiritual capital : the role of religion in framing Malaysia's humanitarian response to the Rohingya refugee crisis by Muhammad Idaffi Othman

“…Humanitarian actors can capitalize on religion as one, religion can be a potent source of value construction, two, religion has a large capacity for resilience and recovery of the displaced community, and three, when seen as one transnational community of believers, can be a potent force of humanitarian assistance mobiliser. …”
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Ensemble of parameters in a sinusoidal differential evolution with niching-based population reduction by Noor H. Awad, Mostafa Z. Ali, Suganthan, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam

“…Although these methods succeed in enhancing the performance of DE when solving a diverse set of optimization problems, locating the optimal solution is still a challenging task in most of these methods for complex optimization problems. …”
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1D to 3D hierarchical iron selenide hollow nanocubes assembled from FeSe2@C core-shell nanorods for advanced sodium ion batteries by Fan, Haosen, Yu, Hong, Zhang, Yufei, Guo, Jing, Wang, Zhen, Wang, Hao, Zhao, Ning, Zheng, Yun, Du, Chengfeng, Dai, Zhengfei, Yan, Qingyu, Xu, Jian

“…Such novel nanorods-based FeSe2@C hollow structures exhibit high conductivity and special structural property which provide good charge transport kinetics by facilitating the charge transfer into the inner of FeSe2 nanorods. When used as anode materials for sodium ion batteries, the hierarchically hollow nanocubes showed excellent rate performance and ultra-stable long-term cycling stability at a high current density of 10 A g−1, suggesting a good sodium-ion storage material. …”
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Boosting oxygen reaction activity by coupling sulfides for high-performance rechargeable metal – air battery by Zhou, Daojin, Jia, Yin, Yang, Hongbin, Xu, Wenwen, Sun, Kai, Zhang, Junming, Wang, Shiyuan, Kuang, Yun, Liu, Bin, Sun, Xiaoming

“…RHE), giving an overvoltage difference as low as 0.73 V. When assembled in a rechargeable Zn–air battery, the battery with NiFeS2/S-GO air electrode exhibits a steady charging potential (1.98 V) with very little decay in discharging potential (from 1.20 to 1.17 V) for 180 charging–discharging cycles at 10 mA cm−2. …”
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Deformable pose traversal convolution for 3D action and gesture recognition by Weng, Junwu, Liu, Mengyuan, Jiang, Xudong, Yuan, Junsong

“…Instead of fixing the receptive field when performing traversal convolution, it optimizes the convolution kernel for each joint, by considering contextual joints with various weights. …”
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Few-layer NiPS3 nanosheets as bifunctional materials for Li-ion storage and oxygen evolution reaction by Dangol, Raksha, Dai, Zhengfei, Chaturvedi, Apoorva, Zheng, Yun, Zhang, Yu, Dinh, Khang Ngoc, Li, Bing, Zong, Yun, Yan, Qingyu

“…In this study, ultrathin few-layer NiPS3 nanosheets are obtained and systematically investigated by high-yield liquid phase exfoliation from their bulk layered crystals, and are exploited as anodes for lithium ion batteries (LIBs) and electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER). When evaluated as an anode for LIBs, NiPS3 nanosheets show excellent electrochemical properties in terms of stable cycling performance and rate capabilities. …”
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Interactive rendering of translucent materials under area lights using voxels and Poisson disk samples by Koa, Ming Di, Johan, Henry, Sourin, Alexei

“…We can achieve similar effects, such as low-frequency scattered light illumination from translucent materials, when compared to offline renderers without precomputations.…”
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Deep visual saliency on stereoscopic images by Nguyen, Anh-Duc, Kim, Jongyoo, Oh, Heeseok, Kim, Haksub, Lin, Weisi, Lee, Sanghoon

“…In addition, most algorithms specialized in detecting visual saliency on pristine images may unsurprisingly fail when facing distorted images. In this paper, we investigate a deep learning scheme named Deep Visual Saliency (DeepVS) to achieve a more accurate and reliable saliency predictor even in the presence of distortions. …”
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Stearic acid-coated superhydrophobic Fe2O3/Fe3O4 composite film on N80 steel for corrosion protection by Hu, Jun, He, Shijun, Wang, Zhen, Zhu, Jianbo, Wei, Liping, Chen, Zhong

“…Furthermore, the superhydrophobic Fe2O3/Fe3O4 composite film also showed excellent self-cleaning ability and was able to maintain its anti-wettability when immersed in water. Our work finds that the concentration of NaOH in the second hydrothermal method is a critical factor for the morphology of the Fe2O3 film and the annealing treatment plays a significant role in realizing the superhydrophobic stearic acid coated micro-nanostructure Fe2O3/Fe3O4 composite.…”
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Bayesian data driven model for uncertain modal properties identified from operational modal analysis by Zhu, Yi-Chen, Au, Siu-Kui

“…Conventional data driven models assume training data as precise values without uncertainty, but this may not be justified when they are identified by operational modal analysis (OMA) where identification uncertainty can be significant. …”
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