Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) enhanced biosensors by Zhang, Jinling

“…Surface plasmons are commonly excited by external electromagnetic radiation and a common feature of plasmons are that they concentrate the field to the near surface region, and can thus be used to enhance extinction, fluorescent, Raman and other signals. …”
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Pulse frequency modulation based tri-mode controller for switched-mode DC-DC converters by Nashit, Salma

“…Despite the varying switching-frequency, the proposed controller with the PID compensator has an excellent frequency response of a near-constant phase margin of ~67° and a maximum voltage-overshoot of only 5.6%. …”
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Genome-wide mapping of Hif-1α binding sites in zebrafish by Greenald, David, Jeyakani, Justin, Pelster, Bernd, Sealy, Ian, Mathavan, Sinnakaruppan, van Eeden, Fredericus J.

“…Whether these sites are functional remains unknown, nevertheless their frequent location near transcriptional start sites suggests functionality, and will allow for investigation into the potential hypoxic regulation of genes in their vicinity. …”
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Investigation of Synthetic Proteins Produced via Automated Fast-Flow Peptide Synthesis by Cowfer, Amanda Elizabeth

“…Since the introduction of solid phase peptide synthesis (SPPS), the peptide community has endeavored to combine the convenience of flow chemistry with the iterative steps associated with peptide elongation in SPPS. Nearly one decade ago, members of the Pentelute lab envisioned and developed a flow-based peptide synthesizer, the Automated Fast-Flow Peptide Synthesizer, or AFPS for short. …”
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Coupled acoustic resonator systems with novel acoustic properties by Yang, Yahui

“…The acoustic transmission spectra for different strain strengths have been measured, which exhibit transmission gaps near the Dirac frequency due to the formation of acoustic Landau levels. …”
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Non-contact laser-ultrasonic subsurface thermography using waveform inversion by Hu, Lei

“…A strategy of using multiple central frequencies for joint inversion is proved to be useful due to its larger reconstruction depth and higher accuracy in the near-surface region.…”
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Tunable metasurfaces for active nanophotonics by Omar Abdelrahman Mohamed Abdelraouf

“…In addition, we experimentally showed tunable light sources based on the amplified spontaneous emission concept in visible and near-infrared regimes by designing two different tunable metasurfaces that support the bound states in the continuum resonance. …”
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Constraint satisfaction approach to product configuration with cost estimation by Wang, Lin

“…Due to the dynamism and heterogeneity of today’s markets, mass customization has been widely applied in the manufacturing industry with the objective of satisfying individual customer needs while maintaining near mass production efficiency. Product family design is an effective approach for mass customization where problem modeling and solution are two significant concerns. …”
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Perfect- and quasi- complementary sequences by Liu, Zilong

“…In addition, constructions of optimal and near-optimal periodic LC-CSSs (with respect to a derived lower bound) are proposed for the first time by applying linear-phase transform (modulated by Singer difference sets) to optimal quadriphase sequence sets. …”
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Electronic structures of twisted two-dimensional materials studied by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy by Pei, D

“…Using high-resolution ARPES, we have confirmed the co-existence of heavy and light hole-bands near the valence band maximum, which is favorable for maintaining the large Seebeck coefficient and the good electrical conductivity simultaneously. …”

Macrobrachium rosenbergii De Man nodavirus recombinant capsid protein production and its interactions with RNA by Goh, Zee Hong

“…Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus (MrNv) is a causative agent of white tail disease (WTD) causing nearly 100% mortality in post-larvae of giant freshwater prawns. …”
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Effectiveness of clinician client-centered counseling on knowledge, attitudes and sexual bahaviors of antiretroviral therapy patients in Yola, Nigeria by Martins, Olutayo Folashade

“…An estimated 34.0 million people are living with HIV/AIDS globally. Nearly one in twenty adults (4.9%) are living with HIV in Sub- Saharan Africa accounting for about 69% of the global burden. …”
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Genome-wide transcriptome profiling reveals molecular response pathways of Trichoderma harzianum in response to salt stress by Yang, Qihong, Mao, Zhenchuan, Hao, Yali, Zheng, Shijie, Zhao, Jianlong, Li, Yan, Yang, Yuhong, Xie, Bingyan, Ling, Jian, Li, Yanlin

“…Here, we present a 44.47 Mb near-complete genome assembly of the T. harzianum qt40003 strain for the first time, which was assembled de novo with 7.59 Gb Nanopore sequencing long reads (~170-fold) and 5.2 Gb Illumina short reads (~116-fold). …”
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Block-encoding dense and full-rank kernels using hierarchical matrices: applications in quantum numerical linear algebra by Nguyen, Quynh T., Kiani, Bobak T., Lloyd, Seth

“…When applied to many physical kernel matrices, our method can improve the runtime of solving quantum linear systems of dimension <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi>N</mml:mi></mml:math> to <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi>O</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mi>&amp;#x03BA;</mml:mi><mml:mi>polylog</mml:mi><mml:mo>&amp;#x2061;</mml:mo><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mfrac><mml:mi>N</mml:mi><mml:mi>&amp;#x03B5;</mml:mi></mml:mfrac><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:math>, where <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi>&amp;#x03BA;</mml:mi></mml:math> and <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi>&amp;#x03B5;</mml:mi></mml:math> are the condition number and error bound of the matrix operation. This runtime is near-optimal and, in terms of <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi>N</mml:mi></mml:math>, exponentially improves over prior quantum linear systems algorithms in the case of dense and full-rank kernel matrices. …”
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Storage and eruption of silicic magma across the transition from dominantly effusive to caldera-forming states at an arc volcano (Santorini, Greece) by Druitt, Timothy H., Fabbro, Gareth N., Costa, Fidel

“…We analysed textures, zoning patterns, trace element compositions, and crystal residence timescales calculated at pre-eruptive conditions (near-liquidus residence timescales; NLRT) of plagioclase and orthopyroxene phenocrysts from two eruptive units on Santorini: an ∼2 km3 sequence of dacitic lavas erupted between 39 and 25 ka (the Therasia dome complex), and a caldera-forming dacitic eruption that occurred no more than 2800 ± 1400 years after the last Therasia lava (the 21·8 ka, >10 km3 Cape Riva eruption). …”
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Perovskite superstructures and heterostructures for enhanced optical performance by Chan, Wen Kiat

“…The heterostructures demonstrated two-way energy transfer and could be activated with ultraviolet or near-infrared light. In conclusion, this thesis provided insights into perovskite SS formation, developed hybrid SS perovskites with ultrapure green emissions, and highlighted a strategy to overcome the lattice mismatch to form LnNP@perovskite heterostructures. …”
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A cross-layer payload-dropping scheme for improving CSMA/CA throughput in interference-limited co-channel cells by Jayabal, Raymond J.

“…For transceivers which do not support CST, PD-CSMA/CA adequately mitigates the exposed node problem, thereby allowing nodes to enjoy nearly the maximum throughput as provided by CSMA/CA in the single cell scenario. …”
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Experimental investigation of pile-supported/floating breakwaters integrated with oscillating-water-column converters by He, Fang

“…Since wave energy mainly concentrates near the water surface, and exponentially decreases with increasing distance from the water surface, pile-supported breakwaters and floating breakwaters may be good alternatives to traditional breakwaters. …”
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Dynamic drug combination methods for suppressing bacterial antibiotics resistance adaptation by Bhone, Myint Kyaw

“…Therefore, there is a concern that MRSA would gradually become fully-resistant to vancomycin in the near future and newer treatment strategies or compounds that can effectively cure S. aureus related infections should be well underway before our last antibiotic runs out. …”
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Essays on multi-echelon inventory control by Wan, Guangyu

“…However, finding warehouse stock allocation policies that are optimal or near-optimal and easy to implement is of practical importance. …”
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