Renewable energy from livestock waste valorization: amyloid-based feather keratin fuel cells by Soon, Wei Long, Peydayesh, Mohammad, de Wild, Tym, Donat, Felix, Saran, Rinku, Müller, Christoph R., Gubler, Lorenz, Mezzenga, Raffaele, Miserez, Ali

“…Keratin was isolated from chicken feathers via a fast and economical process, converted into amyloid fibrils through heat treatment, and further processed into membranes with an imparted proton conductivity of 6.3 mS cm-1 using a simple oxidative method. …”
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Study of degradation mechanisms in SiON gate dielectric film subjected to negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) stress by Kang, Chun Wei.

“…ESD experiment is conducted not using the conventional Transmission Line Pulse (TLP) machine but the new Very Fast Transmission Line Pulse (VFTLP) machine which can give out pulse as short as 1ns. …”
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Ultrafast spectroscopy studies of topological insulators and transparent conductive oxides by Cheng, Liang

“…The dynamics of carriers and phonons in BSTS at temperature from 10-300 K are revealed. A fast relaxation process of carriers has been found, which is the relaxation of electrons from higher energy level to the bottom of conduction band. …”
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Hardware efficient algorithms and architectures for burst communications in cognitive radios by Syed Naveen Altaf Ahmed

“…This thesis proposes low complexity schemes and architectures for spectrum sensing, time synchronization, fast acquisition and time of arrival estimation which address the issues of robustness and hardware efficient implementation for low power consumption. …”
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Holey graphene-wrapped porous TiNb24O62 microparticles as high-performance intercalation pseudocapacitive anode materials for lithium-ion capacitors by Li, Shaohui, Chen, Jingwei, Gong, Xuefei, Wang, Jiangxin, Lee, Pooi See

“…Pseudocapacitive storage behaviors with fast kinetics, high reversibility, and excellent cycling stability were demonstrated. …”
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Graphene nanoscroll/nanosheet aerogels with confined SnS 2 nanosheets : simultaneous wrapping and bridging for high-performance lithium-ion battery anodes by Zhang, Youfang, Zhao, Chenyang, Zeng, Zhihui, Ang, Jia Ming, Che, Boyang, Wang, Zhe, Lu, Xuehong

“…The nanoscroll/nanosheet hybrid aerogels (GNAs) with confined SnS2 nanosheets are facilely prepared via fast quenching, freeze-drying and thermal annealing. …”
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Is clicking mechanism good for flapping wing micro aerial vehicle? by Chin, Yao Wei, Lau, Gih Keong

“…When moved passed the midpoint, it now tends to move to the other extreme, together with the external force, resulting in a fast, snapping ‘click’ to the other extreme. Hence, the clicking prototype showed a sudden high increase in wing flap speed when it is moved beyond midpoint towards the other end. …”
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Effect of dopant solubility and excess doping on the superconducting properties of doped Nb3Sn prepared by field assisted sintering technique by Srivastava, N, Matthews, GAB, Liu, J, Speller, SC, Grovenor, CRM, Santra, S

“…Ru and Y-doped Nb₃Sn superconducting alloys were prepared through mechanical alloying (MA) route followed by sintering using Field Assisted Sintering Technique (FAST). Analysis by X-ray diffraction demonstrates a significant decrement in crystallite size up to 0.5 wt% for the Ru-doped Nb₃Sn followed by a significant increment when doping level reaches 1 wt% Ru. …”

The role of calcium dependent neurotransmission in axon path finding, myelination and maintenance of specified cortical projection neuron populations by Korrell, K

“…Myelin in the central nervous system is produced by oligodendrocytes to ensure fast saltatory conduction of action potentials at the nodes of Ranvier, the gaps left by myelin. …”

Evaluation of growth patterns and maternal traits of Brakmas and Bali cows by Abd Wahab, Mohd. Hafiz

“…It was also found that every model estimated negative correlation between the mature size and maturing rate, indicating that animals with slower growth will attain its mature size later than fast growing animals. Brakmas cattle showed higher maternal ability compared to Bali cattle in this study. …”
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A behaviour-based analytical malware detection framework for android smartphones by Damshenas, Mohsen

“…The fast growth in the number of Android smartphone users and the lack of suitable malware detection techniques for these devices attract vicious minds to infect users with malicious software. …”
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Self-healing framework for service level agreement monitoring and violation reacting in cloud computing by Mosallanejad, Ahmad

“…The response time of SLA monitoring systems also are not fast enough for early violation detection, and consuming a high overhead cost for bandwidth, CPU and memory consumption in both server and virtual machine sides. …”
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Ethanol sensor using tapered optical fiber coated with graphene-based nanomaterials by Girei, Saad Hayatu

“…As compared to the fiber coated with graphene, the ones coated with GO exhibited fast sensing performance by having both response and recovery times of less than 40 s. …”
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Fabrication of modified mesoporous carbons-coated monolith synthesized via evaporation-induced self- assembly approach for B-carotene adsorption by How, Cai Kian

“…Higher acid concentration yields fast condensation of polymeric resin during self-assembly process meanwhile excess of ethanol solvent detour the cross-linkage of polymeric materials thus leads to a decrease in adsorption capacities. …”
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Adipose tissue fatty acid composition, serum lipids, and serum alpha-tocopherol in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patients living on the island of Crete by Nikolakakis, N, Kounali, D, Tornaritis, M, Anastassou, A, Papadakis, E, Kassotakis, G, Kafatos, A

“…Both CAPD patients and controls had been residents of Crete for at least the last 10 years.</p> <br> <p><strong>Main Outcome Measures:</strong> Adipose tissue was aspirated, and a 12-hour fasting blood sample was collected for determination of serum lipid parameters and serum α-tocopherol levels; dietary data from a 3-day recall were recorded.…”

Long-term visual outcomes in spasmus nutans by Hennein, Lauren, Heidary, Gena, Gaier, Eric D., Gise, Ryan

“…Children with spasmus nutans benefit from ongoing ophthalmic follow-up until they are past the amblyopic age range, even after resolution of nystagmus.…”
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SoK: Understanding Design Choices and Pitfalls of Trusted Execution Environments by Li, Mengyuan, Yang, Yuheng, Chen, Guoxing, Yan, Mengjia, Zhang, Yinqian

“…Both commercial and academic TEEs have been proposed in the past few years, including Intel's SGX and TDX, AMD's SEV, ARM's CCA, IBM's PEF, and their academic counterparts built atop open-source RISC-V processors, such as Keystone, Sanctum, CURE, and Penglai. …”
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Refining Hardware of Desktop Fiber Extrusion Devices for Affordable Manufacturing and Novel Fiber Prototyping by Glasser, Kaili

“…This device translates industrial-scale fiber draw towers into a compact version, allowing users to experiment with different parameters to understand their effects on manufacturing processes. Over the past three years, successive groups of MEng students have refined FrED’s design with the goal of creating a robust, functional, and affordable device for in-house manufacturing at the MIT FrED Factory. …”
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Between City and Self: Reading Beirut in Mohamed Soueid’s Tango of Yearning by Anouti, Ghida

“…Hence, for him, the film is rooted in the past, yet I argue that it is a significant augury of Beirut itself as a palimpsest of urban memories sublimated by Soueid. …”
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Clinical Validation of Non-invasive Simulation-Based Determination of Vascular Impedance, Wave Intensity, and Hydraulic Work in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Repla... by Brown, Jonathan Y., Fernandez, Gabriela V., De La Torre Hernández, Jose M., Murphy, Michael, Wessler, Benjamin S., Edelman, Elazer R.

“…Aortic input impedance is the gold standard for comprehensively studying the contribution of the vascular system to total myocardial afterload, but in the past measurement has been challenging arising from the need for invasive catheterization or specialized equipment to precisely record time-resolved blood pressure and flow signals. …”
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