Indium tin oxide thin films: an ideal transparent and conductive oxides contact for solar cells application by Aliyu, Kabiru Isiyaku, Ali, Ahmad Hadi, Nayan, Nafarizal

“…The increasing demands and advancement of optical and optoelectronic devices such as portable and flexible electronics, displays, solar cells, multi-functional windows and not long ago the transistors are some of the reasons for the huge interest [2,3]. …”
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Recent developments in Qucs-S equation-defined modelling of semiconductor devices and IC’s by Brinson, Mike, Kuznetsov, Vadim

“…To illustrate the new Qucs-S modelling techniques an XSPICE version of the EPFL EKV v2.6 long channel transistor model together with other illustrative examples are described and their performance simulated with Qucs-S and Ngspice.…”
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Beyond ‘The War on Terror’: Prospects for the Middle East and North Africa by Joffé, George

“…Indeed, I even wonder if such a dispensation is possible or conceivable in the intellectual and policy planning environment that has been created since September 11, 2001, if not long before. And, even if it were possible, I wonder how the West – Europe and the United States – could meaningfully engage with the Arab World, Iran and Afghanistan in ways that would counter the negative and damaging initiatives undertaken as part of the ‘War on Terror’ over the last eight years. …”
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US Disposable Personal Income and Housing Price Index: a Fractional Integration Analysis by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…This paper examines the relationship between US disposable personal income (DPI) and house price index (HPI) during the last twenty years applying fractional integration and long-range dependence techniques to monthly data from January 1991 to July 2010. …”
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Sub-workflow parallel implementation of aerosol optical depth retrieval from MODIS data case on a Grid platform by Liu, Jia, Xue, Yong, Vassilev, Vassil, He, Xingwei

“…Operational production of AOD datasets over long time series, large-scale coverage puts on a severe challenge to computing technologies due to both the complexity of retrieval algorithm and the huge data amounts. …”
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Sport and social development: evaluating a professional sport league’s domestic violence and sexual abuse camp by Hills, Stephen, Walker, Matthew

“…However, a broader and more long-term focus on developmental outcomes should be sought.…”
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Exploring the production of natural gas through the lenses of the ACEGES model by Voudouris, Vlasios, Matsumoto, Ken'ichi, Sedgwick, John, Rigby, Robert A., Stasinopoulos, Dimitrios, Jefferson, Michael

“…The ‘Golden Age’ Scenario suggests significant ‘jumps’ of natural gas production – important for testing the resilience of long-term strategies.…”
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Real exchange rates in Latin America : the PPP hypothesis and fractional integration by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…Compared to earlier studies on these economies, this approach has the advantage of allowing for non-integer values for the degree of integration, and thus for the possibility of PPP not holding continuously but as a long-run equilibrium condition. Further, breaks in the series are endogenously determined using a procedure based on the least-squares principle. …”
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Yezidis turn to European Court to resolve citizenship issues by Knights, Samantha

“…However their belief system has frequently been misrepresented and as a group they have suffered persecution over a long period, with violent attacks most recently in Iraq. …”
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A Hybrid Verilog-A and Equation-defined Subcircuit Approach to MOS Switched Current Analog Cell Simulation by Brinson, Mike, Jahn, Stefan, Nabijou, Hassan

“…However, with the growing complexity of these circuits, transient domain simulation times can become prohibitively long, restricting the size of circuit that can be easily investigated. …”
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ECtHR extends application of Convention beyond Council of Europe borders by Bhavnani, Shanta

“…The extent of the application of the European Convention on Human Rights to states acting beyond their borders has long been debated, especially since the seminal Banković & Others case concerning the NATO bombing of Belgrade in 1999. …”
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The impact of unification on the German model of industrial relations by Upchurch, Martin R.

“…A short case history of the auto industry and a long case study of the eastern secondary education sector utilising primary data supplement the analysis. …”
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Sequence-dependent drug binding to the minor groove of DNA: crystal structure of the DNA dodecamer d(CGCAAATTTGCG)2 complexed with propamidine by Nunn, Christine M., Neidle, Stephen

“…The structure shows binding of the propamidine molecule within the AT tract of the DNA minor groove with a shift from the center of the duplex toward the 3’ end of ca. 2 A. The long AT tract of six base pairs in length allows the propamidine many potential binding sites in the DNA groove, and its binding is seen to occur where there is least perturbation to the DNA from that seen in the native structure. …”

Remote fieldwork with African migrant women during COVID-19 pandemic in London: a reflection by Madziva, Cathrine, Chinouya, Martha J.

“…As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic unraveled, state-led preventative restrictions created a "new" normal through remote home-working. A long-planned follow-up qualitative research study on risk perceptions and experiences regarding Clay Ingestion among black African women during pregnancy, in London, was disrupted as England went into lockdown. …”
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Foreign aid and tourism induced electricity consumption in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus by Wolde-Rufael, Yemane, Mulat-Weldemeskel, Eyob

“…Our results are robust to the Canonical Cointegrating Regression (CCR), the fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) and the dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) long-run tests. We also found bidirectional causality between foreign aid and electricity consumption while unidirectional causality from tourism to electricity consumption. …”
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Therapeutic use of calpeptin in COVID-19 infection. by Inal, Jameel, Paizuldaeva, Ainura, Terziu, Esmeralda

“…This perspective will reflect on the capacity of calpeptin for treating long COVID by inhibiting the overproduction of neutrophil extracellular traps potentially damaging lung cells and promoting clotting, together with limiting associated chronic inflammation, tissue damage and pulmonary fibrosis. …”
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Between people power and state power: the ambivalence of populism in international relations by Chryssogelos, Angelos

“…It argues that the debate over the impact of populism on international relations has been influenced too much and for too long by the importation in IR and FPA of mainstream approaches on populism from comparative politics, and by an overtly West-centric perspective. …”
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Immigrants in the transnational far right: integration through racisms and negotiating white supremacy in a migratory context by Garapich, Michał P., Jochymek, Anna, Soborski, Rafał

“…Despite the historical and contemporary instances of immigrants and their descendants engaging with the far-right, whether through long-distance nationalism or country of residence politics, migration scholarship has surprisingly paid very little attention to this process. …”

Social networks and migration: relocations, relationships and resources by Ryan, Louise

“…Exploring rich, qualitative data, I analyse how migrants forge new ties in new places, while simultaneously negotiating long distance relationships transnationally. Particular attention is given to the field of employment and the role of networks in how migrants have accessed jobs and developed careers across various sectors of the labour market. …”

Characterization of ink-based phantoms with deep networks and photoacoustic method by Hui Ling Chua, Hui Ling Chua, Audrey Huong, Audrey Huong, Xavier Ngu, Xavier Ngu

“…This study aims to explore the feasibility of using an in-house developed photoacoustic (PA) system for predicting blood phantom concentrations using a pretrained Alexnet and a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network. In two separate experiments, we investigate the performance of our strategy using a point laser source and a color-tunable LightEmitting Diode (LED) as the illumination source. …”
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