Solution based synthesis of Cu2ZnSnS4 nanoparticles and thin films for solar cell application by Li, Zhenggang

“…As for the case of DDT, the covalent bonded S is very stable and difficult to be broken down to release S, leading to formation of wurtzite phase. TAA exhibit reaction rate between elemental S and DDT, therefore yields a mixture of kesterite and wurtzite pahses. …”
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Online estimation of key battery states for management of vanadium redox flow battery by Wei, Zhongbao

“…The proposed joint estimator compresses the filter order effectively which leads to a substantial improvement in the computational efficiency and numerical stability. …”
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Web-geospatial water management decision support system for Tanjung Karang rice irrigation scheme, Malaysia by Mamodu, Maina Mohammed

“…Therefore reduced input leads to high efficiency and productivity for sustainable agriculture.…”
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Ranging-based adaptive navigation for autonomous micro aerial vehicles by Nguyen, Pham Nhat Thien Minh

“…By assuming that the leader is globally reachable and selecting proper parameters for the estimation and control laws, it is shown that the integrated estimation-control schemes ensure exponential convergence (EC) of relative localization error, which leads to EC of formation error when the leader’s behavior is deterministic, and bounded formation error for a nondeterministic leader. …”
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Visible light communication systems supporting wireless data access and indoor positioning applications by Yang, Helin

“…In wireless indoor networks, Internet of Things (IoT) devices and industrial IoT devices may have different QoS requirements, ranging from high reliability and low-latency to high transmission data rate, leading to high complex and heterogeneous network environments. …”
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Development of serum alternative with fermented soybean residue (okara): towards cultured meat production application by Teng, Ting Shien

“…It is often discarded at the end of the production process as high moisture content in the matter leads to quick putrefaction. However, okara is also high in protein content, measuring at approximately 20-30% dry matter. …”
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Design and analysis of passive phase shifters using controllable defected ground structures in 65nm CMOS technology for 77-81 GHz automotive radar by Wu, Jiaqi

“…Increased L decreases the transmission speed which leads to a phase delay. In this sense, DGS can be treated as a slow-wave artificial transmission line. …”
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Information fusion and cooperative control for target search and localization in multi-agent sensor networks by Hu, Jinwen

“…A diffusion Kalman filtering algorithm based on the covariance intersection method is proposed, where local estimates are fused by incorporating the covariance information of local Kalman filters. Our algorithm leads to a stable estimate for each agent regardless of whether or not the system is uniformly observable locally with the measurements of itself and its neighbors as long as the system is uniformly observable with the measurements of all agents and the communication is sufficiently fast compared to the sampling. …”
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Mechanical performance and microstructural development of MgO-SiO2-H2O systems by Sonat, Cem

“…The combination of reactive MgO and SiO2 leads to formation of magnesium-silicate-hydrate (M-S-H), which is known to contribute to significant strength gain in cement-based formulations. …”
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Therapeutic effects of Cosmos caudatus kunth leaf extract in the prevention and treament of obesity in sprague dawley rats by Abdul Rahman, Hafeedza

“…The extract also increased the fecal excretion of fat in rats (96.9±10.5 - 114.6±9.3 mg/g in preventive study and 87.7±10.0 - 124.6±20.2 mg/g in treatment study) when compared to that of control HFD groups (55.4±6.6 - 58.2±2.6 mg/g) respectively, suggesting that C. caudatus reduces the progression of obesity by inhibiting pancreatic lipase, leading to malabsorption of fat,validating the in-vitro results obtained in first part of the study. …”
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Development of schlieren-image based flow diagnostics and analysis for supersonic jet flows by Lim, Desmond Haoxiang

“…The strength and location of the reflection point were identified as the major contributing factors leading to the observed changes in the standoff shock properties. …”
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Grid integration and coordinated control of voltage source inverters with energy storage systems by Qi, Yang

“…Due to the proliferation of nonlinear loads, considerable harmonic currents are injected into the microgrid, leading to severe power quality issues. In view of this challenge, it is expected that DESSs can cooperatively share the harmonic currents and contribute to the total harmonic distortion (THD) reduction of the point of common coupling (PCC) voltage. …”
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Synthesisation, characterisation and water adsorption on novel functional metal organic frameworks for heat transformation process by Han, Bo

“…The present results show that the smaller entropy generation (𝑆̇𝑔𝑒𝑛) of an AHT system is obtained under lower regeneration temperature and shorter half cycle time, which leads to the reduction of system irreversibility and the improvement of efficiency. …”
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Map matching algorithms for intelligent transportation system by Hou, Xiangting

“…To determine the position of the target vehicle, most of the existing works need a large search space. This inevitably leads to large computational overheads. In addition, the measurement errors of state information can be large due to the external conditions. …”
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Control schemes of voltage source converters in more-electronics power systems by He, Jinsong

“…When applied to the UPS system, it leads to steady-state errors and sluggish dynamic response; If applied to LCL-filtered VSC, it fails to damp the resonance. …”
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Clustering-based solutions for energy efficiency, adaptability and resilience in IoT networks by Shivaraman, Nitin

“…Owing to their low- cost nature and susceptibility to damage, tampering or battery exhaustion, some devices may become faulty leading to unexpected behavior. IoT networks need to remain functional and resilient even with the presence of such faulty devices. …”
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Development of highly efficient organic and perovskite solar cells by Li, Xianqiang

“…UV-vis absorption measurement results revealed that UV light had a great influence on benzoxadiazole (BD) unites on polymer backbone of PFBD, thus leading to the light-soaking effect. Our results demonstrate that PFBD is a promising material for highly efficient and stable organic solar cells. …”
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Studies on plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxial growth of GaN-based multilayer heterostructures on Si for photodetector application by Zheng, Yi

“…However, growth of such photodetectors on Si (111) substrate is challenging due to large difference in thermal and lattice mismatch between Si substrate and GaN, which leads to built-in strain and cracking. In this work, plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy (PA-MBE) is used to grow dual band photodetector heterostructures on Si substrate as well as MOCVD grown AlN/Si templates. …”
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Low complexity spectrum sensing for cognitive radio enabled aeronautical communication systems by Koodathumkal Mathew Libin

“…The proposed technique does not incur dedicated hardware blocks for noise variance estimation, leading to an efficient hardware implementation of the scheme without significant resource overheads. …”
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Structured sparse representations for supervised and unsupervised learning by Zeng, Yijie

“…In this thesis, sparsity of data graph is achieved and exploited via a simple constraint on locality of each samples, because locality naturally leads to sparsity. The locality-constrained coding method focuses on nearest neighbors and gives rise to a distance regularized feature representation combined with local decomposition. …”
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