Tantalum based amorphous thin films as copper diffusion barrier by Yan, Hua

“…With the fast development of semiconductor industry, a novel barrier is required in order to address two challenges in the back-end-of-line technology: enhancing the interconnect reliability of back-end-of-line and reducing resistance-capacitance delay faced during further scaling of semiconductor devices. …”
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Colon Cancer Disparities in Stage at Presentation and Time to Surgery for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders: A Study with Disaggregated Ethnic Groups by Jain, Bhav, Bajaj, Simar S., Patel, Tej A., Vapiwala, Neha, Lam, Miranda B., Mahal, Brandon A., Muralidhar, Vinayak, Amen, Troy B., Nguyen, Paul L., Sanford, Nina N., Dee, Edward C.

“…Chinese [AOR 1.27 (95% CI 1.17–1.38), p < 0.001], Japanese [AOR 1.23 (95% CI 1.10–1.37], p < 0.001], Filipino [AOR 1.36 (95% CI 1.22–1.52), p < 0.001], Korean [AOR 1.16 (95% CI 1.02–1.32), p < 0.05], and Vietnamese [AOR 1.55 (95% CI 1.36–1.77), p < 0.001] patients were more likely to experience greater time to surgery than white patients. Disparities persisted when comparing among AANHPI subgroups. …”
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Physical layer algorithms and architectures for accurate detection and classification in cognitive radios by Narendar Madhavan

“…To mitigate this, the second work proposes a detection and classification algorithm based on higher-order statistics (HOS) and fractional lower-order statistics (FLOS). …”
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Server allocation for massively multiplayer online cloud games by Zhao, Meiqi

“…In order to earn a decent profit, the cost of hosting MMOCGs must be reduced to an acceptable cost. …”
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Tunable metasurfaces for active nanophotonics by Omar Abdelrahman Mohamed Abdelraouf

“…However, the accumulated light phase is limited by the material thickness and its permittivity. Such a mechanism often results in very bulky optical components thicker than the operating light wavelength. …”
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Interaction of TiO2 and ZnO NPs with human skin cells by Gautam, Archana

“…Nanotoxicology encompasses the study of the toxicity of nanoparticles (NPs) in order to better understand the adverse effects of NPs on human health and evaluate the health risks associated with the use of NPs. …”
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Carbon nanomaterial/thermoplastic polyurethane composites for sports application : preparation, characterization and simulation by Jing, Qifei

“…Plastic behavior of this composite was assessed in cyclic tensile tests, demonstrating reduction of irreversible deformations with the addition of GO. Additionally, in order to evaluate mechanical performance of PU and the GO/PU composite under conditions of large-deflection bending typical for shoe soles, finite-element simulations with Abaqus/Standard were conducted. …”
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Pulsed fiber laser at 1 μm wavelength region by Liu, Meng

“…The rest of the laser pulse energy is wasted. In order to characterize this, a new parameter, Usable Pulse Energy Ratio (UPER), is proposed. …”
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Vision language representation learning by Yang, Xiaofeng

“…Secondly, training vision language BERTs with large-scale data often leads to improved vision language representations. …”
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Large-scale capacitive touch panels : sensor pattern design, sampling and interpolation by Akhtar, Humza

“…Such methodology was not explored in academic literature at the time of this research and it opened up an avenue for further work by other researchers in this field. …”
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Thermoplastic polymer nanocomposites based on polydopamine-coated clay : preparation, structures and properties by Phua, Si Lei

“…Besides, the mechanical properties of PP/D-clay were better than organoclay at similar clay loading on account of the stronger interfacial interactions.…”
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Experimental and numerical evaluation of aeroacoustic damping performance of in-duct double-layer orifice plates by Li, Jing

“…Two arrays of microphones are flush mounted to the pipe system in order to determine sound absorption coefficient α characterizing the aeroacoustic damping performance. …”
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Computational stylometric model for oath and oath-like expressions in Quranic text by Alqurneh, Ahmad

“…To improve oath detection by OLEDA with scalable features in stylometry, character features are added, particularly character n-gram features, bigram and trigram. …”
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Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) for healthcare decision-making by Zeng, Zhiwei

“…Despite the rapid growth of the XAI field, three key open problems emerge from a review of the existing XAI methods. …”
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Adaptive modulation and subcarrier allocation for multiuser OFDM/CDMA systems by Zhang, Hua

“…Based on some related research works, these respective features of voice and data transmissions, such as delay tolerances and power consumptions, are slightly considered. In order to meet requirements of voice and data respectively, the subcarrier allocation and bit loading are adopted for the voice transmission at first. …”
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Extracellular nucleic acids in monochloraminated drinking water distribution systems by Bairoliya, Sakcham

“…The methods used for the synthesis of MCA at lab scale differ substantially in different studies and often lack a detailed protocol for MCA preparation. …”
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Land reclamation - from conventional vertical drain methods to a combined vacuum preloading and electro-osmosis with horizontal drainage enhanced geotextile sheets by Wong, Lung Anthony

“…Based on the validated design methods, all clay slurry can be consolidated to a water content that is lower than the liquid limit in both schemes. As a result, there is a significant reduction in the consumption of rockfill in the trial embankment, as compared with the traditional method adopted in the field. …”
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Fabrication of 3D microfeatures on thin metal foils using laser-induced shock pressure by Nagarajan, Balasubramanian

“…The formed features experience beneficial uniform thickness distribution and material strengthening. In order to understand the effect of various process parameters on foil deformation characteristics, a detailed parametric study is performed. …”
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Studies of insulin transport across intestinal epithelium using nano-encapsulation for oral delivery by Zhang, Yiming

“…An enhancement factor of more than 8x was observed with just 2 layers of insulin coating. …”
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High-voltage IR-UWB pulse generator MMIC design and beamforming for indoor-ranging and radar applications by Hussain Ansari Md Arif

“…The measurement results show better than 6dB suppression for side lobes radiation.…”
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