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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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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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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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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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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Electronic structures of topological materials studied by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy by He, S

“…Surface states are composed of electronic states that localize near the surface and decay exponentially into the bulk, which exhibit low-dimensional band dispersions different from the bulk states. …”

Establishment of optimise strategies in production of recombinant Hepatitis B surface antigen for chip-based antibody detection approach by Tam, Yew Joon

“…The use of the pPIC3.5K-HBsAg plasmid in the Mut+ phenotype enhanced the expression of HBsAg by a nearly 13 times higher volumetric productivity in the first 24 h and 35 times higher at peak production concentration. …”
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Health monitoring, lifetimes estimation, and thermal management of IGBT-based power converters by Mohamed Halick Mohamed Sathik

“…Normally, mean time to failure (MTTF) is used to check the reliability of power electronic components. …”
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An exploratory study for a new method to search for heavy neutrinos with data at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by Tan, Cherlene Shu Ning

“…If the HNL search focus is placed near the seesaw limit, B and D mesons as well as kaons are viable options for producing competitive HNL mass measurements. …”
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Study on process parameter optimization for electron beam melting additive manufacturing by Wang, Chengcheng

“…In contrast, the samples built from coarse powders (nominal size ~ 45 - 106 μm) show near-equiaxed-grain microstructure and isotropy in tensile testing, leading to higher tensile strength (ultimate tensile strength of 634.1 ± 8.6 MPa) and ductility (elongation of 62.8 ± 4.6%) than most of their AM-built counterparts. …”
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Compositionally graded alloys fabricated using the laser powder bed fusion technique by Wei, Siyuan

“….% Ni was proved to be the lower threshold for fabricating nearly full-density Cu-Ni binary alloy. Cu-7.6Ni-3Al (wt.%) was further designed and fabricated. …”
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4D printable thermally stimulated (meth)acrylate shape memory polymers with tailorable shape recovery force for vat photopolymerization by Ng, Chin Siang

“…As a light-based printer, vat photopolymerization can print thermoset SMPs with Tg near body temperature, which is difficult to achieve for other heat-based additive manufacturing technologies that print thermoplastics. …”
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Combinatorial algorithms for scheduling jobs to minimize server usage time by Ren, Runtian

“…This competitive ratio closely matches a known lower bound µ on the competitiveness of any deterministic online algorithm and shows that First Fit packing is near optimal. In the clairvoyant online setting, we establish a lower bound of Ω (log µ / log log µ)^1/2 on the competitive ratio of any deterministic online algorithm. …”
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The effects of atmosphere-ocean-wave coupling during tropical cyclone by Garg, Nikhil

“…The coupling modifies the low-level boundary layer structure and the physical properties of near surface flow in TCs, which subsequently affects the physical mechanisms such as convective organisation. …”
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