InGaP grown on Ge (100) by molecular beam epitaxy: a spectroscopic ellipsometry study by D’Costa, Vijay Richard, Loke, Wan Khai, Zhou, Qian, Yoon, Soon Fatt, Yeo, Yee-Chia

“…The visible-UV dielectric function of In0.52Ga0.48P alloys nearly lattice-matched to Ge shows the critical points E 0, E 1, and E 2, energies of which are determined using a derivative analysis. …”
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Gaps In Primary Care And Health System Performance In Six Latin American And Caribbean Countries by Macinko, James, Guanais, Frederico C., Mullachery, Pricila, Jimenez, Geronimo

“…Respondents reported considerable gaps in the ways in which primary care is organized, financed, and delivered. Nearly half reported using the emergency department for a condition they considered treatable in a primary care setting. …”
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Phase evolution and room-temperature photoluminescence in amorphous SiC alloy by Zhou, H. P., Xu, M., Wei, D. Y., Ong, T., Xiao, S. Q., Xu, L. X., Huang, S. Y., Guo, Y. N., Khan, S., Xu, S.

“…Room temperature photoluminescence (PL) with nearly fixed emission energy has been observed in the thin films. …”
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Bayesian collective learning emerges from heuristic social learning by Krafft, P.M., Shmueli, Erez, Griffiths, Thomas L., Tenenbaum, Joshua B., Pentland, Alex

“…Here, we show how a Bayesian social sampling model can in principle simultaneously optimally aggregate information and nearly optimally solve the exploration-exploitation dilemma. …”
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Machine learning from quantum chemistry to predict experimental solvent effects on reaction rates by Chung, Yunsie, Green, William H.

“…The presented model can provide nearly instantaneous predictions of kinetic solvent effects or relative rate constants for a broad range of neutral closed-shell or free radical reactions and solvents only based on atom-mapped reaction SMILES and solvent SMILES strings.…”
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Precise Issuance of Meituan Merchants’ Coupons with Machine Learning by Zhang, Xue, Qiu, Jie, Li, Bo

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Modelling and control of HVAC systems by Men, Bunnaroth

“…Nearly 50 percent of Singapore's electricity consumption comes from buildings, both residential and non-residential. …”
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Development and characterization of deep reactive ion etching technology for through silicon interconnection by Nagarajan, Ranganathan

“…It was shown that the leakage current can be reduced by about nearly 3 orders of magnitude when the sidewall roughness is reduced or replaced by a smoother sidewall for the initial few microns of the depth of the via by using a non-Bosch etch process. …”
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Machine learning attack on hardware implementation of one-way function by Lauw, Andri Renardi

“…It reduces the prediction accuracy from 99% to nearly 50%, which is only slightly better than random chance. …”
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Phase separation of a microtubule plus-end tracking protein into a fluid fractal network by Czub, MP, Uliana, F, Grubić, T, Padeste, C, Rosowski, KA, Lorenz, C, Dufresne, ER, Menzel, A, Vakonakis, I, Gasser, U, Steinmetz, MO

“…Microtubule plus-end tracking proteins (+TIPs) participate in nearly all microtubule-based cellular processes and have recently been proposed to function as liquid condensates. …”

Wind characteristics of Oman by Sulaiman, M.Yusof, Akaak, Ahmed Mohammed, Abd Wahab, Mahdi, Zakaria, Azmi

“…The sites are located at latitudes from 17°N to 23°N and longitudes from 54°E to 59°E with nearly equal elevation (18 m) from sea level. Data are fitted to the Weibull distribution function. …”
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A model for wet-casting polymeric membranes incorporating nonequilibrium interfacial dynamics, vitrification and convection by Lee, Hanyong., Krantz, William B., Hwang, Sun-Tak.

“…The predictions for the cellulose acetate, acetone, and water system indicate that densificationinduced convection can increase the mass-transfer flux by nearly two orders-of-magnitude shortly after initiating wet-casting. …”
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Natural IgG antibodies provide innate protection against ficolin-opsonized bacteria by Panda, Saswati, Zhang, Jing, Tan, Nguan Soon, Ho, Bow, Ding, Jeak Ling

“…For nearly five decades since its discovery, the role of natural IgG, which pre‐exists in neonates and uninfected individuals, has remained unclear due to the general perception that natural antibodies lack affinity for pathogens. …”
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Light-induced microfluidic chip based on shape memory gold nanoparticles/poly (vinyl alcohol) nanocomposites by Wang, Wenxin, Liu, Xianbin, Xu, Wei, Wei, Hongqiu, Liu, Yanju, Han, Yu, Jin, Peng, Du, Hejun, Leng, Jinsong

“…The shape memory gold nanoparticles/poly (vinyl alcohol) nanocomposites display excellent light-induced shape memory property with recovery ratio of nearly 100% in visible light. The crosslinked network of light-induced shape memory gold nanoparticles/poly (vinyl alcohol) nanocomposites forms by aldol reaction, esterification, and/or hydrogen bonding of poly (vinyl alcohol), glutaraldehyde, and gold nanoparticles. …”
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Simplified algebraic estimation technique for sensor count reduction in single-phase converters with an active power buffer by Yuan, Huawei, Li, Sinan, Tan, Siew-Chong, Hui, Ron Shu-Yuen

“…With this method, the sensor count can be reduced by 50%, while achieving a nearly 20-times computational time reduction as compared to that of the conventional method.…”
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Ligand effect on switching the rate-determining step of water oxidation in atomically precise metal nanoclusters by Liu, Zhihe, Tan, Hua, Li, Bo, Hu, Zehua, Jiang, De-en, Yao, Qiaofeng, Wang, Lei, Xie, Jianping

“…Au25 nanoclusters capped by para-mercaptobenzoic acid exhibit a better performance with nearly 4 times higher than that of Au25 NCs capped by other two ligands. …”
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Hardware-efficient systolic-like modular design for two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform by Meher, Pramod Kumar, Mohanty, Basant Kumar, Patra, Jagdish Chandra

“…The proposed design can offer nearly the same throughput rate, and requires the same or less the number of adders and multipliers as the best of the existing structures. …”
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Three dimensionals α-Fe2O3/polypyrrole (Ppy) nanoarray as anode for micro lithium ion batteries by Lai, Linfei, Yang, Huanping, Lim, San Hua, Zhen, Yongda, Yu, Ting, Shen, Zexiang, Lin, Jianyi, Liu, Jilei, Zhou, Weiwei

“…A relatively high specific capacity of 0.42 mA h/cm2 can be achieved at 0.1 mA/cm2 even after 100 charge/discharge cycles, with a plateau potential of 1 V and nearly 100% Coulombic efficiency, suggesting the feasibility to use this unique 3D nanostructured hybrid composite for microbattery in both small and large scale applications.…”
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Cylindrical surfaces enable wavelength-selective extinction and sub-0.2 nm linewidth in 250 μm-gap silicon Fabry–Pérot cavities by Malak, Maurine, Marty, Frédéric, Pavy, Nicolas, Peter, Yves-Alain, Liu, Ai Qun, Bourouina, Tarik

“…This approach outperforms the first design in terms of Q-factor, of nearly 9000 for around 250 μm-long cavity, which suggests its potential use for biochemical sensing and analysis as well as cavity enhancement applications requiring high Q.L values.…”
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Improving the Bit Complexity of Communication for Distributed Convex Optimization by Ghadiri, Mehrdad, Lee, Yin Tat, Padmanabhan, Swati, Swartworth, William, Woodruff, David P., Ye, Guanghao

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