2007 revised competitveness ranking of Indian States and Union territories with relative competitiveness indices of 66 economies of China and India by Lee, Szu Yung, Pham, Ai Minh Ha, Vu, Minh Huong

“…This report centers on the study of competitiveness of the 35 States and Union Territories of India by applying the methodology used in the World Competitiveness Yearbook. …”
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McAdvertising and children: fast food television advertisement strategies and reception by preschoolers by Afshan Asad Junaid

“…The research was conducted with 36 children at two care centers in Singapore. The reception of television fast food advertisements by these children was studied using ethnographic in-depth interviews.…”
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Arenavirus diversity and phylogeography of Mastomys natalensis rodents, Nigeria by Olayemi, A, Obadare, A, Oyeyiola, A, Igbokwe, J, Fasogbon, A, Igbahenah, F, Ortsega, D, Asogun, D, Umeh, P, Vakkai, I, Abejegah, C, Pahlman, M, Becker-Ziaja, B, Günther, S, Fichet-Calvet, E

Case Volume Justification of 3D-Navigated Spinal Procedures: A Cost-Benefit Analysis by Suri, Ikaasa, Suri, Mehr, Hu, James, Dedhia, Siddarth K., Yaeger, Kurt

“…Values reported in literature and by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services databases were plugged into the model to calculate variables. …”
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NetBlocks: Staging Layouts for High-Performance Custom Host Network Stacks by Brahmakshatriya, Ajay, Rinard, Chris, Ghobadi, Manya, Amarasinghe, Saman

“…Modern network applications and environments, ranging from data centers and IoT devices to AR/VR headsets and underwater robotics, present diverse requirements that cannot be satisfied by the all or-nothing approach of TCP and UDP protocols. …”
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The impact of Ming and Qing dynasty maritime bans on trade ceramics recovered from coastal settlements in northern Sumatra, Indonesia by Tai, Yew Seng, Daly, Patrick, Mckinnon, E. Edwards, Parnell, Andrew, Feener, R. Michael, Majewski, Jedrzej, Nazli Ismail, Sieh, Kerry

“…Within several decades of the start of Ming Ban 1, people in Aceh began importing ceramics from production centers in Burma and Thailand as a substitute for Chinese ceramics. …”
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Energy-efficient crypto acceleration with HW/SW co-design for HTTPS by Xiao, Chunhua, Zhang, Lei, Liu, Weichen, Bergmann, Neil, Xie, Yuhua

“…Entering the Big Data era leads to the rapid development of web applications which provide high-performance sensitive access on large cloud data centers. HTTPS has been widely deployed as an extension of HTTP by adding an encryption layer of SSL/TLS protocol for secure communication over the Internet. …”
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ALSO and BLSO evaluation Thailand Myanmar border by McGready, R, Rijken, M J

“…The excel file has a worksheet of data and a worksheet that provides a key to the data. The questionnaire sheet is also included in the package.…”

Raphael in 1503: new evidence on the Virgin and Child with a book and contemporaneous drawings by Aceto, A

“…New analysis of a pair of drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, made by Raphael for his ‘Virgin and Child with a book’ in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, has confirmed that they were cut from a single sheet and has shown that they have been trimmed, allowing the landscape study they contain to be properly understood for the first time. …”

Javier by Tan, E-lis, Lim, Gladys Qiong Fang

“…Javier centers on the life of a 20-year old aspiring musician who has Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). …”
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Simulations of radiatively cooled magnetic reconnection driven by pulsed power by Datta, Rishabh, Crilly, Aidan, Chittenden, Jeremy P., Chowdhry, Simran, Chandler, Katherine, Chaturvedi, Nikita, Myers, Clayton E., Fox, William R., Hansen, Stephanie B., Jennings, Chris A., Ji, Hantao, Kuranz, Carolyn C., Lebedev, Sergey V., Uzdensky, Dmitri A., Hare, Jack D.

“…Finally, the current sheet is also unstable to the plasmoid instability, but the magnetic islands are extinguished by strong radiative cooling before ejection from the layer.…”
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Multi-sensor calibration and multi-modal perception for intelligent systems by Zhang, Jun

“…A sphere is utilized as the target, by observing that the sphere center is a viewpoint-invariant feature. Then, a sphere detection and sphere center estimation method is introduced to extract the sphere center from a cluttered point cloud. …”
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Studies on GaN based HEMT heterostructures on 100-mm silicon grown by molecular beam epitaxy by Ravikiran Lingaparthi

“…AlGaN/GaN HEMT heterostructures grown using this structure showed a room temperature sheet carrier concentration of 0.88 × 1013 cm-2 and mobility of 1380 cm2/V.s, which resulted in a sheet resistance of 517 Ω/sq. …”
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MHD flow of dusty jeffrey fluid flow containing Carbon Nano Tubes (CNTs) under Influences of Viscous Dissipation and Newtonian heating by Nor Aini Naili Noor, Habib, Nur Syamilah, Arifin, Syazwani, Mohd Zokri, Abdul Rahman, Mohd Kasim

“…This current research examines the behaviour of dusty Jeffrey fluid across an inclined stretching sheet with CNTs as well as aligned magnetohydrodynamic (MHD). …”
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Stress evolution of GaN/AlN heterostructure grown on 6H-SiC substrate by plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy by Agrawal, Manvi, Ravikiran, Lingaparthi, Dharmarasu, Nethaji, Radhakrishnan, K., Karthikeyan, Giri Sadasivam, Zheng, Yuanjin

“…AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) heterostructure was demonstrated on 2-inch SiC that showed good two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) properties with a sheet resistance of 480 Ω/sq, mobility of 1280 cm^2/V.s and sheet carrier density of 1×10^13 cm^−2.…”
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Mechanisms and Implementation of Thermo-Optical Annealing in Silica Fiber Sensors for Radiation-Induced Attenuation Mitigation by Legoupil, Aurelien Y. M.

“…The decomposition of RIA into different defect contributions is supported by cold post-irradiation electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy of fiber preform fragments, which reveals the presence of two types of paramagnetic centers: self-trapped holes and E'_gamma centers. …”
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Efficient generation of an array of single silicon-vacancy defects in silicon carbide by Wang, Junfeng, Zhou, Yu, Zhang, Xiaoming, Liu, Fucai, Li, Yan, Li, Ke, Liu, Zheng, Wang, Guanzhong, Gao, Weibo

“…Color centers in silicon carbide have increasingly attracted attention in recent years owing to their excellent properties such as single-photon emission, good photostability, and long spin-coherence time even at room temperature. …”
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Graphene field effect transistor photodetector fabrication and investigation by Deng, Qinfei

“…Graphene is a two-dimensional sheet of carbon atoms in a hexagonal honeycomb lattice structure through sp2 bonding has attracted much attention. …”
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Nearly total optical transmission of linearly polarized light through transparent electrode composed of GaSb monolithic high-contrast grating integrated with gold by Tobing, Landobasa Yosef Mario, Wasiak, Michal, Zhang, Dao Hua, Fan, Weijun, Czyszanowski, Tomasz

“…Our numerical simulation shows 97% transmission of transverse magnetic polarized light and sheet resistance of 2.2 ωSq-1. The metalMHCG structure was realized via multiple nanopatterning and dry etching, with the largest transmission yet reported of ∼90% at a wavelength of 4.5 μm and above 75% transmission in the wavelength range from 4 to 10 μm and sheet resistance at the level of 26 ωSq-1. …”
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Direct reuse of electronic plastic scraps from computer monitor and keyboard to direct stem cell growth and differentiation by Shi, Pujiang, Tan, Chiew Kei, Wu, Zhuoran, Gabriel, Jean-Christophe P., Srinivasan, Madhavi, Lee, Jong-Min, Tay, Chor Yong

“…Specifically, the E-plastics were scavenged from discarded computer components such as light diffuser plate (polyacrylates), prismatic sheet (polyethylene terephthalate), and keyboards (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) were cleaned, sterilized, and systematically characterized to determine the identity of the plastics, chemical constituents, surface features, and leaching characteristics. …”
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