Instrumentation challenges of a pushbroom hyperspectral imaging system for currency counterfeit applications by Lim, Hoong-Ta, Murukeshan, Vadakke Matham

“…Although a spatial-scanning imager may be slower due to the need to perform mechanical scanning, such a high spectral resolution is especially important in applications where the capability to perform classification is much more important than speed. …”
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Algorithms for extracting text from degraded document images by Chen, Yan

“…The main objective of this research is to automatically separate text from the background in degraded scanned document images and locate individual words in the text. …”
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Layer-by-layer polyelectrolyte coated erythrocyte carriers by Heng, Puay Ling.

“…The result from the Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) showed that the erythrocytes were able to retain their biconcave shape better than the previous method which uses erythrocyte ghost that requires all the hemoglobin to be removed prior to the loading.…”
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Producing microscale Ge textures via titanium nitride- and nickel-assisted chemical etching with CMOS-compatibiliyty by Liao, Yikai, Shin, Sang-Ho, Jin, Yuhao, Wang, Qi Jie, Kim, Munho

“…Schottky contact barrier of metal catalyst with Ge is also investigated indicating similar hole injection efficiency among TiN, Ni, and Ti/Ni with Ge junction due to strong Fermi level pinning effect. The TiN- and Ni-assisted chemical etching of Ge shed light on CMOS-compatible Ge-based photonic and optoelectronic applications.…”
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Luminosity determination in pp collisions at  √𝑠 = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC by Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdelalim, A. A., Abdesselam, A., Abdinov, O., Abi, B., Abolins, M., Abramowicz, H., Abreu, H., Acerbi, E., Acharya, B. S., Ackers, M., Adams, D. L., Addy, T. N., Adelman, J., Aderholz, M., Adomeit, S., Adragna, P., Adye, T.

“…Absolute luminosity calibrations, performed using beam separation scans, have a common systematic uncertainty of ±11%, dominated by the measurement of the LHC beam currents. …”
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Compatibility studies of polypropylene (PP)-sago starch (SS) blends using DMTA by Hamdan, S., Hashim, D. M. A., Ahmad, M., Embong, S.

“…Examination of the blends with a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) showed that the SS granules were well dispers ed in the PP matrix.…”

Effects of contrast enhanced positron emission tomography/computed tomography in cancer imaging by Mahmud, Mohd Hafizi

“…Whole body 18F-FDG PET/CT scans of 75 oncology cases performed with both non IV contrast-enhanced CT (NECT) and CECT protocols atCDNI UPM for tumour staging were reviewed. …”
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Neutron emission studies from miniature and medium size plasma focus device by Singh, Rajdeep Raweet.

“…From the perspective of being utilized as a non-intrusive and non-destructive scanning tool, the added advantage with plasma focus devices is also that hard X-Ray and neutron scanning can be done simultaneously as the emission of neutrons is always accompanied by hard X-Rays.…”
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Identification and application of self-binding zipper-like sequences in SARS-CoV spike protein by Zhang, Si Min, Liao, Ying, Neo, Tuan Ling, Lu, Yanning, Liu, Ding Xiang, Vahlne, Anders, Tam, James Pingkwan

“…Meanwhile, the coiled-coil-forming Leu/Ile heptad repeat sequences within the S protein were under-represented during peptide array scanning, in agreement with that long peptide lengths were required to attain high helix-mediated interaction avidity. …”
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Effects of salts on the sol-gel transition and gel network structure by Xu, Yirong

“…In this study, the effects of various salt-out salts, salt-in salts and salt mixtures on the sol-gel transition of aqueous methylcellulose (MC) solutions have been studied systematically by means of micro differential scanning calorimetry (micro DSC), rheometry and UV/Vis spectroscopy.…”
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Modified delay-and-sum reconstruction algorithm to improve tangential resolution in photoacoustic tomography by Kalva, Sandeep Kumar, Pramanik, Manojit

“…In photoacoustic/optoacoustic tomography (PAT/OAT) for a circular scanning geometry, the axial/radial resolution is not variant spatially and also do not depend on the ultrasound transducer (UST) aperture. …”
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Plasmonic properties of two-dimensional metallic nanoholes fabricated by focused ion beam lithography by Zhu, Shaoli, Zhou, Wei

“…The transmittance in the far field was measured by a scanning spectrophotometer. The difference between the design and the experimental results may be caused by the conversion between the near field and the far field. …”
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Survey on the information needs and information seeking behavior of Singapore chief executive officers pertaining to overseas (direct) investment. by Chua, Siok Hong.

“…The study incorporated Choo's (1994) research on environmental scanning as the model for the survey.…”
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Effect of substrate tilt angle on morphological, structural and optical properties of Zinc Oxide thin film by Lee, Benjamin Kun Ze

“…Observations from scanning electron microscope shows compact, inclined columnar structures of deposited zinc oxide particles. …”
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Transition metal doped apatites as inert non-toxic pigments by Pang, Khin Yin

“…FTIR and UV-Vis scans of the samples revealed that the doped copper substituted hydroxyl groups and existed as Cu3+ and Cu+ ions as well. …”
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Fabrication and characterization of human hair keratin hydrogels by Cahaya, Sanryani

“…After fabrication of the different concentrations of protein, the samples were then characterized based on their thermal, mechanical, and rheological properties, using several techniques, including Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Thermal Gravimetric Analysis (TGA), Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), Rheometer, and Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR). …”
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OORD: the Oxford Offroad Radar Dataset by Gadd, M, De Martini, D, Bartlett, O, Murcutt, P, Towlson, M, Widojo, M, Musat, V, Robinson, L, Panagiotaki, E, Pramatarov, G, Kühn, M, Marchegiani, L, Newman, P, Kunze, L

“…There is a growing academic interest as well as commercial exploitation of millimetre-wave scanning radar for autonomous vehicle localisation and scene understanding. …”

Droplet wetting and evaporation on hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces by Phonkrit, Boonchuaysream

“…The droplets also experience contact line pinning-depinning during the CCA and mixed modes on patterned substrates. …”
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DEEP-squared: deep learning powered De-scattering with Excitation Patterning by Wijethilake, Navodini, Anandakumar, Mithunjha, Zheng, Cheng, So, Peter T. C., Yildirim, Murat, Wadduwage, Dushan N.

“…Limited throughput is a key challenge in in vivo deep tissue imaging using nonlinear optical microscopy. Point scanning multiphoton microscopy, the current gold standard, is slow especially compared to the widefield imaging modalities used for optically cleared or thin specimens. …”
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Investigation of the image processing algorithms for medical applications by Nurul Hidayah Abdul Manan

“…Generally, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans or Computed Tomography (CT) scans are used to view the brain anatomy. …”
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