Microlensing Near Macro-Caustics by Weisenbach, Luke, Anguita, Timo, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Oguri, Masamune, Saha, Prasenjit, Schechter, Paul L.

“…Microlensing near macro-caustics is a complex phenomenon in which swarms of micro-images produced by micro-caustics form on both sides of a macro-critical curve. …”
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Near field wireless power transfer by Er, Gavin Kian Ming

“…Wireless power transmission has been around since the 1890s and has started to become more prominent in the recent years thanks to technological advancements and breakthroughs in near-field wireless power systems using magnetic resonance. …”
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Near-zero environmental impact aircraft by Prashanth, Prakash, Elmourad, Jad, Grobler, Carla, Isaacs, Stewart, Zahid, Syed Shayan, Abel, James, Falter, Christoph, Fritz, Thibaud, Allroggen, Florian, Sabnis, Jayant S., Eastham, Sebastian D., Speth, Raymond L., Barrett, Steven R. H.

“…We use these models to propose and analyze near-zero environmental impact aircraft, which we define as having net zero climate warming and a greater than 95% reduction in air quality impacts relative to present day. …”
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Canonical Diffeomorphisms of Manifolds Near Spheres by Wang, Bing, Zhao, Xinrui

“…Abstract For a given Riemannian manifold $$(M^n, g)$$ ( M n , g ) which is near standard sphere $$(S^n, g_{round})$$ ( S n , g round ) in the Gromov–Hausdorff topology and satisfies $$Rc \ge n-1$$ R c ≥ n - 1 , it is known by Cheeger–Colding theory that M is diffeomorphic to $$S^n$$ S n . …”
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Three-dimensional modeling of near-field beam profiles from grating couplers using a deep neural network by Lim, Yu Dian, Tan, Chuan Seng

“…In short, this work demonstrates an alternative DNN-assisted technique to rapidly generate beam profiles in the reactive near-field region.…”
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Near Optimal Alphabet-Soundness Tradeoff PCPs by Minzer, Dor, Zheng, Kai Zhe

“…Our result has the following implications: (1) Near optimal hardness for Quadratic Programming: it is NPhard to approximate the value of a given Boolean Quadratic Program within factor (log) 1− (1) under quasi-polynomial time reductions. …”
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0-1 Knapsack in Nearly Quadratic Time by Jin, Ce

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A Nearly Quadratic Improvement for Memory Reallocation by Farach-Colton, Martin, Kuszmaul, William, Sheffield, Nathan S., Westover, Alek

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Łojasiewicz inequalities near simple bubble trees by Malchiodi, A, Rupflin, M, Sharp, B

“…<br> To prove these results we derive sufficient conditions for Łojasiewicz inequalities to hold near a finite-dimensional submanifold of almost-critical points for suitable functionals on a Hilbert space.…”

Scalable near identical image and shot detection by Chum, O, Philbin, J, Isard, M, Zisserman, A

“…We define two shots to be near-duplicates if they share a large percentage of near-duplicate frames. …”

Performance enhancement and size reduction of near-eye display by Cheng, Qijia

“…Near-eye display (NED) paved its way in a variety of applications of modern virtual reality (VR). …”
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Near-Field Antenna Measurements : Calculations and Facility Design / by Kalashnikov, Vadim Serafimovich, author 643223, Ponomarev, Maxim Yurievich, author 643225, Platonov, Oleg Yurievich, author 643226, Shubnikov, Victor Vasilievich, author 643227, Rivkin, Mark Ilyich, author 643228, Shatrakov, Artem Yurievich, author 643229, Shatrakov, I͡U. G. (I͡Uriĭ Grigorʹevich), author 643230, Zavalishin, Oleg Ivanovich, author 643231

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Superscattering of light in refractive-index near-zero environments by Wang, Chan, Qian, Chao, Hu, Hao, Shen, Lian, Wang, Zuojia, Wang, Huaping, Xu, Zhiwei, Zhang, Baile, Chen, Hongsheng, Lin, Xiao

“…Here the superscattering from subwavelength structures in the isotropic environment with near-zero index are theoretically investigated. Importantly, a smaller n can lead to a larger total cross section for superscattering. …”
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Retinal projection near-eye displays with Huygens’ metasurfaces by Song, Weitao, Liang, Xinan, Li, Shiqiang, Moitra, Parikshit, Xu, Xuewu, Lassalle, Emmanuel, Zheng, Yuanjin, Wang, Yongtian, Paniagua-Domínguez, Ramón, Kuznetsov, Arseniy I.

“…Most of current commercial near-eye 3D displays use traditional stereoscopic approach to generate the 3D information. …”
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Multi-harmonic scanning near-field optical microscopy by Dong, Zhaogang

“…This thesis focuses on the development of a multi-harmonic scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM) system. The system is demonstrated to have the capabilities of improving optical imaging resolution, identifying and reducing artifacts, and achieving near-field tomography. …”
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Near bed hydraulics and sediment transport in currents and waves by Lim, Siow Yong., Tan, Soon Keat., Yu, Guoliang.

“…The first is a theory on the flow distribution near channel beds and shear stress on the beds. The second topic is an experimental study on the velocity distribution and scour around submerged structures, while the third topic involves large scale physical modeling of seabed sediment motion in the southern waters of Singapore Waters.…”
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South China Sea Disputes: Nearing a Solution - Or Is It? by Ghosh, P. K.

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Hybrid lasers and modulator on silicon in the near- and mid-infrared region by Hu, Xiaonan

“…Therefore, the integration of hybrid QCL and graphene-based optical modulator may find applications in MIR SOI platform in the near future.…”
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Development of near field charging transceiver prototype for wearable devices / by Mohammed Ali Mohammed Mahmoud, author 607279, Leow, Chee Yeng, supervisor 607280, Fakulti Kejuruteraan Elektrik 540663

Development of near field charging transceiver prototype for wearable devices / by Mohammed Ali Mohammed Mahmoud, author 607279, Leow, Chee Yeng, supervisor 607280, Fakulti Kejuruteraan Elektrik 540663