Design of finger-probe holder for continuous non-invasive blood glucose monitoring device for intensive care unit by Soh, Phey Hong.

“…Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy is a promising technique for non-invasive blood glucose measurement. …”
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Theoretical and experimental study of semiconducting iron disilicide and its applications to thin film solar cells by Tan, Khing Hong

“…In addition, β-FeSi2 is expected as a promising photovoltaic material with a theoretical conversion efficiency as high as 23% due to its ultrahigh optical absorption coefficient in the order of 105 cm-1 near the absorption edge. These properties, along with other features such as abundance of constituent elements, nearly lattice-matched to Si, and high thermal stability and oxidation resistance, have made β-FeSi2 one of the most attractive materials of choice for future generation thin film photovoltaic applications. …”
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Crystallographic details of the nucleotide-binding pocket of subunit A and B of A-ATP synthases and insight into the nucleotide-binding subunit α of the Escherichia coli F-ATP synt... by Vikeramjeet Singh Tadwal

“…Archaea are considered to be the most primitive organisms forming a separate evolutionary kingdom located near to the root of evolutionary tree, which have evolved separately during the course of evolution. …”
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Synthesis of a catalyst for water splitting by Siow, Wern Chiet.

“…However, in view of the depletion of fossil fuels in the near future and environmental concerns for nuclear energy, alternative clean energy sources which has a tolerable environmental impact are being heavily researched and developed. …”
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Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition growth of vanadium dioxide by LEE, Boon Peng

“…VO2 are chosen instead of other oxidation state are partly because of their near room temperature critical phase transition temperature (Tc) and atomic structures. …”
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Editorial : special issue on “artificial intelligence for future wireless communications and networking” by Tang, Jianhua, Wang, Jian, Feng, Gang, Quek, Tony Q. S.

“…Lee Sedol has witnessed the power of AI beyond what many of us can imagine. In the near future, autonomous vehicles, intelligent mobile networks, and intelligent internet-of-things will become a norm and AI will be one of the key technologies to make all these possible. …”
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Plasmon geometric phase and plasmon hall shift by Shi, Li-kun, Song, Justin Chien Wen

“…This plasmon Hall shift, tunable by Hall conductivity as well as plasmon wavelength, displaces the incident and reflected plasmon trajectories and can be readily probed by near-field photonics techniques. Anomalous plasmon geometric phases dramatically enrich the nanophotonics toolbox, and yield radical new means for directing plasmonic beams.…”
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Laser re-scanning strategy in selective laser melting for part quality enhancement : a review by Huang, Sheng, Yeong, Wai Yee

“…The selective laser melting (SLM) process is a powder bed fusion additive manufacturing process that can produce near full-density parts for many high value applications in research and industry. …”
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Transformation-invariant metamaterials by Zhang, Youming, Luo, Yu, Pendry, J. B., Zhang, Baile

“…The fundamental semiconductor concept of doping has recently been transplanted to photonics in the platform of epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) media. By doping nonmagnetic impurities, ENZ media can exhibit almost arbitrary magnetism. …”
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The maritime safety management system (MSMS) : a survey of the international shipping community by Thai, Vinh Van, Grewal, Devinder

“…The main objectives of this study are to identify key shorebased and near shore activities associated with maritime operations that are currently not covered by the ISM Code and players involved in these activities; to explore and analyse important relationships among them which can affect the management of safety; and to investigate the key safety issues within these relationships and the risks related to these safety issues. …”
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Phonon transport in nanowire with contacts : size and doping by Li, Jing, Au Yeung, Tin Cheung, Kam, Chan Hin

“…It is also found that the interior atom substitution has more impact on the thermal conductance over surface atom; substitution near contact surface reduces thermal conductance significantly; thermal conductance is suffering a 10%–20% variation due the random distribution of dopants; 17% of Ge content is sufficient to reduce thermal conductance by 80%.…”
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Fluorophore-doped core–multishell spherical plasmonic nanocavities : resonant energy transfer toward a loss compensation by Peng, Bo, Zhang, Qing, Liu, Xinfeng, Ji, Yun, Demir, Hilmi Volkan, Huan, Alfred Cheng Hon, Sum, Tze Chien, Xiong, Qihua

“…However, the inherent and strong energy dissipation present in metals, especially in the near-infrared and visible wavelength ranges, significantly hampers the applications in nanophotonics. …”
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High refractive index inorganic–organic Interpenetrating Polymer Network (IPN) hydrogel nanocomposite toward artificial cornea implants by Chan-Park, Mary B., Beuerman, Roger W., Zhang, Quanyuan, Fang, Zheng, Cao, Ye, Du, Huamao, Wu, Hong, Duan, Hongwei, Xu, Rong

“…The equilibrium water content of the hydrogel nanocomposite reached 60.2% which is reasonably near to that of cornea. The material exerted minimal cytotoxicity toward primary epidermal keratinocyte cells. …”
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Influence of land-surface and turbulent parameterization schemes on regional-scale boundary layer characteristics over northern India by Panda, Jagabandhu, Sharan, Maithili

“…The qualitative and quantitative analyses indicate that the model predictions are relatively better over three north Indian cities namely Delhi, Ahmedabad and Jodhpur when the Mellor–Yamada–Janjic boundary layer scheme along with Noah land-surface model is used. The near surface flow features during both summer and winter cases indicate the major role of land surface models (LSMs) as compared to the boundary layer parameterizations in governing the regional scale flow fields. …”
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Hollow-core photonic crystal fiber based multifunctional optical system for trapping, position sensing, and detection of fluorescent particles by Shinoj, Vengalathunadakal Kuttinarayanan, Murukeshan, Vadakke Matham

“…This multifunctional optical system for trapping, position sensing, and fluorescent detection is designed such that a near-IR laser light is used to create an optical trap across a liquid-filled HC-PCF, and a 473 nm laser is employed as a source for fluorescence excitation. …”
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Visualizing vein patterns from color skin images based on image mapping for forensics analysis by Tang, Chaoying, Zhang, Hengyi, Craft, Noah, Kong, A. W.

“…Traditionally, it was difficult to use vein patterns in evidence images for forensic identification, because they were nearly invisible in color images. We proposed a computational method based on skin optics to uncover vein patterns from color images. …”
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Unidirectional surface plasmons in nonreciprocal graphene by Lin, Xiao, Xu, Yang, Zhang, Baile, Hao, Ran, Chen, Hongsheng, Li, Erping

“…By efficiently controlling the chemical potential of graphene, the unidirectional working frequency can be continuously tunable from THz to near-infrared and even visible. Particularly, the unidirectional frequency bandwidth can be 1– 2 orders of magnitude larger than that in metal under the same magnetic field, which arises from the superiority of extremely small effective electron mass in graphene. …”
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Are Europeans ready for a more democratic European Union? New evidence on preference heterogeneity, polarisation and crosscuttingness by Hale, T, Koenig-Archibugi, M

“…Moreover, policy preferences tend to be less heterogeneous and polarised, and nearly as crosscutting, in the EU as a whole as in the United States. …”

Detecting changes in population trends in infection surveillance using community SARS-CoV-2 prevalence as an exemplar by Pritchard, E, Vihta, K-D, Eyre, DW, Hopkins, S, Peto, TEA, Matthews, PC, Stoesser, N, Studley, R, Rourke, E, Diamond, I, Pouwels, KB, Walker, AS, COVID-19 Infection Survey Team

“…Change-points in growth rates of SARS-CoV-2 can be detected in near real-time using ISR and second derivatives of GAMs. …”

Boosting energy efficiency and selectivity of glucose oxidation toward glucuronic acid in high-frequency ultrasound using multicavity CuO catalytic cavitation agents by Xie, Z, Mahendran, V, Jonnalagadda, US, Fan, Q, Su, X, Fischer, AF, Tan, M, Tao, L, Jérôme, F, Kwan, JJ, Valange, S, Choksi, TS, Amaniampong, PN, Liu, W

“…Sonochemistry has shown potential to facilitate chemical conversion under near-ambient conditions in water without any chemical additive or other external stimulus. …”