Design and development of wobbling triboelectric nanogenerators for harvesting sustainable energy from wind and vibration by Aliakbar Ghaderiaram, Erik Schlangen, Mohammad Fotouhi

“…The harvester features a spring-supported structure, purposely designed to become unbalanced and reversibly shift from a steady to a non-steady state in response to minimal wind or vibration stimuli. …”
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Failure of multistorey parking site in hilly region and its forensic geotechnical investigation by Amit Srivastava, Nikhil Garg, Gulnaz Shahani, Rafat Ali, Sourav Kumar Das

“…The RCC wall, which was integrated with the framed structure and constructed for the purpose of supporting the excavated earth material at the construction site, initially deformed and then finally failed after the heavy rainfall in the region. …”
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Trends of Power Devolution in South Asia: A Comparative Appraisal of Pakistan’s Local Government System under the Civil-Military Regimes by Asifa Jahangir, Rubeel Zain, Soulat Dilkusha

“…The paper has two main objectives: (1) to explore the concepts of power devolution and their associative nomenclature; (2) to analysis of the political and administrative dimensions of decentralization to underpin the structure of decentralization in South Asia in general and Pakistan in particular. …”
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Modification on Ciprofloxacin Moiety to Synthesize Some New Derivatives with Screening Antibacterial Activity by Aya Ali Mohammed, Ahlam Mohammed Farhan

“…In this regard , in this study 5 novel Quinolone derivative A, B, C, D, and E were synthesized and their structure was analyzed using UV light, FTIR, 1H NMR, and 13C NMR techniques. …”
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Young People's Housing Opportunity in Post-reform China by Weijing Deng

“…By then, more than thirty years of housing reforms had completely changed how housing was being provided in China. The resulting structure had led young people to access housing in ways that were very different from those of their parents’ generation (Deng, Hoekstra & Elsinga, 2017). …”
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Fabrication of Pterocephalus nestorianus Nab. based phyto nanoliposomes and investigating their bioactivities and blood reducing cholesterol ability by Abdulbast Ali Khafoor, Aiman Amjad Al-Delawi, Ayoub Sabir Karim, S. Mohammad Sajadi

“…The phyto-loaded nanoliposomes (phyto-NLs or PNLs) then were structurally elucidated using TEM (Transmission Electron Microscopy), FE-SEM (Field Emissions Scanning Electron Microscopy), DLS (Dynamic Light Scattering) and FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy) which revealed the well formation of spherical homogeneous PNLs in size ranging 20 to 80 nm loaded by phytochemicals. …”
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Experimental Investigation on the Feasibility of Using a Fresnel Lens as a Solar-Energy Collection System for Enhancing On-Orbit Power Generation Performance by Tae-Yong Park, Joo-Yong Jung, Hyun-Ung Oh

“…Cube satellites have a limitation for generating power because of their cubic structure and extremely small size. In addition, the incidence angle between the sun and the solar panels continuously varies owing to the revolution and rotation of the satellite according to the attitude control strategy. …”
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A Dual-Path Computational Ghost Imaging Method Based on Convolutional Neural Networks by Hexiao Wang, Jianan Wu, Mingcong Wang, Yu Xia

“…By using the dual-path detection structure, a wider range of target image information can be obtained, and the imaging range can be expanded. …”
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Design of a Single Nanoparticle Trapping Device Based on Bow-Tie-Shaped Photonic Crystal Nanobeam Cavities by Yan Gao, Yaocheng Shi

“…We believe that such structure with characteristics of extreme light confinement and high trapping efficiency will be conducive to the development of multifunctional on-chip trapping devices.…”
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Monthly Electricity Consumption Characteristics of Industries in Guangzhou and Optimized Electricity Management Based on Geographical Detector by Yuntao ZHANG, Guotian CAI, Shangjun KE, Wenxiu WANG

“…The research finds that optimizing the industrial electricity consumption structure and upgrading the consumption time management considering the electricity consumption level of Guangzhou in 2017 can reduce the monthly peak–valley difference of Guangzhou electricity consumption by about 225 million kW·h. …”
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The concept of integration in health system: A scoping review by Aida Asghari, Abbas Vosoogh Moghaddam, Ebrahim Jaafari Pooyan

“…The definitions of integration in health sector; its types in terms of structure, intensity and formality; integration models including Golden Beach and Luohu; and principles as being holistic, aim-oriented, evidence-based and fair were explored. …”
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Measuring the Risk Spillover Effect of RCEP Stock Markets: Evidence from the TVP-VAR Model and Transfer Entropy by Yijiang Zou, Qinghua Chen, Jihui Han, Mingzhong Xiao

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Prognostic Classification of Early Ovarian Cancer Based on very Low Dimensionality Adaptive Texture Feature Vectors from Cell Nuclei from Monolayers and Histological Sections by Birgitte Nielsen, Fritz Albregtsen, Wanja Kildal, Håvard E. Danielsen

“…In order to study the prognostic value of quantifying the chromatin structure of cell nuclei from patients with early ovarian cancer, low dimensionality adaptive fractal and Gray Level Cooccurrence Matrix texture feature vectors were extracted from nuclei images of monolayers and histological sections. …”
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PP2A-Mediated Anticancer Therapy by Weibo Chen, Zhongxia Wang, Chunping Jiang, Yitao Ding

“…Therapeutic agents targeting PP2A inhibitors or activating PP2A directly have shed light on the therapy of cancers. This review focuses on PP2A structure, cancer-associated mutations, and the targeting of PP2A-related molecules to restore or reactivate PP2A in anticancer therapy, especially in digestive system cancer therapy.…”
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Research on Blade-Casing Rub-Impact Mechanism by Experiment and Simulation in Aeroengines by Jie Hong, Tianrang Li, Zhichao Liang, Dayi Zhang, Yanhong Ma

“…Based on the actual blade-casing structure model, the effects of the major physical parameters including imbalance and material characteristics were investigated. …”
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Use of CsPbX3 nanocrystals as an additive in organic solar cell for efficiency improvement by Çisem Kırbıyık Kurukavak, Mütahire Tok

“…The AFM images supported the improved crystallinity of P3HT and homogeneous structure of photoactive layer. OSCs with the configuration of ITO/PEDOT:PSS/P3HT: PCBM: PNCs/LiF/Al were fabricated. …”
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Preparation and the Photoelectric Properties of ZnO-SiO₂ Films with a Sol–Gel Method Combined with Spin-Coating by Ziyang Zhou, Weiye Yang, Hongyan Peng, Shihua Zhao

“…XRD showed that the prepared ZnO sample has a hexagonal structure. SEM images revealed the formation of ZnO nanorods within a dense SiO₂ substrate, ranging from 10 μm to 30 μm in length. …”
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Learning Number Notations – Comparison of a Sign-Value and Place-Value System by Hanna Weiers, Camilla Gilmore, Matthew Inglis

“…There was a relative advantage of the sign-value system over the place-value system for expressions encountered during the training, but also for expressions that had not previously been encountered. These results shed light on how easily the structure of place-value and sign-value systems can be learned.…”
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Stability and loading properties of Curcumin encapsulated in saffron pollen by Yaser Jafari, Hossein Sabahi, Ali Hossein Rezayan

“…Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images revealed that Cur was integrated within the surface pores and the internal structure of SP. The adsorption isotherm of Cur onto SP was best described by the Freundlich isotherm model. …”
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Preparation of Poly(L,L-Lactide) Microparticles via Pickering Emulsions Using Chitin Nanocrystals by T. S. Demina, Yu. S. Sotnikova, A. V. Istomin, Ch. Grandfils, T. A. Akopova, A. N. Zelenetskii

“…The anisometric chitin nanocrystals were extracted from two different samples of crab shell chitin via acetic hydrolysis and analyzed using atomic force microscopy, dynamic light scattering, and FTIR spectroscopy. The extracted nanocrystals showed no difference in the chemical structure but possessed different morphology and aspect ratios as a function of raw chitin used. …”
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