Microbial metabolites and immune modulation by Hassan Ghasemi

“…Beyond their structural roles, these microbes produce a diverse array of bioactive metabolites that interact with the host immune system. …”
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Detection of C‐Reactive Protein by Electrochemiluminescence‐Based Droplet‐Free Digital Immunoassay with Tyramide Signal Amplification by Hiroya Abe, Shuri Nakamura, Kentaro Ito, Kosuke Ino, Zhengyi Liu, Shinichi Sato, Kumi Y. Inoue, Hitoshi Shiku

“…The developed assay is capable of detecting poly‐horseradish peroidase at concentrations as low as 1.0 fmol L−1 and successfully adhered to the Poisson distribution model for digital quantification. The application of this system to CRP detection yields a limit of detection of 17.0 pg mL−1 (162 fmol L−1). …”
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Electrochemical deposition of cobalt phosphorus for hard magnetic micro devices and the impact on magnetic anisotropy by Felix Wetzler, Jan-Erik Nebel, Wei Zhang, Sven Urschel, Peter Starke, Monika Saumer

“…When fabricating magnetic components for micro-electro-mechanical systems, the intrinsic material properties as well as the magnetic anisotropy of the deposited material and the fabricated devices must be adjusted to the application. This work focuses on electrochemically deposited cobalt phosphorus layers from a sulfate-based electrolyte to be used as hard magnetic scales in position measurement systems. …”
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Development of an upper limb muscle strength rehabilitation assessment system using particle swarm optimisation by Chuangan Zhou, Siqi Wang, Meiyi Wu, Wei Lai, Junyu Yao, Xingyue Gou, Hui Ye, Jun Yi, Dong Cao

“…PurposeThis study develops a particle swarm optimization (PSO)-based assessment system for evaluating upper extremity and shoulder joint muscle strength with potential application to stroke rehabilitation. …”
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Nano hierarchical hill-like structure with TA1 surface manufactured by LIPSS for anti-corrosion and anti-icing by Guolong Wang, Ji Wang, Kaijie Cheng, Kun Yang, Wenwu Zhang

“…However, in practical engineering applications, the surface of titanium metal is easily affected by complex environments, significantly shortening its service life. …”
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THE NEW “NORMAL”: TRANSFORMATION OF THE STEREOTYPE OF WORK USING ICTS AND THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR MOTIVATION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC by M. Angelova, S. Raychev

“…For this paper, several information arrays have been selected. The methodology of analysis connected with the impact of the crisis on the use and application of ICT in business is done in several directions. …”
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Intralayer/Interlayer Codoping Stabilizes Polarity Modulation in 2D Semiconductors for Scalable Electronics by Guitian Qiu, Lingan Kong, Mengjiao Han, Qian Zhang, Majeed Ur Rehman, Jianxian Yi, Lede Xian, Xiankai Lin, Aumber Abbas, Jiwei Chen, Yingjie Luo, Wenbo Li, Zhongchao Wei, Hongyun Meng, Xiuliang Ma, Qijie Liang

“…Structural and elemental characterizations, combined with theoretical calculations validate the codoping mechanism. Moreover, a CMOS inverter and more complex logic functions such as NOR and XNOR, as well as large‐area device arrays are demonstrated to showcase its applications and scalability. …”
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Editorial by Bulent Cavas

“…The authors of these articles represent a wide array of countries, each bringing unique insights into science education. …”
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Triazine-COF@Silicon nanowire mimicking plant leaf to enhance photoelectrocatalytic CO2 reduction to C2+ chemicals by Wenrui Wan, Fanhua Meng, Si Chen, Jianhua Wang, Chunyan Liu, Yan Wei, Chenpu He, Li Fan, Qiaolan Zhang, Weichun Ye, Huanwang Jing

“…This marks the first-ever application of such a hybrid material in the photoelectrocatalytic reduction of CO2 under mild conditions. …”
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Flexible piezoelectric energy harvester made of vertically-aligned ZnO nanowires hydrothermally-grown by template-assisted synthesis in poled PVDF by Marie Clémence Sigallon, Adrien Baillard, Vincent Consonni, Florian Aubrit, Natalia Potrzebowska, Romain Grasset, Mohamed Tabellout, Noelle Gogneau, Eliott Sarrey, Jean-Eric Wegrowe, Marie-Claude Clochard

“…Swift heavy ions irradiation was firstly used to create tracks of damages in this poled β-PVDF thin films. A subsequent chemical etching in alkaline medium revealed these ion-tracks to form dense and statistical arrays of cylindrical nanopores (109 pores cm−2) along its thickness. …”
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Characterization Methodology for Voltage-Dependent Mobility of Charge Carriers in Graphene FETs Using Single-Device Microwave Measurements by Xiomara Ribero-Figueroa, Anibal Pacheco-Sanchez, Aida Mansouri, Pankaj Kumar, Omid Habibpour, Herbert Zirath, Luca Anzi, Amaia Zurutuza, Roman Sordan, David Jimenez, Francisco Pasadas, Reydezel Torres-Torres

“…Throughout the development and application of the proposal, a mobility model accounting for the degradation caused by the transverse electric field has been considered.…”
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Offsite Evaluation of Localization Systems: Criteria, Systems, and Results From IPIN 2021 and 2022 Competitions by Francesco Potorti, Antonino Crivello, Soyeon Lee, Blagovest Vladimirov, Sangjoon Park, Yushi Chen, Long Wang, Runze Chen, Fang Zhao, Yue Zhuge, Haiyong Luo, Antoni Perez-Navarro, Antonio R. Jimenez, Han Wang, Hengyi Liang, Cedric De Cock, David Plets, Yan Cui, Zhi Xiong, Xiaodong Li, Yiming Ding, Fernando Javier Alvarez Franco, Fernando Jesus Aranda Polo, Felipe Parralejo Rodriguez, Adriano Moreira, Cristiano Pendao, Ivo Silva, Miguel Ortiz, Ni Zhu, Ziyou Li, Valerie Renaudin, Dongyan Wei, Xinchun Ji, Wenchao Zhang, Yan Wang, Longyang Ding, Jian Kuang, Xiaobing Zhang, Zhi Dou, Chaoqun Yang, Sebastian Kram, Maximilian Stahlke, Christopher Mutschler, Sander Coene, Chenglong Li, Alexander Venus, Erik Leitinger, Stefan Tertinek, Klaus Witrisal, Yi Wang, Shaobo Wang, Beihong Jin, Fusang Zhang, Chang Su, Zhi Wang, Siheng Li, Xiaodong Li, Shitao Li, Mengguan Pan, Wang Zheng, Kai Luo, Ziyao Ma, Yanbiao Gao, Jiaxing Chang, Hailong Ren, Wenfang Guo, Joaquin Torres-Sospedra

“…In this context, the indoor positioning and indoor navigation (IPIN) competition is the only long-term, technically sound initiative to monitor the state of the art of real systems by measuring their performance in a realistic environment. Most competing systems are pedestrian-oriented and based on the use of smartphones, but several competing tracks were set up, enabling comparison of an array of technologies. …”
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Optimising detector readout settings for the detection of spatial correlations between SPDC photon-pairs by K. Roberts, T. Gregory, O. Wolley, M. J. Padgett

“…Abstract SPDC photon-pairs exhibit spatial correlations which can be measured using detector arrays sensitive to single photons. However, these detector arrays have multiple readout modes and in order to optimise detection it is important to select the optimum mode to detect the correlations against a background of optical and electronic noise. …”
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Effect of Dopants on Epitaxial Growth of Silicon Nanowires by Sung Hwan Chung, Sarath Ramadurgam, Chen Yang

“…In summary, our study opens up potential for using chemical synthesized vertical Si NW arrays integrated on Si substrates for large-scale applications.…”
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Nanoantennas and metasurfaces tailored by electron beam lithography and substrate conductivity by Li Liu, Aaron Holzer, Neal Raney, Viktoriia E. Babicheva

“…This work explores the impact of EBL exposure on the size and uniformity of nanoantennas in periodic arrays, with a focus on the role of substrate conductivity. …”
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Supercooled phase transitions in conformal dark sectors explain NANOGrav data by João Gonçalves, Danny Marfatia, António P. Morais, Roman Pasechnik

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Runtime Task Scheduling for FPGA-Based Embedded Systems Using Just-in-Time Bitstream Prefetching by Alexis Duhamel, Sebastien Pillement

“…These platforms can hot-swap reconfigurable regions to change the hardware behavior at the cost of a reconfiguration process. The scheduling of applications and their reconfiguration processes are then essential to respect timing constraints. …”
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Exciting High-Order Plasmon Mode Using Metal-Insulator-Metal Bowtie Nanoantenna by Xiaoxin Zhang, Rulin Guan, Qingxiu Ding, Chen Wang, Yaqiong Li, Dengchao Huang, Qigong Chen, Zheng Yang

“…Compared to conventional Ag-BNA nanoantennas, our NMIM-BNA provides a significantly larger hotspot region and an enhanced near-field amplification factor, underscoring its strong potential for advanced SERS applications.…”
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Optical Transitions Dominated by Orbital Interactions in Two-Dimensional Fullerene Networks by Haonan Bai, Xinwen Gai, Yi Zou, Jingang Wang

“…Fullerenes are a class of highly symmetric spherical carbon materials that have attracted significant attention in optoelectronic applications due to their excellent electron transport properties. …”
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Decoherence-free many-body Hamiltonians in nonlinear waveguide quantum electrodynamics by Aviv Karnieli, Offek Tziperman, Charles Roques-Carmes, Shanhui Fan

“…Here we show that by incorporating emitter arrays with nonlinear waveguides hosting parametric gain, we obtain a unique class of many-body interaction Hamiltonians with coupling strengths that increase with emitter spacing, and persist even for wavelength-spaced arrays. …”
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