Research Progress on Purification Technology for High-purity Quartz Sand by Jiaoyang WEI, Huiyang LIU, Zengqing SUN, Zhiyun JI, Min GAN, Xiaohui FAN

“…High-purity quartz sand is a crucial building block for strategically important emergent sectors like semiconductors, photovoltaics, fiber optic communications, and new energy. Its production encounters two technological and resource constraints throughout manufacture. …”
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Infrared and Visible Image Fusion via L0 Decomposition and Intensity Mask by Lei Yan, Jie Cao, Yang Cheng, Saad Rizvi, Qun Hao

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p-CuGaO2/β-Ga2O3 interfaces: A high-throughput approach for interface prediction and generation for power device applications by Chowdam Venkata Prasad, Jang Hyeok Park, Qui Thanh Hoai Ta, Kyong Jae Kim, Ho Jung Jeon, Muzaffar Ali Mir, Mohsin Raza, Nguyen Ngoc Tri, Honggyun Kim, Madani Labed, You Seung Rim

“…Annealing temperature impacts the microstructure, stoichiometry, optical, electrical, and transport properties of p-CuGaO2/β-Ga2O3 HJs. …”
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Identification of Global Extended Pseudo Invariant Calibration Sites (EPICS) and Their Validation Using Radiometric Calibration Network (RadCalNet) by Juliana Fajardo Rueda, Larry Leigh, Cibele Teixeira Pinto

“…Unlike previous approaches that did not assess the pixel-level temporal stability, this method provides more reliable clustering results. …”
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Advancing Mg/Ca Analysis of Coralline Algae as a Climate Proxy by Assessing LA‐ICP‐OES Sampling and Coupled Mg/Ca‐δ18O Analysis by Tricia Light, Branwen Williams, Jochen Halfar, Alicia Hou, Zoltan Zajacz, Alexandra Tsay, Walter Adey

“…Therefore, paired Mg/Ca and δ18O analyses in C. compactum are a promising new tool for reconstructing historic high‐latitude climate change. Here a new method for C. compactum Mg/Ca analysis, laser ablation‐inductively coupled plasma‐optical emission spectroscopy (LA‐ICP‐OES), was verified through comparisons with parallel Mg/Ca transects using established techniques in a specimen from Labrador, Canada. …”
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The sensitivity of aerosol data assimilation to vertical profiles: case study of dust storm assimilation with LOTOS-EUROS v2.2 by M. Pang, M. Pang, J. Jin, T. Yang, X. Chen, A. Segers, B. Buyantogtokh, Y. Gu, J. Li, H. X. Lin, H. X. Lin, H. Liao, W. Han

“…Aerosol data assimilation has gained popularity as it combines the advantages of both methods. Despite numerous studies in this domain, few have addressed the challenges faced in assimilating aerosol data with significant differences in magnitude and degree of freedom between the model state and observations, especially in the vertical direction. …”
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Practical Dyeing and Technical Imaging: Replicating a Colonial Feather Insignia from Mexico by Renée Riedler, Julia Zeindl, María Olvido Moreno Guzmán, Carlos Barrera Reyes, Martina Griesser, Nikoletta Sárfi

“…Dyeing experiments to colour-match the different shades of red were conducted by applying traditional recipes and materials. …”
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Assessing water clarity in the Chesapeake Bay using satellite-derived Secchi disk depth by Seunghyun Son, Nikolay P. Nezlin, Veronica P. Lance

“…Secchi disk depth (SDD) is a conventional in situ optical method of measuring this parameter. Assessments of SDD from remotely-sensed ocean color data benefit from wide spatial and temporal coverage but are subject to low accuracy resulting from unstable relationship between water transparency and the color of water surface. …”
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PIC2O-Sim: A physics-inspired causality-aware dynamic convolutional neural operator for ultra-fast photonic device time-domain simulation by Pingchuan Ma, Haoyu Yang, Zhengqi Gao, Duane S. Boning, Jiaqi Gu

“…The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is widely adopted to solve time-domain Maxwell equations. …”
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Improved Segmentation of Infant Retinal Images and Quantitative Vascular Analysis by Ying Wang, Xiaoyu Zheng, Chunlei He, Jianfeng Zhang, Shoujun Huang

“…In this study, we proposed a computer-based image analysis method aimed at segmenting blood vessels and the optic disc in retinal images and providing quantitative features of the vessels to assist doctors in diagnosing plus disease. …”
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Algorithm for Correcting the Keratometric Error in the Estimation of the Corneal Power in Keratoconus Eyes after Accelerated Corneal Collagen Crosslinking by David P. Piñero, Vicente J. Camps, Esteban Caravaca-Arens, Dolores de Fez, Francisco J. Blanes-Mompó

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Emergency Lateral Canthotomy Followed by Orbital Septum Release for Traumatic Retrobulbar Hemorrhage: 2 Case Reports by Yosuke Ochi, MD, Shimpei Ono, MD, PhD, Rei Ogawa, MD, PhD

“…Multiple decompression methods that are favored by different clinical departments have been reported. …”
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The Results of Studying Spatial Perception in Children with Ophthalmopathology Using the Technique of Copying Taylor’s and Rey–Osterrieth’s Figures by S. I. Rychkova, V. G. Likhvantseva, R. I. Sandimirov

“…The work is devoted to one of the actual problems of ophthalmology — the study of spatial perception in children with ophthalmopathology.Purpose of the work is to study the characteristics of spatial perception in children with ophthalmopathology using the technique of copying Taylor’s and Rey–Osterrieth’s figures.Patients and methods. 284 children aged 6 to 8 years were observed: 1) 135 children with operated convergent non-paralytic strabismus; 2) 53 children with organic pathology of the retina and optic nerve; 3) 96 children of the control group (without ophthalmopathology). …”
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Microstructure and Cerebral Blood Flow within White Matter of the Human Brain: A TBSS Analysis. by Stéphanie Giezendanner, Melanie Sarah Fisler, Leila Maria Soravia, Jennifer Andreotti, Sebastian Walther, Roland Wiest, Thomas Dierks, Andrea Federspiel

“…<h4>Background</h4>White matter (WM) fibers connect different brain regions and are critical for proper brain function. …”
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Lateral Phenotypes in Children with Ophthalmopathology by S. I. Rychkova, V. G. Likhvantseva, R. I. Sandimirov

“…The work is devoted to one of the most relevant problems of ophthalmology and neurophysiology which is the study of interhemispheric interactions in children with ophthalmopathology.The purpose of this work is to study lateral phenotypes in children with ophthalmopathology.Patients and methods. 374 6–15 years old children were observed: 1) 160 children with non-paralytic strabismus; 2) 111 children with organic pathology of the retina and the optic nerve; 3) 103 children of the control group (without ophthalmopathology). …”
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Hyperspectral Band Selection with Unique Pixel Extraction and Adaptive Neighbor Clustering by Bing Han, Mingqing Liu, Zhenyu Ma, Ke Zhang, Yanke Xu, Jingyu Wang, Qi Wang

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Measurement and analysis of fish pond water temperature field in summer based on fiber Grating string. by Guoli Li, Fei Feng, Caihua Qian, Bo Wei

“…In this system, six fiber Bragg gratings with different center wavelengths are connected in series on a single fiber optic cable based on wavelength division multiplexing technology. …”
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Performance Enhancement of Methane Detection Using a Novel Self-Adaptive Mid-Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy Technique by Fang Song, Chuantao Zheng, Wanhong Yan, Wei Lin Ye, Yu Zhang, Yiding Wang, Frank K. Tittel

“…A second-order self-adaptive direct laser absorption spectroscopy technique was also proposed for noise suppression in both optical and electrical domain as an outlook of the concept of this paper.…”
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Evaluation of additional points in the 24-2C visual field test in pre-perimetric glaucoma by Gökhan Çelik, Tuncay Karaçocuk, Furkan Çiftci

“…All the patients underwent peripapillary and macular optical coherence tomography (OCT) (Nidek RS-3000 Advance; Nidek, Japan). …”
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Low-temperature formation of apatite structure of neodymium silicate in silica matrix by O. I. Oranska, Yu. I. Gornikov, A. V. Brichka, S. M. Makhno

“…At present silicates of one of the rare earth elements, such as neodymium, are used in various fields of technology as materials or components for lasers, solid state fuel cells, ceramics and others because of their optical, electrical, chemical and mechanical properties.  …”
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