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3D Atom Probe Tomography Study on Segregation of Yttrium in Modified Aluminum-Silicon Alloys
In this article, yttrium segregation behavior in Al-Si alloys has been studied using the three-dimensional atom probe tomography technique. Al-Si alloys were prepared by casting method, and yttrium was added to modify the eutectic silicon morphology in these alloys. The results indicated that yttrium is preferentially located within the Si phase, with the highest concentration at the interface between eutectic Al and eutectic Si.
Adaptive and Non Adaptive Long Term Evolution Fractional Frequency Reuse Mechanisms Mobility Performance
Article proposes a performance metric and evaluates an existing adaptation process that dynamically adjusts to optimal network performance determined by Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) mechanism with mobile users.
Annotating Educational Questions for Student Response Analysis
Article introduces the first taxonomy and annotated educational corpus of questions that aims to help with the analysis of student responses.
Annotating If Authors of Tweets are Located in the Locations They Tweet About
Article presented at the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018). The study investigates spatial information of tweets whereby the authors present a corpus of tweets annotated with temporally-anchored spatial information involving the author.
Annotating Reflections for Health Behavior Change Therapy
Article presents work on annotating reflections, an essential counselor behavioral code in motivational interviewing for psychotherapy on conversations that are a combination of casual and therapeutic dialogue.
Annotating Temporally-Anchored Spatial Knowledge by Leveraging Syntactic Dependencies
Article presenting a two-step methodology to annotate temporally-anchored spatial knowledge on top of OntoNotes.
Characterization and Research on Mechanical Properties of Bamboo Plastic Composites
This article observes the mechanical properties of bamboo plastic composites (BPCs) with bamboo pulp fiber (BPF) or white mud (WM).
Characterizing Interactions and Relationships between People
Article presents a set of dimensions to characterize the association between two people. The authors introduce and analyze a new corpus, and present experimental results showing that the task can be automated.
Composites Containing Bamboo With Different Binders
This paper discusses the formation of primary chemical bonds between bamboo surface active groups and the binders.
Computational Fluid Dynamics, potential flow and system-based simulations of fully appended free running 5415M in calm water and waves
Article assesses the capabilities of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), potential flow (PF), and system-based (SB) methods for course keeping in calm water and regular and bi-chromatic waves for 5415M as a benchmark test case for AVT-161.
Context-Aware Testing for Android Applications
Video from the Fall 2018 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition. In this video, Shraddha Piparia presents her research methods, findings, and its significance in non-technical language.
A Corpus of Metaphor Novelty Scores for Syntactically-Related Word Pairs
Article introduces a large corpus of metaphor novelty scores for syntactically related word pairs, and releases it freely to the research community. This article describes the corpus, includes an analysis of its score distribution and the types of word pairs included in the corpus, and provides a brief overview of standard metaphor detection corpora.
Corrosion, Erosion andWear Behavior of Complex Concentrated Alloys: A Review
This article presents a comprehensive view on corrosion, erosion, and wear behavior of complex concentrated alloys.
Crystallographically degenerate B2 precipitation in a plastically deformed fcc-based complex concentrated alloy
Article describes the development of bcc-ordered B2 and fcc phases manifested in three different orientation relationships (ORs) in the same microstructure: Kurdjumov–Sachs, Nishiyama–Wasserman and Pitsch.
Deformation induced intermediate metastable lattice structures facilitate ordered B2 nucleation in a fcc-based high entropy alloy
This article reports a novel mixed-mode coupled displacive-diffusional transformation resulting in homogeneously distributed intra-granular B2 precipitates within the fcc matrix.
Detecting Sarcasm is Extremely Easy ;-)
This paper analyzes the performance of a domain-general sarcasm detection system on datasets from two different domains: Twitter and Amazon product reviews.
Dynamic Taxi Service Planning by Minimizing Cruising Distance Without Passengers
This article studies route recommendation to a group of taxis by minimizing the overall mileage spent without customers.
Dynamics of self-reorganization explains passivation of silicate glasses
This article demonstrates that gel reorganization involving high exchange rate of oxygen and low exchange rate of silicon is the key mechanism accounting for extremely low apparent water diffusivity.
Effect of Length, Diameter, Chirality, Deformation, and Strain on Contact Thermal Conductance Between Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
This article explores the role of various geometrical and structural (length, diameter, chirality) as well as external (deformation and strain) carbon nanotube (CNT) parameters to estimate total as well as area-normalized thermal conductance across cross-contact interconnects.
Effect of light-delignification on mechanical, hydrophobic, and thermal properties of high-strength molded fiber materials
This article discusses the development of a high-strength molded fiber material using pulp fibers, which coudl be a good substitute for plastic and solid wood materials.
Effect of Substrate Support on Dynamic Graphene/Metal Electrical Contacts
This article investigates the stability of dynamic electrical contacts at a graphene/metal interface using atomic force microscopy (AFM), under static conditions with variable normal loads and under sliding conditions with variable speeds.
Effect of Thermal Treatment With Water, Hâ‚‚Soâ‚„ and Naoh Aqueous Solution on Color, Cell Wall and Chemical Structure of Poplar Wood
This article describes a study to observe and quantify the changes of color on wood surface and microstructure of cell walls after the thermal treatment with water, dilute acid and alkali, and to describe the changes of chemical structure on wood surface after those pretreatments.
EGFET-Based Sensors for Bioanalytical Applications: A Review
This article provides a review of the state of the art focused on the development of biosensors and chemosensors based on extended-gate field-effect transistor within the field of bioanalytical applications.
Electrochemical and Friction Characteristics of Metallic Glass Composites at the Microstructural Length-scales
This article evaluates the phase-specific electrochemical and friction characteristics of a Zr-based mtallic glass composite, which comprised roughly of 40% by volume crystalline dendrites in an amorphous matrix.
Experimental Determination of Residual Stresses Generated by Single Point Incremental Forming of AlSi10Mg Sheets Produced Using SLM Additive Manufacturing Process
This article focuses on investigating the residual stress values associated with a part fabricated by Selective Laser Melting technology (SLM) when this is subjected further to forces on single point incremental forming (SPIF) operation of variable wall angle.
Extremely High Strength and Work Hardening Ability in a Metastable High Entropy Alloy
This article studies the design of a transformation induced plasticity (TRIP) assisted high entropy alloy (HEA) with enhanced strength using two strands of motiviation.
Feasibility Study of Compaction and Sintering of Commercially Pure Titanium using Friction Stir Processing
This article explores the possibility of decreasing the number of steps required in the manufacturing of a product using the powder metallurgy technique.
Fine-Grained Emotion Detection in Health-Related Online Posts
This article detects fine-grained emotion types from health-related posts and shows how high-level and abstract features derived from deep neural networks combined with lexicon-based features can be employed to detect emotions.
Getting Smarter: Definition, Scope, and Implications of Smart Libraries
This paper describes a meta-synthesis of existing qualitative research on smart libraries to demonstrate the transition of technology changing to meet users' needs.
Hexagonal MoTeâ‚‚ with Amorphous BN Passivation Layer for Improved Oxidation Resistance and Endurance of 2D Field Effect Transistors
This article demonstrates the effectiveness of an a-BN capping layer in preserving few-layer MoTeâ‚‚ material quality and controlling its conductivity type at elevated temperatures in an atmospheric environment.
Hierarchical features infused heterogeneous grain structure for extraordinary strength-ductility synergy
Article describes experiment in which a synergistic balance of strength and ductility was achieved in a prototypical fcc-based Al0.3CoCrFeNi complex concentrated alloy by incorporating hierarchical microstructural features into heterogeneous grain structure.
High-entropy alloy strengthened by in situ formation of entropy-stabilized nano-dispersoids
This article focuses on the effect of introducing Y₂O₃ in the Al₀.₃CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloys, fabricated using mechanical alloying and spark plasma sintering.
Hydrostatic High-Pressure Post-Processing of Specimens Fabricated by DLP, SLA, and FDM: An Alternative for the Sterilization of Polymer-Based Biomedical Devices
This article assesses the effects of sterilization in materials manufactured using additive manufacturing by employing a sterilization technique used in the food industry.
In Situ Fabrication of a Graphene-Coated Threedimensional Nickel Oxide Anode for High-Capacity Lithium-Ion Batteries
This article discusses the development of an in situ fabrication of a graphene-coated, three-dimensional (3D) NiO-Ni structure by simple chemical vapor deposition (CVD).
Influence of Cr Substitution and Temperature on Hierarchical Phase Decomposition in the AlCoFeNi High Entropy Alloy
This article investigates the length scale of the decomposition into a two-phase mixture of ordered B22 and disordered BCC solid solution as determined by the combination of composition and annealing temperature.
Insight into wild-type and T1372E TET2-mediated 5hmC oxidation using ab initio QM/MM calculations
This article studies the catalytic mechanism of oxidation of 5hmC to 5fC by WT and T1372E TET2 using an ab initio quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) approach.
Less Plugging, More Power: Engineering Next-Generation Batteries Using Nanotechnology
Video from the Fall 2018 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition. In this video, Eunho Cha presents his research methods, findings, and its significance in non-technical language.
Mechanical, Thermal, and Shape Memory Properties of Three-Dimensional Printing Biomass Composites
This article studies studies the preparation of a series of heat-induced shape memory composites by the hot-melt extrusion and three-dimensional (3D) printing of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) using wood flour (WF) with different contents of EPDM-g-MAH.
Microstructural Design for Improving Ductility of An Initially Brittle Refractory High Entropy Alloy
This article presents a novel approach to microstructural engineering of refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs) to form an "inverted" BCC+B2 microstructure.
Modeling the 2013 Zika Outbreak in French Polynesia: Intervention Strategies
Paper presents a model that simulates the 2013–2014 French Polynesia Zika outbreak, incorporating the temperature dependent mosquito ecology and the local transit network (flights and ferries), highlighting the importance of human travel patterns and mosquito population dynamics in a disease outbreak.
On the security of the Courtois-Finiasz-Sendrier signature
This article proves that a variant of the Courtois-Finiasz-Sendrier signature is strongly existentially unforgeable under chosen message attack in the random oracle model, assuming hardness of the Permuted Goppa Syndrome Decoding Problem (also known as the Niederreiter problem).
Operando tribochemical formation of onion-likecarbon leads to macroscale superlubricity
This article demonstrates that tribochemical reactions occur even in dry conditions when hydrogenated diamond-like carbon (H-DLC) surface is slid against two-dimensional (2D) molybdenum disulfide along with nanodiamonds in dry nitrogen atmosphere.
A Performance Conserving Approach for Reducing Memory Power Consumption in Multi-Core Systems
Article proposes a strategy called Dynamic Bank Partitioning (DBP), which allocates memory banks to different applications based on their memory access characteristic, and also proposes an adaptive method to dynamically select an optimal page policy for each bank according to the characteristics of memory accesses that each bank receives to further reduce power consumption.
Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) graft copolymer dense membranes for human mesenchymal stem cell growth
This article discusses the preparation of thermal-remolded membrane scaffolds from poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) grafted with 2-amino-ehtyl methacrylate hydrochloride.
Possessors Change Over Time: A Case Study with Artworks
Article presents a corpus and experimental results to extract possession relations over time, using Wikipedia articles about artworks.
Process planning guidelines in selective laser melting for the manufacturing of stainless steel parts
Article presents several process planning guidelines as a result of a selective laser melting (SLM) process calibration for a selected material (stainless steel 316L), with the intention of contributing in process parameters selection in net shape manufacturing.
Rational design of efficient transition metal core– shell electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction and evolution reactions
This article systematically calculates polyicosahedral (plh) Ag₃₂X₆ (X = 3d transition metals) core-shell structures by the density functional theory (DFT) method to predict their electrocatalytic activities for oxygen reduction and evolution reactions.
Research Progress on Formaldehyde Emission of Wood-Based Panel
This article explores current research progress on the mechanism and influencing factors of formaldehyde emission from wood-based panel. The research provides technical support to improve interior decoration and furniture design.
Resistant energy analysis of self-pulling process during dropwise condensation on superhydrophobic surfaces
Article describes an energy-based analysis on the formation and growth of condensate droplets on two-tier superhydrophobic surfaces, which are fabricated by decorating carbon nanotubes (CNTs) onto microscale fluorinated pillars.
Safer, Strong and Slim, Solid Electrolyte for the Future Battery
Video from the Fall 2018 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition. In this video, Po Hsuen Kuo presents his research methods, findings, and its significance in non-technical language.
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