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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.
3D-FHNet: Three-Dimensional Fusion Hierarchical Reconstruction Method for Any Number of Views
Article proposes a three-dimensional fusion hierarchical reconstruction method that utilizes a multi-view feature combination method and a hierarchical prediction strategy to unify the single view and any number of multiple views 3D reconstructions.
Activation Volume and Energy for Dislocation Nucleation in Multi-Principal Element Alloys
Paper describes study evaluating incipient plasticity in multi-principal element alloys, CoCrNi, CoCrFeMnNi, and Al0.1CoCrFeNi by nano-indentation and compared with pure Ni.
Adaptación de un modelo de claros para el estudio de la dinámica de un bosque estacional en los llanos occidentales de Venezuela
Article discussing the adaptation of a gap model to the study of the dynamics of a seasonal forest in the western plains of Venezuela.
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.
Additive Manufacturing of Metals: A Brief Review of the Characteristic Microstructures and Properties of Steels, Ti-6al-4v and High-Entropy Alloys
This article presents a brief review of the microstructures and mechanical properties of selected metallic alloys processed by additive manufacturing (AM).
Algorithmically Optimized Hemispherical Dome as a Secondary Optical Element for the Fresnel Lens Solar Concentrator
This article focuses on a way to maximize the concentration acceptance product (CAP), while using the minimum SOE and receiver geometry at a given f-number and incidence angle (also referred to as the tracking error angle). The laws of polychromatic light refraction along with trigonometry and spherical geometry were utilized to optimize the POE grooves, SOE radius, receiver size, and SOE–receiver spacing.
An Analysis of the Habitat of the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros Rhinoceros Unicornis (Mammalia: Perissodactyla: Rhinocerotidae) at the Chitwan National Park, Nepal
This article uses geographic information systems and landscape-level data obtained from remote sensing sources to build a habitat suitability index model for the Greater One-horned Rhinoceros.
Analyzing the Effectiveness of Microlubrication Using a Vegetable Oil-Based Metal Working Fluid during End Milling AISI 1018 Steel
This article describes a study in which a vegetable oil-based lubricant was used to conduct wear analysis and to analyze the effectiveness of microlubrication during end milling AISI 1018 steel.
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.
Application-based design of the Fresnel lens solar concentrator
Article investigates a novel genetically themed hierarchical algorithm (GTHA) to design Fresnel lens solar concentrators that match with the distinct energy input and spatial geometry of various thermal applications.
Application of a Thermoplastic Polyurethane/Polylactic Acid Composite Filament for 3d-Printed Personalized Orthosis
Article exploring a suitable material for designing and fabricating personalized, cost-effective and bio-degradable orthoses. A finger orthosis was chosen as an example to explore a suitable material, personalized design method, and fabrication with a fuse-deposition-modeling (FDM) open-source 3D printer. Thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU)/polylactic acid (PLA) composite filaments were explored for 3D printing.
The Application of BP Neural Networks to Analysis the National Vulnerability
Article uses the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and natural breakpoint method (NBM) to implement an AHP-NBM comprehensive evaluation model to assess the national vulnerability to climate change.
Atomic Distribution in Catalytic Amorphus Metals
This article investigates the atomic distribution in catalytically active metallic glass alloys using three-dimensional atom probe microscopy.
Atomic Simulations of Twist Grain Boundary Structures and Deofrmation Behaviors in Aluminum
This article investigates twist grain boundaries with molecular dynamic simulations to reveal their atomic structures, energy and interactions with dislocations.
Attention-Based Dense Point Cloud Reconstruction From a Single Image
Article proposes a two-stage training dense point cloud generation network.
Attitudes and Behaviors Towards Risky Driving Among Adolescents in Saudi Arabia
This article investigates perceptions and attitudes of school youth concerning risky driving behaviors in Saudi Arabia.
Automated extraction of attributes from natural language attribute-based access control (ABAC) Policies
Article (1) developing a practical framework to extract authorization attributes of hierarchical ABAC system from natural language artifacts, and (2) generating a set of realistic synthetic natural language access control policies (NLACPs) to evaluate the proposed framework.
Automatic Identification of Research Articles from Crawled Documents
Paper from the Web-Scale Classification: Classifying Big Data from the Web Workshop. This paper proposes novel features that result in effective and efficient classification models for automatic identification of research articles.
Bayesian analysis of complex mutations in HBV, HCV, and HIV studies
This article provides a review of the Bayesian-inference-based methods applied to Hepatitis B Virus (HBV), Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) studies with a focus on the detection of the viral mutations and various problems which are correlated to these mutations. The authors also provide a summary of the Bayesian methods' applications toward these viruses' studies, where several important and useful results have been discovered.
A Bio-Hygromorph Fabricated with Fish Swim Bladder Hydrogel and Wood Flour-Filled Polylactic Acid Scaffold by 3D Printing
Describes a study where researchers constructed a bio-hygromorph using fish swim bladder hydrogel as the hydrophilic material and wood flour-filled polylactic acid (WPLA) scaffold, which was printed with fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printing technology (3DP).
Bioabsorbable zinc ion induced biphasic cellular responses in vascular smooth muscle cells
This article explores the short-term effects of extracellular Zn²⁺ on human smooth muscle cells.
Bioactive glass coatings on metallic implants for biomedical applications
Article provides a detailed overview of the benefits and issues of metal alloys when used as biomedical implants and how they are improved by bioactive glass-based coatings for biomedical applications.
Biocompatible, large-format, inkjet printed heterostructure molybdenum disulfide-graphene photodetectors on conformable substrates
This article describes an inkjet printed, biocompatible, heterostructure photodetector that was constructed using inks of photo-active molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and electrically conducting graphene which facilitated charge collection of the photocarriers. The importance of such devices stems from their potential utility in age-related-macular degeneration, which is a condition where the photosensitive retinal tissue degrades with aging, eventually compromising vision. The absence of effective therapeutic remedies for patients with this disorder has motivated the development of such devices to restore some degree of visual function.
Biofunctionalization of metallic implants by calcium phosphate coatings
Article provides a brief summary of state-of-art of surface biofunctionalization on implantable metals by CaP coatings.
Bottom-up assembly of metallic germanium
This article demonstrates that free electrons from distinct 2D dopant layers coalesce into a homogeneous 3D conductor using anisotropic quantum interference measurements, atom probe tomography, and density functional theory.
Breaking the MDS-PIR Capacity Barrier via Joint Storage Coding
Paper explores the possibility of the capacity of private information retrieval (PIR) from databases coded using maximum distance separable (MDS) codes to be broken through joint encoding and storage of messages.
Bulk Nanostructured Metals and Alloys: Processing, Structure, and Thermal Stability
Introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Nanomaterials focusing on bulk nanostructured alloys and metals.
Carbon Nanomaterials for Optical Absorber Applications
Article describing optical absorbers based on vertically aligned multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), synthesized using electric-field assisted growth that show an ultra-low reflectance, 100X lower compared to the benchmark, a diffuse metal black - Au-black - from wavelength λ ~ 350 nm – 2500 nm.
Catalytic Activity Origin and Design Principles of Graphitic Carbon Nitride Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution
This article provides a basic design principle of heteroatom-doped g-C3N4 as an efficient HER catalyst and a fundamental understanding of the HER mechanism.
Centimeter Scale Patterned Growth of Vertically Stacked Few Layer Only 2D MoS₂/WS₂ van der Waals Heterostructure
This article reports the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth of large-area (>2 cm²) patterned 2D vdW heterostructures composed of few layer, vertically-stacked molybdenum disulfide and tungsten disulfide.
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).
Characterization and Research on Mechanical Properties of Bamboo Plastic Composites
This article describes a study to observe the mechanical properties of bamboo plastic composites with bamboo pulp fiber or white mud.
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.
Characterizing recent and projecting future potential patterns of mountain pine beetle outbreaks in the Southern Rocky Mountains
This article aims to quantify the landscape-level drivers that explain the dynamic patterns of mountain pine beetle (MPB) mortality, and simulate areas with future potential MPB mortality under projected climate-change scenarios in Grand County, Colorado, USA.
Chemical exfoliation efficacy of semiconducting WS2 and its use in an additively manufactured heterostructure graphene–WS2–graphene photodiode
Article describes an experiment where various chemical exfoliation routes for semiconducting two-dimensional (2D) layered material WS2 were explored, including magnetic stirring (MS), shear mixing (SM), and horn-tip (HT) sonication.
Chemistry of Supraglacial Ponds in thte Debris-Covered Area of Lirung Glacier in Central Nepal Himalayas
This article examines elevation trends and their control by seasonality, dominant geochemical processes, and season dynamics in these supraglacial ponds at elevations ranging between 3989 and 4292 m above sea level in the debris-covered area of Lirung glacier in central Nepal Himalayas, from November 2010 to October 2011 on a bimonthly basis.
Classifying genes to the correct Gene Ontology Slim term in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using neighbouring genes with classification learning
Article discussing research on classifying genes to the correct gene ontology slim term in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using neighbouring genes with classification learning.
Combined effects of ZnO particle deposition and heat treatment on dimensional stability and mechanical properties of poplar wood
This article proposes a one-step wood modification method by combining the deposition of ZnO particles on wood surface and heat treatment.
Comparing the Knotless Tension Band and the Traditional Stainless Steel Wire Tension Band Fixation for Medial Malleolus Fractures: A Retrospective Clinical Study
Article describes investigation which sought to to retrospectively compare this traditional wire technique to an innovative knotless tension band (KTB) technique in order to decrease costly complications.
Competition Between Resonant Plasmonic Coupling and Electrostatic Interaction in Reduced Graphene Oxide Quantum Dots
This article presents a study of the plasmonic interaction that effects the optical properties of light emission from graphene oxide system.
Composition-dependent apparent activation-energy and sluggish grain-growth in high entropy alloys
Article discusses experimental results which reveal that the apparent activation-energy for grain-growth in an fcc-based AlxCoCrFeNi high entropy alloy (HEA) system increases from 179 to 486 kJ/mol when the Al content increases from x = 0.1 to 0.3.
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.
Controlling the length scale and distribution of the ductile phase in metallic glass composites through friction stir processing
This article demonstrates the refinement and uniform distribution of the crystalline dendritic phase by friction stir processing of titanium based in situ ductile-phase reinforced metallic glass composite.
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.
Corrigendum to “Metabolic Syndrome, Inflammation, and Cancer”
Corrigendum to the article titled “Metabolic Syndrome, Inflammation, and Cancer”.
Corrosion Behavior of Selectively Laser Melted CoCrFeMnNi High Entropy Alloy
The article focuses on a study that widens the toolbox to manufacture HEAs with exceptional corrosion resistance by additive manufacturing. CoCrFeMnNi high entropy alloys (HEAs) were additively manufactured (AM) by laser powder bed fusion and their corrosion resistance in 3.5 wt% NaCl solution was studied by potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy tests. A systematic study of AM CoCrFeMnNi HEAs’ porosity under a wide range of laser processing parameters was conducted and a processing map was constructed to identify the optimal laser processing window for CoCrFeMnNi HEAs.
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