427 Result(s)
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Engineering acid dew temperature: the limitation for flue gas heat recovery
In order to study how deep we can reduce the temperature of exhaust flue gas, an experiment focusing on the combined influence of ash deposition and acid condensation on the heat transfer characteristics of th...
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Rayleigh backscattering: a method to highly compress laser linewidth
Ultra-narrow linewidth laser with several hundred hertz at room temperature has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years and played a critical role in both optical sensing and communication fields. ...
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Set point optimization of controlled Organic Rankine Cycle systems
In this paper, an approach to optimize set points is proposed for controlled Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) systems. Owing to both disturbances and variations of operating point existing in ORC systems, it is nec...
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Effects of livestock exclusion and climate change on aboveground biomass accumulation in alpine pastures across the Northern Tibetan Plateau
To better understand the ecological and economic benefits of short-term grazing exclusion on the aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) of alpine pastures, we conducted annual multi-site transect surveys ...
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4 K high frequency pulse tube cryocooler used for terahertz space application
Terahertz (THz) frequency region, defined from 0.1 to 10 THz, is an important frequency band for radio astronomy and atmospheric science. As NbN Superconductor-Insulator-Superconductor (SIS) mixers used for te...
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Dietary overlap of snow leopard and other carnivores in the Pamirs of Northwestern China
Information about competition between carnivore species for food within high altitude regions is limited. Data collected from the Taxkorgan Nature Reserve, China revealed important interactions between snow le...
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Benthic foraminiferal δ 13C minimum events in the southeastern Okhotsk Sea over the last 180 ka
A total of six δ 13C minimum events, i.e., VI, V, IV, III, II, and I, were observed via a stable carbon and oxygen isotope analysis of infaunal benthic foraminifera Uvigerina spp. in gravity core ...
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Identification of the thick-layer greigite in sediments of the South Yellow Sea and its geological significances
Magnetic minerals in sediments of the continental shelf are sensitive to environmental changes. Therefore, to determine the exact phases of magnetic minerals is the prerequisite to investigate the paleoenviron...
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Monitoring of organochlorine pesticides in the urban air of Dalian, China with semipermeable membrane devices
The concentrations of 28 organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in the urban air of Dalian, China were measured using semipermeable membrane devices (SPMDs) for the first time. Alpha-hexachlorocyclohexane (α-HCH), β...
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Dynamics of a qubit—TLS system under resonant microwave driving
We demonstrate the effect of different coupling strengths between a microscopic two-level system (TLS) and a microwave field on the dynamics of a qubit—TLS system when the bipartite system is subject to resona...
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MBE growth of high absorption mid-IR type-II InAs/GaSb superlattices
Two kinds of short-period type II superlattices (SLs) InAs (6 monolayers (MLs))/GaSb (3 MLs) and InAs (8 MLs)/GaSb (8 MLs) which can serve for mid-infrared (MIR) detection have been grown by molecular beam epi...
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The preparation of nitrogen-doped TiO2 nanocrystals with exposed {001} facets and their visible-light photocatalytic performances
Anatase TiO2 with exposed {001} facets has been deepgoingly studied for optimizing its photocatalytic activity. In this study, we synthesized N-doped TiO2 nanocrystals with exposed {001} facets by sol–gel method ...
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Effect of heating rate on the electrochemical performance of MnO X @CNF nanocomposites as supercapacitor electrodes
Carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and MnO X @CNF nanocomposites (MCNFs) are fabricated by electrospinning and investigated as free-standing electrodes for supercapacitor. This work presen...
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Application prospects of high-voltage cathode materials in all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries
All-solid-state lithium-ion batteries are lithium-ion batteries with solid-state electrolytes instead of liquid electrolytes. They are hopeful in solving the safety problems of lithium-ion batteries, once thei...
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Scalable manufacturing methodologies for improving adeno-associated virus-based pharmaprojects
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a promising viral vector and meets most requirements of being a safe biological agent. However, the commercialization of AAV has been hampered due to the limitation of large-sca...
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Assessment of urinary concentration of cotinine in Chinese pregnant women exposed to environmental tobacco smoke
Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a well-known reason of many adverse health consequences in pregnant women. Exposure of ETS during pregnancy may increase the risk of some fetal diseases in pregnant women a...
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Retrieval of column-averaged volume mixing ratio of CO2 with ground-based high spectral resolution solar absorption
The total column-averaged volume mixing ratio of atmospheric carbon dioxide ( \( {\text{X}}_{{{\text{CO}}_{ 2} }} \)
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Sensitivity analysis of single-angle polarization reflectance observed by satellite
Two channels of the Cloud Aerosol Polarimetric Imager, onboard the TanSat-Chinese carbon dioxide observation satellite, are designed to detect the polarization state of radiation reflected by the earth-atmosph...
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Integrative Chinese and western medicine on atherosclerosis of coronary heart disease: what are the new control strategies?
How to control and prevent atherosclerosis (AS) remains a global issue that needs to be deeply discussed. The innovation concept of AS and coronary heart disease (CHD) in western medicine provides a good oppor...
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An investigation on terahertz response in electro-optic crystals excited at 1.03 μm wavelength
We theoretically investigate terahertz (THz) emission and detection from 〈110〉-oriented electro-optic (EO) crystals adapted for Yb-doped femtosecond pulse laser. According to the principles of phase-matching c...