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Chapter and Conference Paper
Designing Autonomous Vehicle Interactions for a Super-Aged Society: A Formative Study
Aging populations are increasing globally, impacting community mobility (CM), an important factor...
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Effect of shell mold thickness and insulating wool pattern on internal porosity in investment casting of vortex flow meter
Investment casting (IC) with different insulating wool pattern and shell mold thickness is investigated for a geometrically complex vortex flow meter in this study. The primary coating consists of zircon (ZrSi...
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A multi-step deposited AlN films in a DC pulsed sputtering and film characteristics classification with principal component analysis of OES data
In this work, a unique approach in experiments was carried out by a pulsed DC sputtering for the 60/30-min process in one-step and multi-step (two- and four-step) deposition to obtain trends of residual stress...
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QTL analyses of soybean root system architecture revealed genetic relationships with shoot-related traits
The genetic basis of soybean root system architecture (RSA) and the genetic relationship between shoot and RSA were revealed by integrating data from recombinant inbred population grafting and QTL map**.
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Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) Simulation for the Robust Gating System Design: Improved Process for Investment Casting Defects of 316L Stainless Steel Valve Housing
Defects in investment casting will inevitably reduce the lifetime, degrade the quality of the casting, and increase the manufacturing costs. In this paper, the potential for shrinkage porosity was numerically ...
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Fabrication of copper powder hybrid supported fillers with interconnected 1D/2D/3D nanostructures for enhanced thermal interface materials properties
Due to the increasing demand for high-power density of electronic devices, the technological enhancement of thermal interface materials (TIMs) is of crucial importance for further advancement of the issue of t...
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Map** quantitative trait loci underlying drought-related traits in rice using a doubled-haploid population
Rice is one of staple food crops in the world. Improving the drought tolerance of rice has become an important issue for maintaining or increasing its grain production under water stress caused by the greenhou...
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Prediction of the Effect of Asymmetric Pouring Basin Geometry on Temperature, Internal Porosity in Tilt Casting Housing of Scroll Compressor
This paper discussed whether the pouring basin geometry with asymmetric configuration could significantly reduce the porosity defects of an Al-Si7Mg(Fe) alloy (AC4C) castings and whether it could be used for t...
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Residual stress classification of pulsed DC reactive sputtered aluminum nitride film via large-scale data analysis of optical emission spectroscopy
The amount of residual stress generated during the growth process of aluminum nitride (AlN) thin films prepared by pulsed DC reactive magnetron sputtering was investigated. The evaluated process parameters wer...
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Open AccessARNT deficiency represses pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase 1 to trigger ROS production and melanoma metastasis
The metabolic changes in melanoma cells that are required for tumor metastasis have not been fully elucidated. In this study, we show that the increase in glucose uptake and mitochondrial oxidative phosphoryla...
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Ultrafast laser ablation of copper by GHz bursts
The ablation of copper, using a 10 GHz burst ultrafast laser with a wavelength of 1030 nm, a pulse duration of 1 ps, a variable total laser fluence, and a number of sub-pulses per burst, is investigated theore...
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Theoretical study of 5,10-diphenylindeno[2,1-a]indene (DPI) dyes for dye sensitized solar cells (DSSC)
Six D-DPI-A (D-π-A) dyes combining various arylamine electron donors (diphenylamine and triphenylamine moieties) with a fixed π-linker (DPI) and a fixed electron acceptor (cyanoacrylic acid) were designed to d...
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Open AccessEffects of Etching Variations on Ge/Si Channel Formation and Device Performance
During the formation of Ge fin structures on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, we found that the dry etching process must be carefully controlled. Otherwise, it may lead to Ge over-etching or the formati...
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Femtosecond laser melting of silver nanoparticles: comparison of model simulations and experimental results
Ultrafast laser-induced melting of silver nanoparticles (NPs) using a femtosecond laser pulse is investigated both theoretically and experimentally. The sintered Ag structure fabricated from printed Ag NP ink ...
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Open AccessEvaluation of the effect of different sitting assistive devices in reclining wheelchair on interface pressure
Reclining wheelchair users often add one or more sitting assistive devices to their wheelchairs, but the effect of these additional sitting assistive devices on the risk of pressure ulcers has rarely been inve...
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Open AccessAssociation of traditional Chinese medicine therapy and the risk of dementia in patients with hypertension: a nationwide population-based cohort study
Patients with hypertension (HTN) reportedly have a higher risk of develo** dementia. However, it remains unclear if use of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the most common form of complementary and altern...
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Numerical analysis and experimental validation on multi-stage warm forging process of deep groove ball bearing—a modified punch geometry with microstructure and defect analysis
In this study, a multi-stage warm forging process for making bearing rings is numerically and experimentally investigated. The aim of the study is to determine the crucial station of the finishing forging proc...
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Fast medium-scale multiperson identification in aerial videos
Vision systems for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been gaining increasing attention for surveillance and civil applications. However, aerial platforms create new challenges for several vision tasks (e.g....
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Open AccessReduced incidence of interstitial pneumonitis after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation using a modified technique of total body irradiation
Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is a curative-intent treatment for patients with high-risk hematologic diseases. However, interstitial pneumonitis (IP) and other toxicities remain major conc...
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Open AccessTNF up-regulates Pentraxin3 expression in human airway smooth muscle cells via JNK and ERK1/2 MAPK pathways
Long pentraxin 3 (PTX3) is a novel candidate marker for inflammation in many chronic diseases. As a soluble pattern recognition receptor, PTX3 is involved in amplification of inflammatory reactions and regulat...
