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Effect of gas pressure on the creep and seepage characteristics of low permeability coal
Coal, as a complex gas-bearing medium, exhibits unique rheological behavior under mining disturbance. However, with increasing mining depth, the creep and seepage mechanisms of low permeability coal remain unc...
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Two-dimensional localized modes in nonlinear systems with linear nonlocality and moiré lattices
Periodic structures structured as photonic crystals and optical lattices are fascinating for nonlinear waves engineering in the optics and ultracold atoms communities. Moiré photonic and optical lattices — two...
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Pore Characterization of Sandy Silty Soil in Metro Surrounding Rock: A Synchrotron Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Experiment
To examine the pore structure characteristics of sandy silt in metro tunnel surrounding rock, the pore size distribution patterns and fractal dimension of sandy silt samples were determined through small-angle...
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Optical absorption regulation of Ag nanodisc arrays in a monolayer MoS2 hybrid system
In this research, optical absorption regulation of Ag nanodisc arrays in a monolayer MoS2 hybrid system is investigated using the FDTD technique. Ag nanodisc arrays are designed on monolayer MoS2 on SiO2/Si and A...
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Open AccessA Flexible Tribotronic Artificial Synapse with Bioinspired Neurosensory Behavior
A flexible tribotronic artificial synapse with bioinspired neurosensory behaviour was demonstrated, which establishes an active interaction mechanism with the environment.
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Contrasting time-resolved characteristics of laser-induced plasma spatially confined by conical cavities with different bottom diameters
In this work, conical cavities with a fixed top diameter and varied bottom diameter have been utilized to improve the signal intensity, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and signal stability of laser-induced breakd...
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Electromagnetically induced moiré optical lattices in a coherent atomic gas
Electromagnetically induced optical (or photonic) lattices via atomic coherence in atomic ensembles have recently received great theoretical and experimental interest. We here conceive a way to generate electr...
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Effect of structural parameters on the optical absorption properties of carbon nanowire arrays
Carbon materials have become a research hotspot in many fields because of their unique properties. In this paper, carbon nanowires (CNWs) were constructed with the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) techniqu...
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Modulation of Second-Harmonic Generation in Bulk MoS2 via Excitation Wavelength and Metal Film Thickness
We numerically investigated the impact of the excitation wavelength and metal film thickness on second-harmonic generation (SHG) in bulk MoS2, which originates from the change in optical-path difference and phase...
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Mathematical Modeling of Heat Transfer and Deformation of Bloom Tube Mold in Continuous Casting Process
The deformation of a bloom tube mold was investigated using an in-house-developed complex model considering the flow, heat transfer, and solidification as well as the copper tube stress strain. This model was ...
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Precise editing of myostatin signal peptide by CRISPR/Cas9 increases the muscle mass of Liang Guang Small Spotted pigs
Myostatin (MSTN), a member of the transforming growth factor-β superfamily, is a negative regulator of muscle growth and development. Disruption of the MSTN gene in various mammalian species markedly promotes mus...
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Open AccessPreventing critical collapse of higher-order solitons by tailoring unconventional optical diffraction and nonlinearities
Self-trapped modes suffer critical collapse in two-dimensional cubic systems. To overcome such a collapse, linear periodic potentials or competing nonlinearities between self-focusing cubic and self-defocusing...
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The mechanism research of non-Smad dependent TAK1 signaling pathway in the treatment of bone defects by recombination BMP-2-loaded hollow hydroxyapatite microspheres/chitosan composite
The present study aimed to evaluate whether the non-Smad dependent TAK1 signaling pathway (BMP-2-TAK1-p38-Osx signaling pathway) played an important role in bone repair mediated by hollow hydroxyapatite (HA) m...
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One-dimensional gap solitons in quintic and cubic–quintic fractional nonlinear Schrödinger equations with a periodically modulated linear potential
Competing nonlinearities, such as the cubic (Kerr) and quintic nonlinear terms whose strengths are of opposite signs (the coefficients in front of the nonlinearities), exist in various physical media (in parti...
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Disruption of the ZBED6 binding site in intron 3 of IGF2 by CRISPR/Cas9 leads to enhanced muscle development in Liang Guang Small Spotted pigs
Insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2) plays an important role in the development of the foetus and in post-natal growth and development. A SNP within intron 3 of porcine IGF2 disrupts a binding site for the repress...
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Theoretical Prediction of Heat Transport in Few-Layer Graphene/Epoxy Composites
Graphene is widely employed to improve the overall thermal conductivity of polymer composites because of its remarkable thermal conductivity. However, the magnitude of its improvement of thermal conductivity i...
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Two-dimensional matter-wave solitons and vortices in competing cubic-quintic nonlinear lattices
The nonlinear lattice — a new and nonlinear class of periodic potentials — was recently introduced to generate various nonlinear localized modes. Several attempts failed to stabilize two-dimensional (2D) solit...
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Open AccessCrystal structures of RidA, an important enzyme for the prevention of toxic side products
The YjgF/YER057c/UK114 family proteins are highly conserved across all three domains of life and most of them currently have no clearly defined biological roles. In vitro, these proteins were found to hydrolyze t...
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Quantum coherent control of ultrashort laser pulses
The effective photonic control is one of the key issues in photo-physics. Significant advancement in photonic crystals, quantum optics, ultrafast optics as well as micro-nano-optics gives rise to new opportuni...
