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To improve the high-temperature erosion wear resistance of 304 stainless steel, this study designed and fabricated bionic samples based on the erosion wear resistance characteristics of the desert scorpion bod...
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Open AccessBand-selective Holstein polaron in Luttinger liquid material A0.3MoO3 (A = K, Rb)
(Quasi-)one-dimensional systems exhibit various fascinating properties such as Luttinger liquid behavior, Peierls transition, novel topological phases, and the accommodation of unique quasiparticles (e.g., spi...
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Inverse Identification of Temperature-Dependent Thermal Properties Using Improved Krill Herd Algorithm
A novel intelligent algorithm, krill herd (KH), is firstly introduced to solve the inverse identification of temperature-dependent thermal properties of materials. To promote the searching ability and accelera...
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Non-destructive testing of ceramic materials using mid-infrared ultrashort-pulse laser
The non-destructive testing (NDT) of ceramic materials using mid-infrared ultrashort-pulse laser is investigated in this study. The discrete ordinate method is applied to solve the transient radiative transfer...
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Open AccessThe antidepressant roles of Wnt2 and Wnt3 in stress-induced depression-like behaviors
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The retroviral oncoprotein Tax from human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1), an etiological factor that causes adult T-cell leukemia and lymphoma, has a crucial role in initiating T-lymphocyte transformati...
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Open AccessInvolvement of FoxO1 in the effects of follicle-stimulating hormone on inhibition of apoptosis in mouse granulosa cells
In mammalian ovaries, follicular atresia occurs periodically and destroys almost all the follicles in the ovary. Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) acts as the primary survival factor during follicular atresia...
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Differential responses of leaf water-use efficiency and photosynthetic nitrogen-use efficiency to fertilization in Bt-introduced and conventional rice lines
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Protein ubiquitination is a reversible reaction, in which the ubiquitin chains are deconjugated by a family of deubiquitinases (DUBs). The presence of a large number of DUBs suggests that they likely possess c...
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Eco-physiological modelling of leaf photosynthesis and adaptation analysis of Chinese ivy (Hedera nepalensis var. sinensis) in an evergreen broad-leaved forest in eastern China
The individual plant of Chinese ivy can produce three types of branches (creepy, climbing, and reproductive) during its development, which adapt to different environmental factors. An eco-physiological model w...
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Characterization of sputtered Ta-C-N film in the Cu/barrier/Si contact system
Characterization of sputtered tantalum carbon nitride (Ta-C-N) film in Cu/barrier/Si system was reported for the first time. With a 50∶50 wt.% TaC target and an optimum N2/Ar flow rate (in sccm) ratio of 2/24, a ...
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Regulation of cell survival in CD95-induced T cell apoptosis: role of NF-κB/Rel transcription factors
The activity of NF-κB/Rel transcription factors can inhibit the apoptosis induced by TNF, UV or cancer therapy drugs in a number of cell types, including human T lymphocytes. Furthermore, the NF-κB/Rel inducer...
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Evaluation of PTFE Nanoemulsion as a Low Dielectric Constant Material ILD
Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) has been studied as a low dielectric constant material for ULSI. A novel nanoparticle dispersion of PTFE was developed that permits the spin-coat deposition of PTFE with a thickn...
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Gate Oxynitride Grown in N2O and Annealed in NO Using Rapid Thermal Processing
In this paper a new technique for the formation of high quality ultrathin gate dielectrics is proposed. Gate oxynitride was first grown in N2O and then annealed by in-situ rapid thermal NO-nitridation. This appro...
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Rapid Thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition of Nitrogen-Doped Polysilicon for High-Performance and High-Reliability CMOS Technology
In this paper, a detailed study is presented for the growth kinetics of rapid thermal chemical vapor deposition (RTCVD) of nitrogen-doped polysilicon using silane and ammonia chemistry. It is found that nitrog...
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Rapid Thermal Oxidation of Lightly Doped Silicon in N2O
In this paper, a detailed study is presented for the growth kinetics of rapid thermal oxidation of lightly-doped silicon in N2O and O2 on (100), (110), and (111) oriented substrates. It was found that (110)-orien...
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Characterization of Chemical-Mechanical Polishing Dielectrics for Multilevel Metallization
This paper presents the results obtained from a systematic study on dielectric planarization using a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) technique. This technique is readily applicable to intermetal and pre-me...
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Oxidation Simulation and Growth Kinetics of Thin SiO 2 in Pure N 2 O
This paper reports the oxide growth behavior of silicon in an N2O ambient using conventional furnace method. With all three different wafer orientations and wider temperature and time ranges used in our experimen...
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