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Efficient hydrogen production and electricity generation in solar-driven single-photoelectrode photocatalytic fuel cell
This work reports a novel TiO2/g-C3N4 photoanode-based photocatalytic fuel cell (PFC) designed to convert chemical energy from simulated wastewater. The g-C3N4 modified TiO2 nanorod was successfully synthesized b...
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The Energy Consumption and Economic Growth
Throughout human history, energy has played a critical role in society’s development. Many people believe that energy consumption has a close relationship with economic growth. We created a simple regression m...
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Birth-site habitat selection of wild alpine musk deer (Moschus chrysogaster) in the northeastern qing-tibetan plateau of China
Suitable birth-site habitat is a crucial factor affecting the survival of offspring. The alpine musk deer (Moschus chrysogaster) is an endangered ungulate, native to the Qing-Tibetan Plateau and surrounding areas...
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Preparation of Mn/Ti-modified zeolite and its performance for removing iron and manganese
Excessive iron and manganese presented in groundwater sources may cause harm to human health that needs to be solved urgently. This research aims to develop high-performance Mn/Ti-modified zeolites using sol-g...
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A picowatt, 3.88 ppm/°C, 0.011%/V subthreshold CMOS voltage reference biased by GSCC current source
This paper presents a picowatt-level power consumption CMOS voltage reference which is appropriate for low power applications. A gate-to-source connected cascode current source which is consisted of two transi...
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Effects of industrial agglomeration and environmental regulation on urban ecological efficiency: evidence from 269 cities in China
The ecological environment and economic development are double-edged swords. Nevertheless, we can still achieve green and coordinated development through environmental regulations and industrial agglomeration....
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Open AccessGenome-wide analysis of Jatropha curcas MADS-box gene family and functional characterization of the JcMADS40 gene in transgenic rice
Physic nut (Jatropha curcas), an inedible oilseed plant, is among the most promising alternative energy sources because of its high oil content, rapid growth and extensive adaptability. Proteins encoded by MADS-b...
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Open AccessConnecting concepts in the brain by map** cortical representations of semantic relations
In the brain, the semantic system is thought to store concepts. However, little is known about how it connects different concepts and infers semantic relations. To address this question, we collected hours of ...
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Open AccessDevelo** a portable natural language processing based phenoty** system
This paper presents a portable phenoty** system that is capable of integrating both rule-based and statistical machine learning based approaches.
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Open AccessMusical Imagery Involves Wernicke’s Area in Bilateral and Anti-Correlated Network Interactions in Musicians
Musical imagery is the human experience of imagining music without actually hearing it. The neural basis of this mental ability is unclear, especially for musicians capable of engaging in accurate and vivid mu...
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Life Cycle Performance of Cellulosic Ethanol and Corn Ethanol from a Retrofitted Dry Mill Corn Ethanol Plant
This study conducts a life cycle assessment of a simulated dry mill corn ethanol facility in California’s Central Valley retrofitted to also produce ethanol from corn stover, a cellulosic feedstock. The assess...
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Cooperative Beamforming and Artificial Noise Design for Secure Multi-pair Communications in Wireless Two-Way Relay Networks
In this paper, a secure cooperative beamforming and artificial noise design scheme is developed for multi-pair two-way relay networks. We derive the secrecy sum rate for multi-pair two-way relaying, where each...
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Where are the prompt emitting regions of long GRBs?
We have used a simple method to estimate the prompt emission radii of 27 Swift and 37 pre-Swift long gamma-ray bursts with known redshift and jet break time. The prompt γ-rays are found to emit mainly from a beam...
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Getting Critical Categories of a Data Set
Ranking query that is widely used in various applications is a fundamental kind of queries in the database management field. Although most of the existing work on ranking query focuses on getting top-k high-score...
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Evolutionary engineering design synthesis of on-board traffic monitoring sensors
In this paper, a formal engineering design synthesis methodology based on evolutionary computation is presented, with special emphasis on the design and optimization of distributed independent systems. A case ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evolving Neural Controllers for Collective Robotic Inspection
In this paper, an automatic synthesis methodology based on evolutionary computation is applied to evolve neural controllers for a homogeneous team of miniature autonomous mobile robots. Both feed-forward and r...
