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Pressure-induced phase transition of layer-structured host–guest hybrid based on C70 and p-But-calix[8]arene
Host–guest hybrid (HGH) consisting of p-But-calix[8]arene and fullerene C70 were fabricated with a facial solution deposition method. The as-prepared HGH samples are well periodic arranged in a layer structure, i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Smart Gateway for Bridging BIM and Building
Building information modeling (BIM) has been emerging as a digital platform to create, exchange, and manage the information in a construction project. Over the past decades, researchers have explored various t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
RFID-Enabled Management System Adoption and Use in Construction: Passing Through the Labyrinth with an Improved Technology Acceptance Model
The development of radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies has drawn notable attentions in recent studies in the construction industry. However, the initiatives of RFID technologies and RFID-enabled...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Bridging the Cyber and Physical Systems for Better Construction: A Case Study of Construction Machinery Monitoring and Utilization
It has been widely accepted that develo** and maintaining a cyber system (e.g. Building Information Modeling) representing the corresponding physical system is a promising approach to improve decision-making...
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Ectopic expression of subunit A of vacuolar H+-ATPase from apple enhances salt tolerance in tobacco plants
Vacuolar H+-ATPase (VHA) as one of plant proton pumps in the tonoplast plays a very important role in plant growth and stress tolerances. In this paper, we reported that expression of the apple (Malus domestica B...
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Fission cross section for the 232Th(n,f)138Cs reaction induced by neutrons around 14 MeV
Fission cross section of the 232Th(n,f)138Cs reaction induced by neutrons around 14MeV energy region was measured by the activation method. The neutron flux was monitored by the 27Al(n,
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Open AccessStatin use in primary inflammatory breast cancer: a cohort study
Some studies have suggested that statins, which have cholesterol-lowering and anti-inflammatory properties, may have antitumor effects. Effects of statins on inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) have never been st...
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Isolation, sequence identification and expression profile of three novel genes Rab2A, Rab3A and Rab7A from black-boned sheep (Ovis aries)
Complete coding sequences of three Black-boned sheep (Ovis aries) genes Rab2A, Rab3A and Rab7A were amplified using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) based on the conserved sequence informa...
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Stem cell therapy in stroke: strategies in basic study and clinical application
Stem cell therapies are an important strategy for the treatment of stroke. Bone marrow-derived stem cells (BMSCs) may promote structural and functional repair in several organs via stem cell plasticity. The ti...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Nonlinear Aerodynamic Effects on Transonic LCO Amplitude of a Supercritical Airfoil
A CFD time-marching method, CFL3D v6, is employed to investigate the influences of viscosity, initial airfoil position, and initial perturbation on the amplitudes of the transonic limit cycle oscillations (LCO...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Efficient Transonic Method for Aeroelastic Applications Including Aircraft/Stores
Two efficient unsteady transonic methods, called the ZTAIC and ZSAP methods, have been developed to cover the entire transonic flow regimes including Mach one for aeroelastic applications of complex configurat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Transonic Wedge/Cone Flow Solutions Using Perturbed Potential and Euler
Our prolonged interest in the transonic wedge/cone flow problems stems from our earlier pursuit of Oswatitsch’s parabolic method [[1]–[3]]. The intricate nonlinearity imbedded in the subsequent improved parabolic...
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Internal stresses in inelastic BEM using complex-variable differentiation
A new approach is proposed for nonlinear boundary element methods in computing internal stresses accurately using a complex-variable formulation. In this approach, the internal stresses are obtained from the ...