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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Overview of the Postgraduate Courses in Clinical Engineering Offered in Brazil
“Clinical Engineering” (EC) is an engineering specialty in which the primary role is to take care of the life cycle of medical equipment. Professional assignments cover activities ranging from planning the inc...
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Effective Improvement of Pt Catalyst for Exhaust Gas Purification by Using the Highly Crystallized CeO2 as an Additive
Over the last few decades, Pd-based three-way catalysts (TWCs) have been more extensively used than Pt-based TWCs because of their higher thermal stability. In this study, the addition of CeO2 to a Pt-based TWC w...
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Experimental and BEf-scaled cross sections for electron-impact excitation of ammonia molecules from near threshold to high-intermediate energy
Absolute differential and integral cross sections (DCSs and ICSs) for the lowest-lying singlet excitations in ammonia (NH3) molecules have been measured from near threshold to 400 eV using angle-revolved electron...
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Open AccessReconstruction of interactions in the ProtoDUNE-SP detector with Pandora
The Pandora Software Development Kit and algorithm libraries provide pattern-recognition logic essential to the reconstruction of particle interactions in liquid argon time projection chamber detectors. Pandor...
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Open AccessSeparation of track- and shower-like energy deposits in ProtoDUNE-SP using a convolutional neural network
Liquid argon time projection chamber detector technology provides high spatial and calorimetric resolutions on the charged particles traversing liquid argon. As a result, the technology has been used in a numb...
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Open AccessScintillation light detection in the 6-m drift-length ProtoDUNE Dual Phase liquid argon TPC
DUNE is a dual-site experiment for long-baseline neutrino oscillation studies, neutrino astrophysics and nucleon decay searches. ProtoDUNE Dual Phase (DP) is a 6
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Sintering Characteristics of Thermal Barrier YSZ Coatings Made by Suspension Plasma Spraying
Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) deposited by suspension plasma spraying (SPS) are recognized as a potent method to increase efficiency and extend the life of gas turbines. The unique microstructure of the SPS ...
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Thermodynamic evidence for a field-angle-dependent Majorana gap in a Kitaev spin liquid
The exactly solvable Kitaev model of two-dimensional honeycomb magnets has a quantum spin liquid phase characterized by the emergence of fractionalized Majorana fermion excitations. In the paramagnetic state o...
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Open AccessRobustness of the thermal Hall effect close to half-quantization in α-RuCl3
A key feature of quantum spin liquids is the predicted formation of fractionalized excitations. They are expected to produce changes in the physical response, providing a way to observe the quantum spin liquid...
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Elastic and inelastic scattering of low-energy electrons from gas-phase \(\hbox {C}_{\mathbf {60}}\) : elastic scattering angular distributions and coexisting solid-state features revisited
We revisit the crossed-beam experimental results for the elastic scattering of low-energy electrons from gas-phase \(\hbox {C}_{60}\) ...
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ABA-induced serine/threonine protein kinase gene transcribed in rye (Secale cereale L.)
We isolated the rye serine/threonine protein kinase (S/T PK) gene, which is responsible for intracellular signal transduction mediated by abscisic acid (ABA) synthesized following drought stress, from the huge...
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Studies of Ni and Co Doped Amorphous AlN for Magneto-Optical Applications
Magneto-optical properties of Ni- and Co-doped amorphous AlN thin films were investigated as a function of post grown annealing temperature using magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) spectroscopy. The x-ray diff...
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Open AccessProspects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA
We present our current best estimate of the plausible observing scenarios for the Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA gravitational-wave detectors over the next several years, with the intention of providi...
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Association of Lower-Extremity Muscle Performance and Physical Activity Level and Intensity in Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Doubly Labeled Water and Accelerometer Study
The purpose of this study was to examine if there is a relationship between lower-extremity muscle performance (LEMP) and physical activity, especially the physical activity level (PAL) value, in community-dwe...
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Search for Ultra-High-Energy Neutrinos with the Telescope Array Surface Detector
We present an upper limit on the flux of ultra-high-energy down-going neutrinos for E > 1018 eV derived with the nine years of data collected by the Telescope Array surface detector (from November 5, 2008 to Octo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Experimental and Numerical Study on Wave Absorbing Breakwater Using Buttress
In coastal construction, we have developed a wave absorbing breakwater using buttress in order to secure a desired work space with reduced wave height and secure a stage of heavy machinery etc. to be used for ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Post-Tsunami Recovery and Morphology Change at Naruse Rivermouth, Japan
The Naruse River mouth was one of many coastal and estuarine areas destructed severely by the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami. Under the intense impact of the tsunami, the sandspit of the Naruse River mouth was forced to ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Numerical Analysis of the Water Level Change on the Overtop** Wave Power Generator
In Japan, the energy source for power generation depends mostly on foreign countries. Therefore, it is necessary to secure stable energy resources in our country. Wave energy has a very large amount of energy ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Sandspit Intrusion and Morphological Recovery Under the Impact of the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami at Kitakami River Mouth, Japan
The Kitakami River Mouth is one of the coastal areas got damaged directly by the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami. The destruction was overwhelming that made the sandspit in front of the river mouth vanish and only narrow ...
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Open AccessPressure-tuning the quantum spin Hamiltonian of the triangular lattice antiferromagnet Cs2CuCl4
Quantum triangular-lattice antiferromagnets are important prototype systems to investigate numerous phenomena of the geometrical frustration in condensed matter. Apart from highly unusual magnetic properties, ...
