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With rapid advances in design methods and structural analysis techniques, computational generative design strategies have been adopted more widely in the field of architecture and engineering. As a performance...
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Electrodeposited Palladium Coating on Co Micro-Nano Cones Array for Low-Temperature Solid-State Bonding
A low-temperature solid-state bonding technology using palladium-coated Co micro-nano cones array (MCA) and Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu (wt%) solder was investigated. The Pd modification layer on the surface of Co MCA redu...
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Effect of Co-W and Co-Fe-W Diffusion Barriers on the Reliability of the Solder/Cu Interface during Reflow Conditions
Efficient diffusion barriers are necessary to prevent the formation of copper-tin intermetallic compounds (IMCs) in advanced packaging for Sn/Cu micro-bumps. This study investigated the interfacial properties ...
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Self-Healing of Kirkendall Voids and IMC Growth in the Interfacial Reaction of Novel Ni/Cu bi-layer Barrier and Solder
Single Ni layer is often inserted as diffusion barrier between Cu pillar and Sn-based solder to avoid excessive growth of brittle intermetallic compounds (IMCs) and consequent Kirkendall voids (KVs) in microbu...
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Quasi-rectangular shield tunneling is a cutting-edge trenchless method for constructing metro tunnels with double tubes, owing to its advantages in saving underground space and reducing ground disturbance. How...
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Open AccessYAP1 expression is associated with survival and immunosuppression in small cell lung cancer
Immunotherapy is considered a major breakthrough in the treatment of small cell lung cancer (SCLC), although its anti-tumor efficacy is limited. With a high degree of malignancy and high heterogeneity, SCLC is...
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Open AccesscGAS-STING, an important pathway in cancer immunotherapy
Cytosolic DNA sensing, the cyclic GMP-AMP synthase-stimulator of interferon genes (cGAS-STING) pathway, is an important novel role in the immune system. Multiple STING agonists were developed for cancer therap...
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An Efficient Searchable Encryption Against Keyword Guessing Attacks for Sharable Electronic Medical Records in Cloud-based System
Preserving the privacy of electronic medical records (EMRs) is extremely important especially when medical systems adopt cloud services to store patients’ electronic medical records. Considering both the priva...
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A Hierarchical Identity-Based Signature from Composite Order Bilinear Groups
Cloud storage has become one of the integral parts of online life. However, the cloud storage brings in new kinds of data security issues as well. Authentication framework for both users and services provides ...
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Removing Key Escrow from the LW-HIBE Scheme
Hierarchical Identity-Based Encryption (HIBE) provides an efficient solution to the security problems existed in cloud storage. However, the key escrow problem, which is an inherent problem in HIBE, primarily ...
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RScam: Cloud-Based Anti-Malware via Reversible Sketch
Cybercrime caused by malware becomes a persistent and damaging threat which makes the trusted security solution urgently demanded, especially for resource-constrained ends. The existing industry and academic a...
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An Escrow-Free Hierarchical Identity-Based Signature Model for Cloud Storage
Hierarchical identity-based cryptography is an efficient technology to address the security issues in cloud storage. However, the inherent key escrow problem primarily hinders the widespread adoption of this c...
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Improvement of surface cementitious properties of coarse fly ash by dehydration and rehydration processes
Owing to poor bonding between coarse fly ash particles and hydration products, gap-graded blended cements with fly ash usually show lower compressive strengths than Portland cement. Surface cementitious proper...
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On finite rank operators in CSL algebras III
In terms of the exactly nonzero partition, the reducible projection-system and correlation matrices, two characterizations for a rank three operator in a CSL algebra can be completely decomposed are given.
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Weakly algebraic reflexivity and strongly algebraic reflexivity
Algebraic reflexivity introduced by Hadwin is related to linear interpolation. In this paper, the concepts of weakly algebraic reflexivity and strongly algebraic reflexivity which are also related to linear in...
