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Bioinspired Scraper-File Type Frequency-Doubling Ultrasonic Exciter
In the natural world, leaf-cutting ants cause vibrations through their mutual scra** of file-scraper organs. In this study, we designed a Biomimetic Ultrasonic Exciter (BUE) that imitates leaf-cutting ants. ...
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Viable Escherichia coli enumeration on a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) chip with vertical channel-well configuration
The culture-based methods for viable Escherichia coli (E. coli) detection suffer from long detection time and laborious procedures, whereas the molecule tests and immune recognition technologies lack live/dead E....
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A linguistic steganography based on word indexing compression and candidate selection
In this paper, a novel linguistic steganography with high imperceptibility and undetectability is proposed via secret message compression and candidate text selection. The length of the practical embedded payl...
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Open AccessUnusual isothermal multimerization and amplification by the strand-displacing DNA polymerases with reverse transcription activities
Existing isothermal nucleic acid amplification (INAA) relying on the strand displacement activity of DNA polymerase usually requires at least two primers. However, in this paper, we report an unusual isotherma...
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Open AccessA group consensus model for evaluating real estate investment alternatives
Individual decision-making largely influences the effectiveness of decisions and benefits of investments. Methods: In this article, a consensus model for group decision-making (GDM), based on the analytic hier...
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Extension of grey relational analysis for facilitating group consensus to oil spill emergency management
Emergency management with oil spill is a very complex decision problem. This paper targets efforts to propose and develop a new technology: an extension of grey relational analysis for facilitating group conse...
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Multi-criteria decision analysis for emergency medical service assessment
In emergency management, it is important to arrange the medical resources according to emergency needs. This paper proposes a multi-criteria decision analysis model that combines grey theory and multi-criteria...