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Two-dimensional (2D) XY ferromagnets have drawn pronounced interest in recent years, but the characteristic of easy-plane magnetization restricts their application in spintronics to some extent. Here, we propo...
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A Survey of Recommender Systems Based on Hypergraph Neural Networks
Unlike highly purposeful search, a recommender system tends to uncover the user’s potential interests and is a personalized information filtering system. Recently, the performance of hypergraph neural networks...
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Electrically controlled half-metallicity in antiferromagnets is of great significance for both fundamental research and practical application. Here, by constructing van der Waals heterostructures composed of t...
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Ti-based anode materials in sodium ion batteries have attracted extensive interests due to its abundant resources, low toxicity, easy synthesis and long cycle life. However, low Coulombic efficiency and limite...
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Herein, the core-shell structured N-doped carbon coated Fe7S8 nano-aggregates (Fe7S8@NC) were controllably prepared via a simple three-step synthesis strategy. The appropriate thickness of N-doped carbon layer ou...
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There is a need for new tools to screen large populations for cardiovascular disease risk. The CARDIS consortium (European Union H2020 funding) developed an easy-to-use, non-contact device for measuring caroti...
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PWV measurement devices are technically demanding, expensive and prone to artefacts, thus limiting the measurement of arterial stiffness in primary care. The CARDIS consortium developed a non-contact device ba...
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Open Access4.4 Can Laser Doppler Vibrometer Detect Carotid Stenosis from Skin Vibrations? Hydraulic Bench Tests on Patient-Specific Model
Within the H2020 CARDIS project, we explore the use of a Laser Doppler Vibrometer (LDV) [1] to detect asymptomatic carotid stenosis from measurement of skin vibrations on the neck of affected patients. We hypo...
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An innovative device using Laser Doppler Vibrometry (LDV) has been designed [1] to measure the transit time of the pulse wave between two locations along the course of the carotid artery (CA) from skin surface...
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Graphene is an attractive 2D material for optoelectronics applications. However, due to the spontaneous nucleation characteristics of graphene growth on the metal substrates using chemical vapor deposition met...
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One-dimensional nanoribbons, thickness of which is smaller than width, exhibit special confinement and edge effects far from uniform in the cross-section. By means of density functional theory, we investigated...
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Role of cross section on the stability and electronic structure of Ag-doped ZnO nanowires
Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) exhibit tunable physical properties intrinsically related to their reduced dimensionality, quantum size effect, morphology, and surface effects. By using density functional theory...
