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Applied Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 12

December 2016 - 69 articles

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Articles (69)

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,492 Views
19 Pages

16 December 2016

Accurate forecasting of icing thickness has great significance for ensuring the security and stability of the power grid. In order to improve the forecasting accuracy, this paper proposes an icing forecasting system based on the fireworks algorithm a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
224 Citations
43,588 Views
21 Pages

Photonic Packaging: Transforming Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits into Photonic Devices

  • Lee Carroll,
  • Jun-Su Lee,
  • Carmelo Scarcella,
  • Kamil Gradkowski,
  • Matthieu Duperron,
  • Huihui Lu,
  • Yan Zhao,
  • Cormac Eason,
  • Padraic Morrissey and
  • Marc Rensing
  • + 3 authors

15 December 2016

Dedicated multi-project wafer (MPW) runs for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) from Si foundries mean that researchers and small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) can now afford to design and fabricate Si photonic chips. While these bare Si-PICs are ade...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,746 Views
11 Pages

15 December 2016

When a blackout occurs, it is important to reduce the time for power system restoration to minimize damage. For fast restoration, it is important to reduce taking time for the selection of generators, transmission lines and transformers. In addition,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,639 Views
6 Pages

A Label-Free Aptamer-Based Fluorescent Assay for Cadmium Detection

  • Yunxia Luan,
  • Anxiang Lu,
  • Jiayi Chen,
  • Hailong Fu and
  • Li Xu

14 December 2016

Selective detection of ultratrace amounts of cadmium (Cd2+) is extremely important for food safety and environmental monitoring because of its toxicity and widespread use. In this work, we developed a facile, rapid, sensitive, and highly selective me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,243 Views
17 Pages

14 December 2016

It is well known that the best way of convective heat transfer is the flow of nanofluids through a porous medium. In this regard, a mathematical model is presented to study the effects of variable viscosity, thermal conductivity and slip conditions o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,615 Views
6 Pages

14 December 2016

A simple, green, and efficient approach was used to synthesize 3,4-dihydropyrimidines derivatives. We showed that the application of the planetary ball milling method with a ball-to-reagent weight ratio of 8 for the Biginelli reaction provides 3,4-di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,033 Views
16 Pages

A Psychoacoustic Investigation on the Effect of External Shading Devices on Building Facades

  • Nicolò Zuccherini Martello,
  • Francesco Aletta,
  • Patrizio Fausti,
  • Jian Kang and
  • Simone Secchi

14 December 2016

Due to energetic and natural lighting factors, building facades often present external shading devices, but the acoustic properties of such devices have not yet been well studied. This study was carried out using a full-scale model of a portion of a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,136 Views
11 Pages

14 December 2016

Thin-walled integrated flexible support structures are the major trend in the development of current rolling bearing technology. A thin-walled, integrated, squirrel-cage flexible support roller bearing, quasi-dynamic iterative finite element analysis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,603 Views
17 Pages

13 December 2016

This paper presents a dominant channel occupancy (DCO) mechanism for the Wi-Fi backscatter uplink in the industrial Internet of things (IIoT). The DCO provides high-priority channel access and reliable burst transmission to the Wi-Fi backscatter devi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,182 Views
11 Pages

13 December 2016

Simultaneous spatial and temporal focusing (SSTF) of femtosecond laser pulses gives rise to strong suppression of nonlinear self-focusing during the propagation of the femtosecond laser beam. In this paper, we begin with an introduction of the princi...

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