Near-field scanning microwave microscopy (NSMM) offers the ability to probe local electromagnetic properties beyond the classical Abbe diffraction limit, but achieving high resolution over practical scan areas remains challenging. In this work, we in...
There has been a growing interconnection across the world owing to various multimedia applications and services. Fixed wireless access (FWA) is an attractive wireless solution for delivering multimedia services to different homes. With the fifth-gene...
Highly ordered TiO2 nanotubes (TNTs) decorated with a series of lanthanide ions (Ln3+ = Ho3+, Tb3+, Eu3+, Yb3+, and Er3+) were prepared through an electrochemical process and anodization. The composition, structure, and chemical bond of the as-prepar...
Split inteins are biological mechanisms for the operation of the spatiotemporal control of protein activities. They function through protein trans-splicing, in which their N- and C-terminal fragments are expressed contiguously with two protein halves...
By means of a hybrid density functional, we comprehensively investigate the energetic, electronic, optical properties, and band edge alignments of two-dimensional (2D) CdS/g-C
Time-fractional interface problems arise in systems where interacting materials exhibit memory effects or anomalous diffusion. These models provide a more realistic description of physical processes than classical formulations and appear in heat cond...
We present a new explicit quasi-Lagrangian integration scheme with the three-dimensional cubic spline function transform (transform = fitting + interpolation, referred to as the “spline format”) on a spherical quasi-uniform longitude&ndas...
Semiconductor-based photocatalytic reactions are a practical class of advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) to address energy scarcity and environmental pollution. By utilizing solar energy as a clean, abundant, and renewable source, this process offer...
The progress of object detection technology is crucial for obtaining extensive scene information from aerial perspectives based on computer vision. However, aerial image detection presents many challenges, such as large image background sizes, small...
Electrowetting display (EWD) is one of the latest and most promising reflective displays. However, some defects are easily caused in a driving process. For example, the aperture ratio of pixels can be reduced due to oil splitting, and the grayscale c...
Various Cahn–Hilliard (CH) energy functionals have been introduced to model phase separation in multi-component system. Mathematically consistent models have highly nonlinear terms linked together, thus it is not well-known how to split this ty...
Motivation: We aim to study the boundary stability and persistence of positive odes in mathematical epidemiology models by importing structural tools from chemical reaction networks. This is largely a review work, which attempts to congregate the fie...
Persistence, coexistence, and boundary transcritical relays are usually studied through model-specific analyses in mathematical epidemiology, ecology, population dynamics, and chemical reaction network theory. Although these fields address closely re...
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By introducing the dimension splitting method (DSM) into the improved interpolating moving least-squares (IMLS) method with nonsingular weight function, a dimension splitting–interpolating moving least squares (DS-IMLS) method is first proposed. Sinc...
In intelligent Internet of Things (IoT) systems with split analytic functions, time-critical applications perform tasks that require instant data processing and immediate physical responses within milliseconds to prevent danger, injury, or system fai...
Ionic liquids (ILs), as one of the most concerned functional materials in recent decades, have opened up active perspectives for electrocatalysis. In catalyst preparation, ILs act as characteristic active components besides media and templates. Compa...
A new modified Engquist–Osher-type flux-splitting scheme is proposed to approximate the scalar conservation laws with discontinuous flux function in space. The fact that the discontinuity of the fluxes in space results in the jump of the unknown func...
Background: Physiological PSMA expression in the cells of the proximal renal tubules and consecutive radiopharmaceutical binding and retention could potentially lead to radioligand-therapy-induced nephrotoxicity. Thus, patients with metastatic castra...
As a crucial parameter in Mössbauer spectroscopy, nuclear quadrupole splitting (NQS) exhibits a strong dependence on quantum chemistry methods, which makes accurate theoretical predictions challenging. Meanwhile, the continuous emergence of new...
To mimic the homeostatic functionality of biological neurons, a split-gate field-effect transistor (S-G FET) with a charge trap layer is proposed within a neuron circuit. By adjusting the number of charges trapped in the Si3N4 layer, the threshold vo...
Plant-derived molecules offer tunable coordination and surface chemistry for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting. A Scopus survey retrieved 45 documents linking both topics in 2005–2025, equivalent to 0.34% of the PEC literature. A suppl...
On the basis of time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) we performed first-principle calculations to predict optical properties and transition states of pristine, N- and S-doped, and N+S-codoped anatase TiO
In drug discovery, assays with proximal readout are of great importance to study target-specific effects of potential drug candidates. In the field of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), the determination of GPCR-G protein interactions and G protein...
We present a first-principles fully-relativistic study of surface and interface states in the n one monolayer (ML) Au/Pt(111) heterostructures. The modification of an unoccupied
Nickel phosphide (Ni2P) is a promising material for the electrocatalytic generation of hydrogen from water. Here, we present a chemical picture of the fundamental mechanism of Volmer–Tafel steps in hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity und...
Nitroxide-based radicals, having the advantage of firm chemical stability, are usable as probes in the detection of nanoscale details in the chemical environment of various multi-component systems, based on subtle variations in their electron paramag...
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We derive the regularised evolution equations for the parton distribution functions that include tensorgluons.
The fluorite structured actinide dioxides (AnO2), especially UO2, are the most common nuclear fuel materials. A comprehensive understanding of their surface chemistry is critical because of its relevance to the safe handling, usage, and storage of nu...
Active Learning (AL) for Hyperspectral Image Classification (HSIC) has been extensively studied. However, the traditional AL methods do not consider randomness among the existing and new samples. Secondly, very limited AL research has been carried ou...
Constructing a heterogeneous interface using different components is one of the effective measures to achieve the bifunctionality of nanocatalysts, while synergistic interactions between multiple interfaces can further optimize the performance of sin...
Charge separation is the most important factor in determining the photocatalytic activity of a 2D/2D heterostructure. Despite the exclusive advantages of 2D/2D heterostructure semiconductor systems such as large surface/volume ratios, their use in ph...
The high activity of non-platinum electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in alkaline media is necessary for applications in energy conversion devices such as fuel cells and metal-air batteries. Herein, we present the electrocatalytic ac...
Due to the high oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activity, stability, and abundance of NiOx materials, they are found to be promising catalysts, competitive with expensive metal oxides such as IrO2 and RuO2. From a theoretical point of view, studies r...
Combining photovoltaic (PV) and photo-thermal (PT) energy collection strategies in a single system can enhance solar energy conversion efficiencies, leading to increased economic returns and wider adoption of renewable energy sources. This study focu...
Density functional theory (DFT) calculations are employed to study the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) on the edges of stripes of monolayer molybdenum disulfide. Experimentally, this material has been shown to evolve oxygen, albeit with low efficienc...
Recently, two-dimensional metal–organic frameworks have received increasing interest due to their flexible components with adjustable structures, abundant accessible active sites, and high conductivity. In this paper, the thermal stability and electr...
Photocatalytic water oxidation over titanium dioxide (TiO2) was overviewed by surveying briefly the history of water photo-oxidation, followed by profiling the research for the molecular mechanism of oxygen evolution reaction (OER) at the TiO2 surfac...
Marine seismic imaging is affected by limited acquisition aperture, nonuniform illumination, and complex features such as seafloor structures and low-velocity gas clouds. These factors can produce blurred reflectors, amplitude imbalance, and migratio...
Cloud-based Radio Access Network (Cloud-RAN) leverages virtualization to enable the coexistence of multiple virtual Base Band Units (vBBUs) with collocated workloads on a single edge computer, aiming for economic and operational efficiency. However,...
Hydrogen generation by photocatalytic water-splitting holds great promise for addressing the serious global energy and environmental crises, and has recently received significant attention from researchers. In this work, a method of assembling GeC/MX...
Background and Objectives: Conditioning activities (CAs) are commonly used to induce post-activation performance enhancement (PAPE); however, it remains unclear whether load-dependent responses established in bilateral, predominantly isotonic mo...
Optimizing nitrogen (N) management is essential for sustaining rice productivity and improving soil N retention in paddy ecosystems, yet whether long-term fertilizer postponing (FP) regulates bacterial community assembly and microbial N-cycling poten...
Planned Missing Designs (PMDs) allow for different sets or patterns of variables to be collected from sample units. While the typical motivation for PMDs is to manage respondent burden, they can also reduce data collection costs and provide flexibili...
In this paper, we delve into the dynamics of two and three coupled SRRs models, exploring their nonlinear properties such as stability, periodicity, or chaos. Additionally, we examine the energy function Hamilton within the context of these models. N...
Image steganalysis has been a key technology in information security in recent years. However, existing methods are mostly limited to the binary classification for detecting steganographic images used in digital watermarking, privacy protection, illi...
Background: Conditioning activity (CA) is used to elicit post-activation performance enhancement (PAPE), but it is unclear whether load response principles from back squat models generalize to unilateral split squat conditioning when external load an...
The determination of the angle of arrival (AoA) of Ku-band microwave signals is of great significance in satellite communications, spectrum monitoring, and national defense security, which has created an urgent demand for high-precision and interfere...
Theoretical methods are indispensable in studying photocatalytic reaction pathways, the energy barriers of each elementary reaction step and in elucidating the active sites in catalysis. Transition metal sulfides of the 3d elements, M = Fe, Co, Ni, C...
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