To satisfy increasing demands for ecofriendly vehicles, researchers are now studying electric vehicle (EV)-related technologies. In particular, integrated bidirectional onboard battery charger (OBC)/low-voltage DC–DC converter (LDC) modules are...
This paper proposes a novel 2-transformer (2-Trans)-based integrated on-board charger (OBC) and low-voltage DC/DC converter (LDC) system for electric vehicles. Conventional integrated OBC–LDC systems employing a three-winding transformer suffer...
Recently, the integrated On-Board Charger (OBC) combining an OBC converter with a Low-Voltage DC/DC Converter (LDC) has been considered to reduce the size, weight and cost of DC-DC converters in the EV system. This paper proposes a new integrated OBC...
Bioenergy can play an important role in achieving the agreed United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and implementing the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, thereby advancing climate goals, food security, better land use, and sustainable...
Graph attention networks are pivotal for modeling non-Euclidean data, yet they face dual challenges: training oscillations induced by projection-based high-dimensional constraints and gradient anomalies due to poor adaptation to heterophilic structur...
Protein–protein interactions play a pivotal role in normal cellular functions as well as in carcinogenesis. The protein–protein interactions form functional clusters during signal transduction. To elucidate the fine calibration of the protein–protein...
15 March 2021
Least developed countries (LDCs) are home to over a billion people throughout Africa, Asia-Pacific, and the Caribbean. The people who live in LDCs represent just 13% of the global population but 40% of its growth rate. Characterised by low incomes an...
Although organic agriculture (OA) is praised unequivocally for its environmental and health benefits, its potential for food security is often questioned because of its perceived lower yield. Least developed countries (LDCs), which have a high prospe...
Magmatic processes dominate Fe–Ti–V mineralization and revealing these processes is essential for providing a scientific foundation for exploration models. This study focuses on the metamorphosed Neoarchean (ca. 2728 Ma) tholeiitic layere...
Background and Objectives: TAM receptors—Tyro3, Axl, and Mer—and their ligand Growth Arrest-Specific 6 (Gas6) represent a pleiotropic system implicated in fibrosis. Increased Gas6 and Axl expression have previously been observed in lung s...
An edge displacement sensor is one of the key technologies for building large segmented mirror astronomical optical telescopes. A digital interface is one novel approach for sensor technologies, digital transformation and the Internet of Things (IoT)...
Global warming and climate change, primarily driven by human activities, with agriculture playing a significant role, have become central topics of scientific research. Livestock production, especially enteric fermentation, is a major source of green...
9 July 2022
A better understanding of river capacity for contaminants (i.e., water environmental capacity, WEC) is essential for the reasonable utilization of water resources, providing government’s with guidance about sewage discharge management, and allo...
The discipline of marketing has seen a significant shift toward the use of AI over the past 10 years, with generative AI such as ChatGPT exponentially accelerating the impact of this technology due to its accessibility and relevance in helping meet o...
Rapid urbanization has been a boon for industrial growth in Bangladesh, leading the Dhaka megapolis to become one of the least livable places in the world. These circumstances, however, have received little attention by policy makers and in academic...
A distribution system was designed and operated by considering unidirectional power flow from a utility source to end-use loads. The large penetrations of distributed generation (DG) into the existing distribution system causes a variety of technical...
This study examines how blockchain technology is associated with institutional governance and operational effectiveness in blockchain-enabled plastic recovery, with particular attention to resource-constrained developing regions and Less Developed Co...
Low-Voltage DC-DC converters (LDCs) in electric vehicles require high power density and high efficiency operation over the wide range of load and input voltage variations. This paper introduces a novel topology which combines three 1 MHz half-bridge...
Lid-driven cavity (LDC) flow is a significant area of study in fluid mechanics due to its common occurrence in engineering challenges. However, using numerical simulations (ANSYS Fluent) to accurately predict fluid flow and mixed convective heat tran...
Cloud-based technology, which is now well established, helps in reducing costs and providing accessibility, reliability and flexibility. However, the Yemen higher educational institutions (HEIs) have not yet embraced the technology due to security an...
Lidocaine is the most commonly used local anesthetic worldwide, known for its rapid onset and moderate duration of anesthesia. However, it is short-lived and does not effectively promote effective topical anesthesia in the oral cavity when used alone...
Local driving cycles (LDCs) capture local traffic characteristics, while standard driving cycles (SDCs) compare vehicles in distinct regions. There is a plethora of LDCs, raising the question as to how distinct they are. To quantify it, we first orga...
Cadaverine is a C5 diamine monomer used for the production of bio-based polyamide 510. Cadaverine is produced by the decarboxylation of l-lysine using a lysine decarboxylase (LDC). In this study, we developed recombinant Escherichia coli strains for...
Pharmaceuticals carried into space are subjected to different gravitational conditions. Hypergravity is encountered in the first stage, during spacecraft launching. The stability of medicines represents a critical element of space missions, especiall...
The Agricultural Policy/Environmental eXtender (APEX) model has been used for farm/small watershed management, and the ArcAPEX interface was developed using the ArcGIS extension. However, the interface requires a paid license and limits dynamic appli...
This study investigated three key factors (technological-related, organisational-related and environmental-related barriers) affecting the adaptation to or integration of developed ICT. It also examined how SMEs in less developed countries can explor...
This study evaluates the effects of hypergravity (HG) on a neurodegenerative model in vitro, looking at how HG influences Tau protein aggregation in Mouse Hippocampal Neuronal Cells (HT22) induced by neurofibrillary tangle seeds. Overall, 50× g...
In order to reduce poverty and achieve Goal 1 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, countries’ foreign trade flows must be a driving force for productive activity, as proposed by the WTO-led (World Trade Organization) Aid for Trade in...
The currently accepted interval of weekly cast changes in the treatment of clubfeet seems unsubstantiated. A force sensor is needed to determine the adaptation rate of a clubfoot to establish what cast change interval would be most effective and effi...
Small-scale inland fisheries are essential for livelihoods and food security in developing countries such as Burkina Faso. However, there is a gap in research on the ongoing transformation of the sector toward sustainability. This article analyzes th...
The possibility of humans to live outside of Earth on another planet has attracted the attention of numerous scientists around the world. One of the greatest difficulties is that humans cannot live in an extra-Earth environment without proper equipme...
Did the novel planning arrangements in the National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) enable stakeholders to substantively influence adaptation planning? If so, does the observed influence have potential for more transformational adaptation? We...
Melanoma is the most aggressive skin carcinoma and nanotechnology can bring new options for its pharmacological treatment. Nanostructured lipid carriers (NLC) are ideal drug-delivery carriers for hydrophobic drugs, such as the antineoplastic docetaxe...
Load-bearing capacity is critical in planetary threaded roller bearings (PTRBs). Machining errors cause uneven load distribution coefficients (LDC) among the rollers and the threaded teeth. The limited literature explores the influence of machining e...
Amorphous drug formulations exploiting drug–drug interactions have been extensively studied. This study aims to develop a transdermal system containing an amorphous complex of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) flurbiprofen (FLU) a...
This study looks at the effect of surface conditioners hydrofluoric acid (HFA), Ytterbium fibre laser (YFL), and Hydroxyapatite nanoparticles (HANPs) on the surface roughness (Ra) and shear bond strength (SBS) of different viscosity resin cements to...
Background: The number of persons who have to overcome extensive geographical distances for caring for their older parent(s), hereinafter referred to as long-distance caregiving relatives (LDCs), is rising. However, in the non-English-speaking Global...
Background: Silane-containing universal adhesives (UAs) are marketed as adhesion promotors for glass-ceramics. Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the priming capacity of γ-methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane (γMPTS)-containing and &g...
The field of high-pressure materials research has grown steadily over the last seven decades, with many remarkable discoveries having been made. This work is part II of a three-part series summarising recent progress in laser material processing with...
Derived from Proclus’s Elementatio Theologica, Liber de Causis (LDC), with the concept of “creation” at its core, provides a substantial monotheistic adaptation of the former that was absorbed and criticized by medieval philosophers...
The pain and fear caused by direct local injection of anesthetic or the poor experience with surface anesthetic cream increase the difficulty of clinical treatment for oral diseases. To address this problem, a hyaluronic acid microneedle patch (Li-HA...
Articaine (ATC) and lidocaine (LDC) are the local anesthetics (LAs) currently most employed in dentistry. Cases of paresthesia, reported more frequently for ATC, have raised concerns about their potential neurotoxicity, calling for further investigat...
In low-duty-cycle wireless networks with unreliable and correlated links, Opportunistic Routing (OR) is extremely costly because of the unaligned working schedules of nodes within a common candidate forwarder set. In this work, we propose a novel pol...
13 July 2020
Online communities have become a tool for researchers to understand and help individuals with depression. According to their operation mode in terms of management, communities can be divided into management depression communities (MDCs) and lacking-m...
29 April 2021
This paper aims to measure disparities among the variables associated with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 defined by the United Nations (UN) in the least developed countries (LDCs) of Asia. In the terms of the UN Conference on Trade and Develop...
This study investigated the effects of encapsulated capsaicinoids (CAPs), containing 0.47% capsaicin and 0.22% dihydrocapsaicin, on growth, serum parameters, nutrient digestibility, and intestinal health in weaned piglets. A total of 168 piglets were...
In order to solve the bottleneck problems of zinc anode in aqueous zinc-ion batteries, such as dendrite disorder growth, hydrogen evolution corrosion, and interface passivation, lard derivative coating (LDC) was fabricated on zinc anode using a coati...
Background: Effective postprandial glycemic regulation is essential for preventing metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes. While pharmacological interventions like GLP-1 (Glucagon-Like Peptide-1) receptor agonists are effective, dietary strategi...
A simple and efficient THz metamaterial based on an asymmetric double split square array resonator was designed and fabricated. The sensitivity and Q value of the metamaterial sensor were theoretically analyzed to be 278 GHz/RIU and 11, respectively....
Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) is the rate-limiting enzyme in the biosynthesis of polyamines and plant alkaloids, including medicinal tropane alkaloids (TAs). Due to its key role, ODC has been utilized as an effective molecular tool in metabolic engin...
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