5,319 Results Found

In this paper, a novel scheme for source/drain-first (S/D-first) full bottom dielectric isolation (BDI), i.e., Full BDI_Last, with integration of a sacrificial Si_0.5Ge_0.5 layer was proposed and demonstrated in a stacked Si nanosheet gate-all-around (...

Negative Poisson’s ratio (NPR) materials have broad applications such as heat dissipation, vibration damping, and energy absorption because of their designability, lightweight quality, and high strength ratio. Here, we use first-principles calc...

Recently, the application of two–dimensional (2D) piezoelectric materials has been seriously hindered because most of them possess only in–plane piezoelectricity but lack out–of–plane piezoelectricity. In this work, using firs...

Tarski’s first-order axiom system ${\mathcal{E}}_2$ for Euclidean geometry is notable for its completeness and decidability. However, the Pythagorean theorem—either in its modern algebraic form $a^2+b^2=c^2$ or in Euclid’s Elements—cannot be dire...

Current pharmacotherapy has limited efficacy and/or intolerable side effects in late-stage Parkinson’s disease (LsPD) patients whose daily life depends primarily on caregivers and palliative care. Clinical metrics inadequately gauge efficacy in...

The electronic and magnetic properties of graphene/MoS₂ heterostructures intercalated with 3d transition metal (TM) atoms at different concentrations have been systematically investigated by first principles calculations. The results showed that all...

There is a plea for more video documentation in articles about polymer prints of 3D-computer-aided-design (CAD)-(re-)constructed prosthetics [...]

Long-term modelization of cancer as it changes in the human body is a difficult goal, particularly when designing and testing new therapeutic strategies. This becomes even more difficult with metastasis modeling to show chemotherapeutic molecule deli...

Management and production characteristics impact conception rate to first service (CR1S) in small-scale dairy farms, but the impact of body condition score (BCS) and milk production levels on cows’ fertility is unknown. Our objective is to dete...

Acne-prone skin is associated with dysbiosis involving Cutibacterium acnes (C. acnes) and Staphylococcus epidermidis (S. epidermidis) causing increased seborrhea in sebaceous glands (SG) and inflammation. Human primary sebocytes were cultivated using...

Land monitoring using temporal series of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images requires radiometrically well calibrated sensors. In this paper, the radiometric stability of the new SAR Sentinel-1A “S-1A” sensor was first assessed by analyzing tempora...

We review recent developments in the study of the AdS/CFT correspondence in lower dimensions. We start by summarising the classification of AdS${}_3\times {\mathrm{S}}^2$ solutions in massive type IIA supergravity with (0, 4) supersymmetries and the construction of their 2...

Cognitive stimulation during the first years of school is key to the comprehensive development of children, as it impacts functions such as attention, memory, and intelligence, and contributes to their academic performance and social adaptation. The...

One in five Canadians are first-generation immigrants. Evidence suggests the baseline risk for vitamin D (vitD) deficiency is increased among immigrants who move from equatorial to northern countries. We investigated the prevalence and determinants o...

The study of salinity stress in irrigated floriculture can make a significant contribution to the preservation of freshwater sources. To analyze the morphological and aesthetic responses of zinnia (Zinnia elegans L.) and periwinkle (Catharanthus rose...

The present prospective study included 2156 women and investigated the effect of gene variants in the vitamin D (VitD) metabolic and glucose pathways and their interaction with VitD levels during pregnancy on gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Plas...

The main purpose of the two consecutive experimental studies presented here was to compare the effect of salinity on nutrients in leaves of the halophytic plant species Portulaca oleracea L. and in soil. The first experiment was conducted to study th...

We investigate the quantum geometry of a 2d surface S bounding the Cauchy slices of a 4d gravitational system. We investigate in detail for the first time the boundary symplectic current that naturally arises in the first-order formulation of general...

Mobile communications have experienced exponential growth both in connectivity and multimedia traffic in recent years. To support this tremendous growth, device-to-device (D2D) communications play a significant role in 5G and beyond 5G networks. Howe...

Ten physically active subjects underwent two cycling exercise trials. In the first, aerobic capacity (VO_2max) was determined and the second was a 45 min submaximal exercise test. Urine samples were collected separately the day before (day 1) , the da...

Compared with three-dimensional (3D) and other materials, two-dimensional (2D) materials with unique properties such as high specific surface area, structurally adjustable band structure, and electromagnetic properties have attracted wide attention....

Comparing with the traditional construction process, 3D printing technology used in construction offers many advantages due to the elimination of formwork. Currently, 3D printing technology used in the construction field is widely studied, however, l...

Pin nematodes of the genus Paratylenchus are obligate ectoparasites of a wide variety of plants that are distributed worldwide. In this study, individual morphologically vouchered nematode specimens of fourteen Paratylenchus species, including P. acu...

Whether an algebraic or a geometric or a phenomenological prescription is applied, the first fundamental form is unambiguously related to the modeling of the curved spacetime. Accordingly, we assume that the possible quantization of the first fundame...

The lepidopteran pest, Spodoptera frugiperda (JE Smith), spread rapidly after its first detection in China and has caused significant yield loss to maize production in the southwestern part of the country. Although natural enemies of S. frugiperda ar...

We investigate the secure degrees of freedom (s.d.o.f.) of three new channel models: broadcast channel with combating helpers, interference channel with selfish users, and multiple access wiretap channel with deviating users. The goal of introducing...

The LHCb experiment has been able to collect the largest sample ever produced of charm-hadron decays, performing a number of measurements of observables related to $CP$ violation in the charm sector. In this document, the most recent results from LHCb...

Background: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS) is a nationwide birth cohort study of environmental factors affecting children’s health and development. We summarize the complete blood count and chemistry panel statistical d...

This study aimed to investigate the chemical composition of the leaf essential oil from Ivoirian Isolona dewevrei. A combination of chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques (GC(RI), GC-MS and ¹³C-NMR) was used to analyze two oil samples (S1 and S...

A new cerebroside, 1-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl-(2S,3R,8E)-2-[(2’R)-2-hydroxy- palmitoylamino]-8-octadecene-1,3-diol, along with aralia cerebroside and 1-O-β-D- glucopyranosyl-(2S,3S,4R,8E)-2-[(2’R)-2-hydroxybehenoylamino]-8-octadecene-1,3,4-triol were iso...

We utilize first principles calculations to investigate the mechanical properties and strain-dependent electronic band structure of the hexagonal phase of two dimensional (2D) HfS₂. We apply three different deformation modes within −10% to 30%...

D2D communication is a promising technology for enhancing spectral efficiency (SE) in cellular networks, and full-duplex (FD) has the potential to double SE. Due to D2D’s short-distance communication and low transmittance power, it is natural t...

Most image encryption methods based on Rubik’s cube scrambling adopt the idea of cyclic shift or map the image pixels to the cube surface, not fully considering the cube’s three-dimensional (3D) properties. In response to this defect, we...

Let b and c be two elements in a semigroup S. The $(b,c)$-inverse is an important outer inverse because it unifies many common generalized inverses. This paper is devoted to presenting some symmetric properties of $(b,c)$-inverses and $(c,b)$-inverses. We...

Intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs), as a representative variant of fuzzy sets, has substantial advantages in managing and modeling uncertain information, so it has been widely studied and applied. Nevertheless, how to perfectly measure the similarities...

Metformin is the most commonly used glucose-lowering therapy (GLT) worldwide and remains the first-line therapy for newly diagnosed individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D) in management algorithms and guidelines after the UK Prospective Diabetes Study...

Using solid building models, instead of the surface models in City Geography Markup Language (CityGML), can facilitate data integration between Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Geographic Information System (GIS). The use of solid models, howe...

The inactivation and damage of histamine-forming bacteria (HFB), Enterobacter aerogenes and Staphylococcus capitis, in a 0.1 M potassium phosphate buffer (pH 6.8) and marlin meat slurry by high hydrostatic pressure (HHP) treatments were studied using...

In this article we deal with the optimal sizing of low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) using newly proposed metamodeling techniques. The main objective is to construct metamodels of main performances of the LNAs (namely, the third intercept point (IIP3), the...

I first met Peter in the early 2000s when I was a PhD student at the University of Bristol [...]

Chemical investigation on the constituents of Landoltia punctata led to the isolation and identification of 17 compounds, four of which were new and identified as (3b,24S)-9,19-cycloartane-3,22,24,25-tetraol 3-O-[b-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→2)]-[b-D-glucop...

Pin nematodes (Paratylenchus spp.) are polyphagous parasitic species with a wide host range and geographical distribution; their diversity is unknown in the potato growing region of Alberta, Canada. The present study aims to provide morphological and...

Isovalent doping offers a method to enhance the thermoelectric properties of semiconductors, yet its influence on the phonon structure and propagation is often overlooked. Here, we take $CdX$ ($X=Te, Se$) compounds as an example to study the role of...

We study the factorization properties of continuous homomorphisms defined on a (dense) submonoid S of a Tychonoff product $D={\prod }_{i\in I}{D}_i$ of topological or even topologized monoids. In a number of different situations, we esta...

Anthocyanins are abundant in purple corn and beneficial to human health. Soybean protein isolate-7s (SPI-7s) could enhance the stability of anthocyanins. The stable system of soybean protein isolate-7s and delphinidin-3-O-glucoside complex (SPI-7s-D3...

A new Integrated Spatial Geophysical and Geotechnical Evaluation (I.S.G.E) methodology has been developed to estimate the spatial distribution of geotechnical parameters using high-resolution geophysical methods. The proposed algorithm is based on fu...

The field of neurorehabilitation has moved considerably beyond a narrow use of gait speed [...]

The authors have made some changes in response to the reviewer’s comments after the manuscript was published in December 2021 [...]

Postactivation potentiation (PAP) describes an initial muscular activation with a submaximal or maximal load intensity that produces acute improvements in muscle power and performance in subsequent explosive activities. The objective of this study wa...

After a piezoelectric inkjet printhead jets the first droplet, the actuating membrane still vibrates, creating residual vibrations in the ink channel, which can degrade the inkjet printhead performance. For suppressing these vibrations, an optimized...