The sufficient aspects of model leading to the E(5) symmetry have been proved by presenting E(5) characteristic of the transitional nuclei 64-80Ge. The positive parity states of even-mass Ge nuclei within the framework of Interacting Boson Model have...
Obesity is considered one of the main risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. The browning process has been recently recognized as a promising anti-obesity therapy. Lycopene (LYC) and Garcinia cambogia fruit extract (GE) might be important resource...
It is of strategic significance to extract germanium (Ge) in an ecological way for sustainable development. Adsorbents that already adsorb Ge have disadvantages such as poor selectivity and low adsorption capacity. In this study, a novel adsorbent ma...
Strain engineering has attracted extensive attention as a valid method to tune the physical and chemical properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials. Here, based on first-principles calculations and by solving the semi-classical Boltzmann transport...
The dissipation of MnSi layered precipitates during solidification is critical for further enhancement of the thermoelectric properties of the higher manganese silicides. We have investigated the effects of partial substitution of V in Mn sites and o...
In this study, as a novel approach to thin-film solar cells based on tin sulfide, an environmentally friendly material, we attempted to fabricate (Ge, Sn)S thin films for application in multi-junction solar cells. A (Ge0.42 Sn0.58)S thin film was pre...
Under the DFT calculations, two-dimensional (2D) GeSi, SnSi, and SnGe monolayers, considered as the structural analogues of famous graphene, are confirmed to be dynamically, mechanically and thermodynamically stable, and all of them can also possess...
Magnetic metallic nanoparticles (MNPs) of Ni, Ni82Fe18, Ni50Fe50, Ni64Fe36, and Fe were prepared by the technique of the electrical explosion of metal wire. The average size of the MNPs of all types was in the interval of 50 to 100 nm. Magnetic polym...
High-performance p-type thin-film transistors (pTFTs) are crucial for realizing low-power display-on-panel and monolithic three-dimensional integrated circuits. Unfortunately, it is difficult to achieve a high hole mobility of greater than 10 cm2/V&m...
23 November 2016
Background: Physical activity (PA) in natural environments, known as green exercise (GE), can provide health benefits above and beyond PA in other environments, but little is known about the extent to which GE is an accessible form of weekly PA acros...
Gross efficiency (GE) and the index of pedal force effectiveness (IFE) are important factors that enhance cyclists’ performance; however, the effects of changing pedal force (gear ratio) and cadence on these indices while riding on a road racin...
Germanium (Ge) is a critical material for applications in space solar cells, integrated photonics, infrared imaging, sensing, and photodetectors. However, the corresponding cost and limited availability hinder its potential for widespread application...
In this study, Yb/Al/Ge co-doped silica fiber core glasses with different GeO2 contents (0–6.03 mol%) were prepared using the sol–gel method combined with high-temperature sintering. The absorption, fluorescence, radiation-induced absorpt...
We present the electronic and vibrational studies on Si136-xGex (x = 8, 32, 40, 104) alloys, using the local density approximation (LDA) scheme. We find that a “nearly-direct” band gap exists in the band structure of Si104Ge32 and Si96Ge4...
Integration of gene expression (GE) and protein–protein interaction (PPI) is not straightforward because the former is provided as a matrix, whereas the latter is provided as a network. In many cases, genes processed with GE analysis are refine...
Background: EUS-guided gastroenterostomy (EUS-GE) is a novel and effective procedure for the management of malignant gastric outlet obstruction (GOO) with more durable results when compared to enteral stenting (ES). However, data comparing EUS-GE to...
The SiGe/Si multilayer is a critical component for fabricating stacked Si channel structures for next-generation three-dimensional (3D) logic and 3D dynamic random-access memory (3D-DRAM) devices. Achieving these structures necessitates highly select...
A survey of the calculations of the isovector axial vector form factor of the nucleon using lattice QCD is presented. Attention is paid to statistical and systematic uncertainties, in particular those due to excited state contributions. Based on a co...
This research investigates a vertically structured Ge-on-Si avalanche photodetector (APD) fabricated in a separate absorption, charge, and multiplication configuration. The application of ramp gating enables reverse bias beyond the punch-through volt...
The duals of the most spherical closo borane deltahedra having from 6 to 16 vertices form a series of homologous spherical trivalent polyhedra with even numbers of vertices from 8 to 28. This series of homologous polyhedra is found in endohedral clus...
We have tried to improve the responsivity of germanium-based thin-film photodetectors. It has been shown that applying a mechanical strain to the detector led to a 46.6% enhancement on the 1550 nm detection. This improvement is better than the 1310 n...
In this work, we explore the impacts of charge doping on the magnetism of a Cr2Ge2Te6 monolayer using first-principles calculations. Our results reveal that doping with 0.3 electrons per unit cell can enhance the ferromagnetic exchange constant in a...
The ability to manipulate the luminescent color, intensity and long lifetime of nanophosphors is important for anti-counterfeiting applications. Unfortunately, persistent luminescence materials with multimode luminescent features have rarely been rep...
Understanding the nature of the Dark Matter (DM) is one of the current challenges in modern astrophysics and cosmology. Knowing the properties of the DM particle would shed light on physics beyond the Standard Model and even provide us with details o...
While light-emitting nanostructures composed of group-IV materials fulfil the mandatory compatibility with CMOS-fabrication methods, factors such as the structural stability of the nanostructures upon thermal annealing, and the ensuing photoluminesce...
The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) provides that a food is misbranded if the label accompanying the product is false or misleading in any particular. Congress provided minimal guidance to assist the FDA in making these determinations. W...
Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 (CZTSSe) is a candidate thin-film photovoltaic material; however, its performance is restricted by innate defect-induced nonradiative recombination. Low-concentration Ge doping has been identified as an efficient way to mitigate these...
Engineering materials to include nanoscale porosity or other nanoscale structures has become a well-established strategy for enhancing the thermoelectric performance of dielectrics. However, the approach is only considered beneficial for materials wh...
The appearance of intrinsic ferromagnetism in 2D materials opens the possibility of investigating the interplay between magnetism and topology. The magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) describing the easy axis for magnetization in a particular direction...
Cellular iron supply is required for various biochemical processes. Measuring bioavailable iron in cells aids in obtaining a better understanding of its biochemical activities but is technically challenging. Existing techniques have several constrain...
Molecules of the type XYT = Ch (T = C, Si, Ge; Ch = S, Se; X,Y = H, CH3, Cl, Br, I) contain a σ-hole along the T = Ch bond extension. This hole can engage with the N lone pair of NCH and NCCH3 so as to form a chalcogen bond. In the case of T = C, the...
The interaction between particles and their surrounding medium can induce a squeezed back-to-back correlation between particles and antiparticles. In this paper, the squeezed fermion back-to-back correlation (fBBC) for expanding sources is studied. T...
We review recent studies of vortical motion and the resulting polarization of
H5, H7 and H9 are the most important subtypes of avian influenza viruses (AIVs), and nine neuraminidase (NA) subtypes (N1–N9) of AIVs have been identified in poultry. A method that can simultaneously detect H5, H7, H9 and the nine NA subtypes o...
Real-time GNSS PPP is commonly used for high-precision positioning, but its utility is constrained by factors that necessitate extended convergence periods for a dependable accuracy. Multipath, as an unmodeled error, significantly curtails PPP perfor...
10 May 2022
Health literacy plays a crucial role during pregnancy, influencing the mother’s health behavior which in turn affects the unborn child’s health. To date, there are only few studies that report on health literacy among pregnant women or ev...
Electronic and topological properties of two-dimensional germanene modified by functional group X (X = H, F, OH, CH3) at full coverage are studied with first-principles calculation. Without considering the effect of spin-orbit coupling (SOC), all fun...
16 March 2021
The aim was to implement a value-promoting programme (Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility, TPSR) and to assess its impact on psychological and contextual variables in students comparing the differences among one group that applied it in sever...
The article draws attention to the problem of the presence of metals: germanium (Ge), tellurium (Te), thallium (Tl), and others (Cd, Ba, Co, Mn, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, Sr, and Zn) in selected waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). As a result...
Hypoglycin A and methylenecyclopropylglycine are protoxins responsible for atypical myopathy in equids. These protoxins are converted into toxins that inhibit fatty acid β-oxidation, leading to blood accumulation of acylcarnitines and toxin conj...
Nanocomposite-structured sensing interfaces were developed on fibrous substrates for chemiresistive detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by integrating graphene (GE), cellulose derivatives hydroxyethylcellulose (HEC) and carboxymethylcellul...
The aim of this study is to demonstrate the advantages of using micro drones in the study of large slow-moving landslides, which are widespread along the northwestern coast of Malta. In particular, attention was given to the inventory and analysis of...
Introduction: Cranial CT scans are associated with radiation exposure to the eye lens, which is a particularly radiosensitive organ. Children are more vulnerable to radiation than adults. Therefore, it is essential to use the available dose reduction...
Magnetic and structural transitions can interact significantly, leading to an enhanced magnetocaloric effect (MCE), also known as the giant or colossal effect. In this study, we investigate how subtle microstructural changes impact the magnetocaloric...
The use of quartz is critical to the electron spin resonance (ESR) dating of sediments and fault gouges. The germanium center (Ge center) in quartz is a commonly used color center employed in ESR signal measurement. Although Ge center signals in quar...
Within the type-I seesaw mechanism, it is possible to have large (order one) light–heavy neutrino mixing even in the case of low right-handed neutrino mass scale (of the order of GeV). This implies large lepton flavor violation. As an example,...
Deep eutectic solvents (DES), as a green alternative to traditional organic solvents in biocatalysis, not only activate proteins but even increase the efficiency of enzymatic reactions. Here, DES were used in a combinatorial enzyme-catalyzed system c...
Oleanolic (OA) and glycyrrhetinic acids (GE), as well as their derivatives, show a variety of pharmacological properties. Their crystal structures provide valuable information related to the assembly modes of these biologically active compounds. In t...
Even in the context of smart mines, unsafe human acts are still an important cause of coal mine gas explosion accidents, but there are few models to analyze unsafe human acts in coal mine gas explosion accidents. This study tries to solve this proble...
Mixed fatty acids or mixed phospholipids systems with saturated-unsaturated hydrocarbon chains are of biological interest. In this work, the monolayers of oleic acid-stearic acid (OA-SA) and palmitoyloleoylphosphatidylcholine-dipalmitoylphosphatidylc...
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