Microbial methane production from calcium carbonate at moderately alkaline pH by Nicole A. Fiore, Anthony J. Kohtz, Daniel N. Miller, Sanjay Antony-Babu, Donald Pan, Caitlin Lahey, Xi Huang, Yongfeng Lu, Nicole R. Buan, Karrie A. Weber

“…Cells were observed in association with the carbonate mineral matrix via coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering and two-photon excitation fluorescence microscopy. …”
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Ka-Band Lightweight High-Efficiency Wideband 3D Printed Reflector Antenna by Yu Zhai, Ding Xu, Yan Zhang

“…A near-field analysis in terms of amplitude and phase has also been presented which authenticates the accurate spherical to planar wavefront transformation in the scattered field.…”
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In Situ Raman Spectroscopy for Early Corrosion Detection in Coated AA2024-T3 by Adrienne K. Delluva, Ronald L. Cook, Matt Peppel, Sami Diaz, Rhia M. Martin, Vinh T. Nguyen, Jeannine E. Elliott, Joshua R. Biller

“…A pH-sensitive molecule, 4-mercaptopyridin (4-MP), is attached to a gold nanoparticle to allow surface-enhanced Raman-scattering (SERS) for signal amplification. These SERS nanoparticles, when combined with an appropriate micron-sized carrier system, are incorporated directly into an MIL-SPEC coating and used to monitor the process onset and progression of corrosion using pH changes occurring at the metal–coating interface. …”
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Structural Characterization of Silica Particles Extracted from Grass Stenotaphrum secundatum: Biotransformation via Annelids by A. Espíndola-Gonzalez, R. Fuentes-Ramirez, A. L. Martínez-Hernández, V. M. Castaño, C. Velasco-Santos

“…The characterization of the silica particles was performed using Infrared (FTIR) and Raman spectroscopy, Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS), and Energy Dispersion Spectroscopy (EDS). …”
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Discovery of giant unit-cell super-structure in the infinite-layer nickelate PrNiO2+x by Jens Oppliger, Julia Küspert, Ann-Christin Dippel, Martin v. Zimmermann, Olof Gutowski, Xiaolin Ren, Xingjiang Zhou, Zhihai Zhu, Ruggero Frison, Qisi Wang, Leonardo Martinelli, Izabela Biało, Johan Chang

“…By covering a large scattering volume, we show a rare period-six in-plane (bi-axial) symmetry and a period-four symmetry in the out-of-plane direction. …”
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Raman Spectroscopy of Amorphous Carbon Prepared by Pulsed Arc Discharge in Various Gas Mixtures by M. Marton, M. Vojs, E. Zdravecká, M. Himmerlich, T. Haensel, S. Krischok, M. Kotlár, P. Michniak, M. Veselý, R. Redhammer

“…Micro-Raman measurements of the deposited materials were performed using an ISA Dilor-Jobin Yvon-Spex Labram confocal system with 632.8 nm radiation from a He-Ne laser using a back-scattering geometry.…”
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Synthesis of Poly[APMA]-DOTA-Cu Conjugates for Interventional Radionuclide Therapy of Prostate Cancer: Assessment of Intratumoral Retention by Micro–Positron Emission Tomography by Jianchao Yuan, Yezi You, Xin Lu, Otto Muzik, David Oupicky, Fangyu Peng

“…The polymers were characterized with nuclear magnetic resonance, size exclusion chromatography, and dynamic light scattering ( M n 5 2.40 × 10 4 , M w / M n = 1.87). …”
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Scalable Notch Antenna System for Multiport Applications by Abdurrahim Toktas

“…By scaling the antenna with S: 1/2.3, a system of 45×45 mm2 is achieved, and thus the operating band is tuned to 4.7–6.1 GHz with the same scattering characteristic. A parametric study is also conducted to investigate the effects of changing the notch dimensions. …”
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Extracting the QCD Cutoff Parameter Using the Bernstein Polynomials and the Truncated Moments by A. Mirjalili, M. M. Yazdanpanah, Z. Moradi

“…We use the truncated Mellin moments rather than the usual moments to analyse the EMC collaboration data for muon-nucleon and WA25 data for neutrino-deuterium DIS scattering. How to connect the truncated Mellin moments to usual ones is discussed. …”
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Site selection of equipment and military equipment based on natural factors Case Study: Oman Sea Shores by mohamda poodineh, morteza esmailnejad, sohrab qaedi, Mohammad Ali Shirazi kharazi

“…The results showed that more suitable locations are located in the eastern coastal strip and some western locations. However, scattered locations with the least vulnerability and non-operational basics can be found in the coastal areas in the final map.…”
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Feminist spiritualities, gender equality and sustainable development: The possibilities of a countermovement by N. Swanepoel, T. van Wyk

“…Feminist spirituality became a countermovement – countering perceptions and ingrained convictions that a woman could not be a mediator between God and humanity. …”
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Environment-aware based access point deployment optimization for cell-free massive MIMO system by Jing JIANG, Yongqiang LIU, Fengyang YAN, Sha TAO, Sutthiphan WORAKRIN

“…Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems deploy a large number of access point (AP) across the coverage area which can provide uniform high-rate services to users.However, the quality of coverage would be affected by path loss, shadow fading scatters, and environmental occlusions around the randomly placed AP in conventional cell-free massive MIMO systems that do not consider their impact.Considering the impact of actual wireless propagation environments, an AP deployment scheme was proposed to acquire uniform and consistent coverage.Firstly, a hybrid probabilistic path loss model was utilized to characterize various wireless propagation environments.Then, the AP deployment optimization problem was solved with the objective of maximizing the average throughput.Finally, the problem was transformed into a Markov game process and solved by the multi-agent deep deterministic policy gradient (MADDPG) algorithm.The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme can provide more uniform coverage in complex environments and serve users with reliable and consistent service compared to random AP deployment and existing AP deployment methods.…”
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Music Personalized Label Clustering and Recommendation Visualization by Yongkang Huo

“…In this case, the user data are too scattered and discrete, with obvious data sparsity problems. …”
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Characterization and Performance Evaluation of Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Using Nanostructured TiO2 Electrode by Sule Erten-Ela

“…Photoelectrodes with a 7 μm thick nanoporous layer and a 5 μm thick light-scattering layer were used to fabricate dye sensitized solar cells. …”
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Connection Characteristics and Hierarchical Structure of China’s Urban Network-Based on the Communications Technology Service Industry by Hailong Liu, Yu Zhang, Ziyu Sang, Weiqiao Wang, Liping Zhang, Man Li

“…The results show that: (1) cohesion of urban networks in China is weak and resource sharing is low. (2) From west to east, the urban network forms a multilevel diamond structure in the periphery, a parallelogram structure in the semiperiphery, and a triangle structure in the center. (3) The spatial distribution of cohesive subgroups is scattered, disobeying the first law of geography. By constructing sub-networks and a comprehensive network, the subnetworks that dominate China’s urban networks were identified and their typical characteristics described. …”
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Quasi-Babinet principle in dielectric resonators and Mie voids by Masoud Hamidi, Kirill Koshelev, Sergei Gladyshev, Adrià Canós Valero, Mario Hentschel, Harald Giessen, Yuri Kivshar, Thomas Weiss

“…However, the well-known and highly useful Babinet's principle, which relates the scattering of solid and inverse structures, is not strictly applicable for this dielectric case as it is only valid for infinitesimally thin perfect electric conductors. …”
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Bibliometric Review on Corporate Social Responsibility of the Food Industry by Mingli He, Weiping Yu, Xiaoyun Han

“…The analysis of the three fields that constitute the knowledge structure. (2) Research in this field has become a hot spot, but the research is rather scattered, and the scholars and experts do not have a special research core. (3) The keywords’ cluster results in 9 clustering tags, which are further grouped into 7 groups. …”
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Review and Phylogenetic Evaluation of Associations between Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) and Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Menno Reemer

“…The taxa of Microdontinae found in association with ants occur scattered throughout their phylogenetic tree. One of the supposedly most basal taxa (Mixogaster) is associated with ants, suggesting that associations with ants evolved early in the history of the subfamily and have remained a predominant feature of their lifestyle. …”
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Nondestructive Measurement of Momentum Transfer Collision Frequency for Low Temperature Combustion Plasma by Douglas Letsholathebe, Kgakgamatso M. Mphale, Samuel Chimidza

“…Using an automatic network analyser, x-band microwaves were caused to propagate combustion zones of eucalyptus and grass litter fires to measure the flames, scattering parameters. The parameters were then used to determine average collision frequencies for the plumes. …”
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Viral Justice: TikTok Activism, Misinformation, and the Fight for Social Change in Southeast Asia by Nuurrianti Jalli

“…The study highlights the complexities of digital activism, where the pursuit of virality can sometimes undermine the depth of political movements. While the research counters the prevalent narrative that digital activism is rife with misinformation, it underscores the importance of maintaining accuracy to protect credibility. …”
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