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This paper describes the results of experimental work in a circular flume and a reactor device to show the role and importance of flow velocity, sediment movement type and concentration in the kinetic adsorption and transport of cadmium in both bed and suspended load conditions. The results show that the rate of adsor…
Understanding and anticipating the evolution of technologies is an increasingly complex task attributable to the interdisciplinarity of the technology and the explosion of information about the research and patent activity. By combining the capabilities of tech-mining in identifying and in highlighting trends, weak si…
The dynamical theory of x-ray diffraction and the coupled-wave theory for modeling diffraction of light from periodic structures are two equivalent theories but with incompatibilities, as they were developed independently along two parallel directions in history. Here we reformulate the two theories into a universal F…
Growing AlN layers remains a significant challenge because it is subject to a large volume fraction of grain boundaries. In this study, the nature and formation of the AlN growth mechanism is examined by ab initio simulations and experimental demonstration. The calculated formation enthalpies of the constituent elemen…
The finite element approach was used in the simulation analysis to solve many engineering problems. One of the accuracy factors of this method is dependent on the choice of appropriate element size or mesh discretization. Good mesh discretization can reduce the percentage of error; avoid the computation time approache…
In situ biosensing of the nanomechanical property and electrochemical spectroscopy of Streptococcus mutans-containing biofilms, Liu, Bernard Haochih, Li, Kun-Lin, Kang, Kai-Li, Huang, Wen-Ke, Liao, Jiunn-Der
This paper characterizes binder and mastic behavior under shear creep and creep-recovery tests. Although several researchers have investigated the creep and recovery behavior of pure and polymer-modified bitumen, there is a primary need to investigate the behavior of mastic to better correlate with the behavior of asp…
AKT2 is one of the three isoforms of the protein kinase AKT being involved in the modulation of cellular metabolism. Since protein-protein interactions are one possibility to convey specificity in signal transduction, we performed AKT2-protein interaction analysis to elucidate their relevance for AKT2-dependent cellul…
This paper introduces a transformer inrush current reduction technique for the conventional double-conversion uninterruptible power supply (UPS) feeding multiple loads and their transformers. As these loads are engaged or disengaged, their transformers are also connected or disconnected from the power lines. To avoid…
Mutual correlation and cooperativity are commonly used to describe residue-residue interactions in protein folding/function. However, these metrics do not provide any information on the causality relationships between residues. Such drive-response relationships are poorly studied in protein folding/function and diffic…
The characteristics of gadolinium oxide (Gd x O y ) resistive switching memories (RRAMs) with a Pt–Al alloy (5.88 at% Al) top electrode (TE) and the effect of post-metallization annealing (PMA) were investigated. Resistance of high resistance state increased with increasing PMA temperature, achieving a resistance rati…
A modification of the conventional wavefunction-based CAS-CI method for the calculation of magnetic exchange coupling constants J in small molecules and transition metal complexes is presented. In general, CAS-CI approaches yield much too small values for J since the energies of the important charge transfer configura…
Iron (Fe) oxides and organic matter (OM) play important roles in maintaining the fertility of highly weathered soils. The main objective of this study was to investigate the interactive effects of variable surface charge minerals, particularly Fe oxide minerals, and OM on the charge properties of red soils from Thaila…
In this paper, we develop a method of detecting 1,3,5-trinitroperhydro-1,3,5-triazine [research department explosive (RDX)]. RDX is one of the main components of plastic explosives. Initially, we prepare an anti-RDX monoclonal antibody that specifically binds to RDX. The antibody is prepared from hybridoma cells that…
in order to isolate novel organic solvent-tolerant (OST) lipases, a metagenomic library was built using DNA derived from a temperate forest soil sample. A two-step activity-based screening allowed the isolation of a lipolytic clone active in the presence of organic solvents. Sequencing of the plasmid pRBest recovered…
Existence of a protected surface state described by a massless Dirac equation is a defining property of the topological insulator. Though this statement can be explicitly verified on an idealized flat surface, it remains to be addressed to what extent it could be general. On a curved surface, the surface Dirac equatio…
We present a robust method to inspect a typical composite material constructed of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP). It is based on optical surface contouring using the spatial light modulator (SLM)-based phase retrieval technique. The method utilizes multiple intensity observations of the wave field, diffracted…
We have developed a versatile method for calculating solvation thermodynamic quantities for molecules, starting from their atomic coordinates. The contribution of each atom to the thermodynamic quantities is estimated as a linear combination of four fundamental geometric measures of the atomic species, which are defin…
We present a coupler design allowing normally-incident light coupling from free-space into a monomode photonic crystal waveguide operating in the slow-light regime. Numerical three-dimensional calculations show that extraction efficiencies as high as 80% can be achieved for very large group indices up to 100. We demon…
Coarse-grained (CG) methods for sampling protein conformational space have the potential to increase computational efficiency by reducing the degrees of freedom. The gain in computational efficiency of CG methods often comes at the expense of non-protein like local conformational features. This could cause problems wh…