Academic Articles & Research Papers

The Water-Based Synthesis of Platinum Nanoparticles Using KrF Excimer Laser Ablation

Our work presents, for the first time, a comprehensive study of the synthesis of fully metallic platinum nanoparticles (Pt-NPs) involving the ablation process in double distilled water using a KrF excimer laser. To obtain detailed informati...

Terrestrial Remote Sensing of Snowmelt in a Diverse High-Arctic Tundra Environment Using Time-Lapse Imagery

Snow cover is one of the crucial factors influencing the plant distribution in harsh Arctic regions. In tundra environments, wind redistribution of snow leads to a very heterogeneous spatial distribution which influences growth conditions f...

High-throughput analysis of ammonia oxidiser community composition via a novel, amoA-based functional gene array.

Advances in microbial ecology research are more often than not limited by the capabilities of available methodologies. Aerobic autotrophic nitrification is one of the most important and well studied microbiological processes in terrestrial ...

A long-term daily 500 m snow cover extent product over China (1981–2000)

Due to the limitations of early satellite sensors in terms of spatial resolution, temporal resolution, and time series availability, there is currently a lack of long-term daily snow cover extent (SCE) products with 500 m spatial resolution...

1H High Resolution Magic-Angle Coil Spinning (HR-MACS) µNMR Metabolic Profiling of whole Saccharomyces cervisiae cells: A Demonstrative Study

The low sensitivity of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is its prime shortcoming compared to other analytical methods for metabolomic studies. It relies on large sample volume (30–50 µl for HR-MAS) for rich metabolic profiling, hindering hi...

Advances of Commercial and Biological Materials for Electron Transport Layers in Biological Applications

Electron transport layer (ETL), one of the important layers for high-performing perovskite solar cells (PSCs), also has great potential in bioengineering applications. It could be used for biological sensors, biological imaging, and biomedi...

Interpretable and Explainable Machine Learning for Materials Science and Chemistry

High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide Conspectus Machine learning has become a common and powerful tool in materials research. As more data become available, with the use of high-performance computing and high-throughput experi...

Spontaneous anastomosis of esophageal atresia without esophageal stricture formation: A case report

Introduction: Spontaneous esophago-esophageal fistulization is a reported phenomenon in cases of complex esophageal atresia, however, short and long-term complications are common, including stricture formation. Case presentation: A male twi...

Structure and Spatial Distribution of Ge Nanocrystals Subjected to Fast Neutron Irradiation

The influence of fast neutron irradiation on the structure and spatial distribution of Ge nanocrystals (NC) embedded in an amorphous SiO2 matrix has been studied. The investigation was conducted by means of laser Raman Scattering (RS), High...

Assessing Wireless Sensing Potential With Large Intelligent Surfaces

Sensing capability is one of the most highlighted new feature of future 6G wireless networks. This paper addresses the sensing potential of Large Intelligent Surfaces (LIS) in an exemplary Industry 4.0 scenario. Besides the attention receiv...

AnimalTA: A highly flexible and easy‐to‐use program for tracking and analysing animal movement in different environments

Abstract Computer programs for video tracking of animal movement are evolving increasingly efficient, using complex algorithms or artificial intelligence systems. Despite the consequent progress in this field, researchers still face some fu...

Synthetic Data Pretraining for Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution

Large-scale self-supervised pretraining of deep learning models is known to be critical in several fields, such as language processing, where its has led to significant breakthroughs. Indeed, it is often more impactful than architectural de...

Expert Augmented Prediction of Circulatory and Respiratory Instability from High Resolution Vital Signs.