We investigated the surface morphologies, crystal structures, and optical characteristics of rare earth element erbium (Er)-doped MoS2 (Er: MoS2) thin films fabricated on Si substrates via chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The surface mopography, crystalline structure, light absorption property, and the photoelectronic characteristics of the Er: MoS2 films were studied. The results indicate that...

Efficient control of Tetranychus cinnabarinus (B.) is in challenge worldwide. Herein we report the use of an amphiphilic block copolymer, poly(ethylene oxide)-b-poly(caprolactone) (PEO–PCL), as a micellar carrier to make formulations of ricinine, a water insoluble botanical pesticide, and the tests of their physical properties and moreover the acaricidal activity on Vigna unguiculata (L). Compa...

We discuss a variant of multi-task n-vehicle exploration problem. Instead of requiring an optimal permutation of vehicles in every group, the new problem asks all vehicles in a group to arrive at a same destination. It can also be viewed as to maximize every processor’s average profit, given n tasks, and each task’s consumetime and profit. Meanwhile, we propose a new kind of partition problem i...

RESULTS: In vivo, Fmod mouse wounds representing a lost-of-function model presented markedly increased myofibroblasts after wound closure compared with wild-type (WT) controls. Intradermal injection of FMOD representing gain-of-function models led to significantly decreased myofibroblast accumulation in the wound areas of multiple animal species, including WT mice and Fmod mice, rats and pigs w...

This paper deals with the design of blind mobile station (MS) receiver for time-hopping (TH) ultrawide-band (UWB) impulse radio (IR) system employing antipodal pulse amplitude modulation (PAM). In the presence of multipath fading channel, batchmode minimum output energy (MOE) receiver, as well as a blind channel estimator, is first developed. To reduce the computational complexity, we propose t...

Cyclodextrins (CDs) can form polypseudorotaxanes (PPRXs) with drugs or drug carriers possessing linear polymers such as polyethylene glycol (PEG). On the other hand, PEGylated liposomes have been utilized as a representative anticancer drug carrier. However, little is known about the formation of CD PPRX with PEGylated liposome. In the present study, we first report the formation of CD PPRX wit...

The complexity of voting procedures, and their variations from country to country, make it challenging to design a secure electronic voting system. In most of the usual proposals, the security of the system relies mainly on a blackbox voting machine. Meanwhile, the most advanced proposals base their security arguments on (complicated) cryptographic protocols, e.g. blind signatures or homomorphi...

Railway yard is the basic composition unit of railways, therefore, the efficiency and quality of railway yard design have a crucial effect on the construction and operation of railways. Plane design is the basis and core of railway yard design, consequently, it is significant to research plane design of railway yard. In this study, through analysis and summary of the research status as well as ...

This paper presents a new structure of the discrete time 0-2 MASH sigma-delta modulator implemented with VCObased quantizer in the second stage. The proposed scheme enhances the linearity of the VCO based quantizer, meanwhile it takes advantage of the intrinsic DEM function and first order noise shaping in the second stage. Besides, the matching requirement is relaxed and the digital canceling ...

Indole alkaloids are well characterized for diverse activities. Meanwhile, the present scenario of disease depicting a different story, urge a call for novel scaffolds and pharmacophores. In recent years, indole based alkaloids gain significant importance in cancer chemotherapy and used as an adjuvant especially in case of Vinca alkaloids. These reports encourage the researchers for new finding...