Recently, piezoelectric thin films including zinc oxide (ZnO) and aluminium nitride (AlN)
have found a broad range of lab-on-chip applications such as biosensing, particle/cell …

Recent developments on the preparation and application of ZnO films for acoustic wave-based
microfluidics and biosensors are reviewed in this paper. High quality and strongly …

It has been established that as molecular chaperones, the glucose regulated proteins (GRPs)
play an important role in maintaining cellular homeostasis. This conventional concept of …

This paper evaluates the real-time price-based demand response (DR) management for
residential appliances via stochastic optimization and robust optimization approaches. The …

Background Real-time quantitative reverse transcription PCR (RT-qPCR) data needs to be
normalized for its proper interpretation. Housekeeping genes are routinely employed for this …

In a restructured power market, the independent system operator (ISO) executes the security-constrained
unit commitment (SCUC) program to plan a secure and economical hourly …

The restructuring of electricity has introduced new risks associated with the security of
natural gas infrastructure on a significantly large scale, which entails changes in physical …

The contribution of this paper focuses on the development of a security-based methodology
for the solution of short-term SCUC when considering the impact of natural gas transmission …

Introgression lines (ILs) are useful tools for precise mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTLs)
and the evaluation of gene action or interaction in theoretical studies. A set of 159 ILs carrying …

The recent development of hormonal therapy that blocks estrogen synthesis represents a
major advance in the treatment of estrogen receptor–positive breast cancer. However, cancer …