Touch sensing can help robots understand their surrounding environment, and in particular
the objects they interact with. To this end, roboticists have, in the last few decades …

An ever increasing demand for animal protein products has posed serious challenges for
managing the increasing quantities of livestock manure. The choice of treatment …

With more and more mature applications of new energy and power systems, lithium-ion
batteries are bound to play an increasingly important role in the future. High specific energy …

Proteomic analysis of complex protein mixtures using proteolytic digestion and liquid
chromatography in combination with tandem mass spectrometry is a standard approach in …

The nitrogen cycle has been radically changed by human activities. China consumes nearly
one third of the world's nitrogen fertilizers. The excessive application of fertilizers, and …

Biochar produced by pyrolysis of biomass can be used to counter nitrogen (N) pollution. The
present study investigated the effects of feedstock and temperature on characteristics of …

Cytokinesis is the essential process that partitions cellular contents into daughter cells. To
identify and characterize cytokinesis proteins rapidly, we used a functional proteomic and …

All-inorganic perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) have drawn increasing attention because of
their outstanding thermal stability. However, their performance is still inferior than the typical …

Decision making is a process common to human beings. The uncertainty and fuzziness of
problems demand the use of the fuzzy linguistic approach to model qualitative aspects of …

DNA synthesis and cell division of Prochlorococcus are tightly synchronized to the daily light
cycle, therefore, cell division rates can be estimated from the fraction of cells in each cell …