Search Results - Min Chang

A new species of Varma Distant, 1906, Varma microprojecta Zhou & Chang, sp. nov. (China: Yunnan) is described and illustrated. The diagnosis of the genus is updated. A checklist and updated male and female identification keys to the species of Varma in China are provided.

A novel high birefringence gold-coated photonic crystal fiber (PCF) polarization filter based on surface plasmon resonance is proposed. The six elliptical holes arranged in a specific mode surrounding the core are utilized to gain high birefringence, and gold is coated inside the air holes to genera...

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A metal-filled photonic crystal fiber (PCF) polarization filter based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is proposed and designed. The structure of the cross-section of a PCF is composed of a hexagonal lattice of air holes, in which an air hole is selectively filled with metal. We realize the polari...

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Extant Chinese studies have documented that transposing characters within two-character words (e.g., 西装 suit) yields greater parafoveal preview benefits for target words compared to replacing the characters with unrelated ones (e.g., 型间 a nonword), i.e., the Chinese character transposition effect. T...

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Background Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a growing concern among older adults, increasing the risk of frailty, and functional decline. In Taiwan, the convergence of population aging and high diabetes prevalence calls for innovative care strategies. This study evaluated the effectiveness of incorporating...

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Abstract This work develops a theoretical framework for modeling the large‐scale transport of inert solutes in heterogeneous aquifers, where the perturbation field of logarithmic hydraulic conductivity (lnK) is considered nonstationary. Based on the intrinsic hypothesis for the lnK perturbation fiel...

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Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) detection technology is playing an important role in various fields such as food safety and environmental monitoring due to its excellent stability and reliability. However, there is also a growing demand for higher sensitivity in SPR sensors. Therefore, this work dev...

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Optical time-stretch microscopy has recently attracted intensive attention for its capability of acquiring images at an ultrahigh frame rate. Unfortunately, its achievable frame rate is limited by the requirement of having no overlap between consecutive frames, which leads to a tradeoff between the...

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Abstract This study employs a chemically controlled strategy to construct a few‐atomic‐layer ZnO structure integrated with polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) and nanoscale metallic copper on active carbon. Hydrogen‐bond interactions from PVP's N‐vinylpyrrolidone allow ZnO to retain a specific proportio...

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Background Studies have shown acute flares of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) might be related to immunologic changes that occur during pregnancy. However, the indicators for predicting acute flares of CHB among pregnant women still need further study. We aimed to distinguish the relevance between serum l...

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