The monthly CHIRPS ver. 2 gridded rainfall dataset from 1981 to 2016 was employed to analyze distinct precipitation variability patterns and regimes in semi-arid Botswana. An S-mode eigen analysis was performed on the correlation matrix of the rainfa...
Fractal-like nanoparticle two-dimensional patterns forming in diffusion-limited aggregation show variant spatial patterns. However, they have invariant statistical properties in their network topologies, even though their formation is completely in s...
The integration of mechanics-based analysis and materials design procedures has become central to the development of multi-material structures with tailored mechanical and dynamic performance. In this study, the dynamic and flexural behaviour of mult...
Our understanding of the time variability of intense cyclones in the Mediterranean region is still lacking despite its importance for the long-term forecast of climate anomalies. This study examines the month-to-month variability and predictability o...
Simple patterns often arise from complex systems. For example, human perception of similarity decays exponentially with perceptual distance. The ranking of word usage versus the frequency at which the words are used has a log-log slope of minus one....
This paper describes the radio-frequency (RF) characteristics of stacked metal–insulator–metal (MIM) capacitors used in RF CMOS technology. To ensure accurate analysis, various de-embedding methods for stacked MIM capacitors were verified...
In this study, we conducted two steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) studies to develop a practical brain–computer interface (BCI) system for communication and control applications. The first study introduces a novel visual stimulus par...
14 June 2021
Background: Language communication, which is one of the basic forms of building and maintaining interpersonal relationships, deteriorates in elder age. One of the probable causes is a decline in auditory functioning, including auditory central proces...
Examining the association between dietary patterns and colorectal cancer (CRC) risk can provide valuable insights beyond the assessment of individual foods or nutrients. However, there is a lack of in-depth analysis of dietary patterns and CRC risk i...
We characterized the 24 nearly full-length genomes of human parechoviruses (PeV) from children in the north of Brazil. The initial phylogenetic analysis indicated that 17 strains belonged to genotype 1, 5 to genotype 4, and 1 to genotype 17. A more d...
The main purpose of this research is to study the effect of various types of venues on the density distribution of residents and model check-in data from a Location-Based Social Network for the city of Shanghai, China by using combination of multiple...
This study delves into rotor–stator interaction within a bidirectional bulb tubular pump under cavitation conditions. Using pressure pulsation tests on a model pump and numerical simulations performed with ANSYS CFX software, we analyzed pressu...
22 February 2020
Poor air quality usually leads to PM2.5 warnings and affects human health. The impact of frequency and duration of extreme air quality has received considerable attention. The extreme concentration of air pollution is related to its duration and annu...
In this paper, a method for automatically separating the mixed circular fringe patterns based on the fractional Fourier transform (FrFT) analysis is proposed. Considering the mixed two-dimensional (2-D) Gaussian-based circular fringe patterns, detect...
This paper describes a set of experiments undertaken at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in the large wave flume of the Maritime Engineering Laboratory. The purpose of this study is to highlight the effects of wave grouping and long-wave short-wa...
(1) Background: This follow-up retrospective analysis used electronic medical record (EMR) data from a health system to identify patients and medications prescribed in accordance with Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC) guideli...
Background: Women often use several prenatal supplements together, yet most studies evaluate products one at a time. Objective: To identify longitudinal patterns of combined prenatal supplement use and assess their associations with cesarean delivery...
This paper proposes an efficient transmission line modulation by using the bending technique to realize low profile leaky wave antennas in the Ku-band for frequency scanning and sensor applications. The paper focuses mainly on the bending effects of...
Cyclic tension of (100)[001]-oriented single-crystal aluminum foils with the frequency 5 Hz forms a tweed pattern. Its period is several microns and increases by a factor of 1.5 in the temperature range 233–363 K. A model is proposed for struct...
Lake Erie, the world’s tenth largest freshwater lake by area, has had recurring blooms of toxic cyanobacteria for the past two decades. These blooms pose potential health risks for recreation, and impact the treatment of drinking water. Understanding...
Due to their symmetrized dot pattern, rolling bearings are more susceptible to noise than time–frequency characteristics. Therefore, this article proposes a symmetrized dot pattern extraction method based on the Frobenius and nuclear hybrid nor...
This study describes the association between dietary patterns and prostate cancer (PCa) risk in a population-based case-control study conducted in Montreal, Canada (2005–2012). Cases (n = 1919) were histologically confirmed, aged ≤75 years....
The analysis of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data is of vital importance for detecting various subsurface features that might manifest as hyperbolic peaks, which are indicators of a buried object or grayscale variation in the case of contrast in th...
Breast cancer (BC) exhibits considerable metastatic heterogeneity and distinct patterns of organotropism, which contribute to differences in patient outcomes and therapeutic responses. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying this organ specifici...
Brain biometrics have received increasing attention from the scientific community due to their unique properties compared to traditional biometric methods. Many studies have shown that EEG features are distinct across individuals. In this study, we p...
Associations of dietary fatty acids with the risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) remain controversial. The objective of this study was to examine whether dietary-derived fatty acid patterns were related to CRC risk among Chinese people. A total of 2806 C...
Changes in river pattern have been documented in the literature. The recognition of islands and vegetated patches, which is indicative of the evolution processes, requires simultaneous information at different points and at different times and field...
Acoustic waves are widely used in structural health monitoring (SHM) for detecting fatigue cracking. The strain energy released when a fatigue crack advances has the effect of exciting acoustic waves, which travel through the structures and are picke...
The purpose of this study was to use data mining and network pharmacology to determine drug patterns for bovine viral diarrhea (BVD). The frequency, properties, tastes, meridian tropism, and functions of prescription data were gathered and examined f...
Brain biometrics has received increasing attention from the scientific community due to its unique properties in comparison to traditional biometric methods. Many studies have shown that EEG features are distinct among individuals. SSVEP signals, gen...
Hydrological variable frequency analysis is a fundamental task for water resource management and water conservancy project design. Given the deficiencies of higher distribution features for the upper tail section of hydrological variable frequency cu...
This study investigates how the clarity of frequency-domain characteristics in vibration signals affects the performance of deep learning models for bearing fault classification. Two datasets were used; these were the CWRU benchmark dataset, which ex...
Frequency–wavenumber (f–k) analysis can estimate the direction of arrival (DOA) of broadband signals received on a vertical array. When the vertical array configuration is sparse, it results in an aliasing error due to spatial sampling; t...
Feature extraction, as an important method for extracting useful information from surface electromyography (SEMG), can significantly improve pattern recognition accuracy. Time and frequency analysis methods have been widely used for feature extractio...
Source activity was extracted from resting-state magnetoencephalography data of 103 subjects aged 18–60 years. The directionality of information flow was computed from the regional time courses using delay symbolic transfer entropy and phase en...
We report on a new mode interaction found in electroconvection experiments on the nematic liquid crystal mixture Phase V in planar geometry. The mode interaction (codimension two) point occurs at a critical value of the frequency of the driving AC vo...
Background/Objectives: Nutrition during school age is a key public health issue, as eating habits formed in this period may affect growth, cognitive development, and future health. This study aimed to assess food consumption frequency and age, gender...
This study presents a multivariate and machine learning-based approach to analyze quality alerts in an industrial manufacturing context. Based on data from recorded quality alerts, this research integrates exploratory data analysis, Multiple Correspo...
The characterization of spatiotemporal complexity remains a challenging task. This holds in particular for the analysis of data from fluorescence imaging (optical mapping), which allows for the measurement of membrane potential and intracellular calc...
This study examined the contribution of food to nutrient intake, meal and dietary patterns among children aged 4–8 and 9–13 years in the city of Ibadan, Nigeria. Multi-pass 24-hour dietary recalls were used to assess intakes. Prudent and...
Complex oil and gas two-phase flow exists within an aero-engines bearing cavity scavenge pipe, prone to lubricated self-ignition and coking. Lubricant system designers must be able to accurately identify and understand the flow state of the scavenge...
The electronic components inside a main battle tank (MBT) are the key components for the tank to exert its combat effectiveness. However, breakdown of the inner electronic components can easily occur inside the MBT due to the strong transient shock a...
An analysis is performed in this research to obtain the natural frequencies of a graphene-platelet-reinforced composite plate at nanoscale. To this end, the nonlocal elasticity theory is applied. A composite laminated plate is considered where each l...
The coupling between a transonic buffeting flow and a supercritical airfoil with harmonic heave motion was studied. A parametric space of the heave frequency and amplitude was investigated using a verified fluid–structural interaction framework...
The influence of traffic loads on the dynamic features of a bridge is an external factor that can hinder the true condition of the structure. This paper aims to effectuate a shift in the way this factor is viewed. If the interaction between vehicle a...
The aim of the current study is to analyze and extract the useful patterns from Location-Based Social Network (LBSN) data in Shanghai, China, using different temporal and spatial analysis techniques, along with specific check-in venue categories. Thi...
Penalty shootouts often decide major football tournaments, making the analysis of spatial symmetry and shot patterns crucial for performance optimization. This study analyzed 212 decisive penalty kicks in elite men’s football to explore spatial...
Travel by the elderly is generally characterized by relatively short distances and low frequencies. However, with social development, the travel patterns of the elderly are lacking in sustainability. In some European countries, the elderly are increa...
The neural basis of tactile processing in humans has been extensively studied; however, the neurophysiological basis of human width discrimination remains relatively unexplored. In particular, the changes that occur in neural networks underlying acti...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the fastest growing neurological disease associated with ageing; its symptomatology varies between sexes. Several quantitative electroencephalography analyses have been used to study the early stages and progression...
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