Brewer’s spent grain (BSG) is the main by-product of the beer brewing process. It has a huge potential as a feedstock for bio-based manufacturing processes to produce high-value bio-products, biofuels, and platform chemicals. For the valorisation of...
Imaging sonar is a crucial tool for underwater visual perception. Compared to 2D sonar images, 3D sonar images offer superior spatial positioning capabilities, although the data acquisition cost is higher and lacks open source references for data ann...
Functionally graded materials (FGMs) are revolutionizing various industries with their customizable properties, a key advantage over traditional composites. The rise of voxel-based 3D printing has furthered the development of FGMs with complex micros...
This paper presents the steady-state stress analysis of single-layered and multilayered plates and shells embedding Functionally Graded Material (FGM) layers under moisture conditions. This solution relies on an exact layer-wise approach; the formula...
Microbial biofilms are found everywhere and can be either beneficial or detrimental, as they are involved in crucial ecological processes and in severe chronic infections. The functional properties of biofilms are closely related to their three-dimen...
The analytical-numerical evaluation of the scattering of electromagnetic waves by multiple spheres requires the computation of numerous coefficients. For this purpose, many contributions, available in the literature, have traditionally employed the r...
3D models of cancer have the potential to improve basic, translational, and clinical studies. Patient-derived xenografts, spheroids, and organoids are broad categories of 3D models of cancer, and to date, these 3D models of cancer have been establish...
The starting point to understanding cluster properties is the putative global minimum and all the nearby local energy minima; however, locating them is computationally expensive and difficult. The relative populations and spectroscopic properties tha...
This work deals with the study of the convergence ratio of the exponential matrix method used in the 3D static analysis of functionally graded structures subjected to harmonic loads. The equilibrium equations are written in mixed orthogonal curviline...
The ventilation of the middle-ear (ME) is achieved by the mucosa covering the bony cavities of this segment, which we have previously defined as consisting of two distinct epithelial areas, each representing an independent organ with characteristic f...
The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is a highly specialized synovial joint responsible for essential functions such as mastication, speech, and swallowing. Owing to its unique anatomical organization, complex biomechanics, and heterogeneous tissue comp...
This study introduced a D-optimal design mixture to assess the physicochemical properties of a hydrocolloid-based functional food fortified with C. lentillifera. The combination incorporated vital jelly constituents, including extract (10–15%),...
3D bioprinting of hydrogel–cell composites requires simultaneous consideration of the biomechanical properties of the printed structures, the construct’s geometric stability, and conditions conducive to cell survival and function. Hydroge...
Marine sponges of the subclass Keratosa originated on our planet about 900 million years ago and represent evolutionarily ancient and hierarchically structured biological materials. One of them, proteinaceous spongin, is responsible for the formation...
Sensor selection in IoT-based smart healthcare systems is a complex fuzzy decision-making problem due to the presence of numerous uncertain and interdependent evaluation criteria. Traditional fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approaches oft...
We summarize recent progress on the symmetric subtraction of the Non-Linear Sigma Model in D dimensions, based on the validity of a certain Local Functional Equation (LFE) encoding the invariance of the SU(2) Haar measure under local left transformat...
The manufacture of polyetheretherketone/hydroxyapatite (PEEK/HA) composites is seen as a viable approach to help enhance direct bone apposition in orthopaedic implants. A range of methods have been used to produce composites, including Selective Lase...
The incorporation of carboxyl functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT- COOH) into a polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) has been investigated. The resultant tensile and flexural mechanical properties have been determined. In this paper, a novel...
This paper provides an overview of the development of a 3D formed and metal-based facade element that combines a custom design and solar thermal functionality. To achieve this, a novel simplified solar thermal collector structure was developed using...
We consider the coefficient inverse problem for the 2D acoustic equation. The problem is recovering the speed of sound in the medium (which depends only on the depth) and the density (function of both variables). We describe the method, based on the...
Guiding an aircraft to 4D waypoints at a certain heading is a multi-dimensional goal aircraft guidance problem. [d=Zu]In order to improve the performance and solve this problem, this paper proposes a multi-layer RL approach.To enhance the performance...
We consider a gas of interacting electrons in the limit of nearly uniform density and treat the one dimensional (1D), two dimensional (2D) and three dimensional (3D) cases. We focus on the determination of the correlation part of the kinetic function...
6D pose estimation is a common and important task in industry. Obtaining the 6D pose of objects is the basis for many other functions such as bin picking, autopilot, etc. Therefore, many corresponding studies have been made in order to improve the ac...
Understanding the microstructure of fibrous tissues, like ligaments, is crucial due to their nonlinear stress-strain behavior from unique fiber arrangements. This study introduces a new method to analyze the relationship between the microstructure an...
Human chymase is a very important target for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Using a series of theoretical methods like pharmacophore modeling, database screening, molecular docking and Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations, an inves...
3D shape generation is widely applied in various industries to create, visualize, and analyse complex data, designs, and simulations. Typically, 3D shape generation uses a large dataset of 3D shapes as the input. This paper proposes a variational aut...
Two-dimensional vibration-assisted polishing (2D-VAP) is a new polishing approach proposed in recent years, which is considered to be very suitable for the polishing of micro-optical parts and micro-structured surfaces. The advantages of the 2D-VAP a...
Computer Aided Design (CAD) is a family of techniques that support the automation of designing and drafting 2D and 3D models with computer programs. CAD software is a software platform that provides the process from designing to modeling, such as Aut...
Traditional underground space evaluation systems often employ 2D GIS methods to represent 3D information, leading to issues such as the loss of 3D spatial data and insufficient resolution in depth. To address the practical needs and methodological st...
Context: Type 1 diabetes (T1D) results from the autoimmune T-cell mediated destruction of pancreatic beta cells leading to insufficient insulin secretion. At the time of diagnosis of T1D, there is residual beta cell function that declines over the su...
A VDB (vertex-degree-based) topological index over a set of digraphs
We present a simple algorithm for synthesizing volumetric 3D puzzles from a 3D freeform geometric model represented volumetrically as trivariate NURBs functions,
Functional annotation of unknown function genes reveals unidentified functions that can enhance our understanding of complex genome communications. A common approach for inferring gene function involves the ortholog-based method. However, genetic dat...
This article concerns the expressive power of depth in neural nets with ReLU activations and a bounded width. We are particularly interested in the following questions: What is the minimal width
Recently, for calculating the effective pair interactions in liquid transition metals, we have developed an approach which includes the Wills-Harrison and Bretonnet-Silbert models as limit cases. Here, we apply this approach to noble liquid metals. T...
Recent studies have shown that deep learning achieves excellent performance in reconstructing 3D scenes from multiview images or videos. However, these reconstructions do not provide the identities of objects, and object identification is necessary f...
Digital rock physics (DRP) has been widely used as an effective approach for estimating the permeability of porous media. However, conventional implementation of DRP requires the reconstruction of three-dimensional (3D) pore networks, which suffer fr...
The preparation and characterization of a novel hybrid material based on the combination of a 2D-layered double hydroxide (LDH) nanosheets and a 1D-coordination polymer (1D-CP) has been achieved through a simple mixture of suspensions of both buildin...
A number of solitary wave solutions for microtubules (MTs) are observed in this article by using the modified exp-function approach. We tackle the problem by treating the results as nonlinear RLC transmission lines, and then finding exact solutions t...
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a growing global health problem that requires new and effective prevention and management strategies. Recent research has highlighted the role of epigenetic changes in the development and progression of T2D, and the potential...
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae α-factor mating pheromone receptor (Ste2p) has been studied as a model for the large medically important family of G protein-coupled receptors. Diverse yeast genetic screens and high-throughput mutagenesis of STE2 i...
Human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells (hUC-MSCs) possess the potential for chondrogenic differentiation, offering a promising alternative source for cartilage regeneration. To address the limited availability and expansion capacity of a...
This paper presents a model-based approach for reconstructing 3D polyhedral building models from aerial images. The proposed approach exploits some geometric and photometric properties resulting from the perspective projection of planar structures. D...
Focused electron-beam-induced deposition (FEBID) is a highly versatile direct-write approach with particular strengths in the 3D nanofabrication of functional materials. Despite its apparent similarity to other 3D printing approaches, non-local effec...
The Gottesman–Knill theorem established that stabilizer states and Clifford operations can be efficiently simulated classically. For qudits with odd dimension three and greater, stabilizer states and Clifford operations have been found to correspond...
Genetic variation in ATP Binding Cassette Subfamily C Member 6 (ABCC6) can cause both pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) and generalized arterial calcification of infancy (GACI). There are 930 distinct missense variants in ABCC6 reported, 87% of which ar...
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Cytochrome P450 2D6 (CYP2D6) is a critical pharmacogene involved in the metabolism of ~20% of commonly used drugs across a broad spectrum of medical disciplines including psychiatry, pain management, oncology and cardiology. Nevertheless, CYP2D6 is h...
We review the first successes and failures of a “new wave” of quantum chemistry-based approaches to the treatment of protein/ligand interactions. These approaches share the use of “enhanced”, dispersion (D), and/or hydrogen-bond (H) corrected density...
Monomers 4,7-dibromo-2H-benzo[d]1,2,3-triazole (m1) and 4,7-(bis(4-bromophenyl)ethynyl)-2H-benzo[d]1,2,3-triazole (m2) have been synthesized in good yields using different procedures. Monomers m1 and m2 have been employed for building new copolymers...
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