Background and Objectives: Physiotherapeutic Scoliosis-Specific Exercises (PSSE) are recognized treatment methods for idiopathic scoliosis, focused on correcting three-dimensional postural abnormalities. Objective indices such as Angle of Trunk Rotat...
Background/Objectives: This is a study of adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis (IS), treated by the Functional Individual Therapy of Scoliosis (FITS) method. The hypothesis was that active parental involvement in the treatment process enhances the o...
Background/Objectives: Idiopathic scoliosis affects musculoskeletal biomechanics and trunk appearance. Patient-reported outcome measures, including the Trunk Appearance Perception Scale (TAPS), are important for assessing health-related quality of li...
The limit state function is important for the assessment of the longitudinal strength of damaged ships under combined bending moments in severe waves. As the limit state function cannot be obtained directly, the common approach is to calculate the re...
This study introduces a family of implicit four-point block methods for solving first-order initial value problems (IVPs) with oscillatory solutions. In addition to an eighth-order block method, amplification-fitted and phase-fitted implicit block me...
This study aims to develop a high-precision and efficient body-fitted mesh framework for fluid topology optimization, focusing on minimizing flow resistance in incompressible steady Newtonian fluid systems. Different from traditional fixed-mesh metho...
At present, the fitting process of deep groove ball bearings has the problems of low manual production efficiency and poor performance of fitted bearings. For the automatic bearing fitting production line, there are some problems, such as a low succe...
The ultimate limit state function is one of the premises for the assessment of structure strength and the safety of ships under severe conditions. In order to study the residual strength of damaged ships under the combined load of vertical and horizo...
Regenerative chatter is an unfavorable phenomenon that severely affects machining efficiency and surface finish in milling operations. The prediction of chatter stability is an important way to obtain the stable cutting zone. Based on implicit multis...
Presented in this paper is a trigonometrically fitted scheme based on a class of improved hybrid method for the numerical integration of oscillatory problems. The trigonometric conditions are constructed through which a third algebraic order scheme i...
In several important scientific fields, the efficient numerical solution of symmetric systems of ordinary differential equations, which are usually characterized by oscillation and periodicity, has become an open problem of interest. In this paper, w...
It is well known that the implementation of the conventional model-fitting (CMF) method leads to several indistinguishable ‘best’ candidate models (BCMs) for a single-step isothermal solid-state reaction (ISSR), meaning that subjective se...
In this paper, an interface-fitted fictitious domain finite element method is developed for the simulation of fluid–rigid particle interaction problems in cases of rotated particles with small displacement, where an interface-fitted mesh is emp...
The spectral cell method has been shown as an efficient tool for performing dynamic analyses over complex domains. Its good performance can be attributed to the combination of the spectral element method with mesh-independent geometrical descriptions...
We present in this paper a polynomial fitting method applicable to segments of footprints measured by the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) to estimate glacier thickness change. Our modification makes the method applicable to complex topograph...
The article considered the solution of the inverse problem of chemical kinetics of the analysis of experimental data of a thermogravimetric experiment at a constant sample heating rate. The fitting method for identifying the parameters of a kinetic t...
The Cramer–Rao–Frechet inequality is reviewed and extended to track fitting. A diffused opinion attributes to this inequality the limitation of the resolution of the track fits with the number N of observations. It will be shown that this...
In this study, the peak fitting method was proposed to deal with and analyze the thermally aged pattern and statistical prediction of asphalt in order to reduce the calculation accuracy caused by overlapping and partial overlapping of infrared spectr...
The problem of overlapping peaks has been a challenge in microchip electrophoresis (ME) signal analysis. However, traditional peak fitting algorithms have difficulty analyzing overlapping peaks due to the high dependence on the starting point. In thi...
Determining the distribution fitting of traditional private vehicle user driving behavior is an effective way to understand the differences between different users and provides valuable information on user travel demands. The classification of users...
The thermal kinetic modeling is crucial for development of sustainable processes where lignocellulosic fuels are a part of chemical system and their thermal degradation eventuates. In this paper, thermal decomposition of three lignocellulosic materia...
The sigmoid activation function is popular in neural networks, but its complexity limits the hardware implementation and speed. In this paper, we use curvature values to divide the sigmoid function into different segments and employ the least squares...
The gradual application of deep learning in the field of computer vision and image processing has made great breakthroughs. Applications such as object detection, recognition and image semantic segmentation have been improved. In this study, to measu...
Regression analysis is widely applied in many fields of science to estimate important variables. In general, nonlinear regression is a complex optimization problem and presents intrinsic difficulties in estimating reliable parameters. Nonlinear optim...
For the numerical integration of differential equations with oscillatory solutions an exponentially fitted explicit sixth-order hybrid method with four stages is presented. This method is implemented using variable step-size while its derivation is a...
This paper presents the generalization of the shifting method for relay feedback identification of dynamic systems of any order. The original shifting method enables the fitting of a maximum of five parameters of a transfer function model from the in...
Advances in machine learning (ML) and the availability of protein sequences via high-throughput sequencing techniques have transformed the ability to design novel diagnostic and therapeutic proteins. ML allows protein engineers to capture complex tre...
In this work, a pair of embedded explicit exponentially-fitted Runge–Kutta–Nyström methods is formulated for solving special second-order ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with periodic solutions. A variable step-size technique is used for the d...
Spectral demodulation is a crucial component of the extrinsic Fabry–Pérot interferometric (EFPI) sensing technology. In this study, a feedback-based linear spectral fitting demodulation method is proposed for interrogating EFPI sensors....
To address the measurement accuracy degradation of triaxial magnetometers caused by manufacturing errors and environmental interference, and the limited robustness of traditional calibration methods, this study proposes a Dynamic Hierarchical Elite-g...
A standard criterium in statistics is to define an optimal estimator as the one with the minimum variance. Thus, the optimality is proved with inequality among variances of competing estimators. The demonstrations of inequalities among estimators are...
The transient plane source (TPS) method heat transfer model was established. A body-fitted coordinate system is proposed to transform the unstructured grid structure to improve the speed of solving the heat transfer direct problem of the winding prob...
To solve the cavity interrogation problem of short cavity fiber Fabry–Perot sensors in white light spectral interrogation with amplified spontaneous emissions (ASEs) as the white light sources, a data processing method, using an improved ellipt...
This paper proposes a modeling method to establish a parametric-conducted emission model of a switching model power supply (SMPS) chip through a developed vector fitting algorithm. A common SMPS chip LTM8025 was taken as an example to explain the mod...
A 5(4) pair of embedded explicit trigonometrically-fitted Runge–Kutta–Nyström (EETFRKN) methods especially designed for the numerical integration of second order initial value problems with oscillatory solutions is presented in this paper. Algebraic...
The full-spectrum Solar-Induced chlorophyll Fluorescence (SIF) within the 650-800 nm spectral region can provide important information regarding physiological and biochemical activities in vegetation. This paper proposes a new Full-spectrum Spectral...
Typical domestic induction cooktops can only heat ferromagnetic pots/vessels. However, to increase the availability and marketability of induction heating (IH) cooktop products, heating techniques for all types of metallic pots (i.e., created from me...
Many applications in finance and biology involve multiplicative noise geometric Brownian motion (GBM)-type stochastic differential equations (SDEs) whose drift carries a single dominant periodic component. Such structures arise in seasonal Black&ndas...
Numerical methods for the solution of ordinary differential equations are based on polynomial interpolation. In 1952, Brock and Murray have suggested exponentials for the case that the solution is known to be of exponential type. In 1961, Gautschi ca...
The wafer pre-aligner is a crucial component in the lithography process to correct the wafer center and notch orientation. To improve the precision and the efficiency of pre-alignment, a new method to calibrate the center and the orientation of a waf...
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Accessible assessment of aerobic fitness is important for adults with metabolic syndrome when cardiopulmonary exercise testing is unavailable. This study aimed to evaluate participant-level agreement between Six-Minute Walk Test (6MWT)-based equation...
The Measurement-While-Drilling (MWD) system, composed of a tri-axial magnetometer and a tri-axial accelerometer, is widely used in the Horizontal Directional Drilling machine in coal mines. This system can provide attitude information of each measuri...
High temperature in deep mines has become the main concern to limit the production capacity of mines. To mitigate the adverse impact of the underground high-temperature environment on mine production, an orthogonal test was used to design an experime...
The porous media approach is regarded as an appropriate methodology for hydraulic simulations of complex pebble beds in fusion reactors. In order to determine the parameters (permeability α and inertial loss coefficient C) of the porous media a...
The antenna scan period is a core technical parameter of radar, and its robust, real-time, and high-precision measurement is of great engineering significance. Based on filed-measured full-pulse radar data, two measurement methods for the antenna sca...
This research introduces a fresh methodology for creating efficient numerical algorithms to solve first-order Initial Value Problems (IVPs). The study delves into the theoretical foundations of these methods and demonstrates their application to the...
Accurate characterization of the micro- and nano-pore radius values in a tight sandstone reservoir is the key work to reasonably evaluate reservoir properties. The previous exploration of pore-stitching methods is mainly based on the morphological ex...
Different techniques have been used to construct provisional crowns to protect prepared teeth. The purpose of this in vitro study was to assess the internal fit and marginal discrepancy of provisional crowns made by different methods. A total of 48 p...
This clinical study was designed with the aim of fabricating four ceramic crowns using the conventional method and digital methods with three different intraoral scanners and evaluate the marginal and internal fit as well as clinician satisfaction. W...
In this work, explicit Two-Derivative Runge–Kutta methods of the general case (that use several evaluations of the right-hand side function and its derivative per step) are considered. In order to address problems of orbital or oscillatory char...
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