An essential input of annuity pricing is the future retiree mortality. From observed age-specific mortality data, modeling and forecasting can take place in two routes. On the one hand, we can first truncate the available data to retiree ages and the...
Chronic alcohol use leads to metabolic dysfunction in adipose tissue. The underlying mechanisms and the contribution of alcohol-induced adipose tissue dysfunction to systemic metabolic dysregulation are not well understood. In our previous studies, w...
The inaccurate positioning of a plat valve is a crucial factor affecting the efficiency and safety of drilling operations. Because of the complicated structure of vertical drilling, it is difficult to obtain the actual position of a plat valve during...
Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) has been widely used in different domains, such as car park management, traffic management, tolling, and intelligent transport systems. Despite this technology’s importance, the existing ANPR approaches suffe...
Much of the Watonwan River tributary system to the upper Mississippi River basin (UMR), and the fluvial systems to which it drains, are listed as impaired under the United States Environmental Protection Agency Clean Water Act303(d) and/or by the Min...
In this study, we propose a minimal reaction system for the Hippo–YAP/TAZ pathway that explicitly includes inactive LATS, active pLATS, cytoplasmic and nuclear YAP/TAZ, and phosphorylated YAP/TAZ. Local cell density is incorporated into the LAT...
The luteinizing hormone (LH) and maturation-inducing steroids (MIS), such as 17α,20β-dihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one, regulate the final oocyte maturation in teleosts. Oocyte maturational competence (OMC) and ovulatory competence measure the sen...
The modeling of developable surfaces is considered a very important application in plat-metal-based industries. Relating to the purpose, this discussion aims to obtain some formulas for constructing the regular developable Bézier patches, in w...
Along with massive applications of power electronic equipment and non-linear loads, harmonic pollutions are becoming more serious than ever. This paper describes a novel electromagnetic coupling reactor based passive power filter with dynamic tuning...
Three-dimensional printing is a dynamically developing field of industry. Its main advantage is the small amount of waste, no need to use specialized tools, and easy control of the mechanical properties of the printed model. One of the most popular t...
Rotor stator interaction (RSI) is an important phenomenon influencing performances in the pump, turbine, and compressor. In this paper, the correlation-based transition model is used to study the RSI phenomenon between a translational cascade of airf...
A paradigm shift in preclinical evaluations of new anticancer GBM drugs should occur in favour of 3D cultures. This study leveraged the vast genomic data banks to investigate the suitability of 3D cultures as cell-based models for GBM. We hypothesise...
A chicken gastrointestinal tract (GIT) simulation model was developed to help predict the potential effects of feed additives supplementation on chicken’ microbiota. The chemical and enzymatic conditions for oral, gastric, intestinal, and cecum...
In recent times, heat and mass transportation have had some of the most recognized and attractive research areas in computational fluid dynamics. It is useful in the modeling of the flow of nuclear reactors, bioinformatics, the medical discipline, et...
The electrohydrodynamic deformation of an emulsion droplet with a clean and particle-covered interface was explored. Here, the electrohydrodynamic deformation was numerically and experimentally demonstrated under the stimuli of moderate and strong el...
The DNA repair protein PARP-1 emerged as a valuable target in the treatment of tumor entities with deficiencies of BRCA1/2, such as breast cancer. More recently, the application of PARP inhibitors (PARPi) such as olaparib has been expanded to other c...
Background/Objectives: Growing evidence implicates that processes mediated by cytokines, growth factors, and the plasminogen activation (PA) system play crucial roles in the pathogenesis of epilepsy and its comorbidities. Methods: This study was carr...
The temperature-sensitive paint (TSP) method, an optical measurement technique, is used for qualitative skin friction visualizations in a wide variety of aerodynamic applications. One such application is the visualization of the laminar–turbule...
Congenital hepatic fibrosis/Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (CHF/ARPKD) is an inherited neonatal disease induced by mutations in the PKHD1 gene and characterized by cysts and robust pericystic fibrosis in the liver and kidneys. The PCK...
Precision agriculture increasingly recognizes the transformative potential of unmanned aerial systems (UASs) for crop monitoring and field assessment, yet research consistently highlights significant usability barriers as the main constraints to wide...