In the present study, a recently developed improved Self-Adaptive Turbulence Eddy Simulation (SATES) turbulence model (marked as SATES-Mixed), is validated for the simulation of complex multiple swirling turbulent flows. The new SATES-Mixed method ai...
We recently reported that (E)-5′-vinylphosphonate (5′-VP) is a metabolically-stable phosphate mimic for siRNA and demonstrated that 5′-VP improves the potency of the fully modified siRNAs in vivo. Here, we report an alternative synt...
Sate of charge (SOC) accurate estimation is one of the most important functions in a battery management system for battery packs used in electrical vehicles. This paper focuses on battery SOC estimation and its issues and challenges by exploring diff...
To improve the quality of palm kernel meal (PKM), the effect of solid-state fermentation (SSF) with Bacillus velezensis, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Lactobacillus paracasei on nutritional components, anti-nutritional factor and antioxidant activity...
23 November 2021
Objective: Although college students are at heightened risk for sleep disturbances, healthy sleep is associated with positive physical, cognitive, psychological, and academic benefits for this group. The goals of the current study were to (1) describ...
Background: Little evidence is available on the long-term efficacy and safety of edoxaban, mainly due to the recent release date. The primary objective of the study was to evaluate the safety of edoxaban, defined by the incidence of major bleedings....
New direct oral anticoagulants are recommended for stroke prevention in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF). However, no data are available regarding the optimal time to start oral anticoagulation after acute stroke. The aim of our...
It is well known that accurate identification of the key state parameters and State of Charge (SOC) estimation method for a Li-ion battery cell is of great significance for advanced battery management system (BMS) of electric vehicles (EVs), which fu...
Open circuit voltage (OCV) is an important characteristic parameter of lithium-ion batteries, which is used to analyze the changes of electronic energy in electrode materials, and to estimate battery state of charge (SOC) and manage the battery pack....
The emphasis in the automotive industry towards sustainable mobility has led to a significant interest in hybrid-electric drive-trains with high energy density batteries. Addressing the needs of this strategy, the battery market is exploring new tech...
Resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) provides insight into the intrinsic organization of brain networks and is increasingly recognized as a sensitive marker of age-related neural changes. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) offers a...
We investigate how simultaneous mass and radius measurements of massive neutron stars can help constrain the properties of dark matter possibly admixed in them. Within a fermionic dark matter model that interacts only through gravitation, along with...
The purpose of this work is to precise and complete one recently proposed in the literature and relative to a general criterion to maximize the first law efficiency of irreversible heat engines. It is shown that the previous proposal seems to be a pa...
Cue reactivity (CR) among smokers exposed to smoking-related stimuli, both proximal (e.g., cigarettes, lighter) and distal (environments, people), has been well-demonstrated. Furthermore, past work has shown that combining proximal smoking cues with...
Burnout is frequent among healthcare workers, and sleep problems are suspected risk factors. The sleep health framework provides a new approach to the promotion of sleep as a health benefit. The aim of this study was to assess good sleep health in a...
Relativistic triple differential cross-sections (TDCS) for ionization of hydrogen atoms by positron impact have been calculated in the symmetric coplanar geometry. We have used Dirac wave functions to describe free electron’s and positron’s sates. Th...
12 January 2026
Childhood overweight and obesity is a growing public health challenge in Indonesia, affecting approximately one in five school-aged children. Because children spend substantial time at school and frequently obtain meals and snacks from on-site cantee...
In contrast to the gaseous and the solid states, the liquid state does not have a simple model that could be developed into a quantitative theory. A central issue in the understanding of liquids is to estimate the energy state of liquids. Here, on th...
This research is an assessment of existing liquid waste disposal systems in West Africa and their performances over the years, using systems in Ghana and Nigeria as a case study. The main purpose of the study was to improve upon the sustainability of...
17 June 2024
Racism has been a long-standing influential factor that has negatively impacted both past and current health disparities within the United Sates population. Existing problems of racism and its impact on both health disparities and health inequalities...
In this paper, quantum correlation (QC) swapping between two Werner-like states, which are transformed from Werner states undergoing local and nonlocal unitary operations, are studied. Bell states measures are performed in the middle node to realize...
Despite the unconditionally secure theory of the Quantum Key Distribution (
Local scour around submerged piles in currents are common in coastal and offshore engineering. This paper studies the influences of the submergence ratio (flow depth to pile height) on local scour around a square pile in steady flow. Submergence rati...
The Neuropeptide S (NPS), a 20 amino acids peptide, is recognized as the endogenous ligand of a previously orphan G protein-coupled receptor, now termed NPS receptor (NPSR). The limited distribution of the NPS-expressing neurons in few regions of the...
The appetite of honeybees for food is crucial to their survival and reproduction, as they sustain their entire colony by collecting pollen and nectar for nutrients. Dopamine, an important neurotransmitter, regulates appetite and satiety. However, how...
Wearable energy storage devices require high mechanical stability and high-capacitance flexible electrodes. In this study, we design a flexible supercapacitor electrode consisting of 1-dimensional carbon nanotubes (CNT), cellulose nanofibrils (CNF),...
As an active research field, sport-related activity monitoring plays an important role in people’s lives and health. This is often viewed as a human activity recognition task in which a fixed-length sliding window is used to segment long-term a...
Nonlinear ultrasound is often employed to assess microdamage or nonlinear elastic properties of a material, and the nonlinear parameter is commonly used to quantify damage sate and material properties. Among the various factors that influence the mea...
Haze obscures remote sensing images, making it difficult to extract valuable information. To address this problem, we propose a fine detail extraction network that aims to restore image details and improve image quality. Specifically, to capture fine...
Background/Objectives: Sleep quality is a critical determinant of recovery after total joint arthroplasty (TJA), yet multidimensional trajectories of sleep health remain poorly defined. This study aimed to describe the trajectory of sleep health and...
Enterovirus (EV)-D68 has been associated with epidemics in the United Sates in 2014, 2016 and 2018. This study aims to identify potential viral virulence determinants. We found that neonatal type I interferon receptor knockout mice are susceptible to...
Time series anomaly detection is widely used to monitor the equipment sates through the data collected in the form of time series. At present, the deep learning method based on generative adversarial networks (GAN) has emerged for time series anomaly...
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are lipid bilayer particles released by virtually all cells, with prominent roles in both physiological and pathological processes. The size, number, and molecular composition of released EVs correlate to the cells of ori...
Remote sensing (RS) images are often degraded by atmospheric haze, which compromises both visual interpretation and downstream applications. To address this, we introduce CSGL-Former, a novel Cross-Stripes Global–Local Fusion Transformer for RS...
Empirical studies of public opinion on environmental protection have typically been grounded in Inglehart’s post-materialism thesis, proposing that societal affluence encourages materially-sated publics to look beyond their interests and value the en...
We propose a protocol that provides a systematic definition of reaction coordinate and related free-energy profile as the function of temperature for the protein-folding simulation. First, using action-derived molecular dynamics (ADMD), we investiga...
There is an unmet need for novel non-invasive prognostic molecular tumour markers for breast cancer (BC). Accumulating evidence shows that miR-155 plays a pivotal role in tumorigenesis. Generally, miR-155 is considered an oncogenic miRNA promoting tu...
24 March 2021
Objective: Self-harm is an important public health issue in the UK. Young people who self-harm frequently feel misunderstood, and unable to access help. Improving understanding is key to informing the development and delivery of effective treatments...
Background: Gravid patients at high risk with placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) face life-threatening risk at delivery. Intraoperative risk assessment for patients is currently insufficient. We aimed to develop an assessment system of intraoperative ri...
Testing as an assessment technique has been widely used at all levels of education—from primary to higher school. The main purpose of the paper is to evaluate the effect of context-based testing in teaching and learning of analytical chemistry in a R...
As a result of its unique fragrance and wider role in traditional medicine, agarwood produced in Aquilaria spp. and certain other trees has been harvested to near extinction as a natural phenomenon. Artificially induced agarwood production in Aquilar...
The design of floors must fulfill not only the requirements for the Ultimate Limit State but the Serviceability Limit State, which affects, among other factors, the comfort of the users. Due to the modern design of floors and changes in the use of bu...
The worldwide obesity epidemic is a major health problem driven by the modern food environment. Recently, it has been shown that smell perception plays a key role in eating behavior and is altered in obesity. However, the underlying mechanisms of thi...
Haze or cloud always shrouds satellite images, obscuring valuable geographic information for military surveillance, natural calamity surveillance and mineral resource exploration. Satellite image dehazing (SID) provides the possibility for better app...
Haze caused by atmospheric scattering often leads to color distortion, reduced contrast, and diminished clarity, which significantly degrade the quality of remote sensing images. To address these issues, we propose a novel network called DWTMA-Net th...
Accurate state of charge (SOC) estimation is of great significance for a lithium-ion battery to ensure its safe operation and to prevent it from over-charging or over-discharging. However, it is difficult to get an accurate value of SOC since it is...
The authors studied the impact of indoor air humidity in the range of 60% to 90% on building user perception in the temperature range of 26 to 28 °C. The research thesis was put forward that the impact of humidity on indoor air quality dissatisfa...
Li-rich layered oxide cathode materials have become one of the most promising cathode materials for high specific energy lithium-ion batteries owning to its high theoretical specific capacity, low cost, high operating voltage and environmental friend...
To obtain the tire–pavement peak adhesion coefficient under different road states, a field measurement and FE simulation were combined to analyze the tire–pavement adhesion characteristics in this study. According to the identified textur...
20 June 2021
Sleep health, operationalized as a multidimensional construct consisting of sleep regularity, satisfaction, alertness, timing, efficiency, and duration, is an emerging concept in the field of sleep medicine which warrants further investigation. The p...
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