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7 Citations
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29 November 2023

Welded structures under random loadings are usually susceptible to fatigue-induced failures that lead to significant economic and safety effects. However, accurately predicting these structures’ fatigue damage and life in the frequency domain r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Finite Element Modeling of Microstructures in Composite Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,669 Views
12 Pages

New Models to Predict the Acute and Chronic Toxicities of Representative Species of the Main Trophic Levels of Aquatic Environments

  • Cosimo Toma,
  • Claudia I. Cappelli,
  • Alberto Manganaro,
  • Anna Lombardo and ,
  • Jürgen Arning and
  • Emilio Benfenati
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 November 2021

To assess the impact of chemicals on an aquatic environment, toxicological data for three trophic levels are needed to address the chronic and acute toxicities. The use of non-testing methods, such as predictive computational models, was proposed to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Toxicology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,966 Views
15 Pages

Ferroelectric Self-Poling in GeTe Films and Crystals

  • Dominik Kriegner,
  • Gunther Springholz,
  • Carsten Richter,
  • Nicolas Pilet and ,
  • Elisabeth Müller,
  • Marie Capron,
  • Helmut Berger,
  • Václav Holý,
  • J. Hugo Dil and
  • Juraj Krempaský
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

28 June 2019

Ferroelectric materials are used in actuators or sensors because of their non-volatile macroscopic electric polarization. GeTe is the simplest known diatomic ferroelectric endowed with exceedingly complex physics related to its crystalline, amorphous...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Novel Topological Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,140 Views
10 Pages

3 July 2022

In order to ensure the reliability and safety of complex engineering structures and allow their redesign and evaluation, the estimation of dynamic loads applied on them is vital. In this paper, a novel time–frequency domain approach is proposed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulation in Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,509 Views
26 Pages

In an era where misinformation and fake news undermine social well-being, this work provides a complete approach to multi-domain fake news detection. Multi-domain news refers to handling diverse content across various subject areas such as politics,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges and Perspectives of Social Networks within Social Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,502 Views
17 Pages

14 August 2023

Biodegradable materials pose challenges over all aspects of computational mechanics. In this study, the focus is on the resulting domain uncertainty. Model structures or devices are shells of revolution subject to random variation of the outer surfac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Developments and Emerging Trends in Biomechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,517 Views
12 Pages

Random Fiber Grating Characterization Based on OFDR and Transfer Matrix Method

  • Zichao Zhou,
  • Chen Chen,
  • Ping Lu,
  • Stephen Mihailov and ,
  • Liang Chen and
  • Xiaoyi Bao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 October 2020

Random fiber gratings (RFGs) have shown great potential applications in fiber sensing and random fiber lasers. However, a quantitative relationship between the degree of randomness of the RFG and its spectral response has never been analyzed. In this...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,605 Views
17 Pages

19 December 2025

Automotive components’ exposure to prolonged random loading not only accumulates fatigue damage but also causes material stiffness degradation. The degradation of material mechanical properties leads to stress redistribution within the structur...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,333 Views
26 Pages

A Review on Comfort of Pedestrian Bridges Under Human-Induced Vibrations and Tuned Mass Damper Control Technologies

  • Shoukun Zhang,
  • Baijin Wu,
  • Yong Tang,
  • Han Zhang and ,
  • Zheng Xu,
  • Guoqiang Li and
  • Shuang Lu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 August 2025

With the development of urban infrastructure construction, while pedestrian bridges meet traffic functions the issue of their comfort has become a core consideration in structural design. This is because the long-span lightweight structures, with the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Technologies of Cement-Based Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
195 Views
34 Pages

12 October 2026

Maritime kill webs integrate heterogeneous platforms across air, surface, and underwater domains, with each platform potentially supporting multiple mission functions. Existing reliability models often represent attacks as complete node removals and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue System of Systems Modelling and Simulation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,266 Views
20 Pages

3 February 2024

The design optimization of structures can be conducted in either the time domain or the frequency domain. The frequency domain approach is advantageous compared to its time domain counterpart, especially if the degree of freedom is large, the objecti...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,057 Views
21 Pages

A freak wave is a spike in a random wave series and hence the local characteristics in the time-domain are of key importance. When freak waves act on moored floating structures, the dynamic responses of the structures in the time and frequency domain...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical and Physical Model Investigation of Water Transport, Coastal and Offshore Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,413 Views
52 Pages

7 January 2017

The neutral-ionic phase transition in TTF-CA was investigated by steady-state and time-resolved infrared spectroscopy. We describe the growth of high-quality single crystals and their characterization. Extended theoretical calculations were performed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Neutral–Ionic Phase Transition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,319 Views
18 Pages

14 July 2015

Pattern recognition uses measurements from an input domain, X, to predict their labels from an output domain, Y. Image analysis is one setting where one might want to infer whether a pixel patch contains an object that is “manmade” (such as a buildin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,954 Views
7 Pages

A Piezoresponse Force Microscopy Study of CaxBa1−xNb2O6 Single Crystals

  • Vladimir V. Shvartsman,
  • Danka Gobeljic,
  • Jan Dec and
  • Doru C. Lupascu

5 September 2017

Polar structures of CaxBa1−xNb2O6 (CBN100x) single crystals were investigated using piezoresponse force microscopy. Increasing Ca content results in decreasing domain size and enhancement of the polar disorder. For the composition with x = 0.32 the c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Scanning Probe Microscopy of Ferroics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,432 Views
21 Pages

Nucleus Accumbens-Associated Protein 1 Binds DNA Directly through the BEN Domain in a Sequence-Specific Manner

  • Naomi Nakayama,
  • Gyosuke Sakashita,
  • Takashi Nagata,
  • Naohiro Kobayashi and ,
  • Hisashi Yoshida,
  • Sam-Yong Park,
  • Yuko Nariai,
  • Hiroaki Kato,
  • Eiji Obayashi and
  • Takeshi Urano
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

Nucleus accumbens-associated protein 1 (NAC1) is a nuclear protein that harbors an amino-terminal BTB domain and a carboxyl-terminal BEN domain. NAC1 appears to play significant and diverse functions in cancer and stem cell biology. Here we demonstra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mechanisms and Novel Therapeutic Approaches for Gynecologic Cancer)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,218 Views
20 Pages

Intrinsic Functional Partially Linear Poisson Regression Model for Count Data

  • Jiaqi Xu,
  • Yu Lu,
  • Yuanshen Su,
  • Tao Liu and ,
  • Yunfei Qi and
  • Wu Xie
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 November 2024

Poisson regression is a statistical method specifically designed for analyzing count data. Considering the case where the functional and vector-valued covariates exhibit a linear relationship with the log-transformed Poisson mean, while the covariate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Statistics and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
781 Views
24 Pages

4 April 2026

At present, most of the research methods for vibration fatigue of welded structures mainly focus on uniaxial stress, ignoring the influence of shear stress. To this end, by combining the ASME structural stress method with the random and vibration ana...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design, Mechanical Properties, and Fatigue Behavior of Materials, Welding Joints and Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,713 Views
30 Pages

14 September 2023

This paper proposes a method to reduce seismogram variability as a determining factor in its interpretation, processing, and clustering. By introducing the concept of single fluctuations (SFs), the seismogram can be parsed into a sequence of random i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structural Seismic Design and Evaluation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,323 Views
18 Pages

1 August 2025

In engineering design, optimization is crucial for achieving sustainable goals. This involves creating environmentally responsible structures. Optimizing the design is the first step in reducing the environmental impact of construction. Topology opti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Construction Through Utilization of Optimization Tools and Experimental Methods: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
403 Views
18 Pages

Satellite object detection in space surveillance is challenged by sparse and weak targets in large-scale, structured backgrounds (e.g., star fields, clouds, and streak noise). Such interference is not random but exhibits spatial correlation and frequ...

(This article belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,493 Views
21 Pages

A Structural and Dynamic Analysis of the Partially Disordered Polymerase-Binding Domain in RSV Phosphoprotein

  • Christophe Cardone,
  • Claire-Marie Caseau,
  • Benjamin Bardiaux,
  • Aurélien Thureaux and ,
  • Marie Galloux,
  • Monika Bajorek,
  • Jean-François Eléouët,
  • Marc Litaudon,
  • François Bontems and
  • Christina Sizun
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

17 August 2021

The phosphoprotein P of Mononegavirales (MNV) is an essential co-factor of the viral RNA polymerase L. Its prime function is to recruit L to the ribonucleocapsid composed of the viral genome encapsidated by the nucleoprotein N. MNV phosphoproteins of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Amazing World of IDPs in Human Diseases II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,303 Views
25 Pages

26 February 2021

The ASR protein family has been discovered thirty years ago in many plant species and is involved in the tolerance of various abiotic stresses such as dehydration, salinity and heat. Despite its importance, nothing is known about the conserved ABA-Wa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wheat Breeding through Genetic and Physical Mapping 2.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
641 Views
25 Pages

20 February 2026

Accurate forecasting of aggregated demand response (DR) potential is critical for load aggregators, yet remains challenging under severe data scarcity and domain shift conditions. This paper proposes a domain-adaptive transfer learning framework base...

(This article belongs to the Topic Intelligent, Flexible, and Effective Operation of Smart Grids with Novel Energy Technologies and Equipment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,643 Views
18 Pages

25 December 2018

For a long-distance pipeline, the seismic load is a four-dimensional space-time excitation that simultaneously changes with time and space. In this work, a novel random space-time seismic model is established for a long-distance pipeline, which uses...

  • Article
  • Open Access
86 Views
27 Pages

Validation-Dependent Accuracy and Limited Zero-Shot Transfer: A Cross-Database Audit of Lipid Nanoparticle Performance Prediction

  • Roxana Irina Iancu,
  • Călin Gheorghe Buzea,
  • Florin Nedeff,
  • Diana Mirilă and ,
  • Valentin Nedeff,
  • Maricel Agop,
  • Denisa Batir-Marin and
  • Dragoș Petru Teodor Iancu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Background/Objectives: Machine learning models are increasingly used to prioritize lipid nanoparticle (LNP) formulations, but apparent accuracy may depend strongly on dataset heterogeneity and validation design. This study audited two public LNP reso...

(This article belongs to the Section Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,617 Views
25 Pages

18 November 2019

This paper introduces the concept of targeted field investigation on the reliability of earth-retaining structures in an active state, which is implemented in a random finite element method (RFEM) framework. The open source RFEM software REARTH2D was...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
837 Views
6 Pages

13 November 2025

Cytochrome P450 1B1 (CYP1B1) is an important anticancer target due to its overexpression in tumors and role in carcinogen metabolism. In this work, we attempted to build a first-generation QSAR model for 63 synthesized inhibitors using Quantum Chemic...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 29th International Electronic Conference on Synthetic Organic Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,723 Views
12 Pages

Insights from the Structure of an Active Form of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry5B

  • Jiaxin Li,
  • Lin Wang,
  • Masayo Kotaka,
  • Marianne M. Lee and
  • Michael K. Chan

23 November 2022

The crystal protein Cry5B, a pore-forming protein produced by the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, has been demonstrated to have excellent anthelmintic activity. While a previous structure of the three-domain core region of Cry5B(112–698)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bacillus thuringiensis: A Broader View of Its Biocidal Activity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,761 Views
14 Pages

Superpixel Image Classification with Graph Convolutional Neural Networks Based on Learnable Positional Embedding

  • Ji-Hun Bae,
  • Gwang-Hyun Yu,
  • Ju-Hwan Lee,
  • Dang Thanh Vu and ,
  • Le Hoang Anh,
  • Hyoung-Gook Kim and
  • Jin-Young Kim
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

13 September 2022

Graph convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) have been successfully applied to a wide range of problems, including low-dimensional Euclidean structural domains representing images, videos, and speech and high-dimensional non-Euclidean domains, such as...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence Models, Tools and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
456 Views
26 Pages

Noise-Adversarial Denoising of Motor Acoustic Signals Across Noise Domains

  • Yang Yang,
  • Jiayu Xu,
  • Xiaojun Jiang,
  • Xin Xiao and
  • Hui Dong

15 July 2026

Motor acoustic monitoring in industrial sites is often compromised by background noise, machine self-noise and shifts between noise domains, which distort the acoustic-signature structure. Here we propose a Noise-Adversarial Denoising Enhancement Net...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
635 Views
12 Pages

22 January 2026

A model of nanoparticles has been designed to partially resemble self-similar ferroelastic star-like domain textures. Numerical computations have been used to find the equilibrium configurations of magnetisation in such systems. As expected from the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Magnetic Nanoparticles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
467 Views
25 Pages

2 October 2026

Drone-based red–green–blue (RGB)–thermal tiny person detection must account for the different appearance statistics of visible and thermal sensing. We propose Asymmetric Modality Domain Randomization (AMDR), a training-only strategy...

(This article belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,046 Views
22 Pages

21 March 2025

Probabilistic random vibration can speed up wear and tear on several components of the tracked vehicle, including the track system, drivetrain, and suspension. Extended exposure to high levels of vibration can cause structural damage to the vehicle f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vibration-Based Machines Wear Monitoring and Prediction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,970 Views
26 Pages

AAQAL: A Machine Learning-Based Tool for Performance Optimization of Parallel SPMV Computations Using Block CSR

  • Muhammad Ahmed,
  • Sardar Usman,
  • Nehad Ali Shah,
  • M. Usman Ashraf and ,
  • Ahmed Mohammed Alghamdi,
  • Adel A. Bahadded and
  • Khalid Ali Almarhabi
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

13 July 2022

The sparse matrix–vector product (SpMV), considered one of the seven dwarfs (numerical methods of significance), is essential in high-performance real-world scientific and analytical applications requiring solution of large sparse linear equati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied and Innovative Computational Intelligence Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,608 Views
17 Pages

Floating photovoltaics (PVs) are progressively constructed in the ocean sea; therefore, the effect that freak waves have on their structural design needs to be considered. This paper developed a dedicated numerical model coupling the floating PV plat...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
596 Views
19 Pages

25 June 2026

Cost overrun remains a pervasive issue in building construction projects, yet most predictive studies operate within a single data domain, ignoring the systemic interactions across project, schedule, resource, quality, and safety dimensions. This stu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Technologies, AI and BIM in Construction)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,190 Views
15 Pages

Effects of Multilevel and Multidomain Interventions on Glycemic Control in U.S. Hispanic Populations

  • Laura Bianco,
  • Sofía I. Uranga,
  • Alexander W. Rodriguez,
  • Raj Shetty and ,
  • Erin M. Staab,
  • Melissa I. Franco-Galicia,
  • Amber N. Deckard,
  • Nikita C. Thomas,
  • Wen Wan and
  • Neda Laiteerapong
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

Hispanic populations in the U.S. have a high prevalence of type 2 diabetes and its complications. It has been proposed that interventions targeting multiple levels and domains of influence are needed to address health disparities, but more evidence i...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,756 Views
11 Pages

GPR Image Clutter Suppression Using Gaussian Curvature Decomposition in the PCA Domain

  • Qibin Su,
  • Beizhen Bi,
  • Pengyu Zhang,
  • Liang Shen and ,
  • Xiaotao Huang and
  • Qin Xin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 September 2022

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is one of the most generally used underground sensing equipment, but it is frequently contaminated by clutter and noise during data acquisition, which has a significant impact on the detection performance of buried targ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Latest Results on GPR Algorithms, Applications and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,398 Views
17 Pages

12 March 2025

Spacecraft are subjected to various external loads during flight, and these loads have a direct impact on the structural safety and functional stability of the spacecraft. Obtaining external load information can provide reliable support for spacecraf...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Methods and Modeling Applied for Composite Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,367 Views
96 Pages

22 April 2026

As a rigorous and comprehensive foundation for electromagnetic information theory (EIT), we develop a general theory that elucidates the universal stochastic structure of radiated electromagnetic (EM) fields and induced currents in generic EM informa...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,909 Views
21 Pages

In one of their recent works, the authors examined parametrically the effect of targeted field investigation on reducing statistical uncertainty in active state analysis of earth retaining structures based on 2165 different cases for each of the slid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,575 Views
27 Pages

Random Vibration Evaluation and Optimization of a Flexible Positioning Platform Considering Power Spectral Density

  • Lufan Zhang,
  • Mengyuan Hu,
  • Heng Yan,
  • Hehe Sun and ,
  • Zhenghui Zhang and
  • Peijuan Wu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 January 2026

The flexible positioning platform is a critical structural component in the ultra-high acceleration macro–micro motion platform, enabling precise positioning across multiple scales. However, under high-frequency start–stop cycles and prol...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,007 Views
15 Pages

1 March 2022

Using speckle patterns formed by an expanded and collimated He-Ne laser beam, we apply DIC (Digital Image Correlation) methods to estimate the deformation of LLDPE (linear low-density polyethylene) film. The laser beam was transmitted through the fil...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mechanics and Analysis of Advanced Materials and Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,403 Views
17 Pages

Dip Filter and Random Noise Suppression for GPR B-Scan Data Based on a Hybrid Method in f - x Domain

  • Xuebing Zhang,
  • Xuan Feng,
  • Zhijia Zhang,
  • Zhiliang Kang and ,
  • Yuan Chai,
  • Qin You and
  • Liang Ding
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 September 2019

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is a close-range remote-sensing tool applied in a great many near-surface projects for engineering or environmental purposes. In GPR B-scans, there may exist a variety of reflections and diffractions that corresponds to...

  • Abstract
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,419 Views
1 Page

Structural and Functional Studies of Chikungunya Virus nsP2

  • Yee Song Law,
  • Yaw Bia Tan,
  • Orion Shih,
  • Age Utt and ,
  • Jie Zheng,
  • Sainan Wang,
  • Ming Wei Chen,
  • Patrick R. Griffin,
  • U-Ser Jeng and
  • Dahai Luo
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is transmitted to humans through mosquitoes and causes Chikungunya fever. Nonstructural protein 2 (nsP2) contains an N-terminal RNA helicase with both nucleotide triphosphatase and RNA triphosphatase activities, and a C-term...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Viruses 2020—Novel Concepts in Virology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,363 Views
19 Pages

On the Use of a Domain Decomposition Strategy in Obtaining Response Statistics in Non-Gaussian Seas

  • Griet Decorte,
  • Alessandro Toffoli,
  • Geert Lombaert and
  • Jaak Monbaliu

7 January 2021

During recent years, thorough experimental and numerical investigations have led to an improved understanding of dynamic phenomena affecting the fatigue life and survivability of offshore structures, e.g., ringing and springing and extreme wave impac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 15th OpenFOAM Workshop)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,379 Views
15 Pages

14 November 2018

Various structural and functional constraints govern the evolution of protein sequences. As a result, the relative rates of amino acid replacement among sites within a protein can vary significantly. Previous large-scale work on Metazoan (Animal) pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolution and Structure of Proteins and Proteomes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,383 Views
21 Pages

Cross-domain semantic classification of 3D point clouds remains challenging due to strong domain shifts between heterogeneous sensing modalities. Most existing classification frameworks are domain-specific, limiting their use in integrated land&ndash...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,991 Views
27 Pages

23 January 2025

This paper primarily investigates the mechanism of bolt loosening under the Sine-on-Random (SOR) vibration excitation. Firstly, a theoretical model of bolt loosening response under the SOR synthesized excitation is established by a time–frequen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Experimental Activity of Testing Machines and Mechanical Test Rigs)

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