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  • Open Access
22 Citations
2,605 Views
19 Pages

1 February 2022

The viscous boundary has a direct influence on the accuracy of structural dynamic response analysis, and the absorbing effect of the viscous boundary is controlled by the adjustment coefficient. Therefore, a calibration model of the viscous boundary&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
663 Views
22 Pages

23 September 2025

Significant discrepancies persist between the predicted and measured bearing capacities of Strength Composite (SC) piles in engineering practice, largely due to incomplete consideration of dominant failure modes and the absence of scientifically cali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,676 Views
11 Pages

8 March 2018

This paper presents a new and improved method of hybrid input-output (I-O) to evaluate the economic impact of a biomass power plant’s resource production and consumption. The effect of resource consumption induces a change in an economy’s production...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,248 Views
9 Pages

Aluminum Nitride-Based Adjustable Effective Electromechanical Coupling Coefficient Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator

  • Yuanhang Qu,
  • Tiancheng Luo,
  • Zhiwei Wen,
  • Min Wei,
  • Xiyu Gu,
  • Xiang Chen,
  • Yang Zou,
  • Yao Cai,
  • Yan Liu and
  • Chengliang Sun

7 January 2023

The arrival of the 5G era has promoted the need for filters of different bandwidths. Thin-film bulk acoustic resonators have become the mainstream product for applications due to their excellent performance. The Keff2 of the FBAR greatly influences t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,918 Views
23 Pages

12 May 2023

As an important means of improving positioning accuracy, block adjustment has been used in the improvement and assessment of accuracy for the Chinese Gaofen-7 (GF-7) satellite. However, there is little research on what factors affect accuracy without...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,304 Views
15 Pages

12 June 2022

Based on the semi-rigid characteristics of a double-cell prefabricated utility tunnel composed of groove-shaped elements (PUTCGE), this paper proposes an extended study of a stiffness reduction method for PUTCGEs by introducing the stiffness reductio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,748 Views
20 Pages

2 December 2023

This paper studies the estimation problem for semi-varying coefficient heteroscedastic instrumental variable models with missing responses. First, we propose the adjusted estimators for unknown parameters and smooth functional coefficients utilizing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,812 Views
11 Pages

18 October 2019

Objective: We aimed to assess the day-to-day variation in twelve one-day diet records over one year from 131 residents of urban and rural areas in the western region of Japan. Methods: Between 2014 and 2015, the participants provided repeated one-day...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,422 Views
21 Pages

1 August 2019

We consider a two-dimensional ruin problem where the surplus process of business lines is modelled by a two-dimensional correlated Brownian motion with drift. We study the ruin function P ( u ) for the component-wise ruin (that is both busine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,107 Views
10 Pages

A multivariate CVAR(1) model for some observed variables and some unobserved variables is analysed using its infinite order CVAR representation of the observations. Cointegration and adjustment coefficients in the infinite order CVAR are found as fun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
409 Views
21 Pages

Assessment Method for Dynamic Adjustable Capacity of Distribution Network Feeder Load Based on CNN-LSTM Source–Load Forecasting

  • Youzhuo Zheng,
  • Zhi Long,
  • Hengrong Zhang,
  • Yutao Xu,
  • Yongxiang Cai,
  • Fengming Shi,
  • Nuoqing Shen and
  • Siyang Liao

30 October 2025

In response to the demand for flexible regulation resources in distribution networks with high proportion of new energy integration, this study explores the regulation potential of feeder loads. It controls the power of feeder loads through various t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,895 Views
20 Pages

16 February 2019

Wind turbines (WTs) participate in frequency regulation, which is one of the means to solve the problem of inadequate regulation capacity in power systems with a high proportion of renewable energy. The doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) can reser...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
703 Views
28 Pages

8 October 2025

Offshore reservoirs in the high water-cut stage present significant development challenges, including declining production, complex remaining oil distribution, and the inadequacy of conventional evaluation methods to capture intricate flow dynamics....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,270 Views
16 Pages

23 September 2017

The balance of electric power and energy is important for designing power stations’ load distribution, capacity allocation, and future operation plans, and is thus of vital significance for power design and planning departments. In this paper, we ana...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,383 Views
15 Pages

14 January 2021

This study aimed to analyze pharyngeal airflow characteristics and their relationship with the skeletal movement of the maxilla and mandible after bimaxillary orthognathic surgery in patients with skeletal class III (mandibular prognathism) malocclus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,052 Views
20 Pages

11 July 2024

The inverse Gaussian distribution is a two-parameter continuous probability distribution with positive support, which is used to account for the asymmetry of the positively skewed data that are often seen when modeling environmental phenomena, such a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
6,686 Views
15 Pages

21 May 2020

The applicability of the curve number (CN) model to estimate runoff has been a conundrum for years, among other reasons, because it presumes an uncertain fixed initial abstraction coefficient (λ = 0.2), and because choosing the most suitable watershe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,245 Views
17 Pages

20 October 2023

In land battlefield environments, aerosol particles can cause laser beams to undergo attenuation, thus deteriorating the operational performance of military laser devices. The particle size distribution (PSD) and extinction coefficient are key optica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,061 Views
21 Pages

8 February 2024

The coordination between regional ecological and economic development has become a crucial topic in current environmental and development research due to the establishment of sustainable development goals and the acceleration of urbanization. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
937 Views
22 Pages

11 August 2025

With the large-scale integration of renewable energy through power electronic inverters, modern power systems are gradually transitioning to low-inertia systems. Grid-forming inverters are prone to power overshoot and frequency deviation when facing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
12,964 Views
17 Pages

A High-Performance Adaptive Incremental Conductance MPPT Algorithm for Photovoltaic Systems

  • Chendi Li,
  • Yuanrui Chen,
  • Dongbao Zhou,
  • Junfeng Liu and
  • Jun Zeng

15 April 2016

The output characteristics of photovoltaic (PV) arrays vary with the change of environment, and maximum power point (MPP) tracking (MPPT) techniques are thus employed to extract the peak power from PV arrays. Based on the analysis of existing MPPT me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,982 Views
18 Pages

14 July 2023

The structure of a model has an important impact on information dissemination. Many information models of hypernetworks have been proposed in recent years, in which nodes and hyperedges represent the individuals and the relationships between the indi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,563 Views
20 Pages

Multi-Objective Optimization of Magnetorheological Mount Considering Optimal Damping Force and Maximum Adjustable Coefficient

  • Jianghua Fu,
  • Chao Huang,
  • Ruizhi Shu,
  • Xing-Quan Li,
  • Ming Chen,
  • Zheming Chen and
  • Bao Chen

4 January 2023

To address the problem of multiple working conditions and complex requirements in magnetorheological fluid (MRF) mounts, a high-precision damping characteristic optimization method is explored. Based on the parallel plate model, the equation of fluid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
666 Views
22 Pages

Clustering techniques are widely applied to equity markets to uncover sectoral structures and regime shifts, yet most studies rely solely on empirical returns. This paper introduces a novel perspective by using diffusion-based parameters from the Bla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,175 Views
20 Pages

26 February 2021

In order to realize the intervention operation in the unstructured and ample environments such as stomach and colon, a dual-spin spherical capsule robot (DSCR) driven by pure magnetic torque generated by the universal rotating magnetic field (URMF) i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,393 Views
24 Pages

Effect of Bionic Crab Shell Attitude Parameters on Lift and Drag in a Flow Field

  • Shihao Hu,
  • Xi Chen,
  • Jiawei Li,
  • Peiye Yu,
  • Mingfei Xin,
  • Biye Pan,
  • Sicen Li,
  • Qinyun Tang,
  • Liquan Wang and
  • Zhaojin Liu
  • + 1 author

Underwater bionic-legged robots encounter significant challenges in attitude, velocity, and positional control due to lift and drag in water current environments, making it difficult to balance operational efficiency with motion stability. This study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,344 Views
34 Pages

11 November 2024

Amidst the prevailing trends in environmental conservation and the imperatives of energy conservation and emission reduction, the precision in assessing and forecasting carbon emissions has acquired heightened significance. The conventional emission...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,738 Views
19 Pages

4 October 2024

Evaluation ecosystem service value (ESV) is critical, as “lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets”. To assess the incremental effects of ecological assets on soil and water conservation in subtropical mountains, we developed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,870 Views
15 Pages

Monte Carlo methods are widely-used simulation tools for market practitioners from trading to risk management. When pricing complex instruments, like mortgage-backed securities (MBS), strong path-dependency and high dimensionality make the Monte Carl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,053 Views
10 Pages

13 September 2024

This paper reports the dielectric characterizations of (Ca0.95Sr0.05)(Ti1−xSnx)O3 ceramics prepared using a solid-state reaction method with various x values. X-ray diffraction spectroscopy analyses showed that the crystal structure of these pu...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
694 Views
8 Pages

27 August 2025

This study explores the application of profile shift coefficients as a design strategy to eliminate the need for stepped planet gears in a specific type of planetary gear train, referred to as the AA gear train. By appropriately selecting gear tooth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,496 Views
16 Pages

Fitting Methods for Empirical Models of Open-Pore Foams

  • Jesús Alba,
  • Romina del Rey and
  • Juan C. Rodríguez

30 September 2025

Sound-absorbing materials in the frequency range can be characterised upon the basis of their propagation constant and characteristic impedance. For a number of years, there have been empirical models, such as that of Delany and Bazley, which adjust...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,425 Views
22 Pages

7 November 2024

Background: Dietary habits are crucial for preventing many diseases, particularly in children and adolescents. Accurate assessment of dietary intake is essential for understanding the relationship between diet and health in these age groups. Objectiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,371 Views
16 Pages

19 June 2023

This paper proposes an adaptive strategy of co-regulating the three parameters—P/ω droop coefficient, virtual inertia, and damping coefficient—for the virtual synchronous generator (VSG). This approach is able to solve the uncoordin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
4,415 Views
14 Pages

Plasma Bile Acid Profile in Patients with and without Type 2 Diabetes

  • Alessandro Mantovani,
  • Andrea Dalbeni,
  • Denise Peserico,
  • Filippo Cattazzo,
  • Michele Bevilacqua,
  • Gian Luca Salvagno,
  • Giuseppe Lippi,
  • Giovanni Targher,
  • Elisa Danese and
  • Cristiano Fava

A paucity of information currently exists on plasma bile acid (BA) profiles in patients with and without type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). We assayed 14 plasma BA species in 224 patients with T2DM and in 102 nondiabetic individuals with metabolic synd...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,171 Views
14 Pages

9 March 2021

Due to the nonlinear and nonminimum phase characteristics of the buck-boost converter, the design of its controller has always been a challenging problem. In this paper, a multi-index feedback linearization control strategy is proposed to design the...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,634 Views
13 Pages

An Exposure-Mortality Relationship for Residential Indoor PM2.5 Exposure from Outdoor Sources

  • James Milner,
  • Ben Armstrong,
  • Mike Davies,
  • Ian Ridley,
  • Zaid Chalabi,
  • Clive Shrubsole,
  • Sotiris Vardoulakis and
  • Paul Wilkinson

26 August 2017

A large proportion of particulate air pollution exposure in urban areas occurs due to the penetration of outdoor pollution into the residential indoor environment. Theoretical considerations suggest that quantifying health effects due to changes to i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,280 Views
16 Pages

Resilience and Social Support Protect Nurses from Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Study in the Post-COVID-19 Era

  • Aglaia Katsiroumpa,
  • Ioannis Moisoglou,
  • Ioanna V. Papathanasiou,
  • Maria Malliarou,
  • Pavlos Sarafis,
  • Parisis Gallos,
  • Olympia Konstantakopoulou,
  • Fotios Rizos and
  • Petros Galanis

Background: Nurses experience high levels of anxiety and depression since they work in a highly stressful environment. Thus, the identification of preventive factors against nurses’ anxiety and depression is essential to improve their quality o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,937 Views
12 Pages

8 March 2024

The concrete of the main structure of subway stations is highly constrained, so the temperature effect and shrinkage effect generated during the construction process often cause large restraint stress, thus causing the problem of structural cracking....

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,828 Views
29 Pages

5 June 2023

Crop growth and development exhibit high temporal heterogeneity. It is crucial to capture the dynamic characteristics of crop growth using intensive time-series data. However, single satellites are limited by revisit cycles and weather conditions to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,167 Views
11 Pages

When the potato planter works on sloping field, it will cause problems such as poor film mulching quality due to the difference in volume of soil covering both sides of the discs and the inconvenient adjustment of the soil covering disc. The soil cov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,176 Views
13 Pages

Changes in Body Temperature Patterns Are Predictive of Mortality in Septic Shock: An Observational Study

  • Benjamin Coiffard,
  • Hamid Merdji,
  • Mohamed Boucekine,
  • Julie Helms,
  • Raphaël Clere-Jehl,
  • Jean-Louis Mege and
  • Ferhat Meziani

22 April 2023

Biological rhythms are important regulators of immune functions. In intensive care unit (ICU), sepsis is known to be associated with rhythm disruption. Our objectives were to determine factors associated with rhythm disruption of the body temperature...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,181 Views
23 Pages

2 December 2023

Accurate estimation and effective portioning of actual evapotranspiration (ETa) into soil evaporation (E) and plant transpiration (T) are important for increasing water use efficiency (WUE) and optimizing irrigation schedules in croplands. In this st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
840 Views
15 Pages

The impedance of renewable energy stations is crucial for determining system stability. Typically, the impedance is obtained using a measurement method. However, in actual operation, background harmonics at the point of common coupling (PCC) affect t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,340 Views
21 Pages

Utilization of Weather Radar Data for the Flash Flood Indicator Application in the Czech Republic

  • Petr Novák,
  • Hana Kyznarová,
  • Martin Pecha,
  • Petr Šercl,
  • Vojtěch Svoboda and
  • Ondřej Ledvinka

11 August 2021

In the past few years, demands on flash flood forecasting have grown. The Flash Flood Indicator (FFI) is a system used at the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute for the evaluation of the risk of possible occurrence of flash floods over the whole Cze...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,549 Views
13 Pages

11 October 2021

Markers of iron metabolism are altered in new-onset diabetes, but their relationship with metabolic signals involved in the maintenance of energy balance is poorly understood. The primary aim was to explore the associations between markers of iron me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,920 Views
15 Pages

During the forming process, variations in noise parameters can negatively impact product quality. To prevent waste from these fluctuations, this study suggests a method for the in-line optimisation of the deep drawing process. The noise parameter con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,325 Views
13 Pages

Reproducibility and Validity of a Semi-Quantitative Food Frequency Questionnaire for Assessing Dietary Intake of Vegetarians and Omnivores in Harbin, China

  • Changbao Sun,
  • Qingyun Wang,
  • Cong Xu,
  • Wan Wang,
  • Jiage Ma,
  • Liya Gu,
  • Zhijing Liu,
  • Juncai Hou and
  • Zhanmei Jiang

24 September 2022

This study aims to evaluate the reproducibility and validity of a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire (SQFFQ) developed for vegetarians and omnivores in Harbin, China. Participants (36 vegetarians and 64 omnivores) administered SQFFQ at ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
11,107 Views
11 Pages

Reproducibility and Validity of a Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) Developed for Middle-Aged and Older Adults in Semarang, Indonesia

  • Ahmad Syauqy,
  • Diana Nur Afifah,
  • Rachma Purwanti,
  • Choirun Nissa,
  • Deny Yudi Fitranti and
  • Jane C.-J. Chao

20 November 2021

We assessed the reproducibility and validity of a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) among middle-aged and older adults in Semarang, Indonesia. A total of 259 subjects aged 40–80 years completed two FFQs (nine-month apart) and nine 24 h dietary...

  • Article
  • Open Access
809 Views
20 Pages

The accuracy of the blade pitch angle (BPA) motion in controllable pitch propellers (CPPs) is considered crucial for the efficacy and reliability of marine propulsion systems. The pitch adjustment process of CPPs is highly complex and influenced by v...

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