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While at first it can be thought that the auxiliary elements of facades are merely ornamental with little practical function, this study shows that these components of the building envelope have a high impact on the envelope’s functioning and p...

The demands on joining technology are constantly increasing due to the consistent lightweight construction and the associated increasing material mix. To meet these requirements, the adaptability of the joining processes must be improved to be able t...

Currently, research on the edge effect issue in the micro-arc oxidation process primarily focuses on investigating process conditions and enhancing additives. However, some scholars have utilized finite element analysis software to simulate the edge...

The grounding grid of a substation is important for the safety of substation equipment. Especially to address the difficulty of parameter design in the auxiliary anode system of a grounding grid, an algorithm is proposed that is an optimization algor...

Most subspace-based algorithms need exact array manifold for direction of arrival (DOA) estimation, while, in practical applications, the gain-phases of different array elements are usually inconsistent, degrading their estimation performance. In thi...

Suitable strip-tillage effectively enhances crop productivity and soil quality in Northeast China, yet conventional strip-tillage machines suffer from inadequate soil fragmentation. To address this issue, this study developed a bionic auxiliary soil-...

With the popularity of ground and airborne three-dimensional laser scanning hardware and the development of advanced technologies for computer vision in geometrical measurement, intelligent processing of point clouds has become a hot issue in artific...

Sail-assisted propulsion is an important energy-saving technology in the shipping industry, and the development of foldable wingsails has recently become a hot topic. This type of sail is usually composed of multiple elements, and its performance at...

This systematic review aims to highlight the differences between different clear aligner therapies that differ in the presence of attachments or in attachment configuration. Eight electronic databases were searched up to March 2020. Two authors indep...

The rigid wingsail is a new type of propulsion equipment which greatly improves the performance of the sailboat under the conditions of upwind and downwind. However, such sail-assisted devices are not common in large ships because the multi-element w...

Trace elements are essential for maintaining the body’s homeostasis, and their special role has been demonstrated in skin physiology. Among the most important trace elements are zinc, copper, and iron. A deficiency or excess of trace elements c...

The horticultural model of Almeria (Spain) based on the operation of greenhouses is an international reference and has been considered as an economic miracle. Alongside this agricultural development has been the deployment of the diverse productive a...

Optical interferometers are the main elements of interferometric sensing and measurement systems. Measuring their optical path difference (OPD) in real time and evaluating the measurement uncertainty are key to optimizing system noise and ensuring sy...

In the last decades, Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMSs) rose as an emerging manufacturing strategy matching the modern industrial and market requirements asking for a wide variety of products in flexible batches. A traditional reconfigurable...

How to reduce the cogging torque of the integrated propeller motor is an important means to improve its noise performance because cogging torque is one of the key factors causing torque ripple. We proposed a method to reduce the cogging torque by opt...

Micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) suspended inductors have excellent radio-frequency (RF) performance, but poor mechanical properties. To improve their reliability, auxiliary pillars have been used. However, few studies have been carried out on t...

To reduce the influence of the permanent magnet (PM) installation error on the electromagnetic characteristics of the outer rotor permanent magnet synchronous motor (OPMSM), the rotor structure of the OPMSM is optimized in this paper. The optimizatio...

Clustering is an unsupervised machine learning method with many practical applications that has gathered extensive research interest. It is a technique of dividing data elements into clusters such that elements in the same cluster are similar. Cluste...

For easier cloud management, reversible data hiding is performed in an encrypted domain to embed label information. However, the existing schemes are not robust and may cause the loss of label information during transmission. Enhancing robustness whi...

The metal thickness uniformity of the micro-electroforming process determines the structural accuracy, surface finish, and functional characteristics, which directly affect the quality, performance, and reliability of the final parts. However, due to...

This contribution addresses a set of phenomena attested in the dialects spoken in Piedmont, including Franco-Provençal and Occitan varieties, and in West Liguria, concerning the interaction between subject and object clitics. Complementarily t...

Adaptive cluster sampling (ACS) is a sampling technique commonly used for rare populations that exhibit spatial clustering. However, the initially selected sample units may not always satisfy the specified inclusion condition. To address these limita...

Numerical computation is a focus of DNA computing, and matrix operations are among the most basic and frequently used operations in numerical computation. As an important computing tool, matrix operations are often used to deal with intensive computi...

Uniform deposition of nanofibers in the massive electrospinning process is critical in the industrial applications of nanofibers. Tip-Induced Electrospinning (TIE) is a cost-effective large-scale nanofiber-manufacturing method, but it has poor deposi...

Efficient and high-precision magnetic grinding technology has become a bottleneck technology for the manufacturing and repair of high-performance aircraft engines. Previous studies have mostly focused solely on quality control to determine the effect...

Tailings dams are built to safely store tailings and to protect the natural environment from damage. However, tailings dam accidents occur frequently, endangering the safety of life and property, and causing pollution to the environment. Many tailing...

In this paper, we propose a novel method for increasing the entropy of a sequence of independent, discrete random variables with arbitrary distributions. The method uses an auxiliary table and a novel theorem that concerns the entropy of a sequence i...

Enantiopure turbo chirality in small organic molecules, without other chiral elements, is a fascinating topic that has garnered significant interest within the chemical and materials science community. However, further research into and application o...

We study the projection of an element of fractional Gaussian noise onto its neighbouring elements. We prove some analytic results for the coefficients of this projection. In particular, we obtain recurrence relations for them. We also make several co...

Electrospinning has gained much attention in recent years due to its ability to easily produce high-quality polymeric nanofibers. However, electrospinning suffers from limited production capacity and a method to readily scale up this process is neede...

In order to achieve high quality electrical materials for cable terminations, the crosslinked ethylene-propylene-diene monomer (EPDM) materials, with adequate breakdown strength, appropriately increased conductivity and are developed by employing aux...

A cyclometalated platinum(II) complex [Pt(bzq)(BINAP)]PF₆ bearing a 2,2′-bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,1′-binaphthalene (BINAP) auxiliary ligand and a cyclometalated benzo[h]quinoline (bzq) ligand have been prepared. Structural characterizatio...

Underground coal mining-induced ground subsidence (or major ground vertical settlement) is a major concern to the mining industry, government and people affected. Based on the probability integral method, this paper presents a new ground subsidence p...

Due to stricter emission targets in the mobility sector and the resulting trend towards lightweight construction in order to reduce weight and consequently emissions, multi-material systems that allow a material to be placed in the right quantity and...

A common environment in which to place Bessel and circular functions is envisaged. We show, by the use of operational methods, that the Gaussian provides the umbral image of these functions. We emphasize the role of the spherical Bessel functions and...

In order to strike a balance between economic development and green travel, electric vehicles with wireless charging have become one of the first choices for future transportation. Misalignment between the transmitting coil and receiving coil in wire...

Aim: The objective of this research has been to apply a specific simulation to a patient to assess the biomechanical consequences of rotating an upper canine tooth through different attachment–aligner configurations and to predict the most effi...

We investigate the numerical implementation of functionally graded properties in the context of the finite element method. The macroscopic variation of elastic properties inherent to functionally graded materials (FGMs) is introduced at the element l...

To reduce the influence of gain-phase errors and improve the performance of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation, a robust sparse Bayesian two-dimensional (2D) DOA estimation method with gain-phase errors is proposed for L-shaped sensor arrays. The...

This paper proposes a code defined on a finite ring ${\mathbb{Z}}_{p_M}$, where $p_M$ = $2^m-1$ is a Mersenne prime, and m is a binary size of ring elements. The code is based on a splitting sequence (splitting set) $\mathcal{S}$, defined for the given multiplier set $\mathcal{E}=\left\{\pm 2^0, \pm 2^1,\dots \right\}$...

A two-degree-of-freedom (two-DOF) equation of motion was derived in the frequency domain using a substructuring technique for efficiently calculating the in-structure response spectrum (ISRS) considering equipment–structure interaction. The mod...

Athree-layer composite plate element is developed for finite element modeling and vibration analysis of sandwich plate with frequency-dependent viscoelastic material core. The plate element is quadrilateral element bounded by four-node with 7-degree-...

The use of electric buses is increasing all over the world; this is due to the aim of limiting pollution in heavily urbanized areas. Using electric buses is one element of the desire to drop local pollution to zero emissions. The necessary electricit...

Microfluidic system is widely employed in the detection of environmental contaminants and biological specimens. One of the critical issues which limits the applications of microfluidic chips is the limit of detection of trace specimens. Liquid–liquid...

As a typical representative of the stator permanent magnet (PM) machines, the flux reversal machines (FRMs) have a simple structure, high availability of PMs, and high efficiency, making them suitable for direct drive applications. However, the PMs o...

The auxiliary feedwater electric pump, which is vital in nuclear power units, demands exceptional seismic reliability. The impact of the seismic excitation direction on the seismic response of the complex auxiliary feedwater electric pump structure r...

This paper presents a fast design optimization using an effective characteristic analysis for linear permanent magnet motors (LPMMs) with techniques for improving motor performance such as using an auxiliary tooth, permanent magnet (PM) skew, and ove...

In this overview paper, I discuss data from child languages available in the literature that instantiate errors of commission. I focus on three constructions involving movement to the left periphery of the clause: the production of aux-doubling (wher...

The conventional control paradigm for a heat pump with a less efficient auxiliary heating element is to keep its temperature set point constant during the day. This constant temperature set point ensures that the heat pump operates in its more effici...

Rail is the most efficient and low carbon means of transport, but efforts are still being made to improve the energy efficiency of this sector. In Poland, one of the elements of the implementation of the energy transformation in rail is the “Green Ra...