Background: Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) occurs in 7% of the adult population. The relationship between neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia and sleep disorders have long attracted clinical attention; however, no comprehensive data exists elu...
Next-generation sequencing of samples from patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has revealed several driver gene mutations in adult AML. However, unlike other cancers, AML is defined by relatively few mutations per patient, with a median of 4&n...
This study provides a comprehensive characterization of various isolated single and half-bridge gate drivers over the entire temperature range from room temperature down to −194 °C. Unlike previous studies, which primarily focused on electr...
Our proposed method for exploring the causal discovery of stochastic dynamic systems is designed to overcome the limitations of existing methods in detecting hidden and common drivers. The method is based on a simple principle and is presented in a n...
With the rapid development of the manufacturing industry, industrial automation equipment represented by computer numerical control (CNC) machine tools has put forward higher and higher requirements for the machining accuracy of parts. Compared with...
It is becoming increasingly clear that causal analysis of dynamical systems requires different approaches than, for example, causal analysis of interconnected autoregressive processes. In this study, a correlation dimension estimated in reconstructed...
Farm abandonment and over-extensification trends in less-favored livestock breeding areas in the Mediterranean have led to socio-environmental issues that are difficult to assess and address, due to the characteristics of these areas (e.g., poor data...
Cancer is among the leading causes of mortality in developed countries due to limited available therapeutic modalities and high rate of morbidity. Although malignancies might show individual genetic landscapes, recurring aberrations in the neoplastic...
Power conversion equipment based on high-voltage SiC devices offers significant advantages in efficiency and power density. However, during high-voltage, high-power switching operations, severe electromagnetic interference (EMI) can easily occur. It...
Breast cancer is one of the most frequently diagnosed cancers in both women and female dogs. Genome-wide association studies in human breast cancer (HBC) have identified hundreds of genetic variations and somatic driver mutations. However, only a han...
Much of the literature on sustainability has tried to define the “virtuous behaviour” of “agents” (man and his social and economic organizations) so that it respects the “sustainability constraint.” This paper provides a “mirror-image” approach, base...
Recent history has been marked by a shift from rural to urban living. Studies show that urbanization is most prevalent at coastal areas and river basins and these are the locations where most megacities are established. However, in the African contex...
During oncogenesis, alterations in driver genes called driver alterations (DAs) modulate the transcriptome, methylome and proteome through oncogenic signaling pathways. These modulatory effects of any DA may be analyzed by examining differentially ex...
Acquired, inactivating mutations in Tet methylcytosine dioxygenase 2 (TET2) are detected in peripheral blood cells of a remarkable 5%–10% of adults greater than 65 years of age. They impart a hematopoietic stem cell advantage and resultant clon...
Chronic wounds are considered a silent epidemic that impact millions of human lives worldwide, causing comorbidities, reducing life quality and expectancy. Diabetic, pressure, and venous ulcers are the three major clinical entities of chronic wounds,...
The frequency of infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics is rising, demanding an understanding of their drivers. Common wisdom suggests that increases in outbreak frequency are driven by socioeconomic factors such as globalization and urbanization...
Anomalous driving behavior detection is becoming more popular since it is vital in ensuring the safety of drivers and passengers in vehicles. Road accidents happen for various reasons, including health, mental stress, and fatigue. It is critical to m...
Despite the recent development of precision medicine and targeted therapies, lung cancer remains the top cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. The patients diagnosed with metastatic disease have a five-year survival rate lower than 6%. In meta...
Communal forests are a unique land tenure system and comprise a singular legal category in Galicia. Their persistence over time demonstrates that this community-owned resource has overcome the “tragedy of the commons”, showing their capab...
The adaptive reuse of cultural heritage assets is often problematic. What emerges is the urgency of a thoughtful negotiation between built forms and emerging needs and requests. In this view, a fruitful trajectory of development arises in commoning h...
Understanding the factors driving the farmers’ decisions to diversify their crop production is important for management strategies and policies promoting climate-smart agricultural development. Options for diversification and its associated dri...
This article presents a gate driver circuit with all-magnetic isolation for driving silicon carbide (SiC) power devices in a three-level T-type bridge-leg. Gate driver circuitry for SiC devices has to be tolerant of rapid common-mode voltage changes....
To move closer to achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a change from the traditional paradigm of the linear economy towards the circular economy is of paramount importance. One of the key promoters of this shift is serv...
Drivers for industrial energy efficiency are factors that promote the sustained adoption of energy-efficient measures and practices. Leveraging drivers to overcome barriers and encourage action which improves industrial energy efficiency can contribu...
There is no question that elevated postprandial glycemia is a significant driver of common chronic diseases globally [...]
(1) Although numerous articles have been published to address the drivers or barriers of corporate social responsibility (CSR), some parts of the world have received less attention. In this study, I reviewed the literature from 2010 to 2021 to identi...
Aggressive driving is common across the world. While most aggressive driving is conscious, some aggressive driving behavior may be unconscious on part of motor vehicle drivers. Perceptual bias of aggressive driving behavior is one of the main causes...
The development of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADASs) has reached a stage where, in addition to the traditional challenges of path planning and control, there is an increasing focus on the behavior of these systems. Assistance functions shall...
High switching-speed Silicon Carbide Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (SiC MOSFET) has serious crosstalk issues. During the turn-ON transition and turn-OFF transition of the active switch in a phase-leg configuration, the voltage dro...
15 March 2023
Cycling has many benefits for humans and the planet. This research investigates perceived norms and driver behavior toward cyclists as issues that may be useful for addressing reluctance to cycle. It connects perceived norms observed in the road cont...
Electrification of transportation network companies (TNCs), such as Uber and Lyft, can produce social and environmental benefits from reduced vehicle emissions and enhanced implementation of renewable electricity as well as private benefits to driver...
Autonomous vehicle technology increasingly allows drivers to turn their primary attention to secondary tasks (e.g., eating or working). This dramatic behavior change thus requires new input modalities to support driver–vehicle interaction, which must...
Due to the embeddedness of organisations in networks, collaborations, and business relationships, knowledge leakage has become a common concern. In this regard, this paper aims to investigate drivers of knowledge leakage in collaborative agreements u...
Immune checkpoint inhibitors have become a mainstay of treatment in many solid organ malignancies. Alongside this has been the rapid development in the identification and targeting of oncogenic drivers. The presence of alterations in oncogenic driver...
Hitchhiking is a means of transportation gained by asking other people for a (free) ride. We developed a multi-robot system which is the first of its kind to incorporate hitchhiking in robotics, and discuss its advantages. Our method allows the hitch...
Along with age-related factors, geographical settings—urban, suburban, and rural areas—also contribute to the differences in fatal crashes among older drivers. These differences in crash outcomes might be attributed to the various driving challenges...
Slave devices in Ethernet-based fieldbus networks often require extensive reprogramming of applications and replacement of protocol stacks and Ethernet drivers whenever the fieldbus protocol needs to be changed. To address this challenge, we develop...
While drunk driving accidents, which are a serious problem in Taiwan, have decreased in recent years, cases of drunk driving continue to emerge endlessly, and are a source of traffic risks even when the accidents cause no injuries. In order to preven...
30 September 2022
Over 6.5 million commercial vehicle drivers were operating a large truck or bus in the United States in 2020. This career often has high stress and long working hours, with few opportunities for physical activity. Previous research has linked these f...
Estimating the driver’s gaze in a natural real-world setting can be problematic for different challenging scenario conditions. For example, faces will undergo facial occlusions, illumination, or various face positions while driving. In this eff...
This paper proposes a switched capacitor-based soft-switching proportional dimming LED driver to address color-mixing LED applications. The driver utilizes a half-bridge switch structure and incorporates a switched capacitor to regulate the dual reso...
Agriculture and farming worldwide are responsible for numerous environmental threats, including degradation of land and water resource depletion. Underlining the dynamic interaction between bio-physical and socio-economic drivers is the key towards a...
Polyester is currently the main material used for the manufacture of safety belts used in car transport for the protection of passengers and the driver. The seat belt is the main passive safety element used in vehicle engineering. In this work, the b...
Driver fatigue and distracted driving are the two most common causes of major accidents. Thus, the on-board monitoring of driving behaviors is key in the development of intelligent vehicles. In this paper, we propose an approach which detects driver...
Nature-based solutions (NbS) are increasingly recognized as viable tools for sustainable urban water management. This article explores the implementation of NbS in two distinct cities, Singapore and Lisbon, to demonstrate that NbS can work in very di...
A driver’s behavior and their psychophysical state are the most common causes of road accidents. The research presented in the paper proposes a method that allows the identification of highly dangerous road stretches/intersections in advance, b...
We present the possibility of a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) power amplifier (PA) using a driver stage composed of p-channel metal oxide semiconductor (PMOS) to enhance linearity. The PMOS driver stage is designed as a cascode struc...
Driver’s driving actions on pedals can be regarded as an expression of driver’s acceleration/deceleration intention. Quickly and accurately detecting driving action intensity on pedals can have great contributions in preventing road traff...
This paper presents a microscopic vehicle guidance model which adapts to different levels of vehicle automation. Independent of the vehicle, the driver model built is different from the common microscopic simulation models that regard the driver and...
With the acceleration of population aging, the elderly driving safety issue is increasingly prominent. Method: With the crash data of Pennsylvania from 2010 to 2019, this study exclusively discusses features of single-vehicle hit-fixed-object crashes...
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