Attitude control subjected to pointing constraints is a requirement for most spacecraft missions carrying sensitive on-board equipment. Pointing constraints can be divided into two categories: exclusion zones that are defined for sensitive equipment...
Base-isolated frames supported by stepped foundation in mountainous areas possess their own particularity, so its progressive collapse dynamic response performance and dynamic effect propagation path are very different from those of ordinary flat gro...
Star block-copolymers (SBCs) are macromolecules formed by a number of diblock copolymers anchored to a common central core, being the internal monomers solvophilic and the end monomers solvophobic. Recent studies have demonstrated that SBCs constitut...
Hidden frame glass curtain walls are one of the most common curtain wall structure forms. This year, the damage identification of panel elements based on vibration has had the problem of an inconsistent calculation model. In this paper, an experiment...
Carbon fiber bicycle frames are complex-shaped structures and are prone to delaminations and difficult to inspect. The use of finite element model updating is common in structural dynamics but not so common in active thermography inspection. However,...
The positions of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) can be determined with sub-milliarcsecond (mas) accuracy using both Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and timing, referenced to the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF) and planetary epheme...
Because they have foundations with two or more different elevations, the mechanical performance of structures in mountain cities is significantly different from that of common structures. Our simulation method and the parameters of a typical bolt ste...
Delta robots are the most common parallel robots for manipulation tasks. In many industrial applications, they must be operated at reduced speed, or dwell times have to be included in the motion planning, to prevent frame vibrations. As a result, the...
Most reinforced concrete (RC) frames would exhibit different degrees of damage after mainshock excitations, and these mainshock-damaged RC (MD-RC) frames are highly vulnerable to severe damage or even complete collapse under aftershock excitations. I...
It is in the preliminary design phase of a project that the designer makes decisions concerning the global geometry of the structure. When working with space frames, the choice of the frame topology is key for the structural behavior. It is difficult...
Frame-wise steganalysis is a crucial task in low-bit-rate speech streams that can achieve active defense. However, there is no common theory on how to extract steganalysis features for frame-wise steganalysis. Moreover, existing frame-wise steganalys...
This paper aims to identify the optimal reinforced concrete bridge construction for regions at risk of mining-induced seismic shocks. This study compares the performances of two common bridge types made of the same structural tissue, i.e., a reinforc...
Mixed building frames constructed using reinforced concrete (RC) in the lower stories and structural steel in the higher ones meet great scientific interest as forming a common and often constructed building type. However, the current seismic regulat...
A kinetic theory of classical particles serves as a unified basis for developing a geometric
In common construction practice, various examples can be found involving a building type consisting of a lower, older, reinforced concrete structure and a more recent upper steel part, forming a so-called “hybrid” building. Conventional s...
The use of drywall as a non-structural infill has grown significantly due to its rapid and economical installation. Despite this widespread use, a common assumption in structural design is that these elements do not significantly affect seismic perfo...
An asymmetric hybrid registration frame (RF) integrates radiopaque and optical markers to automate computed tomography (CT) registration and coordinate hand-over to a dynamic reference frame (DRF). We compared automatic and manual fiducial selection...
Having a method for analyzing and designing regulators of controls that contain many current loops such as active filters is not a trivial task. There can be many parameters of regulators and filters that must be carefully selected in order to fulfil...
Modeling large-scale scenarios of diversity in real forests is a hot topic in forestry research. At present, there is a common problem of simple and poor model scalability in large-scale forest scenes. Forest growth is often carried out using a holis...
Diverse learning algorithms, optimization methods, and natural selection share a common mathematical structure despite their apparent differences. Here, I show that a simple notational partitioning of change by the Price equation reveals a universal...
Common visual simultaneous localization and mapping systems are built on the static environment hypothesis and fail to handle the substantial environmental dynamics. Particularly in highly dynamic environments, the pose estimation errors tend to accu...
The fundamental equations of various disciplines often seem to share the same basic structure. Natural selection increases information in the same way that Bayesian updating increases information. Thermodynamics and the forms of common probability di...
The cyber threat landscape is highly dynamic, posing a significant risk to the operations of systems and organisations. An organisation should, therefore, continuously monitor for new threats and properly contextualise them to identify and manage the...
3D Mapping-Aided (3DMA) Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is a widely used method to mitigate multipath errors. Various research has been presented which utilizes 3D building model data in conjunction with ray-tracing algorithms to compute an...
In this paper, we provide a general framework for the construction of the Einstein frame within non-linear extensions of the teleparallel equivalents of General Relativity. These include the metric teleparallel and the symmetric teleparallel, but als...
We analyze the Taylor expansion of the metric
Columnar phases consisting of a group of carbon toroidal molecules (C120, C192, C252, C288) are studied numerically. Each nanotorus was previously doped with an iron atom. This made it possible to use an external magnetic field as a tool for influenc...
As the habitat areas of Tibetan antelopes usually exhibit poaching and unpredictable risks, combining target recognition and tracking with intelligent Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology is necessary to obtain the real-time location of injured T...
The diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is a common and serious complication of diabetes. There is also a strong relationship between the environment of the person living with a DFU and the prognosis of the wound. Financial insecurity seems to have a major imp...
This paper presents FRESCO (Fiber REinforced Strengthening COmposite Database), a comprehensive open-source database designed to systematically organize experimental data on infilled RC frame systems that can be strengthened with advanced composite m...
Background and Objectives: Achilles tendon rupture (ATR) incidence has increased across sport populations, and, given its impact on elite performance, the purpose of this systematic review was to synthesize the available video analysis evidence descr...
The influence of debonding in concrete-filled steel tube (CFST) columns on the dynamic characteristics of super high-rise buildings is a common concern that remains insufficiently understood. The abnormal vibration incident of the SEG Plaza on 18 May...
Legged robots are meant to autonomously navigate unstructured environments for applications like search and rescue, inspection, or maintenance. In autonomous navigation, a close relationship between locomotion and perception is crucial; the robot has...
Missing marker information is a common problem in Motion Capture (MoCap) systems. Commercial MoCap software provides several methods for reconstructing incomplete marker trajectories; however, these methods still rely on manual intervention. Current...
For fast-moving robot systems, the fluctuating dynamic loads transmitted to the supporting frame can excite the base and cause noise, wear, and fatigue of mechanical components. By reducing the shaking force completely, the dynamic characteristics of...
Where we find and form identity and belonging, meaning and purpose, is often entangled in the dynamics that play out between people and place, and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, the legacy and ongoing experience of invasion and co...
Dense mapping is an important part of mobile robot navigation and environmental understanding. Aiming to address the problem that Dense Surfel Mapping relies on the input of a common-view relationship, we propose a local map extraction strategy based...
Structural pounding between adjoining multistory buildings with different total heights and different story levels has been repeatedly identified as a frequent cause of severe damage during seismic excitations. This phenomenon is very intense when up...
The blind pixel suppression is the key preprocess to guarantee the real-time space-based infrared point target (IRPT) detection and tracking. Meanwhile, flickering pixels, as one of the blind pixels, is hard to suppress because of randomness. At pres...
Digital video surveillance systems are now common in the security infrastructure of modern times, but proprietary file systems provided by large manufacturers are a major challenge to the work of the forensic investigator. This paper proposes a foren...
In seismic European countries most of the residential building stock is highly energy-intensive and earthquake-prone because it was built before the enforcement of the most recent energy and seismic codes. Furthermore, this stock often shows a low ar...
Deck inclination and vertical displacements are among the most important technical parameters to evaluate the health status of a bridge and to verify its bearing capacity. Several methods, both conventional and innovative, are used for structural rot...
This paper presents an integrated framework that integrates the kinematic and dynamic parameter estimation of an irregular object with non-uniform mass distribution for cooperative aerial manipulators. Unlike existing approaches, including impedance-...
Energy quality problems can cause diverse failures of sensitive equipment. Dynamic voltage restorers (DVRs) are devices that have been proposed to protect sensitive loads from voltage sag effects. However, the compensation capacity of DVRs is limited...
This paper attempts to uncover one possible method for the IMR (indoor mobile robot) to perform indoor exploration associated with SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) using LiDAR. Specifically, the IMR is required to construct a map when it...
Generalizable deepfake detection is essential for trustworthy visual understanding in real-world computer vision applications. This paper presents a dynamic spatial-temporal inconsistency learning algorithm designed to achieve high generalization in...
This paper explores how competition works in knowledge ecosystems, using a theory elaboration approach. With little research conducted in this area to date, three strategic streams of thought—resource-advantage theory, dynamic capabilities framework,...
Smart flow monitoring is critical for sewer system management. Obstructions and restrictions to flow in discharge pipes are common and costly. We propose the use of electrical resistance tomography modality for the task of smart wastewater metering....
Uneven foundation settlement is one of the common engineering problems in a collapsible loess area. In order to study the influence of uneven foundation settlement on the seismic performance of a structure, the incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) meth...
The concept of post-traumatic growth (PTG) continues to generate significant interest, as reflected in the increasing number of studies. This article makes two novel contributions to existing scholarship on PTG. First, it seeks to demonstrate that th...
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