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Objectives: Somatosensation is the ability to detect various external and internal stimuli (such as pain, pressure, temperature, or joint position), and its objective and reproducible evaluation is essential for diagnosis, training, and rehabilitatio...

Degradation models are central to the lifetime prediction of electromagnetic relays. Coefficients of degradation models under accelerated degradation test (ADTs) can be obtained experimentally, and it is customary to map these coefficients back to th...

Simultaneous hypothesis tests can fail to provide results that meet logical requirements. For example, if A and B are two statements such that A implies B, there exist tests that, based on the same data, reject B but not A. Such outcomes are generall...

Because of the influential role of consistency in selecting a grease for a given application, accurate and meaningful methodologies for its measurements are vitally important. A new method, recently introduced, uses a rheometer to compress a grease s...

Objectives: An objective evaluation of balance abilities is crucial in research, rehabilitation, sport, and daily life. With ongoing technical advancements, the number of innovative evaluation tools is continuously increasing. This study assessed the...

This work addresses an important issue regarding the performance of simultaneous test procedures: the construction of multiple tests that at the same time are optimal from a statistical perspective and that also yield logically-consistent results tha...

Gravitational wave observations offer unique opportunities to probe gravity in the strong and dynamical regime, which was difficult to access previously. We here review two theory-agnostic ways to carry out tests of general relativity with gravitatio...

A questionnaire on explanatory variables for each behavior of the 24-h movement behaviors (i.e., physical activity, sedentary behavior, sleep) was developed based on three levels of the socio-ecological model, i.e., the intrapersonal level, interpers...

The accurate evaluation of the geometric morphology of rock and rock-like material joint surfaces was considered crucial for studying the mechanical properties of joint surfaces. A method based on grayscale surface and differential box-counting for e...

This study examined the extreme learning machine (ELM) applied to the Wald test statistic for the model specification of the conditional mean, which we call the WELM testing procedure. The omnibus test statistics available in the literature weakly co...

Big data technique is a series of novel technologies to deal with large amounts of data from various sources. Unfortunately, it is inevitable that the data from different sources conflict with each other from the aspects of format, semantics, and val...

Patient Activation Measure-13 (PAM-13) is a valid and widely used questionnaire that assess an individual’s knowledge, confidence, and skills for self-management of their chronic illness. Although there is some evidence regarding its reliabilit...

Weak subgrade is the main problem facing most highway projects. Therefore, this study focuses on trying to improve the properties and increase the strength of weak, clayey, swelling soil for use as a subgrade for pavement structural sections. This tr...

The solubilities of 498 datasets of N₂O and ionic liquid systems were predicted using a multilayer perceptron. The data used to train the artificial neural network was subjected to the Gibbs–Duhem test to analyze their thermodynamic consistency...

Both chronic and recurrent spinal pain alter sensorimotor integration (SMI), which is demonstrated using complex neurophysiological techniques. Currently, there is no patient-reported outcome measure that documents and/or assesses SMI in populations...

Objective: Appetitive traits influence obesity risk, yet no validated Danish tool exists to assess these traits in adults. We translated the Adult Eating Behavior Questionnaire (AEBQ) into Danish and evaluated reliability and validity. Methods: Adult...

Corrosion in natural seawater is difficult to simulate in a laboratory due to the slow rate and complexity of the corrosion process which involves multiple influential factors. This paper aims to explore the quantitative effect of environmental facto...

The concern over safety features in autonomous vehicles is increasing due to the rapid development and increasing use of autonomous driving technology. The safety evaluations performed for an autonomous driving system cannot depend only on existing s...

Surface paste tailings’ disposal has emerged recently as an optimal and efficient method to favor tailings’ self-containment after being deposited into dams. This disposal method can improve the reuse of water and reduce the generation of acid mine d...

For the high-dimensional covariance estimation problem, when ${lim}_{n\to \infty }p/n=c\in (0,1)$, the orthogonally equivariant estimator of the population covariance matrix proposed by Tsai and Tsai exhibits certain optimal properties. Under some regul...

The PC and FCI algorithms are popular constraint-based methods for learning the structure of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) in the absence and presence of latent and selection variables, respectively. These algorithms (and their order-independent var...

The objective of this study is to present and validate a pedagogical method based on practice testing and student-generated questions, delivered in a blended learning environment. The research is founded on assessment-based approaches for two consecu...

This study proposes a learning path recommendation method based on fuzzy competence space theory. It is developed within the theoretical framework of knowledge space theory and fuzzy set theory, aiming to address the progressive nature of learners&rs...

We study the excess minimum risk in statistical inference, defined as the difference between the minimum expected loss when estimating a random variable from an observed feature vector and the minimum expected loss when estimating the same random var...

The evolution of construction engineering depends on the development of cementitious materials with optimized properties and lower environmental impacts, such as the preparation of mortars with higher mechanical resistance and durability. Nanotechnol...

The side bridge test (SBT) is one of the most popular tests to assess isometric trunk lateral flexor endurance. The aim of this study was to assess the validity and reliability of the SBT in healthy females. Twenty-four (24.58 ± 3.92 years) ph...

The semiconductor industry is a rapidly growing sector. As collection technologies for production data continue to improve and the Internet of Things matures, production data analysis improves, thus accelerating progress towards smart manufacturing....

This systematic review on non-instrumental clinical assessment in adult oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD) provides an overview of published measures with reported reliability and validity. In alignment with PRISMA, four databases (CINAHL, Embase, PsycINFO...

The A549 cell line has become a cornerstone in biomedical research, particularly in cancer studies and serves as a critical tool in cytotoxicity studies and drug screening where it is used to evaluate the impact of pharmaceutical compounds on cellula...

Being able to formally test for symmetry hypotheses is an important topic in many fields, including environmental and physical sciences. In this paper, one concentrates on a large family of nonparametric tests of symmetry based on Cramér–von Mises st...

A new nonparametric test of equality of two densities is investigated. The test statistic is an average of log-Bayes factors, each of which is constructed from a kernel density estimate. Prior densities for the bandwidths of the kernel estimates are...

A generalized maximum entropy estimator is developed for the linear simultaneous equations model. Monte Carlo sampling experiments are used to evaluate the estimator’s performance in small and medium sized samples, suggesting contexts in which the cu...

III-nitride-based ultraviolet light emitting diode (UV LED) has numerous attractive applications in air and water purification, UV photolithography, and in situ activation of drugs through optical stimulus, solid state lighting, polymer curing, and l...

Objective: To document baseline King-Devick (K-D) oculomotor function scores for male and female participants aged between 4 and 20 years old. Methods: Utilising a cross section of schools, rugby clubs and gymnastic clubs, 1936 participants (1300 mal...

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of ageing on bitumen, before and after modification. Nano-clay modified bitumen (NCMB) was produced by adding nano-clay (NC) to 60/70 penetration grade bitumen; then, the binder was tested using conv...

This paper deals with the dewatering and handling of dredged sediments in the context of sustainability and renewability of natural resources. Dewatering is a critical part of sediment management, as the high water content of dredged sediments become...

The goal of this paper was to describe the context within which the PASS theory of intelligence was conceived and the reasons why this theory was used to guide the construction of the Cognitive Assessment System and the several versions of the Cognit...

Gravitational waves from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers can constrain nuclear models, predicting their equation of state (EOS). Matter effects on the inspiral-merger signal are encoded in the multipolar tidal polarizability parameters, whose leadi...

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) for HIV drug resistance (DR) testing has an increasing number of applications for the detection of low-abundance drug-resistant variants (LA-DRVs) in regard to its features as a quasi-species. However, there is less i...

People experiencing homelessness find it challenging to access the healthcare they so desperately need. To address this, we have developed the Homeless Health Access to Care Tool, which assesses health related vulnerability (burden of injury and/or i...

Trait-based approaches, particularly those focusing on behavioral traits, have become increasingly important in ecology. However, empirical studies addressing behavioral trait variation in insects remain comparatively scarce. To address this knowledg...

Fault diagnosis and maintenance of a whole-building system is a complex task to perform. A wide range of available building fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) tools are only capable of performing fault detection using behavioral constraints analysis...

This paper proposes a multirobot formation path planning method based on the leader–follower formation control method to ensure smooth operation in the multirobot formation control area. First, on the basis of the rapidly exploring random tree...

Many cloud services are relying on distributed key-value stores such as ZooKeeper, Cassandra, HBase, etc. However, distributed key-value stores are notoriously difficult to design and implement without any mistakes. Because data consistency is the co...

The resazurin assay, also known as the Alamar Blue assay, stands as a cornerstone technique in cell biology, microbiology, and drug development. It assesses the viability of cells through the conversion of resazurin into highly fluorescent resorufin....

In a previous paper, methods that have been used to quantify grease mechanical degradation were compared, finding that crossover stress is a practical method for estimating the cone penetration value of a grease using a small sample. This paper cover...

Countermovement jump (CMJ) performance analysis is vital in sports science for assessing lower-body strength and neuromuscular efficiency. This study evaluated the validity of the Enode Sensor and My Jump 3 App for measuring vertical jump heights, co...

Safety production constitutes a core pillar of operational management for power grid enterprises. Assessing the safety production risks of target entities in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is a prerequisite for strengthening safety governance, an...

The awareness of the importance of physical literacy (PL) is globally increasing; however, knowledge of the applicability of PL measurement tools in southeastern Europe is limited. The aim of this study was to evaluate the reliability and validity of...

The latest published version of GRASP (General-purpose Relativistic Atomic Structure Package), i.e., GRASP2018, retains a few suboptimal subroutines/algorithms, which reflect the limited memory and file storage of computers available in the 1980s. He...