The Tourist Oriented Directional Signs (TODS) system is an essential and important project in constructing and planning scenic areas. At present, the placement of directional signs generally depends on the personal experience of the tour manager to i...
With the increasing complexity of the space electromagnetic environment, traditional omnidirectional antenna-aided communication and networking techniques can no longer meet the collaboration requirements of aircraft clusters. To achieve goals such a...
The service performance of single crystal blades depends on the crystal orientation. A grain selection method assisted by directional columnar grains is studied to control the crystal orientation of Ni-based single crystal superalloys. The samples we...
In this work, a CuCe alloy was prepared using a directional solidification method at a series of withdrawal rates of 100, 25, 10, 8, and 5 μm/s. We found that the primary phase microstructure transforms from cellular crystals to cellular peritecti...
Some fundamental visual features have been found to be fully extracted before reaching the cerebral cortex. We focus on direction-selective ganglion cells (DSGCs), which exist at the terminal end of the retinal pathway, at the forefront of the visual...
Previous studies have reported that directionally selective ganglion cells respond strongly in their preferred direction, but are only weakly excited by stimuli moving in the opposite null direction. Various studies have attempted to elucidate the me...
The complexity and functional evolution of mammalian visual systems have always been a focal point in neuroscience and biological science research. The primary neurons that output motion direction signals have been a focal point of research in visual...
Biosensors based on allosteric transcription factors have been widely used in synthetic biology. In this study, we utilized the Acinetobacter ADP1 transcription factor PobR to develop a biosensor activating the PpobA promoter when bound to its natura...
This paper extends the evaluation of direct and indirect treatment effects, i.e., mediation analysis, to the case that outcomes are only partially observed due to sample selection or outcome attrition. We assume sequential conditional independence of...
In this article, we study a directed version of Douglas–Rachford splitting method in real Hilbert spaces. By using new, self-contained, and simplified techniques, we prove its weak convergence. The major innovation is that we exploit the firm n...
Sulfonic acid-functionalized polymer electrolyte membranes alternative to Nafion® were developed. These were hydrocarbon systems, such as blend sulfonated polyetheretherketone (s-PEEK), new generation perfluorosulfonic acid (PFSA) systems, and compo...
In this paper, we present an approach to improve pointing methods and target selection on tactile human–machine interfaces. This approach defines a two-level highlighting technique (TLH) based on the direction of gaze for target selection on a...
Mechanical properties and microstructure are investigated for a martensitic stainless steel (AISI 420) fabricated by selective laser melting (SLM) in three build directions. The tensile specimens built by SLM are classified into three groups. Group A...
Glaucoma is a chronic, progressive optic neuropathy characterized by the degeneration of retinal ganglion cells. It is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide, with elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) being the most significant modifiable ri...
Dry direct seeding rice (DSR) is an emerging production system because of increasing labor and water scarcity in rice cultivation. The limited availability of rice cultivars suitable for dry direct seeding hampers the widespread adoption of this cult...
Relation classification (RC) is an important task in information extraction from unstructured text. Recently, several neural methods based on various network architectures have been adopted for the task of RC. Among them, convolution neural network (...
Low performance of actively targeted nanomedicines required revision of the traditional drug targeting paradigm and stimulated the development of novel phage-programmed, self-navigating drug delivery vehicles. In the proposed smart vehicles, targetin...
Cu nanowires and a nanoporous Ag matrix were fabricated through directional solidification and selective dissolution of Ag–Cu eutectic alloys. Ag-39.9at.%Cu eutectic alloys were directionally solidified at growth rates of 14, 25, and 34 μm/s...
This study focuses on developing an experimental setup to investigate the Selective Melt Dispersion (SMD), a Directed Energy Deposition (DED) process. SMD as a means of in-process joining (IPJ) aims to integrate components and assemblies during addit...
Selective laser melting (SLM) and direct energy deposition (DED) are two widely used technologies in additive manufacturing (AM). However, there are few studies on the combination of the two technologies, which can synthetically combine the advantage...
This paper continues the mathematical research of the novel glass tube collectors for water heating. The subject of this research is a vacuum solar collector composed of a glass tube and a selective (using the SnAl2O3 coating) flat absorber plate. Wa...
The objective of this study was to compare four manufacturing processes of Co-Cr dental alloys: casting (CAST), computer aided design/computer aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) milling (MILL), selective laser melting (SLM), and laser directed energy depo...
Background/Objectives: The global rise in antibiotic resistance necessitates the development of novel antimicrobial agents. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), key components of innate immunity, are promising candidates. This study aimed to develop novel...
How specific features of the environment are represented in the mammalian brain is an important unexplained mystery in neuroscience. Visual information is considered to be captured most preferentially by the brain. As one of the visual information el...
In this study, the solution model based on the stochastic harmony search algorithm was proposed to obtain real ground motion (GM) records for nonlinear dynamic analysis of structures. Obtaining the GM record problem was formulated as a constrained en...
The evaluation and selection of green suppliers is an important way for enterprises to maintain sustainable development and help them reduce costs and increase efficiency. This paper proposes a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) model in an interv...
The perception of motion direction is essential for the survival of visual animals. Despite various theoretical and biophysical investigations that have been conducted to elucidate directional selectivity at the neural level, the systemic mechanism o...
Bi-directional selection for increased and decreased 56-day body weights (BW56) has been applied to two lines of White Plymouth Rock chickens—the Virginia high (HWS) and low (LWS) body weight lines. Correlated responses have been observed, incl...
Based on the understanding that the essence of secondary recrystallization of Goss texture is to restrain the abnormal growth of {110}<112>, {210}<001> and partial Goss texture {110}<225>, it was concluded that making sharp Goss gro...
For mammals, enormous amounts of visual information are processed by neurons of the visual nervous system. The research of the direction selectivity is of great significance and local direction-selective ganglion neurons have been discovered. However...
Direct seeding has been widely adopted in rice production due to its advantages of water- and labor-saving characteristics in China and other countries. This study aims to examine the effects of farmers’ adoption of direct seeding on the yield...
Selective laser melting was recently introduced to fabricate complex parts that are likely to contain overhangs. Process parameters, scanning strategies, support structures, and fast prediction techniques are being frequently studied, but little info...
Controlling mating in the honeybee (Apis mellifera) is part of one of the greatest challenges for the beekeeping industry’s genetic selection programs due to specific characteristics of their reproduction. Several techniques for supervising hon...
The visual system plays a vital role in the daily life of humans, as more than 90 percent of the external information received by the human brain throughout the day comes from the visual system. However, how the human brain processes the received vis...
The direct oxidation of methane to methanol as a liquid fuel and chemical feedstock is arguably the most desirable methane conversion pathway. Currently, constructing and understanding linear scaling relationships between the fundamental physical or...
(1) Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) regards atherosclerosis-related myocardial infarction and stroke as the main causes of death in humans. Susceptibility to atherogenesis-associated diseases is caused by single-nucleotide polymorphis...
Purpose: The paper deals with short-horizon foreign exchange (FX) predictability through predictive directional bias and how these are intertwined with the choice of features in weak-signal trading systems. Although FX markets are generally considere...
The pursuit of operational advancements in direct formic acid fuel cells (DFAFCs) necessitates the development of high-performance platinum (Pt)-based catalysts for formic acid electrooxidation (FAOR). However, FAOR on Pt-based catalysts follows a du...
Mesoporous TiO2 containing different potassium content was prepared from potassium titanate by mediating the pH value of the ion exchange, which was used as catalytic support to load NiMo for hydrodesulfurization of dibenzothiophene. The as-prepared...
The paper aims to analyze the performance of the damage identification algorithms using the directional wavelet transforms, which reveal higher sensitivity for various orientations of spatial damage together with lower susceptibility to noise. In thi...
An important issue in directional sensor networks (DSNs) is how to prolong the network lifetime in Q-coverage scenarios where each target point may have different coverage requirements. When the Q-coverage requirement is met, it is an effective way t...
In the 1970s, clones of the two subspecies of Ophiostoma novo-ulmi, subsp. americana (SSAM) and subsp. novo-ulmi (SSNU) began to overlap in Europe, resulting in hybrid swarms. By 1983–1986, hybrids with high, SSAM-like growth and pathogenic fitness c...
As the application of low-voltage-direct-current system increases, fault analysis in the low-voltage-direct-current system has essential because the fault response has different from the conventional AC distribution system. Especially, the fault curr...
Ball-end cutters are widely used for machining the parts of Ti-6Al-4V, which have the problem of poor machined surface quality due to the low cutting speed near the tool tip. In this paper, through the experiments of inclined surface machining in dif...
Additively manufactured (AM) materials and hot rolled materials are typically orthotropic, and exhibit anisotropic elastic properties. This paper elucidates the anisotropic elastic properties (Young’s modulus, shear modulus, and Poisson’s...
The simulation of engine combustion processes, such as autoignition, an important process in the co-optimization of fuel-engine design, can be computationally expensive due to the large number of thermo-chemical scalars needed to describe the full ch...
We investigated the relationship between feeding selection by goats and changes in plant species abundance in the shrubland of a pine forest in Doñana Natural Park along three years. The abundance of the shrub species was measured using the point-int...
In this paper, a flexible switching table (FST) for direct torque control (DTC) of permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) was proposed to enhance the steady-state and dynamic performances of the drive system. First, the influence of each convert...
Poplar is an important tree species for timber supply and ecological protection in northern China. Cultivating and selecting high-quality varieties and germplasm resources suitable for cultivation are key factors in enhancing the quality and producti...
The objective of this paper is to study the specifics of the selection of renewables for regions of Azerbaijan with diverse conditions. Information is obtained through the analysis of the regions’ conditions and experts’ opinions. Analysi...
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