Introduction. Spatiotemporal gait parameters, e.g., gait stride length, are measurements that are classically derived from instrumented gait analysis. Today, different solutions are available for gait assessment outside the laboratory, specifically f...
The embedment length (EL) of full-grouting rock bolts is a core factor in rock bolt reinforcement. Therefore, understanding the influence of EL on the reinforcement performance of rock bolts benefits the rock reinforcement quality. To realise this pu...
Anti-slide piles were used in the region of the Zhenzilin landslide in Sichuan, China. The horizontal displacement of these piles exceeds specifications. Deterioration in bedrock properties may cause deformation, thereby causing landslide destabiliza...
The design of offshore monopile foundations typically follows an iterative process aimed at optimizing key geometric parameters—namely, pile diameter, wall thickness, and embedded length. Among these, selecting an appropriate embedded length is...
Steel-fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) has the advantages of high strength, durability, and crack prevention ability. Studies on the compressive strength, tensile strength and flexural behavior of SFRC have been carried out by many researchers. In th...
The combination of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) and engineered cementitious composite (ECC) has emerged as a promising method for strengthening reinforced concrete (RC) structures. By embedding FRP within an ECC to form a composite reinforcement la...
The space harpoon is a rigid-flexible, coupled debris capture method with a simple, reliable structure and a high adaptability to the target. For the process of impacting and embedding the harpoon into the target plate, the effect of friction at a lo...
Anchorage force comprises bond force and bearing pressure when headed bars are used. Pull-out tests were conducted on 120 concrete specimens to derive a method for calculating the bond force for reinforcement in straight anchor sections at the yield...
One of the most important parts of a text-independent speaker verification system is speaker embedding generation. Previous studies demonstrated that shortcut connections-based multi-layer aggregation improves the representational power of a speaker...
In the context of secure and efficient data transmission over the future Internet, particularly for remote sensing and geospatial applications, reversible data hiding (RDH) in encrypted hyperspectral images (HSIs) has emerged as a critical technology...
Basalt fibers have been adopted as reinforcements to improve mechanical performance of concrete materials and structures due to their excellent corrosion resistance, affordable cost, and environmental-friendly nature. While the reinforcing efficiency...
The article presents methods of making the rock bolt support more yieldable, especially for a stratified roof. Alongside the increasing depth of exploitation of raw material deposits, rock bolt support units are more often designed taking into accoun...
This paper deals with the issue of the bond of concrete with the new artificial aggregate Certyd to prestressing steel strands. The solution of the problem is of great importance in the development of the use of lightweight aggregate concrete for pre...
The tensile performance of fiber-reinforced cementitious composite (FRCC) after first matrix cracking is characterized by a tensile stress–crack width relationship called the bridging law. The bridging law can be obtained by an integral calculu...
In this paper, we propose a novel information criteria-based approach to select the dimensionality of the word2vec Skip-gram (SG). From the perspective of the probability theory, SG is considered as an implicit probability distribution estimation und...
Yangmai-13 (YM13) is a wheat cultivar with weak gluten fractions. In contrast, Zhenmai-168 (ZM168) is an elite wheat cultivar known for its strong gluten fractions and has been widely used in a number of breeding programs. However, the genetic mechan...
Permutation Entropy (PE) is a time series complexity measure commonly used in a variety of contexts, with medicine being the prime example. In its general form, it requires three input parameters for its calculation: time series length N, embedded di...
The bearings or the seismic isolation bearings that play a critical role in bridge structures are fixed to the substructure by anchor bolts. However, the embedment depth of the constructed anchor bolts does often not reach the designed one and may le...
In order to shed light on the usage of protein language model-based alignment procedures, we attempted the classification of Glutathione S-transferases (GST; EC 2.5.1.18) and compared our results with the ARBA/UNI rule-based annotation in UniProt. GS...
The McKibben muscle types are pneumatic actuators known to be intrinsically safe for their high power-to-weight ratio. For these reasons, they are suitable for robotic, biomechanical, and medical applications. In these application fields and, above a...
The issue of soil–structure interaction (SSI) is essentially to analyze the influence of complex media on the mechanical behavior of supported structures. With the development of underground space, geological structures and space constraints pu...
Negative Poisson’s ratio (NPR) reinforcement offers a novel solution to the usual trade-off between strength gains and ductility loss. Incorporating NPR into ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) effectively overcomes the ductility limitations...
Language resources are the main factor in speech-emotion-recognition (SER)-based deep learning models. Thai is a low-resource language that has a smaller data size than high-resource languages such as German. This paper describes the framework of usi...
An often-utilized solution in terms of providing support to underground excavation, the fully grouted rebar rock bolt system presents optimization potential due to existing technological limitations in capturing and understanding its composite system...
The Yuanzishan landslide is an unstable slope in Langzhong County, located in northeast Sichuan province, China. The Guangyuan-Nanchong expressway passes through the front edge of the unstable slope, and subgrade excavation has resulted in slope defo...
In order to evaluate the shear performance of sand-coated glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) perforated connectors (SCGPC) embedded in concrete, 8 pull-out tests were conducted. Finite element (FE) analysis considering GFRP failure and cohesion be...
Suction embedded plate anchors (SEPLAs) are widely used in offshore engineering, but their keying process is often accompanied by embedment loss, which reduces the holding capacity. To minimize embedment loss, inwardly rotating keying flaps have been...
Reversible data hiding in the encrypted domain (RDH-ED) is a technique that protects the privacy of multimedia in the cloud service. In order to manage three-dimensional (3D) models, a novel RDH-ED based on prediction error expansion (PEE) is propose...
The study aims to determine the validity and reproducibility of step duration and step length parameters measured during walking in healthy participants using an accelerometer embedded in smart eyeglasses. Twenty young volunteers participated in two...
Long-term and real-time monitoring of asphalt pavement can be carried out by using embedded sensors to perceive and predict structural damage during pavement operation period, so as to avoid sustained development of damage. However, the influence of...
The advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT) has promoted the development of embedded devices. It is important to ensure data transmission security on embedded devices with limited computing power and storage space. However, the traditional block...
With the increase of three-dimensional (3D) printing applications in many areas of life, a large amount of 3D printing data is copied, shared, and used several times without any permission from the original providers. Therefore, copyright protection...
In jointless bridges, a grade flat approach slab (GFAS) with the same elevation as the pavement can transfer the girder’s longitudinal deformation to the backfill. However, any cracks and settlement of the pavement usually occur at the end of t...
The long text classification task has become a hot research topic in the field of text classification due to its long length and redundant information. At present, the common processing methods for long text data, such as the truncation method and po...
This paper investigates the bond behavior of steel cords embedded in inorganic matrices. A series of pull-out tests were carried out on individual galvanized steel cords embedded in either a cementitious or lime-based mortar matrix and the correspond...
Existing fractured gas reservoir development techniques are mainly based on dual medium numerical-simulation models, which can, to a certain extent, effectively simulate natural fractures with high fracture density; however, these models have some li...
The microbond test of natural fibers tends to produce scattered interfacial shear stress (IFSS) values. The sources of this scattering are known, but the roles they play in producing high IFSS scattering remain to be investigated. In this study, a nu...
The influence of the conductivity and radius of metal wires embedded into the dielectric fiber on the velocity and attenuation length of terahertz surface plasmon polaritons has been theoretically investigated. It was shown that the phase velocities...
We demonstrate an approach for improving the colour gamut of bottom-emission organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) through micro-cavity structure embedded cathodes. The devices with micro-cavity structure embedded cathodes showed an improved colour g...
Wooden partitions are extensively used as formwork for pouring concrete in wood–concrete composite beams, especially in the restoring of wood structures. However, limited research has been conducted on the shear properties of pitched screw conn...
The SBPDN (Steel Bar Prestressed Deformed Normal relaxation) bar, which has ultra-high yield strength yet much lower bond resistance than conventional deformed bars, has been recently proposed to be used as the longitudinal rebar instead of a normal-...
Graph-embedding algorithms map a graph into a vector space with the aim of preserving its structure and its intrinsic properties. Unfortunately, many of them are not able to encode the neighborhood information of the nodes well, especially from a top...
As high-speed railway systems continue to develop toward intelligent operation, axle box bearings integrated with sensors have become key components for real-time condition monitoring. However, introducing sensor-embedded slots disrupts the structura...
Background: Previous investigations have shown a positive relationship between baseball pitching velocity and the kinetic chain involved in pitching motion. However, no study has examined the influence of finger characteristics on pitching velocity a...
Strong winds, particularly in the absence of disaster-resistant designs, significantly impact the stability of greenhouse foundations and eventually lead to structural damage and potential harm to crops. As a countermeasure, rebar stakes are commonly...
In this paper, we investigate the heat kernel embedding as a route to graph representation. The heat kernel of the graph encapsulates information concerning the distribution of path lengths and, hence, node affinities on the graph; and is found by ex...
This article deals with a static and quasi-static load using the maximum power of a hydraulic pump. Additionally, quasi-static coefficients for the partially embedded rock bolts were determined. The laboratory tests included 2.2 m long bolts, which w...
Amyloid-β peptides interact with cell membranes in the human brain and are associated with neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease. An emerging explanation of the molecular mechanism, which results in neurodegeneration, places the cau...
Signed network embedding concentrates on learning fixed-length representations for nodes in signed networks with positive and negative links, which contributes to many downstream tasks in social media, such as link prediction. However, most signed ne...
The demand for wearable devices to simultaneously monitor heart rate (HR) and respiratory rate (RR) values has grown due to the incidence increase in cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. The use of inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensors, embeddi...
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