Energy consumption modeling in buildings is crucial for calculating energy performance indices and establishing criteria for energy labeling. Different countries utilize diverse approaches to calculate these indices based on energy efficiency regulat...
In electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) testing, accurately extracting the radiation emission characteristics from the Equipment Under Test (EUT) in complex electromagnetic environments remains a daunting task. This paper presents a solution by introd...
This paper presents an envelope linearization technique to compensate for the nonlinear distortion of envelope tracking (ET) power amplifiers (PAs) for 5G new radio (NR) mobile terminals. The proposed envelope optimization (EOPT) method is agnostic o...
In order to solve the problem of full flight envelope control for aircraft engines, the design of a linear parameter-varying (LPV) controller is described in this paper. First, according to the nonlinear aerodynamic model of the aircraft engine, the...
This paper presents an MIMO antenna for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication, which adopts two ways of combline filters and absorption wall decoupling. A combline filter and an absorption wall are used, respectively, for internal and external de...
Polarized low-coherence interferometry (PLCI) is widely used for the demodulation of Fabry–Perot (F-P) sensors. To avoid the influence of noise and dispersion on interference fringes, this paper proposes a data processing method in which the wa...
Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive and intractable malignancy with high mortality. This is due in part to a high resistance to chemotherapeutics and radiation treatment conferred by diverse regulatory mechanisms. Among these, constituents of the nucl...
Consistently classified among the references for calcite simple prisms, the microstructural units that form the outer layer of the Pinctada margaritifera have been investigated through a series of morphological, crystallographical and biochemical cha...
The two peaks characteristic of yellow and blue light in the spectrum of dual-wavelength white light emitting diodes (LEDs) introduce distinctive features to the interference signal of white light scanning interferometry (WLSI). The distinctive featu...
The envelope (façade) of a building is the part that forms the primary barrier to its environment. Most of the new and modern office buildings have a glazed envelope and are usually built-in city centers. The concept of a double-skin faç...
For inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging of rapidly spinning targets, the large migration through range cells (MTRC) results in weak coherence between adjacent echoes, which makes the conventional envelope alignment method unable to be app...
A prerequisite for a well-designed roundabout is the definition of the design vehicle movement geometry and its turning envelopes. This is because kinematic and dynamic requirements lose their importance due to low driving speed. In this paper, the i...
Various studies on the envelope renovation of existing residential buildings have quantified energy savings effects across various climate conditions and building types yet have also reported discrepancies between predicted and actual energy savings...
The traditional method is capable of detecting and tracking stationary and slow-moving targets in a sea surface environment. However, the signal focusing capability of such a method could be greatly reduced especially for those variable-speed targets...
Uniform algorithmic stability is a classical route to non-vacuous generalization bounds, yet existing analyses typically track the forward optimization trajectory on adjacent training sets. This paper develops a different construction of the same sta...
The purpose of this study was to compare the envelope flap and triangular flap for impacted lower third molar (M3) extraction and their effects on the periodontal health of adjacent second molars (M2). A population of 60 patients undergoing M3 extrac...
Research Highlights: We modeled climate-biome envelopes at high resolution in the Western Great Lakes Region for recent and future time-periods. The projected biome shifts, in conjunction with heterogeneous distribution of protected land, may create...
We propose a semantic, geometric, and statistical framework for quantifying and ordering textual cohesion in long-form discourse. Sentences are embedded into a semantic similarity graph and Ollivier–Ricci curvature is used to extract sentence-...
Accurately evaluating territorial space use efficiency is a prerequisite for promoting the realization of high-quality development. Existing efficiency evaluation models all treat decision making units (DMUs) as independent individuals, ignoring geos...
This paper aims to present a review of recent scientific ideas and developments in the field of fractional programming. The survey is designed to be prospective, to enable retrieving conclusions regarding current trends in fractional programming, and...
Cell–cell fusion is a fundamental and complex process that occurs during reproduction, organ and tissue growth, cancer metastasis, immune response, and infection. All enveloped viruses express one or more proteins that drive the fusion of the viral e...
Wideband power amplifiers (PAs) operating with high-order modulation signals exhibit strong nonlinear distortion and dynamic memory effects, making real-time digital predistortion (DPD) increasingly challenging under strict computational constraints....
Purpose: To present the arthroscopic “PCL envelope lack sign” (PELS) and to calculate its diagnostic characteristics in chronic PCL insufficiency. Methods: Recordings of knee arthroscopies performed in a single clinic between April 2015 to March 2020...
A self-decoupled technique is described that enables the radiating elements in the antenna array to be densely packed for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications systems. High isolation between the adjacent antenna elements is o...
A common envelope performance problem in buildings is thermal bridging through balcony slab connections, which can be improved with the use of commercially available thermal break products. Several prior studies have used simulation-based and/or hot...
Summer overheating has emerged as the primary comfort challenge in rural housing under a warming climate. Conventional retrofit measures are often infeasible due to high costs and limited technical capacity. This study investigates how spatial config...
This work considers the Minkowski sum of an N-dimensional ellipsoid and hyperrectangle, a combination that is extremely relevant due to the usage of ellipsoid-adjacent primitives in computer graphics for work such as 3D Gaussian splatting. While para...
The Kletno deposit in the Śnieżnik Massif (Central Sudetes, SW Poland), mined for Fe, U, Ag, Cu, fluorite, and marble through the ages, developed at the contact of marbles and orthogneiss. Here, we present a new Fe-Ti-V-ore (containing up to 14.07 wt...
Frost heave in cold-region pavements is governed by coupled heat and moisture migration, but the specific contribution of vapour transport in multilayer subgrades remains poorly constrained. This study combines field temperature monitoring with analy...
In this work, a microstrip antenna array that consists of 16 elements is designed at a frequency of 28 GHz, with a dimension of 35 mm × 33.5 mm and an operational bandwidth of 27.7–28.3 GHz. The idea is putting two antenna arrays next to each other o...
A multi-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser (MW-EDFL) with wide tuning range, switching and adjustable wavelength interval is designed and tested, which is based on a composite filter. The filter consists of a tapered microfiber coupler loop (TMCL) w...
The commercialization of selective broccoli harvesters, a critical response to agricultural labor shortages, is hampered by end effectors with large operational envelopes and poor adaptability to complex field conditions. To address these limitations...
Knowledge of the distinctive frequencies and amplitudes of broken rotor bar (BRB) faults in the induction motor (IM) is essential for most fault diagnosis methods. Fast Fourier transform (FFT) is widely applied to diagnose the faults within BRBs. How...
This study proposed an all-fiber Fabry–Perot interferometer (FPI) strain sensor with two miniature bubble cavities. The device was fabricated by writing two axial, mutually close short-line structures via femtosecond laser pulse illumination to...
The dura-like membrane (DLM) is an outermost membranous structure arising from the dura mater adjacent to the internal auditory meatus (IAM) that envelops some vestibular schwannomas (VSs). Its recognition is important for the preservation of the fac...
Because both the inner and outer rings rotate, the intershaft bearings used in gas turbines do not have fixed bearing housings. As a result, the vibration of intershaft bearings cannot be measured directly. Therefore, a vibration signal can only be c...
We present a 4-port Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna array operating in the mm-wave band for 5G applications. An identical two-element array excited by the feed network based on a T-junction power combiner/divider is introduced in the re...
Lakes Azuei (LA) and Enriquillo (LE) on Hispaniola Island started expanding in 2005 and continued to do so until 2016. After inundating large swaths of arable land, submerging a small community, and threatening to swallow a significant trade route be...
As fully prefabricated wood walls (FPWW) are envisioned to increase building envelope performance, the junction between panels becomes crucial. Since FPWW restricts access to the inter-panel joints, it is preferable to generate an upstream mechanism...
The traditional decomposition–combination wind speed forecasting model has high complexity and a long calculation time. As a result, an ultra-short-term wind speed hybrid forecasting model based on a broad learning system (BLS) that combines im...
A compact four-port multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna for ultrawideband (UWB) applications is presented in this paper. The proposed antenna has four unit cell antennas. Each unit cell is placed orthogonal to its adjacent elements. The rad...
This article introduces a broadband sub-6 GHz 8 × 8 MIMO (multi-input multi-output) antenna array for 5G (fifth-generation) metal-frame mobile phone applications. The unique advantage of this compact antenna design is its placement in the corne...
To extend the drilling limit of horizontal sections, the demand for utilizing multiple hydraulic oscillators at intervals has become increasingly prominent. However, current research on the operating range of multiple oscillators, their mutual interf...
A radio frequency pulse width modulation (RF-PWM) scheme based on phase-shift control and mapping PWM (MPWM) is described. Pulse coding is the key to improving the coding efficiency, flexibility, and configurability of the all-digital transmitter (AD...
The aim of this article is to describe a novel approach combining muco-gingival, regenerative and prosthetics concepts for immediate implant insertion that overcomes the limits traditionally considered as contraindications for Type 1 flapless implant...
Lassa mammarenavirus (LASV) is an enveloped RNA virus that can cause Lassa fever, an acute hemorrhagic fever syndrome associated with significant morbidity and high rates of fatality in endemic regions of western Africa. The arenavirus matrix protein...
In this study, a numerical simulation method was used to explore the impact of changes in riverine runoff input flow variations on the marine environmental dynamics in the northern Yellow Sea of China. Based on the depth-averaged two-dimensional shal...
In this manuscript, a graphene-based four-port linear MIMO antenna is proposed for terahertz (THz) applications. The antenna is designed on a polyimide substrate with a compact footprint of 60 µm × 240 µm × 4 µm. A modif...
The deployment of multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) for large-scale oceanic search and mapping missions is frequently constrained by inefficient task assignment and strict collision avoidance protocols. Traditional deconfliction methods...
Recent years have seen the global proliferation and integration of transportation systems in urban agglomeration (UA), suggesting that transportation networks have become more prominent in the sustainable development of UA. Core cities play a radiati...
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