Curved glass enables designers to achieve unparalleled innovation in creating modern and undulating shapes for building enclosures. However, the curvature of panes changes the static and especially the dynamic behavior of the panes under loading. Stu...
Background and Aims: Pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) is a complex and high-skill demanding procedure often associated with significant morbidity and mortality. However, the results have improved over the past two decades. However, there is a paucity of...
Cost reductions in nascent forms of Renewable Energy Technology (RET) are essential for them to contribute to the energy mix. Policy intervention can facilitate this cost reduction; however, this may require a significant investment from the public s...
It is important to determine the soil–water characteristic curve (SWCC) for analyzing landslide seepage under varying hydrodynamic conditions. However, the SWCC exhibits high uncertainty due to the variability inherent in soil. To this end, a B...
This study aimed to evaluate the learning curve of transperineal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)/ultrasound (US) fusion biopsy in a team composed of a single surgeon, a single radiologist, and a single pathologist. We prospectively enrolled 206 pati...
Background/Objectives: This study evaluated the learning curve for robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty (RA TKA) performed by three experienced surgeons, focusing on procedure duration, surgeon satisfaction, and confidence. Methods: A prospective...
Background and Objectives: Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) is a complex surgery with a steep learning curve (LC). No clear evidence exists for how previous laparoscopic experience affects the RARP LC. We report the LC of three surgeons wi...
Background/Objectives: Retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND) plays a crucial role in the staging and treatment of testicular cancer and is often mandatory. RPLND is associated with a high risk of morbidity. The use of minimally invasive techn...
Despite numerous studies on energy productivity and efficiency, only a few focus on the electricity intensity (EI) of economic output. As these studies largely examine the declining trend in EI, the increasing and/or fluctuating trends in EI have not...
The application of curved Insulating Glass Units (IGUs) in facades has emerged as a novel solution to meet aesthetic and energy performance objectives. Due to improved stiffness, curved IGUs cannot equalise internal and atmospheric pressure changes b...
Forming tubes with various bending radii without changing the bending dies is much easier for the 3D free bending forming (FBF) process. In the 3D-FBF process, different bending radii were realized by adapting the eccentricities of the bending dies....
The curved plate has been extensively used as a structural member in many industrial fields, especially the shipbuilding industry. The present study investigated the ultimate strength and collapse behavior of the simply supported curved plate under a...
Technological learning curve models have been continuously used to estimate the cost development of solar photovoltaics (PV) for climate mitigation targets over time. They can integrate several technical sources that influence the learning process. Y...
It is still challenging to anticipate with accuracy how tunnels will behave and if they will fail when subjected to an earthquake load. In this study, assuming nonlinear material behavior and a three-dimensional inelastic rock medium, the theory of d...
The soil freezing characteristic curve (SFCC) describes the relationship between the freezing point and unfrozen water content, which are two critical parameters in depicting the heat, solute, and water transport in frozen soil. In this paper, we pro...
Steps effectively dissipate the energy of water along a path and reduce the size of the stilling basin but are rarely used in curved spillways. The shore spillway of a reservoir, which is restricted by topography, must be arranged in a curved shape....
Many countries in the world have been experiencing widely varying rates of change in their carbon intensity (CI) of economic output. The dynamic trend of CI in this research is measured by the progress ratio (PR) from an experience curve (EC) involvi...
The application of the CPT (charge-conjugation, parity, and time reversal) theorem to an apple falling on Earth leads to the description of an anti-apple falling on anti–Earth (not on Earth). On the microscopic level, the Dirac equation in curv...
We introduce an approach that supports researchers and practitioners to determine the quality of first-time user experience (FTUX) and long-term user experience (LTUX), as well as to identify critical issues with these two types of UX. The product we...
The double arc pitch curve is a novel way for creating a non-circular gear tooth profile. Aiming at the problems of the rounding of non-integer teeth and the nonlinear equation system in the construction of double circular arc tooth profile, an activ...
In order to evaluate the seismic performance of new-type composite exterior wallboard, a total of six exterior and interior wallboards were incorporated in the experiment of seismic performance. Seismic performance such as the stress process, damage...
Despite the fact that fine particulate matter (PM2.5) causes serious health issues, few studies have investigated the level and annual rate of PM2.5 change across a large number of countries. For a better understanding of the global trend of PM2.5, t...
The paper presents a simple yet efficient way to track the void ratio, the water content, and the degree of saturation of a swelling material during saturation. The research aimed to quantitatively describe the drying and wetting processes of the swe...
The investigation conducted is aimed at establishing the best operational conditions to obtain the best output of a 5-cell stack Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) with three different bipolar plate geometries. The work further explores the b...
Background: In patients treated with partial nephrectomy, prior evidence showed that peri-operative outcomes, such as complications and ischemia time, improved as a function of the surgical experience of the surgeon, but data on functional outcomes a...
The surgical management of adult spinal deformities (ASDs) involves a wide variety of complex and technically challenging operative techniques. Despite numerous publications examining the relationship between surgeon experience and outcomes in ASD, n...
To improve the autonomous flight capability of endo-atmospheric flight vehicles, such as cruise missiles, drones, and other small, low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a novel minimum-effort waypoint-following differential geometric guidance law...
The relationship between income and environmental concern has only in some samples been found to mirror an Environmental Kuznets curve of pollution behavior by U-shaped preferences. Inconclusive aggregate findings may be due to the differential prese...
Many studies which try to analyze conditions for debris flow development ignore the type of initiation. Therefore, this paper deals with the following questions: What type of hydro-mechanical triggering mechanisms for debris flows can we distinguish...
With the impacts of climate change and human activities, agricultural drought disaster losses have increased remarkably. Drought disaster risk assessment is a prerequisite for formulating disaster reduction strategies and ensuring food security. Howe...
The rationale of the present study is that relationships between in vitro biological activity and mass spectrometric (MS) collisional data of molecular species have been already reported in the literature. Herein, the same approach has been employed...
To explore the effects of thermal actions on the pore structural features of granite, scanning electron microscope (SEM) and mercury injection experiments were carried out on granite after thermal treatment (25 °C to 400 °C). The pore structure was i...
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Although work events can be regarded as pivotal elements of organizational life, only a few studies have examined how positive and negative events relate to and combine to affect work engagement over time. Theory suggests that, to better understand h...
This study aimed to investigate the behavioral characteristics of the lateral deflection of a simply supported perforated steel plate subjected to axial compression. Investigating the lateral deflection of the perforated plate is of great significanc...
Driving anger, called “road rage”, has become increasingly common nowadays, affecting road safety. A few researches focused on how to identify driving anger, however, there is still a gap in driving anger grading, especially in real traffic environme...
As oil spills cause harm to the survival and environment of the ocean, the objective of the present paper is to study the oil migration range using the key indicator kv, which is defined as the ratio of oil spill speed to ocean current speed. The cor...
The impacts of backwater due to large dam construction on flow may lead to navigation or flood control problems in curved rivers. This study conducted flume experiments to investigate the effects of backwater on the velocity distribution characterist...
Background and objective Renewed interest in robot-assisted cardiac procedures has been demonstrated by several studies. However, concerns have been raised about the need for a long and complex learning curve. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic in 20...
To clarify the operational characteristics and driving risks of urban underground road curves, a real vehicle driving experiment involving 20 subjects was conducted at the Jiefangbei Underground Ring Road in Chongqing. High-precision instruments were...
Precision agriculture relies heavily on measuring grain production per unit plot, and a grain flow monitoring system performs this using a combine harvester. In response to the high cost, complex structure, and low stability of the yield monitoring s...
The pressure–temperature scales in DAC and shock wave (SW) experiments should be corrected by taking into account the thermal pressure shifts. In the present contribution, it is further claimed that first-principle ab initio DFT and MD simulati...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the learning curve of robotic thyroid surgery with regard to both operation time and temporary hypoparathyroidism using quantitative statistical analysis. A total of 194 patients who underwent total thyroidectomy...
Solute tracer tests are an established method for the characterization of flow and transport processes in fractured rock. Such tests are often monitored with borehole sensors which offer high temporal sampling and signal to noise ratio, but only limi...
Relating soil moisture content to soil suction, the soil–water characteristic curve (SWCC) represents an essential feature in unsaturated soil mechanics that enables estimation of different unsaturated soil property functions and modeling of th...
As a critical parameter for describing oil–water two-phase flow behavior, relative permeability curves are widely applied in field development, dynamic forecasting, and reservoir numerical simulation. This study addresses the issue of relative...
The objective of the present research was to study the effect of temperature on the mechanical properties, failure mode and uniaxial compression constitutive relationship of a modified polyurethane concrete. A total of 24 cube and 27 prism specimens...
In conservation agriculture, conservation tillage potentially influences the physical, chemical, and biological quality of the soil. Although the effects of conservation agriculture on the soil’s physical properties have been studied in convent...
An experimental study and modeling of the behavior of wood during compression along the fibers was carried out. The nonlinear analytical dependence of the load on the strain was considered. Attention was focused on the post-peak stage of deformation...
The possible influence of anatomical sections of wood on mold growth was investigated by means of a laboratory experiment. The selected fungi, Aspergillus sp., Penicillium sp., and Alternaria sp. were inoculated by spraying on the surface of wood spe...
This work addresses the lack of focus on verification and comparison of existing fatigue damage accumulation and life prediction models on the basis of large and well-documented experiment datasets. Sixty-four constant amplitude, 54 two-level block l...
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