Neuromuscular training is increasingly recognised for enhancing football performance and athletes’ capacity to tolerate the repetitive high-intensity demands of match play. The French Contrast Method (FCM) combines heavy resistance, plyometric,...
The force-vector theory contends that horizontal exercises are more specific to horizontal sports skills. In this context, the focus is on horizontal force production relative to the global coordinate frame. However, according to the principle of dyn...
18 January 2022
This study analyzed the effects of two different training programs on functional performance and inter-limb asymmetries in basketball players. Twenty-four elite youth basketball players were randomly assigned to a training program including variable...
Unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) capable of agile, high-speed maneuvering in complex environments require propulsion systems that can dynamically modulate three-dimensional forces. The California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) provides an excep...
In recent years, different groups have developed algorithms to control the stiffness of a robotic device through the electromyographic activity collected from a human operator. However, the approaches proposed so far require an initial calibration, h...
For cable-stayed bridges, cables are very important components to maintain the safety of the whole bridge structure. It is well-known that change in cable force reflects the health of the cable-stayed bridge. Therefore, it is necessary to detect and...
Anomalies in real systems differ widely in impact, as such, missing a high-severity event can be far costlier and consequential than flagging a benign outlier. This paper introduces Severity-Regularized Deep Support Vector Data Description, an extent...
Lake-effect snow (LES) has traditionally been studied from a mesoscale perspective, with comparatively less attention devoted to the role of synoptic-scale forcing. This study quantifies the prevalence and magnitude of synoptic forcing during 116 hea...
In this paper, we discuss the prediction of the delivery efficiency of magnetic carriers based on their properties and field parameters. We developed a theory describing the behavior of magnetic capsules in the capillaries of living systems. A partia...
Chip-splitting can reduce cutting resistance, but its abrupt transition makes quantitative prediction difficult. This study proposes a catastrophe theory-informed framework for predicting the chip state and specific cutting force in the thread turnin...
This study presents a novel numerical methodology that is designed for the dynamic adjustment of three-dimensional high-rise building configurations in response to aerodynamic forces. The approach combines two core components: a numerical simulation...
As high-voltage circuit breakers (HVCBs) are directly related to the safety and the stability of a power grid, it is of great significance to carry out fault diagnoses of HVCBs. To accurately identify operating states of HVCBs, a novel mechanical fau...
The zygomaticus major and minor (ZMa/ZMi) are key determinants of smile dynamics and midface contour, yet they exhibit substantial morphological variability—including bifid or multibellied bellies, accessory slips, and atypical insertions. Such...
This study aims to assess and select shield tunnel segment configurations and assembly angles based on the characteristics of circumferential internal force distribution. Based on the multi-hinged circular ring method and considering the diversity of...
Mixed infection of plant viruses is ubiquitous in nature and can affect virus–plant–vector interactions differently than single virus infection. While several studies have examined virus–virus interactions involving mixed virus infe...
In this paper, we present the unsteady translational motion of a porous spherical particle in an incompressible viscous fluid. In this case, the modified Navier–Stokes equation with fractional order time derivative is used for conservation of momentu...
This paper studies the moments and the distribution of the aggregate discounted claims (ADCs) in a Markovian environment, where the claim arrivals, claim amounts, and forces of interest (for discounting) are influenced by an underlying Markov process...
Many man-made or natural objects are composed of symmetric parts and possess symmetric physical behavior. Although its shape can exactly follow a symmetry in the designing or modeling stage, its discretized mesh in the analysis stage may be asymmetri...
A high contact force between the medial femoral condyle and the tibial plateau is the primary cause of medial compartment knee osteoarthritis (OA). A high medial contact force (MCF) during gait has been shown to be correlated to both the knee adducti...
Deterioration of materials and structures is an unavoidable fact, and prestressed concrete structures are not an exception. The evaluation of load-carrying capacity and remaining service life includes collecting various information. However, one type...
In order to achieve the optimal stator–rotor combinations of conventional flux-switching permanent magnet (FSPM) machines, this paper proposes and analyzes a general principle with prime phase numbers. Based on the coil complementarity concept,...
Electromagnetic force is an important excitation source of stator-core vibration in hydro-generators. The methodological novelty of this study lies in an order-specific spectral-attribution framework for electromagnetically induced stator vibration....
Zero-Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) is a promising strategy for reducing errors in industrial processes, aligned with Industry 4.0 and digitalization, aiming to carry out processes correctly the first time. ZDM relies on digital tools, notably Artificial...
The irregular wave disturbance attenuation problem for jacket-type offshore platforms involving the nonlinear characteristics is studied. The main contribution is that a digital-control-based approximation of optimal wave disturbances attenuation con...
This paper considers a downlink cellular network where multi-antenna base stations (BSs) simultaneously serve their associated multi-antenna users. Each BS is distributed according to a homogeneous Poisson point process and uses zero-forcing beamform...
This study investigates eddy currents in the dry cool superconducting MRI system by adopting a strong coupling multi-physics analysis method that integrates electromagnetic and mechanical fields. The 3D model is simplified based on the spatial distri...
Zoonotic pathogens that are vector-transmitted have and continue to contribute to several emerging infections globally. In recent years, spillover events of such zoonotic pathogens have increased in frequency as a result of direct contact with livest...
Automation technologies such as Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) or Automated Tape Laying (ATL) are widely used in the aerospace industry today. However, these processes can still be further improved for higher productivity. Fiber-reinforced plastics...
The state of a grinding wheel directly affects the surface quality of the workpiece. The monitoring of grinding wheel wear state can allow one to efficiently identify grinding wheel wear information and to timely and effectively trim the grinding whe...
Urban transmission of dengue and other Aedes aegypti-borne diseases is shaped by the interaction of vector ecology, human mobility, climate, and spatial heterogeneity. Capturing these interactions in city-specific settings requires models that are de...
The study presents a novel scheme that recognizes and classifies different sub-phases within the involuntary breathing movement (IBM) phase during breath-holding (BH). We collected force data from eight recreational divers until the conventional brea...
This paper presents an optimization strategy for a brushless doubly fed motor (BDFM) to achieve the maximum torque per ampere (MTPA). This method resolves the issue of high stator currents in slip frequency vector feedback linearization control (SFV-...
In recent years, radar emitter signal identification has been greatly developed via the utilization of deep learning and has achieved significant improvements in identification accuracy. However, with the continuous emergence of complex regime radars...
The current study aims to evaluate the performance of the ultrasonic vibration-assisted milling (USVAM) process when machining two different materials with high deviations in mechanical properties, specifically 7075 aluminium alloy and Ti-6Al-4V tita...
Until now, it was believed that, unlike real and complex numbers, the construction of a commutative algebra of quaternions or octonions with division over the field of real numbers is impossible in principle. No one questioned the existing theoretica...
In order to maintain a relatively high accuracy of navigation performance during global positioning system (GPS) outages, a novel robust least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM)-aided fusion methodology is explored to provide the pseudo-GPS posi...
The paper presents a shared control strategy that allows a human operator to physically guide the end-effector of a robotic manipulator to perform different tasks, possibly in interaction with the environment. To switch among different operational mo...
19 April 2021
Background: Specific dentofacial characteristics in wind instrumentalists should be taken in consideration when analyzing physiological and anatomical issues regarding the musician’s embouchure, posture, and biomechanics during musical performance. O...
Ligaments and cartilage contact contribute to the mechanical constraints in the knee joints. However, the precise influence of these structural components on joint movement, especially when the joint constraints are computed using inverse dynamics so...
Background: When a small design-of-experiments dataset is used to optimize a machining process with particle swarm optimization (PSO), the regression model chosen as the fitness function is rarely validated against more than one candidate response, c...
SPM is a statistical method of analysis of time-varying human movement gait signal, depending on the random field theory (RFT). MovementRx is our inhouse-developed decision-support system that depends on SPM1D Python implementation of the SPM (spm1d....
Direct conversion of cardiac fibroblasts into induced cardiomyocytes (iCMs) by forced expression of defined factors holds great potential for regenerative medicine by offering an alternative strategy for treatment of heart disease. Successful iCM con...
Clothing pressure is a critical design parameter in compression garments, yet its estimation in three-dimensional (3D) digital environments remains challenging because it depends on fabric mechanics, garment deformation, body geometry, and garment&nd...
A vessel must navigate along designated routes within a harbor area to ensure navigation safety. The impact of strong currents is one of the most dangerous factors in coastal navigation. However, it is challenging to determine the deviation of a ship...
The healthy function of the vestibular system (VS) is of vital importance for individuals to carry out their daily activities independently and safely. This study carries out Tsallis entropy (TE)-based analysis on insole force sensor data in order to...
The exorbitant increase in the computational complexity of modern video coding standards, such as High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), is a compelling challenge for resource-constrained consumer electronic devices. For instance, the brute force evalu...
Precision machining fields often require worktables with different stroke sizes. To address the need for scalability and facilitate manufacturing, this study proposes a novel infinite expansion magnetically levitated planar motor (MLPM) based on PCB...
Structural static testing is paramount for validating the structural integrity of critical aerospace components. However, conventional test rigs are often constrained to fixed loading axes and frequently induce parasitic torques. Accurate reproductio...
Accurate energy prediction in organic molecular crystals, such as cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX) and cyclotetramethylenetetranitramine (HMX), is hindered by the scarcity of descriptors capable of encoding their hierarchical architecture. Further...
The open radio access network (O-RAN) concept is changing the landscape of mobile networks (5G deployment and 6G research). O-RAN Alliance’s suggestions that O-RAN can offer openness and intelligence to the traditional RAN vendors will enable the cap...
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