The population of unilateral cochlear implant (CI) users with aidable residual hearing in the contralateral ear is continuously growing. Aiding the contralateral ear with a hearing aid has been shown to provide substantial benefit regarding speech in...
Fin efficiency, as a measure of the effectiveness of the heat transfer enhancement, is of great importance in studying the heat transfer performance of H-type finned tube banks. The fin efficiency of square fins is adopted by most researchers as an a...
In order to study the residual strength of buried pipelines with internal corrosion defects in seasonally frozen soil regions, we established a thermo-mechanical coupling model of a buried pipeline under differential frost heave by using the finite e...
The existing empirical formulas concerning draining systems are complex in their expression: there are difficulties in locating the intersection point among different flow patterns and parameters vary depending on the water level, resulting in a larg...
This article examines the presence of the empirical tendency known as the Menzerath–Altmann Law (MAL) on protein secondary structures. MAL is related to optimization principles observed in natural languages and in genetic information on chromos...
Accurate modeling of tire characteristics is one of the most challenging tasks. Many mathematical models can be used to fit measured data. Identification of the parameters of these models usually relies on least squares optimization techniques. Diffe...
Accurate assessment of aerobic fitness is crucial in soccer; however, the validity of field-based predictive tests remains uncertain in professional players. This study examined the relationship between directly measured and estimated maximal oxygen...
This research is designed to investigate the variations in ultrasonic p-wave velocity in various coal based paste fill materials used for recovering standing pillars in closed/closing coal mines, with consideration given to the effects of numerous ma...
The connecting rod assembly of a high-power low-speed diesel engine has high quality and high cost. If the connecting rod component is damaged, the whole machine may be paralyzed, resulting in serious economic losses and safety problems, so it is nec...
Background: There is a consensus among combat sports researchers regarding the important role of evaluating the comprehensive special fitness and performance of athletes. This is due to the specific structure of tasks performed in these sports as the...
The likelihood-based person-fit statistic,
(1) Background: The influence of the menstrual cycle on physical fitness in athletes is controversial in the scientific literature. There is a marked fluctuation of sex hormones at three key points of the menstrual cycle, where estrogen and progester...
A theory for the calculation of the phase–lag and amplification–factor for explicit and implicit multistep techniques for first–order differential equations was recently established by the author. His presentation also covered how t...
Background: We aimed to determine if maximal oxygen uptake (
We derive explicit solutions to the perpetual American cancellable standard put and call options in an extension of the Black–Merton–Scholes model. It is assumed that the contracts are cancelled at the last hitting times for the underlyin...
To study the influences of different mix proportions of materials on the ultrasonic p-wave velocity of coal slime based backfill materials, influences of four factors on the p-wave velocity of specimens were investigated by designing orthogonal tests...
In this paper, we describe how, through the combination of field testing and finite element simulation, the bonding and anchoring performance of small-diameter rebar under the action of medium and low cycle fatigue load was studied and the correspond...
Background: The aim of this study was to compare, in users of bimodal cochlear implants, the performance obtained using their own hearing aids (adjusted with the standard NAL-NL1 fitting formula) with the performance using the Phonak Naìda Link Ultra...
Interference fit joints have been widely used in many engineering constructions, in particular in electric motors. It is of particular importance to calculate the load capacity of press-fit joints, especially in the overload ranges of construction to...
Sediment transport remains a significant challenge for researchers due to the intricate nature of the physical processes involved and the diverse characteristics of watercourses worldwide. A type of watercourse that is of particular interest for stud...
Current–voltage characteristic curves of NFinFET are presented and fitted with modified current–voltage (I-V) formulas, where the modified term in the triode region is demonstrated to be indispensable. In the as-known I-V formula, importa...
Subsea pipelines subjected to impacts are prone to generating significant deformations and residual stresses, which could reduce their structural integrity and increase the risk of failure. This paper introduces analytical and numerical frameworks ai...
In this paper, we examined the parameters of the Mooney–Rivlin model based on the effects of alternative aging and sea corrosion tests for natural rubber bearings and rubber materials in seawater. The model parameters for rubber material used i...
This paper deals with the numerical calculation method of deflection deformation of rice stalks. Due to large deflection of rice stalks caused by reel operation, it is improper to adopt the conventional formula that is usually used in small deflectio...
We studied the volatility assumption of non-life premium risk under the Solvency II Standard Formula and developed an empirical model on real data, the Danish fire insurance data. Our empirical model accomplishes two things. Primarily, compared to th...
Headed stud shear connectors are most broadly applied in various composite structures. There exist plenty of empirical formulae for load–slip curves. However, most of them are fitting formulae in particular forms. Due to the lack of physical mo...
In this paper, we describe the study of one- and three-dimension pion and kaon source functions for chaotic and partially coherent sources in Pb-Pb central collisions at
Residual stress is a key parameter to evaluate the structural reliability of energy equipment. The indentation method has the characteristics of being nondestructive and easy to operate to calculate the residual stress of test materials, which has a...
Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) is a regular and powerful tool to measure the specific heat profile of various materials. In order to connect the measured profile to the properties of a particular protein, a model is required to fit. We discu...
Cross sections and thermally-averaged rate coefficients for vibration (de-)excitation of HeH
To clarify the advantages of using soft robots in all aspects of life, the effective behaviour of the pneumatic muscle actuator (PMA) must be known. In this work, the performances of the PMA are explained and modelled with three formulas. The first f...
It is a basic task in Brillouin distributed fiber sensors to extract the peak frequency of the scattering spectrum, since the peak frequency shift gives information on the fiber temperature and strain changes. Because of high-level noise, quadratic f...
Convective heat transfer on the exterior surface of the building envelope is an important component for building energy consumption. The calculation of energy consumption depends on the convective heat transfer coefficient (CHTC) of the exterior surf...
Texture testing is applied in various industries. Recently, a simple, accelerometer-equipped texture testing device (Surface Tester of Food Resilience; STFR) has been developed, and we elaborated formulae describing the movement of the probe. In this...
The paper presents a set of Direct Strength Method (DSM) formulae for cold-formed stainless steel I-section beams. On basis of a carefully calibrated FE model for stainless steel open-section beams featuring local-global interaction buckling, an exte...
In actual marine environments, significant nonlinear changes occur during wave propagation toward the nearshore, resulting in noticeable wave asymmetry. This leads to substantial differences in seabed response and liquefaction compared to conditions...
This paper describes a fast technique for estimating the dark signals of the charge coupled devices (CCDs) of the visible telescope (VT) onboard the space multi-band variable object monitor (SVOM). It is based on the vertical gradient in the dark fie...
A reasonable acoustic power formula is vital to precisely evaluate the audible noise (AN) level of ultra-high-voltage (UHV) AC power lines. This study derived a formula by taking several AN measurements under heavy rain conditions, using multiple con...
For multivariate frequency analysis of hydrometeorological data, the copula model is commonly used to construct joint probability distribution due to its flexibility and simplicity. The Maximum Pseudo-Likelihood (MPL) method is one of the most widely...
A design shear resistance formula for Y-type perfobond rib shear connectors is proposed with the various reduction factors, which can be selected depending on the target safety level. The nominal shear resistance formula is improved based on the syst...
Generalized linear models are applied for data analysis in various areas. One of the most important steps in fitting the model is to check the goodness-of-fit; however, there is a lack of such tests. Modified chi-squared goodness-of-fit tests for gen...
The Black–Scholes model and many of its extensions imply a log-normal distribution of stock total returns over any finite holding period. However, for a holding period of up to one year, empirical stock return distributions (both conditional an...
How the statistical behavior of semiflexible polymer chains may be affected by force stretching and tube confinement is a classical unsolved problem in polymer physics. Based on the Odijk deflection theory and normal mode decomposition in terms of Fo...
Based on surface radiation balance data and meteorological observations at 19 radiation stations in China from 1993 to 2012, we assessed the applicability of seven empirical formulas for the estimation of monthly surface net long-wave radiation (Rnl)...
The duration of load (DOL) effect in structure timber refers to the degradation of strength and stiffness that occurs under long-term continuous loading. This paper investigated the DOL effect in structure timber using DOL tests and DOL damage models...
With the increase in oil and gas pipe mileage, various corrosion defects inevitably occur, so the mechanisms and the applicability of the interaction corrosion defects are investigated. The ANSYS Workbench software is used to study the three double d...
We study the growth of linear matter density perturbations in a modified gravity approach of scalar field couplings with metric and torsion. In the equivalent scalar-tensor formulation, the matter fields in the Einstein frame interact as usual with a...
Effective notch stress (ENS) approaches have many application prospects in fatigue damage assessments; however, an ENS can only be obtained by conducting complex and time-consuming numerical analyses, deterring many engineers from applying such an ap...
We investigated the statistical behaviors of semiflexible polymer chains, which were simultaneously subjected to force stretching and rectangular tube confinement. Based on the wormlike chain model and Odijk deflection theory, we derived a new deflec...
Ultra-thin Fe-6.5 wt. % Si ribbons of 35 μm in thickness were prepared by melt-spinning. The magnetic properties were investigated before and after annealing at 1000 °C. The DC properties and low-frequency (400 Hz~10 kHz) iron losses significantly im...
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