In the manufacture of steel and foundry coke, there are a series of circumstances inherent to the process which can affect the life of the refractory material with which the ovens of the batteries are built. This article will deal with the impact of...
1 November 2021
Employment can play an important role for humanitarian migrants in their successful integration into a new country. For humanitarian migrants to Australia, there are no skill or language restrictions imposed on resettlement. Despite the benefits, hum...
Crowded event entrances could threaten the comfort and safety of pedestrians, especially when some pedestrians push others or use gaps in crowds to gain faster access to an event. Studying and understanding pushing dynamics leads to designing and bui...
Design standards for manual handling equipment tend to measure maximal loads and moving forces using a smooth, flat, horizontal steel plate; yet, in everyday use, such equipment is used on floor coverings. Such test methods therefore overestimate the...
In recent years, many sensors made of hard materials have been designed to detect human body movements in physical exercises. However, hard materials usually cause extra dyskinesia for body movements. To detect human limb motion with less dyskinesia...
Bioactive calcium silicate cements are widely used to induce mineralization, to cement prosthetic parts, in the management of tooth perforations, and other areas. Nonetheless, they can present clinical disadvantages, such as long setting time and mod...
The effects of Grp (graphite particles) addition and holding time on the microstructure and mechanical properties of the Grp/AZ91D composite were investigated in this work. The results indicated that the distribution of Grp in the matrix was determin...
This work presents a modified version of the current-fed dc–dc push–pull converter associated with an active clamping circuit for mitigating voltage spikes on the primary-side switches. Unlike the traditional push–pull topology, sat...
In the current work, a novel magnesium alloy Elektron21 reinforced by ceramic AlN nanoparticles were produced by an ultrasound-assisted casting. The fabricated nanocomposites were investigated to evaluate their microstructure, hardness, physical, the...
Background and Objectives: One requirement for the cemented post is the light transmittance on its entire length up to the deepest portion of a root canal to ensure the complete polymerization of resin cement. This study aimed to determine the light...
(1) Background: Primary stability—one fundamental criterion for the success of dental implants—is influenced by implant geometry even if the effect of apical shape modifications on implant primary stability has not yet been examined. Therefore, the a...
Hoof care providers are pivotal for implementing biomechanical optimizations of the musculoskeletal system in the horse. Regular visits allow for the collection of longitudinal, quantitative information (“normal ranges”). Changes in movem...
Information technology (IT) is pushing ahead with drastic reforms of modern life for improvement of human welfare. Objects constitute “Information Networks” through smart, self-regulated information gathering that also recognizes and controls current...
Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) is an important task in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) that measures the similarity of the underlying semantics of two texts. Although pre-trained contextual embedding models such as Bidirectional Enco...
High long-term stress on the plantar fascia (PF) is the main cause of plantar fasciitis. Changes in the midsole hardness (MH) of running shoes are an important factor leading to the alteration of the PF. This study aims to establish a finite-element...
In Galperin billiards, two balls colliding with a hard wall form an analog calculator for the digits of the number π . This classical, one-dimensional three-body system (counting the hard wall) calculates the digits of π in a base de...
In order to develop a gripping system or control strategy that improves scientific sampling procedures, knowledge of the process and the consequent definition of requirements is fundamental. Nevertheless, factors influencing sampling procedures have...
1 November 2000
Since the 1980s the Department of Hygiene and Oral Health at the Showa University School of Dentistry has focused its research efforts on the development of feeding function and disorders. In addition, we have treated dysphagic children and dysphagic...
Deep metric learning aims to learn a mapping function that projects input data into a high-dimensional embedding space, facilitating the clustering of similar data points while ensuring dissimilar ones are far apart. The most recent studies focus on...
Due to cost-push inflation, the trade-off between safety costs and risk prevention (safety) has become difficult worldwide. Most companies experience the difficulty of safety cost overruns and allocate safety resource inefficiently. In this paper, a...
Test methods that use pushing forces to evaluate the maximal load capacities of carts in design standards require a flat, smooth and horizontal steel plate and thus do not take into account the real conditions of work. Resistive forces of a single wh...
Outliers can be particularly hard to detect, creating bias and inconsistency in the semi-parametric estimates. In this paper, we use Monte Carlo simulations to demonstrate that semi-parametric methods, such as matching, are biased in the presence of...
The increasing utilization of hard-to-cut materials in high-performance sectors such as aerospace and defense has pushed manufacturing systems to be flexible in processing large workpieces with a wide range of materials while also delivering high pre...
Domain adaptation is a sub-field of transfer learning that aims at bridging the dissimilarity gap between different domains by transferring and re-using the knowledge obtained in the source domain to the target domain. Many methods have been proposed...
Modern digital systems rely on DRAM as main memory and flash-based SSDs for storage, forming the backbone of today’s computing infrastructure. As demands for faster processing and larger data services increase, the memory subsystems have become...
Fusarium langsethiae is amongst the most recently discovered pathogens of small grains cereals. F. langsethiae is the main producer, in Europe, of T2 and HT-toxins in small grain cereals, albeit often asymptomatic; this makes its control challenging....
During the last few years, the concept of more-electric aircraft has been pushed ahead by industry and academics. For a more-electric actuation system, the electrohydrostatic actuator (EHA) has shown its potential for better reliability, low maintena...
Providing athletes with real-time feedback on their performance is becoming common in many sports, also in speed skating. This research-by-design project aims at finding a tool that allows the speed skater to get real-time feedback on his performance...
The Beverage Guidance System has established dietary recommendations for daily intake of commonly consumed beverages including water, tea, coffee, milk, non-calorically sweetened beverages, and calorically sweetened beverages. As obesity in America c...
The segmentation of retinal vessels plays an essential role in the early recognition of ophthalmic diseases in clinics. Increasingly, approaches based on deep learning have been pushing vessel segmentation performance, yet it is still a challenging p...
Finding the maximum common induced subgraph is a fundamental problem in computer science. Proven to be NP-hard in the 1970s, it has, nowadays, countless applications that still motivate the search for efficient algorithms and practical heuristics. In...
Metal matrix nanocomposites (MMNCs) with high specific strength have been of interest for numerous researchers. In the current study, Mg matrix nanocomposites reinforced with AlN nanoparticles were produced using the mechanical stirring-assisted cast...
Over 70% of patients suffering from dentofacial deformities mention esthetics as the biggest issue pushing them to look for orthodontic and orthognathic treatment. At present, several pieces of software for computer-aided surgery have been released o...
Computer simulations allow us to explore non-perturbative phenomena in physics. This has the potential to help us understand quantum gravity. Finding a theory of quantum gravity is a hard problem, but, in the last several decades, many promising and...
Stainless steels are important in various industries due to their unique properties and durable life cycle. However, with increasing demands for prolonged life cycles, better mechanical properties, and improved residual stresses, new treatment techni...
It is, undoubtedly, a widespread belief that the electric vehicle (EV) is considered sustainable. However, in the manufacturing and retirement phases, EVs do not appear to be as sustainable as internal combustion vehicles (ICVs) and during the use ph...
The increasing demand for functional foods has pushed the food industry to produce fiber-enriched products. In this study, rheological, microstructural, physicochemical, and functional characteristics were investigated for whole proso millet dough an...
The capital cities of the South Pacific are experiencing rapid urbanisation pressures as increasing numbers of people migrate to the primary cities either in search of employment and greater access to healthcare and education, or as a consequence of...
The current economic and ecological situation encourages the use of steel to push the technological limits and offer more cost-effective products. The enhancement of steel properties like wear, corrosion, and oxidation resistance is achieved by the a...
In this paper, we propose the use of burnishing internal cylindrical surfaces with a hard tool in a mandrel shape. The burnishing force is exerted mainly by the press slide, which has pushing properties, moving the burnisher through the hollow tube....
The use of aerial robots for inspection and maintenance in industrial settings demands high maneuverability, precise control, and reliable measurements. This study explores the development of a fully customized unmanned aerial manipulator (UAM), comp...
Femtosecond (fs) laser technology is currently being considered in innovative fields such as osteotomy and treatment of hard tissue thanks to the achievable high resolution and ability to prevent tissue damage. In a previous study, suitable process p...
Soft actuators have a high potential for the creative design of flexible robots and safe human–robot interaction. So far, significant progress has been made in soft actuators’ flexibility, deformation amplitude, and variable stiffness. Ho...
In this paper, a method is introduced to control the dark knowledge values also known as soft targets, with the purpose of improving the training by knowledge distillation for multi-class classification tasks. Knowledge distillation effectively trans...
Three multifunctional smart composites for next-generation applications have been studied differently through versatile nanoindentation investigation techniques. They are used in order to determine peculiarities and specific properties for the differ...
Surface water flooding is an issue which has required an increased level of addressment over the past two decades, with the methods used to combat flood events seeing an evolution. This evolution has been influenced heavily by multi-scale legislation...
The airborne hyperspectral remote sensing systems (AHRSSs) acquire images with high spectral resolution, high spatial resolution, and high temporal dimension. While the AHRSS captures more detailed information from the terrain objects, the computatio...
The push for decarbonization of internal combustion engines (ICEs) has spurred interest in alternative fuels, such as hydrogen and ammonia. To optimize combustion efficiency and reduce emissions, a closer look at the intake system and in-cylinder flo...
Thermally sprayed carbide cermet coatings, particularly those based on tungsten carbide (WC) and chromium carbide (Cr3C2) and produced with the high velocity oxygen fuel (HVOF) process, are used in tribological applications as environmentally friendl...
One of the most significant agricultural tasks in beekeeping involves continually observing the conditions inside and outside the beehive. This is mainly performed for the early detection of some harmful events. There have been many studies on how to...
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