This study presents a structured evaluation framework for inter-module connections in the context of steel–concrete composite modular structures, addressing a gap in existing reviews that have focused almost exclusively on steel modular systems...
Interlocking Inter-Module Connections (IMCs) in Modular Steel Buildings (MSBs) have garnered significant interest from researchers. Despite this, the optimisation of plate thicknesses in such structures has yet to be extensively explored in the exist...
Modular steel buildings offer the advantages of time-saving construction, reduced on-site work, and less resource waste. The mechanical behavior of modular connections is complex, depending on the type of connecting method and the load-transferring p...
This paper introduces a new self-locking-unlockable modular building with an inter-module connection, and its seismic performance is investigated. The new connection can realize fast connection and unlocking during construction through exceptional de...
Modular steel buildings show high assembly degree and fast installation speed. The inter-module connection (IMC) is one of the key technologies that restrict the robustness of modular steel buildings. An innovative IMC with a cross-shaped plug-in con...
This paper studies the dynamic response of corner-supported modular steel buildings with a core wall system, under progressive collapse scenarios, associated with corner module removals. Since using secondary systems such as concrete core in mid- to...
In this work, we propose to use four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4) and multi-core fibers (MCFs) to support very high capacity datacenter interconnect (DCI) links. The limitations imposed by inter-core crosstalk (ICXT) on the performance of...
Efficient coordination among software modules is essential for biomimetic robotic systems, much like the interaction among organs in a biological organism. However, implementing inter-process or inter-module communication in autonomous systems remain...
Modern microtechnology methods are widely used to create neural networks on a chip with a connection architecture demonstrating properties of modularity and hierarchy similar to brain networks. Such in vitro networks serve as a valuable model for stu...
Modular steel construction (MSC) consists of the off-site prefabrication of a fully finished module and the on-site assembling of the module unit. The popularity of MSC is on the rise, attributable to its technical advantages of speed and quality of...
Coupling metrics that count the number of inter-module connections in a software system are an established way to measure internal software quality with respect to modularity. In addition to static metrics, which are obtained from the source or compi...
The integration of in vitro biological neural networks (BNNs) with robotic systems to explore their information processing and adaptive learning in practical tasks has gained significant attention in the fields of neuroscience and robotics. However,...
Precast concrete structures have become increasingly popular in the construction industry due to their ability to enhance efficiency, structural soundness, quality, and sustainability. Among these, modular construction has emerged as a transformative...
The leachate from ion-adsorbed rare earth tailings poses challenges to the application of the anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) process in this field due to its large fluctuations in ammonia nitrogen concentration (50–300 mg/L) and high fl...
Water microorganisms contribute to the key components of ecosystems in dryland waters, which are extremely important for wildlife. However, the distribution patterns of water microbes across different basal water sources are still largely unknown. Th...
Most aircraft skin components are typical sheet metal components, and stretch forming serves as the primary forming process. The die face is the core foundation for both the finite element simulation and mold trial. Due to the intricate geometric cha...
The morphological changes in cortical parcellated regions during aging and whether these atrophies may cause brain structural network intra- and inter-lobe connectivity alterations are subjects that have been minimally explored. In this study, a nove...
Recently, the neurosciences have become interested in the investigation of neural responses associated with the use of gestures. This study focuses on the relationship between the intra-brain and inter-brain connectivity mechanisms underlying the exe...
Semantic segmentation, as a pixel-level recognition task, has been widely used in a variety of practical scenes. Most of the existing methods try to improve the performance of the network by fusing the information of high and low layers. This kind of...
Virtualization of wireless sensor networks (WSN) is widely considered as a foundational block of edge/fog computing, which is a key technology that can help realize next-generation Internet of things (IoT) networks. In such scenarios, multiple IoT de...
The primary challenge to the commercialization of any electric vehicle is the performance management of the battery pack. The performance of the battery module is influenced by the resistance of the inter-cell connecting plates (ICCP) and the positio...
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is widely regarded to be the intermediate stage to Alzheimer’s disease. Cerebral morphological alteration in cortical subregions can provide an accurate predictor for early recognition of MCI. Thirty patients wit...
The recent increase in large converter-based devices like electric vehicles and photovoltaics increases supraharmonic emissions in low-voltage grids, potentially affecting customer equipment and the grid. This paper aims to give an overview of the di...
The reservoir characterization aims to provide the analysis and quantification of the injection-production relationship, which is the fundamental work for production management. The connectivity between injectors and producers is dominated by geologi...
To cost-effectively meet 6G latency requirements, concurrent upstream and direct inter-optical network unit (ONU) communication passive optical networks (PONs) based on flexible point-to-multipoint (P2MP) optical transceivers and intensity modulation...
Most autonomous car control frameworks are based on a middleware layer with several independent modules that are connected by an inter-process communication mechanism. These modules implement basic actions and report events about their state by subsc...
Accurate segmentation of skin lesions is still a challenging task for automatic diagnostic systems because of the significant shape variations and blurred boundaries of the lesions. This paper proposes a multi-scale convolutional neural network, REDA...
The medial posterior parietal cortex (PPC) is involved in the complex processes of visuomotor integration. Its connections to the dorsal premotor cortex, which in turn is connected to the primary motor cortex (M1), complete the fronto-parietal networ...
Intrinsically disordered regions enable transcription factors (TFs) to undergo structural changes upon ligand binding, facilitating the transduction of environmental signals into gene expression. In this study, we applied molecular modeling methods t...
INTRODUCTION. Recent neuroimaging studies suggest that dental loss replacements induce changes in neuroplasticity as well as in correlated connectivity between brain networks. However, as the typical temporal delay in detecting brain activity by neur...
Integrating road vehicles into broader Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems is an important step in the development of fully connected and smart transportation systems. This research explores the potential of using communication technologies that achi...
The Internet of Things (IoT), which can be regarded as an enhanced version of machine-to-machine communication technology, was proposed to realize intelligent thing-to-thing communications by utilizing the Internet connectivity. In the IoT, “things”...
With the rapid development of the internet of things (IoT), hundreds of millions of IoT devices, such as smart home appliances, intelligent-connected vehicles, and wearable devices, have been connected to the network. The open nature of IoT makes it...
Two Planar Pt electrodes with an inter-electrode distance of about 100 nm were fabricated at the surface of BiFeO3 thin films, which allow the manipulation of ferroelectric domain switching at nanoscale. This electrode configuration was pursued to st...
Aging alters muscular coordination patterns. This study aimed to investigate aging-related changes in the coordination of agonist and antagonist muscles from two aspects, the activities of individual muscles and the inter-muscular coupling. Eighteen...
Recent fMRI and fTCD studies have found that functional modules for aspects of language, praxis, and visuo-spatial functioning, while typically left, left and right hemispheric respectively, frequently show atypical lateralisation. Studies with incre...
A highly complex network of organ communication plays a key role in regulating metabolic homeostasis, specifically due to the modulation of the insulin signaling machinery. As a paradigm, the role of adipose tissue in organ crosstalk has been extensi...
We propose and demonstrate a Mach–Zehnder Interferometer (MZI)-based optical neural network (ONN) to classify and regenerate a four-level pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM4) signal with high inter-symbol interference (ISI) generated experimentall...
Optimizing the cost function in predictive control of multi-phase drives is computationally intensive. This poses a challenge since the required sampling period for drives falls within the microsecond range. Numerous methods have been proposed in the...
Recent studies have introduced transformer modules into convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to solve the inherent limitations of CNNs in global modeling and have achieved impressive performance. However, some challenges have yet to be addressed: fir...
This study investigates the progressive compressive behavior of modular interior frames with rotary-type module-to-module inter-modular (M2M) connections under sequential column failure. A novel two-stage testing protocol was applied, compressing the...
Mitochondria are organelles present in almost all eukaryotic cells, where they represent the main site of energy production. Mitochondria are involved in several important cell processes, such as calcium homeostasis, OXPHOS, autophagy, and apoptosis....
Social relationships refer to the connections that exist between people and indicate how people interact in society. The effective recognition of social relationships is conducive to further understanding human behavioral patterns and thus can be vit...
Recently, multi-level feature networks have been extensively used in instance segmentation. However, because not all features are beneficial to instance segmentation tasks, the performance of networks cannot be adequately improved by synthesizing mul...
This paper presented the architecture and construction of a novel smart building system that could monitor and control buildings’ use in a safe and optimal way. The system operates on a Raspberry local server, which could be connected via the cloud t...
The magnetoresistance effect in sandwiched structure describes the appreciable magnetoresistance effect of a device with a stacking of two ferromagnetic layers separated by a non-magnetic layer (i.e., a sandwiched structure). The development of this...
The energy yield of a solar panel can be severely impacted by partial shading. Shade caused by nearby static objects can hardly be avoided in installations such as building-applied or building-integrated photovoltaics. Smart reconfigurable photovolta...
Single-layered Ni/Ni3N, inter-layered Ni/Ni3N/Ni, and double-layered Ni/Ni3N composite films were produced on an AZ31 magnesium alloy substrate through a magnetron sputtering technique, utilizing precise control over the N2 flow’s modulation. A...
This work presents a new approach based on a spiking neural network for sound preprocessing and classification. The proposed approach is biologically inspired by the biological neuron’s characteristic using spiking neurons, and Spike-Timing-Dependent...
Stem cell therapy is a rapidly evolving field of regenerative medicine being employed for the management of various central nervous system disorders. The ability to self-renew, differentiate into specialized cells, and integrate into neuronal network...
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