The terminology of cerebellar dysmetria embraces a ubiquitous symptom in motor deficits, oculomotor symptoms, and cognitive/emotional symptoms occurring in cerebellar ataxias. Patients with episodic ataxia exhibit recurrent episodes of ataxia, includ...
Cerebellar reserve compensates for and restores functions lost through cerebellar damage. This is a fundamental property of cerebellar circuitry. Clinical studies suggest (1) the involvement of synaptic plasticity in the cerebellar cortex for functio...
In forward osmosis (FO), an osmotic pressure gradient generated across a semi-permeable membrane is used to generate water transport from a dilute feed solution into a concentrated draw solution. This principle has shown great promise in the areas of...
In motor imagery (MI), internal models may predict the action effects. A mismatch between predicted and intended action effects may result in error detection. To compare error detection in MI and motor execution (ME), ten-finger typists and hunt-and-...
Multiples can cause artifacts in imaging; however, they contain information about underground structures. If the internal multiples are removed as a noise, the information contained by the internal multiple will also be removed. This will cause loss...
The speed of the engine–propeller directly determines the power output for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) with internal combustion engines. However, variable air pressure can impact the engine’s air exchange and combustion processes, caus...
Because the forming area involved in traditional reverse multistage incremental forming is only located inside the model, the sheet-metal thinning rate is relatively large. Particularly, the straight-wall parts with a narrow internal space cannot be...
To address the inverse identification of contact-related thermal faults in gas-insulated switchgear (GIS), this study proposes a method for contact resistance inversion and internal temperature field reconstruction. The proposed method enables the es...
Building energy performance (BEP) is an ongoing point of reflection among researchers and practitioners. The importance of buildings as one of the largest activators in climate change mitigation was illustrated recently at the United Nations Framewor...
Management standards serve as an effective knowledge diffusion channel, considering that they offer comprehensive scientific and practical knowledge for many different stakeholders. This research aims to study the potential of management standards to...
The three authors of this letter had the honor and pleasure of being invited to the international meeting “Laboratory Animal Science, Moving Forward Together: State of the Art in Non-Clinical Models for Neurodegenerative Diseases”, held in Varadero,...
The quality of employee skills and job commitments, measured based on their retention, is essential in the current rapidly changing technological world. This study aimed to identify the influences of corporate governance (CG), internal control (IC),...
The acoustical modelling of multilayered systems is crucial for researchers and engineers aiming to evaluate and control the behaviour of complex media and to determine their internal properties. In this work, we first develop a forward model describ...
With the continuous development of global economic and trade activities, environmental problems have become an important factor restricting the sustainable development of all countries. How to realize the coordinated development of international trad...
Forward ownership allows upstream suppliers to internalize part of downstream profit, but its implications for strategic trade policy under competition between independent supply chains remain unclear. This paper develops a three-stage third-market m...
An integrated framework is developed for classifying and measuring financial assets, recognising expected credit losses (ECL), and disclosing financial risk in non-financial entities. Its design is based on the requirements of International Financial...
The large amount of features recorded from GPS and inertial sensors (external load) and well-being questionnaires (internal load) can be used together in a multi-dimensional non-linear machine learning based model for a better prediction of non-conta...
The risk of knee injuries in freestyle skiing athletes that perform aerials is high. The internal stresses in the knee joints of these athletes cannot easily be directly measured. In order to ascertain the mechanical response of knee joints during th...
Maritime transportation is a crucial component of international cargo transport, offering several advantages, such as route flexibility, large capacity, and cost-effectiveness. The competition and collaboration among the node enterprises in the sea-c...
This article aims to identify which factors enable the mutual adjustment of top managers of small enterprises (SEs), frequently their owners, and interns (young college graduates) in their first work experiences. Using latent segment models and data...
This paper studies the performance of machine learning predictions for the counterfactual analysis of air transport. It is motivated by the dynamic and universally regulated international air transport market, where ex post policy evaluations usually...
The compound unmanned aircraft is provided with three primary flight modes, which are helicopter flight mode in low forward speed flight, airplane flight mode in high forward speed flight and transition flight mode in middle forward speed flight. For...
Deploying the active queue management (AQM) algorithm on a router is an effective way to avoid packet loss caused by congestion. In an information-centric network (ICN), routers not only play a role of packets forwarding but are also content service...
In order to study the energy characteristics and internal flow field of “S” shaped airfoil bidirectional axial flow pumps, the SST k-ω turbulence model is used to calculate the bidirectional axial flow pump, and the experimental ver...
Background: Thailand is considered a logistics hub in Southeast Asia where the freight forwarding sector is essential for international trade and economic growth. This study aims to explore the relationships between logistics resources, strategic cap...
Forward modelling has indicated hip internal rotation as a secondary physical effect to plantar flexion under load. It could therefore be of interest to focus the treatment for patients with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy on achieving a heel–toe g...
The main purpose of this paper is to solve the electromagnetic inverse scattering problem (ISP). Compared with conventional tomography technology, it considers the interaction between the internal structure of the scene and the electromagnetic wave i...
Accurate stress integration at large strain increments requires control of both trajectory error and yield-surface drift. This study presents RK-RM, a hybrid strategy combining explicit Runge–Kutta integration with cutting-plane return mapping....
Financial anxiety is one of the most stress-causing factors, destabilizing students’ academic activities and performance. This study investigated whether there was any financial anxiety in international students in higher education institutions...
International economic cooperation accelerates the flow of capital, technology, labor, and other factors between different countries, which promotes global sustainable development. Building infrastructure construction is an important way to strengthe...
Being multivariable in nature, voltage and current control loops have controllers in the forward and cross-coupling paths. Most methods discussed in the literature focus on tuning the controllers in the forward paths to reduce the dq coupling. A modi...
Using a preform fabricated by a cold forward extrusion process, the present study numerically predicted and experimentally investigated its residual stress and microstructural characteristics, as well as its plastic deformation damage and hardness. P...
Inertially driven or vibration-driven capsule robots have recently attracted attention from various areas of science and engineering. The main advantage of such a mobile system is the lack of any external driving mechanism, which allows for an encaps...
This research proposes an innovative approach to evaluate modal shift from the road-only to the combined sea-road transport in order to implement new policies and introduce a Decision Support System (DSS) for the transportation planner’s decision. Th...
The compound-structure permanent-magnet (CSPM) motor is used for an electrical continuously-variable transmission (E-CVT) in a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV). It can make the internal combustion engine (ICE) independent of the road loads and run in th...
This work presents the first-order comprehensive adjoint sensitivity analysis methodology (1st-CASAM) for computing efficiently the first-order sensitivities (i.e., functional derivatives) of operator-valued responses (i.e., model results) of general...
This paper analyzes how a robust and dynamic forecasting system was designed and implemented to predict material volumes for the inbound logistics network of an international automotive company. The system aims to reduce transportation logistics cost...
Rotational jumps are crucial techniques in sports competitions. Estimating ground reaction forces (GRFs), a constituting component of jumps, through a biomechanical model-based approach allows for analysis, even in environments where force plates or...
Knowledge of realistic loads is crucial in the engineering design process of medical devices and for assessing their interaction with the spinal system. Depending on the type of modeling, current numerical spine models generally either neglect the ac...
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Arsenic is a risk factor for several noncommunicable diseases, even at low doses. Urinary arsenic (UAs) concentration is a good biomarker for internal dose, and demographic, dietary, and lifestyle factors are proposed predictors in nonoccupationally...
The reasonable construction state of a cable-stayed bridge refers to the state achieved after construction is carried out according to a specific sequence of procedures, leading to the reasonable completion status the bridge. The corresponding constr...
The rocket nozzle is one of the core components to ensure the safe flight of rockets. To overcome the problems of multi-step forming, the occurrence of defects, and severe plastic deformation in traditional technology, a novel forming method named tu...
To mathematically predict the behavior of a forward osmosis (FO) process for water recovery, a model was constructed using an asymmetric membrane and glucose as a draw solution, allowing an examination of both phenomenological and process aspects. It...
With the rapid development of the photovoltaic industry, fault monitoring is becoming an important issue in maintaining the safe and stable operation of a solar power station. In order to diagnose the fault types of photovoltaic array, a fault diagno...
Analytical models describing the dynamics of lobed radio sources are essential for interpretation of the tens of millions of radio sources that will be observed by the Square Kilometre Array and pathfinder instruments. We propose that historical mode...
Insider threats, as one of the pressing challenges that threaten an organization’s information assets, usually result in considerable losses to the business. It is necessary to explore the key human factors that enterprise information security...
We put forward the idea that in addition to invariance under coordinate transformations of general relativity (GR) the gravitational interaction is invariant under arbitrary scale deformations of the metric field, as well as other fields. In addition...
In this paper, we estimate the dynamic impact of unconventional monetary policy in the US on international REITs. Unlike existing studies which are limited to conventional policy tools and undertake a static approach, we use an event study approach a...
The commercial and financial attributes of oil have significantly changed the evolution characteristics of prices and returns of the international crude oil market. Using monthly data from April 2003 to October 2020, this paper identifies dynamic cha...
In this paper, the eight schemes for aircraft wireless sensor networks are investigated, which are single-hop array beamforming schemes (including analog beamforming (ABF), and digital beamforming (DBF)), non-cooperative schemes (including single-hop...
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