Flexible-joint manipulators suffer from severe performance degradation due to the coupling of joint elasticity and varying loads. To address this, we propose a composite finite-time active disturbance rejection control (CFT-ADRC) strategy utilizing a...
This paper presents a blind source separation (BSS)-based framework for joint communication and sensing (JCAS) in in-band full-duplex (IBFD) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems operating under time-varying channel conditions. Conventionally...
Background: High-grade acromioclavicular (AC) joint separations are clinically relevant injuries in contact sports, yet data specific to recreational football players remain limited. This study evaluated clinical recovery, maintenance of vertical cor...
This study proposes a new type of composite slab with a separate joint, which not only improves the assembly rate but also enables unsupported construction. A static loading test was conducted to investigate the bending behavior of the composite slab...
In this paper, a connecting joint capable of underwater autonomous docking and separation is proposed, which can be used for a reconfigurable articulated underwater robot (RAU robot). The structural design, optimization, and experimental validation o...
Adhesive joints in real-world conditions often experience variable or step loading rather than constant-amplitude fatigue. This study addresses this gap by examining the influence of load sequence and block loading on fatigue damage in adhesive joint...
The detection and identification process in radar is susceptible to disturbances from numerous non-cooperative jamming signals in addition to target signals. Accurately estimating the parameters of these non-cooperative signals is crucial for extract...
In marine seismic surveys, towed streamers record only pressure data with limited offsets and insufficient low-frequency content, whereas Ocean Bottom Nodes (OBNs) acquire multi-component data with wider offset and sufficient low-frequency content, a...
A two-terminal distributed binary hypothesis testing problem over a noisy channel is studied. The two terminals, called the observer and the decision maker, each has access to n independent and identically distributed samples, denoted by
The separation of time–frequency mixing signals composed of radar, communication, and jamming is the first step in integrated reception processing, which requires higher accuracy for complex blind source separation (CVBSS). However, traditional...
Driver assistance systems are a major focus of the automotive industry. Although technological functions that help drivers are improving, the monitoring of driver state functions receives less attention. In this respect, the human heart rate (HR) is...
Blind source separation (BSS) concerns the signal processing techniques that aim to find several elementary components of sources from linear combinations of these sources received on several sensors. This paper presents a method for the extraction o...
This study investigated mental health in schoolchildren in different living arrangements after parental separation. The study population included 31,519 children from the Danish National Birth Cohort, followed-up at age 11 in 2010–2014. Child mental...
The steel–concrete composite truss adopts a new type of steel-concrete composite joint with high rigidity and load-carrying capacity. In order to more conveniently and clearly grasp the working mechanism of Perfobond Leiste (PBL) shear keys in...
Depending on the connection type, especially semi-rigid connections, the analyses of building structures offer accurate results function of the rigidity and ductility. The present paper analyzes the in-line connection of rectangular and circular holl...
Aseptic loosening caused by the wear and tear of the artificial joint prosthesis after implantation is one of the main causes of artificial joint failure. Therefore, it is important to investigate the wear debris generated due to wear when developing...
Determination of the local interlaminar stress distribution in a laminate with a bolt-filled hole is helpful for optimal bolted joint design, due to the three-dimensional (3D) nature of the stress field near the bolt hole. A new interlaminar stress d...
Coparenting conflict and triangulation after separation or divorce are associated with poorer child adjustment when parenting gatekeeping and conflict occur. Fewer studies reported psychosocial adjustment of children under three. We explored the effe...
This paper presents an observer-based active fault-tolerant control scheme for leader–follower formations of differential-drive unmanned ground vehicles under the Separation-Bearing Control framework. The relative pose is described by inter-veh...
The structuring of effective market-based environmental rights instruments can help to achieve energy efficiency and emission reduction goals while minimizing economic costs. As part of the global drive for sustainable development, pollution rights,...
Underwater acoustic signals (UAS) in marine environments are often contaminated by noise from biological activity, ocean waves, and equipment. Under low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions, target ship-radiated components and background noise are...
Recently, much attention has been paid to reversible data hiding (RDH) in encrypted images, since it preserves the data that the original image can be perfectly recovered after data extraction while protecting the confidentiality of image content. In...
Joint entity and relation extraction methods have attracted an increasing amount of attention recently due to their capacity to extract relational triples from intricate texts. However, most of the existing methods ignore the association and differen...
Airborne electromagnetic (AEM) surveys using airborne mobile platforms enable rapid and efficient exploration of areas where groundwork is difficult. They have been widely used in fields such as shallow resource exploration and environmental engineer...
Froth flotation predominantly separates particles according to their differences in wettability. However, other particle properties such as size, shape or density significantly influence the separation outcome as well. Froth flotation is most efficie...
It is thought that zinc and selenium deficiency may play a significant role in the etiology of prostate cancer. Although joint zinc and selenium supplementation is frequently applied in the prevention of prostate diseases, the bioavailability of these...
This paper discusses a precise relative navigation and separation assurance system based on the exchange of Global Navigation Satellite (GNSS) measurements via new message types for Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Light (ADS-L). A measurement-...
In some subsurface urban development projects, bedrock faults intersecting with the tunnel path are inevitable. Due to the high costs of urban tunnel projects, it is necessary to study the behavior of such concrete structures under fault movement ris...
Objectives: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory arthritis with characteristic involvement of the spine and sacroiliac joints. MRI may be the only indicator of disease activity or response. This study aimed to use a novel water fract...
In this paper, a blind adaptive detector is proposed for blind separation of user signals and blind estimation of spreading sequences in DS-CDMA systems. The blind separation scheme exploits a charrelation matrix for simple computation and effective...
The hole-clinching process is one of the mechanical methods for joining dissimilar materials, such as aluminum alloy with advanced high-strength steel, hot-pressed steel, and carbon fiber reinforced plastics, employing forming technology-based method...
Identifying the parameters of multispan rigid frames is challenging because of their complex structures and large computational workloads. This paper presents a stiffness separation method for the static response parameter identification of multispan...
Despite the remarkable achievements of modern communication systems based on Shannon’s theory, there is still considerable room for exploration in information transmission capacity, and semantic communication technology has emerged as a promisi...
Structures are continuously subjected to the combined effects of temperature variations and other environmental factors during service, leading to changes in their structural responses and severely compromising the accuracy of damage identification....
Long-delay multipath pushes underwater acoustic mixing beyond the instantaneous model assumed by many classical algorithms; spectral overlap among mechanically and biologically generated sources compounds the difficulty, and low signal-to-noise ratio...
The aim of this study was to examine the impact of mother’s and father’s joint parenting on young adult mental health outcomes, and to explore the impact of sex, personality and family structure in observed relationships. Two hundred and...
Antibacterial metalized poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) porous membranes with a nano-layer were obtained via the method of vapor-induced phase separation combined with magnetron sputtering of copper. Magnetron sputtering has such advantages as high...
Poly(vinylidene fluoride-hexafluoropropylene) (PVDF-HFP) porous membranes are fabricated via thermally induced phase separation (TIPS) with mixed diluent (dibutyl phthalate (DBP)/dioctyl phthalate (DOP)). The effects of mixed diluent are discussed i...
Novel poly(tetrafluoroethylene) (PTFE) hollow fiber membranes were successfully fabricated by electrospinning, with ultrafine fibrous PTFE membranes as separation layers, while a porous glassfiber braided tube served as the supporting matrix. During...
As a special engineering plastic, polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) can also be used to prepare membranes for membrane separation processes, adsorption, and catalytic and battery separators because of its unique properties, such as corrosion resistance, an...
Thermally induced phase separation (TIPS) is a technique to prepare commercial membrane. However, the quick polymer crystallization during the quenching process will bring about a dense and thick skin layer and thus decrease permeability markedly. In...
A new AuNPs-based thermosensitive nanoreactor (SiO2@PMBA@Au@PNIPAM) was designed and prepared by stabilizing AuNPs in the layer of poly(N,N’-methylenebisacrylamide) (PMBA) and subsequent wrapping with the temperature-sensitive poly(N-isopropyla...
Recently, the multi-level interwoven structured micro/nano fiber membranes with coarse and fine overlaps have attracted lots of attention due to their advantages of high surface roughness, high porosity, good mechanical strength, etc., but their simp...
In industrial applications, multi-material joints are becoming increasingly important to achieve a sustainable and resource-saving production. Not only high mechanical properties during the component use have to be given, but also possibilities to se...
In the past few years, biomass carbon materials have gained wide attention from many scholars as TiO2 carrier materials to improve photocatalytic activity due to their renewable, green, low-cost, and high-efficiency advantages. In this study, TiO2/ca...
Triclosan (TCS), a broad-spectrum bacteriostatic agent with bactericidal and disinfectant properties, is one of the emerging pollutants of great interest. The electrically activated persulfate-coupled carbon membrane system was studied in this paper....
This article describes the research carried out on six thin-walled groups of samples produced from the aluminum alloy 6060 T4 by a turning and milling operation. Additionally, the analysis of the surface topography was carried out, focusing on three-...
The oil/water separation in harsh environments has always been a challenging topic all over the world. In this study, the ZIF-8/PPS fiber membranes were fabricated via the combination of hot pressing and in situ growth. The distribution of ZIF-8 in t...
The preparation of a high-strength biodegradable plastic has always been the focus of academia. Here, we prepared two biodegradable composites using silane coupling-agent-modified hemp fibers (Si-HF) and unmodified hemp fibers (HF) with butylene adip...
In order to be able to recycle composite components made of polymer and metal, which are used in the automotive industry, the joints must be broken. The success of the separation is influenced by the stress and also by the joining mechanism between t...
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